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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1918
Page
5
Local society notes list Tuesday visits in Columbus and Athens with families including Slingluff Moore Glazier O'Dell and Taylor. Decoration Day closures at Red Cross and a long stream of visits lectures and travel plans across Amesville Howard Hall Camp Hancock Delaware Gallipolis and Marion with military and civic events.
For nervous troubles and poor circulation Dr Parker's Nerve Tonic Tablets are praised as wonderful builders. The nerve tonic, with Dr Parker's Liver Tablets, is sold in 50 doses for 50 cents and 28 tablets for 25 cents, prepared by Geo. B. Parker M D of Athens Ohio and available at Cline's Pharmacy and other druggists.
Miss Rose Herrold of Nelsonville visits sister Miss Daisy Herrold a fellow Nelsonville high school science teacher. Mrs D Watson Davis returns from Detroit after brother Edington H Myers death. he was born in Nelsonville. The Finsterwald sisters head to Chauncey for Ruth England and Hart Bridgewater wedding. Blaine Goldsberry graduates Johns Hopkins, heads to Albany then Washington for medical training. W B Jeffrey sells undertakers to Stout and Walburn and moves to Washington for a year of rest.
Messenger Special Correspondences list local travels illnesses and family events. Mrs John Glass returns from Columbus after sister's death. Several families visit, relocate, or report illness including Clyde Helwig, Katherin Gilkey, James Knowlton, Ina Davis, and Earl Robinson. Charles Chase loses a cow to a baling wire injury.
Mrs. Fred Slater Sr. entertained Thursday with several Mesdames as guests. A baby shower honored the infant daughter of Mrs. Shrieves with fine garments. Various residents including Miss Sayde Lyons Bertha Hardy and many couples traveled to nearby towns and hosted visits in Athens Nelsonville Moray City Columbus and Poston.
The Athens county board of education met Tuesday night in the County Superintendent office. Dr W B Jeffers resignation was received and accepted leaving a vacancy with no immediate successor elected. The board urged the Athens county teachers organization to cap current salaries and press for higher pay at the next General Assembly. A regular session is set for July 30 with vacancies on the board and the county board of examiners to be filled.
The annual joint memorial services will be held tomorrow with secret orders of Athens gathering at the Armory at 12 50 p m to escort the G A R and Spanish War Veterans to Union Street Cemetery for the service led by the Ladies Band. In line are Boy Scouts Uniform Rank K of P W R C Red Men K of P Elks and Eagles. Graves at Old Cemetery on West State Street will be decorated before proceeding to Union Street Cemetery. Playground closed all day per President Wilson to make Memorial Day a day of prayer.
The federal milk commission for Ohio met under the Institute for Public Efficiency to fix a set milk price for consumers for one year. The price would adjust only with changes in producers price and abnormal conditions as needed.
Instructions from the local draft board state 47 men will entrain early Saturday morning on the Hocking Valley for the Columbus Barracks. Billeting here in Athens overnight is likely. The early hour may curb the demonstration, but Athens should honor these men as they depart.
A colored couple, Benjamin Earl Bridgwater 22 and Ruth Brown England 21, married by Rev. C. T. Isum. Others listed include Homer Harvey 21 Chauncey and Esther Border 19 Millfield among several providers and residents named.
Meeting of the Central Labor Union of the Sunday Creek Valley on May 21 elected D. W. Wallace as secretary pro tem and heard six delegates representing 1100 mineworkers. A resolution empowered the secretary to notify local unions of the next meeting in Glouster on June 4 and to report nonparticipating locals for possible fines under the Sub-District Constitution. President Frank Burns and Wallace urged stronger miner representation and warned of penalties for noncompliance.
A morning recital at the First Methodist Episcopal church delighted Athens school pupils and teachers. Bentley Ball of Rochester presented Songs of Our Allies with Marie Swaim on piano. Ball mixed talks with songs about folk peace and war, eliciting frequent applause from the unsophisticated audience. The Russian song Woe is Me contrasted with the Italian Off to War and a 1503 dated piece On the Bridge of Avignon.
The program featured costumed performances of historic songs from many nations. Mr Ball sang Loch Lomond through to The Star Spangled Banner with strong baritone voice and clear enunciation earning audience applause. He deserves another return to Athens for more first class entertainment.
Athens Grange will meet Saturday at 1 30 P M in the lecture room of the O U agricultural Department. Work planned in the third and fourth degrees. College students will be present to assist. A big attendance is expected.
At Camp Sherman Ohio the 158th depot brigade formerly refusing all labor are now serving in noncombatant roles such as medical detachments and the quartermaster corps. The number of conscientious objectors has fallen from about 260 to fifty, with most in convalescent groups. Over 600 soldiers at the camp were naturalized in the past two days, under the supervision of Major Campbell and with Judge John Sater and a Columbus clerk handling the process.
In Cincinnati markets today eggs moved higher with prime firsts at 3 dollars per dozen and ordinary firsts around 27 1 2 cents. Live poultry also rose with fowls over 4 pounds at 26 cents and under 4 pounds at 25 cents, fryers at 30 cents, and roosters at 18 1 2 cents.
Chicago May 29 hogs receipts 138000 market lower mixed and butchers 1630 to 1680 good heavy 1625 to 1655 rough heavy 1540 to 1575 light 1240 to 1686 pigs 1425 to 1675 cattle receipts 5500 calves 850 to 1525 native 1100 to 1510 western 1226 to 1625 lambs 1350 to 1780 western 1426 to 1770 ewes 1000 to 1490
Cattle receipts 700 with market steady and shippers paying 11.00 to 17.00 dollars. Calves steady at 14.50. Hogs 6500 head down 35 cents, good packers and butchers 16.50. Sheep 395 head strong with 13.00 to 18.50 extra, lambs steady at 16.50 extra.
Pittsburg on May 29 reports light cattle and sheep receipts with market unchanged. Hog receipts total 25 cars with prime heavy at 17.00 to 17.10 dollars, mediums heavy and light at 17.50 to 17.60, rough stock 14.50 to 15.00, and stags 11.50 to 12.00 dollars.
Toledo on May 29 reports cash corn at 1.47, oats 0.75 and rye 1.90. Clover and timothy prices are listed with futures quotes for October September October December and March deliveries.
Chicago reports corn prices with May at 1.33 per bushel 1 2 cent ranges and July at 1.35 1 8, oats May 75 3 8 June 71 1 4 July 66, and pork May at 49.50 per hundredweight.
Chicago May 2 The disaster predicted for the host of slacker marriages which was an unsavory incident of the entry of the United States into the war has come true according to Assistant State's Attorney Michael L. Rosins assigned to the court of domestic relations. Nine tenths of those marriages have reappeared in this court. Of this percentage four fifths of the husbands have been sent to the army. Their marriages proved disastrous in one way and another.
Game Warden Joseph C. Hibbard offers a good quantity of rhubarb and roots to neighbors who visit his home in Mechaniceburg to collect the plants before he plows the ground for other uses.
The piece honors mothers of men who died for freedom and pledges the nation to honor their sacrifice. It speaks of sorrow, kneeling by heroes, and a belief that oppression and murder are wrong. The text asserts the cause will triumph as America’s life and honor endure.
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