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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Jun 30, 1919

Page

5

Social News Roundup of Visits Trips and Weddings

A long list of social happenings includes visits from Mrs. John B. Lewis of Akron to Oak Street, travel plans by Judge and Mrs. E. D. Sayre to Neebish Michigan, and several parties and gatherings across Columbus, Columbus Centenary, and Circleville. Local residents attend expositions, weddings, and military events with relatives and friends in multiple cities.

James Lewis Oak Street John B. Lewis Akron P. G. Moler Beryl Beulah Columbus Linworth J. E. Williams Mr. Moler Buckeye Lake

Bigamy and bootlegging arrests shake Athens in police blitz

Sunday and Saturday nights brought a flurry of arrests in Athens as county and city officers seized 32 quarts of whiskey from Cal Coss at 131 Mill Street. Coss faced Mayor Woodworth on a charge of keeping a place where liquor was sold and given away, pled not guilty, and posted $500 bond with two attorneys. Federal action possible. Cass allegedly ran liquor routes from Kentucky to Ohio through Cincinnati, active since February.

Athens Cal Coss Coss Porter Bolin Parker McKinley Mill Street Woodworth Louis Coss Cass Cattlettsburg Gallipolis West Virginia Cincinnati

Bigamy Case in Modoc Prompts Grand Jury Action

John Waitorich of Modoc was arrested Saturday evening by Sheriff Parker and Deputy McKinley at his home on a bigamy charge. Acquaintances say he has a wife in Russia and married another woman in Modoc about a year ago. A grand jury will investigate. A crazed dope fiend found in Dr. Lees office Sunday was taken to hospital after being dazed by drugs.

Everett Starr Norwalk Crestline Gordon Stogie Camp Sherman Hendrickson Argonne Drive John Waitorich Modoc Parker McKinley Waitorich Russia

Parkersburg Joy Riders Arrested After City Run

Four youths from Parkersburg two white women and two men one described as a negro were detained by Chief Porter and Sheriff Parker after a late Saturday night trip across the river in a Hudson. The car needed garage repairs in Athens and officers traced the occupants to arrests at a garage and a hotel. No liquor was found and officials believed the car may not have been stolen. evidence was deemed insufficient for charges.

Parkersburg Porter Parker Athens Bartels

Train misidentification ends in swap of prisoners

District Attorney Bolin advised officers to drop the case and release the trio Monday forenoon after a confusing scene on a K M train. Chief Porter pursued a man with Chaplin moustache. a mistaken passenger was swapped and sent to Rendville to fetch the real suspect Willie Jackson. Ophie McDonald and George Rockhold were among the party, with two alleged underage white girls involved.

Bolin Columbus Ophie McDonald Maried George Rockhold Audrie Lagsdon Nettie James Charlie Chaplin Porter Rendville Chaplin Willie Jackson

Lancaster youths flee Harwich cafe thefts end at coal tipple

Two Lancaster youths William Runyon of Ironton and Adam Bence of Youngstown entered the Harwich restaurant around one o clock Saturday. Officer Bolin chased one youth. the other fled barefoot and hid at the coal tipple bruised feet. The pair broke into a Sugar Grove store Friday night with clothing and sweaters among seized items. They were returned to the Boys Industrial School after capture.

Lancaster Harwich Bolin Sugar Grove Wiliam Runyon Ironton Adam Bence Youngstown Boys Industrial School

Basil Minor Jailed Over Unpaid Taxi Fares

Basil Minor was jailed Sunday evening by local officers after taxi drivers reported he rode in their cars without paying. One driver claimed six dollars and another two dollars fifty cents in fares. Arrangements were expected to be made for payment and his release later today.

Basil Minor Minor

W H Brooks Specials For All This Week

Local store W H Brooks announces weekly specials on groceries and household goods including soup beans ten cents per pound eight dozen heavy can rubbers twenty five cents sixpound boxes of Argo starch twenty five cents and more with items like canned salmon steel cut coffee and galvinized tubs.

W. H. Brooks Clark's O. N. T N. Court Street

Argentine Telegraphs Adopt Automatic Message Printing System

Argentine telegraph firms widely deploy a system that receives messages and prints them automatically by a machine, streamlining delivery and reducing manual handling across the network.

Wisler Credits Cure to Chamberlain Tablets

In 1909 Wm B Wisler of Douglassville Pa describes a severe indigestion attack that prompted a free sample of Chamberlain tablets by mail. He says the remedy helped him greatly and he has not suffered a similar attack since.

Mr. Wisler Chamberlain Wm. B. Wisler Douglassville

Auto crash near Taylorville claims four lives in Ohio

Dayton Ohio June 30. Coroner Willoughby plans to interview Eluer Bessler 17 to determine if a stalled auto caused a Sunday crash with a Baltimore and Ohio passenger train. Four died in the collision including three Bessler family members and Mrs Earl Kress. Five others injured were treated at Miami Valley Hospital and sent home.

Dayton Willoughby Eluer Bessler Taylorville Earl Kress Carl Bessler Ida Foster Richard Foster Bobby Kress Miami Valley Hospital Wm. Bessler William Bessler Leroy Bessler Verona

Earthquakes Kill Hundreds in Three Italian Cities

A Rome dispatch reports last night’s tremors killed 150 in Florence and Bologna, 100 in Vecchia, with several hundred injured across the three cities. Shocks persisted throughout the night, as Italy reels from the deadly sequence.

London Florence Bologna Italy Exchange Telegraph Company Rome Vecchia

Prize Split Between Miss Widdemer and Carl Sandburg

An unnamed donor at Columbia University awarded the prize for best book of verse published in the prior year. The award was divided between Miss Margaret Widdemer for Old Road to Paradise and Carl Sandburg for Cornhuskers.

Atlumbia University Margaret Widdemer Paradise Carl Sandberg

Daily Market Report for Cattle Hogs and Sheep

Cattle receipts 60 cars market higher with choice 14.50 to 15.00 prime 13.50 to 14.25 common 12.00 to 13.25 real calves 18.50 to 19.00. Sheep and lambs receipts 10 doubles market 25 higher prime wethers 9.50 to 10.25 good 8.50 to 9.25 fair mixed 7.50 to 8.25 lambs 13.00 to 17.50. Hogs receipts 20 doubles market higher prime heavy 22.50 to 22.65 mediums 22.50 to 22.65 heavy yorkers 22.50 to 22.65 light yorkers 21.00 to 21.25 pigs 20.25 to 20.50 roughs 17 to 19.50 stags 18.00 to 14.50.

Chicago Produce Market Prices Scratch Record

Butter Creamery quoted at 47c 50c for firsts and 45c 46% for seconds. Ordinary butter 38c 39c. Cheese varieties Twins 30%c 30%c, Young American 31c 31%. Live poultry 30c.

Aes Ordinaries

Liberty bond quotations for New York on June 30

Liberty bond quotations listed with prices for 3144 and 414 series. First 4s, Second 4s, First 4Ms, Second 414s, Third 414s, Fourth 44s, Victory 3Ms and 4s are shown with precise dollar values. Market brief notes current bid prices across multiple series.

New York Liberty Victory

Market Closing Prices for Grains and Seeds in Toledo

Closing prices listed for corn, oats, barley, rye, alsike, clover seed, and timothy in Toledo Ohio. Prices shown for various grades and contract months with figures ranging from 70s to 83 cents for oats and up to $27.75 for clover seed in cash terms.

Toledo Timothy

Cincinnati Cattle and Hogs Market Report

Cattle receipts light and market steady with ships paying 11.50 to 14.00. Calves steady to strong with extras up to 19.00. Hogs receipts 8300 and market firm to 0.25 0.75 higher, good packers and butchers 22.00. Sheep receipts 3600 and market steady with lambs 18.25 to 18.50 and up to 8.00 for extras.

Cincinnati

Livestock Markets Report with Prices and Receipts

Hogs receipts 56 000 with market low and price ranges for butchers packing light pigs roughs. Cattle receipts 22 000 with steady to lower market and price ranges for beeves butcher stock canners cows calves. Sheep receipts 22 000 with steady to lower market and lamb and ewe price ranges.

Cincinnati Produce Prices for Eggs and Poultry

Cincinnati prices show eggs steady with losses. prime firsts 43c per dozen, firsts 41 to 44c, ordinary firsts 39c, seconds 36c, duck eggs 43c. Live poultry lists fowls 5 pounds and over 29c per pound, under 29c. broilers 1% pounds and over 52c, under 114 pounds 45c. roosters 18c.

Cincinnati

Divorce figures spark debate on happiness in marriage

The text argues that nobody is happily married and that experience shows married people often feel unhappy until they marry again, suggesting a search for a happy middle ground.

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Social News Theodore Dean Upper Sandusky W ¢ Bm Joe Fa Son Fryburger Judge E. D. Sayre Neebish Michigan Mrs. Sayre Louise G. Leete Washington D. C C. H . Grosvenor Emmett H. Cotton Gon. Paul and Gordon Herrold Pearl Duffey Mona and Zella Union Furnace Roy L. Dupler Morris Avenue Athens Council No. 128 Daughters of America Clarence D. Kyle Columbus Wholesale Grocery Co Beatrice Pennell New Southern Hotel H. G. Jefferson Roy Shirley Mr. Jefferson Bloomingburg Circleville C. W. Stone Lewis Stone Allie Stone Helen Bachellor Utica Emma Cook Beebe Eliza Minear Anna Cook William Madeline Schaeffler Coshoces Leo Schaeffler Equi Rand Schaeffled Grace Wood James P. Wood Jr Cleveland George C. Parks Clark B. Williams Chillicothe Ohio University Charles Minton Catharine Nowles Harry, Taylor Charles Moore Lower Plains Minton Mr. Moore Emmett Copeland New England Mt. Carmel Hospital Avery Christine Coleman Howard Vera Howard Yeomanette Norfolk, Va Mrs. Lawrence Marble Civil Service Ellen Boelzner Pheenix Arizona H. J. Reading P. C. Boelzner William Alderman Madison Wisconsin G. H. Maxwell J. L. Maxwell Miller Bros Delaware Homer Scott D. N. Higgins White Hall Harry White Hallenbeck Pawtucket Rhode Island Lieut. Hallenbeck Pawtenket East Garpenter Glouster Nelsonville Cal Cass Gonfan John Buu Fushnell War Chest Executive Committee Inauto Pittsburg Chicago Toledo Grain Market Union Stock Yards Rey Lash Carranza Mexico League of Nations Oxfords Hiytspinson &” & Stieney Oies Bank Ohio D. H. Moore Alderman C. G. O'Bienens F. B. Kiltan Aes't Jacob Bros Ing Machines Parker Bros Bank of Athens
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