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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1919
Page
3
Nelsonville reports C C Sharp spent Tuesday in Columbus on business. John Baird and Charles Baird also trans acted business in Columbus Tuesday. Stacy Sharp travels to Cleveland for business. Mrs Clark Higgins spends a few days in Lancaster with her family.
Mrs J M Butt hosted a six o clock dinner Tuesday with covers laid for Mrs Sarah Driggs and son Tom of Murray City. Guests included Mr and Mrs Bert Andrews and daughter Ruth, Mr and Mrs Bert Young, Mr and Mrs J M Butt, Mrs Pearl Graham and Miss Catherine. Joe Humphrey and Wilbur Jones visited relatives, and others spent time in Columbus. Mrs Shumaker and her daughter left for McArthur after visiting C R Wynn family in Logan.
All business houses closed at noon yesterday in observance of Armistice Day and remained closed for the rest of the day. At eleven, bells and whistles were rung to recall the events of a year ago. Mrs. Sarah Driggs and her son Tom of Murray City are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Bert Andrews.
The Par ent-Teachers Association of the East End building will meet Friday at two o'clock in the afternoon on November 14. All members are urged to attend.
The York township school is closed today. Teachers and Prof Dillinger traveled to Parkersburg West Virginia to tour the city schools. Jack Byron is visiting. Mrs Lon Nixon spent Tuesday in Columbus.
The men of Class 23 at the M. E. church enjoyed a social gathering in the church parlors last evening. The informal event drew about fifty attendees and a unanimous vote approved monthly social sessions on the first Tuesday. Mrs. PD Ferree returned yesterday from a ten day visit with her sister near Cincinnati.
Nelsonville High School raised a new American flag above the H. 8. building yesterday in honor of Armistice Day. In the afternoon students listened to an address by Prof. T. N. Hoover of Ohio University. Mrs. B. F. LeFever enhanced the event with songs "Rose of My Heart" and "Who Knows."
At the last Chamber of Commerce meeting a committee of C. D. Shafer J. L. Jack and Dr Hill was appointed to repair the main road into Nelsonville from the west. The panel will organize crews teams trucks scrapers and rollers and begin work within a few days with a formal announcement to follow.
The committee calls for finances and donated labor to fix a bad road ahead of winter. All citizens are urged to contribute, whether by digging or other work. Next year the road is expected to be permanently improved, and the Chamber of Commerce is asked to boost the effort.
Miners in Nelsonville discuss the recall of the strike order with optimism. Officials see no better option under current conditions and expect workers to heed leadership and return within a week. Government to host a joint miners and operators meeting to negotiate a new wage scale.
Advertised letters include Cordell W W Davis Miss Gertrude care Andrew Keplar De long Mrs Cora Feth D L Fredrick Frank Keys Miss Gladys Obrin Jno Palmer Charley Vavrek Joseph. Names listed as of November 10 1919.
Black pony 40 inches registered Shetland $75. One black pony 46 inches 500 lbs address J P Tedrow Nelsonville. Oak davenport leather upholstery $25 inquire Mrs Isaac Warner. Oak colonnade inquire Mrs John W Wood 217 W Washington St. Pool room good paying bargain quick sale 101 W Columbus St Nelsonville Ohio.
Notice asks the owner to return a baby pull cart taken from in front of Clarence Wemsley at 116 Jefferson Street Saturday night. Also includes a closing out sale at Sauter’s Studio 56 Fulton Street Nelsonville with table models from ten dollars and floor models sixty nine dollars, plus German and Japan professional French harps. Photographs offered for Christmas with advance orders at Sauter’s Studio from November six to December seven.
Ohio Wool Growers Association secretary J F Walker cites losses from careless wool handling. 5400 growers sold 2 050 000 pounds through cooperative marketing, yielding 37 grades year. Half of off grades stem from preventable issues like seeds, chaff, bars, damp or dirty storage and damage from mice.
Eighty students from Ohio counties were named members of the committee of "88" by the Ohio State University student council. They will represent the council in Boost Ohio work during vacations, organizing county students and graduates to promote an Ohio State day at Thanksgiving.
The Athens high school will present Tangoland a two act musical comedy written for the school by Supt. Morgan. The plot follows Ezra McWhackle and his daughter Eleanor in a Central American setting as Bobby Hunter earns ten thousand dollars to win Eleanor. Cast includes Homer Baird Frances Carr Harold Liggett Paul Hall Ralph Davidson Baker Young Julia Porter Jennie Graham Gordon Bush with performances on Friday and Saturday November 21 22 at 7 30 in the college auditorium.
The Cleveland Foundation survey shows 550000 weekly moviegoers in the city and a decline in outdoor sports and gym activity. It calls for reorganized recreation leadership and more physical exercise, crediting saloon elimination with driving the change in amusements.
Sunlight Creameries, a million dollar daily concern, opens a new cream buying station on East State St. and will purchase cream in this city and at Success, Coolville, Stewart, Vanderhoof, and Tuppers Plains where stations were started weeks ago. The firm plans a large Washington D. C. plant and will use modern methods to pay top prices for cream.
Ohio coal miners will gradually resume work after the strike order was canceled by union officials. Operators and workers eye a Washington conference Friday call by Secretary of Labor Wilson to negotiate a new wage scale. District No. 6 leaders head to Washington Thursday night to join the talks with company and exchange representatives.
Emmetts Waggoner a 45 year old Noble County farmer was found dead Sunday morning with a shotgun wound. He lived alone on his farm and was last seen Saturday night. Neighbors heard shots Sunday morning, and the coroner reported death by self-inflicted gunfire. This marks the county’s fourth such death in six weeks.
John F. Kramer of Mansfield Ohio was named federal prohibition commissioner by Daniel Roper. He will head the wartime prohibition enforcement under the Volstead act with nine supervising agents directing a mobile detective force. District headquarters will be in Albany New York City Richmond Philadelphia Atlanta Omaha San Francisco and Little Rock.
The American Legion in Minneapolis closes its convention with elections due and key resolutions to pass. It pledges non political leadership, opposes compulsory military service in peace, and calls for federal action against Victor Berger’s citizenship and for Voigt’s congressional record to be investigated. Dark horse candidates and debates over leadership hint at tense final votes.
John F. Kramer of Mansfield, named today in Washington as assistant to Internal Revenue Collector Roper and head of the dry machinery enforcement. A Democrat, he served three years in the Ohio legislature from Richland county and sat on the 1912 constitutional convention. Known as honest John, he describes himself as a progressive with brakes on and is an attorney and prominent Lutheran layman at age 45.
Mrs G Hyde of Homestead Michigan reports that Foley Kidney Pills relieved her weak kidneys and chronic backache after years of fatigue and inability to work. She says the remedy made her feel like a new person and praises its effect. Sold everywhere.
A postal card sent to deputy county auditor August Biden in Stillwater Minnesota finally arrived after twenty two years. It was mailed from Harris Minnesota on January 29, 1887, and discovered recently in transit.
Advert claimed meat laxatives provide only temporary relief and tablets offer permanent relief by moving the bowels improving appetite and strengthening digestion when directions are followed.
A pie social will be held at Big Sand Ridge School on Friday evening November 14 at 7 o clock sharp to benefit the school. Attendees are asked to bring a pie and support the school.
A letter from John Conroy of Oliver Pa endorses Honey and Tar as a reliable family remedy for three years of persistent coughs and night's restlessness. The ad claims the product clears throat phlegm coats inflamed surfaces and soothes irritation, and that it is sold everywhere.
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