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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1929
Page
6
The Glouster city council urges residents to place non burnable trash in street curbs for pickup by the cleanup force. A crew will operate until next Tuesday to haul waste away, stressing public cooperation to avoid delays.
Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Taylor traveled to Columbus Tuesday and, with Mr. Taylor’s sister Mrs. Clarence Marker, departed by motor for Warren Pennsylvania to tend their aged father who is seriously ill.
Glouster Street Committee ordered a complete set of about 169 street markers to meet Postoffice Department requirements for city mail delivery. The move aims to uniform markers across all streets and intersections, replacing rusted signs and marking streets opened since service began.
Twenty three members of Magic City Lodge I O O F conducted degree work at Buchitel Glouster with lunch and social time after. Sixty six attended including visitors from Athens Nelsonville Carbon Hill New Marshfield and Glouster. Members have moved away due to no mine work making quorum hard in recent months.
Mr and Mrs Zern Cunningham of Columbus, visiting relatives in this city, will likely locate in Glouster. Cunningham recently sold a Columbus gasoline station. Mrs Cunningham broke an ankle in January and now walks with crutches.
The body of Mrs. W D Holmes who died at her Dayton home was brought to Murray City for funeral services. Burial followed in Greenlawn Cemetery. A former Floodwood resident she was a member of Pleasant View Temple Pythian Sisters of Chauncey. She leaves a husband and several children. Mrs. Charles Sweeney and daughter Mrs. Robert Phillips attended from Chauncey.
ORGANIZE CLUB CHAUNCEY April 25 Ten past chiefs of Pleasant View Temple Pythian Sisters Chauncey met to organize a Past Chief s Club. Bess Cunningham elected president Elizabeth Collins vice president Jessie Woods secretary Myrtle Jackson assistant secretary Ruth S Smith treasurer Sweeney named program chairwoman. Next meeting at Mrs Cunningham Main Street. Floyd Linscott improved after surgery at Sheltering Arms Hospital Athens.
Advert explains McCoy's Tablets as sugar coated weight gain aids sold in North America. It touts easy uptake with no stomach upset and a money back guarantee after four sixty cent boxes or two dollar boxes if a thin person does not gain at least 56 pounds and feel health improves.
On Wednesday six mines operated in Chauncey and nearby areas including Manhattan Mine No. 25 and Chauncey No. 6 on Bailey Run as well as Nos. 255 9 10 and Ohio No. 1. Millfield reports Rev. L A Donnally to lead Sunday service at 6 30 p m with Sunday school at 9 80 a m. Mrs Lowman funeral conducted in Coolville for Emma Lowman with burial in Coolville Cemetery. Mr Lowman had died three weeks earlier.
Mrs. V. Ahlbrand of Chauncey is seriously ill at her home on Mill Street after several months of poor health.
The young people of Millfield Church of Christ will hold a business and social meeting at the church this evening at 7 30. All Bible school and church youths are invited. A social program will include refreshments.
Police seek writer of anonymous letter that threatened Judge W W Sprague with death unless harsher Sunday closing measures are enforced. The threat followed the arraignment of two theater managers arrested for the third time on Sunday closing law violations in Portsmouth.
A large crowd attended a Trimble Church of Christ evangelistic service on Wednesday night. Rev H H McCorkle spoke on The Sheep Stealing King. The Chauncey quartet sang two numbers and Mary Cole of Trimble was to sing. Singers from the Nelsonville Church of Christ planned a number as well.
Bi tuminous coal production in the United States for the week ended April 20 was about 8 550 000 net tons, up from 7 641 000 net tons the week ended April 6 and 8 249 000 net tons the week ended April 13. The gain over the week ended April 13 was about 900 000 tons, based on preliminary car loading reports from the National Coal Association.
Athens County representative K Mardis spoke at the Athens Chamber luncheon opposing the Bender reapportionment bill. He cited six reasons including disruption of city rural cooperation, constitutional concerns, and risk to rural interests. He warned Athens would lose full representation and urged support for farmers and agricultural development.
Dorothy Vititoe injured when a pipe fell during ceiling work at General Electric Appliance Co in Columbus. Pat Duncan and son travel to Indianapolis to join baseball player Pat Duncan in Minneapolis. Donald Vititoe recovering after another operation at Mt. Carmel Hospital Columbus. Hamden High School to award 25 diplomas on Tuesday April 20 including Mabel Frazee Elinor Newman Rebecca Blackstone Louise Thompson Betty Saylor Ruth Roberts Thelma Roach Margarete Frakes Mary Edna Lewis Anne Donaldson Maxwell Newman Randolph Wort
A license was issued to Daniel BB Spires 24 laborer New Straitsville and Martha Mitchell 23 New Straitsville with Rev Kellerman officiating in New Straitsville.
The passage lists several individuals including Floyd Buskirk James Bro Clare Orion Merrill Tom Chat t Franklin Frazee and others. Laird Young has been extensively repairing the Cle Young property which he has just purchased.
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