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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1934
Page
9
Elsonville residents secure plots for the coming growing season through relief funding, with about eight gardens planned on the Dorr Run tract. Mayor and county relief officials oversee signups, agreements, and garden rules, expecting ground to be prepared and plots to include tomatoes cabbage and carrots.
James W. Low died this morning at his Poplar Street home. Funeral services will be held Sunday at the funeral home at 2 with Rev. Rothrock officiating. He is survived by his wife Sarah and several relatives including Ference West and Nutter of Columbus, George of Columbus, Henry of this city, and three sisters listed in the notice.
One fortunate thing about the two or three trying years just past has been a tendency to get away from the domination of possessions. Men and women have come to see that while money is desirable as furnishing security against worry about the rent, one may still live and be happy without this cozy reassurance.
Queen Esther group members met on Elizabeth Street to plan entertaining Athens Queen Esther participants with a May mock wedding and a Purple and Gold division contest. Mary C Miller led the Purple group to victory. Ruth Gilbert and others performed a coronet duet during the social hour. Refreshments were served to members and three new guests.
Guy L Sanders 54 former Nelsonville resident recently of Lima Ohio died in Miami Florida from a cerebral hemorrhage suffered during excitement at a wrestling match. The body will be brought to Nelsonville for burial with funeral details pending. He was brother to Mrs. Harry Hickman and Jerry Sanders of Nelsonville.
Nelsonville Presbyterian Chippewa Club meets at Paul Wolfe's home at 6 30 tonight for a hike to Initial Rock and a wiener roast in place of the regular weekly meeting. Edith Stiers Tom Ruflick and Circle of Ruth members direct a candy sale which has had many orders and deliveries. The boys will have a new teacher this Sunday.
Mrs. Jacob Wagner was elected president of the Buch t-Teacher Association at a night meeting in the building. Other officers were announced, and plans were made to hold a clinic for children entering school next fall. The program featured Ninth Grade entertainment including ukulele, mandolin, and accordion performances by student performers.
Funeral services for Mrs. Samara Northrup were largely attended at the Christian Church with Rev. Strickler officiating. A vocal trio sang and burial followed at Greenlawn.
Nelsonville High School P T A met Thursday on child health. Dr A K Buell of Athens spoke on ear nose and throat health and disease prevention. Dr W H Hyde outlined local health efforts while Tessie Cavanaugh reported on school child exams through ninth grade.
Nelsonville church plans morning service Gloria from Mozart’s The Twelfth Mass sung by the Presbyterian Choir directed by Prof. C. W. Janssen with pipe organ and four trumpeters. Rev. Lloyd Evans to speak at both services. Men's Choir to perform My Anchor Holds in the evening under Prof. Ward Hamm. Young people gather at Athens Sunday with 2 PM car departure.
Mrs Gifford Pinchot, labor crusader and wife of Pennsylvania's governor, testifies before the Senate Labor Committee urging adoption of the Wagner Labor Disputes bill to save the NRA while it still can. She denounces workers betrayed under the NRA and attacks General Hugh Johnson for yielding to big business.
The Rev. Roy Little of the Free Methodist Church speaks tonight at the Salvation Army Citadel. Saturday features singers from the Church of God on Mocking Street per Adjutant Joseph Heard. Sunday events include Holiness Meeting at 11 am, Sunday School 2 pm, Young People's Legion 6 15, Salvation Service 7 30 with Mrs Heard on Old Hymns and Their Authors. CHURCH BOARD ORGANIZES NELSONVILLE. The Presbyterian Church deacons organized Wednesday evening with G E B Johnson as chairman and committees appointed for Building Benevolence Men’s Brotherhood and ushering.
Samantha Frost 95 dies at her Frost home after long illness. Funeral service Sunday at 2 PM in Frost Universalist Church officiated by Rev. Edward Minor. Burial in Baptist Cemetery across the river. Survived by six sons J W Frost at home and W F Barrows Oakland Calif plus a step daughter Mrs Fannie Romine Torch and brother Ed Petty Marietta. She was long a Universalist Church member.
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