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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1919
Page
2
An aged physician named George B Parker of Athens spent decades perfecting a remedy claimed to improve health. The advertises a guarantee refund if not effective and lists the product as available at local drug stores for one dollar, promising relief for stomach gas and related ailments.
A damaged OCR style fragment mentions 20CAL applications and medicines sold through Toledo Ohio. It references a product for constipation and a dealer or company name, with unclear phrases about claims and conditions.
Employees of Lostro Auto Sales in Athens and Nelsonville gathered for an annual banquet on the Lostro building’s second floor. President Lastro spoke of a 1.5 million dollar goal and announced an upcoming Lostro automobile show. Judges were named for a ten dollar trademark contest, and the maiden Lester Exhaust magazine was launched.
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Price were calling at the Dewitt Reeves home in Sunny. Mrs. Hudnall on the sick list is slowly improving. M. Bolin spent the weekend at her home. Kenneth Cheadle and Elmer Ash made a business trip to Albany. Fe Hudnall remains ill. Guy Bolin and Hart Robinson visited friends in Harrisonville Saturday evening. Delbert Reeves made a business trip to Downington Saturday. Guy Bolin Howard Reeves and Clayton Tewksbury called on Dewitt Reeves Sunday. Clayton Morrison and Mila Sisson visited William Cheadle Sunday.
A Saturday afternoon troop train out of Athens carried eleven coaches toward Camp Sherman. Most men were anti aircraft service members and four coaches held colored soldiers. Ted Wood, an Athens boy, was named by bystanders as a welcome sight. his mother greeted him at the depot.
An illustrated Sunday lecture at the First Methodist church outlined the society’s rise from eight initial members fifty years ago to over four hundred thousand today. The speaker reviewed the society’s foreign work and outreach.
The pastor leads a week's series at the Church of God on Hocking Street to answer what you believe and why. Topics include The Double Cure, Faith and its Providence, Millennium through the Bible Telescope, Future Destiny of the Wicked, The Christian Here and Hereafter, and The New Testament Church and its Ordinances. Services begin at 6 45 with all invited.
Sunday attendance at the First M E Sunday School increased over the prior Sunday with 718 total participants including 682 scholars, 34 officers and teachers, and 2 visitors. The breakdown shows 259 men and 181 women, plus 160 in the intermediate and 88 in the primary departments. Largest classes include Copeland and Martsolf groups, with noted contributions and a total collection of 26 dollars, Class 6 contributing 138 dollars and 85 cents.
Linoleum was laid in the ladies rest room of the court house on Monday and furnishings are being brightened. The spot will become a comfy agreeable room when the work is finished and it will open in a few days.
On a warm day the streets show new cars from many brands and wagons of local produce. Pedestrians and trucks crowd Court street as merchants’ active advertising seems to have kept business alive despite lean days.
Testimonial from Grady Dees of Magnolia Ark claims one lung healed and the other nearly so after six years with consumption. He details open air living, raw eggs, milk intake, and weight regain. Milks Emulsion promises to restore digestion, boost appetite, and aid TB and general weakness, with a money back guarantee and listed prices.
Athens community awaits a high profile gathering as Dr. Moses Breeze of Columbus is set to speak at the Presbyterian Men's Club. Breeze, active in the Laymen's Forward Movement and New Era Drive, will be remembered for a stirring past address at the club's founding. Supper at six, hosted by church ladies, with fine refreshments.
In Athens county springtime prompts home cleaning with carpets beaten to loosen dust as households move pictures and goods. The season also stirs poets and emotions, while Judge Phillips issues more wedding permits as hearts awaken with the blooming season.
Carl Stockdale of Cleveland was elected captain of the 1919 20 Ohio University basketball team. A sophomore guard, he is praised as a standout athlete in the Green and White and also noted as one of southern Ohio’s best amateur first basemen.
The lighted first day ticket sales for the university Skit Show were the heaviest in six years. Dean Voight announced a repeat performance Friday evening planned by university girls. Only a few seats remain for Thursday. second show tickets open at McKee's Wednesday morning.
Major Sam M. Johnson will speak at the Class Six supper in the First M. E. church on Thursday evening. Supper is served at six o'clock and Johnson will address the gathering immediately after. A large crowd is expected.
Buckskin high school basketball squad clinched first place Saturday at the New Vienna event after a strong local tournament showing.
Census figures show one marriage in nine ends in divorce nationwide with Reno courts adjusting procedures. Ohio is noted as weaker in the list while Nevada sees higher disruption rates.
Camp Sherman officers say the first increments of the 87th division will reach Chillicothe possibly Saturday this week. A large reception is planned for the arriving soldiers.
Mrs. G. I. Putnam delivered a balance of $2.53 from the ladies fund to Secretary I. M. Foster of the local Red Cross chapter today.
J. J. Fuchs of Shawnee and William Worden of Logan were among the wounded soldiers arriving at Camp Sherman on Monday.
A veteran recounts August to September 1918 movements with New Zealanders, trench visits, and frontline hikes toward Beauval, Bernaville, Paris, and Verdun. He describes gas mask practice, muddy camps, ambulance work, encounters with German positions, a Dachshund souvenir, and rescuing wounded near Sept Sarges, including action around Daneveux and German cannon pits.
A home lotion blends juice from two fresh lemons with three ounces of orchard white to create a quarter pint complexion remedy. Strain through cloth to remove pulp and apply daily to face neck arms and hands to soften smoothen and brighten skin while reducing freckles and tan.
Paris March 24 Le Liberte reports Japan will not present its amendment to the League of Nations covenant on racial equality delaying any action.
London reports six thousand miners in the Rhondda Valley striking in protest of the government not granting full demands. Railway workers in Liverpool pass resolutions denouncing the compromise offer and calling a strike. Railway union officials call the situation difficult.
Anna May Drake born to Mr and Mrs Fred Lawrence of El Dorado Kansas. The notice confirms the infant daughter’s birth with parental names and location.
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