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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1937
Page
3
Rio Grande area notes list church activities with sermons at Calvary Church and Youth events at Lover's Hill. Members of the Ladies Aid Society, health updates, visits from relatives and travel for locals appear alongside school staff changes and housing moves.
Pat Moran files petition in Athens County Court of Common Pleas seeking cancellation of a deed to real estate in two tracts located in Township 5 Range 11, sec 4. Defendants William J Moran Florence Moran Marie Donnalley and Henrietta Dugan must answer by September 11, 1937 or judgment may be entered.
Garden notes report the birth of a daughter on July 30 to Mr and Mrs Oris Davis with grandparents listed as Mr and Mrs Eugene Davis and Mr and Mrs Denver Hull of Darwin. Ed Russell and family of Dexter visited Mr and Mrs O C Barnes. Dwight Burton and Dale Perry plus others attended a Buck family reunion at Carseytown. Mt Zion Church held a largely attended quarterly meeting overseen by Rev J A Harwood. Burton couple bought Cecil Barnes farm and gravel work starts on a Garden Road to Pratts Fork road near Eugene Davis home.
Taylor Ridge The Daily Vacation Bible School closed Friday night with a program at the Church of Christ under the direction of Miss Mary Margaret Cline Girard assisted by Miss Doras Mulpas. A handwork display and sale of ice cream cake and pop supported the project.
Long Bottom residents report several travel and family visits to East Liverpool Columbus and Independence Kansas for funerals, with Dr. E D Shumaker arriving by airplane, plus a collision near Five Points and a river steamer excursion. Families include the Shumaker, Swan, Hughes, Bitter, and Lambert networks with local and distant visits.
Letart Falls notes record Mrs. Albert Hill Jrs birthday party for Doris Cramlet with 35 friends and served ice cream and cake. Numerous visits and trips are listed including campers at Lancaster camp meeting and relatives in Columbus Perrysburg Westerville Akron and Charleston. Local events include a cement walk completion at the school and a community ice cream social planned for August 6 plus a Letart Island beach party for Sunday School classes.
Broadwell hosts home-coming at U B Church on Sunday August 22. Local families visit events, attend camp meetings, and travel among Stoutsville Chesterhill Amesville and nearby towns with residents joining relatives for Sunday gatherings and birthday dinners.
Miss Bonnie Faye Wolfe returned home after a three week visit with Miss Noma Perkins of Beaver Falls, Pa. Local visits include Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Smith and daughter Frances with A. W. Smith. Philip Meier of Pomeroy and Kate Wolf of Racine with T. E. Wolfe. An ice cream social is planned at Bethlehem Baptist Church on Friday evening August 6. Others visiting included Elmer Wolfe and P. L. Wolfe, plus Hazel Overholt and Nettie Alexander among West Staunton residents returning via Millersport to Cassie Johnston Foreman and family, sister to Mrs. P. L. Wolfe and Mrs. Frances Shilling. various neighbors called on T. E. Wolfe and friends Thursday afternoon.
CHESHIRE The last Quarterly conference for this year was held at the Cheshire church Sunday afternoon. Dr. Foster district superintendent of the Portsmouth district gave the sermon and led church business. Several local residents and visitors were mentioned among attendees and "CCC" Camp members were noted in Utah and Portsmouth area.
Notices hereby given that the assessment of the cost of improving West State St from Court Street to 910 feet north westerly from the beginning by grading draining curbing has been made and reported to council. Objections must be in writing within five weeks. By order of the council Athens Ohio July 1 1937. Cel Haimis clerk 7-21-30tw.
Langsville residents are invited to an ice cream social at Langsville Church on Friday evening Aug. 6 to benefit the church. The article also lists local residents visiting, working away, or returning home from trips and relatives in nearby towns.
Mrs Don Anders and daughter Miss Margaret Anders Nelsonville returned home after visiting her mother Mrs Annie Kohler and relatives. The Nazarene Church revival by Rev Ray Pidcock of Mineral closed after two weeks. Various locals and visitors from Columbus McArthur Athens Circleville and Portsmouth attended events and visits. St Slyvester Church lawn fete drew a large crowd clearing sixty dollars.
Seven Minnesota residents had butter products chosen in a national contest and will send exhibits to the World’s Dairy Congress in Berlin.
George M. Burke, 71, died at his home in the area on Sunday morning. Funeral at Bethlehem near Stewart on Wednesday at 2 PM with burial there. Several visitors and locals mentioned, including Mr. and Mrs. Harman, Mr. and Mrs. Harmon, and others from Mount Vernon, Cincinnati, Fremont, and Lancaster.
Mrs Joe Sharp and Mrs Randolph Conrad of Lancaster and Mrs Rufus Conrad of Sugar Grove are guests today of Mr and Mrs James Sharp. They came to be with Mrs Lloyd States and daughter Louise of Batesville Arkansas visiting in Southeastern Ohio.
Cleveland neighbors accuse Tom Dubeck of disruptive sleeping sounds. A city judge will question Dubeck who sleeps in a backyard deck chair and reportedly screams howls grunts and yells while dozing.
Miss Birchie Shafer daughter of Mr and Mrs James Shafer manager of the Nelsonville Dairy Store was removed to the Cherrington Hospital Logan this morning for an emergency operation for appendicitis.
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