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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1918
Page
3
The item lists the Messenger branch office at 26 Fuller Street near the depot with positions for Business Manager Editor Social Reporter and Manager of Circulation and notes on staff roles.
A set of four keys tied together was lost between Citizens Central Bank and Monroe Street with contact at 109 Myers Street. A class pin reading N. S 1916 and initials V. H was lost last Wednesday and the owner offers a reward at People's Bank.
Mrs Hannah Parry announces a summer millinery sale at 445 Poplar Street Nelsonville Ohio featuring trimmed hats for 2.50 a good assortment white hats Panamas and Milans and a complete line of old ladies pattern hats the sale starts immediately and runs through the season.
A brief public notice references 109 Monroe Street with an action dated June 4 and a case file 3. Details are limited to location and date.
Five passenger touring car offered as is with three extra casings and inner tubes. Original price 4400. asking 750 cash or trade for smaller car. Contact John Smith at 615 Chestnut Street Nelsonville Ohio. 6-4-3.
The committee raises funds for a seasonal playground project to host four teams in a city league with games starting June 13. IF E Carroll the Y M C A director oversees grounds preparation and team captains Miller Wilson George Burrows C A Dilcher and Chas Farrow are listed. A junior league is planned and tennis courts are in use.
The physical director with squad leaders will run a daily class from 2 to 3 PM. Children will be supervised and taught to swim if they wish. Parents may send them at 2 to 3 PM but not unattended at other times.
Nelsonville Ohio June 3 1918 list of names shows letters advertised for delivery with addressees including Will Allen care Jno Bardin Jean Bowens Hattie Brooks Ada Carter Ellie Day Scott Donohue Box 37 Jack Douglas Dr N B H Gardner Ed Hall Alice Hill George Jones Minnie Johnson Ethel Kizor George LaVery John Laurey Dora McCombs Blanche Myers Carol Norris Fester Powell Tom Sharp James Sharp P M
One team of mules with wagon and harness for sale. Ages six and seven, bay color. Priced cheap for immediate sale. Inquire EMRICK at 462 Fairview Street, Bell 529W. June 5.
Rev. J. W. Coleman, after four and a half years at the Apostolic Holiness Church, resigns effective July 28 and moves to a new charge in Baltimore Maryland. During his tenure a new church edifice was built and the church prospered. He is mourned by many friends. Mrs. F. M. Evans of Athens visited Rev and Mrs Mann, and Miss Margaret Mann accompanied her home. Verna Campbell of Van Wert visits Mrs C A Storer. Parker Sniffen of Columbus spends days here on business. Mrs W Edgell returns to Columbus after visiting relatives.
Miss Mae Lines and assistants will perform a recital at the Methodist Church next Tuesday evening. Proceeds go to the local Red Cross. Ticket price is twenty five cents. Clark Higgins is visiting Lancaster with his family for a few days.
Mrs Lefe Frazee spent Tuesday with relatives at Murray City. Miss Gretchen Kasler Margaret Rosser and Lucile Stalter traveled to Athens Tuesday for the High School pageant. A State Fuel Board representative toured Nelsonville urging miners to observe fewer holidays and work more regularly. Rev Arthur M Mann visits Columbus on business. Mrs Mollie Six and Mrs Tom Wilson visited Mrs Walter Wilson in Athens Monday. Miss Gladys Betts Mrs Carl Pettit and Mrs Walter Whitlatch spend the day in Columbus. Mr and Mrs T P Morgan entertained at dinner Saturday. Guests included Mrs John Russell Terre Haute Ind Mrs W Edgell Columbus and Mr and Mrs W Gibson. Howard Patterson Kansas City Mo arrived for an extended visit with relatives. Mr and Mrs John Russell left for Columbus en route to Terra Haute Ind after a three week visit with Mrs Russell’s sister Mrs Isaac Warner. Mrs Myra Davison spending a few days in Lancaster preparing for a W E A L O T T district rally. Walter Primrose spent Tuesday in Logan. Mrs Warren Badger and son Warren Miss Elsie Hodgman and Louise Rice are guests of Athens friends today.
Dr. B. D. Evans warned of waste and inefficiency, urging leaders with constructive vision to maximize resources. He cited Athens county land for fruit, dairying, and sheep as a model to aid postwar Europe. The chamber heard his 20 minute talk with keen interest. Traction line plans and costs were discussed, with officials hopeful for uptown extension. A membership drive for the Chamber was scheduled for next week.
In Lorraine near Metz unusual enemy concentrations are observed opposite the Toul front. Many troop trains move into Metz and Austrian troops are reported arriving from Rhine cities. German airmen are more active to conceal operations as the offensive may aim to pull American forces from the Marne front.
President Wilson again seeks to spare Thomas Mooney from execution. He sent a telegram to Governor Stevens urging executive clemency after Mooney was resentenced to death for the Preparedness Day bomb outrage in San Francisco.
United States forces report the destruction of an enemy concrete observation post in a supplemental statement attributed to General Pershing dated June 5. The report notes the strike occurred during operations in the theater.
Misses Vada Dartt Lola Williams and Wayne Wingett of Ohio University attended Decoration services in Burlingham returning to campus Friday. Local residents Mrs. Della Shinn, Leroy Williams, Pearl O'Brien and families visited kin. letters from Floyd Williams and Holley King reported good health from Camp Sherman. Wayne Wingett stayed with his parents over the weekend. Lola Williams visited from Ohio University. several residents enjoyed fishing trips and family gatherings.
Washington reports the Shipping Board completed and delivered 44 ships totaling 263 571 tons in May the greatest monthly vessel production in U S history, three times January and twice February output, following a North Atlantic German submarine raid.
The Germans urge the Geneva Red Cross to issue a protest against poison gas use. The Trades Congress of Canada's annual convention opens in Quebec on September 16.
Amsterdam reports Emperor William in the Marne region decrying the French rejection of the December 12, 1918 peace offer. The Kaiser cites horrors, homelessness, and desertified French countryside as consequences of refusal. Berlin correspondent Karl Rosner relays the remarks.
Community members and visitors gathered for church events and family visits across Hebbardsville Glouster Nelsonville and Athens. Names include Mr and Mrs C S Shrieves John Frazier James Lyons Sayde Lyons Bertha Hardy Leta Lewis Burchfield Slater Moore Tipton Whitlatch Hartman Turner and others with trips to Columbus Camp Sheridan and Camp Dix.
Mrs August Lemoine returns home from Camp Sherman after two week visit. Residents attend funeral of A D Wemer at Concord. Several couples and families visit Columbus and Glouster for medical and social reasons. Vern Kempton moves from Barracks in Columbus to Atlanta, Ga. Herman Kempton celebrates twenty fourth birthday with family dinner at home.
German forces use chain rockets to create a dazzling green display thousands of bright balls rise to about 10 000 feet driven by strong forces. The rockets hang suspended, drift with the wind, and form curves like lanterns while hindering Allied air operations. They are fired during raids with searchlights sweeping the sky.
Kennebunkport Me James D Perkins runs a tide mill on the Meusam river and ignores the clock by following the tide. When the river floods he closes gates to store water, and when the tide ebbs he releases it. He claims the tide shifts each day by about an hour, so daylight saving has no impact on his schedule.
The first jury of women to try a divorce case in California found in favor of the wife who testified she was beaten. Judge Graham asked what punishment she would seek and the jurors replied with one voice to send the husband to the trenches to fight the Germans.
Arizona Governor George W. P. Hunt, skilled with needles, has produced sweaters and other comforts for drafted state troops. While en route to Washington for a Wilson conference he knitted a six foot scarf for a khaki boy.
A Reuters style caption notes Rheims courthouse battered in German shelling with the Rheims cathedral visible through a wall of rubble, offering a new perspective on the assault in the city.
Washington reports that some naval officers suspect German U-boat raiders carried disease germs to the United States. Officials caution survivors not to keep or share food or other items from the submariners, noting a sub had carried germs into Spain linked to an epidemic akin to grippe.
London dispatch reports American authorities are taking over several military hospitals of 2000 beds each. The piece notes meat sugar and fat rations for residents, with weekly allowances of one pound meat half pound sugar half pound bacon and a quarter pound butter or margarine.
A Berlin dispatch reports Chancellor Hertling is likely to address the Reichstag soon on peace terms Germany is now willing to accept. The Amsterdam office notes renewed momentum in negotiations and signals a possible shift in the wartime dialogue.
London reports a British destroyer was sunk in a collision on Friday with no loss of life. The Admiralty announced the incident today.
Morris F. Eagen, American minister to Denmark, resigns his Copenhagen post due to ill health. The resignation has been accepted and announced in Washington.
Seats now selling for H S event with showtime at eight. tickets priced at 30 and 40a.
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