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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1926
Page
7
News of Albany says a surprise party April 10 at the Dailey home celebrated Chester Dailey’s 19th birthday with games and music. Guests included many local families. Phoebe Dailey, Chester’s grandmother, marked her 91st birthday at the event.
Ed Rickey presided over the Saturday gathering with a paper on Arbor Day and a reading by Miss Hazel Lewis. A chorus sang My Old Ohio Home as twenty five members attended. Mrs. Ray Knowlton, lecturer, has planned the next meeting for Sunday edition.
Will Cain returned home from Morgantown to spend Sunday with family and came back Monday. Miss Faye Cline traveled to Columbus with sister Hazel on Saturday while en route to Cleveland and planned to visit relatives until midweek. B Vorhes of Columbus spent the weekend at his home here. Mrs Mahala Knowlton arrived.
Mrs. Buchtei William Coakley who died Sunday morning will be buried Tuesday at 1 30 with services at the residence and burial in Whitmore cemetery. Surviving husband and several children. Miss Elizabeth Carr of Nelsonville visiting relatives here Sunday. Mr and Mrs Albert Yates and Miss Zula White of Crooksville guests Sunday of Mr and Mrs George Yates. David Bartoe employed in Columbus spent weekend with parents. Mrs William McDonald visiting Mrs John Shesky. Mrs J W Wade returned home after brief visit in Columbus. Mrs James McHaffey visiting Nelsonville Saturday. Mr and Mrs Will Lewis moved into property vacated by Harley Bartoe.
Carpenter Mrs A W Rupe and daughters visited Dexter relatives. Mrs Warnie Nelson died near Albany and funeral held at Christian church. Mrs Lewis Chase 68 died near here from pneumonia with funeral at Old Salem cemetery. William Nelson and Cottrill deaths noted as Alabama and Butler connections.
The Pearl Chapel Sunday school young people's class honored their president Melvin Stewart on his eighteenth birthday with a surprise party at his parents home on April 9. Friends and family gathered for games music and a refreshment course.
The play Twelve Old Maids debuts Thursday at the opera house offering a nostalgic tour of cotton prints full skirts and period hats. Cast members share dresses and hats from Albany households as part of a light hearted fundraiser to benefit the M E church Aid Society with entertaining costume displays and humor.
Ed Lasch has taken possession of the feed and poultry business recently purchased from the Coe brothers. The stock was voiced Saturday and Monday morning as the new owner assumed charge. Claude Chase of Athens will manage the uptown store, bringing eight years of experience at Moter and Beasley garages. The Chase family will stay in Athens for now with occasional travel. Hazel Chase, a Bellefontaine high school teacher, is their daughter.
After two months delay due to sickness and bad weather the Lottridge Aid Society met at the Jenkins home. A noon dinner followed a forenoon of sewing and an afternoon business session. Nine members and five visitors attended. Next meeting planned for May at Runion home.
A drilling operation advanced several feet and yielded abundant gas and water. At present it remains undecided whether the well can be saved due to the excessive water intrusion.
An advertisement touts Kotex as discreet and inexpensive, available at drug or department stores. It promises no laundry or embarrassment and claims eight in ten better class women use it, arguing it makes old methods an unnecessary risk.
Hockingport friends plan to attend the Marietta district quarterly conference in Coolville on April 22 and 23 with at least forty pastors expected. Bishop Henderson will preach Thursday evening. Local news mentions school closings, eighth graders preparing for high school exams, and several residents’ visits and illnesses. A Easter picnic dinner was held by young girls of Hockingport along the Ohio River with attendees listed.
Local residents and visitors make weekend trips across Ohio towns. William Chivers and Myrtle Wollett with sons Bill and Joe visited Athens. Genealogical and family connections appear with stops in Nelsonville Glouster Columbus and Zanesville among others.
The Sharpsburg community faces rain soaked mud that halts trips and leaves locals isolated. Taxpayers funded grading and dirt moving, but workers now scrape dirt away while women oversee repairs. Farmers stay busy, high wages curb work, and four merry boys steal two thin chickens prompting notice to their owner.
The passage recalls boys paying for two chickens and feeling less bold afterward, pondering what happened to the birds and expressing a humorous, puzzled tone about the outcome. The fragment emphasizes the financial action and the ensuing mystery.
Mrs. Lidia E. Richey, 70, fell at her Radcliff home and fractured a hip. Medical aid was called and she was moved to a hospital. Miss Frances Foley, 8, of Wilkesville, is ill with double pneumonia. Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Ray were professional callers at Wilkesville Tuesday.
A four times yearly district group meeting was held at the U. B. church with visiting ministers Dr Harris Rev E Harris Rev Widdows from Westerville Rev E B White of Jackson Rev W F Rutherford of Wellston and Rev I M Comfort of Oak Hill among attendees. Dr Widdows spoke on The Filipino and Dr Harris on Reminiscence of Church Work in Conference. The group planned a stop at Itanton for a Wednesday meeting. Additional notes mention B V Swisher ill at Radcliff and W A Kibbey traveling to Detroit with a Wellston party bringing back new cars.
Mrs A B Ray of Jackson was the guest of her mother Mrs Tina Vollenweider as she marked her eighty sixth birthday last Friday with family and friends in attendance.
Mrs. Ethel Beerman of New Straitsville visited her brother Guy Stedman last Saturday and Sunday, staying several hours to chat and catch up.
A regular Troy Grange meeting will be held in their hall on Saturday afternoon April 17. The initiation begun two weeks ago will be completed for a class of candidates.
The Athens District conference of the M E church will meet at Coolville M E church on Thursday April 22 with three sessions in the forenoon afternoon and evening.
Mrs. Howard DeWees of Torch entertained Tuesday evening last week with guests from Coolville including Mrs. O. F. Larson and other ladies.
Mrs P O Smith and others attended a pot-luck supper. Archie Dunfee of Athens visited relatives here for several days. Daniel Huffman was a business visitor at Parkersburg Saturday. Mr and Mrs F I Caldwell called on Uncle and Aunt Alex Caldwell and Miss Susan Caldwell Saturday. Miss Sophronia Tilton stayed with sister Mrs O Branch at Tuppere Sunday. Martin Koehler of Alfred, a resident here, was a business visitor Monday.
Mel Harbaugh and family visit Mr and Mrs G W Ross. Frank Hawk and companions tour Pomeroy with Red Hawk of Glouster. Miskell family from Lancaster visit G W Ross. M F church bake sale deemed successful. Columbus visits by Mrs Guy Spencer and son Billy and Mrs H Kammerling and daughter Margaret. Lulu Smith visits The Plains with her mother. Carl Sparnow and J H Blosser visit Columbus and local families. Tunnel workers from B I and S in Lancaster area. Sanford Hughes returns from Columbus. Insurance man Mr Shock of Logan visits. Ladies Aid meets at G W Ross. Birthday surprise party for Mrs H Hughes. Mrs Robert Coffey of Columbus visits daughter Mrs Everette McNabb. John Oakley and wife visit from Columbus. Mrs Frank Atkinson shops in Logan. James Mast visits from Logan. New Straitsville guests of Bud Smith and John Spencer. Ralph Robey returns from Columbus. Turn to page Twelve.
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