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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1918
Page
5
The Playground event drew a sizable crowd with prizes paid in War Savings Stamps. Exhibitions by Henry Posten and Fred Johnson plus Frank Stewart’s horse race entertained as scouts charged across the field in Yankee fashion. Citizens await Bell telephone underground wiring plan and city council action.
The 835th Infantry team from Camp Sherman will headline at Pas Time Park this Sunday. Coming from Camp Taylor and part of the 84th Division, the squad features ex pros from the K N T Central and Southern leagues and is billed as the top soldier club from Camp Taylor. They beat Parkersburg 1 to 0 in 13 innings last Sunday. Special streetcars will run after 1 30 and the game starts at 2 30.
At an adjourned council meeting next Monday officials will be asked to reconsider last week’s decision to table a proposed ordinance granting Bell Telephone Company the right to build an underground wiring system in the city. The Bell system had an appropriation ready of more.
A short note urges readers to consider eye strain as a cause of dizziness headaches and nervousness. It suggests that seven of ten people need glasses and invites examination to dispel doubt.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist church met on Friday with Mrs. Martha Davis on Poplar street. Debates centered on a Jubilee Message stressing the need for missionaries abroad and a financial report was presented. A Mothers Quilt project honoring sons in service was outlined, to include each boy’s name indelibly.
Local residents welcome guests and family, with travels spanning Columbus Buckeye Lake Murray City Millfield and Camp Sherman. Notables include Miss Catherine Collins and Mrs Mary Hoodlett McNerney while Rev W B Hendershot heads farewell sermons in Nelsonville.
Tickets sold out for Mohicans Minstrels ahead of next Tuesday's performance. The show features end men dances such as In the Land of Yama Yama with Carl Wilson and others, plus songs with a military flavor and a Dixie Rhine theme. The white face section will perform a military step to When I Come Back to You and a new song I'm From oO may appear. The production may not repeat due to Chautauqua starting Wednesday, but the audience capacity should be sufficient.
Indignant reaction in Seattle to Hurley Colby and Gompers on liquor. The city’s shipyards, business leaders and workers credit prohibition with higher efficiency, fewer losses, and steadier pay. police and officials defend dry policy, while volunteers and sailors join the pro prohibition stance in this urgent public debate.
Columbus July 6 Thousands of apple trees suffer serious injury from Frog Eye Leaf Spot in southern Ohio including Athens County says Frank Beach of the Agriculture College Extension Service. The disease starts as brown spots on leaves that enlarge to one eighth to one fourth inch.
A Fourth of July family reunion ended in murder and suicide as Lowell Doley, 24, shot his wife Thelma Moore Doley, 19, then killed himself with a .38 revolver. The incident occurred in Portsmouth on July 6.
Martel postmaster William Lindsay aged 74 died on July 6. He served as postmaster for Merion and was a longtime local figure. His death closes a lengthy period of public service in the community.
In Cincinnati markets prices hold firm across produce and live poultry. Kees and prime firsts trade around 87c per dozen, firsts near 86 1 2c, and seconds near 30 1 2c. Live poultry remains steady with fowls 27c, broilers 4c, and roosters 1c.
Cattle receipts not quoted and market unchanged in Pittsburg. Sheep and lambs steady. Hogs receipts 10 carloads with market lower. Prime heavy hogs $16.70 to $16.90, mediums, heavy and light porkers and pigs $17.76 to $17.85.
Chicago hog receipts 7000 in the early market steady. Cattle 15000 and sheep 1000 recorded.
Chicago commodity quotes show corn at July $1.57 and Aug $1.42, Sept $1.55. oats July 74 1 8 cents, Aug $1 1 8. Pork July $44.45.
Cotton prices jumped about 4.66 dollars per bale today in New York, closing above Wednesday by that amount. Traders cited persistent Southwest dryness as the main driver of the advance.
Toledo Ohio reports cash corn at 1.75 per bushel and oats at 0.81. Rye cash 1.70. Clover futures listed 16.25 in October, 18.10 in October, and 12.86 in December. Alfalfa futures at 11.95 in October. Timothy prices at 4.00 in September, 4.65 in September, 4.80 in October, and 4.20 in December.
Washington July 5. The department of labor asked the railroad administration to set special rail rates of 1 cent per mile for farm workers.
John R. Mott, international secretary, announces the start of a campaign for 112 million dollars toward YMCA war work, to begin immediately after today’s Fourth Liberty Loan. Citizens are urged to consider their needs and place ads in Messenger Want Ad section 1.
Washington reports Major General March disclosed that the 9th and 23rd Infantry and the 12th 15th and 17th Field Artillery formed the core of the Second Division’s success at Vaux. He noted the forces now number about one million and forecast a planned second mission while warning of a potential German assault. Only 58 emigrants left Ireland last February.
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