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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1919
Page
7
Mrs James Riggs of Quincy Illinois leads a neighborhood women founded group to ease chores. Members rotate tasks each week handling canning ironing mending and similar work. Riggs says the club works best with a limit of fifteen members.
Mr. Wesley Webb of Columbus visits daughter Mrs. Howard Coe. William Stanley couple leave for Iowa for several weeks. J. W. Lindley Jamie Lindley and Clarence Sweeney at Buckeye Lake. Miss Thora Coultas of Quaker City visits. Mrs. Peter Morse stays with relatives at Zaleski. A T Townsend of Cleveland visits sister Mrs. Will Higley. Eldon Sisson and family from Connerville Ind. guests of Mr. and Mrs. Mary Throckmorton. O H Callahan of Gallipolis tours locally. Miss Mabel Gillogly of Baltimore calls on relatives. Miss Faye Cline heads to Columbus and Mt. Vernon for a month. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Coe host Sunday guests from Athens. Mrs. Clara Selvey visits near Fisher. Ruth Jones of Athens spends week with T. W. Coe.
State leader W. H. Palmer says Boys and Girls Clubs promote rural life and practical farming through home economics, agriculture, initiative, and demonstrable farm production. More than 13 000 members in 65 counties participate with girls in food and clothing clubs and boys in pig corn potato calf sheep poultry stock judging and garden clubs.
Chicago officials accuse General Electric of bias against blondes, claiming the company refuses to hire red headed or light hair applicants, reflecting workplace color stereotypes in hiring practices.
A divorce suit by Mrs. Spitznagle against Edward Spitznagle in Portland Oregon is discussed after she claimed he darkened her eyes. The court refused a divorce freeing her to return home. The piece also reflects on vanity and aging with moral tones.
Israel Putnam the fifth, a descendant of the Revolutionary hero, is highlighted in the July Woman's Home Companion under Their Names Go Marching On. The Athens youth, son of Mr and Mrs G I Putnam, remains overseas and has been ordered to Coblenz on the Rhine due to critical conditions, instead of Paris for six months of instruction.
The twentieth annual encampment of the United Spanish War Veterans department of Ohio opens in Akron and closes Saturday afternoon with a flag day parade. Officers will be elected Saturday morning. J. R. McCluskey of Youngstown Otho Noble of Columbus and Lt James Kelly of Cleveland contend for department commander. Dayton and Toledo push for the 1920 encampment.
Between 35 000 and 40 000 telegraphers are expected to join the nationwide strike called by the Commercial Telegraphers Union of America. Union leaders say the number includes nonmembers who walked out and note broad sympathy from brokers and railroad telegraphers.
Beebe Farm near Beebe Arkansas hosted a surprise party for Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Gray of St Louis Missouri. The Beebe property dates to 1745 and the event featured abundant refreshments and notable attendees including Mrs. John Murphy Mary Kathleen Cottrill Rodehaver Biggins McCune Morrison Laughlin Finsterwald Petty Minear Cook and many Beebe residents and relatives.
R C Cook of Lormia Cole visited his uncle Mr and Mrs Amos Townsend last week. Harry Gates of Akron and Rep H A Hatch of Athens called on friends Wednesday. Green of Nelsonville installed a piano at the Potter home. Local youths attended Children's services at Guysville Sunday. Children's Day exercises planned at Carthage church Sunday afternoon. Elizabeth and Daisy Potter arrived from Wisconsin to join the Townsend household for the weekend.
Trimble township farmer Jack Taylor born England September 14 1831 visits his daughter in Buchtel and is renowned as a fiddler whose music has long kept local youths dancing for sixty years. Catharine Alderman born October 16 1823 defends her youth and remains active living with niece Mrs J W Wheatly.
Ohio State University Farm Crops Department advises drilling about three pecks per acre with drills spaced for cultivation. Mix tested soybeans with soil from a soybean field to aid inoculation, add liquid glue to water, and select varieties suited to northern Ohio for seed or hay production. Soybean hay rivals clover and alfalfa. seed value can exceed corn in some cases. An old hometown visit reveals friends who look older while the visitor seems unchanged.
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