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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1925
Page
5
Mrs. A. Stewart and children Doris and Don of Cleveland Heights travel with Mr. and Mrs. Brent Metcalf and their son Bobby from Cedar Point. They will be guests for one month.
Prof W H Cooper head of Ohio university public speaking department and Mrs Cooper entertained at dinner Monday evening at the Colonial. The cast of the college play Her Husbands Wife includes Ruth Hollinger as make up and prompter. The cast and Mr Cox resident of Laurelville plan to stage the play tonight in Community hall under Cox who owns the rights there.
Mr. DeWitt Holt of Philadelphia is staying a few days with Mr. K. K. Farnsworth aboard the Colonial. The visit brings together two local figures for a short social stay in the city.
Mrs A R Sprague will host the Friendship Needle club at her home on East State street this Thursday afternoon. The 88 percent resident is noted for welcoming members and organizing community craft sessions.
Mrs H L Atkinson hosted a dinner at 167 North Lancaster street for old friends visiting Athens guests of Mr and Mrs E L Church of 5 West State Street. Attending were Mrs Simon Carman and her son and daughter in law, Mr and Mrs Irving Carman of Chicago, Mr and Mrs B E Church, and daughter Christine with the hostess.
Mr Westcott Roach and Mr Belford Nelson traveled from Sharpsville Pennsylvania to visit home folks on Monday. Roach will depart Saturday with sister Miss Hazel Roach for Zanesville to visit brother in law and sister Mr and Mrs F G Flegal. Roach will return to Sharpsville and Miss Roach goes back to Athens.
Mrs R R McAfee attended the funeral of her uncle Claude Minx in Parkersburg West Virginia. Minx was a local resident with ties to the community.
Mr and Mrs C E Dupler depart today for a two week vacation to visit friends and relatives in Washington DC and Hartsdale New York.
Miss Velma Benedict Miss Lucy Mercer Miss Mary Anderson Mr Henry Benedict and Mr Emerson Flesher of Marietta motored here to visit Mr Albert Ormiston who attends Ohio University this summer.
The Queen Es ther Circle of the First Methodist church plans a World’s Fair cafeteria supper from 4:30 to 6:30 this Friday to raise 96 for an Indian girl’s Oklahoma schooling. The gathering adds to gifts for a Christmas box from the League of Women Voters and notes several local travels and a birth notice at Holzer hospital for Mary Carolyn Hopkins.
The Tech League of Women Voters mailed out notices to its members announcing a meeting for Friday. Details on time and location were not provided in the readable text.
Announcement of a Friday afternoon meeting to discuss city primaries. The ticket will be explained and comments made on the lack of names submitted to voters. The meeting is members only, new members welcome, at the Fair ground at 4 o clock. Members are urged to stay for a pot luck supper after.
Mr J D Brown hosts cousins and Mrs Laura Parker of Cleveland along with Mrs Harry McKinstry and Mrs J Nelson Brown. They traveled from Cleveland to Lake Chautauqua Buffalo Niagara Falls and into Canada before returning home.
Mr. and Mrs. A. T Johnson spent a week in Columbus with their children Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Lin scott and Mr. and Mrs. Justus Brown. Their grandson Homer L. Brown accompanied them home and will stay the rest of the summer.
Mr. and Mrs. George Whipple of 129 North Congress street host Mrs. Mary Whipple and her granddaughter Miss Helen Bain from Chicago as house guests.
Mr and Mrs Bert Lowery of 5 Stimson Avenue announce the birth of their son William Leonard on Tuesday August 4.
Verna Irene Miner was born Sunday at Sheltering Arms hospital to Mr and Mrs Eugene Miner of Trimble. Evelyn Varney of Jackson ville had a tonsillectomy at Sheltering Arms. Phoebe Hayes of Athens was admitted for observation at the local hospital. Homer Gall and infant Homer Jr have returned home. Gall heads the Athens State hospital dairy. Frances Vorhes remains convalescent at the hospital with her infant daughter. Lozan King is improving after a self inflicted gunshot incident during an arrest attempt by Chief Herb Parker.
Judge C. E. Peoples of Pomeroy spoke to the Kiwanis at Hotel Berry, stressing spiritual development as essential to the club mission. He urged daily Christian practice and the Golden Rule to guide ethics in business and society, noting Kiwanis progress and future aims. Next Tuesday Athens Kiwanis will visit Glouster to promote possible club formation.
Paris reports the French government will launch a big and immediate offensive in Morocco after conferences between Marshal Petain and Premier Painleve. The move aims at a decisive drive against the Rif rebel forces, with Petain noting complete unity among French military forces.
In El Paso Texas on August 4 relief teams mobilized as the Rio Grande overflow inundated thousands of acres of cotton land and left scores of residents homeless prompting active relief measures.
Miss Violet Russell returned yesterday to her grandmother Mrs Mollie Campbell at 73 West Carpenter Street after a ten days visit in Parkersburg West Virginia with Mr and Mrs Clarence Tocus.
Miss Vada M Dartt daughter of E A Dartt of Pratt s Fork has been granted a special life certificate by the state board of school examiners She is an Ohio University graduate class of 1922 and has done postgraduate work at the Art Institute Chicago For the last three years she has taught in Warren city schools.
In New York on August 4 women join men in a feverish Rockaways land boom. Dozens of millionaires are made overnight as real estate offices multiply and property values surge, sweeping crowds and a wave of hysteria through the market.
William Roy of the United Mine Workers announced five tent colonies would be erected at once for striking miners families in West Virginia Panhandle. A dozen tents are up in Moundsville with more villages planned in Colliers Wellsburg Warwood and Richland to house about 75 families by week’s end.
A quip notes that wealth increases desire yet humorously claims a man with many possessions would not expect twins. The source frames this as a light political or social aside from the Newerk American-Tribune.
A clipped note suggests August heat affects car radiators, claiming flivver systems seldom freeze tight during summer months and implying reliable performance in hot weather.
Mrs Ver non Helen Gould, reportedly of the Gould millions, was married quietly in Reno to Wilbur N. Rose, a California and Nevada insurance man, the ceremony held two days prior.
Before returning to Mattoon Wisconsin to aid the investigation of Miss Cora Stallman 48 the sister of the supposed murder victim Mrs Thomas Seaman declared she believed the former Cincinnati school teacher took her own life.
In Cleveland on August 4, a group of safe crackers extended weekend robberies by looting the Maver-Marks company vault for about $3,000. They fled, dropping $800 in currency later recovered in a hall.
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