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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1919
Page
5
In Nel sonville the Chamber of Commerce urges all members to attend the March 20 dinner at 6 30 PM to support community efforts. Rev A M Mann will lead discussion on the annual spring clean up as part of the post meal gathering and membership drive.
Mrs C A Gabriel offers fortune readings next Saturday March 22 at 59 West Jefferson Street in the home of Mrs M L Harden. She will receive clients from 8 in the morning to 9 in the evening.
Chas Edington spent Tuesday in Columbus. BE J Kessinger was a business visitor in Columbus Tuesday. Jay Walker of Detroit spent the weekend here visiting relatives. C G Sheppard spent yesterday and today in Columbus. Rev Leon Arpee and his mother from Athens left Tuesday night for Madison Wisconsin due to illness in the family. Ed Cooley is a Columbus business visitor today. Rev Howard Musser of Detroit spent Tuesday here with relatives. Ted Sanders is the guest of relatives at Akron. Mr and Mrs C J Sanders left today for their new home at Akron.
Funeral services for William Bateman will be held tomorrow at 2 o'clock at the family residence on High Street. Rev. Arthur M. Mann will conduct the service.
Mrs Manson Martin and Miss Vel ma Dowles hosted the Bather class of the Christian Church Monday evening at the Martin home. Twenty five members attended an elegant luncheon with green and white decor and guests Miss Grace Silscott of Columbus Mrs Ad Uhrig and Mrs Goldie McKinney.
Boy Scouts of Troop 1 held a social for their girlfriends and guests at Maccabee Hall last evening. The decorated venue featured signal corps colors and St Patricks Day motifs as games, refreshments, and dancing filled the night. Walter Whitlatch presented John Jackson with a War Saving medal and palms while Wheeler Newton and William Lancaster received first class scout medals. Chaperones were Mr and Mrs Walter Whitlatch.
The passage notes Mr and Mrs A P Scott hosting a gathering with guests enjoying a pleasant afternoon. Seventy attendees are mentioned as present to share in the cheerful occasion.
A meeting of the Childs Conservation League at the Y M C A focused on Nelsonville's kindergarten. Mrs Walter Whitlatch presented a paper titled Play the Game According to the Rules and plans were set to advance the program.
Mac Bartoe received a $10 and cost fine from Mayor Wells yesterday for assault on his daughter. Later in the day his wife filed divorce proceedings in Athens county courts.
The latest notice shows advertised letters including Comics, William, Greenwald T A, Moore Mrs Charney, Mershon Mrs Virgel Sell Mrs James Six Benjamin. Letters awaiting pick up at the post office and subject to return if not collected.
The Epworth League social at the Methodist Church Friday night is postponed. A new date will be announced later.
Hocking Valley Kraut note claims sale lead in local ads. Insurance pitches offer 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 year policies from 500 to 20000 by Miles Brandenberg of Nelsonville Ohio. Also small carpenter work advertised with Bell 302W2 contact for estimates.
Classified notice offering seven percent yards of linoleum for sale with contact by Bell phone 552 W. at the reader’s location.
Paris dispatch reports that Foreign Minister Pichon signaled no opposition to including the league of nations in the peace treaty, while diplomatic issues remain for future sessions. The Temps notes Wilson may have approved military terms with Germany, leaving political questions to be settled before a permanent frontier settlement.
Mrs. Nettie Hankison of Nelsonville, R D 3, received a letter dated February 22 from her brother Hiram describing Genoa Italy, latest marches of 200 miles in ten days, scarce food after Austrians burned bridges, and life in light artillery with trench mortars as they pressed the retreat to the Tagliamento river.
A veteran recounts brutal battlefield experiences including shelling, bayonet fights, and air raids over Italian barracks. He describes crossing a river, capturing guns and prisoners, witnessing enemy cruelty, and the grim sights of exhausted horses and decayed roadways as the campaign wore on.
Dallas Briggs writes Roy Lash about action by Athens county soldiers in World War I. He recalls rammed a submarine, frontline advances from Le Havre to Bordeaux and Nancy, Metz front bursts injuring four, shelling by moving artillery, and trenches with German dugouts including pianos and bowling alleys.
Three bandits held up the First National Bank in Freeport New York and fled with $50 000. Police overtook them near Jamaica two were captured and the loot recovered. Frederick R Appernal was shot in the right shoulder and a third robber escaped into the woods. The second robber used the name David B Roomatein.
Whitehead Island lightkeeper reports a large steamship ashore on Old Proprietor Ledge near St Johns Newfoundland. He could not learn the vessel's identity, and Coast Guard records were not yet available.
Major S. M. Johnson spoke to high school students this afternoon sharing vivid details of combat in France. He described wire entanglements artillery barrages and troop advances noting his September 26 drive earned him honors from American and French governments. The talk drew enthusiastic applause and a promise to return with more war stories.
In Columbus, Mar 19, the Crabbe dry enforcement bill moved as a special order at 1 30 pm in the Ohio House. Wet and dry factions filled the galleries as spectators packed in hours before. State superintendent James A. White of the Anti Saloon League predicted a two thirds emergency vote, while wet supporters doubted the tally. The vote was expected around 4 pm.
The Ohio tax commission calls a meeting of county auditors in Columbus on Tuesday afternoon March 25 to discuss property assessment for taxation. The annual county auditors’ association meeting will be held here March 25 with talks on pending legislation affecting auditor duties.
In Cincinnati on March 19 thieves robbed Addison Jamison of 17 dollars while he slept in a lodging house and then set fire to his clothing. Patrolmen rescued Jamison and alerted other tenants to the blaze.
Liberty bonds were quoted with First 34s at 98.98, First 4s at 94.20 off .04, Seconds 4s at 93.70 off .06, First 4%4s at 94.24 off .12, Second 414s at 93.70 off .02, Third 4144s at 95.04 off .04, and Fourth 414s at 93.82.
Butter creamery 63c standards 68c firsts 60c 64c seconds 58c Eggs ordinaries 87%4c 34c firsts ox 88c Mag 30c Young America live no pediery 38c
Grain prices in Toledo show corn No. 3 at 1.55 dollars per bushel, oats standard white at 66 to 67 cents, barley No. 2 at 1.06 dollars. Seed prices list cash and futures for clover, alfalfa, timothy with various monthly values.
Columbus 18 Hay price report shows consumer to producer and retailer levels for No. 1 timothy at 29.50 and 31, No. 2 timothy 28.60 and 30, No. 3 timothy 26.50 and 28, No. 1 clover mixed 27.50 and 29, No. 1 clover 27 and 28, No. 2 clover 25 and 27, No. 1 light mixed 28.60 and 29.50, No. 2 light mixed 27.60 and 28.75, plus oats and rye straw at 11.
Cattle receipts light and market steady with prime and choice ranges from 15.50 to 17.00 and veal calves 17.00 to 18.00. Sheep and lambs receipts lighter with strong market and primes 14.50 to 16.00, hogs active with primes 15.50 to 20.50 and pigs 17.50 to 18.60.
Hoge receipts 19,000 market up 25 cents. Bulk at 19.50 to 19.80. Butchers 17.50 to 19.90. Packing 16.75 to 19.00. Light 17.50 to 17.80. Pigs 16.75 to 17.50. Roughs 17.65 to 18.25. Cattle receipts 8,000 market steady. Beeves 13.35 to 20.25. Butcher stock 7.50 to 15.50. Canners and cutters 7.00 to 10.00. Stockers and feeders 8.20 to 15.25. Cows 14.00 to 15.50. Calves 11.00 to 17.50. Sheep receipts 8,000 market strong higher. Wool lambs 15.50 to 0.26. Ewes 6.25 to 156.00.
Cattle receipts 600 with a weak to strong market and prices from 13.00 to 16.00 for shippers. Calves lightly tested with extra 16.50. Hogs receipts 9 500 with steady to 25 higher prices around 19.75 for good packers and butchers. Sheep light demand with strong gains at 11.00 to 11.50. Lambs show strong gains with an extra 17.00.
Crude oil prices listed for several markets show Illinois at 2.42 dollars, Princeton 2.42, North Lima 2.38, South Lima 2.38, Indiana 2.28, and Wooster 2.58.
Cincinnati wholesale prices show eggs higher with prime firsts at 38¢ per dozen and ordinary firsts at 37¢, duck eggs 50¢, geese $1.00. Live poultry steady with fowls 31¢ per lb 5 lb and under 31c, springers 48c, fryers 35c, roosters 22c, turkeys toms 37¢ and hens 37c, old toms 30c. Plymouth price listed at $2.23.
Bell Telephone interests oppose the Kryder bill before a senate committee on villages. The bill would require long distance firms to connect with local lines, allowing Hamilton residents with independent phones to call Cincinnati via Bell lines. Attorney Joseph Heintzman of Cincinnati led the main argument against the measure.
Mrs A W Milne of St George Utah praises Chamberlain tablets for biliousness and constipation. She recommends buying them at the drug store where they cost a quarter.
Paris March 9 The speed up peace program at the conference gained momentum as committee sessions and the supreme war council aimed to shape the preliminary German treaty. Delegates expect completion by March 29 and submission to Germany three days later, with Versailles chosen as the signing site.
On his West Athens farm former Sheriff Lowry says he has early produce planted including potatoes and other crops. He predicts good watermelons if the season cooperates and notes his health has improved. Meanwhile a Buick found on Morris Avenue remains unclaimed with its marks removed. officials seek the owner.
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