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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1918
Page
3
Nelsonville residents publish community notices, yard gatherings, and Red Cross efforts. Reports include a lawn fete at John Howard’s home on July 13, staff figures for sweater and bed shirt production, plus visits and travel notes of locals and soldiers arriving in France in the 83rd Division.
The annual Eastern Star Memorial service will be held Sunday afternoon in the Masonic Temple at 2:30. The public is invited to attend. Misses Rose and Gay Herrold attended the college commencement exercises in Athens on Thursday. F. DeLong spent Thursday in Lancaster with his family.
The City League standings show Wilson's Never Sweats leading with a dominant record. No other teams' full records are listed in the fragment.
Italian claims of success spread along the Nervesa line on the Piave front. Premier Orlando acknowledged Austrian gains in parliament but Italian forces reportedly press the advance and threaten a northern flanking move. British reports note Austrians cornered between floodwaters near Montello as Italian lines hold.
Washington reports to the house military committee that American troops occupy thirty eight miles of trenches in France. Troop movements continue as supplies rise while officers also note gains in machine guns and small arms ammunition production.
Washington date Maj General W Branker of the Royal Air Force stated that American airplanes with Rolls Royce engines and allied pilots will cross the Atlantic within three months. The route would run from Newfoundland to Portugal via the Azores with seven hundred horsepower craft carrying crews of three or four men.
The transport Sant Anna en route from Bizerta to Malta was torpedoed and sunk in the night of May 10 11. 2150 soldiers and native workmen were aboard, with 1512 saved. The report comes from the Havas agency.
Athens reports a Turkish German dispute over the Russian Black Sea fleet. Talaat Pasha says negotiations with Russia are underway for Germany to receive the fleet, while Turkey continues energetic action to secure control.
New Lexington June 21 Rev Merritt Bigum pastor of Bearfield township Holiness church is jailed as authorities investigate his stance against the war. He refused Red Cross war fund contributions and was taken into custody after being asked why he would not participate. No charges filed at this time.
Washington reports France has let contracts for 10 unsinkable ships to an American yard. The design, by a French engineer, uses untried principles kept secret. The passage notes a German U boat needed three torpedoes to sink the transport President Lincoln due to extra bulkheads.
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