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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1918
Page
5
A crowd of Lucille Moore’s friends gathered at Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Moore’s East Main Street home in Chillicothe to celebrate the girl’s twelfth birthday with piano and Victrola music games and refreshments. Visitations by I M Foster Edward Banks and the Lash family plus guests from Cincinnati and Camp Sherman highlighted social activity nearby.
Miss Nina Cowan daughter of L J Cowan and Mr Lewis Shirley son of J M Shirley were quietly married Saturday morning at 10 30 at the first M BE parsonage by Rev Dr B L Evans. The bride a June Athens high school graduate plans to enter Ohio University this fall. The groom also attended Ohio University and taught in Pleasant Hill. he has been inducted into service and will report to Camp Sherman on July 22.
A brief wedding trip took the couple to Gallipolis where they spent time with the bridegroom's uncle. The visit showcased family ties and a moment of shared joy after the ceremony.
Mr. C. H. Growden of the Psychological Bureau, Medical Corps, Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, spent Sunday at his home here during a weekend visit.
John F. Thompson, the Sharpsburg miller, who has been visiting friends in Gallipolis since the Fourth, was in Athens today on his way home.
Mr and Mrs Henry Bobo of Pleasant Hill and Miss Mildred Smith of Albany were Sunday guests of Mr and Mrs G E McPherson at 40 Sunnyside Drive.
Mr and Mrs Upton Miller and family motor through from Chicago arriving Sunday They will spend several weeks at the old Coates homestead south of town
The regular monthly meeting and annual picnic of the C W E M of the Christian Church are postponed one week due to Chautauqua. The meeting will be held on Thursday July 18.
Miss LeliabeT Birch, bookkeeper for the Home Furnishing Co., resigns after three years and plans a visit to McConnelsville and Columbus before settling in Ravenna. Mr and Mrs Feed Crouch of Kanmak.
The article notes visits at the home of Mr and Mrs Jacob Fetch. Pharmacist Mr Croush plans to leave for Camp Sherman July 22 with the selects. Mrs Don C Coultrap and her daughter Frances travel from Franklin to Marietta to visit sister Mrs D H Thomas and family.
Mrs. E. L. Church and Mrs. Carmen Church spent Saturday and Sunday at Camp Sherman visiting Carmen Church. They saw six Huns working in the gardens and met Athens boys Louis Goodman Harry Salters Will Corneil and others.
Mr L J Knowlton reports a motor trip visiting Bellefontaine Lake View Mt Tabor West Liberty Caves and Columbus. In Columbus he saw his sister Mrs N M Steel and at Bellefontaine he stayed with his three sons Clarence Everett and Harry Knowlton. Mrs John Preston and children Jack Ted and Merritt returned from Basil after a Saturday drive with Mrs W B Merritt and son Charles. They plan to move to Dallas Texas to join her husband and son William.
Mr and Mrs Charlies Burleigh of Elliott street say their daughter Viola is recovering well after an operation last Saturday at Grant Hospital Columbus for appendicitis and kidney trouble. Viola had been with the Lawrence and Bean agency for several years.
Mr and Mrs G W Partlow Jr and daughter Virginia of Tulsa Oklahoma arrived last evening at the home of Mrs Partlow s sister Mrs H D Nice 74 Morris avenue. The trip was made in their automobile covering twelve hundred miles in five days. They will.
The narrator spends time with relatives in this city and in McArthur visiting Mr. Partlow and Mrs. G W Partlow Sr. The gathering centers on family ties and shared moments with the Partlow family.
In Glouster the Socialist presence waned after World War I, though factions remain in Local groups led by Gormley Logue Craft and Crawford Myers Jones. Meyer London at Congress renominated amid pro American stance, while the piece defends patriotic Socialists, cites battles with radicals, and notes local showings at Opera House and Original Theater with Dorothy Dalton and Clara Kimball Young.
After a pleasant week with relatives and old friends in and around this city, Misses Bert Meredith and Francis Rice departed for Vincennes Indiana last evening.
A prominent local business man says he cannot persuade his wife to use the telephone. He notes that only occasionally does she pick up the receiver, believing women must seek another's permission to talk.
Cincinnati cattle receipts 285 unchanged shipper. Calves extra 17.00 to 17.26. Hog receipts 3076 steady good choice packers and butchers 17.00. Sheep receipts 2580 extra 11.25 to 11.60. Lambs market slow extra unchanged.
Toledo Ohio July 9 cash corn 1 75 oats 81 cents. Culver futures Oct 16 25 Dec 13 55. Alesike Oct 12. Timothy 4 00 Rept 4 76 Oct 4 32 1 2 Dec 4 87 1 2 March 4 65.
Pittsburg Pa July 9 cattle receipts light with ranges for choice to veal calves and sheep and lambs. Hogs receipts light and market active with prime heavies at 17.35 to 17.40 and light hogs around 18.49 to 18.50. Tags and other livestock show varied spreads across categories.
Chicago grain prices list as of July 9 shows corn at 1.53 and 1.45 for nearby months and oats at 0.74 and 0.70 for July August and September. Pork prices read 44.40 for July and 44.60 for September.
Good as new set of Public School Methods offered by Daisy Orr of Pratts Fork Ohio. Price is cheap. Contact through Jerseyville phone prefix 1 9 6 p for home call.
Five men from Glouster Athens county Herbert Hartman A B Andrews Albert M Andrews Carson B Vernon and Harold B Kinney enlisted in the navy at Columbus today.
A typhoon swept Guam on July 6 inflicting material damage and leaving many homeless. Reports state few deaths, with Captain Smith the Guam governor noting about half the population in need of aid.
Muscular workers on Central School grounds set up a large tent to host seven days of events at Chautauqua. Opening shows start tomorrow with Liberty Girls concert followed by an 8 pm lecture by William Rainey Bennett. Season-ticket holders are urged to arrive early due to a war tax collection.
Treasury department warns bond owners about brokers offering exchanges of liberty bonds for stocks with high returns. A flagged case involves a man presenting himself as Sanford Holmes of 67 Wall Street New York to lure investors.
A Harbin dispatch dated July 1 to The Daily Mail confirms rumors of about 10 000 former German and Magyar prisoners in Irkutsk. The prisoners allied with the Americans and sought to ingratiate themselves, claiming they fought the Czecho Slovaks because the Slovaks hindered their return home.
Beaumont society column records visits and calls including Mr. and Mrs. Homer Durst and three children calling on Emmett Ryan and Milton Santee, Verna Pierce visiting Nettle Wyant, Burt Stahl visiting Mahlon Bradshaw, Jobn Tittle visiting David North, Myrtle Pidcock and Alma Wince in Nelsonville, Florence Ord visiting Julia Wyant, and relatives of Julia Wyant visiting from Columbus Circle Hill and other towns over the weekend.
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