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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1919
Page
3
The Nelsonville Chamber of Commerce cautions landowners along the old canal to beware speculators seeking cheap buys before improvements. It urges patience, promises future value from a new street, and notes small assessments will be offset by boosted property worth. The report also covers local baseball plans, junior leagues, and athletic events.
Nelsonville High graduates present class day program on Wednesday evening featuring class poem history and prophecy in Stuart's Opera House. The event showcases the senior class achievements and remarks.
Sam Minkin announces a new blacksmith shop in the old W. J. Haybrow stand offering horseshoeing woodwork and wagon repairs with 25 years of experience. Prices listed for horseshoeing range from 1.50 to 2.50 plus services. Also notices for furnished rooms to rent and contact for estimates on painting varnishing paper hanging and carpenter work with a Belle phone contact and a customer list.
A college class will present Hicks at College a three act comedy with interspersed orchestral selections. Standing room is expected to be scarce as the show is unusually strong this year. Avalon Hick and Kathryn Collins U S Naval Reserve yeomen stationed at Norfolk Va are home on ten day furlough. Gretchen Hardy of Columbus visits relatives here. Mrs Spencer Steenrod Mrs Jesse Shafer and Misses M Keister and N Steenrod were Columbus visitors Saturday.
The high school annual final issue will be out Friday. It honors the boys in the service and pays tribute to the seniors who made the supreme sacrifice.
The Forty-one seniors completed the four year course. Names listed include Bessie Ailes through James Wolfe. Guests include Miss Sue Gallagher, a Red Cross nurse, and several visits by relatives. District updates note discharges from army and Camp Sherman, and local travel for Dr. C W Cable in Columbus.
Committees in Glouster finalize the Fourth of July and home-coming program honoring returning servicemen. A big parade features Civil War and European war veterans along with walkers. a doubleheader baseball game against Murray. stands concessions and a worry-go-round planned. local businesses asked to decorate and display national colors.
Do not use harsh laxatives like Calomel or Blue Mass. A mild, steadily increasing tonic from roots and herbs is promoted as Olala to cleanse liver and kidneys, ease biliousness and indigestion, and improve overall health. The ad offers 25 cent bottles and free samples by mail from The Chief Medicine Co. and several pharmacies.
Mr. Roy Mansfield of Wheatland Missouri lost his large hardware store to fire last Thursday. The building was demolished with unknown stock loss and insurance details. Mansfield, who moved from Athens forty years ago, owns 640 acres and is connected to the Mansfield family on the Canaanville road. News note of other local events follows as gardeners report cabbage planting and minor street debris incidents occur amid rain.
The Red Cross sewing rooms in the Athens County Chapter are closed until further notice. The yarn room, led by Mrs T H McAdoo, will open Saturday 2 to 4 pm and next week on Tuesdays and Saturdays 2 to 4 pm for volunteers to pick yarn for shawls and stockings. Women needing yarn should visit the yarn room at the Athens National Bank building.
Miss Virgine Ellis returned from Columbus to be with her grandfather at home. George H. Fleming planned to attend a major operation for Mr. Ellis in Marietta with Dr. Weber traveling for the case. Rain kept many from the Presbyterian Bible class as N. W. France read a Luther life paper and a June meeting was announced. Overseas servicemen Leroy Parsons Henry Calentine Jr and Clyde Taylor on leave visited wives and babies.
Mrs. Lizzie Henry and Mr. Leonard Tinker visited from Athens. Mrs. John Lovell, Westerville, traveled with companions to Columbus to visit her brother. Attorney L. A. Koons discussed Sharpsburg to Joy road. Sid Kasler and family toured from Athens to visit John Roberts. Mrs. John Badewell returned from Dayton. Fannie Minx and four children headed to Kissimmee Florida via Cincinnati after a year with Fleming family. Dorothy McKinley injured her foot playing. Wool growers form association. DeLashmet coordinates carload shipment. officers elected. Mrs. Riley Thompson's surgery avoided. Rev. Chapin to Columbus. Cannannaville game ends 12 to 10 for visitors.
Mrs. Neal Hessel returned Monday from a visit with her sister in Jim Grove West Virginia. Athens residents James S. Day Blackwood Lucile Blackwood Glenn Staneart and Asa Hawkins joined Chauncey Sunday for the Christian Sunday school. An accident occurred last Saturday afternoon when steering trouble sent Elson McCaferty’s car off a small embankment near the local store. the top and windshield were damaged but McCaferty and his grandson Jack escaped with minor injuries. The entry also mentions visitors Mrs. J. N. McHarg from Union and others, plus Ula Welling from Columbus visiting her parents, Mr and Mrs M. J. Gardner.
Members attend the Christian Sunday service with 3 women and 64 men present. Rev J A Goddard preached both morning and evening. Miss Jessie Smart left the Endeavor service. Overseas service guests Harry Bumgardner and others travel plans noted.
Nelsonville led until the eighth when Chauncey rallied to tie the score at three. In the ninth, Bradfield walked, stole second, and scored on G Simpson and Natzenbach singles. Hard hitting and sharp Nelsonville infield work, including three double plays, highlighted the game.
Actress Blanche Toutain receives $5,500 in damages after calling Mlle Dorziat a Bowhe in a Paris case. The dispute centers on insulting remarks during a performance period.
Washington May 20. Senate progressives via SenatorKenyon outline eight labor measures to pair capital and labor in profits. Proposals include mediation boards, national employment service, public works commission, home ownership aid, old age sickness and accident insurance, extended vocational training, federal industrial relations board, and land settlement based on Mead plan. Includes equal pay for women doing men’s work and two year immigration pause.
Thieves blasted the New Pittsburg Mining Co. store safe in Hocking with glycerine, escaped with about 260 dollars, a 65 dollar check, and several notes. The robbery was discovered at seven this morning by Supt. Slater. No goods were stolen and the crime hinted at near train noises masking the blast. Police and county officers seek the culprits.
After receiving burglary notice, responders rushed to the store and conducted a quick recheck of the premises. Authorities say progress may develop within a short time as investigations continue.
Willow speaks for early congressional action on the suffrage amendment, urges immediate adoption and submission to the states. He notes tariff questions and administrative transfers of telegraph lines and railroads, and calls for an exhaustive study of electrical communication. He mentions demobilization, lifting bans on wines and beers, and hopes to report from Washington soon. Tests of concretes and cement mortars in Europe will continue for 30 years.
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