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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1921
Page
5
Society news notes the Ladies Tuesday Needle Club postponement to May 17 meeting with Mrs J B Shepard. Also mentions delays for May Festival and various local visits and travel among residents in Columbus and surrounding areas.
Alpha Delta Pi of Ohio University schedules its annual spring dance at the Masonic Temple Friday night. Sigma Sigma Sigma follows with a dance event at the same venue on Saturday evening, also at the Masonic Temple.
The Kindergarten Mothers club postpones its business meeting to Thursday at 2:30 PM in Ellis Hall kindergarten rooms due to the May Festival at Eastside school. Plans will be made for the May Festival at the armory on Wednesday May 18.
Girl Scouts mark Troop I's third birthday with an informal reception at First Methodist Church on Saturday. Local council leaders and officers of other troops attended. A play titled The Taming of Horrors was staged by members, with Ross buds as participants and troop flowers given as favors. A birthday dinner followed.
East Side School hosts a May Festival on the school lawn at 2 PM with a silver offering. The program includes the operetta The Brownies Whispers, crowning of May Queen Violet Collins, May Pole dances, dances by girls, and a drill by twenty four Robin Hood men. About 250 children participate.
Mrs Elizabeth Kern and Mrs Thurman L J Morgan entertain today and Thursday at the Windsor Tea Room with two social bridge lunches. Thirteen tables, midnight blue and ivory décor, rose lighting set a refined scene. Guests will dine and play bridge from one to four o clock both days.
Charles G. Mathews and the Carnegie Library at Ohio University share statistics on library use in 1920 21 581 circulations. 61 000 books. December through February peak reading. county reach with residents of Nelsonville Glouster and surrounding towns. The library built in 1905 cost about 80000 and contains rebounded volumes many 75 years old.
A man recalls four months persuading his wife to try Mayr's Wonderful Remedy for stomach troubles. After one dose, her complexion improved and appetite returned. The ad claims the simple preparation removes intestinal mucus and inflammation, curing stomach liver and intestinal ailments, including appendicitis. Money back guarantee. McKee Drug Co Athens Gem Pharmacy Nelsonville and druggists everywhere.
Graham Chapel Frank Thomkins of Athens visited his sister Mrs. William Fulton. The Salvation Army captain of Athens will preach here next Saturday evening and Sunday. Several locals, including Mrs. Herbert Hawk, Frederick Finsterwald, Mrs. Robert McClain, John Fulton and family, Ed Eislocker, and others spent Sunday with relatives in nearby towns and with Athens friends.
John Jeffers returns home to Woodland avenue from Copeland-Howe hospital after a serious appendicitis operation performed by Dr. Howe. He is making a fine recovery.
The United States produced aluminum valued at over 41.3 million dollars last year, marking a seven percent increase from the prior year.
In Thayer Kansas the election of a woman mayor a council of women and a woman police judge ushers in skirt rule provoking traditional male critics to declare the town doomed. Women take the reins with a display of progressive leadership as residents weigh the change.
Washington May 10 Senate interstate commerce committee heard Julius Kruttschnitt president of the Southern Pacific board assert that general deflation not freight rates caused business stagnation. He blamed middlemen at times and urged reforms to transportation systems to revive traffic noting even with higher rates transport costs remain below the value of goods and many commodities would not move if rates were abolished. Ships idle despite record low ocean rates.
The Athens high school will present the comic opera Captain Crossbones at Ewing auditorium on Saturday, May 14. The story follows a Spanish maiden and her American lover as they outwit the irate father with a band of pirates led by Richard Stonebroke who masquerades as Captain Crossbones. The student cast includes Julia Porter as Theresa and Rudolph Pedigo as Richard Stonebroke, with a large chorus of sixty students and engaging supporting roles by Jennie Graham, Maurice Guthrie, Angella Woods, Marion Sprague, Joseph Farley, Edward Shas, Melba Woodworth, Baker Young, and Harold Hale.
Advertises Home Coal Company's Sedalia coal with a call to action to call 2462 for prices. Mentions celebrated coal and encourages inquiry for cost details.
Theresa Grass drove away from a pursuing flirt in Evanston Illinois and was fined five dollars for speeding. The incident shows a clash between flighty fear and traffic law enforcement in the city.
Washington May 10 President Harding has not asked the House to delay action on the Knox peace resolution authority said today. The report notes the administration seeks a timely vote while denying requests for postponement.
The saying suggests that anxious anticipation elevates risk, implying negative results are more likely when people fear the worst. It emphasizes mindset as a driver of outcomes and cautions against letting pessimism dictate events.
An ad promotes Freezone as a painless treatment for all corn types and calluses. A tiny bottle, sold by druggists for a few cents, allegedly removes hard and soft corns and those between the toes with instant numbness and easy lifting.
Dayton Ohio May 10 The city managers view on Dayton Gas Company's new rate is opposed by the city commissioners The fight centers on a proposed change in government A mass meeting is planned for Thursday to discuss the change and notices were sent to 15000 signers of the recall petition
Nine year old Melvin seeks a permanent farm home where he can be treated as part of the family. He is willing to contribute and work for his keep. He currently has a public home and desires fresh air and freedom of the fields. Write Ida Janet Acomb 312 West Ninth Street Cincinnati Ohio for details.
County school enumeration counts 14 558 children aged 6 to 21. Nelsonville lists 2024 pupils while Athens has 1448. A change in annual enumeration forms due to H B No 111 alters age scope to five through eighteen.
Columbus Ohio May 10 President Hardings father Dr T Harding of Marion and his physician Brig General C B Sawyer will attend the opening session of the 57th annual Homopathic Society of Ohio convention. Sawyer will discuss the work of the U S Public Health Service and formerly led the American Institute of Homeopathic.
President Harding issued an executive order guiding how postmasters of first second and third classes will be selected. The order aims to replace but not fully overturn Wilson era congressional rules.
Washington May 10 report that the first communications to Berlin after peace will demand the return of draft dodger Grover Cleveland Bergdoll. The house committee investigating the Bergdoll case was informed today.
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