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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1928
Page
3
C H Bartlett serves as the Messenger correspondent for Nelsonville issuing local items from that community. Readers are urged to telephone their news to 41 percent W for submission.
Nelsonville Chamber of Commerce will hold a meeting at the YMCA Thursday evening at 6 15 o clock with Oral Daugherty as speaker. Attendance is expected to be large. A Moose big fish supper will be served at the hall tonight with officers urging a large turnout.
The ladies of St Agnes Guild will meet at Mrs James McKee's home Wednesday evening at seven o'clock.
Nelsonville Aug 8 Mrs Julia Hayes is taken to St Francis hospital Columbus Monday evening accompanied by Miss Ethel Walker city health nurse for treatment.
Mr and Mrs Leonard Hawk Grovet reet announce the birth of a daughter at their home Tuesday Kans 7. She has been named Nita yean.
The Loyal Woman's class met Tuesday evening in the church parlors with thirty members and guests present. Hostesses included Mrs. Blanche Barrows and others led by president Mrs. Sam Starkey. A Pollyanna class group later picnic on Kantners Hill with several girls and chaperones.
Margaret Newman leaves Tuesday for Toledo to visit her brother Edward for a few weeks. John W. Scott plans three weeks in Columbus for a new job. Mrs W E Figgins and children visit her parents Mr and Mrs H A Sines. Clayton E Neikirk of Hagertown Maryland stayed with Miss Redempa Sines. Mrs Adda Maccombs visited Athens for a Kappa Delta Pi initiation at Lindley Hall.
Short funeral services for Mrs. Frances Golden Ballard wife of Dr. Frank O Ballard who died in a hospital in Indianapolis Saturday night were held at 10 o'clock this morning in the Presbyterian church. Burial was made in the West Union street cemetery. The funeral cortege arrived in Athens last evening and went to the home of Miss Nellie H Van Vorhes in University terrace a cousin. Before leaving for Athens funeral services were held in Indianapolis where Doctor Ballard now on the faculty of Hanover college was minister of the Memorial Presbyterian church for twenty four years. Among those here for the funeral besides Doctor Ballard were the children Mrs David S Smith Indianapolis Felix Ballard Birmingham Ala Will Ballard New York City Roger Ballard Chicago Nela Golden brother of Mrs Baird Pittsburgh Pa Charles E Fish Winchester Mass a brother in law Mrs A J Kessinger Miss Lucy Ballard sisters of Dr Ballard and Mr A J Kessinger of Lancaster.
Plans for an Athens county fair exhibit were discussed by the Athens Garden club in the county farm agent’s office. All vegetable varieties will be shown and gardens will be judged Monday August 20 with prizes awarded by the Athens Kiwanis club. The next meeting is set for Monday at 9 in the county agent’s office.
The Buchtel Old Timers won their latest game 11 to 2 against a Buchtel youth squad in Nelsonville. The seasoned lineup features Dr. Walker at first Ed Smathers on second and Ben Wagner at third with Joe Taylor at short. The visiting squad heads to Glouster Thursday for a challenging match against Glouster A C as age humorously highlights their lineup.
In Fremont 500 women at the Catholic Ladies of Columbia meeting heard Bishop Samuel A. Stritch blame social evils on women. He said women have lost self sacrifice and, by displaying charms, contribute to looseness in relationships. He called today’s women modern Augustas.
A large family reunion with a basket dinner gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Sprague in Rocky Point. Numerous Sprague relatives from multiple towns attended including Ackleys, McClanahans, Spragues, Bennetts, Williams, and others. Thirty-nine counties will share over $3 million in highway work let August 31, with Athens County included.
Fred Sauders Souders, of Buchtel, wanted on a reckless driving charge, was located in Cleveland but escaped. Traffic Officer Wilson Ator and Constable Kenneth Allstock pursued him to Buchtel then to Souders home where he had already left for Cleveland. Authorities sought his return to Athens County for arraignment.
C H Bowen appeared before Justice Felix Riley this morning and pleaded not guilty to speeding and reckless driving. He was bound over to the grand jury under a $200 bond after an affidavit by Traffic Officer Wilson Ator. Ailstock aided in the arrest. Edgar Sanders of Buchtel was arrested in Cleveland for driving with a fictitious license and will be arraigned in Athens today.
Harold Evans head of the Ohio university dramatics department presented an interpretation of Louis Parker's A Minuet at the convocation this morning. The verse play follows a French marquis and marchioness awaiting death in a prison cell as a jailer observes. The reading drew enthusiastic applause from the large Ewing auditorium audience.
White Hall residents visited Hebron Sunday and spent the day with James Adair. George Foulk of Columbus and Melvin Duckler's family were guests of local households. Mack Braley and wife attended the Philips reunion at Dundas, as Lovan Rizer visited near McArthur this week.
Son Raymond and Mrs. Lovan Rizville with Howard Duckler spent Monday night in Nelson- wife.
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