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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1937
Page
2
Nelsonville area churches announce topics for Sunday services at First Methodist. Rev H A Rothrocks preaches Is the Christ Unreasonable at 10 30 am with Sunday School at 9 30 am. Union meeting at 7 30 pm features Rev Leland Goodman Keeping Men on Their Feet.
The Rev. and Mrs. B. A. Awe return from Springfield where the Pilgrim Holiness Church assembly recalled him as pastor for another year. Highlights include record Sunday School attendance of 336 and a Men's Bible Class averaging about 60.
Nelsonville Esther Class members held an all day sewing party at the Christian Church. They plan quilts and fancy work for an early December bazaar with a home made foods booth. Local clubs will gather at Buckeye Lake Park August 26 for Newark Day. Nelsonville members may attend.
BUCHTEL Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Allen New Lexington and Mrs. Thomas Davis Buchtel visited friends in Athens Wednesday. Mrs. Angeline Bacanis who has been ill several months is reported improved. Miss Audrey Davis is visiting her sister Mrs. Ed Evans in Nelsonville. Miss Patricia Rose Logan is visiting her grandmother Mrs. Thomas Davis in Buchtel.
Mr and Mrs Max Bartoe and Mr and Mrs Watson Wolfe joined a Mansfield party at North Palm Beach in Huron Ohio for a weekend gathering with friends.
The Connett Parent Teacher Association will hold an ice cream supper at the school house on Tuesday evening in August. Homemade ice cream will be served.
Nelsonville. Francis D. White and Harry A. Mettler with 33 other lawyers earned certificates qualifying them to practice before Southern Ohio District Federal Courts after a Monday examination in Columbus.
Vinton notes list weekend visits across Gallipolis Columbus Westerville and more with families including Ward Philips Love Spires Quickle and others. The column also flags weddings Wilbur Gray and Laura McGhee in Huntington and Colby Freshcorn Lucille Spires in Gallipolis. Irene Casto from Baltimore visits family.
The report estimates the United States could field roughly 600 serviceable combat aircraft in a wartime posture. About 270 of these planes are considered modern and not obsolete, highlighting a potential gap between available airpower and current aircraft standards.
Glouster social page notes visits from notable families and relatives including the McCallister Sperbeck Albee and Foley clans. Columbus and Cleveland visitors stay with locals at Buckeye Lake and Glouster cottages while others travel to Niagara Falls and Buffalo. A Jacksonville couple welcome a daughter Sue Ann weighing nine pounds four ounces with grandmother Lalla Dunnett mentioned.
Judging Contest delegates Harold Frantz Ralph Mosure Charles Rauber and Ray Beery representing Hocking County were taken to Wooster today by extension agent James R. Smoot to participate in a state wide dairy judging contest. The youths will also travel to the State Fair for further judging contests.
Mr and Mrs Ted Langley and son Jack of Murray City Mrs Mae Shivney and son Don Mrs Mary Hayden and daughter Elizabeth of Buchtel visited Cantwell Cliffs Sunday.
Roy D. Chapin built the first light car to travel from Detroit to New York City in 1901 using an Oldsmobile curved dash runabout.
The reading notes conflicting astral developments with anxiety over employment but offset by favorable conditions for new contracts and agreements. It warns to safeguard private life harmony while birthday individuals may face business hurdles yet gain in undertakings. Speculative measures are encouraged and a born child may be versatile and clever in seizing advantages.
A large crowd at Pythian Park Recreation Center enjoyed tennis, volleyball, horseshoes, and swings while cyclists raced around the field. The boys athletic badge test was postponed to this afternoon due to the crowd. Chester defeated Middleport in a baseball game as the Middleport High School Band provided entertainment.
Funeral services for Mrs. Jennie Gorsuch and Mrs. Sarah Seyfried were held Friday afternoon with interment in Beach Grove Cemetery. Ed Durst suffered a painful middle finger laceration when a large cinder piece fell on his hand.
In Syracuse the Loyal Helpers Class of the M E Church will host an outdoor ice cream social on the church lawn this evening for the public. The event invites neighbors to enjoy treats and socialize in a community gathering.
Nelsonville reports a double-header softball match between Kimberly and Buchtel at Birch Hollow Grove for the Nanna Brandenburg and York Township Old Settlers Reunion next Sunday August 15. First game is slated for 1 30 p m.
A stream of social calls fills Sugar Creek with visits across Nelsonville Athens Chauncey and Jacksonville. Notables include Mr. and Mrs Clyde Sedwieck Mrs Laura Noble and family and Harold Lycks while Harold Moody Clancy Porter Miss Imelda Smith and others share weekends and hospital stays. Prayers and condolences follow the death of William Noble in New Straitsville.
Meigs County road work moves forward with S H 777 relocation near Ravenswood set to start within three weeks. The 1.8 mile gravel route will reroute from SR 124 to rejoin 124, cutting four miles of Ohio River road. Repairs to slips on Route 124 395 and Route 7 near Hobson planned with 60 percent federal funding. An $89,000 appropriation funds the Reedsville Welch Road project with gravel and limestone plans.
Pomeroy notes show families visiting Buckeye Lake Columbus Lake side trips and traveling to Dayton Canada Athens Charleston Tipton Missouri and Iowa. Mrs Ebersbach Mrs Bramblage Miss Williamson and Miss Clifton among others visit relatives while church groups hold a missionary picnic and a White Cove quilting party with a birthday potluck at Pocahontas Red Men hall.
Mr. and Mrs. Rex Ackley hosted a dinner at her Syracuse home with her sisters Mrs. Benton Penn Mulberry Ave. and Mrs. Virgil McAllister Barberton and Mrs. Henry Hennessy Middleport. Sister M Cyrilla and Sister M Alease return from Melbourne Kentucky visit. Mrs A C Jones recovering from illness. Miss Edith Bowen leaves for Cullum Alabama to be guest of Rev Theodore Mehl. Reverend
Mrs Benton Carl and granddaughter Dorothy of Lima and Mrs A J Walker of Columbus visit the Bowers home on Broadway. Mrs Grate travels to Buckeye Lake with Mrs Miller and Mrs Reed. Philathea women host a handkerchief shower for Mrs Fred Gardner as five playmates’ mothers organize a lawn party for Joyce Gardner. About 25 children attend with games and acrobatics by Frances Frecker. Paul Smart gives Joyce a farewell gift. Phila Thea meeting brief. Emma Welch hosts bridge. Langsville Entsminger reunion planned. David Entsminger family visits Kenneth in Charleston. Mrs Tompkins hosts contract club. Edward Duffy tops scorer. orange dishware and dragon centerpiece noted.
Mrs Julia Kerr wife of Walter Kerr a native of Middleport now living in Huntington was hosted by Mrs C F Rathburn. Accompanied by Miss Helene Wilson she supervises 15 counties in West Virginia Recreation project. Also present were cousin Miss Lorraine Flesher a Pennsylvania teacher and Mr and Mrs W T Moore Chesapeake.
Robert Flesher came home from Camp Wilson near Bellefontaine after a summer there. He will attend Greenbriar Military School at Lewisburg W Va this fall and has won 37 athletic awards. He plans to enter Greenbriar two weeks before the new school term starts.
Heath M. E. Church in Middleport holds choir practice at 7 30 p m tonight. Four Sundays remain before the annual conference. Rev. Clarence Swearingen sets the theme The All Sufficient Jesus with sermons from the life giving words I Am Light I Am Life I Am Bread I Am Shepherd I Am Vine.
A community sunset supper at the David Entsminger home on Lincoln Street hosted three brothers Elmont Aurora Il, Charles Mitchell, and D Langslinge Entsminger from Langsville. Also present were Mrs Patsminger’s sister Mrs Anna Miller and Langside Macias Patocsinawne.
A three course dinner marked a Wednesday afternoon party at the Reeves home in Athens honoring Mr. Carl Reeves. Attendees included Pearl Reeves Dr. John Lowery Sarah Vander ford and Nellie Nicholas all staff at the State Hospital in Athens. A pleasant social afternoon followed.
Mrs J C Roedel visited her husband at Holzer Hospital on Wednesday. Mr Roedel recently underwent surgery and is improving satisfactorily and will soon be able to return home.
A surprise party hosted at Mr. and Mrs. Adam Ebersbach on East Main Street celebrated their daughter Irene who is to wed this Sunday. Attendees included friends who brought many attractive gifts while refreshments were served. Other items note visitors to area residents and brief travel from Logan to Pomeroy, Steubenville, Chillicothe, Athens, and Columbus with various family ties and illness.
Meigs County farmers anticipate the largest hay harvest in years, with corn and wheat yields above recent averages. Fruit size and quantity are fair to above average, and garden crops boost farm income. Potatoes are reported at their best since 1928, though acreage has fallen sharply over the past decade.
Inventories appraisements and schedules of debts filed in multiple estates listed by name including Morris Snow Charles Snow Franke Kimes Sarah Alderman Matthew Weisenbach Elizabeth Gross Addie Hickman P. W. Hickman Jane Wilkinson William Meseher Martha Haning Mary Cox L. Withers William Skinner Henry Taylor Mathew Weisenbach Emmett Carter William Cooper and Addie Russell. Hearing before the court on August 36 1957 at 9 a.m. Interested parties may file exceptions before the hearing. Probate Judge Louis Tyroler.
Cottrill and Tishner were jailed for one to 20 years after pleading guilty to stealing a car owned by Charles Hysell Jr. of Minersville during a carnival in Pomeroy. The vehicle was found wrecked near Chester. Cottrill is listed as Yukon Florida and Tishner as Evertsville Indiana.
The Rev. Naylor Suply will preach on The Church's One Foundation at 10 30 a.m. Sunday. Sunday School led by William Watson starts at 9 30 a.m. An evening service at 7 30 p.m. will ask Where Will You Spend Eternity.
Tile work will be set at once in the massive chimney and fireplace in the lounge of the Hotel La Salle. The hotel, purchased by H. N. Swift, has undergone plumbing, shell texture walls, new rest rooms, and a full modernization including repairs and redecorating.
Pat Thornton who recently underwent an appendicitis operation at St. Joseph Hospital was returned to his home on the Pomeroy Harrisonville Road Thursday. Mr and Mrs Charles Gilkey employed at the OHE at Gallipolis spent Thursday with them.
Walter Cranston of West Main Street is recovering after a yard fall at his home caused a fractured shoulder bone.
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