Nelsonville playground week events and notices
The Nelsonville community reports progress on the playground project with a large turnout at East school for Monday events and a concert by the city band. a smaller crowd attended Tuesday’s play hour. Friday marks the West school play hour with games for all ages and volunteer helpers needed for swimming and supervision. Also, a Chamber of Commerce committee plans a meeting with Columbus health officials. local news notes include a boxing reference to the Athens county fair, knitting drive at headquarters, and visits by Mr. Hughes the home service man, plus arrivals of Corporal Garrett M. Hoch and Leonard Russell, with a Women’s Benefit Association meeting at the Maccabee hall.
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East School
West School
Chamber of Commerce
Dittoe
State Board of Health
Columbus
William Burnell
Hughes
Home Service
Nelsonville
Impulsive crimes and lenient justice tempt repeat offenses
The writer argues that youthful Perkins, a petty thief, has long escaped punishment and will likely reoffend under a curse of impulsive insanity. They suggest society tolerates indecisive sentences, fearing humane policies may encourage crime.
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William Perkins
Perkins
Red Cross Notes Two Unclaimed Sewing Machines
The Red Cross reports two sewing machines at local headquarters a White and a Domestic with no owner on record. They will deliver to rightful owners. Headquarters will be open every Friday afternoon this month from 1 30 to.
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RED Cross
Nelsonville Classified Ads Closing Out Sale
Everything must be sold at Sauter's Studio at Nelsonville with phonographs from 6.50 and up and a $250 phonograph offered at 125. Also barn sale June 14 with horses stock straw potatoes and more. J H Hickman sells a 7 passenger Studebaker at once. Nelsonville listings include various furniture items and house goods for sale at 87 Fayette Street.
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Sauter
Nelsonville
F. S. Tedrow
Studebaker
J. H. Hickman
Chestnut Street
Paul Peck returns from overseas amid family gathering
About forty relatives and friends gathered at Mr. and Mrs. G. B. M. Peck home to honor their son Paul who came home Friday evening after active service. He served over the top and endured gas and injuries along with homesickness.
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G. B. M. Peck
Paul
Messrs. Orville and
Garnet Perry
Wales Mill
J. A. Rutherford
L. A. Marcum
Bentley
Ill
Julia B. Norton
Nelsonville
G. W. Lightfoot
Columbia Township
Carpenter
Grover Quick
J. D. Steward
Athens Visitors and Family Ties Highlight Weekend
Monday notes record J. A. Rutherford and son Evans visiting Athens on Saturday. Avie Tedrow spent part of last week with his sisters Mrs. Will Cline and Mrs. Sylvester Sisson in Albany.
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J. A. Rutherford and
Evans
Athens
Avie Tedrow
Will Cline
Sylvester Sisson
Albany
Yankee Forges NAD Hard Fight with the Slavs
Brest June 11 Corect From Archangel front the 339th Infantry of the 85th Division with Michigan and Wisconsin National Army units reports fierce guerilla fighting against bolsheviks. Americans often outnumbered ten to one while covering a 300 mile front. Casualties reach 200 killed and 300 wounded. Men endured pony sled transports and scarce rations of hard tack and bully beef.
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Brest
Corect
Czar
Archangel
Michigan
Wisconsin National Army
339Th
First Citizenship School Praised by Federal Examiner
A federal examiner lauded Athens county for opening the first citizenship school in the area. South Jacksonville hosted the program this summer to educate foreigners and Americans seeking practical fundamentals. County Superintendent Alex Root taught the initial classes, later assisted by Ruth Souders, Ohio University student.
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J. H. Wagner
Department of Labor
Alex Root
Athens County
South Jacksonville
Root
Ruth Souder
Ohio University
Ohio First Liberty Bond Owners to Get June Interest
In Columbus, June 12, holders of 337,212 First Liberty Loan bonds in Ohio will receive about 4 million dollars in semi annual interest on June 15. The Ohio War Savings Committee urges reinvestment into War Savings Stamps, which pay 4.27 percent, higher than the prior 3.12 percent on the Liberty bonds. If reinvested now, the interest could accumulate near one million dollars by January 1924.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio War Savings Committee
Treasury Department
Decoration Witnesses Testify in Damages Suit
About twenty four chorus girls testified in the Virginia Fissinger case alleging Adelaide Hughes punched her on the nose during a dispute at a New York stage venue.
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New York
Virginia Fissinger
Adelaide Hughes
First Course at Howe's Hobo College Delights In Economics
The opening class at J Eads Howe's new hob0 college featured a curriculum of economics followed by apple pie.
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New York
J. Eads Howe
New Hobo College
Merchants Ship Building to Launch Thirteenth Vessel
Bristol Pennsylvanias Harriman yards set to launch the Merchants Ship Building Corporations thirteenth ship this Friday June 13 defying a triple hoodoo.
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Bristol
Merchants Ship Building Corporation
Harriman Yards
Americanization Issues Highlighted in Ohio Report
The state Americanization committee finds widespread illiteracy and foreign born residents across Ohio. Athens county ranks thirty-fifth in alien born, at 5.3 percent of its population, while 12.5 percent of Ohio’s 13 counties total 597,245 foreign born residents. Most foreign born came from enemy countries. a state director of Americanization is to be appointed under new law, starting soon.
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Athens County
State
Americanization Committee
Ohio
Illiteracy Rates Rise Among Foreign Born in Ohio Counties
A state report shows 17.7 percent of foreign born in Athens county are illiterate, nine counties exceed this. Native whites have 1.5 percent illiteracy, foreign born 11.5, and Negroes 11.1. Guernsey has the highest foreign born illiteracy. Athens ranks tenth at 4.6 percent.
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Athens County
Ohio
Europe
Auto collision injures driver in Nelsonville
Nelsonville June 12 One man is badly injured and two autos are badly damaged in an East End crash. Perry Jones the driver of one car is in serious condition and reportedly fainted when moved. Arthur Hilton the other driver escaped injury.
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Nelsonville
Perry Jones
Jones
Arthur Hilton
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Chas. Mills Opp
Babe Edington
E. A. Hoch
Garrett M. Hoch
Leonard Russell
Hoboken
J. M. Butt
Frankfort
Nat Marcus
Cleveland
S. Raden
Woman's Benefit Association of the Maccabees
Maccabee Hall
Fayette St
Northwest ,Columbia
Ford
F. O. B. Detroit
F. R. Beasley
Glouster
Amesville
Yankee
Wisconsin
France
Daly
Stratton's Gash Store
Cans Kraut
Red Bird
Stratton's
Fayette and Hocking St
Messenger
L. L. Brown
Iit
Nelsonville Dry Goods Co
Washington St
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