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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1918
Page
8
Home guidance from the United States Food Administration shows cottage cheese can be varied into dishes like Cottage Cheese Pie, Pudding, and Cheese and Potato Croquettes. Recipes feature milk sugar eggs and spices, with methods for baking, custard-like puddings, and fried or baked croquettes.
Colonel Locke and family drove to Haydenville for a trip. Numerous locals visited relatives and friends across nearby towns including Zaleski Athens and Pomeroy with guests Richard McKibbon Elza McGranor Zine Courtney Grove Nagle and Frank Buffington. Hospital news notes Mrs Ed Barker improved after Columbus Hospital.
Philadelphia reports Mrs. Mary Hallock Greenwalt demonstrates a device that translates piano notes into color visuals. The system, once used by a pianist, highlights color values for each note, suggesting wedding music could be paired with specific hues.
The Athens county election board elected W A Craft of Glouster as president and John G Myers of Glouster as clerk after a deadlock among three candidates. Myers, previously clerk, won by coin toss and was elected unanimously amid party splits between Democrats and Republicans.
Mesdames Dora Heffken August Lemoine and Roland Mulpas spend days at Camp Sherman. Mrs Frank Strubble and Mildred Haydenville visit Mrs Fred Olbers. Mr and Mrs Joseph Gaskalla host Emmett Eddy and son Robert Glouster. Mrs Frank Davis and children Jacksonville. Mr and Mrs Carl Welling visit Mrs Wilson Werner Crescent Ridge. Mrs Frank Morrison ill. A.M. Taylor visits Riley Lewis Federal. Residents attend Street Carnival at Glouster. Mr and Mrs Samuel Wyatt and children Trimble visit Mrs Davie Davis.
Local visitors include Mr. and Mrs. Charley Scott and Florence of Belpre, and Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Holter with Donald of Syracuse. Mrs. Ida Cook of Boaz Alabama visits, while Mrs. Horace Knowles helps care for her ailing mother. The Duttons and Miss Taylor toured Coolville and attended a Grange meeting amid ongoing rain.
Born to Mr and Mrs Zelman Crow a daughter. Rev Dabritz gave farewell sermon Thursday evening. Rev Moore to preach biweekly Sundays. Mrs William McWhorter visited Chillicothe Mother's Day with son Gerald at Camp Sherman. George Ely ill. Palmer and family moved to town from Montgomery West Virginia and stayed with Mrs Mary Mullen. Everett Addis seriously ill with pneumonia. Mrs Clara Shingler and Virginia visited Athens Saturday. Germans hear Iceland may secede from Denmark due to British plotting per Berlin minds.
A local Athens business man reports his distended stomach greatly reduced after three doses of Mayr's Remedy from McKee Drug Company. He credits the treatment with stopping distress and bloating that plagued him for six years and claims it helps remove intestinal mucus and inflammation, including appendicitis fears. One dose is claimed to convince with money refunded.
An advertisement touts Neutrone Prescription 99 as a cure for rheumatism. It describes relief from sore inflamed muscles stiff joints and irritability and promises best health after use. It urges readers to obtain a bottle with mail orders filled for $1.00 via McKee Drug Company and druggists.
The Ohio War Board urged farmers to hire Boys Working Reserve volunteers to fill farm labor gaps as wartime demand grows. Thousands of young men aged 16 to 20 should begin training for farm work this year, with local employment offices or county superintendents handling placements within the county.
Amsterdam dispatch reports Berlin newspapers claim Napoleon Bonaparte was German. A Prussian anthropologist cites alleged blue eyes and cinder colored hair as German traits and retrofits his name and lineage to German roots in support of the theory.
McKeesport, May 14. The wartime garden push has filled the town with liberty lettuce and watermelons as the cemetery is drafted for garden plots. The effort uses all usable space, even graveyard land, to grow cabbage and corn for democracy. A hand operated emery wheel was invented to sharpen forest tools for workers.
Nerv Worth touted by readers and the Ashland druggist with Mrs J W Tribbetts of 1309 Winchester Ashland Kentucky praising the tonic. The ad claims a money back guarantee and notes sales at McKee's Drug Stores in Athens.
Camp Sherman Ohio May 13 The fourth officers training camp set to open May 25 at Camp Sherman was canceled. About 500 officer candidates will receive their instructions overseas suggesting the 83rd Division may depart soon. Some officers favor training officers in France drawn from the AEF. They argue true metal shows under fire.
A group of Albany High School youths gathered at Miss Eva McVay's home in Albany Ohio for an evening of games and refreshments. Attendees included Gwendolyn Zimmerman Bernice Martin Lelia Roberts Irene Zimmerman Aldena Stanley Ches ter Swett Paul McVay Wayne Searls Paul Myers Carl Vandervort and Edgile McVay.
G. E. Parker, superintendent of the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma, reports to the national war garden commission that nearly all Indians are planting good gardens and that their farming this year will be better than ever before.
Washington reports official navy figures show enlisted strength exceeding 200000 excluding reserves. Voluntary enlistments continue at about 1060 per week, with the naval reserve force standing at 110000.
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