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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1918
Page
7
Washington November 1 The senate committee adopted a new 10 percent tax on monthly rentals of films by firms leasing or licensing them. The tax applies to those leasing or licensing film contents and becomes effective eight days after the revenue bill is enacted.
D. C. Howard and Geo. B. Allen announce refreshments will be served on the grounds.
A Halloween night event featured 20 city and college girls in ghostly white delivering army and navy songs on Union Street near the Masonic Temple. Elizabeth Earhart played piano as cadets watched an athletic program at the gym the next morning, including a boxing match and wrestling bouts.
Junia Thelma Beasley four year old daughter of Mr and Mrs C A Beasley of Marietta Avenue died at 3 AM after two weeks illness with pneumonia following influenza. The bereaved parents have three other children including ten year old girl and a six year old son who was killed in a coasting accident. The Beasleys have long lived in Athens and funeral arrangements will be announced later.
Nine cars carrying poison gas wrecked seven miles south of Poughkeepsie on the Hudson shore. Reports say the wreck cut off direct communication with the scene and the gas has spread over a wide area.
William Greey of the United Mine Workers says officials were told in Washington that the anthracite wage increase would start Oct 16 but a Nov 1 effective date was set. About 60 bituminous district officials meet to decide on action after National Fuel Administrator Garfield refused a soft coal raise.
The Hughes and Gregory inquiry into wartime aircraft production cites delays and waste as due to poor organization and lack of competent direction in the Signal Corps. It clears management since the May reorganization placing John D. Ryan in charge and exonerates civilian personnel. Gregory says he is in substantial accord with the findings.
Athens guards of the 37th Division fight in France as told by Robert A. Cotner in a letter to his parents. He writes of near escapes by Captains Johnson and Stinchcomb and notes Athens casualties were limited to one fallen comrade. Cotner mentions prisoners taken and souvenirs such as a bocce gas mask pieces.
Washington reports a congressionally enacted bill provides immediate relief to families of regular army soldiers killed in service. Each widow, child or dependent will receive six months pay promptly, with a later payment equal to twelve months pay once the war risk insurance kicks in.
Vienna dispatch reports Austrian papers declare the kingdom of Greater Serbia proclaimed at Sarajevo Bosnia. It says the assassins of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his consort were released by soldiers. The June 1914 Sarajevo murder is cited as a world war catalyst.
Snow paid Columbus a flying visit this morning with frail flakes flittering around. The light snowfall began around 1 30 a m and was described as beautiful despite its fragile nature.
An American vessel arriving from Cuba reports two floating mines found off the Delaware capes near the area where the Cuban steamship Chappara was sunk. The discovery was confirmed today by the port authorities as naval search continues.
A WWI era verse by EK V Wolfe from Athena Ohio dated October 31 1918 mocks Germans as the Kaiser and Hun and praises Yankee fighting strength. It laments closed schools churches and fear of northern invasion while hoping for relief and patriotic cheer.
The U S Employment Service issued a call for matrons nurses laundresses cooks and janitors due to a serious shortage hindering operations in children's homes infirmaries state hospitals and similar institutions. Qualified applicants should contact the nearest employment office or Institutional Section at 74 East Gay Street Columbus for information and blanks.
John Evenback, 47, died October 31 at the Athens State Hospital from dementia and paralysis. The body was shipped to Chillicothe this morning for burial by the Newsom-Walburn Company.
In Paris on the feast of St. Denys the relics and the Oriflamme were carried by American members of the Knights of Columbus overseas force with the permission of Cardinal Annette. The event marks a break in Catholic ceremony tradition according to the report.
Emmett Keenan urges voters to doubt Judge Worstell due to long service to K and M Ry Ohio Coal firms and insurance interests. He argues Worstell would remain biased as judge and calls for selecting someone free of corporate employment.
Emma Dell Ger now of Fredonia Kansas married J A Shannon in Burlington last Saturday. The ceremony was conducted by Rev Clyde Oden formerly of the local Methodist church. The couple will reside in Fredonia and are praised for their lifelong community involvement and Mr Shannon’s ownership of Shannon Implement Co.
Ohio temperance campaigners shift to door to door automobile tours in numerous counties as mass meetings are impractical. They cite past election tallies with a net majority of 1187 in Ohio and state figures of 55,000 in 1915 and 85,000 in 1914 as context for their efforts.
A new ladder design uses folding side props that extend from both sides to stabilize the ladder during use and allow the props to fold back against the ladder when idle. The device enhances balance and compact storage.
Washington Oct 31 steady improvement in health conditions at army camps and cantonments for the week ending Oct 25 is reported influenza cases total 19000 a drop of over 50 percent from the prior week pneumonia cases 696 hospital admissions 1792 and deaths 92 per 1000 from the prior week Huns loge control over great sugar industry New York Oct 31 American purchase of Hackfeld Company to remove German control of Hawaiian sugar announced by alien property custodian A Mitchell Palmer plans cited as the move.
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