This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 21 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1935
Page
7
A puzzle like OCR fragment mentions aid and kin with stray letters and partial words. It reads as an unclear note about support from someone named Mean and others, with jumbled formatting and missing context.
Flooded Muskingum river alters plans as Amer pico group of the ster Legion announces a Sunday gathering. Participants are asked to meet at Embree Park near Petead with transportation arranged by Pennsville Lagoa Building.
Residents can enroll in University extension courses at Ohio University in Athens for credit toward a degree or upon completion. Night and Saturday sessions begin in September with weekly meetings and a 10 course offering. Local families, including Mr and Mrs W W Bryson and Mrs Elizabeth, visited relatives during a lengthy stay in the area.
Glouster High School faculty member Kermit Blosser, pursuing a Columbia University master’s, was personally welcomed by boxing great Jack Dempsey at his New York City restaurant on Eighth Avenue opposite Madison Square Garden.
Glouster defeated Murray City 40 in a Thursday game with Toth delivering a high quality effort allowing only one hit through the seventh inning. Bishopville services note Reverend Charles Crawford, Byesville, to preach Sunday with special music.
The Bible Class of the Church of Christ met Wednesday afternoon at Mrs Floyd Nye’s High Street home with Mrs Sam Tippett as leader. Devotions included a hymn and prayer circle. lessons by Mrs Lloyd Pendergrass and Mrs Nye. a piano solo by Mrs Nye. and a recitation by Thelma Jean Brookins. A contest rewarded Mrs James Long and Mrs Pendergrass. refreshments were served.
CHAUNCEY The Ohio River Baptist Ministers Association holds a conference at Zion Baptist Church starting today through Sunday. Services were held Friday at 2 pm and 7 30 pm, with Friday night, Saturday multiple services, a basket dinner Saturday, and morning and evening preaching Sunday. Pastor Guss Graham leads Zion Church.
Mr and Mrs Leroy Sater Fay Dowler of Lancaster announce the birth of a seven and a half pound daughter named Patricia Ann born Wednesday at the Dowler home in Chauncey. Grandparents are Eugene Dowler of Chauncey and Mr and Mrs Alex McCune of Logan.
Oliver Gary received a surprise birthday gathering at his in law’s home in Pomeroy Ohio on a Sunday. Relatives attended the picnic dinner including Gary Sr Oren Shain and daughter Angie Elizabeth Roush and son Wayne Oliver Gary and son Teddy and Clarence Langel with sons Kenneth Roy and Ralph.
Zion Baptist Church in Chauncey was presented a piano by Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Lange for use in Sunday School and services. The instrument was used Wednesday night with Mrs. John Farley delivering the sermon and Mrs. Bessie Moore continuing as organist and pianist. The Mingus family plans a reunion in Chauncey on Sunday August 18 at Alice Johnsons home with a basket dinner elections and program.
Logan residents welcomed relatives and friends from Detroit Toledo Buffalo Miami Columbus Wheeling Junction City and Hackensack as visitors arrived for short stays or extended visits with local families including the Stoodys Smiths Groves and Cherringtons.
Donaldson and Boring of Gore are named as club demonstrators to judge a fair contest. Tests were conducted in the afternoon to select the study group. Lena Adcock will store the flowers. Bonnie Belle Donald and others await finalCounty representation remains undecided.
Strawn of 8 and S. Market held Westinghouse hitless until the final inning as Strawn pitched well for the Logan Recreation League Thursday night in a 6 to 3 win. Jap Ties hammered a homer with one aboard and Jimmy Kern added a timely double for the victors. The winners scored three early after two outs due to an error.
Logan hospital notes report Lillian Russell of Nelsonville returning home from Cherrington Hospital after appendectomy. Ivor Dawley and son Neil of Ward Township underwent tonsillectomy. Nelson Delong of Laurelville and E N Turner of Logan, jury commissioners, finished selecting 200 names for next year’s jury wheel and reported to Judge Harley M Whitcraft.
Logan society notes celebrate Misa Charlene Riley of Miami and Mrs. Yocum of Mechanicsburg with a pink and white dinner party and bridge. Gifts and high scores mark the gathering as guests and honorees are listed. A sixth birthday party for Harry Watson includes a bicycle and other gifts. Picnic plans for the Among Ourselves Club are ruined by high water, but a home picnic proceeds. Various clubs host bridge and needlework gatherings with refreshments and social time.
Chauncey Church of Christ members held cottage prayer meetings Wednesday night at the homes of Miss Hannah Hibbard and Mrs Eliza Burton. Local families and visitors were noted at multiple gatherings, with extended visits among Nye Herrick Long and Dicken families and porch remodeling underway on Warner Avenue in Logan by Edward C Hamilton and Harry W Shaw.
Logan residents report L. B. Wolfe sustaining a serious fall from an 18 foot ladder at the John Shaw farm in Green Township. He fractured his right wrist and tore ligaments in his right hip while painting the barn roof. A local physician treated him before he returned home.
Charles Pleukharp of Zanesville informed his father C. E Pleukharp that he was safe after one of the worst floods in the city. The Y Bridge was closed at both ends with the river at flood stage and rising Thursday morning.
County commissioners and Auditor W S Yaw met at the County Home for their monthly bu etnses meeting.
David Moore of this city departed Friday for Mount Pleasant Michigan with Company H Bell to visit Hood Weatherford, a schoolmate who was injured seriously in a motor vehicle accident this week.
Rev J A Long pastor of the West Side Church of Christ Dayton will fill the Chauncey pulpit Sunday morning after Bible School. He is visiting Mr and Mrs George Harvey at Nye.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.