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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1919
Page
8
Public health note urging consumers to demand genuine California Syrup of Figs from druggists. Claims full dosing instructions for infants and children on the bottle and warns to look for the California brand only.
The Deputy State Supervisors of Election met to reorganize for another year. A. J. Tracy and W. L. Stivers were reelected to their posts after a coin toss. Other board members are G. F. Thana, Chas. Mullen, and L. V. Dyers. Meigs County has only one third of its Victory Loan quota, urging rallying efforts. Local notes report soldiers returning, alumni planning a World War II memorial tablet, and community updates including church events and residents traveling or moving on.
George Schwegman, a longtime merchant and former school board clerk born 1860 at Kerrs Run, died Saturday at a home in Naylor’s Run after heart failure. He helped shape Pomeroy’s commerce and education, leaving a wife Helen Skinner Schwegman and two children Mrs. O R Faris and Rollin, serving in France.
The Attorney General rules bonds may not exceed four percent of the tax duplicate, stalling a municipal street railway vision looping near the fairgrounds and Beech Grove cemetery as proposed by Pomeroy citizens.
A Brooklyn dealer sold fraudulent aspirin tablets mainly talcum powder. Consumers urged to insist on genuine Bayer Tablets of Aspirin bearing the Bayer Cross and to follow proper dosage and packaging.
W J Green of the Ohio Experiment Station notes exact frost damage to fruit will take time to calculate. Only weather bureau temperatures give reliable data and frost at or below 26 degrees caused damage. Bud testing can miss harm as blossoms appear sound yet blight later. even five percent unharmed can still yield a fair crop due to overproduction. Weather in peach regions hasn t fallen below 31 degrees, suggesting limited damage there.
Washington May 8 Organized labor in the United States is practically unanimous in support of Philippine independence. Crisanto Evangelista labor representative of the Mission said he had been assured by Samuel Gompers head of the American Federation of Labor.
In New York on May 5 thieves smashed a liquor store window and took two bottles claimed to be choice whiskey but turned out to be water.
Columbus May 5 The legislature returns to session amid debate on a direct inheritance tax an income tax and a graduated auto tax that auditors say could raise 16 million yearly. If the income tax fails Gov Cox may call an extra session in June. Emergency city relief and anti German teaching measures raise education and Americanization aims with plans for compulsory English civics and U S history in schools.
Paris May 5 United Press dispatch reports the Hungarian Soviet government capitulated while Romanian forces crossed the Tisza and advanced to within fifty miles of Budapest.
Ohio state banks earned gross 49,485,295 last year, rising over seven percent from the prior year. The report by Philip C. Berg, state superintendent of banks, also shows taxes paid totaling 2,337,105 during the year.
Buckeye State Building and Loan Co announces funds for home loans in Columbus and farm loans in Central Ohio. They invite calls or letters, citing assets over 16.7 million dollars and offering favorable terms and privileges for homes, farms, doubles, and apartments in the area.
Charles W. Brooks of New Marshfield died Friday at 8 pm at his Luhrig home after illness with influenza. He leaves a widow and four children Lucile Donald Roy and William a mother and three brothers Harrison Th Luhrig and William two sisters Mrs Harvey Crippen and Mrs Orley Goodin. Funeral Sunday at 2 pm conducted by Rev Franks with burial in New Marshfield cemetery.
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