Social News Notes From Columbus and Nearby
Miss Eva Martin guests in Columbus over Sunday. Miss Nelle Finsterwald visits Parkersburg. Mrs. James Weidman returns from Detroit. Mrs. Harry Bartlett returns to Columbus with Mrs. Charles Pickering as guest. Miss Ethel Cabeen back in Columbus from mother Mary Cabeen. Eastern Star to meet Monday at 7 for officer elections. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Brown arrive from Jacksonville. Mrs. Dean Vore returns from Columbus after sister Walker Radford’s death at 11:30. Mrs. Bertha Wilson Beagle at West State Street seeking her mother J W Wilson.
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Harry Bartlett
Columbus
Charles Pickering
Dean Vore
Walker Radford
Bertha Wilson Beagle
Goodyear Rubber Works
Akron
West State Street
J. W. Wilson
Mrs Susan Pickering Visits Sharon Family
Mrs Susan Pickering of Sharon Pa visits Mr and Mrs Joseph L Pickering. She comes for a social call and stays for a time with the family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Susan Pickering
Sharon, Pa
Joseph L. Pickering
Pickering
Local Notices on Visitors and Funeral Attendances
The widow of the late Pr B W Pickering, brother of J L Pickering, is noted. Miss Louise Balis arrives from Norfolk to spend two weeks with her mother Mrs Mary Balis. Miss Balis has enlisted in the navy as a geomanette. Miss Nelle Sherrard of Akron returns home Sunday after visiting her brother Sid Sherrard and aunt Mrs Daniel Baird. Sherrard attended the funeral of her brother-in-law J W Woodard on Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louise Balis
Norfolk
Mary Balis
Miss Balis
Navy
Geomanette
Nelle Sherrard
Akron
Sid Sherrard
Daniel Baird
Miss Sherrard
J. W. Woodard
Soldier Boys
Jacob Bros
Moler Named Director at Ohio Auto Trades Meeting
Mr W F Moler returned from Akron where he attended a meeting of the Ohio Auto Trades Association and was made a director. He stopped in Mt Vernon yesterday to visit his sister Miss Blanche Moler, a public school teacher recuperating at the Mt Vernon sanatorium.
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W.F. Moler
Akron
Ohio Auto Trades Association
Moler
Mt. Vernon
Blanche Moler
Public appeal on Pittsburg mine No 9 shutdowns
A group of miners and local residents urge the Circle Hill Pittsburg mine No 9 to explain extended shutdowns. They deny a strike and stress national needs, noting soldiers in France and the importance of coal for ships and industry. They request a clear explanation from the company.
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Pittsburg
Circlehill
France
Harvard Men Killed in War Reach 222 Count
Cambridge mass December 7 two hundred and twenty two Harvard men have been killed in the war. Of this number 201 were in the army and navy and 21 in auxiliary branches overseas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge, Maas
Harvard
Army
Navy
Sargeant Herbert Richardson Visits Parents at Home
Camp Sheridan Alabama Sergeant Herbert Richardson of the 67th Infantry is guest of his parents on McKinley Avenue for a few days. He enlisted with the regular army at the war's outbreak and has served in several camps. He is currently on furlough and helping train new recruits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sargeant Herbert Reichardson
Camp Sheridan
Ala
William Richardson
McKinley Avenue
Sargeant Richardson
67Th Infantry
Hospital Ship Comfort Arrives Safe After Storm Delay
Anxiety over the delayed hospital ship Comfort eased when the Navy Department said the vessel put in at Anosta to ride out a heavy storm and should reach New York tomorrow or Sunday. The ship carried wounded American soldiers overseas and had been several days overdue from Europe.
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Washington
Comfort
Europe
Navy Department
Attos
New York
Robbery at Busy City Corner Halts Traffic
Elmer I. Vineyard, oil operator from Tulsa, Oklahoma, was robbed of 200 dollars by two armed bandits at Seventh and Penn Avenues in Pittsburg during the morning rush. The thieves disappeared into the crowd as onlookers stood stunned at the sensational holdup.
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Pittsburg
Seventh
Penn Avenues
Elmer I. Vineyard
Tulsa
Okla
One Killed and Wounded Soldiers Named in War Dispatch
Lancaster report states Ross Shaffer 22 of Company C 333rd Regiment was killed by accidental rifle fire in France. Mrs Sam B Lindley of Rushville is told her son in Seventh Infantry was wounded degree undetermined.
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Lancaster
Ross Shaffer
Three Hundred and Thirty-third Regiment
France
Frank Shaffer
John Lindley
Rushville
Sam B. Lindley
Seventh Infantry
Millersburg closes schools churches again over flu
Mil lersburg board of health orders schools churches and public meetings shut for a second time as local physicians report 40 new influenza cases, up 25 from last week.
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Millersburg
Board of Health
Hassling Dies of Influenza as Celina Closes
Celina records show J. B. Hassling aged 46 a court clerk died from influenza. Citywide impact with 500 plus cases. board of health orders closure of schools lodges churches and all general business houses.
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Celina
J. B. Hassling
the Board of Health
Father of seven dies in Marion influenza outbreak
Arthur Rinbolt aged 39 died today in Marion of influenza. His wife, mother of a week old baby, is critically ill. An appeal was issued for volunteer nurses to help.
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Marion
Dee
Arthur Rinbolt
Son Killed in Action From Millersburg Notice
Mrs Viola Fis received word that her son Ben Eis was killed in action on October 25. He served in Company M of the 329th Regiment.
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Millersburg
Viola Fis
Ben
Eis
329Th Regiment
Food Administration Eases Rigid Trading Rules for Grains
Washington announces removal of all restrictions on trading in corn oats rye and barley while continuing control over coffee distribution. The move streamlines grain markets and shifts focus to coffee oversight.
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Washington
Food Administration
Ohioan Is Released From German Prison Camps
Washington reports George Zimmerman of Barberton is among prisoners released from German prison camps.
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Washington
George Zimmerman
Barberton
French inventor’s air sirens heard two miles away on ships
A French inventor’s compressed air sirens mounted on ship masts have been heard at a distance of two miles, signaling short-range communications at sea.
Wheat harvest saved 16 million bushels through cleaner threshing
Reports from 38 grain states credit the U S Food Administration with a national effort to cut harvest losses. Farmers and threshermen adopted cleaner methods and field inspections lowering waste from about 3 percent to a minimum, saving 16 million bushels of wheat and boosting growers' profits nationwide.
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United States
U. S. Food Administration
The
Food Administration
No One Suffered Here in Voluntary Food Saving
The piece extols voluntary food saving in America, praising self-denial for keeping bread prices steady and preventing speculation. It claims no hardship occurred and asserts strong national spirit and health from abstinence from wheat. It contrasts with other nations and lauds domestic tranquility from self sacrifice.
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America
American War Time Rationing Echoes Prompt Action
The speaker urges citizens to seek more wheat and pork and to save sugar, noting the response of Americans to the wartime challenge with collective effort and sacrifice.
Out of town visitors listed in Athens streets
Athens residents and visitors from Waterloo Canaan Lodi Dover Brenceville Ind and Meigs county line area were seen on Athens streets Saturday morning. Notables included John Boden A B Stephenson Henry Stalder G G Gaul Frank Hubler Gabriel South John Gilkey and Robert Byrne. Ben Fielder came with his father G M Fielder. the elder Fielder recently left his native county and works in local mines. A portable gasoline motor and generator unit for electric welding in areas without power is being designed for truck use.
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Athens
John Boden
A. 8
Stephenson
Waterloo
Henry Stalder
G. G. Gaul
Frank Hubler
Gabriel
Canaan
John Gilkey
Pratts Fork
Meigs County
Robert Byrne
Lodi
Ben Fielder
Dover
Ben
G. M. Fieldes
Brenceville
Ind
Fielder
Italy's War Effort and Economic Strain Highlighted
An overview reviews Italy's military and economic mobilization in World War I. It notes nearly 4.5 million mobilized, about 1.5 million dead or wounded, 1 million Austrian prisoners, vast mountain warfare, and a labor and coal shortage. It praises industrial shift to war needs and calls for allied economic coordination postwar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Piave
Isonzo
Albania
France
America
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Nelsonville
Eva Martin
Nelle Finsterwald
Parkersburg
W. Va
James Weidman
Detroit, Mich
Ethel Cabeen
Mary Cabeen
Order of Eastern Star
Louis Brown
Mildred Francis
Jacksonville
Ila
L. V. Brown
Pr. B. W. Pickering
J. L. Pickering
Red” Richardson
Parker Bros
Bank OF Athens
Owen
the Athens Messenger
Pmesas
Felice Ferrero
Italian Bureau of Public Information
Austria-Hungary
Herroops
Balkan
Rheims
Ias
Haithe
Germany
Austria
Francis Ho Sisson
Guaranty Trust Company
Thaly
Sisson
Adamello Ory Wi
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