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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1918
Page
3
Lost bunch of keys offered for return at Carpenter Hardware Store. Funeral service for Mrs Velma Easler held at Fort Street residence conducted by Rev Arthur M Mann with floral offerings and burial at Greenlawn.
War Councilman P. W. Hickman summons all Nelsonville War Chest solicitors to a Sunday 2 PM Y M C A meeting to urge full collection. The drive faces delays as several districts lag on pledges and installments. observers warn of consequences for nonpayment.
Chas Menkham jumped from a coal wagon yesterday in front of a car driven by Joe Verity and sustained broken legs. Dr Howe attended and set the fractures. No blame on Verity. The Menkhams have suffered prior tragedy with a son killed and another maimed by a train.
An employee of Round House Construction Co. was seriously hurt and rushed to Cherrington Hospital in Logan after an on site incident. The worker had recently joined the company.
Mrs Knight entertained the Priscilla Club girls Tuesday evening at her Clinton 5 home. They sewed together until late, followed by luncheon served by the hostess.
Funeral services will be held at the Apostolic Holiness Church Sunday afternoon conducted by Rev. Brillhart for Mrs. Elizabeth Hoyt of Circle Hill. Interment will be at Greenlawn.
The Athens County Camp Sherman boys travel to Nelsonville for a Sunday game at Pastime Park. The contest starts at 2 30 p m local time and should be fast paced with a tight schedule.
Friends learn Harvey Culloms is slowly recovering from a serious illness at Camp Jones in Douglas Arizona. Parents received word early in the week and his father left immediately. Yesterday the family was told his condition has improved.
A large crowd gathered yesterday for a funeral service, with many relatives and friends present to pay their respects. The event drew attendees from the community as mourners offered condolences and shared memories.
Advertised letters listed for Nelsonville dated Sept 20 include Leo Butter worth R D 3 Carl Dixon Gen Del Mies Dazee Lee 227 Main St Mr Clyde McKnobe R D 3 J W Os born R D 4 Frank Robinson Charte Thornton Dave W Tucker Gen Del Elza Turner.
Howard and Orville Barstow were tried and convicted by a Federal Judge in Columbus this week. Each man received sixty days in Franklin County jail and was ordered to pay the costs of the case.
Nelsonville sells bonds totaling 2500 dollars to repair the city electric light plant. Work starts immediately and officials promise 24 hour service and the plant back to No. 1 condition in the next few days.
A Sunday evening meeting for women will be held at the Presbyterian church after the evening service. It opens at 8:00 for an informal discussion of methods to support the Woman's Division in making Ohio dry on election day November 5.
Dean Irma Voigt of Athens county YWCA war work chair will speak Sunday at 10 30 in the Presbyterian church. No Methodist or Christian services at that hour so worshipers are urged to attend to hear about the war work.
The Church of the Epiphany on Jefferson Street announces Sunday school at 9 30 A M and evening prayer with sermon at 7 P M Rector W D Stires delivers the service and notices.
Near Chestnut and Harpers streets the Apostolic Holiness Church announces services led by Rev. J C Brillham. Sunday features Sunday school at 9 30 preaching at 10 30 class meeting at 2 30 song service at 7 30 evangelistic service at 8 with the Great Tribulation as the subject Prayer meetings Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 7 30 all are welcome.
Families and friends gather as Mr. E. E. Rosser and others visit Camp Sherman. Messages arrive with Frank, Berry, Carl Wend, William Stewart, and W. B. McCarty reporting safe overseas. Evangelist C P Dixon to preach at A M E church.
A new iron fence post features prongs at the bottom that spread and anchor the post firmly when driven into the ground. This design aims to improve stability and resistance to displacement.
Lille, a major French industrial and agricultural center 154 miles from Paris, hosts linen woolen and cotton industries and over 20 forts forming a 30 mile fortification ring. Critics say Germans cannot hold Lille. Allied lines move closer daily. The city traces to Count Baldwin IV of Flanders.
Three petitions accepted by the board of elections. L. A. Koons and Emmett Keenan of Athens seek common pleas court judgeships. L. G. Worsteil of Athens also runs. Bert M. Thompson of Athens runs for representative with a full ballot column.
The enormous flag ordered for Loyalty Day arrived this morning and will be on display in the Zenner store window for the first three days of next week. The flag measures 15 by 25 feet and is described as Old Glory in grand display.
New York reports that Jean Paul Gruet, a young deaf man, appeared to hear Hofmann’s piano by sensation from the floor. He described main emotions felt through the feet and arms as lower tones vibrated inwardly, producing thrilling acousmatic sensation.
Brig. Gen. Merriette V. Ireland, chief surgeon on General Pershing’s staff, was named assistant surgeon general for service abroad during the war. Officers question if the move affects the successor to Surgeon General Gorges, who retires in October.
War gardens are visible from most passenger trains in the South with strips of cultivation running along rights of way. Fields eighty feet wide and up to a half mile long appear beside tracks, and numerous small plots lie between cross ties and the right of way fence.
The Union urges turning skim milk into cottage cheese to conserve meat for soldiers. The campaign notes cottage cheese equals meat in food value and calls for making it to reuse waste milk. Three divisions of the agriculture department and the U S food administration back the effort.
Sergt Reginald Grant of the First Canadian field artillery recounts the third battle of Ypres near Sanctuary woods. He describes mass German attacks, heroic artillery resistance, ammunition exhaustion, bayonet actions, and deadly grim fighting with both sides charged, ending with retreat and survivors fighting on.
Glouster city council postponed final decision on accepting the Oak Mill addition until the next regular meeting. A profile of the proposed addition will be prepared and the engineer ordered to provide an estimate of probable street-opening costs. Property owners offer $500 cash to aid street openings, but the total cost remains unknown.
Cecil Lunsford son of Mr and Mrs R A Lunsford has arrived safe overseas per a card sent to his parents Formerly with The Union Telephone Co The town notes other local items including election ballot contracts awarded to Athens Printery Co and Columbus Blank Book Co and notices of visits by Mrs D J King and Mrs M M Bryson The Original Theatre shows Western photoplay The Red Red Heart starring Monroe Salisbury and Ruth Clifford
Charles Henry of Oswego reports cramp in stomach and bowels four years ago improved by Chamberlains Coke and Diarrhoea Remedy. He calls it by far the best medicine of its kind he has used.
In Columbus Ohio a man named Albert Breaker fell headfirst into a barrel near Congress Street while attempting to close a window. Officers Folk and Mahoney freed him after discovering the shoes attached to his feet locked in place inside the barrel.
The United States Department of Agriculture launches a campaign to encourage cottage cheese production and consumption as a cheap meat substitute. About a hundred field workers will participate across nearly all states to spread the message.
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