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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1918
Page
5
Business visitors and social gatherings fill Columbus Athens and nearby towns. Emmett H. Cotton and Clyde Hill travel for business, while J. A. Kittsmiller, C. E. Cramer, and others conduct interests in Logan Columbus and Akron. Clubs plan meetings as flu restrictions ease and Red Cross classes resume.
Mrs L F Krapps and her mother Mrs E W Leget travel from Parkersburg West Virginia to the home of Mrs A B Scott for the winter. An inter denominational Day of Prayer for Home Missions will be observed Thursday at the Presbyterian church at 2 30. This annual meeting moves among area churches each year. Mr and Mrs Clarence Kyle host Mrs F J Carter formerly Miss Florime Sands of Louisville Kentucky a bride of recent date. Her husband Captain Carter with the quartermasters department is in France.
A notice states a meeting of Mohawk e I O Red Men Thursday evening November 21 by order of Sa 11-19-2.
German wire reports that Schwarzburg Rudolstadt and Schaumburg Lippe have been declared republics. The diet of Saxony Coburg and Gotha favors joining the duchy to Bavaria.
New York work by Allen Walker of the United States Chamber of Commerce highlights a coming expansion in domestic and international business. He urges industrialists to sustain postwar cooperation and avoid old individualism as European demand rises, ensuring manufacturing growth and employment.
Wrecks and released prisoners flood into Paris as the American Red Cross answers the emergency appeal with clothing and food for thousands. Survivors describe trek routes home guided by visions of loved ones while electric signs on taxi roots indicate occupancy. Florida joins 38 pottery states.
Camp Sherman expects 20,000 men to feast on a turkey day meal with nineteen ounces per man as 3000 birds supply the main course. Washington orders cancelled overseas deployment for the 95th Division and halts shipping. General Smith implements the directive.
Washington observers say freedom of the seas will be the chief point of contention at the peace table in Paris. President Wilson goes to France to press the principle for postwar order under the league of nations, his allies report.
At Camp Meade Maryland Private Russell S. Powell from Pennsylvania in the medical department was sentenced to 15 years in thero agar barracks Fort Leavenworth Kansas for refusing coal duty for the detachment kitchen at the base hospital. He will be sent to Kansas soon with others who refused to don the uniform and were also sentenced to long hard labor.
Ohio plans a reorganization of local health machinery as a peace activity. The State Department of Health will seek legislation to group 2,200 local districts into larger units and extend state control. The move aims to utilize trained sanitary workers returning from army service to bolster the health system.
The Gironde and Bordeaux councils subscribe 300000 toward a monument at the Gironde River entrance to honor American aid to France. President Wilson has been invited to lay the cornerstone.
Amsterdam opens the country’s first crematorium marking a historic shift in burial practices. The facility aims to provide public graveside services and advance modern funeral options within the region.
By the Way notes Danl Lee’s protest that aid to Germany should wait for proof they need it more than Belgium or France and total distribution should be sparing. A Little jaunt shows the H V A R travels seventeen miles from Union depot to the county line. Little Hocking’s veteran blacksmith Henry Reynolds, born in New Jersey eighty five years ago, recalls Jerseyville and his family’s misdirected river voyage.
Washington held up the proposed sale of the British tonnage of the International Mercantile Marine Company to a British syndicate at the request of U.S. authorities. P. A. S. Franklin, president, announced the action. The tonnage is controlled by subsidiaries of the American corporation and forms a large part of the IMM fleet.
Holland has begun developing extensive deposits of core salt, a resource whose existence has been known for years. The effort marks a step forward in exploiting regional salt supplies and shaping potential export or industrial use.
The Y M C A and the International Committee aid Allied prisoners in Germany and occupied areas. They supply books, games, instruments, athletic gear, and even clothing to improve technical skills such as electricity and engineering. The effort extends to French and Polish camps, with neutral-led operations continuing to support prisoner welfare and postwar opportunities.
French Brigadier Cellier earned the Croix de la Légion dHonneur as his light tank aided 15 American soldiers to seize 700 Germans in the Villers Cotterets forest counter offensive. Tanks led progress toward Juvigny and Terny on the Soissons plateau, with German forces learning to counter them.
The Preparedness League of American Dentists reports 65,000 free molar operations for soldiers and sailors in August, boosting total operations since inception to 50,000 dollars. Separately, St Marys reports an influenza outbreak with 60 new cases in three days, triggering quarantine and closures of schools churches and theaters. A toy lung tester balloon with a tape shows air blown.
In Washington, govt control of female labor announced two weeks ago as a step to mobilize war work has been rescinded. Regulations banning recruitment of unskilled women workers by employers are lifted, and the U S employment Service is no longer assigned to mobilize and distribute woman labor. Also noted is an Illinois inventor patenting a milking stall with a revolving seat and a projecting pail holder.
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