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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1918
Page
7
A countywide campaign starts today in Athens to promote War Savings and Thrift stamps. The monthly quota is 90 000 dollars for 1918, with a per person cap of 1000 dollars. Boy Scouts will canvass districts and collect pledges of regular purchases.
Charles Glenn has filed for divorce from Bessie Glenn in Common Pleas Court. The case No 116111 will be heard on and after July 26, 1918. Residence of Bessie Glenn is unknown.
Joseph Richards auditor for the United Mine Workers in Ohio spends the day at the War Chest headquarters in Athens. He reviews mine locals reports and checks them in the interests of the War Chest. Translated from the Hawaiian uku lele meaning jumping flea.
War Secretary Baker orders sixteen aerial defense stations to guard the New York coast amid fears of a Hun air raid. The move marks a strengthened alert as aerial threats loom.
A Gainesville Florida baking firm with chemist B F Williamson announces wide distribution of peanut flour bread. The loaf uses one fifth peanut flour and four fifths wheat flour, delivering a balanced ration with higher nitrogenous value than dried beef. It aims for a price below wheat flour.
A sixteen year old wife tells in court that New Gretna Green in Pittsburgh and Wellsburg is where eloping couples tie marriage knots quickly. A taxicab driver meets trains to rush lovers to the license office and altar.
Farmer near Live Oaks California Wing shot and killed two large wild cats along the Feather River during a jack rabbit hunt. The first cat climbed a tree and lunged. a shot felled it. Its mate appeared and was also killed by a subsequent shot from Wing.
In the Alaskan village of Klukwan with 150 residents the Red Cross society counts 100 members, all of them Indians. A recent benefit basket social raised 100 dollars. Members, led by women, have completed 46 dresses for French children along with eight bathrobes 87 crocheted bonnets 32 pairs of socks and 16 wristlets. Patriotic speeches highlight meetings.
A National War Work Council bulletin shows 2,200 Y M C A workers with expeditionary forces in France and England and 8,000 in American camps. The organization has been asked by General Pershing to take over the entire canteen system with the American army in France, greatly expanding its wartime relief role.
The Y M C A seeks over 1,000 business leaders to serve in France by July 1 as part of a broad effort alongside more than 8,000 volunteer workers. Weekly 8,000,000 feet of film are shown to soldiers at home and abroad, with a shipment of athletic gear sent to troops in France including 79,680 baseballs and 19,000 bats. Huts and dugouts are built along front lines for American soldiers, while on the Russian front 150 secretaries have retired to Siberia after German shelling.
Greensburg Pauline Peter Dorsuk, an Austrian shoemaker aligned with America first, was sent back from Camp Lee due to physical disability. Before camp he invested his savings in Liberty bonds and left a will bequeathing all his property to the United States government.
Cincinnati resident Miss Jeanne Emma Morhard receives the Legion of Honor badge from the French government for leading the Franco-Belgian relief fund in Cincinnati. For 23 years she taught French at Hughes High School.
Agnes K Foley has been appointed and qualified as executrix of the estate of Emily Helen Fink late of Athens County Ohio deceased. Dated June 1 1918 H T Phillips Probate Judge of said County.
The board invites sealed proposals for 3600 00 and 26600 bonds issued under section T1696 by the city of Athens The bonds will be sold to the highest bidder with accrued interest and must include a 1 percent certified check The award may be rejected in whole or part and bidders must mark bids for School Bonds and deliver within 16 days from award date Hugh Andrews President J W Wade Clerk Buchtel Ohio June 10 1908.
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