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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1923
Page
3
The re organized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints schedules Sunday school at 10 30 each Sunday A talk to children is planned for April 15 at 10 30 am A prayer meeting follows at 2 30 pm The Sunday night service features The Prodigal Son from Luke 15 7 32 with an elder shower after returning to the Father’s Kingdom
Sunday school at 9 30 A M preaching at 10 30 A M Epworth League at 6 P M class meeting at 6 P M preaching at 7 P M midweek prayer service Wednesday P M
Rev L Arpee will preach next Sunday morning and Rev H M Gilbert of St Louis will speak in the evening. The pastor and three ladies Mesdames Saltz Bartlett and Haffner attended presbytery meetings at McConnelsville and hope to report back soon on the sessions.
Pilgrim Holiness Church schedules preaching at 10 30 a m and revival at 7 p m with Evangelistic service led by Rev C C Brown representing Kingswood Holiness College andphanage on Saturday evening and Sunday. Wednesday service at 7 p m conducted by Rev Hiles missionary.
The church lists morning worship at 10 30 and evening worship at 7 with 9 30 am study and a goal of 600 next Sunday Mothers Day events approach. The pastor is away Sunday and Monday returning by Tuesday. Gilbert Courtney will lead in his absence and April 18 features Africa mission slides replacing the prayer meeting.
The Bereans announce a Sunday gathering aiming for 200 attendees. The orchestra prepares celebratory music and a welcome is extended to all participants.
Rev and Mrs Geo E Tifft are visiting Covington Kentucky as guests of Mr and Mrs Shultz and their family for a few days.
Earl Stevens, contractor and driller, reports a new well on the Lick Run Coal Co. lease above Nelsonville. At 10 feet in the sand the well is producing 25 barrels per day and local men show interest in further development of the territory.
Nelsonville Presbyterian Missionary Society tops the Athens Presbyterial for the year at the McConnesville session. Mrs. C. H. Bartlett of Nelsonville, a newspaper reporter, presided and delivered a brisk report detailing the society’s rapid rise from near bottom to first place. She spoke again after dinner as Wednesday’s speaker, with the moderator noting her as a fine Bartlett pear.
Smoked hams sold by the pound at 20c for whole or half. Shoulders priced at 15c per pound. Good Joel Bacon and chuck roast offered by the pound. Arbuckies coffee brands White House coffee per pound. Tall pink salmon in a pound can. Beechnut spaghetti two cans for a set price. Babbitts cleanser four cans. Large Star naptha powder soap chips two pound box. Peanut butter one pound bucket. Marshmallow cream six ounce can. Sugar sold per pound.
Noelkinen Dr Vaughn Sheets of Chicago visits relatives after attending a national medical convention in Philadelphia. Rev E H Wilson to lead M E church service at 9 20 Sunday. Various locals and visitors frequent Parkersburg and Coolville while farm youth edge toward road paving from Coolville to the county line. Additional items note measles recovery, attendance gains, and a county nurse school visit.
Mr and Mrs John Vinell have moved back to their home in Coolville after spending the winter on the Watkins farm.
Carbon Mill native Tfeinlein visits Louisville while Ralph Brigh and Geraldine flee to Union Furnace. Nelsonville sees Doris Dixson Murlong and family, plus John Smith recovering health. Colleagues Fritz Schmidt Adam Fennel Bolton plan to move to Germany after a visit. Luella Powers recovers from Athens throat operation as others seek work in Willard and Murray City.
Stewart Lewis Meek recovered from appendicitis and returned home. Catherine Grimes sold her house and moved to Bartlett. Sherman of New Marshfield bought Rome Lowman’s property and plans to move. Lowman searched Columbus area for land. John Frost moved back to Green Valley farm. Frank Hurke moved into Frost’s vacated property. G Wetherell visited Athens and Amesville for business. Notables hosted include Mr and Mrs McBee Mrs Robinson and family hosts, and P G Wetherell attended a business visit. Monthly meeting held at M E church with Supt Evans from Athens delivering a sermon. Visitors from Canaonville Guysville and others attended. Mrs Townsend hosted ladies aid with 11 members and 1 visitor. Edna Wharton and others visited Rome towne ship high school events.
Lottridge Miss Erma Ackley has left for Marion to take a job at Sawyer Sanatorium. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Oliver move in with the Day parents. Mrs. Emerson Stout returns home after helping through a flu outbreak at Elijah Willard’s. Rexal Boggs and family from Vanderhoof visit his mother Laura Boggs. H R Watkins family back from Fairmont WV after wintering there. Howard Lake announces birth of a child weighing 13 pounds on April 8. Rutmer Ackely sprays his apple orchard. Community mourns the death of Mrs. Mary Fair at New Martinsville WV, formerly of the area. H C Swisher confined at home with rheumatism.
Mrs Fannie Auckerman and Addie Morison return to Columbus after the death of Henry Lincoln Baird of Murray City. Burial attendance includes Mrs Charles Lyons and daughter Mrs James Love and Miss Liza Conger. Local visits include Mrs John Faulkner in Columbus and Claudia and Liza Conger with Mr and Mrs Jasper Grinstead in Jacksonville.
Glouster High will graduate the largest class in its history with about 50 students to receive diplomas at year end. An 80 page annual is planned this year replacing last year’s 64 pages, with book copy due to the printer soon after.
The Jacksonville M F church calendar lists Sunday School at 9 00 A M class meeting 10 00 A M Epworth League 6 30 P M and worship 7 00 P M. Trimble and Standard Bearers events also noted with lectures by Miss Dorothy Leavett from Columbus. Epworth social Friday 6 00 P M features caliey ball game.
An old medical note promotes a one day cure for a condition with a laxative tablet labeled BromO Quinine and signed by E. W. Grove on the box.
A flight carrying supplies to the Tamiami Trail blazers in the Big Cypress swamps landed safely at the Coral Gables landing field near Miami after a rough approach. No injuries reported.
The annual seed and built exchange of the North Side public school was conducted under the auspices of the Parent-Teachers' association. The affair provides a gathering of children, parents, and school officials.
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