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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1927
Page
7
Messenger correspondents record a busy Sunday of family visits and travels across multiple towns. Residents from Columbus to Cleveland, Newark to Warren, share visits with relatives and friends while noting births and local gatherings.
New England Mrs Charis Williams was a business visitor in Athens Thursday. Mrs Hatt Dodds and sister Ea Ginn of Atens are spending a few weeks nearby. None Williams of Columbus was the weekend guest at his home. Mrs Julis Boyles and daughter Bernice of Kansas are visiting relatives. Mr and Mrs 8 J Davis and son Belford of Canaanville spent a day with Mrs Fred Starlin and family. Forestite Starin of Columbus spent Sunday here. Annual home coming of the Guyeville M E circuit will be held Sunday August 21 at New England with an all day meeting and picnic dinner. Mr and Mrs Fred Starlin and sons Ward and Foster were in Athens Saturday. Miss Vera Watt is visiting at the home of her uncle B B Wyatt.
Harrisonville resident Norman Meyer spent summer with Emmet Mayhugh and returned to Columbus Sunday. Akron’s Charles and Howard Turner visit with their parents at week’s end. A Ladies Union play Saturday night drew a $38 revenue. Howard Hipps came home from Dayton where he worked. Evelyn Bunter of Sandyville WV visited last week. T A Wesh and two daughters from Detroit Muh visit relatives. Bert Hogue and Mrs Columbus called on John Blackwood’s family. Miss Elli Steward spent Thursday with sister Mare Ball.
The item lists visits and travel by residents including Mr. and Mrs. Fred de Weese and three sons with Joe Connell from New Marshfield visiting George Gabriel Sr. and family. Other notes cover medical travel, school trips, missionary convocation attendance, road work near Ed Mihmael's home, and various social visits across Athens, Columbus, Mansfield, and surrounding towns.
Sunday and Monday reports note Mrs. Rob Hawk Neva and Beulah Hawk traveling to Nelsonville to visit Mrs. Adam Nash. Carl Micheals and family visited George Thorn and Ed Micheals with Georgia Fern Willoughby. Carl returned Monday. His wife and baby stayed with her parents the Thorn couple. Charles Wright and son from Haydenville stopped by Hutchins Sunday night.
Syracuse Miss Gertrude McBride and Lenore Campbell return from Ohio University summer study. Meigs County teachers D B Williams Carl Weese W S White A L Flanagan and others attend the Meigs County Teacher's Institute at Pomeroy. Several locals visit kin and travel between Gallipolis Huntington Canton and Donora. The foreign missionary picnic was postponed due to bad weather.
Bedford residents Mr and Mrs Jessie Cueckler and children stayed with Glen Hart and family. W L Whaley and son Tracy hosted with Cuckler and Hines families. Dale Carl and Hazel visited Edison Hart. Delores Whaley visited her mother Addie Shumway. Everett Dixon of Albany recently visited W L Whaley family.
An all day meeting and basket dinner was held at the Lottridge A B church Sunday. A program of recitations and special music followed. The Rev. Wilson of Coolville delivered a sermon. Attendees included Mr and Mrs L H Allen and son Ralph Mr and Mrs H R Watkins and family and Mrs Murphey and children. Mildred Runnion attended the 4 H Club camp at Camp Copeland last week. The Plains family spent Sunday.
The Sharpsburg annual home-coming at Mt Hermon, held Saturday through Sunday, drew large attendance with sessions on chickens by Sargent and a Philippines talk by Phillip Charles. A pageant The March of the Years by Mrs. Bertha Lambert Harris followed, and Sunday featured speeches, music by Bartlett and Carmel choirs, and visits from locals including Bardins and the Burns family.
The Zaleski area notes visitors and stays from Athens Wellington Columbus and London. Principal Thomas resumes teaching near Wellington after a year in a centralized system. Miss Lola Rhodes marries Raymond Reeves. Various relatives and friends travel between Zaleski McArthur Athens and Prattsville. Ripley Rhodes visits Lancaster and Christopher Webb returns from Columbus.
A surprise party was held Saturday afternoon at the home of Mr and Mrs Lester L Cordray for their son John s eleventh birthday. Guests included Helen Cordray Mae Kennedy Mary Haning Thelma Mary Alice Patrick Evelyn Gaston Betty McVey Pauline McKnight Rex Warren Kennedy Charles Riley Byron Gaston Kenneth Patrick Robert McKnight and Lawrence Buchanan. Miss Helen Cordray entertained her cousin Miss Mable Cordray of Mannington West Virginia.
The twenty first Thomas Dailey Jr descendants reunion met in Albany opera house due to a storm instead of the woods. About seventy members attended with Rebecca Carpenter the only death reported in the last year. Officers elected: Custer Fought president Ney Carpenter vice president Esther Dailey secretary. Numerous relatives and guests from Columbus Lyndon Saturday and nearby towns visited, with many travel notes and arrivals mentioned. Birth announced for Ralph Eugene Robinson, son of Mr and Mrs Henry Robinson, a former Albany resident.
Guests of Mr. and Mrs. O. Dailey and others shared Sunday evenings and extended visits with relatives in Athens Albany Columbus Wellston and Detroit. Travelers included Miss Pauline Jones Roy Jones and families.
Miss Hazel Lewis leads and is assisted by Miss Julia Stanley as Albany Girl's 4 H club members Fern Lewis Donna Sanders Pauline Gillogly Lucy Stanley Lena Hoisington and Nadine Bailes camp near Cantor's Cave in Jackson county this week.
Thirty six members and guests attended the Wells home on Railroad street for a Monday evening meeting of class 99. After the business session a program featured readings by Mrs. Gibson Mrs Ed Bailes and Mrs Harry Rowell and musical selections by the Wells concert company led by Mrs Wells with members including Mrs Gibson Mrs Ed Bailes Mrs T M Bosworth and Miss Faye Baker. Refreshments followed and the next regular meeting is set for the third Monday in September.
Amesville residents record suggests guests including Attorney J C Pettitt and daughter Rhea Logan. Verel Vleming sustains broken arm from a car kick. Birthday outing for Junior Timberlake. Fred Wison relocates to Painter Building tea room run by Mrs Alice Wilson. Various visits from Springfield Newark Columbus Nelsonville and Basil with news of 4 H club fundraiser netting fifty four dollars.
A series of short notes records visitors from here to relatives in Athens Albany Zanesville and Bridgeport and returns of locals to see kin in Middleport Salem Center Pomeroy and Harrisonville. Names include Miss Elinor Martin Mrs Libby Reeves Mrs Lani Harris Mr Eber Chapman and many others with dates noted as last week or over the weekend.
Troy Grange will hold a regular session at the hall Saturday afternoon August 20 with the lecture hour on the third and fourth degrees. Local social notes mention guests of Miss Fay Chapman in California and various family visits, plus Chautauqua events and travels of residents to Columbus Cleveland and Pennsylvania.
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