Social News Highlights From Athens and Nearby Towns
Sunday visits and travels dominate the social page with Miss Greta Lash hosting in Albany and many guests from Columbus Logan Circl eville Pittsburg and Zanesville. Notable items include Camp Sherman and Camp Upton connections, family visits, car trips to Columbus Baltimore and Muncie, and society group meetings at the M. B. Church W C T U and Women’s Benefit Association.
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Blanche Linton
Nelsonville
Edna Swan
Chillicothe
Camp Sherman
Woman's Benefit Association of the Maccabees
Matsuda Bowser Match In Glouster Stirs Local Crowd
Jap Matsuda defeated Bowser in a one hour handicap bout at Gan Toy theater amid crowd pandemonium. Referee F. F. Skinner struggled to control the fight as both men ignored orders and heavy betting occurred. Matsuda earned the decision in Buckeye state spectacle.
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Glouster
Matty Matsuda
Paul Bowser
Newark
Gan Toy Theater
Bowser
Matsuda
Graves
San Toy
F. F. Skinner
Skinner
Ther
Buckeye
Convicts to Build Roads in Missouri Plan
Missouri to hire 500 prisoners for road work with Columbia to Jefferson City as the first built linking the university and the state capital. The highway department will pay $1.25 per convict while the state feeds transports and guards them.
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State of Missouri
Columbia
Jefferson City
Missouri
Institut
Columbia-Jefferson City
Highway Department
State
Good Roads Are Necessary For All Citizens
The piece argues that good roads are essential for the masses not a luxury for the few, stressing benefits to farmers and the public. It also cautions against mixing warm and cold cream as it promotes souring and poor quality.
Draft the Exempted Men to Help the Farmer War Post
Urges drafting the exempted men and boys eighteen to twenty one into an agricultural army to accelerate farming. Warns Americans sleep through wartime duties while hunger grows and urges government action to mobilize labor for planting and harvest. Bartlesville jail to host a war garden. Philadelphia man charged with stealing brass fittings from a battleship.
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United States
Mother Hubbard
Old Mother Hubbard
Rip van Winkle
Long Island
Russia
Hindenburg
Bayshore
George
Carry on and endure for patriotic relief in Pittsburgh
A Vigilantes poem urging perseverance through sacrifice for righteous peace and service. A brief note from Pittsburgh explains John Kohn, an Austrian native, seeking U S citizenship. also mentions granite as a fertilizer source due to its nutrient content.
Draft hopes for replacement of dead brother in camp
Camp Lee Virginia letters reveal Paul Bergsson seeks to join his late brother Milton's draft place. Camp officers strive to admit the full blooded American, despite the Pittsburgh draftee brother having died here recently.
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Camp Lee
Milton
Paul Bergsson
Bergison
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati Cattle Market Report July 1
Local creameries pay 45 cents for sour cream and 61 cents for sweet cream testing 17 per cent. Cincinnati cattle receipts 2135 with market steady. shippers receive 18.00 to 16.25. Calves market strong to higher, with extras around 16.50.
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Cincinnati
Market Strong Receipts Report For Good Choice Packers
Hoge-Receipts 7130 shows steady gains with Good choice packers at $16.75. BSheep-Receipts 1690 confirms steady trading with Extra $11.00 and $11.60 as market signals. Extra $18.00 noted as market strength.
Market Price Fragments for Corn and Pork
The note lists July and August corn prices at 1.49 per unit with 3 to 4 and 1.61 for September 3 to 8. It also shows Om prices July 72 1-2 and August 68 1-2, plus aerated pork July 43.60 and September 43.75.
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Greta Lash
Hazael Cline
Albany
Mr. R. M. Laird
Logan
J. W. Drake
Camp Upton, N. Y
William
Marie and
Frances Carr
Mrs. T. W. Coe
Carlos Henry
Amesville
William Bean
Mary Richey
Blanche Smith
Columbus
Mr. James Smith
Sam Sommer
Mrs. Sommer
Sam Bamberger
Elizabeth Blackstone
Circleville
C. W. Gullette
Sunnyside Drive
T. M. Pickens
Middleport
J. C. Swan
Robert Davidson
Athens
The
Daughters of America
Fred Elsperman
Louise
Jean
Zanesville
M. I’. Hearn
J. Alonzo Palmer
Parkersburg
W. BE. Peters
Muncie
Ind
Florence Morrow
G. W. Hopkins
Baltimore
John Race
Stephen F. Hooper
William H. Irwin
George Irwinson Vernon
8S. V. Luckett
William Whitlatch
the Plains
Gladys Partlow
Gwennie James
Mildred Jennings
Camp Upton
N. Y
Whitlatch
Martzolff
M. B. Church
B. D. Evans
James Kittsmill
Mahala Kittsmiller
Thelma Lehew
Ed Burkhart
Portsmouth
Isirs
Burkhart
Roy Haddox
Marjorie Catherine
William Bobo
Maplewood Drive
Mr. Haddox
B. F. Haddox
Rockland
Charles Collins
North High Street
Mr. Collins
Noble Collins
Nearby
Harry Hawk
Street
Charles Harrie
J. Rie
Dew of
Corning
City
Luna
Ohio University
L. A. Koons
Clem Swaim
Lena K
Mexico City
Mexico
Lucille Lewis
Swaim
John Esty
Yptown
Altia Cousins
Mr. Taylor
Cleveland
Esty
Mollie Campbell
Cousins
Robert Cousins
Union Street
Lottle
Jessie
Freda Doolittle
Carbondale
C. F. Phipps
Connecticut
Mr. Phipp
Saint Cloud
Fla
A. CS. BA. R
B. R. LeRoy
Vermillion
South Dakota
State University
Opera House
Web
Ohio
Scales
Palos
Robert Lunsford
San Tay
Bob
America
Mark Swan
Vigliantes
Jalil
Bartlesville
Okla
Jatter
Philadelphia
William Boyer
Guggenheim
Robert Guggenheim
Daniel Guggenheim
Litten M
John Kohn
Austria-Hungary
Kryl
Madrigal Singers
New York
Princess Watahwaso
Arthur K. Herman
Vimy Ridge
Sidney Landon Sanalecasit
Gay Zenda MacLaren Aa
Antonio Sala
Celliat
Spain
William Rainey Bennett
Man
Martin D. Hardin
Red Cross
France
Harry L. Fogleman
Billy Sunday of
Business
Redpath Chautauqua
Lee
Wicago Grain
Tolew Grain Market
Getter
B. Norris
Eastwater St
Wrench & BP
Com
Wolfe Redman
Messenger
Athens Electric Co
Court St
Sugar Creek
Mes
John Cowan
PoRn
Bell
Owe Mbal
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