Amherst Times, 1918-10-17

              llierty first, last and always freedom for all forever "lot u hn.it fatth that rlnht makes-might; and.ln that-falth, let uirto the ondr dare to do our duty as we understand it." vol. i, no, 60. subscription, $1.60 per year sb amherst, ohio, thur8day, october 17, 1918. official newspaper of village. of. amhunt, -oulg. mtmt influenza. how prevent it advice on cause treat ment di8ea3e given by medical authorities. influonza is awlays present in united states, espelcally during - winder months. so-called spanish influenza a severe or virulent type ot same disease which haarnado its appearance many epidemics at irregular perlo'ds spread over the, entire world. they generally thave started europe near-east-.and -found their way this continent one two years later. epidemic was reported from several points ago, especially western front among the" troops enemy. first appeared country military encampments and' has very rapidly training camps countyr before attacking civilian population. locations most affected are those adjacent large bodlesof boston, chicago, philadelphia washington, states situated. undoubtedly general evory city willbe sooner time extra precaution. public should become well acquainted possible with tho appears, manner spread, precautionary measures may be prevented. if citizens will co-operate these measures, epl-dmlc kept within such limits no there bo so sick seriously interfere normal conditions. does appear? symptoms vary widely, but commonly aching only head ptfrtlcualrly eye sockets, body particularly joints. often chill chilly sensations, followed fever. patient feels thoroughly much more than an ordinary cold. cold present, not marked. beyere cases .often marked suffusion the. skin onihojaco chest, nose bleeding. what when attacked. don'uget .excited frightened. you otherwise good health, chances 200 1 get right again short time. quit work go bed warm, well-ventilated room big thing do. don't foolish try fight attack through . your feet absolutely surest bring pneumonia complicates causes nine-tenths deaths follow, it. take laxatives keep bowels open, other medicines physician, case harm another. been poo? heatlh, 60 age, call physician once, serious cases. spreads. country's distinguished men made remark bondholder phone company getting long overdue equipment shipments equipment, ordered spring, arriving home telephone company. included larger switchboard supplies make local exchange best part country. installing new begin once. reputation giving service found town size. com-1 pany,'s list subscribers steadily grown, number patrons served being now excess 700. mistake. advertise lats week announcing coming trophy train, accldently 7 9 p. m. instead a. however, news story concerning train right. editor certainly had error pointed out him persons, thus once proving times read every line "can't unless soemobdy sneezes coughs face." almost true put into mouth somtehlng sneezed coughed upon. sneeze violent cough throws millions germs distance feet. even earnest conversation probably breathing carries infection distance. avoid catching conference held chicago week, between army, navy, state physicians, gave follow ing code precautions: close contact people far possible. av6id crowds indoors, street cars, theatcrs.motion picture houses places dl assemblage. persons suffering "colds," sore throats coughs. chilling of- bod yor living rooms temperature below 65 degrees above 70 degrees. sleep clean fresh air. hands clg them mouth, expectorating see others likewise. visiting sick. cover handkerchief cloth sneezing coughing compel everybody else presence convenient, walk frqm riding cars. crowding unavoidable, face turned inhale nir breathed any person. dry warm. sit near person movie theaters assemblages. finally worry preventive potent health contented mind. fear, over-fatigue ex haustion lower bodily resistance render us liable attack. to-day logan co, asks gas rate wants 5 cents '1,000 cubic increase council defers action. meeting village tuesday evening, john fritz, representing natural & fuel co., ask rate. tentatlvo ordinanco offered company, calling 38 cent rate, 3 discount. agreed not, unfair, hesitated provisions ordinance. apparently asked three months, terminating feb, 24, 1919, also original franchise nine yet run. ordinance referred attorney his consideration opinion, future leading officials held. company's effect 39 towns 71 lo gan garbage collector. confirm ed appointment peter wolf collector, succeeding henry dute. ocllector receive $10 month about individual customers. he authorized collect 10 each customer served. mr. addressed some length regarding work, amount charged. ho favored charge based taken away, saying customers four pallfuls one. council's authori zation, satisfactory. business transacted. o. h. baker declared signs corporation disgrace community. recommended painted, possibly reading 'amherst. drive moderately" side, other, mo torist leaves town, "thank you. come again." change spring. meantime down. residents bain street, west have install lights street. light com: mittee investigate. reports commissioner committee were read, usual bills paid. club. thursday, oct. 10, day formerly celebrated little group amherst whose birthdays fell date. celebration, though k. clock e. nicholl talked old bit. ages various members: joseph robbins, who likes tobacco ever 90; louis kothe, 60; clock, 59;" e., nicholl, 52. william mischka member mrs. holl, oberlin, "almost members club, born few hours too early late eligible. 'possible .the celebrations resumed next year. drug stores winter schedules commencing sunday, amherst's inaugurated custom closing sundays greater day. both open morning 11:30 o'clock; kuss oehl alter nating' opening evening. believed urgent need arise house hold, adequately druggists secure periods rest employment. f. mcqueen confined her influonza. dr. recovered ailment. honor roll, fourth liberty loan bodmann chas. hamel carl northelm brownhelm congregational s. w. ehrmann effle holllngsworth lawrence klassen l. brandau domlnick chrulskl baxter brandt c. hill harry d. standen mayme cameron miss berdina geo. grace rice august nabakowskl j. v. dute ed. mays g. aschenbach adam kolbe george deuschle henes frank van wagnen bertlne foster bluer ellas baumhardt svalter kregcr harriet peck helen menz kotho ludwig jacob miller j, lovell tlmpkey fred strauss tenhope james zakb valentine wellman jesse smith bond end8 saturday night quota raised; sales lagging. purchasers urged "get in" finish. suscrlbed $196,000 bonds. problenimatlcal whether raised night, ends, effort reach mark. area has, previous campaigns, reachel time, plenty spare, unthinkable she fail .this caused slight spurt sales, enough. committees considering means reaching mark set, certain thpse done share unpleasant moments. towns, purchases planned publish people, acknowledgment duo them. up park bank, $42,000, received subscriptions totaling $31,250. schlbley, savings banking while unable give exact would reached, require heroic buyers hasten,, char acterized situation "sluggish," probabllltyof unprecedented rush minute. presents date, continuation published weeks. name neighbor's appeared, it's file night.. buy bond. you've already bought, ' complete purchase. banks appealing com- plete puiehases night. bonds, signed t subscription blanks, account until purchase actually made. closes pledge redeemed. " sure can early. redeem now. card thanks. wish express heartfelt thanks kind friends assisted hour bereavement. thank rev. egll, singers, employes fay stocking co. cleveland stone ladles' bible class st. peters church beautiful floral offerings. julius weiland children. milk bottles daily. dealers, charles zimmerman, advertisement requests return used practice allowinguiem accumulate returning them, using household utensils all, grown alarming proportions, high cost, puts burden upon dealer 111 afford bear. effective 21, returned daily, binall added bottle withheld. mischka, letters paper sunday otto mischko, known here, pleased leader feature section half page de voted him. proved interesting readers. (continued week) bank kreeger blackwell reinhardt berk dean wohlever aid society, cong. churhc heussner martin r. vibber powers steve fejis kolbe, sr. leon kopusclnskt howard hall b, frances coldren wm. abel t. french baker,- b. egeland brucker nord garret ii. voermann edna beller herman cahl shattukc mildred shattuck peabody rachel gracle sprenger reamer clark gallatin edward franks katherlne ruth pago five) thousands view u. enormous crowd stirred speeches awed display booty. estimated taches least 2,000 proscnt morn lng uncle sam's stopped here 7:30 9:30. 25 soldiers sailors ac companied efficiently handled crowd, marshaling lines extended jackson bridge. stationed passenger depot. allowed display, rousing delivered brought abundance applause. soldiers, having 16 years, wearing medals denoting valient service, presented neat bpeech. at-torny miller, chairman, emphatically expressed opinion bonds freely not. kinds relies. owing to, train's late, hurried along rapidly, leisurely examination trophies. flat cars carried heavy implements war, guns, ammunition carriages prow austrian submarine. allied armies captured germans. enclosed car smaller pieces, covering wide range. masks, bayonets, rifles, blankets, grenades, shells, swords, pictures work-'lien munition plants. ab ne left car. numerous workers worked success subscriptions, nearly $7,000 pledges secured. attaches ate breakfast restaurant. patriotic contributed pay expenses balance red rcoss. griffith acknowl- edges receipt $60 "mr. yon cordially prompted donation, helped reassure heart." office griffith, manager washington americans founder sammies' ball bat fund. draft $60, proceeds benefit game sept. 22, actively promoted schaeffer boosted paper. later baseball bats, ty cobb brand, ono schaeffer, measure appreciation. bats treasured source fcr intrinsic value. names amounts bought drastic commltteo who, able amounts, hiding behind small denomination. re decided buyer, bought. then opportunity study decisions accordingly. all. carry cannot harmed list. credit due man beocme known, unexpressed censure rightly david hahn myron cheesman anna abel, trustee robert murray pansy harris davie, branislaw lenz dangle malvlna klein schelfersteln ii, beeslng plato dave abraham harmon kreger bechtel dcneko rhoda kelly boughton 8tatement the' ownership, management, circulation, etc., required act congress augu8t 1912, times, weekly county lorain, ss. me, notary aforesaid. personally a, little, who. duly sworn according law, deposes says publisher following la knowledge belief, statement ownership. management (and dally paper, ths circulation), aforesaid pub lication date shown caption, embodied 443, postal laws regulations. printed reverse form, wit: i. addresses publisher, editor, managing managers are: lisher am herst, ohio. 2. owners (give owners, or, corporation, stockholders ownlnc holdhitr total stock.) little. amherst. ohio 3. bondholders. mortgagees, security hold ers owning holding tcjfl mortgages, securities 4. paragraphs above, own- irs, stockholders, hold-irs, any, contain holders appear books :ompany also, hwere itockholder holder appears lpon fiduciary lation, cor poration whom ing, given; said statements em bracing affiant's full belief circumstances conditions under md ap pear trustees, hodl stock capacity bona flde owner; affiant reason believe person, association, interest direct indirect stock, securi ties stated 5. average copies issue publica tion sold distributed, mails otherwise, paid six months preceding (this infor mation publications only). i publisher. subscribed me 14th october, (seal) miller. ! public. my commission expires july 25, 1919. letter wesbecher camp jackson, c, 7. times: well, passed camp. ones homer dute, walter lutz. drafted 250 private wee- becher oversea duty. we'll stay 16th month. clothing things. hammel intends remian winter. weather fine nl daytime. evening quite lots dying i'd like soon can. keeping busy days drill mask drill. funny things on; closed got breath mouth. hard on. tent pitching ground, making roll haversack, beak. hone back tell vou airplanes march band ev ery afternoon 5:30. deep sand takes strength up. happy glad leave hope across more. city. since letter, word reached frank's parents, mrs.. wesbecher, ill pneumotla conflnedun base(8s!kital ca jackson. ifipa rents anxiously thepast pass away killed toll angel death week. ih departed, vouhe listed nation's "killed action." funerals, un doubtedly attended crowds, wero, because epidemic, private, immediate relatives present. number. space desirable. ceased sympathy community case. albert graber funeral. funeral peter's evaneellenl friday, adults egll conducted serv ices. pall bearers ernst, bor, gaumann, zurcher ernst lorain samuel gaumann cousins graber. interment evergreen cemetery. jacobs saturday. 1:30 o'clock homo franklin servlces.for fred-jac- obs, civil war -veteran. 'in tendance. 'neumelstor con ducted services, .with crown hill. wetland' dies. welland.aged 69, thursday hi been' employed quarries nearly- life. weeks ago stricken death. surviving widow, four-daughters sons. services mondav from' home. conducting. 'crown pallbearers -were- bauer, cahl, smith. rels, okepp wragg, wero 'fellow employs years. anna-gates. gates, cloueh's auarry. -lied pneumonia: -tho result '52 aout days.t "mfrau gates widow,-her husband died years- ago. sons: john, france; hen ry, sherman, albert,' tight "flu" widespread,- oeaths physicians friday officer tur ner, acting instructions board issued order schools,- churches, amusement prohibiting' nil gatherings. that1 timer number-of -spanish -in fluenza, mild nature. malady, after special meet co-operation pledged, further directed saloons 6 o'clock, prohibiting school chil dren cautioned against allow great assemble tho.stroet. funerals placed ban. relatiyes view--the -remains must remain doors. opeji air grave maybe conducted. control disease. orders , force addition restrictions cities, ''gasless" still -list, amherst- 'passed quiet sunday. walk. did. several" social lodge events called off, -hit eagles' celebration -to with' etyrla eagles, guests. order, windows schools township, addi villdge, .closed. motion fumi gated. busy. sthce started. 100 cases, -nature,- severe. dr., himself cop- nnea lor days, throwlngchlb fwork -shoulders. 'ot prsf hall, powers, foster. hoped ithera improvement hare end wjille greatly, worf,ff shape surrounding; cltlw; towm, awaiting; lijgfzui,