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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1935
Page
9
The local column reports a Sunday Masons picnic at Grounds in Troy with Coolville and area families attending. The piece lists reunions, school openings, book exchanges, and various visits by residents to state fairs, regattas, and neighboring towns.
Fragmented text describes people visiting relatives and a postmaster related to Campbell and Cleveland Heights. Mentions Myrtie Gree and Mrs Nettie with relatives a two week stay and a person named Jim Dale Lochary Mehigan.
Fragmentary text from East Palestine items mentioning families and visitors. Names such as Columbus, Cambridge, Bennett, Swan, Lawrence appear amid garbled lines about relatives, aunts, sisters, and Sunday gatherings with mentions of Mrs Bennett and Mrs Lit. Wwang Sister.
The Plains area reports a string of Sunday and weekend visits. Miss Elien Gomer of Cincinnati stays with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cade, while Carl Mills and Vera Whitlatch of Portsmouth visit the Linscott household. Several families travel to Michigannet destinations for two weeks, and many relatives gather in celebration with the Stalder family and others.
SILVER RIDGE Miss Vesta Bentz visits Mrs. Neva Dresher in Nelsonville. Mrs. Emma Hoffman is seriously ill. Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Betzing visit Alfred couple. Mr. and Mrs. John Diller and son from New Lexington with Akron couple visit Mrs Dora Tuttle. Thelma Harper visits aunt Mrs Garfield Hope in Athens. Children go to Tupper Plains to register for next school year. Edith Harper visits sister near Sumner. Mable Partlow of Akron visits her parents. Isaac Hoffman of East Liverpool and Mrs Walter Tuttle care for their mother.
A Sunday School convention and basket dinner drew a large crowd in Portland. Several ministers presented talks. Local residents and visitors including Ernestine Price Parkersburg Maxine Swan Columbus Belva Cox Kananga Mary Jo Swan Columbus Mary Louise McDade Dam No 21 Eber Oars Parkersburg and others spent time with relatives and friends.
Albany notes show the ninth annual F. J. Davis family reunion set for September 1 at the Fred Moore farm near Baker Settlement with a basket dinner. Various residents, visits, regatta trips to Gallipolis, and local entertainments including an Albany Baptist ice cream social with the Community Male Quartet are mentioned alongside hospitalities, trips to Cleveland, and visits to family in Zanesville Kansas City Lancaster Chauncey Hamden Chauncey and Wilkinsburg.
Bethany Ridge hosts a well attended home-coming service on Sunday with many visitors from Macksburg Pomeroy Athens Chauncey and surrounding areas including Dana Bean George Wright John Lightfoot and others. Local families gathered at the Parsons reunion set for the home of Mr and Mrs Clarence Petty.
Letart Falls notes a surprise potluck birthday party for Mrs. J. D. Law at the parsonage with twenty-one members present. Numerous local residents are listed in visits, travel, and family updates including deaths, relocations, and community events across Letart and surrounding areas.
Community brief detailing residents traveling to Columbus for the State Fair and others visiting relatives in Athens Glasgow West Virginia and Wooster. People named include H Ogdin E W Starkey Margaret Martha Brooks Beatrice Bernard Paul Duckler Donna Brooks A B Rupe W M Brooks and many others.
Dexter reports the Rathburn-Wiseman reunion to be held at the Rathburn homestead on Sunday. Local residents attended events including air plane and boat races in Gallipolis. The piece notes regional family visits and a burial at Standish Cemetery.
Alfred Brief reports a string of weekend visits and social calls. Alfred Brief notes Mr and Mrs Norwood Knight and son Gary visiting Delaware for a week with Milford Spencer. Others include Ihla Fay Swartz and June Sauvage in Marietta with Dana Swartz, and multiple Sunday calls at the Swartz home. A Granger bus outing to Carpenter and various local hosts are listed along with births and weekend guests.
The Syracuse Pioneer Club hosted a shower for newlyweds Mr. and Mrs. G. K. Arnold at the Arnolds’ home with a mock wedding staged by Evelyn Arnold and Harold Robinette. The event featured poems, music, and ice cream and cake served by the Arnold family.
Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby in the Wilson administration announced an upcoming conference to discuss programs and measures for a new party movement he labels Constitutional Democrats. The statement signals potential realignment within opposition factions seeking constitutional reform and political reform ideas. Colby emphasized unity and orderly process for the formation of the movement.
TUPPERS PLAINS Rev D G Holman was surprised Monday evening when 69 church members gathered at his home to celebrate his birthday. Ice cream and cake were served. Attendees included Mrs Belle Keller and her son from Parkersburg.
Pearl Chapel news notes visits and social calls. Mr and Mrs W J Armentrout of Columbus visited at Charles Woodgerd’s home. The Goodins visited L C Gibson. D C Gibson and La Verne Chesser visited Melvin Steward in Cuyahoga Falls. Bernice Steward returned home with Melvin from Akron. Bernice Gibson attended Sickles family reunion near Carbondale. The Woodgerd family spent the weekend in Byesville visiting Mont Wells. Blanche Armentrout and Margie Haning visited Belle Gothson on Wednesday.
Murray City residents share weekend visits with Columbus and Toledo relatives. Several Columbus guests attend hospital and social events while others travel to Gallipolia and Dayton for races and conventions. A new baby named J Howard Beougher, son of Mina Belle Shelton and Howard Beougher, born August 2 in Columbus.
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