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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1922
Page
3
Mr and Mrs Lou Rice and Mr and Mrs C G Sheppard motored to Columbus to visit Charles Davis who is recovering at Mount Carmel hospital Dr and Mrs J M Hyde were Sunday guests of the former's sisters in Columbus Admission is 1 dollar with proceeds noted in the Saturday page report.
Mr. Pete Gaskill of McArthur and Mr. McLaughlin rent rooms in Nelsonville and will form the firm Gaskill and McLaughlin. The rooms will open soon with Mr. McLaughlin in charge.
Six committees prepare for a major Thursday evening gathering of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce. Engineer Elwell of the Columbus chamber will visit Nelsonville Thursday to speak and confer with local committees about proposed improvements and deliver a detailed report at the meeting.
Public school track finals set for April 7 and 8 for seventh to eighth grades with trials on April 4 at Central. Fifth and sixth grade events span April 10 to 13 across West East Central schools. Sunday school league finals on April 8 featuring Meth odist versus Christians Intermediates and Presbyterians versus Christians Juniors. No admission charges. Y board meets Tuesday at 6:15 PM.
The Women’s Relief Corps will meet Monday evening in American Legion Hall. All members are requested to be present at 7 o’clock.
Rev. Paul E. Kemper conducted funeral services today for Mrs. Sarah Bryan at the home of her daughter Mrs. John Williams. Burial was made at Greenlawn.
Mrs Sanders spent Sunday at Chauncey. Ted Sanders attended an insurance convention in Columbus last week. Martha Smith is visiting relatives in Illfield. Mrs Vee Sanders returned from Columbus where her sister Mrs W H Rible was ill and hospitalized. Deck Sanders spent spring vacation in Columbus visiting cousin Emily Rible and brother Clifford Sanders.
Attendance yesterday reached 567 with an offering of 21.13 not counting a charity gift of 8. Men totaled 161. All classes in the women department had good attendance. The Sunday school is described as large and still growing.
A Grotto gathering is set for tonight at 7 with the session closing in time for American Legion members to attend their 7 30 meeting.
The Selsonville group of Methodist pastors held a ten day series starting with a bright Sunday. Rev. Paul E. Kemper baptized eight children in the morning. Rev. H. L. Sheldon delivered a broad message on Week Day Religious Education. Lunch followed in social rooms. Afternoon session began at 1 30 with Rev. H L Durant Rev. Leonard Danley and Rev. H L Sheldon Thaterman in charge. Evening sermon by Rev. H E Bon Durant, Murray church pastor, with a fine solo by Ralph Parks. Services to follow at 7 p.m.
Mrs W 8 Rhodes hosted a Hyperion club gathering on Columbus street with roll call on current events. Mrs E J Eberle presented a paper on the Greatest Electrical 20th Century Invention. Mrs E J Kessinger spoke on Conservation of Forests. Delegates were elected: N Hill Frances Socie as delegates with L A Whitmore and Ivan Kinney as alternates for the southeastern district meeting in Chillicothe on April 27 and 28.
The regular meeting of the Women's Community Club will be held at the Y M C A Tuesday evening at 7 30. An executive board meeting occurs at 6 30. An unusually good program has been prepared and a good attendance is hoped for.
The Christian Endeavor society of the Presbyterian church is gathering old papers and magazines this week. Call Mrs. John Saltz or Miss Agnes Raybould to donate your papers. Mrs. Fanny Shields and her daughter Miss Mary and Loyd Edison of Columbus visited the Hick family over Sunday.
Glouster notice seeks a girl or middle aged woman for house work in a family of three. Call Wm Smll at 20 Full St Glouster Citizens Phone 4 1 5. Also announces regular Chamber of Commerce meeting tonight at American Legion Club rooms urging attendance for matters needing member action.
Mrs Mary A Gibbs aged 88 longtime Glouster resident died Saturday at her home 309 East Gay street Columbus where she lived in recent years Funeral services and interment will be held in Columbus tomorrow She was mother of Ambrose Gibbs Sr of this city and many Glouster relatives will attend
Saturday morning at the Opera House the Child Health Organization of America sponsored a lecture for children. Cho Cho of New York performed stunts to stress health points while Miss Bess Harper arranged access. Paid admissions reached $48 with about one third of the children admitted free.
W. R. Drury left this morning for Columbus to attend a session of the state board of pharmacy on which he serves as a member. The board will likely remain in session throughout the week.
The district nurse Miss Bess Harper will move her office this week from over the First National Bank to rooms over the Sunday Creek Coal Co store on the opposite side of High Street.
Fourteen automobiles carrying between 50 and 60 men from the Glouster Church of Christ traveled to Athens yesterday morning to attend Higley Class at the Church of Christ Sunday School.
Mrs. W. R. Drury traveled to Middleport to stay with her mother Mrs. M. V. McCoy who has been seriously ill for several weeks.
The many friends of Dr J bh Blower of Akron, a former Glenister physician, will be pleased by his appointment to the state medical board for a seven year term dated March 29. He formerly practiced in the city and served as Athens county coroner and later moved to Akron where he has specialized in surgery.
Mr and Mrs Fred Mooney and their two children of Corning spent Sunday visiting relatives and friends in the city.
A 13 year old boy, child of Mr Frank Jonas and Mrs Jonas, died Saturday after being an invalid since six months old. Funeral services were held this afternoon conducted Landsiitle and interment was made in the city cemetery.
In Washington on April 3 with Senator Edge leading, a Senate resolution proposes a congressional investigation of business conditions to guide possible enactment of further relief measures for the United States.
Tokyo April 3. The diplomatic advisory board plans to sanction the Japanese cabinet decision to withdraw troops from Siberia next month except for forces at Saghalien.
G W Nichols of Youngstown reports dramatic weight gain and renewed vitality after using Tanlac. He credits improved stomach and kidney function and relief from rheumatism to the medicine. Athens Cline Pharmacy Co. and other leading druggists sell Tanlac.
Lewis attacked coal operators over anthracite and bituminous tie ups calling them lockouts not strikes. He defended a six hour day for miners noting only 215 work days per year and urged a storage system to balance overdevelopment.
Mr and Mrs Kari Gardner and Mr and Mrs Paul Porter with their son Paul left Chauncey by car for Indian River City Florida to visit Verna Gardner Nelson in her family. They expect to be away about a month.
A Sunday evening program at the First Christian church honored the late Jessie B Pounds. Attendance was high and the program featured her songs and poems. Lucy Law gave a life sketch. Misses Bradfield Lahugh and Wharton assisted, with choirs and class poems and solos performed by Mrs Nida Butts Pendergrass and others.
Dwight and Glennis Karns of the K of P Home Springfield spent the weekend in Chauncey with father Charles Karns and grandparents Mr and Mrs Ezra Karns.
Encouraging reports say Mrs. Garfield Grimes of Chauncey underwent a serious operation in a Columbus hospital last Friday. She is progressing well and getting along nicely at present.
Mrs Guy Smith will host the ladies of the First Christian church Chauncey at her Beaumont home Wednesday afternoon for their regular semi monthly meeting. A large attendance is desired. The Missionary Society of the same church will be entertained Wednesday evening by Mrs George.
Charles, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Pendergrass of Chauncey, is ill with pneumonia.
Dredging at Newport News Shipbuilding docks clears channel for the Leviathan to anchor beside the piers by April first. Captain Peake of the Virginia Pilots' Association navigates the Virginia coast waters, guiding the giant liner’s approach.
Jacksonville moves ahead with public works and events as clean up week runs April 3 to 10. street paving starts soon and Sunday school contests draw participation with women at 42 and men 64, aiming for 100 on April 4. services at U B church feature Rev Sheldon from M E and flu cases improve overall.
In Washington on April 3, Senator Walsh of Massachusetts introduced a resolution to create a United States academy of aeronautics modeled after Annapolis and West Point. The move aims to advance a greater American air navy after the armament conference failed to limit aircraft.
Ohio wheat suffered about 25 percent winter killing per A J West state federal crop statistician. Reports cover all sections of Ohio with oats planted little and early potato planting only in extreme southern Ohio.
Police in Norfolk Virginia search for a United States Marine Corps member last seen with Ruth Mercer a 20 year old whose body was found on the beach Sunday.
A report to the internal revenue bureau cites that most narcotics entering the United States arrive on the Florida coast from Cuba, with origin traced to shipments from Spain and England. The findings come from Colonel G. Nutt, head of the flying squadron investigating liquor and drug traffic in Florida.
Charleston dispatch says ten miners were fired upon while climbing an incline to the Royal Coal Company mine in Royal Raleigh county. Thirty shots from high power rifles were fired from across the river, in the New River field.
President Harding learned from Republican Leader Londell that the House will provide appropriations to maintain a navy at the strength advised by the Washington conference but with enlisted personnel reduced to sixty five thousand.
Three tanks at the Sapulpa Refining Company fire, holding nearly 170000 gallons of oil, burned fiercely in Sapulpa Oklahoma on April 3, with losses estimated around 300000 dollars.
The sheriff’s office records show 441 days of prisoner lodging this month. County boarding costs total $330.75 for the remaining inmates. Of the 2 confined, five await trial within two weeks. Gilbert Webb has waited 90 days for non support bond, the longest incarceration.
Logan schoolboy boxer Sammy Prake has a chance to attend an amateur boxing exhibition in Pittsburgh. James R. Taylor, athletic director of the Columbus Athletic Club, plans to take a team to face a Pittsburgh squad on April 15. Prake indicated in a Saturday interview he favors the trip, with Mr. Francis possibly accompanying the team if Prake is a member.
The Pathfinders of the U B church enjoyed a social evening at Miss Mary Frasure’s North Street home. A large group attended including Nellie Wheeler Nellie Lehman Mable Ballard Helen Rainer Edith Cavendish Sarah Sanders Ethel Smart and Mrs M S Brown the class teacher.
Governor FE Mont Reilly of Porto Rico cabled President Harding that he has ironed out all difficulties in his administration and that demands for his resignation or recall have subsided.
Pauline Hartzell 14 daughter of Mr and Mrs F S Hartzell of 628 Kk Front Street died early Saturday after scarlet fever. The city records a second death in two days. She had been at a Cleveland seminary and returned home for vacation. A brother is recovering from the illness. Funeral was private due to quarantine and the body was sent to Oil City Pennsylvania for burial by L C Yocum.
Good fellowship marked the Otterbein Bible class annual banquet at the U B Church. The Sunday school orchestra performed a selection before tables decorated with flowers and plants served food to over 150 guests. Judge John Stoughton acted as toastmaster as many men offered responses. L Yocum received a floral tribute for years of service as teacher, presented by H M Whitcraft. Class songs added to the lively evening.
Fifty sportsmen attended the Newark Gun club shoot on Friday. Local shooters Harry Starr and Frank Hood participated. Cooper and Smoots led with 47 points. Starr scored 40 despite illness. Hood started with 25 and finished 43. Prizes were donated by Newark merchants.
Alfred Campbell and Walter Kleinschmidt visited Columbus last week for a radio meeting and witnessed new equipment in operation. Prof. O A Butcher traveled to Laurellville on Saturday for a teachers meeting. Mr and Mrs Byron Wolfe Sr of Athens were weekend guests of Byron Wolfe Jr and family.
Workmen move the Methodist parsonage to the rear of the lot in preparation for a modern parsonage. During construction Rev Blair and his family will continue to occupy the existing parsonage.
Mrs Sarah McQuaid and Mr Fred Moorehead were married Friday evening by Rev J C McLaughlin at his home on Zanesville avenue. Moorehead is a well known painter. The couple will reside at the bride’s home on North Culver street.
D G Stallsmith received word Saturday that his mother Mrs Almeda Powell had died at Hoytsville after a long illness.
Mr. Staligmith and his wife departed the same evening to attend an undisclosed appointment, leaving neighbors curious about their sudden absent.
Mrs. William Hansel hosted a Friday evening party on Brooks Street for her daughter Kathryn’s birthday anniversary. The event featured a splendid dinner and many beautiful presents for Kathryn. Attending were Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Woodard, Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Hammond, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Lanning, Wilbur Lanning, and the Hansel family.
The 32 member Ohio State University girls glee club performed Friday evening in Logan under the high school athletic association. Miss Louise Davies managed and Miss Diana Taylor directed. Two former Logan girls Faith Radebaugh and Mary Leone Thurness sang with the group. A large audience attended at the high school auditorium and the association treasury gained about $100 for future baseball season needs.
Mrs. A. K. Smith and Kenley Smith won prizes at the Faber wacks meeting held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Byron Wolfe Friday evening. An excellent collation was served by the hostess.
John Unger of Benton township won the bid to build a new road in the township. County commissioners met Saturday to award the contract for $658.30 after a change of considerable length was approved.
Plans for Athens Arbor Day ceremonies crown a citywide tree planting at the Armory to memorialize local World War casualties. Eleven organizations will plant elms for eleven fallen soldiers, with addresses by I M Foster George Provence and C L Darling ton.
The Dominican Sisters of Lowell Massachusetts report long use of Father John’s Medicine at home for colds coughs and as a body builder. They claim it has the best results and say they could not get along without it. The medicine is stated as safe for children and older people with no drugs.
Arch Johnson recalls C D Dailey hauling the largest single wagon load of wheat ever drawn by one team to the Albany mill. The load weighed 119 bushels and 45 pounds. Dailey and Johnson remain friends and Dailey continues to grow fine wheat.
R A Hammond of the Ohio Sheep and Wool Growers Association told Athens county growers that farmers must stick together to preserve prices. He noted private transactions bias quoted prices and highlighted a 27 cent 2 pound average net price to Athens members. President H H Henry cited 525 members and 32 000 sheep countywide with a past year loss of 8000 sheep. IL B Palmer forecast a bright industry future. Women hosted a dinner for attendees.
In Southern West Virginia coal fields a petition called Yellow dog seeks to waive legal notice to vacate company houses. Harold W. Houston of the United Mine Workers disclosed the incident after an employee of Homer Wright Birch Coal Company was illegally ejected from a company house on Coal River in Boone County.
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