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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1918
Page
3
An informal photo shows Lord Balfour and General Sir Douglas Haig at the end of a friendly talk in Balfour's library. Haig appears to have completed his tasks, while Balfour is expected to play a role in England's peace challenges.
Classified items list a bay horse about 1200 pounds at Stratton Farm Happy Hollow with owner to receive by paying ad. also multiple local notices including St Andrews Rectory bidding in Nelsonville Ohio, a four acre lot ad, Ohio seed potatoes, coal service, and Apostolic Holiness Church schedule with pastor J C Brillhart inviting worshipers.
Twenty seven new flu cases were reported to Health Officer Butt yesterday. Health officials say the uptick is not alarming and is expected after the lifting of the ban and the reopening of schools.
Relatives report Serg Carl C. Lovett of the 135th Machine Gun Battalion is recovering in a London hospital after being wounded by shrapnel. He is slowly improving as medical care continues in England.
The local Eastern Star lodge will hold its annual election next Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock. Members are urged to attend to ensure a full vote.
Obituary notice for William Franklin Williams born January 15 1877 in Rock Bridge Ohio died December 1 1918. Survived by brother John San Jose and sisters Mrs Ftta Frasure and Mrs Clara Miller. Card of Thanks thanks Rev Johnson and Mrs Lafever and the Fraternal Order of Eagles for support and floral offerings.
Pastor C. L. Johnson leads Bible school at 9 15 a m with a class for everyone over 200 attend last Lord's Day 41 in the men s class Morning worship at 10 30 sermon Steadfast Souls Evening worship at 7 sermon The Wall Rebuilt Slendid audience invited to worship with us Christian Endeavor at 6 P M Mid week prayer meeting at 7 P M
Methodist Episcopal Church in Nelsonville announces a 9:30 a.m. service with the pastor's theme The World's Challenge to the Church. The second of four sermons on the Centenary Movement includes raising 80 million dollars over five years. Evening sermon Bitter and Sweet Water Out of the Same Fountain reflects the postwar period. All are invited to attend.
The Presbyterian Church schedules a 9 30 Sunday school with morning theme Life for a Look and evening sermon The Spirit of Islam. The notices present a church calendar item with planned messages for worship.
Weekend guests and visitors appear in a Brady list of local residents. Rhea Hoodlett visits Miss Ruth Davis in Athens while Mrs. Geo Silcott of Columbus stays with her mother Mrs. Mary Shafer. Numerous families host relatives and friends from Columbus Logan Murray City and Sugar Grove with dances and day visits noted.
Today in Cincinnati markets firm prices for eggs and live poultry. Firsts and primes for eggs range from 60 to 65 cents per dozen with variations for firsts and seconds. live poultry includes fowls, broilers, springers, ducks, turkeys, and guineas with per pound and per head prices listed.
On December 7 in Toledo Ohio the cash corn traded at 1.47, oats at 0.55 to 0.76, barley 1.04, rye 1.68, and clover futures for December to March quoted from 24.50 to 24.85, alsike 19.65 to 20, timothy 4.95 to 5.25 with March 5.25, reflecting close of trade.
Chicago prices for December corn at 1.32, January 1.288, March 1.28. oats at 72 1/2, January 71 1/2, February 71 1/2, March 71 1/2. pork futures quoted as January 48.10 and May 45.00 in the Chicago market.
Pittsburg on December 7 shows steady overall trading with sheep and lambs holding, hogs moving slowly. Prime heavy, mediums, and heavy workers listed at 17.80, light workers 16.75, pigs 16.00 to 16.90, roughs 15.00 to 16.25, stags 12.00 to 13.00.
Cincinnati Ohio December 7 cattle receipts 3500 shippers unchanged calves market lower with extras 18 50 logs receipts 9100 market slow good choice packers and butchers 17 80 sheep receipts 1 50 market steady lambs extras unchanged
Fugitives reaching Stockholm report famine in Petrograd with flour at 50 rubles per kilogram and butter sugar at 150 rubles. Herrings sell for five rubles. middle class barred from public eateries. thousands dying daily with burials between six and nine am.
The Ohio State Department of Health reports a recurring influenza outbreak with about half the fatalities of earlier waves. Officials urge continued limits on public gatherings to slow spread, noting quarantines are less effective once symptoms appear and stressing better care and public awareness.
Cameron Guilette son of Mrs. C Guilette writes from France of his safe arrival just minutes before armistice. He served in the Medical Corps at base hospital 97 A BE, enlisted in Columbus, trained in Chattanooga, and trekked from El Paso to France aboard a three week voyage.
The German government has decided not to oppose the extradition of the former Kaiser and the crown prince from Holland, according to reports from Zurich. The move narrows diplomatic tensions as the two figures face fate in relation to war accountability.
The House rules committee unanimously votes to report favorably the Frear resolution. It seeks an investigation into the National Security League and its efforts to defeat congressional incumbents.
Belgian troops are in Dus seldorff per Basle dispatch. British Lancers and armored cars entered Cologne at 11 o'clock yesterday.
President Poincare with the cabinet and large delegations from the Senate and Chamber of Deputies depart on special trains for Metz and Strassburg to take official possession of Alsace-Lorraine on Sunday and Monday.
Archibald White, a Cleveland millionaire promoter, was granted a divorce from Olive Moore White of New York by Judge Kennedy. Friends testified Mrs. White spent money lavishly and lived like an empress. White was widowed with one daughter when he married the opera singer in 1905 in New York.
A Berlin dispatch says James Grant and Amer ican direct demobilisation of workers from German munitions plants. About 24 Berlin men are out of work while 300000 women who worked in munitions are quietly demobilizing. Young girls are finding farm work at one dollar per day.
Seven hundred seventy nine men were discharged at Camp Sherman today, boosting total discharges to date to six thousand three hundred from this camp.
Nine million pounds of candy were bought this last week for the army overseas along with 565000 gallons of pickles.
Marysville report confirms Private Ray Kistner of Company E Rainbow Division was killed on November 11 the last day of fighting His relatives in Union County had received a letter dated November 5 from Belgium noting his marriage before shipping overseas.
Contracts amounting to thousands of dollars were canceled today by the government for the Camp Sherman enlargement. A Columbus contractor was to build new barracks for 20 000 more soldiers, bringing capacity to about 60 000 men once finished.
London dispatch reports six thousand influenza deaths in Samoa. Australian government responds by sending medical staff to assist Samoa.
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