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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1918
Page
5
The W R C will not meet Friday due to influenza. Sunnyside Needle Club meeting postponed. Members and families hear updates on influenza, military returns, and local notices including postal and hospital moves.
Readers are invited to a Girl Bazaar on Saturday December 14 at Lostro's venue. The event features local vendors, crafts, and refreshments with proceeds supporting community programs.
Local residents attend visits and hosting duties with relatives from Columbus Athens Charleston and Cincinnati. The column also promotes a missionary society event and reviews a wartime compassion piece about facial injuries in veterans, highlighting public sympathy and altruism.
Mrs Maynard Ladd, an American sculptor in Paris, perfects metal masks to replace torn facial tissue for wounded soldiers. Using copper bases silver plated, plaster casts, and fitted artificial features, masks are colored to match unseen skin. The process restores dignity and public presence, funded by $20 from the American people.
Col umbus returns home to Chauncey while Miss Hazel Lahughs visits Marietta. Bert Linscott and Amesville relatives enjoy Sunday with D H Linscott and Hazel. influenza illness eases for Katzenbarcks. Nye family reports outbreaks in Bernas Ayres. Wm Verity on Navy leave in Chauncey. Kilpatricks return from Corning and Columbus. Koons visit Murray City family. Bradfield guests include Beas Koenig and Paul Potts. Shaner visits Corning. Trainer’s illness improves. Ferguson visits Charleston. Stalder returns from Greens Run. Edvtha Trickett recovers. Harvey Nye returns from Mt Vernon to Chauncey.
Washington reports from the State Department say Germany faces not as fearful conditions as painted. Bolshevism unlikely to gain control but ferment may yield liberal socialism. It is unclear if the peace conference will delay its treaty awaiting a stabilized government in Germany.
Nicholas Sprague aged 73 died Monday evening at Athens State Hospital from arteriocirrhosis. He had been admitted ten days earlier. The body was shipped to Gallicade this morning for burial by Undertaker Baughman.
Pittsburg Pa December 11. John H. Jones president of Bertha Coal Co foresees a four year boom in the coal market. He predicts strong American demand from nonessential industries and overseas orders to South America and France, with fuel shortages abroad and a prosperous domestic outlook.
Lydia Tinker head of the woman division at the Columbus U S Employment Office says many married women who worked while husbands served will return home after discharge. She adds many working girls are waiting for a "Yank" to marry as soon as he comes home.
Paris reports a high French official stating France is in full agreement with President Wilson's fourteen points and that American executives interpretation will ease their implementation. He notes differences in emphasis but emphasizes overall accord and practical application.
In the evening of December 1 1918 Ray McLead husband and father to four children died at home in Sugar Creek aged 33 years 5 months 10 days He was born June 21 1885 reared near Marshfield Athens County He married Cora Bilis at 26 and left wife three children Bessie Virgil Kathleen two sisters and widowed mother The family and kin listed include Mrs Clarence Danes Mrs Seth Hunter and Mrs Walter Tucker Also referenced are Fred and Cecil of nearby towns The poem closes with a wish for peaceful rest
The family expresses gratitude for kindness and sympathy shown during their bereavement. WIFE, MOTHER, SISTERS and BROTHERS acknowledge support from friends and community.
Inele Sam will follow discharged soldiers home to ensure they can obtain work under the U S Employment Service plan. Soldiers who do not register at the employment offices at Camp Sherman and other Ohio demobilization centers will get a letter asking if they need help finding work. Camp Sherman experience showed some soldiers hid unemployment to avoid delaying discharge.
Mr and Mrs Bart Hindwell of near Hebbardsville received a letter from their son Peter Hindwell in Dartford England. He writes he is alive in hospital and hopes to return home but is unsure if he will rejoin his company after leaving Belgium.
A local Girl Scout Bazaar showcases homemade candies and pastries as part of a community event. A newly invented helmet aims to protect boxing instructors from overly eager pupils during training sessions.
Flu cases appear in Glouster Athens and Nelsonville with mild symptoms so far and authorities expect more in coming days. Mine 267 of Ohio Collieries Co. at Hunterdon will close Saturday due to lack of orders, following Jacksonville Mine 264 last week. Pearl Orndorf of Hollister is severely wounded in overseas action, telegram confirms, after his family heard little from him since January and the War Department notified them.
The text notes that current power was off last night, leaving movie fans disappointed and streets in darkness. It jokes that night air does not agree with The Hocking Power Co. juice, causing conspicuous absence after darkness and questions daytime performance as the city has not used the juice then.
The regular meeting of the Christian Workers group scheduled for Thursday evening at the Church of Christ has been postponed.
Work continues on sinking the shaft of the new mine on the Stoecklein farm just above the city. When opened, the mine will be one of the valley’s largest and provide employment for several hundred men, weather permitting.
In Fharon Pennsylvania an express messenger aboard a Pennsylvania railroad train threw a package containing 85000 in small bills to the depot platform. The package rebounded under the train and split. Money scattered along the tracks as police and state officers secured the area and recovered most of the sum.
A Farmers' Review writer urges highway engineers and commissioners to redesign road crossings and sewers to widen culverts to at least 40 feet. Narrow crossings cause abrupt vehicle turns and accidents. extending culverts provides room to pass safely. Emphasizes safety first and the duty of engineers to modernize roads.
Cincinnati markets record cattle receipts 625 with calves steady and hogs at 17.40 to 17.50 for top packs. sheep and lambs show no change. Pittsburg reports veal values at 19.00 to 19.50 with steady sheep and lambs and hogs market unchanged.
Washington announces corrected World War II casualty details. Private W C Pattison of Caywood Ohio is killed in action. Private J A Badlogeki of Independence is wounded severely after previously reported missing.
The document lists firm prices for various poultry products including firsts at 66 cents per dozen and 63 per dozen for certain grades, ordinary firsts 60c, and confirming live poultry rates. It details fowls, fowls weights, broilers, springers, roosters, turkeys and hens with price points such as 28 cents for certain weights, 24 cents for springers, and 29 cents for heavier tomes.
Prices for timothy and clover hay are listed with grades and bids. No 1 timothy baled at 27 dollars, No 2 at 26, No 3 at 25, No 1 clover at 25, No 2 at 24. Oats straw brings 9 dollars and rye straw 12.
Illinois market brief shows December corn at 1.544 dollars per bushel, January at 1.82, February 1.50, March 1.80, May 1.80. Oats December quoted at 7.34, January 12.1, February 7.2, March 7.24, May 7.214. Pork futures list January at 48.75 dollars and May at 45.00.
On December 11 in Toledo Ohio cash corn 42 oats 76 to Tree barley 1.04 rye 1.64. Clover Dec 24.95 Jan 25.05 Feb 25.35. Alsike Dec 19.70 March 20.00. Timothy new 5.124 old 6.07 percent Dec 5.12 Jan 5.1714 March 5.37.
Natural gas has been found at Holand in quantity sufficient to supply a small community. The finding promises local energy independence and potential development for the region.
Rosedale Kansas August Anderson a 39 year old grandfather born in Sweden who came to the United States at age two has learned he is not a citizen after registering for the draft. He has served two terms on the city council and now has a son in the army. He has received his first papers.
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