Entertaining and gatherings dot the holiday society page
Mrs Joseph Spangler hosts a turkey dinner at their Troy pike home. Miss Clara Scherer and five hundred club host on South Downing street. A fiftieth wedding anniversary is celebrated with gifts. Miss Estella Dusickle and Paul Langley announce their Lexington Ky marriage on Christmas day. Mrs E A Schueyer hosts visitors from Oakland. Numerous dances, dinners, and visits fill the day with locals in Newark Piqua Columbus Dayton and Cincinnati.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. and
Mix
Joseph Spangler
Troy Pike
Joseph Gaulfield
John Quirk
Pete O'Brien
Frank Spangler
Clara
Edith Scherer
South Downing Street
Estella Dusickle
Paul R. Langley
Tippecanoe
Lexington
Langley
Fred Busickle
Tippecanoe City
Personal Notes From Piqua After Christmas Visitations
A string of holiday greetings and travel updates from families in Piqua and nearby cities. Mr and Mrs Fred R Fisher of Muneia Tud visit Mr Fisher's parents Mr and Mrs Oscar Fisher. Mr John Long of Columbus visits daughter Ray Worlcox. Rev J S Aultman leaves for Toledo for an operation. Ensign Morrison Orr sails to Norfolk with Mrs A M Orr. Lieut Casparis returns to Camp Sherman. Corporal Sam Waser back to Camp Sherman after furlough. Mrs Alice Kenton and son Kenneth visit in Piqua over Christmas. Miss Ida B Duncan spends Christmas with sister Mrs W R Hill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morrison Orr
Norfolk
A. M. Orr
Orr
S. S. MacDonough
Columbus
Sylvia Casparis
Mr. Orr
William Casparis
Lieut
Casparis
Camp
Sherman
Food Saving Is Profitable
The United States Food Administration, created Aug. 11, aims to curb hoarding and conserve food for Europe. It reduces sugar and candy production, lowers wheat and flour prices, and licenses wholesalers to prevent shortages amid WWI. Shifts in policy save Belgian and allied needs while easing American costs. Local soldiers, families, and workers—Union County residents—are noted returning home or visiting during the holiday period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gadorna
Amy
Italy
United States Food Administration
Congress
Food Administration
Europe
Belgium
Floever
America
Piqua Baptist girls to host Greenville team Friday night
The Piqua Baptist church P-Q-A girls will host Greenville girls in the church social room Friday night December 28. The P-Q-A team has trained extra in hopes of winning while the Agogas meet a United Brethren school. First game starts at 8 p.m. sharp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Piqua Baptist Church
Greenville
United Brethren Church
Card of Thanks for John R. Reese
The Reese family expresses gratitude to friends and neighbors for kindness and sympathy during John R. Reese’s illness and death and appreciates the beautiful flowers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John R. Reese
Rebekah Lodge Seeks Members for Sewing Friday
The ladies of Rebekah Minerva Lodge No 16 are invited to sew at the hall Friday afternoon. Please bring supper and stay for lodge in the evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rebekah Minerva Lodge No. 16
Sleep Remedy Cocoa Advice From A Cracked Page
A fragment urges drinking one cup of hot cocoa without sugar before bed to cure sleeplessness. The advice appears in a historical page spread and reflects old time home remedies rather than modern science.
Bliss to be retained Chief of Staff in active duty
Washington December 27 General Tasker H Bliss will be retained in active service as chief of staff of the army after reaching retirement age next month Secretary Baker announced the decision by President Wilson Also noted Major General Biddle will continue as assistant chief of staff Goes Down With Crew The American steamship Tuscarora presumed lost with her 35 crew north of Cape Breton Island after requisition for Atlantic service The Tuscarora crew recruited in New England ports was commanded by Captain Growwell from Cape Cod
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Tasker H Bliss
Staf
Army
Baker
Wilson
Bliss
Biddle
New York
Geo
Tustaroya
Uni Y
United States Shipping Board
Atlantic Service
Cape Breton Island
Tuscarora
New England
Growwell
Cape Cod
Weather Update From United Beaton Bureau
Weather observations from the United Beaton weather bureau recorded at 7 p m Wednesday note clear conditions in New York with a forecast indicating continued clear skies. The terse item presents a basic report of temperature and weather state for the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Beaton Weather Bureau
New York
Unclear excerpt from wartime dispatches dated December 21
Fragmentary text mentions Austro-Hungarian involvement and a peace conference reading a state, with scattered names and place fragments. The passage is jumbled and lacks coherent events or outcomes to summarize reliably.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Petrolgrad
Ler
Iirest Litowsis
Soldiers Against Conscription Vote Report
A Sydney dispatch reports a total ballot showing a clear majority against the conscription measure. The latest count indicates about 186000 votes opposed, signaling strong opposition in New South Wales and wider Dominion sentiment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sydney
Brutal store killing shocks Corynthus violence in December
An elderly woman, 77, Sarah J. Andford, was beaten to death at her grocery store in Corynthus. A 13 inch iron tool and torn clothing indicate a brutal assault, with robbery suspected as the motive as the money drawer lay open. Authorities seek suspects in this fatal incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corynthus
Sarah J. Andford
Hertile Grocery
Mils‘ord
Beri
Burglar Trap Fatally Shoots Visitor at Neighbor
Roy Moore, 23, visiting neighbor Stephen W. Haynes, 45, was shot through the heart and killed when a shotgun trap he set for a thief at Haynes's house was triggered. Moore left a wife and four children. Haynes, a poultry buyer, lived alone and reported the thief had recently stolen $50.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holgate
Roy Moore
Stephen W. Haynes
Haynes
Moore
Pittsburgh woman injured in street incident
Mrs Adelaide Bongiovanni, wife of a Pittsburgh restaurant owner, was wounded in a street incident. The report notes her injuries amid a series of local and statewide political and legal references including Arizona governor handover to Hunt and a New Hampshire high court decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adelaide Bongiovaani
Pittsburgh
Florence A. Smal
Lake Ossipec
Gossip About Basketball at the YMCA Exhibition
A Sparkling youth event headlines a Saturday night game at the YMCA between the All One team and the YMCA squad with a $50 gate, followed by a junior prep game. The YMCA aims to feature college men and will announce lineups later for the New Year bout with Orr Felt and Blanket Co. lineup to be confirmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Piqua
Orr Felt and Blanket Company
Playa
Two More Enlistments In Regular Army Signal Corps
James E. Thomas of Broadway has enlisted in the signal corps and will depart for Columbus for examination. Leg EB. Garwood, a carpenter of Si ney, has joined the aviation section and has gone to Columbus for service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James E. Thomas
O. M. Thomas
Broadway
Signal Corps
Regular Army
Columbus
Leg EB. Garwood, Carpenter
Siney
Aviation
Uncle Sam
Columius
A School for White Plague Victims Opens Clinic
A tuberculosis clinic on a dingy street is described as a hopeful, educational center where patients, including children of sufferers, learn self care and prevention. The visiting nurse explains the clinic as a school for curable disease, with emphasis on home tasks, milk and eggs, and preventing spread. The piece notes nearly 500 clinics exist and calls for more funding through Red Cross Christmas seats to support local anti tuberculosis work and wartime clinic expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Red Cross
National Association For the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis
Red Cross
Cuberentesia
Also Mentioned on This Page
Society
Piste
Sosephine Geela
A. M. Brotherton
E.A. Schueyer
North
Downing Street
Bert Jones
Oakland
Hizabetia Allen
North Warne Street
Harry Brandon
Virginia Street
H. S. Carr
Emily Besanceney
Margaret
Gerard Besanceney
Leo Besandeney
Newark
Joe Hassenauer
Carvel
Elizabeth Wimmer
Clark Hkridler
Wapakoneta
Joseph Butz
Celeste
Cecelia Higgins
Will Caldwell
Mason’ City
Mrs. F. 3. Caldwell
West High Street
Maury Ghronerberry
Mabel Dwyer
Norma Norton
Cincinnati
A. D. Steffin
Adena
Troy
Dan Pickering
R. L.madison
Milford Center
Lydia Wilgus
Caroline Nixon
Harriet G. Rei Ler
Dwight Hillis
Dr. Steiner
Memorial Hall
Ed Schuessein
Camp Sherman
Frank Slagle
Warren
August Schnippel
Ed Zeipenfelder
Dayton
G. CG. Morningstar
M. ©. Barber
Urbana
Frances Chance
Sodality
St. Boniface Church
Fred R. Fisher
Muneia, Tud
Mr. Fisher
Oscar Fisher
the Boal Terrace
John Long
Ray Woorlcox
Long
Emily
Esther Montgomery
Bess Houser
J. 5
Aultman
Toledo
Rev
Autiman
Rev. Autiman
Albert Froebe
Akron
Amelia Froebe
W. Qo, May
Cleveland
Caroling
Alice Kenton
Kenneth
Sidney
John Frigge
Romaine
John Renner
Sam Waser
Ida B. Duncan
W R. Hill
National Defense Council
Lillian Prince
Clifford Smith
Louis Benkert
Appleton
Wis
W. T. Busser
Robb Howell
Billy
Hamilton
Gray Sigler
328Th ‘Aero Squadron
Kelly Field
San Antonio
Texas
Hartzell
BE. D. Geek
Emile 0. Drury
Paul E. Gartman
Verne E.' Hudson
Rebekah Notice
Sacramento
Cal
Stephens
Oakland Boulevard
Bellefontaine
Comfort Groen
Dieg
Paralysi Shemn Jn
Perns Sslvania
Lin
Foi Inter Bestyng
Miss Inez Nourse
Fredrie
Kbita
Nome
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