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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1920
Page
4
A thoughtful essay urges women to treat the vote as a heavy responsibility. It compares early manhood suffrage to present times with larger electorates and complex systems. The piece argues that each individual vote matters to the welfare of government from township to world.
High schools in multiple cities train girls to vote with courses in civics sociology and economics aimed at citizenship duties. The program argues women will form the next large bloc of voters and that such training counteracts past male oriented curricula.
Edith B. Moriarty presents a New York feature on a recently opened women employment bureau. It includes standard departments plus a new service to place the gentlewoman in straitened circumstances, reflecting progressive effort to aid deprived women.
The bureau suggests roles for educated but untrained women in a large city like New York. Possibilities include visiting women, visiting housekeeper, official hostess, reading course compiler, and travel chaperon. In smaller towns the woman must act as her own employment bureau, assess local needs, and pursue demand rather than creating it. Copyright 1920.
A group exchanges brief anecdotes on art sales, shopkeepers, and local life. The young clerk imagines the art topic, a dog’s accidental death prompts a two‑boy dialogue about heaven and God, ending with a shy, comic remark on Toby.
The Athens Presbytery lists native sons ordained or licensed since 1870 and notes Logan church as largest contributor. Four ministers receive special mention for long service: William H. Bay, Thomas A. Welch, Robert C. Stewart, and Charles B. Taylor, with brief outlines of their ministries and lifespans.
Circle Hill resident Marel Nicholson shows improvement after a fractured limb, with Mrs. James Carr and Mrs. Frank Kirkendall returning to their homes or activities following the injury period.
Mrs Losey and children visit relatives in Glenroy while Ed Lands relocates to Columbus. Mrs Mary Christian of Athens stayed with Mrs Ed Johnson. Edward Cunningham recovers from summer flu. Walter Oakley and wife visited parents. Mr and Mrs Art Rosser of Nelsonville dined with Mr and Mrs W W Gordon. Mrs Charles Stewart traveled to Chauncey. The school house here is being repaired.
Local items record Sunday motor trips to Buckeye Lake and Bartlett, visits to Zion church and Sugar Grove Gabriel reunion, plus several families traveling to Union and the State Fair in Columbus. Also included are letters praising Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy from Caseville Michigan residents.
A playful note on calling a late night girls gathering a slumber party and seniors misrating college boys, then a prompt about waking at 2 A M to recall leaving the garden hose on and a poem about rites for the dead.
Marion reports Senator Harding addressing teachers on a crisis in American education due to low pay. He warned that beggarly wages could shut schools and cause education to languish, recalling his own twenty dollar a month start in a country school with extra pay for sweeping and firebuilding.
Delegates of the miners' federation voted Thursday to issue strike notices to all districts by September 25. The decision sets a nationwide action in motion amid ongoing labor tensions and wage disputes.
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