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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1919
Page
3
City officials argue canal improvements will lift property along the canal bed, pave streets, install lighting, and support sewer work. They urge adjoining property owners and the Hocking Valley Railroad to back the project for broader city growth and higher land values.
Remaining general admission seats on the first floor and in the gallery will be sold at the door tonight. Decoration Day is observed with town wide services and closing of business houses. Committees for the event are named by Phil Kearney Post No 38 G A R including Executive, Graves Marking, Laurel, Music, Auto, Floral and Day officer duties. Local residents visit and travel to Columbus and Lancaster with family greetings and updates on Ray Ashby Sr.’s telegram confirming Ray’s New York arrival.
Classified note announces a new blacksmith shop in the old Haybrow stand offering horseshoeing woodwork and wagon repairs with prices for horseshoeing listed. Sam Minkin reports 25 years experience and invites estimates by calling 437 Bell. Also mentions painting varnishing paper hanging and carpenter work. hat cleaning and shoe shining offered at 45 W Columbus.
The report notes that repeated machine malfunctions over several days lead to visible burn-like signs. Officials emphasize electrical faults and overheating as the likely cause while urging cautious observation and further inspection to determine origin and prevent recurrence.
Frank Scott of this city received a telegram from Canton stating that his brother in law John Graham had been instantly killed. Graham worked at a watch case factory there. No further death details were provided. Scott left for Canton this morning. Fred Cornwell reported improved condition of Mrs. Cornwell at Grant Hospital in Columbus. James Robinson of Hollister was taken to Grant Hospital for examination with W. Wheatley accompanying him.
Examinations to recruit rural mail carriers for Glouster Millfield Nelsonville and carrier at Amesville are scheduled for June 14 at Athens and Nelsonville. Full details appeared in The Messenger last week.
The program invites all to meet in the village at 9 30 for a procession to the cemetery and a salute. Soldiers who served will take part and a Gettysburg address will be read before remembrances. An address by a returning soldier at the church follows lunch for all soldiers. Afternoon events start at 1 with speeches declamations music and song led by Rev. Orr of Gloucester.
An editorial condemns women for overestimating strength during wartime and urges use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for fatigue headaches backache and nervous complaints seen as war-induced female ills.
Saint Paul May 21. The building trades council called a general strike after master builders did not meet wage demands. George Greenville, council president, said between 5 000 and 6 000 workers quit work.
Republican women leaders from nearly every state gather in Washington on May 21 to hear Will H Hayes outline efforts for the coming presidential campaign. Mrs Raymond Robins of Chicago presides over the meeting.
Emma J. Savage aged 55 died May 18 at Athens State hospital where she had been an inmate for 33 years. The deceased was buried this afternoon at 2 o'clock in the city.
W W Hall of the Pittsburgh freight traffic commission says increased rates are not required to save railroads from bankruptcy. Samuel O Dunn, speaking for suppliers of railroad materials in St Louis, notes a $1,000,000 daily deficiency from current government operation. Once private owners regain control, the lines could become profitable.
The Allens County Teachers Association executive committee schedules a 9:30 A.M. meeting May 24 at County Superintendent Alex Root's office. District superintendents must ensure township representation. The Freeman bill and related relief proposals, recently approved by Governor Cox, will be discussed.
A new counter revolution was revealed in Budapest on May 19. A number of alleged conspirators were arrested. The plan reportedly included forming a white guard to occupy the city and arresting members of the Soviet government. The leaders were said to be former police officials.
Cincinnati May 21 Data Texas hosts the 1921 convention of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks in session here. J. J. Forrester was reelected grand president after facing only opponent H. H. DeGray of Greencastle Indiana.
Washington reports April exports rose to 715 million dollars, nearly 100 million above the prior high of 623 million set in January. Imports declined by 6 million from April 1918 but climbed 5 million over March this year.
In Birmingham on May 21 John Anderson carried two small pigs and a liquor bottle in one sack on a train with Deputy Cunningham. The pigs drank the cork from the bottle as the pair traveled. Cunningham closed the cell door with the remark Pigs will be pigs. Separately a Spain hydroelectric note cites growth from 80 000 to 500 000 horsepower with 5 000 000 possible.
The international congress of women in Zurich voted unanimously to call a world wide strike of women should a new war be declared. Fraulein Hertzka from Vienna proposed it with an amendment for wartime strike if sanctioned by the league of nations. Delegates including Mrs Despard Madam Ragag and Signora Genova formed a delegation to carry resolutions to the peace conference.
Wall Street expects the International Mercantile Marine to approve selling eighty five ships and assets of its British subsidiaries to an English syndicate at a June 16 stockholders meeting. Reported price ranges from 130 to 185 million dollars. The Olympic Adriatic and Baltic are named among ships to transfer.
An inventor patents a wheel using six round rubber cushions with enclosing rings to fill the entire rim, aiming to boost resiliency of solid rubber tires on motor trucks. A French doctor proposes electrical devices using sound waves to replace ear bones to curb ringing noises in the ears.
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