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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1939
Page
2
Nelsonville city officials announce plans to drill an additional well to boost water supply during a temporary shortage. Residents are urged to conserve and avoid waste while the CCC Camp on high ground trucks water for its needs. A council meeting to appropriate funds is expected soon.
A District 4 Fraternal Order of Eagles meeting will be held in Marietta tonight with Nelsonville lodge represented. Local lodge 150 discussed important matters at last night’s regu lar meeting and Family Night plans were announced for Friday. Dewey Whyte is on vacation. Clyde Byers named Bobby Green to handle publicity in Whyte’s absence. Officers’ meeting is Thursday at 7 o’clock for all officers and committee chairs.
Fox hunters of Oak Grove and Nelsonville held an old fashioned supper of fried chicken and apple pie at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Reber with Myrtle Nanna assisting. A fox chase followed as a long list of local residents attended.
The Nelsonville Presbyterian Church choir will begin fall rehearsals at 7:30 PM on Thursday August 31. All current and new members are urged to attend as the choir resumes after a productive summer with Mr Martin Alexander directing and new selections prepared.
Notice of sheriff sale dated August 2, 1939, for three Athens County Waterloo Township tracts with described boundaries and sizes, appraised at 500 dollars, minimum bid two thirds of that amount, sale August 1, 1939 at 1:30 PM at courthouse door Athens Ohio under order in partition. Parties include Mary Nelson Edleman et al plaintiffs and Herbert Nelson Single et al defendants. Located near Waterloo State Forest and State Route 356.
The Nelsonville Greys beat Buchtel 9 to 3 in a Tuesday Twilight League game. Walters led the Greys with three hits in four at bats, while Stillwell and H Woodson contributed key plays on defense. Stillwell misplayed a ball in right field in the seventh, and the crowd looked forward to upcoming matches between city league All Stars and Maxville, with Carbon Hill and Carbondale scheduled Friday.
Mrs Charlies Hoodlett visits son Dr J J Hoodlett in Lancaster. P G Oakley family and Verna Rose travel through northern Michigan and Canada. Moorehead relatives return from a Logan Olean trip with Dick Moorehead. Stage, Perkins visits Ashland Ky. Oscar W Shaw Jr in Dayton then to University of Alabama Birmingham. Mrs Russell Devaul and Mrs Blake Mechem at Buckeye Lake. Lynda Sheppard joins Labor Day visit in Springfield. S W Ross attends Ohio Elks Association sessions in Cedar Point with Mrs Ross. Moorehead attends Beta Phi Alpha party in Columbus.
Nelsonville notices a midweek prayer service at the Church of Christ tonight at 7 30 with a good attendance expected and encouraged by organizers.
Sheriff sale announced for Athens County real estate at 159 W. Washington St Athens Ohio on Friday Sept 1 at 1 30 PM with appraised value 765 and minimum bid two thirds of that amount. Public auction to follow Order of Sale in Home Owners Loan Corporation v Laura Lynch case No 17360.
Clarence Gibson and John Windle Jr. pleaded innocent at arraignments before Mayor C G Dew in Nelsonville. Each was bound over to the grand jury under $1,000 bond after police said they tried to pry through the rear door of the Nelsonville Appliance Co. on Sunday night.
A wiener roast at the home of Mr and Mrs John Edgar drew many locals including Charles Stimel Clarence Fuller Everett Dicken and families. Attendees also visited a donkey baseball game in Nelsonville and local towns. Local Union 270 UMWA met with a large turnout.
Wilkes Barre officers report Patrolman Michael Reiser uses a drill to make a large top hole and a small bottom hole in live plugs. He fills the plug with dry ice and seals the top hole to create a trail of fumes said to attract large fish. The piece notes railroads run about 90 000 trucks.
Mrs. Stella M. Collins aged 59 wife of Charles Collins and former Nelsonville resident died Tuesday at the family home 141 Jewett St Akron. Survived by husband two daughters Mrs. Ethel Manard Detroit and Mrs. Louise Sellar Akron two sons Charles and Wilbert Akron one sister Mrs. Cora Leaderback Detroit and two brothers Luke Crawford Akron and William Crawford Canton. Funeral services set for Akron Thursday at 3 30 pm. Body to arrive Nelsonville Friday on southbound C O train and go to Stouts Funeral Home for 2 pm services. Burial at Greenlawn.
Nelsonville High School band members performed a short program for the Rotary Club on Tuesday evening. Ralph Cook led the program with Brooks Franks presenting soloists. Don Sanders Charles Long Dorothy Schmitter Alice Duskey Louise Duskey Floretta Sommers performed as listed. Joseph W Fichter district governor from Oxford Ohio will visit next Tuesday evening.
Nelsonville Greys, leading the Twilight League, host the Nelsonville Eagles who have won 11 straight. The 2:30 p m game will feature an umpire likely from outside the city.
Mrs Lotie Brill and Evalina Brill and son Keith visited Mr and Mrs Herbert Pyle in Gaysport. Don White and Arlene with Donald and Raymond White visited relatives in Sandusky and Amos White. Lizzie Brown from Mineral visited her brother George Hay Brow. Donna Ewart Chesterhill visited Evalina Brill. Rufie White visiting son Lawrence White in Albany. Bernard White welcomed a son Kenneth Darrell with local grandparents Rufie White and William Cummings. Ford Sampson moved to Ellis Run. Ladies Aid Society meets Thursday. George Smith visited sister Lloyd Miller in Cutler. Oscar and Dean White and family visited grandparents Joe Young in Albany. Bernice Fyock and Mr Brown with two children from Pittsburg visited Lote Brill. Harry Palmer and children from Layman with Frank Parsons visited. Laura James Freda Nice Mary Nye and Harry Van Dyke attended a U B conference in Lancaster. Leslie White, recently employed at Rio Grande, returned home. Cook Van Dyke, Harry Van Dyke, and Freda Nice attended Ernest Lefever funeral at Liberty Hill.
Favorable planetary influences bring enterprise and new ideas with change of plans possible. Avoid legal entanglements and fraud while money matters require caution. A birthday individual may gain opportunities and travel, while a child born today shows energy and originality despite underhanded plots.
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Byrd and daughter Florence spent Monday evening with his parents. Miss Batty Garner is employed in Nelsonville. Donkey baseball drew Severa from here to Nelsonville Sunday. M F E Church homecoming at Jobs on Sunday Sept 3. Rev James Maffin and grandson Roy visited the Turner family. Jack Holdsworth and granddaughter Shirley joined the Powers of Columbus plus Kidds from Marion for the weekend with Lee Denny. Kidds stayed for James Kidd funeral in Murray City U B Church Monday. Walter Shaw of Logan visited Charles March and relatives. Sam Lang and son Jerry from New Straitsville spent Sunday with Emmett Sorrell and family.
Mrs. William Mitchell and daughter stayed with Edward and Mrs. Mills. Dr. and Mrs. D R Price returned from a 10 day World's Fair trip. Local families visited kin in Logan and Columbus. Elite Club met at Mrs. Ernest Wilsons. State Fair attendance by New Straitsville groups. Pythian Sisters outing at Waterworks Park. Woodbine Rebekah Lodge met with twenty members. Local schools resume September 5. Communion Sunday at M E Church. James Costello seriously ill. Several residents visiting Chicago.
Charles E. Rush, head of the Cleveland Public Library, has a hobby of collecting chimney and fireplace descriptions. After 20 years he has built a catalogued collection of 1,000 fireplace figures with pictures and detailed descriptions.
Jacksonville Eagles will join the Jacksonville Labor Day parade per Mohawk Aerie No. 1034 resolution. They will form a body in the Old Settlers Section with 22 surviving charter members in a special unit. Members meet at Eagle Hall at 8 30 a m on Labor Day September 4.
John S. Blower is chosen delegate and C. A. Bingman is alternate from Glouster Methodist Church in Delaware for September 5 11. Bishop Lester Smith will preside and conduct communion in Gray Chapel Tuesday afternoon and preach Sunday morning. Dr Charles M. Coulter will preach Memorial Sermon Tuesday afternoon in Gray Chapel.
Frank McCann Post 414 of the American Legion will elect officers on Tuesday night at the Legion Hall. All members are urged to be present.
Sharpsburg social notes list visits and illnesses among residents. Rev. and Mrs. William Bartoe and Ruth Ann attended a United Brethren conference in Lancaster. Several guests visited Rev. and Mrs. C. H. Bennington in Union Furnace. Myra Marie Henthorn is born to Gilbert and spouse. grandparents are W. E. Henthorn and Joe Beard. Headlines note multiple illnesses and tent meetings near Mt. Hermon and Circleville camp activities.
In Decatur Indiana a passerby used a counterfeit five dollar bill prompting a police search. The bill was identified as a top treasury note and the suspect fled.
Miss Nell Richards of Kent joined her brother Dave Richards in Glouster and, with Mrs. J. E. Anderson and Miss Esta Cunningham, motored to Columbus Tuesday. They were joined there by Mr. Lloyd Richards of St. Clairsville. Cunningham returned Tuesday evening, while Richards stayed to visit a daughter and Anderson to visit her daughter.
The Kittles travel to the Great Smoky Mountains in North Carolina hoping the climate will ease Mr Kittle’s hay fever. They usually vacation in Michigan in mid August and stay until frost, but this year they chose a different scene.
Mr and Mrs John Binderbasin visit Edna in Grant Hospital in Columbus where her condition has improved. Several families travel between Niles Mansfield McConnelsville Athens and Malta for visits funerals and extended stays with relatives over the weekend and into the week.
A meeting of the City Bowling League will be held at Wolf and Sons Bowling Alleys on Thursday August 31. All last year's members and all prospective bowlers for the coming season are urged to attend. Jim Johnson is the league president.
The Seiler family reunion will be held next Sunday September 3 at Ash Cave. All connected are invited to attend. Officers include president Mrs Mary Johnson and secretary Mrs Kate Vaughn.
GLOUSTER Coach Don Greider remains unable to be on duty due to sinus trouble after influenza. Superintendent Figley was informed one day earlier that he cannot be on the field this week. Greider expects to be present for the opening of school on September 5 while assistant Wallenhaupt leads daily practice and players anticipate the season.
An advertisement notes that over a million dollars yearly is spent on pile cures and promotes Peterson's Ointment as a fast soothing, cooling relief. The 35 cent box and 60 cent tube with applicator claim prompt itching stop and money back if not delighted.
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