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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1919
Page
3
Local notices list meetings for Kill Eagle Tribe No 179 with attendance urged and officers named. Classified items include midlings and King Midas flour for sale, Elberta peaches for canning, a chiropractic service, a 10 room house for sale, a Ford runabout body wanted, a Harley Davidson motorcycle for sale, and an IHC corn husker shredder for trade from Baird Bros.
The Gun Club spent Thursday afternoon at shooting on the Jackson farm. Scores include Julius Fischer 78 and Jao Owens 36 along with Dr Endersden 62 Jas Sharp 71 and Anthony Nelson 72. A sale of homemade foodstuffs by Ladies of St Andrew's Church will be at Stratton's Store on Fayette Street Saturday. A G Mechem was in Columbus on business Thursday. Lucile Kaelin hosted a 12 o'clock dinner Thursday with Mr and Mrs Leonard Cooley and Emmett Preston.
Ed Reynolds paid $25 and costs after appearing in Mayor Donley’s court for displaying the wrong license number on his machine Thursday. Local residents and visitors, including Hubert Lemon and Delbert Springer, visited area towns during the week.
Mrs Charles Krizer entertained her embroidery club at her Bremen home with a 1 o clock five course luncheon. Out of town guests included Mrs S W Wright Columbus Mrs Pearl Turner Lancaster and others. Vocal solos by Mrs F X Rauch and Mrs Turner enhanced the afternoon. Mr and Mrs Morey Pedigo and children and Mr and Mrs James Stephenson visited New Marshfield with Dr S E G Pedigo.
Mr and Mrs F G Cooley hosted a surprise party on Thursday evening for the birthday anniversaries of Mr Leonard Cooley and a guest. The event featured pink and white decorations, an elegant luncheon, music, and several out of town attendees including Sylvia Cooley Dr Charles Howe Athens and multiple Mr and Mrs guests from local towns.
Colonel J. P. Wade former General Staff Corps officer and Columbus Recruiting Office commander arrived from Washington with orders to inform telegraph and radio operators about a service in the U S Army. Letters with information are being sent to every operator on duty with the companies.
The piece describes telegraph operators recruited for service in Siberia or Europe. They will sail from San Francisco aboard an Army Transport, stop at Honolulu and Nagasaki, Japan to see the Orient, then head to Vladivostok or Europe during a period of reconstruction, offering a historic opportunity for a few Americans.
The Athens County Farms Bureau will award a free three year agriculture program scholarship at Ohio State University. Eligibility requires admission to the Short Course, farm residency, low high school education, age at least 18, preference to those over 20, available for the first year, open to both sexes, with specifics set by the college and bureau.
Further information on the county scholarship award is available from Mr. Harner or the dean of the Ohio State University College of Agriculture in Columbus.
Maud A Hayes recounts a voyage starting May 20 from New York on the Li mart that ran aground off Santa Rosa Peru. A brutal 50 foot storm hurled lifeboats. rescued by Mantaro, a traveling menagerie released panic as lions and tigers rioted.
Wartime prohibition laws shutter colonial era inns including the Gen. Wayne Inn along the Montgomery pike opened in 1704 by Quaker settlers. It served as Mad Anthony Wayne headquarters and a long time polling place. Turk's Head Inn at West Chester also closed. Revolutionary figures visited there.
Psychologists and anatomists at the University of Pennsylvania dismiss a hat maker’s claim that men’s heads are enlarging. Dr. R Tait McKenzie says the idea is rot and may reflect German swelled heads, while Dr. Lightner Witmer questions the fact and doubts its truth.
Cincinnati report notes a cruel theft as a disabled newsboy loses his chair when a thief takes the mobility device, leaving him unable to deliver papers and face the day without assistance.
For sale a six room frame dwelling with slate roof in a good location, cistern city water 133 by 125 lot and out buildings. Also local notices report a Red Men hall dance with Jimmy Richards orchestra and several residents traveling to Columbus for the Methodist conference. The Ambrose Theatre on High Street is nearing completion and named for manager Ambrose Gibbs.
Dr. E LeFever and his daughter Miss Ruth have gone to Chicago for special work for a few days. They will stop in Cincinnati on the return trip where Miss Ruth will enroll at the Schuster Martin school for girls. Dr. LeFever plans to be home part of the week.
Tre Model Grocery owned by T. L. Wyatt was sold to W. W. Jones and son P. E. Jones who assumed ownership this morning. W. W. Jones, a Morgan county farmer, brings his son P. E. Jones, an experienced storeman, to run the business. Herman Jones, brother of W. W. Jones, also works with them. Wyatt plans a rest for a few weeks.
Raids on food shops in Glodan, Silesia leave ten dead and several wounded as troops suppress disorders with machine guns sweeping the streets.
Justice R. C. Ostranger of the Michigan Supreme Court died at his Lansing home early today from organic heart trouble after weeks of illness. He was 68 and survived by a wife and several children.
A reader from Chillicothe Missouri praises Chamberlains Tablets. She says they relieved indigestion toned the liver cured backache and dizziness and she will recommend them.
Mr and Mrs Harry Harvey entertained many friends at their New Floodwood home on Saturday night September 6. The event featured music games ice cream cake and watermelon with attendees including Milly and Lillie Boring Bessie Whetstone Gladys Boring Myrtle Boring Clyde Simmons Clarence Badwell Nelsonville soldiers and other locals. Several guest lists note relatives and returnees from overseas and visits to nearby towns.
Mr and Mrs Arthur Burchfield hosted dinner with guests including Mr and Mrs Henry Cone and Velma of McDougal and Mr and Mrs W M Savage of Poston. Several residents visited Athens Chauncey Albany Nelsonville and Athens again. James Burchfield returned from a New England visit for the weekend.
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