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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1921
Page
3
G A R encampment attendees leave for Indianapolis. Lancaster and Logan visitors spend weekends with relatives. Columbus visitors and Moline residents are noted. Several families from Rockbridge and Nelsonville travel to Lancaster for visits.
An opinion urges Nelsonville residents to support the high school by voting a bond issue at the next November election. The piece argues the schools are the city’s largest employer with 49 rooms and 55 000 square feet, delivering long term earnings and civic value, and urges stockholders to fund an addition.
Miss Tessie Ervin of Nelsonville graduates from Grant Hospital School of Nursing. Commencement exercises are set for Tuesday evening September 27 at Broad Street M E Church.
Regular Eastern Star meeting scheduled for tonight at 7 30. Members are asked to bring coffee labels.
Miss Frances Perry returned home Sunday after a visit in Logan with her sister Mrs George Schwenke. Mrs Charles Davis of Columbus is visiting relatives in this city for the week. Miss Esther Verity stayed with her sister Mrs C A Hooper in Athens Monday. Ensign George Stuart of Norfolk Va is a two week guest of Mr and Mrs Frank Cooley and family.
Leonard Cooley and G R Robinson serve as delegates to the American Legion convention in Toledo this week while also attending the Ohio 87th reunion.
Detroit uses direct municipal relief for ten to fifteen thousand families, costing about 1.5 million dollars in ten months. Mayor James Couzens says aid covers shoes, food, clothing and rent so no breadlines or evictions occur, with 75,000 people helped. He notes that during good times everyone benefits and should contribute in hard times.
Washington dispatch reports sentiment among Democrats leans against the German treaty. Some senators criticise the pact yet may vote for it as the best of a bad bargain. Senator Harrison of Mississippi leads the opposition but notes growing Democratic support for the treaty.
Oberlin Ohio observers report sophomores dropped challenges to the freshman class for the annual inter class scrap after an airplane flew over the campus bearing the blue and white class colors.
Cleveland is under a lasting injunction as Judge C. H. Wood perpetualizes a temporary order restricting union carpenters from interfering with non union workers employed by contractors during the local lockout.
Charles M. Schwab said for himself and American manufacturers to go the limit in making President Harding's unemployment conference a success. He stated he is in the conference with his whole soul and will implement the recommendations to reduce unemployment.
San Pedro Calif Sept 27 Ten men are believed dead from the A-6 disaster after a new noon check by submarine base authorities. Missing may total as high as 12. The U S tug Sonoma stands over the conning tower, six feet below the surface, steadying the sunken submarine on the harbor bottom.
Mrs. George Stoltz, 45, attempted suicide by swallowing bi chloride of mercury tablets at her Byesville home and is in Cambridge city hospital in critical condition. Authorities cite domestic troubles as the cause.
Washington prepares to host diplomats for the disarmament conference opening November 11. Mrs. John A. Logan offers her Washington home for a reception and comfort committee chair Cuno H. Rudolph leads organizers. Fred K. Nielson, solicitor for the state department and Hughes adviser, will play a prominent role.
Dr. William Franklin Baker of the Philadelphia County Homeopathic Medical Society cites an experiment with two rabbits to argue daylight saving time injures health and the nervous system. One rabbit kept on daylight saving time grew lighter and nervous, while the other under standard time remained normal. The doctor asserts humans, especially youths, similarly fail to recover energy between 2 and 4 a.m., delaying daytime efficiency.
A terse note dated 9 26 16 advises removing stains with Blue Devil product from dinner spatter on a vest, suggesting stain treatment guidance.
Herbert Varley a 51 year old city council member and prominent Mason died in this city after surgery to remove a goitre.
Fragmentary notice lists Lash’s Ideal Dental Cream Beret Tooth Bar as a product or item likely offered or advertised. Details are unreadable in the surviving text.
Washington September 27 The board of engineers for rivers and harbors of the war department refused to approve the Great Lakes to Ohio river canal in Ohio and Pennsylvania due to enormous costs. They deem the Pittsburg and Ashabula route most feasible but government funding cannot be assured.
Pennsylvania crude oil rose twenty five cents a barrel to two fifty today with the Joseph Seep Purchasing Agency announcing the increase. Five other grades were also raised.
Scipio E. Baker a 61 year old banker from West Springfield dies of pneumonia in Colorado Springs Colorado. He had been visiting the city when he fell ill and succumbed to the disease. The death was reported from Colorado Springs and listed in the local obituary notices.
A Lowell article recalls the Merrimack street apothecary founded in 1827. The 1855 prescription for Father John O’Brien shaped the remedy’s name and branding, praised as a safe family medicine for colds throat troubles and as a tonic without opium morphine chloroform or alcohol.
Toledo reports the adjusted compensation bill to be revived in the next session. John G. Emery, national commander of the American Legion, says the president initially sought to kill it but backtracked as public reaction grew. Emery mentions a Legion meeting in Indianapolis to aid ex service men with food and shelter. Local social notes list visitors and visits across Green County and Albany.
Mr and Mrs Alfred Rogers hosted a recent gathering with games and music for many locals including Myrtle Horns, Mabel Horns, Mildred Horns, Lela Dunfee, Wilma Dunfee, Susie Nestor, Leeda Sleeth, Audrey Tombaugh, Mildred Fitch, Bernice Root, Sylvia Cubbison, Mildred Shanks, Clara Barnett, Miss McVickers, Emerson Sleeth, Vern Sleeth, Herman Dunfee, Ivory Dunfee, Arthur Shanks, Arthur Marshall, Floyd Russell, Hersel Hornsby, John Barnett, Cecil Richardson, Delmer Cubbinson and Reese Dodd.
Albany Heppie Danny and Mrs. Clarence Throckmorton of Albany were in Athens Friday. Mr. and Mrs. W W Morris were in Athens Friday shopping. Mr and Mrs Collins Rush of Washington Pa, Mr and Mrs Roy Giles and family and Mrs Kate Love, Mr and Mrs George Scott and Mrs and Mrs A L Carpenter were also mentioned in the social column.
Doctors and pharmacists endorse Nerv-Worth as a remarkable remedy. Geo W Clawson of Troy Ohio and Troupe Drug Co Springfield Ohio report high sales and strong results after extensive use. Dr B F Ferguson confirms professional testing and personal experience supporting its benefit for sufferers.
An advertisement urges Nerv Worth as a remedy for nervousness indigestion sleeplessness sour breath belching and stomach pains. It promises a money back guarantee and refunds if customers are not satisfied, marketed by McKee Drug Company and other druggists.
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