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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1919
Page
5
The Child's Conservation League met at 118 Mill Street with Mrs. Ralph Woods. A program featured a reading by Mrs. Allison and a talk by Mrs. Wooley on the Consolidated School as a solution for isolated country children. The meeting closed with an open discussion and a piano solo by Mrs. Woods.
Rev Dr Strecker officiated at the marriage of Wilma Smathers and Carl Newman in Buchtel at the First M W parsonage. Newman is a miner and the couple will reside in Buchtel. A daughter was born to Elza and Mrs Tucker of Stroude Run on Wednesday November 12. Mrs Worbau of Lima visits her Hearn relatives at 138 Mill Street. Mrs Gilbert of New Marshfield called with grandsons Kenneth and John Romine. Several families plan motoring trips to Lancaster Chillicothe Portsmouth and Ironton. The Missionary Society meets Thursday at 3 pm in the Sunday School room with Cincinnati convention reports. Abner Frost goes to Columbus for appendicitis surgery with sister Dwight Junod accompanying. Mr and Mrs Ralph Jennings and son Edward returned from a motor trip. The Brittons and Mosures plan a Tampa winter visit. Mrs W S Murray remains in Columbus with Dr M until Thursday and looks to remain in Athens through the semester. Mr and Mrs M F Hearn attend a funeral in Parkersburg for Mrs William McLain, formerly Ellen Hearn, who died of pneumonia, leaving a husband and one year old son William.
L. L. Allen, supervisor of farmers institutes, states Dr Mary Anderson stirs things with Medical Fakes and Fakirs and gives practical Home Care of the Sick advice. She speaks at Alfred Farmers Institute on November 14 and 15.
In Cleveland Ohio on November 12 William Noel received a life in prison after a jury found him guilty of murder for the June 21 shooting of his wife. Judge Powell asked for a statement but Noel denied involvement.
Four hundred former soldiers and sailors raided Loring Hall, the headquarters of the newly organized Communist party in Oakland California. They tore furniture and radical literature from the building and threw red flags into the street as police arrived to find no one in sight.
The notice touts Plain's Tablets as a remedy for a foul taste in the mouth dull tired feeling and loss of appetite with constipation. It claims to promote easy bowel movement cleanse and invigorate the digestion.
Fred Ramsey of 186 No Harbine St Dayton a former National Cash Register worker says Earle's Hypo Cod cured his persistent cough and improved his strength after influenza He reports gaining weight and appetite and credits the tonic with banishing bronchial affections Sold locally by McKee Drug Co and other chemists.
The official canvass shows John G. Myers winning the Trimble Township justice of the peace seat with 39 votes amid a slate of two candidates J W Jones 834 and B A Johnson 547. Fred Burgett and John Kempton win two education seats. Community notices include mine union resolutions and local movements.
The American Legion in Minneapolis censures the war department for leniency toward conscientious objectors and calls for deportation of alien COs. Resolutions urge two years probation for immigrants, English instruction, and records at naturalization. They condemn socialists and bolsheviks and press for anti sedition laws and action against revolutionaries after a Centralia riot.
A 1919 notice reports a temporary injunction in Providence restraining federal officers from enforcing wartime prohibition. Judge A L Brown blocked District Attorney A Harvey Baker and Internal Revenue Collector George F OShauneasy, following Narragansett Brewing Co petition. Some dealers resumed selling four percent beer after the ruling.
New York reports a modest late market rally with some short covering. Money loaned reached thirty percent at peak but stood around twenty five percent near the close, leaving prices largely unchanged.
Sir Thomas Lipton's yacht Shamrock IV, challenger for the America's Cup, was launched in New York with her owner present and about two hundred spectators. The yacht will be towed to a shipyard and kept there until next summer's races. She has been stored here since 1914 when the race was canceled by war.
The Chamber of Commerce hosts an Armistice Day lunch recounting Major Bam Johnson’s sighting of ceasefire celebrations on a French battlefield. Paris and Athens buzz as crowds cheer the end of World War I. The program includes an American Legion band concert and a Red Cross campaign update followed by a large smoker and meeting at 7:30.
Athens county will attend as well as other World War men who are interested in the great organization of service men.
James C Mercer aged 86 died at the home of his son Dr. W F Mercer at 200 East State Street. Death followed paralysis. Funeral plans call for departure Thursday to the family home in Caugas New York for interment. Mercer had resided with the Mercer family for several years. He passed away at an advanced age.
New York November 13 The Lusk Legislative Committee will not raid more anarchist meeting places or arrest additional radicals until test cases against Communist Party leaders now in custody are heard. Eighteen of twenty radicals have delayed their hearings. James Larkin and Benjamin Gitlow are due for examination on criminal anarchy charges.
Virginia Senator Martin died today in Washington as word reached his secretary. The Senate prepared to adjourn in respect to the Virginia statesman.
The defense asks for acquittal for Andrew Kebort who confessed to killing Ernest Grey at Willoughby. Lawyers argued there is no evidence tying Kebort to the slaying and urged the jury to acquit.
London reports Captain Rossa Smith began a flight to Australia with Europe and Asia routes. He pilots a Vickers Vimy airplane on the long journey.
Twenty petitions circulated in Columbus urging the attorney general to enforce anti profiteering laws, targeting the sugar trust. Citizens call for fearless action by Washington and for investigations into profiteering tied to government sugar policy and wartime controls.
On November 1 heavy trading struck New York shares with General Motors and Crucible among movers. By 2:40 p.m. the Dow Jones service reported 32 million shares traded on the exchange, far above typical vol- ume, as ticker tapes lagged and prices lagged behind quotes.
Born to Mr and Mrs John Gabriel Sunday November 9 a fine son. Mike Krivesti returns home from service in France. Mr and Mrs Grant Nixon of Gorevn and Mrs Bert Adams entertained guests over the weekend. Athens visitors include Elza MecGranor and family and Zine Courtney household. Riza Potts and family shopped in Athens Tuesday. J Lon Humphrey and Hazel Geisicke visited Athens. Wil Locke visited local friends.
Fragmentary OCR reads list of 1919 anti athletic meeting mentions including Mrs 8 N Hobses President and Mrs W L Gard with unclear city context. Readable items are too fragmentary to identify a clear event outcome or full identities.
Democratic senators moved to end debate and force a vote on a peace treaty. Senator Underwood drafted a cloture petition with sixteen signatures to bring the measure to a final vote within 96 hours after adoption. The report notes rapid shifts in cotton futures in New York trading as the market reacts to the day’s developments.
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