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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1918
Page
7
Behind the British lines airmen perform a desultory bombing raid on a designated district. A twin aircraft carries multiple bombs and uses coordinated blackouts, rockets, and white Verey lights to attract and then evade antiaircraft fire. The hour long attack ends with smoke and fires.
In New Castle Pennsylvania a German prisoner told Capt. H C Harper that American soldiers have no brains because they won’t quit. He claimed France fights for existence and England for honor, but America only wants to kill Germans.
Messenger special correspondence reports the return of minister Rev. O. M. Shaw to Athens and Strouds Run circuit. The community is urged to welcome him as services resume with Sunday school at 1 30 P M and preaching to follow.
Thor Olson will lead the fall term in the O U gymnasium starting September 15 through year end. The seven dollar fee funds portions to Jim Osborne who keeps the class at 6 am in good order. About a dozen from the midsummer session stayed on in August and meet each morning.
Danish tests reveal concrete remains unaffected by extended sea water immersion, up to about fifty years, suggesting durability in marine environments for many construction applications.
British forces advance in France uncovering little new destruction as they retake ground. Ruins from the Hun retreat remain, with tanks wrecked and massive mine craters visible. A black wooden cross near a German cemetery marks Australian casualties at Pozieres Ridge amid barren, sparsely housed countryside.
Camp Wadsworth quartermaster’s department offers passes to the city and is noted for a unique tradeoff as enlisted men endure a costly process. The fly swatter emerges as a popular improvised weapon among the troops.
Loan to England announced in Washington on August 30 raises British credits to 3.725 billion dollars. Total Allied credits now stand at 7.09204 billion dollars.
CO on LaLa Ara.
At a Friday special meeting the Athens township and rural district board hired Isaac Williams as Peach Ridge teacher and approved coal supply by Porter Brothers at 3.60 per ton. Rock Riffle residents will install a new floor, screens, and repairs with up to 100 dollars from the board. Overcrowded Factory school will shed pupils to Pittsburg and The Plains, while Pittsburg sixth to eighth graders move to The Plains. Superintendent Vernon becomes district truancy officer.
Funeral services for John Duncan who died at his Harmony home will be held Tuesday at 2 o clock at the late residence. Interment will follow at West Union Street Cemetery.
At the teachers examination held yesterday in Ellis Hall auditorium there were 212 certificate seekers, mostly young women. One hundred twenty one came from counties other than Athens, with participants from thirty seven named counties and one unnamed county. Named counties include Athens Meigs Belmont Ross Monroe Knox Perry Hocking Fairfield Pickaway Washington and others.
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