Nelsonville News Notes and Local Events
Local notices list real estate for sale including multiple houses and lots in Nelsonville Ohio and a small 4 acre farm with a slate roof dwelling and outbuildings. Community notices cover lost keys, bicycle for sale, and various social visits plus court actions for assault and battery cited by Mayor Wells.
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Washington Street
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High Street
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Nelsonville
Ohio
Rounding Up Slackers Targeted by Local Officers
Local officers pursue alleged slackers evading military duty by misrepresenting age or dodging questionnaires. John Stanton Darker, brother of Roscoe, was arrested at the ball park and escorted to Athens with his sibling for drift board action after authorities verify registration in Jenkins Kentucky. Citizens urged to inform officers of any slackers they know to aid the effort.
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John Stanton Darker
Roscoe
Ball Park
John Stanton
Jenkins
Kentucky
Athens
Drift Board
Local residents hosting gatherings and moves in Columbus area
Mr and Mrs James Bland entertained Friday at their Columbus street home with guests including Mr and Mrs Lacey Ayers and Cora Gaffey of Murray City and Mr and Mrs Henry Nutter. Corwin Andrews of Ohio Fuel Supply Co moved his family from Logan to East Columbus Street.
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Hulda Russell
Athens
F. E B. Sweeney
F. B. Sweeney
Chauncey
Ruth England
Earl Bridgewater
Hattie Baird
Baird Stuart
St. Paul
Minnesota
Arline Hicks
Lucy Lewis
Bliss College
Columbus
D. W. Harper
David
Aaron
Mecosta
Michigan
Aaron Morgan
Cecile Fisk
Logan
Nelsonville
Catherine Myers
Mae Poston
S. D. Poston
George Jones
Eldorado
Kansas
Kathleen Gaffey
Murray City
James Bland
Delbert Mills
Mary Margaret
Jacksonville
Lewis Wolfe
Sam Robertson
George Druggins
Irving Burgess
E. B. Beard
John Kilpatrick
Pomeroy
Our City
H. E. Howe
Columbus Street
Lacey Ayers
Cora Gaffey
Henry Nutter
Corwin Andrews
Ohio Fuel Supply Co
East Columbus Street
Charles Myers
Middleport
C. EB. Starr
Dana Starr
C. A. Aumiller
Leighton
Sam Hanley
John
Ellen Edington
West Columbus Street
Priscilla Art Club Hostess Evening at West Franklin
Miss Mary Howe hosted the Priscilla Art Club on Friday at her West Franklin Street home. Guests enjoyed an elegant luncheon after an evening of needlework and social chat built around a shared creative hobby. Miss Bernice Bennett and Miss...
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Mary Howe
Priscilla Art Club
West Franklin Street
Bernice Bennett
Pleasant shower for Mrs. Wilford R. Stiers honors bride Edith McCulloch
Last evening at the home of Mrs. Eugene Pritchard on East Washington street a miscellaneous shower for Mrs. Wilford R. Stiers featured national colors, a central ship centerpiece, and gifts of cut glass, china, and silver. Out-of-town guests included Mrs. Fred Brown, Mrs. Stiers, Miss Ruth Brown, and Miss Margaret Stiers of Haydenville. The event followed by local real estate transfers listed for multiple townships including Athens, Ames, Glouster, Jacksonville, Nelsonville, Rome, Troy and York.
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Wilford R. Stiers
Edith McCulloch
Eugene Pritchard
East Washington Street
Uncle Sam
Marine Corps
Fred Brown
Stiers
Ruth Brown
Margaret Stiers
Haydenville
British Seamen Claim 15000 Murdered by German Submarines
London reports reveal Admiralty cases of sea horror as German submarines torpedoed passenger ships. Survivors endured thirst, exposure, and frantic lifeboat struggles with multiple drownings and madman deaths amid long, grueling Atlantic drifts before rescue.
Athens County Private Dies by Suicide at Camp Sherman
Camp Sherman Ohio June 1 private Joe Andychwhcy 23 of the 29th Company 8th Training Battalion killed himself with a knife late yesterday afternoon. He died en route to the hospital. He arrived with the last Athens County draft quota and came with his brother in the same quota last week. He was despondent.
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Camp Sherman
Joe Andychwhcy
Athens County
French Hold Marne Bridges Against German Pressure
With the French armies on the Marne the French remain solid at every bridgehead and passage. German forces have withdrawn from the river edge to the plateau above, seeking to push westward.
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Marne
Paris
More Trouble for Teutons May Come
Washington reports a full Ukrainian peasant revolt as of June 1 with State Department cables. In Kiev province and Tehigerrine district Russian revolutionary detachments armed with machine guns and artillery seek power, while Bolsheviki are called to intervene. Odessa sees German disarmament of Ukrainian troops followed by arrests at the German army HQ and peasant disorders spread in Pololia province.
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Moscow
Tehigerine
Kiev
Odessa
Black Sea
Pololia
War Industries Board estimates steel use under eighty percent
A high official of the War Industries Board said for the moment and the allies the war needs would probably take eighty per cent or less of the year's steel output. The statement was made in Washington on June 1.
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Washington
War Industries Board
Wheatless period planned for ten weeks in nation
Washington reports the United States will operate on a nearly wheatless basis for ten weeks. Supplies will be cut to about twenty percent of normal through August 184 as the new crop becomes available. Foods Department officials are quietly putting the program into effect to aid Allied demands.
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United Press
Washington
Foods Department
DLO Resident Ed Boyles Dies at 64 in Lewisburg
Ed Boyles 64, a DLO resident of Clark's Chapel, died at his Lewisburg home. He leaves a wife and five children, including Merritt White of Woodstown and Ethel, Mary, and Helen. Funeral services are set for Monday at 2:30 p.m. at the late home.
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Ed Boyles
Lewisburg
Jesse Watkins
Clarks Chapel
Boyles
Charles White
Woodstoc Merritt
Ethel
Mary
Helen
Ohio Uty
Nationwide Food Order Cuts Down Eating Places
United States Food Department orders show drastic meat reductions for hotels restaurants and dining cars in Ohio. Harmon head of the Ohio Food Department hotel division confirms the action as of June 1 to cut roast beef and related meats.
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United Preas
Columbus
United States Food Department
Harmon
Ohio Food Department
Raid on German trenches at Woëvre reported by Pershing
Washington June 1 General Pershing said an American raid on German positions in the Woëvre area resulted in the destruction of eighty two dugouts and the killing and wounding of more than twenty enemies A machine gun was captured In Hazleton Pa coal miners at Lehigh and Wilkes Barre No 5 Colliery about 500 workers walked out demanding the discharge or unionization of twelve men claimed as I W W members who refused to pay dues to the union
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Lottie McMillen
Buchtel
Lucile Kaelin
Nelsonville
Red Cross
Christian Church
McMillen
Kaelin
Bertha Higgins
Hendershott
Miss McMillen
June Wynters
St. Mary’s Academy
Miss Kaelin
St. Marys of the Springs
Columbus
Home
Sweet Home
TED Press
Washington
Persshing
Woevre R
Hazleton
Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company
Nume
Eel
Italy to restrict imports and exports with government approval
New York reports that Italy will allow no imports after June 1 without special government authorization and no exports without approval from the National Exchange Institute. It notes a government tax on restaurant or cafe bills over 20 cents.
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New York
Italy
Italian National Exchange Institute
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J. W. Pickett
Capitol City
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Harris Wood
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Joseph Stedem
Rockbridge
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C. H. Newton
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Harry Matheny
Wells
Will Williams
Cleveland
Florence Williams
Presbyterian Missionary Society
C. C. Sharp
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Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church
Fort Street
John Saltz
Sharpe
Mexico
J. M. Hyde
R. C. Graham
N. Hill
Hildred Merz
Ed, Knight
Will Powell
Jack
Ed. Johnson
Lessie Johnson
Minnie Merz
Joseph Griffin
Clyde Littler
Emilie Cooley
Ed. Cooley
John Owens
Lenore
Frank Nelson
Mayme McNerney
C. Robb
Nora Hamm
Chillicothe
N. A. Williams
Raymond M. Slutz
Lena Woodworth Hooper
Ames
Ann
J. W. Kuhns
J. O. Anderson
Athens City
J. A. Drake
Lawrence
Merwin
Drake
James P. Merwin
Isabel M. Francis
James Winnan
Lizzie M. Hibbard
Marston F
Blanch McCune
William
Bingman
I. E. Mickle
Chauncey Sarah E. Birge
Edward Minister
Sarah E. Bierge
Lara W. Tucker
Sarah KE. Birge
Della F. Tucker
Coolville
Lois C. Campbell
Ida J. Griffin
Zona Marquis
F. S. Bardin
Horace P. Reader
John H. Johnson
Sadie Nixon
Lena Snowden
Albert
Thomas Madden
Delia Hellman
Fred M. Wilson
Charles A. Nice
Clarence Boles
Iva B. Moorehead
Esther
Tolliver
David Harris
Julia Stage
Pme L. Lamburn
Henrietta Standal
Troy Township
Uriah Barrows
Ethel B. Litte
W. F. Gaston
Nellie Core
Verda Skidmore
John Gaston
James Gaston
Sarah Lloyd
Trimble Township
R. H. Embrey
Joseph Livendell
G. W. McDonald
John W. McDonald
Sumner Cottingham
York Township
Vita Devore
Samuel Covert
John W. Alien
Horace Covert
Benny
Marines
Mare Island Barracks
Benny Leonard
General von Heeringen
London
Havelock Wilson
Sea Men's and Firemen’s Union
Great Britain
Mercantile Service
Admiralty
Gansrene
Aten County Select
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State Department
Dlo
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