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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1919
Page
5
Local social notes record visits and greetings among residents of Pomeroy White Hall and Athens area. Entries include Mrs. Adam Niggemeyer and Mrs. G H Maxwell hosting and visiting, private James Winning en route to Camp Sherman, births announced for Mr and Mrs Irwin Moore, and travels of W H Jewett and W E Moler with trips to Cleveland and Flint.
Monee Moorhead, a hust y carrier, has been confined to his home with pneumonia but is improving rapidly and expected to return to his route soon.
Mrs. Sam Burk and her two children Mary Louise and Doris Virgene returned to their home after spending part of the winter at the home of her son R. M. Burk in Cincinnati.
Mrs W E Moler and Mrs John Swanson will host Thursday afternoon for the Art and Thimble club and the Priscilla Needle Club at Mrs Moler's home.
E. H. Barnes has purchased the Carl Porter residence on Franklin Avenue and is now occupying it. Chief and Mrs. Porter are living at their West Washington street property. Mrs. Willis Junod returned home last evening after five weeks with her husband, stationed at Camp Grant with the 161 Depot Brigade band.
Mrs James Brooks of West Union entertained Tuesday guests including her sister Mrs Charles Monks of Nelsonville and her aunt Mrs Wallace Hood of Pomeroy who returned home yesterday evening.
Mrs Gerve Mansfield rushed to Guysville today due to illness at her brother Dixon’s home. The Dixon family and four children, along with Mr and Mrs Dixon, are all infected with influenza in the household.
Clarence Kyle lies seriously ill in Mercy Hospital Columbus with typhoid fever. His wife was summoned to Columbus last Friday due to his illness. Kyle recently moved to Columbus to manage the Columbus Wholesale Grocery.
Mr and Mrs George Leighty learn their son Pearl J Leighty has arrived safely in New York from Brest France and enlisted in the coast artillery corps. After arrival he stayed in New York camps Merritt and Wadsworth and is now in Columbus. The Presbyterian church Women’s Bible Class will entertain.
Thursday evening at 7:30 at the home of Mrs. George L. Fenzel a George Washington masque party will be held. Assisting in hospitality will be Mrs. L. L. Deissle and Mrs. H. D. Henry.
A series of real estate deeds recorded across Trimble Township and surrounding areas including transfers of 1 acre by Trimble Township to Jno Farekes for 500 dollars the sale of 14.96 acres to Adam Babbis for 425 dollars and multiple parcels in Pleasanton Stewart and Rome Township with prices ranging from 15 to 2750 dollars.
The court recesses with ongoing hearings. Clarence Van Dyke versus Bessie Van Dyke and Lewis Davis et al versus EB F Richards estate administrator will be heard Friday. James W Ford vs C B Saunders injunction was not heard. Defense counsel ordered to file brief to demurrer. Rebecca Bing versus Lee Bing and Boyd Bennett versus Mary Bennett postponed due to illness and unprepared defense.
Jay Witham pleaded guilty to a toxication charge when arraigned before Mayor Woodsworth last evening and settled for a fine of five dollars and costs.
The Prussian Cur a powerful drama of the Hun struggle for world domain and the triumph of democracy screens at the opera house on Thursday February 20. Adm 10 25. First show 6 30. 2 18 2t.
Railroad officials threaten to remove the fence around a lawn by the depot if Glouster residents trespass. The company spent money to improve the strip and pays about $40 yearly to maintain it. Signs exist but some locals ignore them, and officials urge the town to protect the area.
An enthusiastic meeting Monday night reported over 300 members with aims to surpass 500 by the banquet. W P Reese and Dr Geo Franken sought East Branch fish from Columbus for the club and a shipment of matured fish is promised for April or May with later small fish from hatcheries. Chief Game Director Baxter and others will speak at the opera house March 14 followed by a banquet.
G R Hall of the 68th Co Marine Barracks Norfolk is on furlough with his parents near Mountville. He reports one Athens county boy in his unit at Fort Graham Buchtel. Mrs Wm Wyatt 65 Greens Run funeral held at Wyatt home conducted by Rev Mills Jackson ville burial Taylor Ridge cemetery pneumonia after flu. Fred D Kinney and Miss Vera Wallace wed in Athens this morning then return home to city friends. Card of Thanks expresses gratitude for kindness after death of son and grandson Herman Gilbert. Mrs Josephine McDonald and Mr and Mrs Herman Exenkamper extend thanks.
A Soldiers' and Sailors' League of Ohio committee disrupted a joint temperance hearing on the Miller-Crabbetty enforcement bill. Lt. T. M. Sullivan argued the 35,000 to 100,000 members oppose any bill passed while they are absent and without vote rights.
Idaho Senator Borah in an open letter to former President Taft asks supporters of the league of nations whether they would amend the Paris constitution draft to reserve the United States right to preserve the Monroe Doctrine intact.
A Hasen meeting of socialists Spartacans soviet leaders and unattached radicals adjourned after the socialists withdrew. The government sent troops into the district and a bloody collision is anticipated hourly as a general nation wide strike looms.
A fire that destroyed a Canadian Northern Railway building in Port Arthur today briefly threatened the company’s large grain elevator said to hold five million bushels of grain in storage. The loss was described as slight.
An entertainment and supper will be held at Fairview on Friday evening February 21. Local residents are invited to attend for fellowship and fundraising.
Obediah A. Petty ex mayor and West Virginia Republican figure was shot accidentally in Charleston. He held a revolver and fired into his left breast. doctors say he cannot recover. Petty had recently been released from a private asylum and is survived by his son Dr. Lawrence Petty and other relatives.
The jury hearing Prof Scott Nearing on espionage law charges reduced its deliberation by twenty six hours and resumed at 3 p m The crowded courtroom included college professors radicals ministers and Nearing supporters A disagreement among attorneys was anticipated due to the tense proceedings and Nearing's controversial writings.
The Ways and Means Committee began drafting a bill for a new form of government securities. It would issue 7 billion dollars in notes for one to five years in three or four classes to suit small and large investors. Tax exempt notes may yield about 3.5 to 3% while taxable notes may reach 4 3 4 to 5 percent. Supporters say notes aid small savers. Treasury officials favor notes over large long term bonds for now.
Thursday morning 7:30 and 8:30 classes will meet as usual at the university. All other classes are dismissed at 9:20 for the day for the funeral of Prof Eli Dunkle. The funeral is set for 10 A.M.
The White Star liner Canopic from Liverpool and Brest arrived today in New York carrying 207 army officers 22 naval officers and 1201 enlisted men of the 162nd infantry including field and staff headquarters machine gun company medical detachment and companies A B C and a detachment of company L.
A fragment notes a player punishing himself with a ten dollar fine after an unspecified Sunday incident. The text mentions four others and a finger gesture but lacks clear names, places, or organizations.
Nicholae Girs, 85, a former county commissioner and one of the county's oldest native-born residents, died yesterday from ailments incidental to old age. He was the last surviving member of a family of twelve.
More than a hundred wounded and ill soldiers reach Camp Sherman from Virginia. Ohio lines include Green and Zanesville among arrivals.
A Weimar dispatch reports a German minister designated to serve as envoy to the United Austria, with confirmation that the new post will align Germany and German Austria within the German state framework.
Findlay Ohio February 19. Directors of the Ohio Ot Banetact meeting here on Tuesday declare a regular dividend of 1.25 per share and an extra dividend of 4.78 per share payable March 31 to stockholders as of February 28.
Rubber boots with studded soles and heels, invented by an Idaho lumberman, aim to provide secure footing on slick surfaces. The device features calks that grip wet or icy ground, improving safety for lumber work.
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