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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1918
Page
5
Social notes detail multiple residents visiting relatives for Christmas in Columbus, Parkersburg, Belpre and Youngstown. Figures include Mrs. Jennie O Dell and Prof. T N Hoover, with travel by Dr. Jean Putnam and Major Alfred G Farmer. A Woman's Music Club break and local visits plus a card of thanks wrap the item.
Maplewood Drive on Saturday evening December 21 hosted a family gathering for Mortis’s fifty first birthday. Relatives and friends attended with gifts and refreshments, including Charles Morris and Goldie, A. J. South, Alonzo Tryon, Homer Clark, George Marquis, Frank Simma, Guy Spaulding and sons Douglas and Allen, Mrs Farley, Mrs Judd, Chester Morris, and Basil and Otto Sedwick.
Governor Cox granted a Christmas Eve pardon to Charles Smith of Cleveland, a labor leader convicted of blackmail. Cox cited substantial justice and wartime labor patriotism as factors. Judge Vickery and Prosecutor Doerfler supported the clemency.
M F Andrews of Camp Meigs Washington arrives to spend Christmas with son in law and daughter E B Munden on furlough after armistice pause. Eugene Tolliver of Camp Sheridan comes to stay with mother Mrs Loren Andrews. he serves in M Tor Transport Corps and will remain several months. Oscar Kloh of Trimble receives honorable discharge and returns home. he served at Camp Sherman. Mr and Mrs F P Dulaney host for holidays their daughter Mrs R J Lewis of Ashville North Carolina.
Constance Talmadge stars in The Studio Girl a fine up-to-date photoplay sure to please. Tomorrow the feature The Man With out a Country with a special matinee at 1 o'clock.
A last chance performance on Christmas night at The Original Theatre in this city urges audiences not to miss the final appearance. The notice emphasizes the event as a farewell in town and encourages timely attendance.
The Athens county children's home holds a Christmas party tonight with the immediate family visiting due to flu concerns. About fifty children will gather for an evening of singing, recitations, and a large gift pile labeled for each child. The Athens High School organized many presents and sorted ages and names with help from Mrs. George Holdren. A Christmas dinner with twelve dressed chickens and fancy brick ice cream from Mohican class closes the day.
The battlefleet returning from the war will spend Christmas at sea and is delayed by storms. Officials announced the squadrons would arrive by train and reach New York at nine o'clock Thursday morning for a review.
Amsterdam dispatch reports Admiral Beatty, commander of the British grand fleet, refrained from demanding the surrender of German submarine 179 in response to a torpedo attack that sank three British cruisers, as a gesture of consideration for the incident.
A Christmas Day special meeting of Athens Commandery members is set for four o’clock p m at Masonic Temple Athens and at Masonic Hall Nelsonville. Most Eminent Lee Stewart Smith Grand Master of the Grand Encampment of U S Knights Templars urges full attendance. If absent, contact Commander Fred M Hutchinson or Generalisimo A P Scott Recorder James A Palmer.
Charles Pyle and family parked their Ford near the theatre on Washington street after attending a show. They found the car badly damaged, apparently after a near collision or a joy ride, with the radiator and front axle smashed against a stone wall.
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