This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 27 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1919
Page
3
Thrift Week events feature a Nelsonville dance at K P Hall on Friday with admission 15 and 50 cents. War Savings Stamps sales rise as Mrs. Hyde reports 125 dollars sold Tuesday while women nationwide participate.
Large funeral attended today at 2 pm for Mrs. G. Clampitt. Burial followed at Greenlawn. Mrs. Clampitt lived here most of her life and was widely known. Also notes Vivian Kelly visiting Charleston teacher returning home for summer. W E A O T M to meet at Maccabee hall June 27 with initiation of candidates and refreshments. Uniforms to Edith Briggs home by Thursday. members urged to attend.
Doanville and Deanville ads advertise July fourth items at J A Isselstein with limited potatoes beans brooms and other bargains. A seven room house at 518 E Chestnut Street offered by owner Lena B Port plus cheap lots and houses.
MUST BE SOLD All Phonographs for less than cost. What you save on these machines will buy many records. Don t delay long er, only a few left. Building, Phonograph and Phonograph business for sale or building separate. Repairing of all American and foreign Talking Machines New models or old timers. Sauter s Studio, Nelsonville, O. 6-24-7 FOR SALE One Smith Form-a truck complete. One Ford Roadster w with light delivery in rear. These machines are in first class shape. Also one ton truck body complete. One Roadster body. 412 Bell. S. T. Buck, Gen. Del., Nelsonville, O. 6-24-3p FOR SALE Lime, cement, plaster. We keep a good supply on hand all the time. Prices right. Cash Feed & Sup ply Co., Weidemann Bldg. 6-23-3 FOR RENT IN Nelsonville, O. A roomed house large rooms, with electric lights, city water, good garden, located at 893 igh St. Apply IKE WARNER, Nes hville, 6. 6-2317p. Summer Complaint Quickly Relieved X About two years ago when suffer ing from a severe attack of summer complaint. I took Chamberlain s Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy and it relieved me almost instantly, whites Mrs. Henry Jewett, Clark Mills, N. Y. This is an excellent remedy for colic and diarrhoea and should be kept at hand by every family.
Harold Wise returns as lead in The Valley of Hocus Po with rehearsals daily and opening set for Thursday. A mayors office smokers club debates municipal motor duty for drownings with Nate Baker as a proposed operator. Home Telephone Company dismantles Bell cables on Court Street with undergrounding and pole removal. Chauncey Glouster road work continues despite misty days. Congressman Foster seeks a pension for Eliza Murphy. Teacher exams set for Friday June 27 at Ellishall assembly room starting 7 AM.
Mrs. Mary Olive Carper died June 23 at age 65 at the home of her niece in Flora. Funeral services were held June 25 at Cherry Ridge Church with burial in the adjoining cemetery. She leaves three daughters and one son, plus a brother and three sisters.
Charles Davidson of Leesburg died at Athens State hospital June 23 after two years confinement. He was 65. Remains sent to Sabina for burial by Newsom-Walburn Co. undertakers.
Local notes report Miss Rose Buhla operating in the former Myers Tailor Shop space. The piece also covers the arrest of Alex Kish, 22, on a Cleveland murder charge, his confession, and subsequent transfer to Athens. Other items note Chas Cox’s recovery, George Rambo Jr.’s summer return from the Cincinnati Conservatory, and relatives traveling or arriving in town. A posthumous birth is noted for Mrs. Clophia Kinder, and Mrs. C Von Scheele with Max plan a Columbus trip for a week’s centenary event.
Rev Carl Cole of Trimble will fill the pulpit at the Bishopville Church of Christ Saturday evening. Interstate Commerce engineers surveyed K and M railway right of way and company property last week in a project begun in 1915 to valuate assets but paused due to the war. The engineers are reviewing the entire K and M right of way from Corning to Gauley Bridge.
The Smith one per cent tax law is praised for expanding education as the State Teachers Association e votes at Cedar Point Ohio. A A Maysilles Dayton superintendent notes 10500 members 3500 more than last year with about 5000 teachers at the convention.
Omaha Nebraska reports that returned soldiers may volunteer to maintain order if a general strike in sympathy with the teamsters walkout is called, reflecting tense labor unrest in the city.
In India, wood, metal and ivory carvers begin learning at age three and reach skilled status by twelve, reflecting an early craft apprenticeship tradition.
In Gloucester and Camden reports show a steep drop in shad catches along the Delaware. Many fishermen have quit or repurposed nets for herring as seasons yield few fish and prices rise for limited shad dinners. The decline traces to 1909 when the Fish Hawk steamer stopped. Torresdale hatchery efforts followed with smaller yields.
A telegram to Herbert Hoover from Howard Heinz, food commissioner for the Near East, describes extreme deprivation among Armenian refugees in the Caucasus. He cites hunger driving women to forage grass roots, high child mortality, and warnings of cannibalism amid typhus and a looming cholera threat. Igdir reports the worst conditions, with aid needed for 500,000 for another year.
Washington reports 1,102 holders of registered farm loan bonds with 1,050 possessing under 25 000 each. Only three hold over 500 000 and 36 between 25 000 and 100 000. Average coupon bond holdings are smaller, totaling 9 800 per holder. annual interest on 10 821 425 in registered bonds is 510 086. Most bonds issued in the Midwest.
Louis Untermyer told the Philo musian club that slang will dominate American speech within 20 years. He praised Walt Whitman as the first to see beauty in slang and argued the slangwielders are ahead of their time.
Reports indicate tungsten ore deposits discovered in Korea with mining operations set to begin soon. Local companies and authorities anticipate economic benefits and job creation from the new tungsten mines.
The Senate moves toward passing the 888 million Army bill after midnight. Debate centers on meat stockpiles, with McKellar pressing for public sale and Reed urging release, while Wadsworth accuses the War Dept of withholding meat for packers. Hare, the sales director, faces scrutiny over meat handling.
Helen Boyle, the kidnapper of Willie Whitla of Sharon, Pa., left the Western Penitentiary after three years in near solitary confinement. She granted reporters a brief interview, then rode to the Baltimore and Ohio station and boarded a train to Chicago escorted by a man believed to be her brother.
The report lists numerous visits and social gatherings. Families including the Wemmer, Boudinot, Sawyer, Ditty, Tabbert, Sams, Smathers, Woodworth, Jones, Wahl, Boudinot, Cochran, Lafridge, Kelzenburg, and Withee visit each other across College Hill Athens Trimble Redtown Millfield and Chauncey with tea visits, dinners, and weekend stays noted.
Dispatch from Kem reports Bolsheviks set fire to a forest in the Shunga district on Monday, temporarily checking Allied forces. The Allies still pressed the attack and made an important advance.
An English inventor asserts that his interlocking concrete piling is stronger than traditional sheet piling made from wood, promising superior strength and durability for coastal and foundation work.
Eggs climb with prime firsts at 42 cents a dozen and other grades at 38 to 35 cents. Live poultry steady to higher with fowls and broilers priced around 28 to 50 cents per pound. Cattle and sheep slow with varied prime and good values, hogs show higher bids across weights from 20.50 to 22.10 dollars per hundredweight.
Hogs receipts 22000 with market steady to 25 cents higher. Bulk 20.00 to 21.00, butchers 18.50 to 21.10, packing 19.00 to 20.25, light 18.50 to 20.75, pigs 17.25 to 18.50, roughs 19.00 to 19.65. Cattle receipts 9000 market steady with Beeves 10.00 to 15.85, butcher stock 7.50 to 13.25, calves 16.75 to 18.25. Sheep receipts 14000 steady with wool lambs 8.00 to 17.50, ewes 2.50 to 13.50.
Cattle receipts 600 with a steady market. shippers paid 11.50 to 14.00. Calves up 50 cents to 17.75 18.00. Hogs receipts 5500 with a steady market. top packers and butchers paid 21.28. Sheep receipts 2300 with a strong market. good to choice 7.00 to 8.00. Lambs strong and higher. good to choice 16.00 to 17.00.
Toledo reports closing prices for corn No. 3 yellow at 1.85, oats standard white 0.74 to 0.75, barley No. 2 at 1.22, rye No. 2 at 1.45. Alsike bids Oct 22.25 and Dec 22.50. Clover seed Oct 24.70 and Dec 24.30. Timothy ranges include 5.55 Sept, 6.12 14 Oct, 5.85 Oct, 5.90 Dec, and 6.05 March.
New York June 15 liberty bond quotations report modest shifts. First 4s trade near 94.90, second 4s around 93.96, third 4s about 95.12 with small gains, and first 8s around 95.40 with changes.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.