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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1919
Page
3
Classified ads list a ten room house for sale near Chestnut Street and an income property inquiry at 436 Chestnut Street. Prices shown as 11 7p with notes of local listings and trade goods availability.
The Pythian Sisters invite Nelsonville soldiers to a 6 PM dinner and 8 PM dance at the K of P hall on Friday September 26. Soldiers and guests admitted free. others pay 15 and 50 cents. Attendees must register by September 24 at Majestic Pool Room.
Miss Ruth Eberle is visiting Columbus this week as a guest of Miss Frances Knox for the weekend events.
Yesterday's shoot at the Nelsonville Gun Club headquarters on the Jackson farm listed shooters and scores including Don Poston 79, Julius Fischer 73, Andy Wilson 70, Dr. W H Cann 54, Dr A L Pritchard 2 50, Lew Seiberts 21 50, Ralph Wallar 26 50, Emery Shaw 34 50. Social notes report Mr and Mrs Matthew Hickman visiting Logan, H V R R Motive Dept supt M A Kinney and Zeboul of Columbus on business, and relatives visiting Columbus.
Mr and Mrs EH R Lama hosted a six o clock dinner Thursday with guests Mr and Mrs Otto Jadman of Los Angeles California and Mr and Mrs J M Lama of Logan.
Henry Ayres while painting the court house in Athens County found a general shop ledger listing retail sales for September 1877. The book contains many names familiar to local residents and was uncovered on the top floor during the painting work.
Berlin dispatch notes the new republic must choose diplomats for posts in Washington, London, and elsewhere. Solf, with liberal leanings and strong ties to the U S and Britain, is a leading candidate for the American ambassadorship, while Harden is regarded as unlikely. Bernstorff faces a potential shift to politics, and other posts lack clear candidates as Berlin weighs who can represent the fledgling state.
Chicago district steel plants may close if workers strike Monday officials said. Canvases show 8 302 of 10 125 Gary plant workers would stay at work while 98 percent of union members authorize a strike if no agreement is reached. South Chicago workers laid down tools as pickets prepared to monitor actions and union leaders warned of severe choices between capitalism or bread and bolshevism. The Pittsburgh outcome is seen as pivotal for nearby plants.
Mrs. Judith McDaniel seeks divorce citing twenty six reasons. She lists ten telephone numbers as part of the alibis and marital friction in a Chicago case.
President Wilson toured California aboard the President's train campaigning for ratification of the peace treaty. He spoke in San Diego and Oakland, receiving large crowds and loud support. His slogan declared that there are no quitters and warned that foes of the treaty will be overwhelmed.
The report notes Capt. Lowery with three ears of corn as a test of his progressive farming. In Bucyrus Leander Ridenour, 16, an assistant telephone lineman, was electrocuted by a live wire.
Probate Judge Phillips Capt Lowry M P Totman Attorney Rowland and Frank Porter returned to Athens after a sight seeing motor trip through the Shenandoah valley and Cheat Mountain. They said they ate wild turkey with no feathers and enjoyed southern scenery. The group traveled by car and noted nails driven through two boards at once by an English inventor’s box making machine.
Newark Colorado records a heavy truck theft night shift as thieves steal a 1000 head Holstein heifer from T. J. Nolan in Hanover. Nolan has suffered three similar thefts in six months.
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