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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Jul 03, 1918

Page

5

Social News Briefs From A Busy Summer Week

Notes of travel visits and gatherings including Ella Moore to Magnetic Springs Delaware and Jessie Mills to Rittman with her sister Mrs C L Miller. Mrs J H Dowler of New Marshfield visits son P G Dowler family. A W Ullom returns from Germantown Pa with son Dr J T Ullom. Duckler family heads to Buckeye Lake for the Fourth. Needle Club picnic at East Side school July 4. Ray Richey and family plan motor visit to The Plains. Ladies Aid meeting postponed to August first Thursday. Edward Stocklein visits Messenger office before visiting grandfather George Jacoby R D 9. Mrs Theodore Dean returns from Columbus Toledo and Upper Sandusky with daughter Mrs Lou Whetstone and two sons. Ed McQuade family visit from New Straitsville with Daryl Watkins.

Theodore Dean Columbo Toledo Upper Sandusky Lou Whetstone

Edward Hood praises Dr Parker's Treatment for Indigestion

Edward Hood of Lancaster Ohio reports severe stomach trouble lasting a year with bloating pain and inability to drink water. He credits Dr Parker's Treatment for Indigestion and Constipation with immediate relief and endorses the remedy as highly effective and guaranteed with money back.

Dr. Parker Geo. B. Parker M. D Athens Caio Cline’s All Druggis‘s

First M E church society shifts meeting time

The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the First M E church will meet in the church parlors Friday at 4 o'clock, instead of 2. The mite boxes will be opened at this meeting, which ends with a picnic supper.

Woman's Foreign Missionary Society M. E

Visitors Attend Social Round for Miss Virginia Reed

A sequence of gatherings in Terra Alta and Columbus honors Miss Virginia Reed of Terra Alta. Mrs. E C Schloss, Miss Louise Harlan, and Mrs. Harry Beckley host and attend breakfasts, suppers, luncheons, and theatre events with a guest list of local ladies and Miss Reed in attendance.

Virginia Reed Terra Alta W. Va E. C. Schloss Louise Harlan Columbus Harry Beckley A. G. Rossi Elmwood Place Dix Preston Colonial North Congress Street John H. Preston Majestic Grace McKee University Terrace A. C. Russi Reed Harlan Mary Fulton Constance Leete Effie Silvus Alice Henry

Birthday Dinner for Mrs Dicken and Family Hosts

Mrs. John Dicken of West Union street entertained last evening with a dinner in celebration of her husband birthday anniversary. Covers were laid for Mrs. Estella Green Logan Miss Evelyn Saunders Haydenville Mr and Mrs H Saunders and family Mrs Daniel Baird and the host and hostess.

John Dicken West Union Street Estella Green Logan Evelyn Saunders Haydenville H. Saunders Daniel Baird

Fourth in City Quiet Amid War Time

The city plans a restrained Fourth of July with no organized celebration. Businessmen will work on farms tomorrow as an act of patriotism, nearby towns hold varied observances, and fireworks vendors are scarce except for small firecrackers from likely outsiders.

Hel Bhurth

New Austrian Heads Reported in Field After Fall Drive

Berne dispatch says Field Marshal Mackensen and General von Bulow have traveled to Austria. Von Bulow is widely viewed as commander in chief of the Austrian army on the Italian front. Washington officials project troop shipments to continue for one or two months, as long as British transports permit. The nation’s Fourth of July observance notes that 1,718,000 is the May 1917 baseline, rising to 276,872 in June 1918.

Rome Mackensen von Bulow Berne Austria Carl D .Groat Washington War Department War Baker Wilsom Baker

Fourth of July Celebrated in France in 1918

Andrew Tardieu describes Allied solidarity as France marks the first Fourth of July national holiday. He notes American casualties and restorations, praises Wilson and American co operation, and reports French chambers’ unanimous support for the celebration to honor allied victory and shared democracy.

Andrew Tardieu United Press Paris United States France Wilson America

Commotion Over Thrift Stamp Credit in Athens County

Glouster Ohio July 8 reports spread that Athens county stamps purchase by Ohio Collieries employees was credited to Toledo or Lucas County. The company says stamps were bought in Toledo and placed in miners pay envelopes there but Athens county will receive proper credit. Also notes political candidacy of Lawrence G Worstell and a sudden death of Charles Allen. Opera House presents Helen Holmes in The Railroad Raiders with a serial.

Glouster Athens County Ohio Collieries Company Toledo Lucas County Strode Ohio

Cincinnati Markets Report for Produce and Poultry

Today in Cincinnati markets prices for produce and live poultry shown. Egas firm prime firsts at 87 cents, firsts 85 1 2 cents, ordinary firsts 33 cents. Live poultry firm with fowls 27 cents per pound, broilers 45 cents, roosters 18 cents.

Cincinnati

Pittsburg Cattle Sheep and Hogs Market Roundup

Cattle receipts light and market slow with prices for choice 16.00 to 16.50, good 15.00 to 15.75, veal calves 17.50 to 18.00. Sheep and lambs light receipts, prime wethers 12.25 to 12.75, good 11.00 to 12.00, lambs 8.00 to 15.00, spring lambs 14.00 to 18.50. Hogs receipts 10 cars, market steady with prime heavy 16.75 to 16.80, mediums 17.65 to 17.75, heavy yorkers 17.65 to 17.76, light yorkers 17.75 to 17.00, pigs 17.76 to 17.90, roughs 14.50 to 16.25, stage 11.00 to 11.50.

Pittsburg

Grain futures prices listed for Toledo market

Toled o market notes show corn and rye cash at 1 70 and 1 70 respectively. Oats cash at 80, clover and timothy futures with October and December bids, plus al skike and timothy multiple month quotes.

Toledo

Kilbane Leaves Camp Sherman After Refusing Orders

Captain Laurence Cummings said the Johnny Kilbane incident is closed. Kilbane, world featherweight champion, was informed his services as camp boxing instructor ended after he refused to obey orders of the camp commandant at Chillicothe on July 3.

Camp Sherman Chillicothe Laurence Cummings Henry ©. Hale Johnny Kilbane

Victory of Italian Troops In Mountain Fighting

Italian armies claim a greater victory with heavy Austrian losses in mountain fighting. Two enemy regiments wiped out, prisoners taken, one Austrian staff officer killed. German planes and balloons accounted for, bombs dropped, British planes missing. Rumors of peace terms at The Hague conference on prisoner exchanges unconfirmed.

United London United Press George Cave Hague Cave Home Affairs

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Carpenters Nelsonville Ella Moore Magnetic Springs Delaware Jessie Mills Rittman J. H. Dowler New Marshfield P. G. Dowler A. W. Ullom Germantown, Pa J. T. Ullom W. H. Duckler Dicie Kathryn Edward Lockard Buckeye Lake Needle Club Eastside Ray Richey Mary Richey Hattie Cain Connett The Plains Ladies Aid of the Christian Church Edward Stocklein George Jacoby R Ed. McQuade New Straitsville Daryl Watkins Edward Hoode McQuades Mrs Thomas Watkins D. C. Cornwell Charleston Clifford Cornwell Barberton Mr. Cornwell Merrill Woodruff Bertine Triplett Mont ‘Triplett Mattie Woodruff New Vienna T. W. Craig Thomas T. H. Craig C. M. Roe Oakland Messenger Lawrence G. ‘Worstell Common Pleas Peggy Hyland Hollister W. G. Allen Ohio Collieries Office Charles Allen Akron Opera House Tonight Helen Holmes Toledo Grain Market Aero ED A I. W. W.’ism the Stars and Stripes Big Daylight Warner Boy Scout Department For Pleasure and Profit F. L. Preston Co Mohicans Minstrels College Kilbane Germany Imperial Rardin Bros. Company Athens, Ohio
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