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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1903
Page
9
Miss Ruby Manzie Jett visits her aunt Mrs. Sarah Strickler in Zanesville. Residents return from Lancaster and Crawfordsville moves, with many readers hosting relatives and friends. Note: numerous social calls, journeys to Athens Wellston Pomeroy and other towns. a birth announced and a Lancaster death of Maggie Bateman Rhodes.
Mrs L R Pierce recovers from malarial fever as Miss Lizzie Niggemeyer and the Dench family visit John Niggemeyer. Camp meeting attendance at Coolville. James Scott dies Sunday evening. Notables include Kate Young of Cincinnati visiting, George Benson noted, and several locals from Athens Millfield and Smithfield mentioned. Buber home hosts callers. several from New York join.
Coolville residents report a new brick walk under construction by Charter and Gail Driggs who recently visited their mother. Local threshing men H E Bennett Johnnie Hughes and Harst Shields returned from Oklahoma after threshing 28000 bushels of wheat in 29 days. J M Basom of Parkersburg spent Sunday at home. Annie Hitchcock, once a Coolville resident now in Chicago, visits friends here. Lillian and Grace Coe of Belpre visited Clara Higley. Zee Knowles of Torch visits Luella Knowles. Francis Ackey of Pomeroy visits Lucile Chevalier. Mr and Mrs W C Higley and daughter Nannie visit Rut-
Springfield visitors Emmet Combs and Annette Walker shared time with Mrs EB Ui Smith. Albans couple Mr. and Mrs. Grimes visited relatives here with their daughter Neisel. Edson Dean from Athens spent the day with his parents. Ivy Davis and Willie Campbell of Corning visited their grandmother Mrs. Thomas Phillips. Charles Love of Athens called on friends. Warland Brill returned home from Oakhill for a short visit. Blanche Egener and Carl Hayes recently married at Marietta.
George Ginn visits Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Painter while Florence Harra stays with her brother Elmer Harra in Amesville. Local residents Lortz family visits, births noted, and Company B of Marietta passes through en route to Newark for three weeks encampment. The local grange buys a new organ for their lodge in the K of P building.
Local items include guests visiting the Barrows and Doan households in Coolville and Liverpool W Va, travels of the Mechanicburg Methodist Protestant Sunday School to Columbus and Olentangy Park, and several announcements of visitors. Labor Day excursion details list round trip fares and dates for Ohio events including the Democratic conventions.
A string of brief social items notes Pearl McGrath visiting the Baldersons in Malta, Miss Reba i of Marksburg visiting friends, Ila Evans visiting relatives in Herbardsville and Athens, Lizzie Blaive vacationing with her aunt in Columbus, and several others attending camp meetings or visiting kin across Columbus, Malta, Jerseyville, and Albany.
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