Fairfield County Liberty Bond Drive Sets County Record
Fairfield County sold a total of 984 150 in Liberty Bonds by closing time of the second sale. Lancaster banks accounted for 627 850 of the total with the county quota at 614 000. The effort drew broad support from farmers, wage earners, and investors as banks and volunteers promoted the drive.
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Fairfield County
Treasury Department
Washington
Lancaster
Liberty Loan
Uncle Sam
city of
Athletic boys fund aids soldiers with tobacco kits
A Lancaster Athletic Club drive and local supporters raise money for tobacco kits for soldiers fighting in France. Donations include seven dollars from Geo Miller and many small contributions from club members and residents, totaling multiple kit purchases.
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Eagle's Soldiers
Bugs
beya
Lancaster Athletic Club
Geo Miller
Eazie
Athletic Club
Eagle
Ed Matt
H. J. Beuchler
Flora A
Gash Friend
Elias Lawyer
Isaac Hutchins
RW. Stuckey
Crab
Minnie Schadd
Alferd Miller
eer
Wm. L. Kern
E.C Frank
Reo Weathoven Panpeceine
Amanda Woman Hurt in Royalton-Cars Collision
Mrs Clyde Barr of Amanda sustained a broken nose Sunday afternoon when her husband Clyde Barr’s Buick touring car collided head on with Wayne Shupe’s car from Reynoldsburg at Royalton. Both vehicles were badly wrecked. occupants escaped with minor injuries and the Buick was towed to Smith Garage in Amanda for repairs.
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Clyde Barr
Amanda
Wayne Shupe
Reynoldsburg
Royalton
Smith Garage
Pickering Transferred from Chillicothe to Urbana
Miss Clara Pickering of the Farm Journal County Directory department has been transferred from Chillicothe to Urbana. She spent Sunday here the guest of her sister, Mrs. Martha Cowden on North Maple street.
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URBANA
Clara Pickering
Farm Journal County Directory department
Chillicothe
Martha Cowden
Maple ‘street
Grand Jury Excuses and Witnesses Summoned in October Term
The grand jury opened at the Court House Monday for the October term. B Swope of Amanda township was excused from service due to auction duties. Charles R Wilson of Liberty was excused for family sickness. Henry Knecht of the Third Ward Lancaster did not report. A E Beatty of East Fifth avenue did not appear. Witnesses were summoned up to Friday evening as Judge Reeves wrapped his charge with Prosecuting Attorney J H Fultz and former Sheriff Ed W Schaffner overseeing.
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B. Swope
Amanda township
Charles R. Wilson
Liberty
Henry Knecht
Lancaster
A. E. Beatty
East Fifth avenue
Second Ward
Reeves
J. H. Fultz
Ed W. Schaffner
Probate actions in Peebste Court list administrators and widows
E 0. Wiest seeks appointment as administrator for Elizabeth Foot of Bloom township with $150 personal property and $456 real estate. Clara L. Baumgardner seeks widow's allowance. appraisers to fix annual support. First and final accounts filed: Edward Loeffler administrator of Joann Loeffler with charges $302.70 credits $302.72. Enos M. Swayer administrator of Joseph Swayer with charges $... etc.
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Wiest
Peebste Court
Elizabeth Foot
Bloom township
Clara L. Baumgardner
John Albert Baumgardner
Edward Loeffler
Joan jn. Loeffler
Enos M. Swayer
Joseph Swayer
Wooster College President Speaks at Edgewood Visit
Dr J Campbell White president of Wooster College spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Robert M Giesy at Edgewood summer home south of the city He delivered an early morning talk at the Presbyterian church afterward Mr and Mrs Giesy and Dr White drove to Bremen where he addressed a large crowd at the Presbyterian church delivering a splendid talk.
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J. Campbell White
the Wooster College
Robert M. Giesy
Edgewood
Presbyterian church
Visit from Roy Reef in Chillicothe camp context
Roy Reef formerly served as a pleasant attendant at the Hup restaurant and now appears among con scripts at the Chillicothe camp. He visited family here, is in good health, and serves as a sergeant in the commissary department. He aims for an officers’ training school at Camp Sherman and plans to seek a commission. He is expected to face a man named Wilhelm in action, should he go across.
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Roy Reef
Hup
Chillicothe
Camp
Sherman
Roy
Wilhelm
Drivers and Clerks Association Meeting Tonight
The Drivers and Clerks Association will hold a postponed meeting tonight at W. O. W. hall.
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Drivers and Clerks Association
Railroad Ticket War Tax Imposed On November First
Beginning Thursday November 1 a war tax of eight percent will be added to the price of railroad tickets. The Interal Railroad agents received notice to this effect here today.
Southeastern Ohio Teachers vote to aid food conservation drive
Faver Food Conservation Athens Ohio Oct 29 The annual meeting of the Southeastern Ohio Teachers association ends with 400 teachers voting to support the national movement for food conservation. Dean J Z Richeson of Athens is elected president.
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Faver Food Conservation
Athens
Southeastern Ohio Teachers’ association
national movement for the conservation of food
Dean J. Z. Richeson
Women as Ticket Agents Train in Omaha Start
Union Pacific announces an experimental class of women in Omaha to train as ticket agents, paying small salaries during schooling. The program aims to prepare workers for potential future need if many men are drafted. Participants will later rotate through Marion Pacific ticket offices in Omaha and gain hands on experience. Germans Sink Gun Warship in Rio de Janeiro Harbor Elber set ablaze and sunk at Bahia to prevent seizure by Brazilian authorities. Destroyers ordered to seize the vessel, as Brazil advances toward war with Germany. The Elber, 984 tons, 203 feet long, housed 125 crew.
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Union Pacific Railroad
Omaha
Neb
Union Pacific system
Marion Pacific
Rio Janeiro
Bahia
Braz
Germany
Bride and Groom Return Home Amid Prank Attempt
Frank B. Swithh and his bride are due home tonight from their honeymoon. The Will Stuckey Flat on East Main Street has been prepared in style for Mr and Mrs Smith. Several youths were seen Monday afternoon trying to force an entry to the rooms, claiming they wished to ready the quarters for the returning couple and laughing at the effort.
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Frank B. Swithh
Will Stuckey
East Main St
Smith
Fairfield county representatives named to meet state fuel chief
Hon M A Daugherty and Hon Chas B Whiley appointed by Judge Reeves to act for Fairfield county. They will meet Horrace Johnson state fuel administrator in the state Senate Chamber Columbus Tuesday at 1 o clock.
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Reeves
Johnson
Senate
M. A. Daugherty
Chas. B. Whiley
Reverend Isaac Atwood dies at 89 in Washington
The prominent Universalist minister Rev Isaac Morgan Atwood 89 died in Washington of natural causes He was noted as an educator and minister His passing follows a public career in the Universalist church attracting regional attention
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Isaac Morgan Atwood
edeator
ennor
Washington
Chicago
Baltimore
Olympic
New Orléans
Puerto
Mexico
America
war finance committee
American Library association
Helen Cudany
Patrick Cudahy
Milwaukee
mid ocean
France
onoa Red Croe mission
Sugar Shortage Relief Urged In National Campaign
President Wilson calls on every U S home and public eating place to pledge support to the food administration and to join a nationwide family enrollment week aimed at food conservation. The administration outlines sugar exports limits for neutrals and explains pricing linked to tariffs while denying plans to restrict sales to neutrals.
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United States
the
Food Administration
Wilson
Judge Hughes Dead, Ohio Public Utilities Chief
Judge Oliver H L Hughes, 52, longtime chairman of Ohio Public Utilities Commission, died after a severe hemorrhage at a local hospital. He had served since 1906 in various state posts including adjutant general, probate judge, railroad and public service commissions, and was part of the Harris administration.
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Ohio Public Utilities Commission
Columbus
Oliver HL. Hughes
Chiro pubic utilities commission
Hughes
Ohio
Pattison
Harris
railroad commission
publc service commission
Order Effectively Raises Coal Prices at Mines
President Wilson issued an order boosting bituminous coal price by 45 cents a ton at nearly all U S mines, effective today. The rise, tied to miners wage agreements, excludes existing contracts and situations with unresolved penalties. The measure, urged by Fuel Administrator Garfield, affects central competitive fields of Ohio Illinois Indiana and western Pennsylvania and reflects nationwide wage trends.
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Washington
Wilson
fuel administration
Garfield
Ohio
Illinois
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Dry Vote Key to Victory Says Wheeler in Ohio
Wheeler of the Anti Saloon League urged every voter to turn out in Ohio to ensure a dry victory. He compared Oregon’s wet vote to past trends and noted rural Iowa’s large turnout, stressing that a dry ballot in any district helps the overall goal. He asserted prohibition remains if the statewide amendment fails. Ohio supporters rally behind the temperance push.
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Wheeler
Cleveland
Wayne B&B
Anti- Saloon League of America
Ohio
Oregon
Iowa
Wilson appeals for aid for Armenian and Syrian relief
President Wilson urged Americans to donate to relief for the Armenian and Syrian survivors of Turkish atrocities, citing over 2,000,000 destitute people. Contributions were requested through the American Red Cross in Washington or the American committees for Armenian and Syrian relief in New York City and Cleveland. Navy divers Rudolph Zugehor and Carl Henry Blinn were drowned when a barge capsized off the Atlantic coast. Zugehor, 23, from Webster, New York, and Blinn, 24, from Minneapolis, were gunners mates second class.
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Washington
Wilson
United States
American Red Cross
Cleveland
lodge
ofd
Madison avenue
New Yon city
United States navy
Atlantic
Rudolph Zugehor
B C. Zugehor
Webster, N.Y
Carl Henry Blinn
Minneapolis
Districts Show Strong Liberty Loan Subscriptions
Treasury officials await final returns from the liberty loan drive with New York district possibly exceeding its $1.5 billion maximum by late results. Early tallies show New York Chicago Cleveland and San Francisco leading with districts reporting strong subscriptions, while overall totals remain uncertain ahead of November 1 reporting. Indians subscribed about 5.86 million, and the army totals exceed 82.6 million dollars.
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Treasury
New York
Washington
department
Chicago
Cleveland
San Francisco
Kansas City
Minneapolis
Dallas
Atlanta
St Louis
Bienmon
Cato Sells
commissioner of
Indian affairs
army
Oklahoma Negroes at Camp Sherman
Report details the arrival of 3,000 black draftees to Camp Sherman, 1,800 from Ohio and the rest from Oklahoma, joining 32,000 other men. They will be housed in a segregated area with their own drill fields and receive training. the camp continues to progress in military preparation and liberty loan goals.
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Oklanems
Sherman
Ohio counties
Pennsylvania
Oho
Oklahoma
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