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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1921
Page
3
A community birthday picnic featured a noon meal on a long table. A large white birthday cake with 66 pink candles added to the festive atmosphere and the celebrant contributed to the event’s charm.
The day featured games swinging and photos with attendees including Mr and Mrs Will Briley and daughter Vivian Tess of Carbon Hill, Mrs Nora Hanns and daughters from Yorkville, Mrs Bess Higgins and children from Nelsonville, plus Mr Robert Warren and the DeVol family. A 5 PM lunch of ice cream and melons closed the event as attendees hoped to meet again next year and add another candle.
Mr and Mrs Wollet and Mr and Mrs Barron spent Sunday with Mrs Nixon on a farm near Glen Ebon and reported a fine time.
Mrs West and her daughter Miss Gertrude are visiting relatives in Columbus.
Mrs D W Hanns and her family are visiting her sister Mrs Will De Vol for part of this week.
Mrs. Levi Wolfe and her children of Shawnee are visiting relatives and friends, spending time with family and catching up with local acquaintances.
Mrs. John Loudner, previously quite ill, is able to be about again. Mr. Mark Gettle is slowly improving after a recent illness.
A Sunday gathering at James Pollock home celebrated Mrs Pollock's birthday with a bountiful dinner and supper. Guests from Morris Chapel Sugar Grove Athens Carbondale Nelsonville included Mr and Mrs Morris Todd and children Virgil Vermont Wilma, Alva Sturgill and others, presenting a beautiful shawl.
Friends and neighbors gathered Monday evening to surprise Mrs. H. M. Johnson on her birthday with a beautiful umbrella and refreshments. A telegram from a Springfield sister conveyed greetings and wishes for many more birthdays. Attendees included Mrs. Ivan Kinney and many others. several relatives visited from Columbus and Trimble.
Miss Bertha Nixon and Miss Grace Nixon travel with Miss Doris Woodruff for a two week motor trip starting tomorrow. They will stop at Lake Side, Cleveland and Ann Arbor, Michigan. Dr. Gilbert Love of Columbus visited with his parents Mr. and Mrs. John Love on Sunday and Monday.
Miss Bertha Nixon entertained a group including Mrs. S L Poston and daughter Miss Lulu along with Mrs Frances Socie and Mrs Julius Fischer on Tuesday in a social event reflecting local customs and hospitality.
Sportsmen note a misunderstanding about the cans for the fish as the government will address concerns. The incomplete fragment hints at an official action or guidance to be issued regarding can use.
Residents prepare to receive bass catfish and sunfish can shipments totaling 18 cans, with 7 bass 5 catfish and 6 sunfish to be delivered to ten sites. Dr. Joe Interreden will inspect for hoof disease. A meeting August 24 at 7:30 p.m. at the club rooms over the Co-Op on Washington street invites visitors from Longstreth and Buchtel.
Warden Thomas of the Ohio penitentiary planned an investigation into paroles granted to Walter Brandt and Leonard Lyons, Cleveland convicts formerly approved by the old board of clemency.
Delegations from Athens and Hocking counties met Governor Davis to push inter county road 605 extension from MacConnelsville to Glouster via Murray City and Nelsonville and to New Straitsville. Officials said two thirds to three fourths of funding could come from the state to create jobs as winter nears.
The First Christian church held a farewell tribute for Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Treadley with heartfelt remembrances from N. K. Alderman Abbot Y Wilcox S E G Pedigo and E J Jones. Music by Camer on Rusten Millikan Carman Church accompanied the program as the couple received a flower basket. Dr Treadley voiced thanks and Athens anticipates his final sermon at the church next Sunday.
Athens county jail hosts four singing inmates led by George Rush and William Gwilyin in a quartet that performs from the stone calaboose. The men face burglary, attempted rape, boot money false pretenses, and bootlegging charges as Sheriff Parker witnesses their lively show.
Mrs. Herb Parker found the calaboose quartet asleep in the jail stalls and singing a tune when Sheriff Parker checked at eight o'clock. They quipped they’d rather sleep than eat, interrupting the morning wake up with a new lyric to the "Old Saw Mill."
Baldwin Locomotive Company announces a Mexican government order for 65 locomotives. The new contract, along with other orders, will raise production at its Philadelphia plant.
Brainerd Armstron company cuts extra hours at its silk mill in New London Conn. due to heavy orders. Five hundred workers are now employed the largest workforce since the war.
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