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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1955
Page
10
The Athens Messenger outlines a busy schedule across area churches with multiple services each Sunday and weekday activities. Highlights include Memorial Auditorium services, Episcopal vespers, Wesleyan and Methodist gatherings, youth groups, choirs, and fellowship events, plus ongoing Bible studies and committees through the week.
In a Mother’s Day reflection, the old center table symbolizes the family core. The floor-length cloth, big Bible, red plush album, and cherished keepsakes marked faith, births, deaths, and history. Children hid there to listen to gossip and escape parental wrath, while memories of Quaker Uncle Billy linger.
Fragmented OCR notes show a church schedule with times such as 10:90 pm Monday 7:30 pm and 9:39 am Church school. Names include The Rew Carroll Chesser as pastor. unclear venues and dates.
Local church listings show Albany Methodist and Temple, Pearl Chapel, Snowville, Shade-Foston and other area congregations with school and worship times. The Athens county Missionary Institute at Glouster May 15 runs 3 to 7 30 pm with speakers Bliss Wiant and Philip James, ending with a film The Heart of India.
Mrs Boney Weed visited Columbus relatives. Debbie Stuber of Lima visited her grandparents in Columbus. Dale Parsons and Nancy of Belpre visited Mr and Mrs Harrison Rider. Mrs Rossella Hixinebaugh led a Sunday class of 15. Addie Huntley Evelyn Turner visited their brother John Schmidt in Columbus. Mir and Mrs Everett Seins were of Mr and Mrs Everett. Mrs Junior Fuller and son Randy with Ruth Alberry and Bull visited sister Mrs Jean Carey of Moline Illinois.
Sunday school times worship and events for Amesville, Sharpsburg, and The Plains churches. Include Rev. Frazier Hess Thornton majors with services and weekday meetings across multiple congregations in Amesville area.
Edwin P Jordan, M D, offers guidance on a reader’s troubled marriage parenting and health concerns. He cautions open discussion with a sympathetic physician and discusses heredity mental health and potential medical issues in a lengthy letter excerpt.
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