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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1922
Page
8
In Ohio, Mrs. M. BurxHoopsER reports her daughter suffered back and leg pains during cycles but improved after two years of taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She urges mothers with ailing daughters to publish the testimonial and use the product to restore balance and health.
An old advertisement touts Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Talcum for clear smooth skin and a quick remedy for colds fever and la grippe, claiming swift action and health benefits.
A narrator recounts Alec directing a taxi to Mrs Underwood's apartment while reporters haunt the hotel. Alec and Ted present a humorous tea scene, with the narrator embarrassed by the hotel scandal turning into burlesque. The visit ends with polite conversation and unsaid tension as the scene closes.
McARTHUR Alsius Gaskell and relatives with William Morrison and families enjoyed a May Decoration Day picnic on Pete Gaskell's West Main lawn in Middleport. Mrs. Cynthia Pearce, 75, widow of Leverette Pearce, a longtime McArthur druggist, died at her home Saturday night June 3. She leaves a brother, several sisters, a niece in Chicago and Iowa, and many nephews and nieces.
William Harkins aged 45 died suddenly at his Dundas home Monday after hours of convulsions. Burial will be in Elk Cemetery. He was born in Knox township where his family still lives. Survived by widow and children. A son graduates McArthur High School. Miss Dorothy Benner of Dundas to be honor graduate in music at Cincinnati Conservatory this week. Miss Florence Rannells of Swan township to graduate from John Hancock High School in Athens this week with commencement Thursday evening.
The Swan township board of education asks voters to approve bonds for a new high school. Sage Valentine, Franklin County auditor and Democratic congressional candidate, was born and raised on Pike Run in western Vinton County.
Mr and Mrs John Quatkosky visited friends in Columbus last week. Vinton County Agricultural Association directors will meet next Saturday to transact business for the fair set for September. Henry C Bothwell enters race as Republican candidate for county representative.
Mrs Shrum who recently moved from West Virginia died at her residence a mile south of Mc Arthur early Monday morning.
If winter strain left you tired you need the real tonic food elements of Father John’s Medicine. It helps drive out impurities and rebuild flesh and health with no drugs. This old ad promotes a patent medicine as a health tonic.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald McGillivray left for Akron on Saturday to establish their future home. He is a civil engineer for a railroad there. Both are graduates of the local high school and attended Friday night’s alumni banquet.
The Elk township announces its new teaching staff including Russell Brown at Hawk school Palma Kruger Miller Dora George Wrightsel Hortense McCarley Elk Fork Luella Trainer Vinton Station.
Several cases of smallpox have broken out in Hamden over the last two or three days. Dr. James and a member of the estate health board traveled there yesterday afternoon to enforce quarantine regulations and take measures to stamp out the disease.
Two Southern California women were set to move into a sunny spot on Easy Street as fortune favored them. One earned $18 a week and both appeared poised to gain.
Nina Smythe rose from hotel laundry worker to Oil Queen after she and her brother bought land and drilled a fruitful oil well. Nearby, Mrs. Eiva Beers moved from La Habra restaurant to wealth, earning 15900 dollars up front and a share of future oil production after a Shack near Santa Fe Springs was found to sit above oil.
John Patterson an 18 year old student is held in quarantine at Steele Hospital Denver after doctors declare him a diphtheria germ carrier with no symptoms. His confinement is listed as definite though he continues his studies in hospital. His mother seeks removal to quarantine at home.
Evidence linking the Ku Klux Klan to the Sunday fire that destroyed the St. Peter and Paul church in Naperville Illinois is under state fire marshal investigation today.
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