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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1919
Page
8
Classified notice lists a Ford truck from 1918 in good condition offered cheaply. Contact phone 82x in Middleport. The brief item appears among local notices dated June 6, 1916.
Henry Seidenabel, former night watchman of Pomeroy, was taken to Columbus to serve his workhouse sentence after Judge Miller ruled that time in Pomeroy jail does not count toward the term. Seidenabel, previously ill with heart trouble, wished to finish the travel and sentence, leaving the county jail empty for the first time in many moons.
Louise Ebersbach resigns as secretary of the Simpson M E church official board. Eva Simms is elected as her successor. Frederick Ebersbach is chosen judge and H V Carl and John Phillips as tellers for the lay delegate election to the annual conference this fall. The election will be on Sunday July 6. Curtis Dilmore and wife are delegates to the State Sunday School Convention in Akron. Mrs Leonard Fisher and Miss Lydia and Louise Ebersbach are delegates to Sunday School Day exercises at Centenary in Columbus.
William E. Wilson, son of County Commissioner Rev. W. F. Wilson, suffered a masked finger injury that worsened. Doctors fear amputation after the boy, once reported killed in the war, unexpectedly returned home unscathed.
Mr George Farrand of Montgomery W Va was the over Sunday guest of Mr and Mrs R D Young Mrs H F Showers has returned to her home at Toledo after a visit here Miss Eva Rine former compositor at the Tribune office returned yesterday to her work at Cleveland after two weeks vacation visit with her mother Miss Tillie Schoon returned Saturday from a visit in Columbus Mr George Willis of Bowood W Va has accepted a position with the R B Young Co of Thomas Fork Mrs Willis will join her husband and they will reside in the vicin ity Mr and Mrs Leland Peoples are back in Pomeroy from Columbus and will reside here Henry Bechtel of Columbus is the pact his daughter Mrs Jennie ent Mrs Catherine Brawlage is a Charleston visitor this week Mrs Wm Ohlinger and two children of Logan are here visiting her mother Mrs Jacob School
The remains of Ellsworth Parker killed in a Illinois mine explosion arrived in Pomeroy Monday evening. The body and funeral party were taken to the mother's home at Minersville by the Odd Fellows lodge of which Parker was a member. Funeral services were held yesterday at Minersville.
Miss Mabel Race of Pomeroy travels with Northern Ohio delegates to the General Conference of Free Methodist churches in Greenville Illinois. The trip from St Louis covers about 650 miles and will last about three weeks.
William P. Meyers 30 and Emma F. Durst 27 of Pomeroy. Dayton Strickland 21 and Helen Flo Heins 19 of Pomeroy. Lawrence G. North 21 of Gallipolis and Marie Bush 19 of Middleport.
Col Gilmore of Ft Wayne Indiana visits his grandfather J P Booth and Miss Virginia Booth in Middleport. He still walks with a cane after a broken ankle suffered at a Erie steel mill nearly a year ago. Howard Booth also came from Charleston for the weekend.
Salesbury township Patterson Commencement honored 14 graduates. Lupts Crow and Karr delivered principal addresses while the Thomas Fork band provided music.
Dr. Eduardo Charme, Chilean senator and chemist, unveiled a new cold refining process said to revolutionize the nitrate industry. The method reportedly produces sodium nitrate in two minutes. A remark on housework closes the report, noting monotony in chores.
Budapest hosts massive May Day celebrations under Soviet banner with red flags arches and portraits of Marx Engels Lassalle Lenin and Trotsky. Amid pomp, Romanian Serb and Czech forces close in as Budapest braces for rapid political and food shortages. Leaders of anti revolution named include Vincent Nagy and Gabriel Ugron as unions and propaganda efforts expand among workers and foreigners.
Burt Kuhns and family visit Buckeye Lake. Linscott writes from Costa Rica, Marines. West Virginia gas salt hearing prompts weekly meter readings near Sharpsburg. Mrs. George Smith visits with Pataskala relatives. Day family from Columbus visits T O Day. Boy breaks arm from a cherry tree fall. Giffords worker hurt by lumber. Wool sale near 20 000 pounds worth about 149 dollars in a store box. Delpha Linscott completes stenography course and secures Toledo position. Local ball results and sermon by Arbuckle. Mrs. Harry Turner seriously ill. Cotton weed question raised by Will De Lashmutt.
Club standings across cities and leagues with win loss records and percentages. Key showings include St Louis, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, New York and more, plus American Association results Louisville 2 St Paul 1.
Archalaus H. Stanley born May 27 1861 in Pleasanton Ohio son of Hiram and Mary A Kenney Stanley youngest of nine siblings. He married Joanna Dickson June 7 1894 and farmed at Mechanicsburg before retiring to Athens. He joined the Methodist Protestant church at Mechanicsburg and served in Sunday school and church work. About five years ago he suffered from Brights disease.
The obituary notes his gradual health decline, death on June 1 at age 58 and five days, and survivors including his widow, foster-son Elmer A. Stanley, grandchildren Jack and Laura Joanna of Athens, sister Mrs Celinda Newsom of Seattle, plus numerous relatives and friends. Sacred memory endures in our thoughts and actions.
The piece advises that occasional meal skipping can restore appetite, recommends five hours between meals for digestion, and suggests daily exercise. It notes constipation as a common cause of appetite loss and claims Chamberlain's Tablets can correct it.
Washington reports continued Villa successes in northern Mexico. Officials maintain there is no border crisis and troops are sufficient to meet any contingency despite unofficial accounts of Villa forces near the border and Juarez federal capitulation expected if attacked.
Springfield Illinois June 19 Charles P Ford secretary of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers expressed the hope today that the general strike of telephone workers called for June 16 might be averted. He had no word from the New York conference but noted sessions were continuing and a basis to work on had been reached.
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