Social News From Town And Surroundings
Local notes list visits and travels of residents and visitors. Mrs. Carl Stickney visits Kingston. E L McVey and family arrive from Sabina. R C Shirley travels to McConnelsville. Kessie Allen from Indianapolis stays with the Hinchmans. Others visit Columbus, Albany, Camp Sherman, and Cedar Rapids. weddings and church events noted. church group plans meet Thursday afternoon. several residents relocate or travel for work and relatives visit. Notable movements include Williams heading to Covington and Rev Otho Williams joining a coal project in Cincinnati region.
Aged Couple Elopes After Children's Objections
Huntington West Virginia June 11 J A Cottle aged 84 and Mrs John Harper aged 75 eloped to Cadlette burg Kentucky and were married returning home. The couple say it was love at first sight. Cottle's first wife died eight years ago after a sixty four year marriage and he has seven children. The bride's first husband died in October 1914 and she has six children.
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Huntington
W. Va
J. A. Cottle
John Harper
Cadletteburg
Cottle
Wrestling at Opera House Highlights Tokyo Matsuda Carpenter Bout
Matty Matsuda of Columbus and Ray Carpenter of Lancaster wrestled a two falls out of three match before a small Glouster audience. Carpenter won the first fall in roughly 25 minutes, Matsuda captured the second in 16 minutes, and Matsuda secured the decisive third fall in 12 minutes amid a cyclone of action.
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Glouster
Ohio
Trimble
Jim Pico
Dec Crawford
Othet
The
Messenger
Opera House
Matty Matsuda
Columbus
Ray Carpenter
Lancaster
Matsuda
Carpenter
Skinner
Mr. Olson
Thor
Athens
San Toy
New Lexington
Burr Oak
Skinner's
Matsuda’s
Bowser and Carpenter
Letters From Men In Service From France send news of Mother's Day and home life
Letters from soldiers in France describe Mother's Day greetings and family updates. Private Homer Canter notes training, weather, and plans to visit Adrian and Nellie. Lisle Rathburn writes of church, Y M C A, and bravery. other letters mention horses, a holly leaf, and pending registration.
Obituary of Davis Edward West from The Plains Ohio
Davis Edward West born near Jackson Ohio January 18 1871 died at The Plains Ohio June 6 1918 aged 47 years 4 months 18 days son of J B and Sarah M West oldest of eight siblings devoted to family and friends survived by father mother four sisters and one brother He was a member of Woodward Avenue Baptist Church Detroit Michigan and his death brings grief to a wide circle of friends with a closing verse about eternal departure.
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Davis Edward West
J .B
Sarah M. West
Jackson
Ohio
the Plains
Margaret Snyder
Athens
Myrtle Shaffer
Chillicothe
Daisy Channell
Detroit
Mich
Eyota Harrison
John L. Weert
Plains
Woodward Avenue Baptist Church
Supreme Court Rules Route Choice for Rail Shipments
The Supreme Court holds that when two railroad routes fit the shipment need the carrier need not pick the cheaper line. It reserved Minnesota supreme court in three coal shipment cases against Northern Pacific.
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Supreme Court
Minnesota Supreme Court
Northern Pacific
Community thanks for kindness during illness and death
We express gratitude to friends neighbors and fraternity orders for their kindness and sympathy during our son and brother’s illness and passing and for the floral offerings.
Miller appeals case from Ohio non-support conviction
An appeal is filed in the common pleas from Clyde Miller versus the State of Ohio. The 1918 non-support case charged Miller with supporting three children. He pleaded not guilty, waived jury, and was fined 26 dollars with 6 months in the Columbus workhouse. costs totaled 14.85. The appeal asserts six errors including lack of affidavit sufficiency and jurisdiction.
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Oscar W. Riley
J. P
Court of Common Pleas
Justice
Clyde Miller
State of
Ohio
Blanche Miller
Claude Arnold Miller
Flora Jewell Miller
Dessie Irene
Miller
Columbus
Brave Deed of Albany Man Described in War Cross
In a Literary Digest piece the action of Captain K. T. Crossen of Albany is recounted. On March 18 in a French foray with 35 Americans and 110 French, Crossen led men under heavy shellfire, pulled wounded to safety, and earned the French War Cross with a captaincy recommendation.
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Literary Digest
Crossen
K. T. Crossen
Albany
Line Service
Pershing
France
German 8 Suspected of Signalling U Boat
A bartender from Atlantic City is held by naval authorities in Philadelphia on suspicion of belonging to a German spy ring. He is accused of signaling U boats by waving a curtain before lighted gas jets overlooking Brigantine shoals to the open Atlantic.
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Philadelphia
Atlantic City
Brigantine
Atlantic
Osborne finds watch lost in Hubbard Mountain woods
George Osborne, while cutting his cord in South Royalton Virginia, lost his watch in the Hubbard Mountain woods last Thanksgiving Day. He revisited the spot and found the timepiece which, when wound, ran on schedule time.
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George Osborne
Royalton, Va
Hubbard Mountain
Poultry Prices Mixed in Historic Market Report
Live poultry prices held steady with fowls over four pounds at 27 1 2 cents per pound and under four pounds at 27 1 2 cents. Broilers over one and a half pounds ranged from 45 to 60 cents, under one and a half pounds 40 to 50 cents, and roosters quoted at 18 1 2 cents per pound.
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Egan
Cincinnati cattle market report June cattle hogs and sheep prices
Cincinnati market notes show cattle receipts 1175 with steady shippers, calves cash at 16.00 to 16.25, hogs receipts 455 with market steady and best packers at 16.60 to 16.65, sheep receipts 655 with market lower and e xtra 13.00 to 13.25, lambs steady at 19.50 to 19.76.
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Cincinnati
Hog Market Opens in Chicago as Receipts Rise
Chicago June 12 Hog Market opens with receipts of 12 000 head cattle 7 000 sheep 7 000 hogs buyers watch prices as supplies increase over previous periods in the Chicago market report.
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Chicago Livestock
Chicago
Pittsburg Stock Market Cattle and Hog Prices Hover
In Pittsburg Pa on June 12 cattle receipts were light with classes ranging from Common and Fair at 14.00 to Choice at 17.26 17.60 for quality grades. Veal calves sold 16.60 to 17.00. sheep and lambs saw primes at 13.25 14.00 and spring lambs 18.00 20.00. Hog receipts counted 10 cars with prime heavies at 16.65 16.76 and medium to pigs 17.46 17.85.
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Pittsburg
Hogan
Chicago
Ill
Toledo Grain Market Prices
Toledo Ohio June 12 corn cash 1.53 oats cash 77 1 2 to 78 rye cash 1.90 clover 18.00 oct 13.92 1 2 aleike 13.00 timothy 360 sept 432 1 2 oct and dec 4.02 1 2 mch 4.17 1 2
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Toledo
Chicago Grain Market Report
Chicago prices for corn oats and pork on June 12 show June and July futures moves. Corn June 1.43 July 1.46 Aug 1.46 three eighths. Oats June 77 July 70 1 2 Aug 65 1 2. Pork July 41.25 Sept 41.76.
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Chicago
Ill
Livestock Prices and Receipts Report for Chicago Market
Chicago reports livestock receipts for June with cattle hogs and sheep prices. Cattle beef cows feeders and calves show wide bids across grades. Pigs heavy and light packing and hogs list several price ranges amid steady demand.
Athens Man in Death Call and War News Cached
Albert Hibbard returns from New York City amid submarine scare and wartime notes. A Red Cross worker’s brutal wartime experience is recounted, and Miss Margaret Sheridan dies after a grip illness with services at St Paul’s Church and Catholic cemetery burial.
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Athens
Manhattan
Albert Hibbard
Hibbard
New York City
Atlantic
Red Cross
America
East
Middle West
Manhattan Island
Jury Finds Carl Mender Guilty of Malicious Cutting
In Nelsonville on April 3 1918 Carl Mender was found guilty of unlawfully maliciously and purposely cutting David Evans to wound him. The defense claimed self defense but the jury returned a guilty verdict after brief deliberation. The judge remanded Mender into custody and discharged jurors until Thursday morning.
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FE Evans
Evans
Mendel
Carl
McBee Binder Company Applies for Ohio Securities License
The McBee Binder Company of Athens Ohio applied June 12 1918 to the Ohio Commissioner of Securities for a license to deal in its own securities with no agents named in the application.
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McBee Binder Company
Ohio
Athens, O
Commissioner of Securities
State of
Disbanding of the Curbstone Club in Athens
The Curbstone Club has voluntarily disbanded after Mayor Woodworth’s last night proclamation against vagrancy. The town woke to an empty square with familiar faces gone and the court house corner quiet, as loafers vanish in response to official action.
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Curbstone
Athens
Court House
Presbyterian Church
Woodworth
Federal Judge Sentences Cleveland Official to Ten Years
Toledo Ohio June 12 Amos Hitchcock a member of the Cleveland school board was today sentenced to ten years in an Atlantic federal prison on charges of intent to promote the success of the enemy and to cause insubordination in the U S military and naval forces.
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Toledo
Amos_ Hitchcock
Cleveland
Atlantic Federal
United States
German press ridicules America over war coverage
Washington reports the German press continues a campaign of misinforming its people. The Tages Zeitung claims one or two divisions are killed every two days and questions the value of American divisions. The Hamburg correspondent notes 200000 Americans in France and says Wilson's policy of might will collapse.
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America
Washington
State Department
Tages Zeitung
Hamburg
France
Wilson
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Social Oo News
Mrs
Carl Stickney
Kingston
Charles Foster
E. L. McVey
Sabina
W. E. McVey
R. C. Shirley
McConnelsville
J. W. Spencer
Kessie Allen
Indianapolis
Ind
Roy Hinchman
J. D. Haskins
Margaret
Raymond Banfield
8. G. Stonecipher
G. F. Morgan
Dresden
Henry Frank
Carl Frank
Carbondale
Camp Sherman Chillicothe
Ora Gibson
Thersa Blackwood
Ruth Lowers
J. H. Masheter
8. E. Hedges
J. E. Funkhouser
Mrs. Funkhouser
Fred Williams
Petersburg
Camp Lee
Jane Williams
R. C. Reed
Camp Sheridan
Montgomery, Ala
A. L. Johnson
Herbert A. Green
Portsmouth
O. B. Murphey
Mr. Murphey
James Cameron
Wells-Fargo Express Co
Mrs. Cameron
Christian Church
George Meighen
C. W. Lawrence
Scott Tuttle
Junction City
Floyd Beam
Greenville
Norma Vanarsdalen
Haltimore
J. C. Cornwell
Bergice Cook
Camp Sherman
Middleport
Helen Murphy
Paul McGovern
O. Moore
Alma Moore
Robert ?. Tompkins
Otho Williams
Dr. Williams
McLaughlin Coal Reduction Co
Williams
Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
Covington
L. Glenn Lewis
Central Academy and College
McPherson, Kas
O. M. Shaw
Free Methodist Church
Alfred Black
West Union Street
Glouster News
Fairfield
Franklin
Saylor
Opera House Tonight
Helen Holmes
Juliette Day
Handley's
Jack Spurlock
Prodigal
Pastime Theatre
Jacksonville
Ufisian
Reese's
Mattie Mace
New Marshfield
Mamma
Lucy
Dad
Sis
Leota
H. H. Rathburn
Lisle E. Rathburn
Company C
166Th Infantry
J. R. Rathburn
Broadwell
Mother
Lisle
William Canter
Canaanville
Nellie
Texas
England
Rainbow Division
Doug Sterling
George Freudenstein
Adrian
Nellié
Pvt
Homer Canter
Cav
A. EB. F
Higher Court
Cincinnati Produce
Ens County
Lostro Auto
Margaret Sheridan
Mill Street
Sheridan
Gallipolis
Frances Carsey
Catherine Sears
James Sheridan
Thomas
Rosa
Athens County
St. Paul's Catholic Church
Father
Mender
Loafers Club
Bae Galina
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