Social news notes and visits across towns
Miss Eva Martin is guest of friends in Columbus over Sunday. Miss Nelle Finsterwald visits Parkersburg Virginia. Mrs. James Weidman returns from Detroit. Mrs. Harry Bartlett returns to Columbus with Mrs. Charles Pickering as guest. Miss Ethel Cabeen returns to Columbus after visiting her mother.
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Eva Martin
Columbus
Nelle Finsterwald
Parkersburg
W. Va
James Weidman
Detroit, Mich
Harry Bartlett
Charles Pickering
Ethel Cabeen
Eastern Star Meeting Seeks Officer Elections
Mrs. Marry Cabeen reports the Order of Eastern Star will gather Monday at 7 o'clock to elect officers. Members are urged to attend.
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Order of Eastern Star
Local Social News Briefs and Family Arrivals
Mr and Mrs Louis Brown with Mildred Francis arrive from Jacksonville Illinois and stay with Mr and Mrs F V Brown. Mrs Dean Vore returns from Columbus where her sister Mrs Walker Radford died at 1130 today after heart illness. Mrs Bertha Wilson Beagle of Goodyear Rubber Works Akron is at home on West State street called by her mother Mrs J W Wilson illness.
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Louis Brown
Mildred Francis
Jacksonville
I’la
V. Brown
Dean Vore
Columbus
Walker Radford
Bertha Wilson Beagle
Goodyear Rubber Works
Akron
West State Street
J. W. Wilson
Mrs Susan Pickering Visits Sharon Pa Friends
Mrs Susan Pickering of Sharon Pennsylvania has come for a visit with Mr and Mrs Joseph L Pickering. Mrs Pickering is visiting local friends and lines up a brief stay in the area.
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Susan Pickering
Sharon, Pa
Joseph L. Pickering
Pickering
Local notices and visits from Mt Vernon residents
The widow of the late Dr. B. W. Pickering, brother of J. L. Pickering. Miss Louise Balis arrived from Norfolk to spend a two week furlough with her mother Mrs. Mary Balis. Miss Balis enlists in the navy as yeomanette. Miss Nelle Sherrard of Akron will return home Sunday after visiting her brother Sid Sherrard and aunt Mrs. Daniel Baird. She attended the funeral of her brother-in-law J. W. Woodard. Mr. W. F. Moser returned from Akron where he was made a director of the Ohio Auto Trades Association. All large state cities were represented. Moler stopped over in Mt. Vernon with his sister Blanche Moler, recovering at the Mt. Vernon sanatorium from teaching duties.
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Louise Balis
Norfolk
Mary Balis
Miss Balis
Navy
Nelle Sherrard
Akron
Sid Sherrard
Daniel Baird
Miss Sherrard
J. W. Woodard
W. F. Moser
Ohio Auto Trades Association
Moler
Mt. Vernon
Blanche Moler
Miners Seek Explanation for Pittsburg Mine No 9 Shutdown
A public forum letter from Circle Hill miners asks why Pittsburg mine No 9 is not working. They state only three days of work in two weeks and urge the company to resume operations to supply coal for the war effort and ships, arguing patriotism and national need.
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Pittsburg
Circle Hill
France
Harvard Mourns 222 Dead From War Service
Cambridge Massachusetts December 7 Harvard University reports 222 alumni and students killed in the war. Of the total 201 served in the army and navy while 21 died in auxiliary overseas units.
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Cambridge, Maas
Harvard
Army
Navy
Red Richardson Visits Home After Camp Sheridan Tour
Sargeant Herbert Richardson of Camp Sheridan Alabama is visiting his parents on McKinley Avenue for a few days. He serves in the 67th Infantry Old Regular Army, enlisted at the war’s start, and has spent time in several camps. He is currently on furlough and helping train new recruits.
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Sargeant Herbert Reichardson
Camp Sheridan
Ala
William Richardson
McKinley Avenue
Sargeant Richardson
67Th Infantry
Hospital Ship Comfort Reaches Port After Delay
Anxiety over the delayed hospital ship Comfort from Europe easing as the navy reports it put into the Atros to ride out a heavy storm. The vessel is expected to reach New York tomorrow or Sunday after days overdue with wounded American soldiers aboard.
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Washington
Comfort
Europe
Navy Department
Atros
New York
Operator Held Up At Busy City Corner
Elmer I. Vineyard oil operator of Tulsa Oklahoma was held up by two armed bandits at Seventh and Penn Avenues in Pittsburg this morning at nine o clock and robbed of 200 dollars in cash. The robbers escaped into the crowd as onlookers stood stunned by the spectacular holdup.
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Pittsburg
Seventh
Penn Avenues
Elmer I. Vineyard
Tulsa
Okla
One Killed and Wounded Troops in France Reported
In Lancaster a government message reports Ross Shaffer aged 22 of Company C 333rd Regiment was killed by accidental rifle fire in France. His parents Mr and Mrs Frank Shaffer were notified. Mrs John Lindley of Rushville received word her son Sam B Lindley of Company 2b Seventh Infantry was wounded degree undetermined.
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Lancaster
Millersburg Orders Closures as Influenza Rises
The Millerburg board of health orders schools churches and public meetings closed again amid a spike with 40 new influenza cases, up 25 from the prior week.
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Millersburg
Board of Health
Celina Closes City as Influenza Death Hits Clerk of Courts
J. B. Hassling aged 46 clerk of courts died from influenza in Celina. The city faces a severe outbreak with 500 cases or more leading to all schools lodges churches and general business houses closed by order of the board of health.
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Celina
J. B. Hassling
the Board of Health
Father of seven dies in influenza outbreak
Marion reports Arthur Rinbolt aged 89 died today from influenza. His wife, mother of a week old baby, is critically ill. An appeal was issued for volunteer nurses to assist.
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Marion
Arthur Rinbolt
Son Killed in Action in Oct for 329th Regiment
Mrs Viola Mis received word that her son Ben F Eis was killed in action October 25. He served with Company M 329th Regiment.
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Millersburg
Viola Mis
Ben F. Eis
329Th Regiment
Food Administration Lifts Futures Trading Ban
The Food Administration ends all restrictions on trading corn oats rye and barley. It will maintain control over coffee distribution.
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Washington
Food Administration
Ohioan I6 Released From German Prison Camps
Georgea Zimmerman of Barberton is among prisoners released from German prison camps as announced in Washington on December 7.
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Ohioan I6
Washington
Georgea Zimmerman
Barberton
French inventor uses air sirens on ships
A French inventor develops compressed air sirens for short range signaling. When mounted on ship masts the devices have been heard up to two miles away, highlighting a maritime signaling innovation.
Grain Threshing Saves 16 Million Bushels of Wheat This Year
U S grain threshers and farmers saved about 16 million bushels of wheat by cleaner methods and field sweeping, with similar gains in barley oats rye and other grains. Reports from 83 states credit patriotic effort and reduced losses from 344 per cent to a minimum. Growers and threshers benefited financially as the campaign spread nationwide.
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United States
U. S. Food Administration
The
Food Administration
No One Suffered Here In Voluntary Food Saving
A wartime column extols voluntary self denial in America for food saving. It argues bread price stability and prevention of extortion through abstinence from wheat, claiming no hardship while improving health and spirit and maintaining national tranquillity.
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America
Americans Answered the Wheat and Pork Challenge
The source notes a national effort to secure food supplies with emphasis on wheat, pork, and sugar. It describes a wartime mobilization and public response urging production and conservation. The tone reflects collective sacrifice and government guidance shaping civilian effort.
Out of town visitors tour Athens streets
A group including John Boden A S Stevenson Henry Stalder G G Gaul Frank Hubler Gabriel South and John Gilkey were seen on Athens streets Saturday morning. Ben Fielder and his father G M Fielder of Brenceville Indiana joined with Ben visiting from Dover and Lodi residents. Fielder tailed by his father, former native county mining crew, showcased a gasoline motor and generator welding unit for mobile electric welding.
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Athens
John Boden
A.S. Stephenson
Waterloo
Henry Stalder
G. G. Gaul
Frank Hubler
Gabriel South
Canaan
John Gilkey
Pratts Kork
Meigs County
Robert Hyme
Lodi
Ben Fielder
Dover
Ben
Italy's War Effort and Economic Strain Amid Deficits
In the war, Italy mobilized nearly 4.5 million men with about 1.5 million losses including 350,000 killed and 100,000 dead from disease. Economic strain followed labor shortages, emigration, and reliance on materiel from allies. Italy built vast mountain roads and teleferiche to support war, while facing fuel and coal scarcities and high total expenditures exceeding 8.8 billion lira by 1917 with a 12 billion cost projection.
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Italy
Plave
Isonzo
Piave
Albania
Laly
France
America
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Marry Cabeen
B. W. Pickering
J. L. Pickering
Red” Richardson
Jacob Bros
Soldier Boys
Parker Bros
Bank OF Athens
G. M. Fieldrs
Brenceville
Ind
Fielder
the Athens Messenger
Germany
Mr. Sisson
Felice Ferrero
Italian Bureau of Public Information
Austria-Hungary
Herroops
Ytalyv
Balkan
Rheims
Austria
Ngarest
Francis H. Sisson
Guaranty Trust Company
Bee Ang S
Teleferice” One
Adamello
TOTO
Pathless Mountain
Wilderness
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