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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1921
Page
6
The Plains E church held a strong Children Day program with Rev Ashbrand and Rev Elsen assisting. The event filled the church and overflowed seating as Salem M E visitors joined in the celebration.
Mrs. W. D. Baker hosted a surprise party for her son William Edward Baker in Canaanville Ohio on June 20. Local children gathered at William Ward's home then moved to the church grove for cream and cake. Guests included Louis Walton, Mary Walton, Charlotte Cook, Ha d Cook, Lucy Cook, Katherine Williams, Lucile Donaldson, Olive Kole ich, Olive Stanley, Ruth Baker, Emma Kolenich, Helen Kolenich, Gladys Baker, Walter Smart, Joe Kolozy, Billy Rowe, Donald Dorr, Don Laughlin, Delbert Quick, Jon Rose, Glendon Baker, Mrs. Charles Dorr, and other family and neighbors.
A group of Hy-two YTM CC A boys from Kenville will travel to Steubenville to meet President Harding at the White House, signaling a civic visit amid local notes of school and youth activities.
A Republican message recounts Colonel Inger soll on labor turning raw iron into steel rails, noting that while labor is essential, it alone cannot do the work. It requires organization, capital, and capitalists who invest savings into improved processes to enable modern steel mills and vast production.
Hoboken police acting on a detention order seized .495 sub machine guns, extra parts, and ammunition from the S. S. Eastside just before she sailed for Belfast via Norfolk. A London Sketch report cites a tip from the Irish office of the British government. The weapons are described as efficient for street fighting and easily concealed.
The passage credits a key figure who improves systems and tools, noting that modern production relies on both capital and labor. It argues that under primitive conditions personal effort suffices, but in today's complex economy capitalists who save earnings are crucial to turning raw material into significantly higher value products.
Norris of Nebraska promised a Senate speech on defense of U S activities aiding recognition for the Irish public and attacking Admiral Sir for his London jackass speech. The address was anticipated in Washington on June 20.
Thos. F. Walczak aged 23 a railroader and Janet Kercesky aged 19 both of Giouster received marriage licenses.
Col Homer Folk reports from Belgrade on June 20 about American nurses aiding Serbia's government in reconstruction. He notes their chief handicap and surveys the nurses' work and impact amid wartime efforts and relief, highlighting challenges and observations from the field.
A nurse’s work faces Serbia’s myths as health pioneers with one doctor per 30,000 people. Grandmothers uphold beliefs about dirt, binding limbs, Friday care, and exposing newborns to light and air, while locals improvise wound care with soot, cabbage leaves, and garlic.
A report notes that Easter meals are limited to bread and beans for undernourished schoolchildren, a restriction that risks severe health consequences after extended periods of deprivation.
The 1921 Nova Scotia apple harvest is projected at between one and a half and two million barrels by the United Fruit Company of Nova Scotia. The forecast reflects early estimates by the company on the fruit yield across the province.
The American Legion in Indianapolis states firm opposition to any US disarmament push unless all major powers disarm as well. It condemns a nationwide campaign arguing the US should set an example, calling that approach foolish and dangerous. Colonel Galbraith warned against such a path while noting the group’s goal of world peace through international veteran cooperation.
More than twenty applicants sought work in western harvest fields, with about half paying their own railroad fare to travel west after applying to George F. Miles, head of the state free employment bureau. Reports show up to four dollars a day offered in Kansas while standard pay elsewhere remains three dollars daily plus board amid labor shortages.
London dispatch reports a secret Irish murder campaign labeled as a war by both sides. The piece cites killings and mutilations, ambushes, and executions attributed to Sinn Fein and British forces, with officials calling it a ruthless, pervasive conflict beyond conventional warfare.
Dye advice extols Diamond Dyes for tinting garments and draperies with rich lasting color. Each package includes simple instructions to ensure no mistakes or failures in home dyeing.
S W Straus of 8 W Straus and Co says building activity nationwide shows improving tendences as mid season nears. Labor disputes settled with wage cuts, more workers reemployed, pushing up demand for materials and prices, with construction plans only half delivered. stabilization expected at or above present levels amid strong demand.
The article notes the British use of a billion as 4. million millions and contrasts it with the American meaning of a thousand million. It explains the English billion is a thousand times larger than the American billion.
Francis H. Sisson analyzes how the United States financed wartime and postwar exports. He details total export excess, gold flows, and the rise of invisible trade items such as foreign loans, private investment, government credits, and American capital abroad, totaling about 11 billion in loans and 26 billion in wartime government financing through 1919, with further repurchases of American securities abroad and ongoing transmission of funds for imports and development.
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