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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1919
Page
2
A couple claim improved health after using Earle's Hypo Cod a tonic food medicine. They say digestion appetite and sleep improved and they can eat cabbage cheese and onions. The ad notes the remedy restores digestion and builds the body and is sold for 1.25 dollars including tax.
A bystander notes changing fashions and warming weather as skylights are sealed to keep flies out and a cold snap is remembered while leaves redden and fall. House-seekers face hard searches in Athens, likened to a revenue officer chasing moonshine stills.
Mary E. Cochran is appointed and qualified as Administratrix of the estate of Emma R. Cochran of Athens County Ohio who died there. The order is dated September 9 1919 and signed by Probate Judge T Phillips. TOLEDO Four hurt when street car strikes an automobile truck.
Supt. Morgan and Principal Rupp will hold regular office hours at Central School Building all week to discuss school work with pupils and parents. A teachers meeting is set for 1:30 Saturday. all must attend and teachers will take allegiance oath.
President Wilson prepared to address a special Minnesota legislature session on the high cost of living during his stop in St. Paul and Minneapolis. He planned three speeches and a possible brief remark at Governor Burnquist's luncheon as he argued ratification is essential for American welfare and warned against pro German sentiment.
President Wilson urged ratification of the peace treaty at a Minnesota special session. He warned world conditions drive high living costs and urged labor re distribution and peace before recovery. He pressed opening food hoards and argued labor should not be treated as a commodity.
Classified ad offers a six room frame dwelling for sale with cistern city water and outbuildings details. Local entertainment notes show Liberty Bell Girls and Nazimova film at the Opera House with war tax included and shows at 7. Next week GlousterJacksonville baseball series opener features Burdess Ginnan Brown Cunningham Skinner with 2:30 call. Millfield Athens Ells game also set at 3 oclock with Farich Simpson Corbin Barstow Whitlatch.
The Messenger lists Trimble township candidates including for clerk G C Fawcett and B F Achauer, treasurer O A McDonald, trustees Fred Hawk John E Cavey John Henshaw D W Wallace Clarence Hooper CC L Koons and L Eddy. Also justice of the peace J W Jones and E A Johnson and constables Henry Williams Thomas H Blower R A Lunsford Pearl Orndorf and Dean Bailey.
A farmer named House reported the loss of thirty bushels of peaches valued at four dollars per bushel. The theft occurred while House was away from home in Rockford Michigan.
Three foreigners are dead and twenty five wounded after rioters marching with an American flag clashed with police in Hammond Indiana. Police fired on protesters as 400 striking workers confronted 150 American colleagues. By nine o clock the crowd had dispersed and authorities planned to maintain order with sheriff's deputies assisting.
C A Chatfield once editor and publisher, the local blind poet, has forsaken his past pursuits to devote time to chiropractic treatment. He recently graduated from the American University and has opened an office in Murray Ohio.
Cattle receipts 900 with slow weak demand. shippers paying 11.00 to 13.00. Hogs shows 3700 receipts with 18.25 to 18.50 for good and choice packers. Sheep 1200 with steady prices. lambs up 50 cents to 17.00 17.50. Chicago butter and produce mixed. Toledo grain prices closing mixed with corn at 1.74 and oats around 75 cents. various seeds and Timothy futures listed for 1917 1919 contracts.
Fresh gathered extra firsts 48c per dozen, firsts 46c, ordinary firsts 48c, seconds 23c. Live poultry lists fowls 4 lbs and over 30c, under 4 lbs 27c, roosters 18c, broilers 144 lbs and over 30c, fryers over 2 lbs 30c.
The September report from the Ohio Department of Agriculture shows corn conditions across Athens Hocking Meigs Morgan Perry and Vinton counties ranging from 98 to 105 percent with Athens oats at 85 percent and hay yield around 1.15 tons per acre. Potatoes in Athens peg best in Southeast Ohio while overall prospects include 155 million bushels of corn and mixed yields for oats hay tobacco and fruit crops.
Leslie O Dabritz 23 minister and Susie Sturgill 24 teacher both of Carbondale with Rev F M Evans. Chester R Gladman 23 brick worker of Zanesville and Grace Hunter 18 of Nelsonville R D 3.
Two new inmates produced by foreigners at Maumee Malleable Casting Company led to a severe bout of intoxication after a party. Twenty workers were knocked out from Saturday to Monday, requiring three doctors for treatment.
Mrs. Mary A. Richmond of Wellington Ohio credits Nerv-Worth with easing loss of appetite sleeplessness and digestive distress after two weeks on the product. She reports improved appetite strength and weight gain and offers a dollar back guarantee at McKee's Drug Store Athens. The Hickman Gem Pharmacies Nelsonville sell Nerv-Worth.
Mike R. Cottle of Guysville died last evening at Athens State hospital at age 81 from cerebral hemorrhage after a two year confinement. The body was sent to Guysville this morning for burial by Undertaker Dowler.
Gladys Bolinger 3 daughter of Mr and Mrs W S Bolinger of Akron formerly Athens died yesterday afternoon at 4 oclock from pneumonia. Funeral cortege will come to Athens this evening and proceed to the home of Mrs Hulda Bolinger 167 Grosvenor street. Parents leave three daughters, eldest seven and youngest one. Funeral arrangements to be announced later.
Miss Mary Sayers died Sunday at Grant Hospital after illness. Funeral at First Christian Church Chauncey Wednesday at 9:30. She is survived by her mother Amanda Sayers, two sisters Ella Tedrick and Margaret Linscott, and three brothers Silas Charles and Stacey.
Theodore Martin and William Evans, both accused and convicted murderers, fought inside Harrisburg jail over a checker game. They resolved their dispute and began communicating as friends again through the bars, according to jail reporting.
The Athens Township Board of Education announces sealed bids for completing improvements at The Plains school. Work includes finishing basement rooms two closets and cement walks. Plans are on file with the County Superintendent for bidder information. Bids due by 12 noon Wednesday October 1919, in care of Joseph Evans Clerk.
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