Social news items from local families and officials
The column records numerous social visits and travels including Mr Paul Wetherholt returning from Gallipolis, Miss Doris McQuay and Miss Alia Wingett guests of Mr and Mrs Arthur Hunter, and Howard Rossetter reassigned from Camp Sherman to Jacksonville. It notes visits by many local residents and arrivals from Huntington and Albany as well as town hosts.
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Doris McQuay
Alia Wingett
Springfield
Arthur Hunter
Second Street
Howard Rossetter
L. T. Rossetter
Albany
Camp Sherman
Chillicothe
Jacksonville
Fla
Township Board seeks two mill levy for school funding
Trimble Township Board of Education will ask voters in November to approve an extra two mills on each dollar of taxable property to fund school running expenses. Without the levy, funds will cover only a few months of expenses before borrowing for salaries. Details on the election date and levy duration will be announced later.
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Trimble Township
Local labor head seeks settlement in Gloucester visit
E. E. Baker, president of the Retail Clerks International Protective Association, is in Gloucester this week to address grievances. His headquarters are in Lafayette, Indiana, and he aims to secure full resolutions before his departure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pres. Baker
Retail Clerk's International Protective Association
Cental Labor Union
Holliday
E. E. Baker
Retail Clerk’s International Protective Association
Glouster
Mr. Baker
Lafayette
Ind
Cablegram from France congratulates newlyweds
Ward Forrest and Nellie Bell Andrews were recently married. A France cablegram of congratulations arrived from Lieutenant Alfred Schryver, a close friend of the groom, delivering best wishes for the couple.
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France
Ward Forrest
Nellie Bell Andrews
Alfred Schryver
Glouster Board Sets Deadline for Teacher Acceptances
Glouster boards require all teachers hired for the coming term to file written acceptance with Clerk W. W. Wallace by Friday evening. The TM% regular meeting will be held then. Supt Bryson will place teachers in grades next week once acceptances are on file.
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Glouster Board of Education
W. W. Wallace
Supt
Bryson Som
Camouflage Rise at AEW Theatre in Glouster Ad
June Caprice presents A Camouflage Rise at the AEW Theatre tonight. Beginning August 1 both Glouster theatres raise admission to 10c and 11c plus war tax. Central Labor Union favors a Labor Day celebration in Glouster on Monday September 2 and will report back to Local Unions.
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Aew
June Caprice
Glouster
Central Labor Union
Central Labor
Deferred mining workers lose deferment upon leaving employer
West Virginia draft board warns Raleigh County workers that industrial deferments end when the employee leaves the immediate employer. The notice explains that a miner called to service who quits his job waives the deferment and becomes draft eligible, countering beliefs a new mine job preserves the exemption. It urges firms to report any nonperforming workers to the board for immediate action.
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Washington
West Virginia
National Coal Association
Raleigh
Beckley
W. Va
Wiliam Brice
Coal Production Hits Record Week In 1918 Year
The Fuel Administration reported a peak weekly coal output of 12,950,000 net tons for the week ending July 20, a 15.3 percent rise over the same week in 1917. Despite the gain the year’s total lags by 8,912,500 tons against requirements.
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Washington
Fuel Administration Today
Fuel Administration
Dairy firms urge 30 day milk bill settlement and daily washing
In view of nationwide abnormal conditions the undersigned dairies request customers settle milk bills every 30 days and wash and set out milk bottles daily. After August 1 milk will not be left with customers who do not observe this request.
Inventor Patents Met-Lined Vessels in Pennsylvania
A Pennsylvania inventor patents vessels lined with mets to conduct electricity heat liquids as they are poured from one to another. The design aims to improve heat transfer and efficiency in fluid transfers.
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Pennsylvania
Women Meet to Organize National Defense Council
Mrs. C. T. Spencer outlined the National Council plan to mobilize all women through state and county committees with 24 hour reach. The effort covers Food Child Welfare Liberty Loan Education Nursing and more. Athens County seeks twenty four nurses and warns nitrate supply issues may affect farming next year.
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Athens
C. T. Spencer
Ohio Council of National Defense
Chamber of Commerce Assembly Room
Helen Allom
Athens County Woman's Committee of National Defense
Robert Lewis
W R. Phillips
Third Liberty Loan
Lucile Henry
Dean Voigt
National Council
United States
Council of National Defense
Spencer
France
England
Athens County
Helen Ullom
G. R. Gunder
Coolville
Frank Gifford
Amesville
Rose Finsterwald
Guysville
Lilian Bardin
Sharpsburg
P. D. Hill
Millfield
Fred Shaner
Chauncey
Mary Williams
Lodi Township
Mabel Coe
Albany
Parker
Hibbardsyville
Cedigo
New Marshfield
Lancaster
Nelsonville
Community Notes From The Plains Local Happenings
Athens residents visit kin and shop while Camp Sherman guests unwind. Alfred Wetklow sells home to Jake Anderson and moves to South Fork Pa. Mine accident injures Jerry Hunter with slate collapse at mine No 10. Families relocate around Connett Finney area as several properties change hands.
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Ella Edgar
Athens
W. J. Hawk
Joe Hutchins
Seth Robinson
Logan
J. W. Patton
Haydenville
Tom Davis
Roy Hawk
Colonel Locke
Joe Christian
Joe Barstow
John L. West
Hoskins
Connett
Liz Guess
Virgene Shields
James Christian
Sanford Moore
Camp Sherman
Alfred Wetklow
Jake Anderson
South Fork
John Martin
Miss Smith
James McKnab
Jerry Hunter
Nitrate shipments reach farmers despite ship shortages
Washington reports 76,000 tons of nitrate of soda from Chile delivered to farmers under the Food Control Act. The War Industries Board arranged purchases, the Agriculture Department distributed at $76.76 a ton, with over 120,000 tons ordered earlier in 1918 and only partial imports due to shipping limits.
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Department
War Industries Board
War Department
Washington
Chile
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Markets
Secretary of Agriculture
Shipping Board
Sunday visits across Athens area noted in brief social
White Hall guests included Mr and Mrs Land Lash of Athens and I J Hooper. Cyrus Higgins hosted Mr and Mrs Mechanicsburg and family last Thursday. Hebbardsville residents A E Dent and family welcomed visitors. Lenore and Girlie Kern with George Kern hosted Columbus guests. Albany trips and Winger Chapel and Athens connections appear in this social roundup.
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Land Lash
Athens
I. J. Hooper
Albert Milligan
Mechanicsburg
Cyrus Higgins
Herbert Moore
Allen
A. E. Dent
Hebbardsville
Girlie Kern
Lenore
Columbus
George Kern
Qarry Tribe
Albany
Charles Tewksbury
Hk. G. Campbell
Winger Chapel
A. VanDenBroek
C. M. Higgins
Zimmerman to Stay City Manager After Pay Rise
George M Zimmerran postponed resignation as Sandusky city manager after June move to increase salary from 3600 to 5000 dollars per year. effective August 1 he remains in office.
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Sandusky
George M. Zimmerman
Teady
Marines Raise Recruit Age To Forty In Navy Notice
The maximum age for Marine Corps recruits is raised from 36 to 40 years. Secretary Daniels announced the change. Strength of the Marine Corps on July 20 stood at 60,561 including officers and fleet reserves.
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Washington
Marine Corps
Secretary of the Navy
Daniels
Vaccinate Workers 18 Wartime Demand
Ohio health officials endorse a Public Health Service recommendation to require smallpox vaccination and anti-typhoid inoculation for civilian munitions plant workers. The policy parallels the protection mandated for soldiers, applying to all employees in war production.
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Columbus
State Department of Health
Ohio
United States Public Health Service
Public Health Service
Manufacturing
Planta
Cabbage and Patriotism Recipe Guidance
The piece promotes eating cabbage as patriotic and home grown in backyards across the United States. It notes the Food Administration urges use of home-grown vegetables to save shipping space and reduce reliance on foods that must be sent abroad, followed by suggested recipes.
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United States
United States Food Administration
Victory Cabbage and Cold-Slaw Preparation Methods
Add to the list of usual ways of preparing cabbage. Victory Cabbage slices cabbage then soaks in cold water. Cook in stewpan with butter, salt, onion, nutmeg, and cayenne, finishing with vinegar. Cold-Slaw uses a small heavy cabbage, quarters, thin slices, soaked to crisp, then mixed with cream salad dressing.
Cincinnati Produce Market Prices Report
Markets show firm prime first quality at 784c per dozen with firsts at 86c and ordinary at 33c while seconds range 30 to 46c. Live poultry steady with fowls (4 lbs+) 25c per lb. under 4 lbs 26c. brooders (1% lbs+) 33c. under 1% lbs 30c. roosters 19c.
Cincinnati Cattle Market Report July 81
Cincinnati Ohio cattle market receipts total 4800 head with shippers paying 13 to 16.26 dollars per hundredweight. Calves show a strong market with 15 to 15.20 dollars. Hogs receipts 1866 head and market strong for good to choice packers and butchers at 18 dollars. Sheep receipts 2080 head steady with extras from 11.26 to 11.50. Lambs market slow with extra 17.25 dollars.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Pittsburg Livestock Market Report
Pittsburg Pennsylvania July 81 cattle market unchanged sheep and lambs unchanged hog receipts 2 cars market higher prime heavy 19.76 to 19.85 mediums 20.40 to 20.50 heavy yorkers 20.40 to 20.60 light yorkers 20.40 to 20.50 pigs 20.40 to 20.60 roughs 17.18 stage 18.26 to 13.76
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Pittsburg
Grain Prices in Toledo Market Report July 31
Toledo prices list corn cash 1.70 oats cash 44 1/2 Rye cash 1.62 clover Oct 16.15 alsike Oct 14.60 Dec 16.085 timothy 4.80 Sept 4.99 Oct 4.60 May be partial market data for grain commodities in Toledo Ohio with various futures and cash prices displayed.
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Toledo Grain
Toledo
Ohio
Timothy
Grain futures mixed with July corn rises
Chicago grain prices show July corn at 1.55, August 1.53, September 1.55, oats July 0.77, August 0.68, pork July 46, August 45.06. Market notes reflect small shifts across corn oats and pork contracts as of July 31 in Chicago trading.
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Chicago Grain
Chicago
N11
Bept
Athens Gun Club to Hold Tomorrow Shoot
The Athens Gun Club will stage a Thursday afternoon shoot at the Mill street range just beyond the railroad crossing. All county residents are invited to participate.
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Sheet
Athens Gun Club
Mill Street
Wheat yields fall far short in Sharpsburg township report
Dry hot conditions cut wheat yields to eight to eleven bushels per acre in Sharpsburg R D 2 area. The Dickson farm recorded eighteen, Selby under nine, with one farmer claiming twenty. Several planters may skip wheat this fall due to poor fertilizer results. Local deaths include Grover Bedwick of Broadwell.
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T. B. Dickson
Selby
Omitted Guests Noted in Ployd Grimes Party Account
A colonial era social sheet records that Thompson and children along with Mrs Eliza Lewis and family and Mr and Mrs Pred Lewis were omitted from the account of the party given for Ployd Grimes.
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Thompson
Eliza Lewis
Pred Lewis
Ployd Grimes
Elections clerk to hear twenty nine selecta at Athens camp
John G. Myers, clerk of the Athens county board of elections, will be in Athens Thursday evening and Friday morning to give the twenty nine colored men who go to Camp Friday, a chance to vote. All wishers may vote on state and county tickets by calling at his office in the basement of the court house.
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John G. Myers
Athens County
Hibbard Millinery Announces Closing Out Sale
The Hibbard millinery shop announces a closing out sale with only twelve days left to take advantage of final discounts and selections. Customers are urged to visit the store to complete purchases before the closure date.
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Hibbard
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Gallipolis
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Athens R. D. 4
Austin Wood
Mary Ellen
Huntington, W. Va
J. P. Wood
E. L. Moroney
Beatrice of Huntington
J. J. Sweeney
Charles Chesser
William McPherson
Will Bobo
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G. E. McPherson
Harry Bartlett
E. S. Koons
Grant Hospital
Koons
A. P. Crawford
Glouster News
Messenger Social Correspondence
the Security Savings Bank
Athens, Ohio
the Model Dairy
Hoph Dairy
W. H. Cuckler
Raymond Walker
Purity Dairy CO
MEET
William Burdette
Roy Matheny
Frank Smith
Fred Slater Jr
Calhoon
Harry Notestine
Bolin
Finney
Arthur Coon
Notestine
Geo. Potts
Fay Evans
Sister Meadie
Lenore Stauffe
White Hall
Emmett
Cincinnati Produce
Ed Carpenter
Canaanville Pike
Sharpsburg R. D
G. D. Belby
Portsmouth
A. D Belby
G. D
Grover Bedwick
Broadwell
Bartlett
Adda Kester
Henry Burns
Carbon Hill
James R. E Dégerton
Wayne Bé¢gerton
Delaware
James R
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Hiram
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