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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1919
Page
5
The First Christian First Presbyterian and First Methodist Churches announce changed times for July 16 prayer meeting and July 20 services. Evening services shift to 7 o clock and Chau tauqua programs to 8 15 to allow attendance at both events. Members and friends are invited to participate.
Mrs Mary Boyer travels to Wheeling for a visit with relatives. W E Moler goes to Columbus on business and will return Thursday. Lillian and Clody Cranmer visit cousins in Canaanville with Bergene Dean. Miss Mary Powell returns from Glouster after two weeks with relatives. Mrs J P Blackburn of Teesdo visits Albany Road family. Belle Schloss and Rose Mary Farley head to Michigan and Detroit. Lenna Wilson of Carthage visits with Coe family and attends Chautauqua. James Nichols returns from overseas service to Walden Monumental Works. The regular W C T U meeting is postponed to July 24 due to Chau tauqua. Henry W Nero, husband of Hazel Lee Nero, lands at Camp Mills. Dr Lena Hatfield of Chicago visits Athens relatives before returning home. J Alonzo Palmer hosts sisters from Parkersburg and New Castle England. Harold H Sams returns to Chicago after France service. his mother Mrs Ray Richey hosts. Mrs W H McKee travels East awaiting son Lieut Grosvenor McKee from overseas. Two Athens boys Dwight Williams and Israel Putnam, marines, expected home soon as Second Army Division units return to the states. Fifth and Sixth Regiments to return. First and Third remain overseas. the two local boys are attached to the Sixth.
Charles Castivi, a foreigner from Modoc, was brought to Athens by Chief Hook to face investigation for allegedly beating and choking an unidentified man found days later in a Modoc field. The injured victim suffered a dislocated shoulder and facial injuries. Castivi admits to the assault but lacks statements from witnesses. Castivi, a 42 year old miner, is held pending charges possibly assault and battery.
A startling drop in the New York market today pushed the quotation to 4.36 dollars, two cents below yesterday, amid London reporting.
Attorney General Price rules Adjutant General Layton and Colonel John E Shettler receive wartime pay through Senate ratification of the peace treaty. Layton earns 6090 wartime and 4000 peace. Shettler 3500 wartime and 2509 peace. Price also approves state purchase of the club house and eleven acres near Camp Perry, the national camping grounds.
Lawrence Jackson 11 awoke in an upper berth at Union Station to find his clothes gone and his father missing. Conductor Daugherty traced the boy’s path to a different car, Scottie aided, and Lawrence was supplied clothes and sent to his Norfolk family on a Big Four train to Cincinnati.
Four Athens County men enlist in the U S army today. Daniel Nogardy of Glouster joins the air service for Hawaii. Melvin Lawson of Nelsonville enters the Q M for Mexican border service. Clemist L. Pidcock of Athens R D 8 joins the medical service. Robert R. Herschell of Jackson enlists in the engineer corps. They depart for their outfits. local officers offer information on insurance allotments and service at the army office.
Brad Stalder of Chauncey was knocked by a steer while attempting to catch it in a field. The steer struck him in the side causing a gash that required stitches. Dr. W. V. Sprague treated him and he will be laid up for a few days.
A surprise wedding unites Mr Kiver Ett Bingman and Miss Ruth Osborne of Chauncey. Ruth is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry Osborne. The couple receive many well wishes from friends. The Christian Endeavor group will meet at Miss Sarah Guthrie's home Thursday at seven. Roy Love and wife of Norfolk Virginia visited his Chauncey parents over the weekend.
Mrs Evertt Bingman received a miscellaneous bridal shower Tuesday evening at her parents Chauncey home hosted by the Ladies classes of the First Christian Church. A large crowd attended and many gifts were given. Refreshments were served. Also noted were visits from Mrs Edward Edwards and Mr and Mrs Frank Love of Jacksonville and a Shilds family visit from Athens.
From Chauncey to Nelsonville the local Rebecca lodge sent delegates to the California convention at Nelsonville on Tuesday. Delegates included Mrs Blanche Brown Mrs Rin da Joyce Mrs Ella England Mrs Frank Canter Mrs Lama Russell Mrs Hayden Mrs Bessie Wilson Mrs Kathryn Love Mrs Rose Ferguson Mrs Zona Sapp Miss Lena Wilson Miss Frankie Howard and Miss Naomi Enguland.
National judiciary subcommittee weighs private liquor stocks with Senator Walsh proposing a 100 percent home tax and a ban on purchases rather than possession. House action delays enforcement bill. next likely call up Saturday.
London July 16 Andrew Bonar Law announced in the house of commons that the government intends to implement a reorganization of the cabinet with possible changes to key ministries. The disclosure signals a forthcoming shuffle as ministers prepare for broad strategic realignment.
The Senate foreign relations committee voted to request State Department copies of all treaties granting Germany rights in China. It focuses on the 1898 treaty forcing China to cede Kiao Chow and Shantung after German missionaries were killed. The panel resumes reading the treaty after adjourning early.
Officials from both companies rejected the city council special committee’s arbitration offer. Strikers demand union recognition and an immediate settlement appears unlikely.
Mount Clemens Michigan July 16 Henry Ford in his million dollar libel suit against the Chicago Tribune challenged a Tribune claim labeling him an ignorant idealist He admitted aiding in wartime murder discussions and backed a world wide disarmament position He said he would defend his country if needed and blamed wartime rhetoric on earlier speeches Readings and a subpoena for his missing glasses marked the day's events as Ford walked the court courtyard and judges ruled on motions
Camp Sherman Ohio July 16 United States forces assume control of the community house and plan to convert it into officers quarters for military use.
The Spanish cabinet led by Antonio Maura resigns after parliament refuses to validate the Coria district candidate's election. The July 15 development ends Maura's tenure as prime minister as the government steps down.
The United States Shipping Board steamer Allison, which sent out 8 U S calls late last night, has been brought safely to the Delaware breakwater by the steamer Lakeview, according to navy radio messages today.
The article describes a entrepreneur who stops using flowery phrases and instead relies on a desk catalogue of numbered phrases, directing letters by numbers with his stenographer. It also notes two Brazilian scientists showing cement from sea shells and plans to use an ocean bay deposit for production.
The Allgemeine Zeitung says the question of a German Japanese treaty should be left to America for discussion. No official evidence of such a treaty exists, the Berlin paper notes in a July 15 dispatch. Senator Lodge has called for an investigation into reports of the agreement.
John L Hay 29 bookkeeper of Selby Ohio and Miss Wthel McCombs 18 of Nelsonville were granted marriage licenses by Rev Ammann.
A Oklahoma City street sweeper recalling his former colleague Harry New, son of Senator Harry New, says New once worked on the streets here and had ties to the crime involving Frieda Lesser. The unnamed source claims New came from Notre Dame University and had two years in the city.
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