Literary Club Hosts Preparations For Mrs Sharp Visit
Allen G. Kresge hosted a Tuesday Literary Club meeting at her South Court home. After roll call and discussion of current events the club adopted the Athens Council of Women Welfare Workers constitution and elected officers including Mrs. Hoover president and Mrs. Millikan vice president. The tenth anniversary included a picnic supper with husbands as guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen G. Kresge
South Court Street
Athens Council of Women Welfare Workers
Sharp
Ohio Federation of Women’s Clubs
Athens
Presbyterian Church
C. L. Jones
T. N. Hoover
C. C. Millikan
M. M. Kerr
Rs. W. B. Bartels
Scott Haney
Immigration Study Circle hears Mor gan on Bolshevism and the Americanized Foreigner
Higley Study Circle met Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. E. C. Bibbee hosting. Supt G F Morgan spoke for about 45 minutes arguing that until laws change the immigrant endures a 12 hour day seven days a week and that the immigrant remains unfree. A book review on My Mother and I by Max Stearns followed, presented by Mrs. Fordyce Stewart, detailing an alien family arriving in America and a daughter becoming Americanized through schooling.
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Supt
G. F. Morgan
Higley
E. C. Bibbee
Mr. Morgan
Max Stearns
Fordyce Stewart
America
Darrel Sams Leaves for Akron Rubber Factory Work
Mr. Darrel Sams travels to Akron to take a position in the rubber factory industry, beginning a new job assignment. He will relocate to join the Akron plant workforce.
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Darrel Sams
Akron
Baby Ruth Alice Born to Lewis Family in Oak Street
A baby girl named Ruth Alice was born on March 4 to Mr. and Mrs. James Lewis of Oak Street. The mother is staying with her mother Mrs. Alice Spooner at 33 North Court Street.
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James Lewis
Oak Street
Ruth Alice
Lewis
Alice Spooner
North Court Street
Fourth Lyceum Night Delights Rutland Audience
Prof Morgan of Athens and his high school orchestra impressed a full house with a music program and a lecture titled The Tragedy of the Unprepared. The Athena party included Geofry Morgan Harold Wise Frank Kircher Ralph Davidson Carl Ramsey Ellis Woodworth and pianist Dorcas Kessell.
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Wewre
Lyceum
Prof. Morgan
Athens
Port. Morgan
Athenas
Geoffry Morgan
Harold Wise
Frank Kircher
Ralph Davidson
Carl Ramsey
Ellis Woodworth
Dorcas Kessell
Irresponsibles Push Last Minute Move in Treaty Fight
In Washington on March 4 United Press reports a new group the irresponsibles acts to keep the senate pact alive by seeking a modification of the Lodge Article Ten reservation. They deny the treaty is dead though critics insist it is. The proposed change is minor but may upset Lodge.
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Martin
United Press
Washington , Mar
Senate
Lodge
Hitchcock
Miss Wood Guest at Judge Wood Home
Mrs James P Wood of Cleveland arrived Wednesday and is a guest for a few days at the Judge J M Wood home. The regular monthly meeting of the Woman s Foreign Missionary Society of the First M E Church will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o clock in the parlors of the church.
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James P. Wood
Cleveland
J. M. Wood
Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the
First. M. E. Church
Miss Florine Bingman Goes to Torch for Short Visit
Miss Florine Bingman travels to Torch for a brief stay with relatives and friends. The article notes the social visit and mentions no adverse events or details beyond the trip.
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Florine Bingman
Torch
G W Meighen Inspects Knox Tire Factory Visit
Mr. G. W. Meighen returned Wednesday from Mt. Vernon where he inspected the Knox Tire and Rubber Co. factory.
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G. W. Meighen
Mt. Vernon
Knox Tire and Rubber Co
Death of Elizabeth Doaridge at Athens State Hospital
Elizabeth Doaridge age 47 died at Athens State hospital March 3 from tuberculosis. She had been there one year. Remains shipped to Pome Roy for burial Wednesday by Newsom-Walburn Co. undertakers.
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Elizabeth Doaridge
Athens State Hospital
Pomeroy
Newsom-Walburn Co
Nebraska tops civilian airplane use with 320 in service
Nebraska leads in civilian aircraft use with more than 320 planes in service while Chicago is the top city with about 300 aircraft.
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Nebraska
Chicago
Oldest House Members Were Civil War Veterans
The two eldest House members today are former generals from the Civil War. Sherman, Democrat of Ohio, age eighty five, enlisted in 1861 as a private, fought in forty three battles, earned ten mentions for gallant conduct, and rose to brigadier general. Manley Deedee, Democrat of North Carolina, age seventy nine, enlisted in the Confederate army, was wounded several times, and held brigadier general rank at war’s end.
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House of Represeteee
Gi Sherman
Ohio
Ral
Charles Manley Dedeen
North Carol
Yale Song Gets New Music For Greenwich Graduates
Miss Sonia Streuk of Stamford has retooled Bright College Years from Die Wacht an Rhein into new music to be heard by Yale graduates in Greenwich Conn. She earned 500 francs in wartime for a song for convalescent soldiers in Switzerland. The old Yale tune had fallen out of use due to its German melody.
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Yale Air
Greenwich
Conn
Sonia Streuk
Stamford
Yale
Streul
Switzerland
Prisoner escape plot foiled on train to Atlanta
Cleveland report says ten federal prisoners planned to flee while en route to Atlanta federal prison. Duplicate keys sewed into clothes of Harry Best and Ed Burke enabled discovery. Bliss Morton of the justice department said the scheme targeted the train passing through Kentucky. The key supplier is in Warrenville work house.
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Cleveland
Atlanta
Harry Best
Ed Burke
Bliss Morton
Department of Justice
Kentucky
Morton
Warrensville
February Pupils of Factory School Named Not Absent
The list for February shows Mabel M Joseph Carol Hope Jessie Dickens Lillian Dickens Pauline Riley Elizabeth Riley Carrie Bryan Carrie Trout Selah Holland Hazel McDonald Franklin Dicken Harry Hope Edward Coon Howard Trout Charles Trout Russell Dicken Harold Joseph Perry Strasnider as on time. Various visits occurred Sunday and Monday among local residents including Miss Hope Kirk and Miss Anna Scott who is ill with tonsillitis.
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Mabel Joseph
Elizabeth Riley
Frank Beebe
C. E. Rowan
Mabel M. Joseph
Carol Hope
Jessie
Lillian Dickens
Pauline
Carrie Bryan
Carrie Trout
Selah Holland
Hazel McDonald
Franklin Dicken
Harry Hope
Edward Coon
Howard Trout
Charles Trout
Russell Dicken
Harold
Ralph Joseph
Perry Strasnider
Albert Ellis
Hubert Lee
Jessie Dickens
John Cali
Athens
Charley Powers
Millard Bryan
Hope Kirk
Irma Bryan
Anna Scott
Dessie Sickles
Herb McDonald
Bill McDonald
John Trout
Carrie
Vore
George Pennell
Olson Gym First Team Beaten In Three Game Volley Match
The self styled first volleyball team of Olson's gym club boasted of skill but lost two of three to a hand picked class team. The champion squad includes McCoy Cameron Siigley Hixson and Crooks. The challengers were DeMolet Horn Comstock Lamborn and Cokenaugher.
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Olson
McCoy
Cameron
Siigley
Hixson
Crooks
DeMolet
Horn
Comstock
Lamborn
Cokenaugher
Blacksnakes to Trail Rats as Traps Fall
Blacksnakes will be corralled and released at Union Station to exterminate rats overrunning the building. Workers tried traps ferrets cats and poison with little success causing hundreds of dollars in damages and merchants’ complaints. The rats are large and black and snakes are now the only feasible foe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lerxington
Union Station
Infant Escapes Injury After Akron Collision
An automobile crash at Chandler and McCormick avenues in Evansville involved a car driven by Clifford Parsons from Patoka and a machine driven by James Nugent. Four month old infant of Mrs. Jessie Wheeler of Princeton was thrown about 20 feet but remained unhurt with only slight bruising.
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Evansville
Ind
Jessie Wheeler
Princeton
Chandler and
McCormick Avenues
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