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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1919
Page
3
Junk dealer Michael Shatoansky of 185 Watkins St offers to buy old junk at 40 cents per hundred or 50 cents delivered to his yard. Bell phone 262R. Includes a brief social note: Mr and Mrs Carl Coakley and daughter Rachel Catherine visited Mr and Mrs A C Anderson.
All persons knowing themselves indebted to Dr J C Pickett deceased for medical services must call at the residence in Bean Block within the next day to pay or, in absence, pay to L G Matheny insurance agent in the same building. Mrs J C Pickett. 8-7-3-p.
Mrs. D W Gorsuch hosted a surprise birthday party for her daughter Mary Lillian yesterday afternoon from 3 to 5. Twenty four little girls attended, played games until 4:30, then enjoyed a lunch. Mary Lillian received many gifts and the event pleased all гостей.
Classified note seeks purchase of a used hand reed baby carriage in good condition. Contact Bell Phone 539W1.38-8p. Also an ad invites Fortune telling with Mrs C A Gabriel on Friday March 14 at 89 W Jefferson St for readings by Mrs M L Har dens.
Paul Bowser of Newark light-weight champion of America meets Lee Hendricks of Chicago in a world title contender bout at the Opera House. Event billed as Opera-style entertainment with free ladies admission and club delegations invited by the management unaffiliated with prior Nelsonville matches.
News of the death of Mrs Myrtle Haynes at her Moundaville home Saturday from influenza. A former resident of this city she was highly respected and is a cousin of Mr Clyde Woodard. She is survived by two sons.
Funeral services were held this afternoon at 1:30 for Miss Rose Walls conducted by Rev. Delbert Mills of Jacksonville Ohio. Burial was at Greenlawn. Miss Walls is survived by her father and several brothers and sisters.
Mrs George Weaver entertained the Loyal Workers of the Methodist Sunday School with a social at her Myers Street home. Miss Hazel Shafer played piano solos for the group, twenty men received refreshments, and Sergeant Howard Warner of Camp Gordon Ga has arrived home after an honorable discharge.
Wiley Scott and daughter Mrs. Mattie Hewitt hosted an elegant twelve o'clock Saturday dinner. The covers were set for Rev. L. G. Matheny, Mrs Electa Wells, Mrs. Anna Smith and daughter Lucile, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Anderson, and the host couple with two daughters.
The East Building Parent-Teachers Association met Friday afternoon in its first session of the year. Officers elected: President Mrs Bessie Wolfe, Vice President Mrs Ethel Wallace, Secretary Miss Louise Pearce, Treasurer Mrs Beasie Courtney. Mrs Lancaster and Supt Ferree urged child welfare work and parental involvement. Next meeting set for Friday April 11. all parents urged to attend.
The Nelsonville community notes students pledging co operation to keep streets clean by picking up waste paper and using proper receptacles. Merchants abandon packaging in streets and sewers. city aims for cooperation between business leaders and pupils to improve the town. Miss Alice Mulligan of Columbus.
An advertisement from the Rankin State Building and Loan Co. announces ready loans on homes in Columbus and farms in central Ohio and also on apartments in Columbus. It highlights the lowest interest rates and liberal repayment terms with prompt appraisals and quick closings. The office is Rankin Building, 22 West Gay Street, Columbus, Ohio.
Sunday visitors included Mrs Graham and her parents while Mrs Itha Ruuson hosted. L P Mooney of Murray City stayed with Mr and Mrs A C Anderson. Ida Green and two children spent the weekend in Haydenville with farmers’ relatives. Rolla White visited Lancaster relatives over Sunday. Charlies Leida stayed with her sister in Latter. Berthanne of Lancaster visited Friday and Saturday. Mr and Mrs C E Bennett spent the week’s end in Columbus.
At the regular Eastern Star meeting six candidates will be addressed. Refreshments follow. Every member is urged to attend and make a special effort to be present.
Columbus report says Adjutant General Layton, returning from Washington, expects army appropriation bill to pass. He states funds are available to establish a 2000 man Ohio National Guard unit even if Congress delays the bill.
Ohio figures from the state taxation commission show more than one quarter of 120,007,891 dollars raised for counties townships schools and cities in 1918 will pay debt. Five million goes to debts incurred without a popular vote. The rest funds interest and sinking bonds. Montgomery County owes nine percent of last year’s taxes to debt and similar rates appear in Allen Cuyahoga Lak as Hamilton Muskingum Summit counties.
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