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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1931
Page
5
Glouster’s Cooperative Store Company, formed in 1915, ends operations with dividends totaling 32 dollars per one dollar invested. Officials expect assets to cover original stock, with merchandise sold and only fixtures remaining. M. M. Bryson and long-time manager Dick Jones figure among key figures.
Beech Grove Church holds annual home-coming with morning sermon by Rev. Miles E. Hoon of Bishopville at 10 o'clock followed by a basket dinner at noon. Rev. Homer H. Vian of Glouster will speak in the afternoon with short talks by old-time residents. Evening services are not planned. All former residents are invited.
Brown's All Star team of Pittsburgh will play the best mixed team of Southern Ohio on the American Legion grounds in this city next Sunday afternoon. The Pittsburgh squad is an aggregation of colored players said to rank with Homestead Grays and Petersburg Crawfords. Manager Turner plans to field the region's top local players to face the visitors.
Central committeemen can no longer name multiple relatives for election judge or clerk posts under a new law ruling. Each committeeman may recommend only one family member, signaling changes in precinct staffing for the November election.
Red Town beat Jacksonville 10 to 6 on local grounds Tuesday afternoon. Mackey and Kutta delivered heavy hits and Matt Anderson pitched seven hits allowed with one walk. West allowed 10 hits and seven walks. Red Town extends winning streak to nine. Bailey Run game planned at 5 30 this evening.
Mr and Mrs J M Mead and daughters sae and Marguerite and Ralph Henry of Gloucester attended the Marquis family reunion in Caldwell Sunday. John Reed and Elza visited George Reed of Morganville. Charles Milhoan and children Dorothea and Mary Margaret visited John Milhoan at Burr Oak. Grace Sayre of Trimble stayed with Cath- rine Woodruff. Jessie McDonald stayed with Mildred Weiss in Millfield. Cora Shepard of Burr Oak visited Frank Pedicord. Francis and Eleanor Day hosted many friends with ice cream and cake Saturday night bringing about 50 guests. Odessa Day and daughter Eleanor visited Athens Monday.
Miss Mabel Cary of Trimble Heights resigns as home economics teacher at Hollister High School and takes a similar post at Rockbridge. Miss Katherine Metzger succeeds Cary at Hollister.
CHAUNCEY Aug 20 One of the largest Chauncey funerals for Paul Shields 19 son of Mr and Mrs C C Shields was held from St Pauls Catholic Church with burial in Athens Catholic Cemetery. He died Sunday evening after a heart attack following a swim at Crystal Pool Athens. He was a Chauncey Dover High student and earned letters in football basketball and track and received several medals. He is survived by his parents one sister Miss Margaret Shields and three brothers John Charles and Lawrence. Pallbearers were Joe Nicholson Leland Conant Carl Brown Carlos Mingus Elbert Minister and Virgil Ogg.
Chauncey observers report a new Willing Workers Club formed by local women to do home missionary work. Dues will fund charitable effort, with a meeting set for Aug 25 at Mrs. Minnie Palmer’s home. Members include Juanita Lockado, Marinda Cruikshank, Minnie Palmer, Maud Cunningham, Evelyn Bryan, Cleo Pencelli, Cynthia Karns, and William Clary. visitors Mrs Howett and Donna of Middleport attended.
Chauncey announces the birth of a seven pound son Floyd William on Wednesday morning to Mrs. Elizabeth Carolyn Gould at Beaumont. Mrs Gould's husband George Edward Gould was killed in a carnival accident in Kentucky three months ago.
Jesse Stires 56, longtime Chauncey resident, died at his home near Hocking after illness. He was son of the late James and Mrs. Stires and leaves a wife and ten children. Funeral services will be conducted by Rev. Earl Cowen at the Stires home Friday at 10 a.m.
Chauncey reports eight mines in operation as of August 20. The active sites are No. 255, No. 68, Ohio No. 1, No. 24, No. 28, L. D. Poston, No. 119, and Poston No. 6, indicating ongoing mining activity in the region.
Mrs. Dana Howett and daughters returned to Middleport after a Chauncey visit with Mrs. Juanita Lockado and others. Mrs. Edward Minister and sons left Chauncey for Xenia to visit her sister. Mrs. Charles Fiske, formerly in a Columbus hospital, returned to Beaumont. Ogg family reunion planned at Broadwell on Sunday August 23. Bartel Franz shop in Chauncey undergoing papering and renovation. Roy Crosser family from Lima visiting Chauncey and area relatives.
Mrs Eliza beth Phillips and son Elmer Phillips with sister Mrs Allie Kincaid hosted guests in Chauncey. Visitors included Mr and Mrs Forest Allen and two daughters and Mrs Eunice Shaffe and Tom Allen of Akron. Also Mrs Parks Glouster and Mrs Charlie Pyle and daughters Lorena and Delena of Millfield paid calls. Mrs Allen and Mrs Pyle are Mrs Phillips daughters.
Mrs. C N Sanders Millfield and Mrs Gilbert Courtney and Mrs George Williams on Chauncey hosted dinners Monday Tuesday and Wednesday for cousins Miss Laura Bradfield Miss Kathleen Bradfield and Paul Bradfield and Bernard Bradfield of Columbus spending a week in Chauncey.
Motorists report that Pennsylvania Avenue in Wellston is being resurfaced for ten blocks by the State Highway Department. The brick street on State Route No. 5 and part of State Route No. 75 has long been rough and was laid up for streetcar tracks. its repair is a major project this year in the district.
Mrs Blanche Wilcox Noyes of Cleveland has been elected president of the Cleveland Women's Aero Club after appearing in Athens as the pilot of an autogyro. She is Cleveland's entrant in the Women's Derby of the National Air Races to be held in Cleveland.
Dayton resident Mrs. Betty Luedeke credits Kruschen with shedding 10 pounds in seven days. She advises taking half a teaspoonful in hot water each morning before breakfast. An 85-cent bottle lasts four weeks, with money-back guarantee if not convinced.
The United States government filed suit to padlock premises of Vino Sance Distributors Inc that sold wine bricks before a raid two weeks ago. The company has moved its offices and suspended operations pending criminal complaints against three men arrested in the raid.
A. P. Hatch announced a dance for Mohawk Tribe No. 1% Red Men at Red Men's Hall West Washington Street Saturday night. Each member is invited as a guest, with the Athens Red Men to join Nelsonville members for a two city picnic and a membership contest. Tonight a bar party at the Red Men Hall pits teams in a fund contest with an ice cream social for the loser and captains C. K. Shaver and William Gooper leading the two sides. Last week seven local members visited Pomeroy for a banquet. Athens claimed 42 new members to Pomeroy's 2 in the joint contest.
Reported disappearance of a wealthy Japanese importer traveling to Halifax has drawn interest from representatives of the United States Japan and Great Britain. Details emerged after a five hour examination late yesterday naming Mary Reisaner and George in connection with the case.
White recounts Hisashi Fujimura fearing a man on the Beigenland while the actress serves as governess to his seven year old daughter who is also aboard.
Freak rain wind and lightning battered the Atlantic City shore causing floods and property damage. An undertow pulled a crowd into deep water near the beach and four people were feared drowned. The cause of the tidal surge remains unknown, with theories pointing to a tropical storm near Porto Rico.
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