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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1930
Page
3
Local Nelsonville notices recruit an experienced representative for classifieds and circulation tasks. Vicinity reports call for readers to contact the newsroom at 412 W for service and details.
Nelsonville clergy advocate shopping locally to aid merchants and community institutions. Rev Sayre urges patronage to support churches and YMCAs, while Rev Evans cites a potential $12,500 local spend by Presbyterians. Rev Grammer promotes the slogan be your Christmas buying in Nelsonville, with more remarks to follow.
The W B A will hold its regular meeting Wednesday evening at 7 o clock in the Junior Order Hall. All members are asked to be present.
Mrs. William Morgan on East Franklin Street hosted her bridge club Monday afternoon. Members playing contract bridge included Mrs. C. E Welch, Mrs. Wallace Glenn, Mrs. L. J. Eberle, and Mrs. Morgan.
Samir, and Mrs. Arthur Thomas announce a son Jack Hartley born Friday Nov 28, grandson of Bert Hartley of this city. Edgar Stidwell and Lena Bowers announce a son Roland Scott born Friday Nov 25 at their Carbon Hill home.
A double funeral will be held Wednesday at 1 PM at Wolf Creek Church for Edwin T. Parsons 67 and wife 62 of Union Township Morgan County who died after a gasoline explosion at their country home. Their son John was badly burned but expected to recover.
Funeral services for Leonard Robinson, victim of the Hollister car crash, will be held Wednesday at 3 30 PM at the M E Church with Rev Paul E Kemper officiating. Burial follows in Glouster Cemetery. Frank McCann Post, American Legion, will take part.
Chickamauga Tribe No. 44 of the Improved Order Red Men will elect officers at the Red Men Hall this evening. A strong turnout is anticipated for the meeting with the tribe seeking active participation.
Young Ep worth League members attended a Friday night gathering at Jacksonville M E Church with twenty Leaguers from The Plains. Pastor W H Reitz led devotions and C S Rice spoke, Josephine Gaskalia directed the program, and Charles Tinker supervised recreation. Refreshments were served. next party planned at Trimble Church in December.
Sept C B Dillon of the Glouster Schools is appointed a member of the Board of Regents of Wesley Foundation at Ohio University. The foundation oversees Methodist student life at the university and the pastor Rev A H Krussell directs pastoral work and activity programs.
Miss Isabel Marshall of Glouster was rushed by ambulance to St Francis Hospital Columbus Monday night for appendicitis surgery. She was accompanied by her mother Mrs Ellen Marshall and her aunt. Miss Janie Nelson of Trimble was with them.
Jacksonville Temple No 553 calls all members to a Thursday evening meeting at 7 o clock. Officers will be nominated and elected, followed by a potluck supper.
Glouster residents are informed that the Women s Foreign Missionary Society of the M E Church will convene Wednesday at 2 PM at Mrs A M Bennett s Spring Street residence for the regular gathering with study and planning.
The Past Noble Grands Club of the Rebekah Lodge will meet Thursday at 7 p.m. at the I O O F Hall. Members should bring items for the home box, attend a potluck supper, and participate in an exchange of gifts.
Business of importance will come before White Rose Temple No 2 Pythian Sisters at the meeting to be held Wednesday night at 7 o'clock. Following the business session a potluck supper will be served and a social session held.
Funeral services for Mollie Keeney 51 who died Sunday at her Bessemer home will be at Buchtel M E Church Wednesday at 1 PM led by Rev. H A Sayre. She leaves husband Ervin Keeney and children John Welch Carl Graff Ray Wilson Roy Bagley Theodore Keeney Jennie Keeney and Jas Murray plus sisters Beryl Hartnery and Lido Chapman and a brother Bailey Run.
Nelsonville announces a first aid team meeting for Troop 45 this Wednesday at 7 00 P M with tests for the team. The troop also schedules a Friday meeting at 7 00 P M for re registration and invites new members to attend.
The Circle of Ruth Sunday School plans a chicken dinner at the Presbyterian Church on Wednesday evening December 10 from 6 to 7 o clock. Class members are selling tickets.
The Missionary Society of the Christian Church will meet Thursday evening with Mrs. P. B. Verity and Mrs. Bon Barron as assisting hostesses. Mrs. Ada Lama will lead the devotional service and Mrs. Adda James will direct the program.
The Buchtel Parent Teacher Association schedules its meeting at Buchtel High School Thursday evening December 4 at 7 36 oclock replacing the earlier December 1 date. Final plans for the annual Christmas bazaar will be discussed and the committee in charge of soliciting and booths will meet after the regular session. Miss Jose Shaw Miss Mary Eleonin and Mrs. Harry Corwin head the program with all members urged to attend.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Church will meet with Mrs. Frank O'Mara at 783 Chestnut Street Thursday at 7 PM. A Christmas party follows with dues and a Christmas offering requested. Mrs. Herrold leads the devotional and Mrs. Jackson directs the program, assisted by Mrs. Dille and Mrs. Runion.
Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Downhour of Carbon Hill marked their fiftieth wedding anniversary at home on Thanksgiving Day. A large gathering included Harold Downhour and family of Lancaster Noah Spencer and daughters Alma and Dorothy Haydenville Mae Harrison and children Columbus Pearl Mitchell and Grace Mathias Columbus William Briley Carbon Hill James Newman Nelsonville.
Mrs Glenn Stacy of near Carbon Hill was surprised Friday evening November 28 1930 by relatives and friends including Mrs Sam Turner Mrs Lizzy Stacy Dwight Stacy and others. The group enjoyed card games and refreshments in a warmly hosted home gathering.
Funeral services for John Stephenson 48 who died Sunday at his home near Nelsonville will be held Tuesday at the First Baptist Church with burial in Oak Grove Cemetery. He is survived by his widow and two children.
Murray City funeral plans announce a Thursday afternoon service at 8 oclock with burial in Murray City Cemetery for a local resident.
Nelsonville is told of the marriage of Miss Flosie Mundy to Gale Oblinger of Loran. The ceremony occurred Saturday November 29 in Athens.
Nelsonville voters heard a first reading of an ordinance to buy a posting machine for the municipal electric light and water works at up to 750 dollars. Officials noted accounts rose and monthly workload neared 1,800. some members favored extra staff instead. The meeting also approved a note for 169.25 dollars toward curbing Jackson Street and a funds transfer, with the mayor's November fines total of 129.80 referenced.
The Nelsonville Board of Trade will hold its annual meeting to nominate officers on Wednesday at 6 15 p m at the YMCA. President C F E Bennett and secretary Victor Oakley urge all members to attend the session.
Valley Lodge No. 169 Knights of Pythias will hold a Castle Hall gathering Wednesday evening to elect subordinate lodge officers and grand lodge officers. All members are urged to attend and past chancellors are expected.
Nelsonville report says the Western and Southern Life Insurance Co. has relocated from the Mechem Building to the Knights of Pythias Building on Washington Street, with operations now at the new address.
Miss Louise Skinner of Bucyrus visited her parents Mr and Mrs S N Skinner at week’s end. Mayme Keplar was in Columbus as a business visitor. Charles Brown and Mrs Gabriel also traveled to Columbus for business. Several locals visited Columbus for Thanksgiving and relatives, including Miss Velyn Linton a Ohio University student and Mrs Elizabeth Tedrow.
A flurry of social activity unfolds as Dr. and Mrs. C E Welch host relatives in Columbus while Mrs. Rice travels home with her mother Mrs. Charles James. Family members from Carbon Hill, Diamond, Shawnee and Enterprise join downtown gatherings, with HW A Starkey's funeral in Shawnee and Memorial programs at Cline Church highlighting the weekend.
Stock promoter Charles V. Bob, missing five weeks, surrenders outside New York district attorney office. He is freed on $85,000 bail after pleading not guilty to three counts of grand larceny tied to indictments against him his brother and two associates.
Tom Skewhill, Australian lecturer, spoke at Ohio University on the Southern Highlands and Sergeant York. He traced Anglo Saxon settlement, lore, and York's war exploits including leading 27 men through German lines and earning 66 decorations. Officers were elected for the association and the next meeting set for Nelsonville on Jan 6.
Ohio State University will host a dairy banquet in Athens Grange Hall at seven tonight. Prof T Sutter, sanitation specialist in the Agriculture Department, will discuss keeping milk clean and sweet and present problems facing dairy farmers. The meeting is open to all farmers and the public.
About twenty five Athens County physicians joined the Athens County Medical Association meeting at Dr. T. A. Copeland’s Security Bank Building. Dr. Harry LeFever of Columbus addressed the group on "The Treatment of Head” during a dinner program.
Dec 2 in Glouster officers named earlier will be elected at a regular Kiwanis meeting in the M E Church social room. The session is scheduled for tonight.
A gas ignition caused a blast at the Bagh Consolidated School near Akron on Monday night. Five boy students on the basketball squad were seriously injured as the school had just dismissed. A group of girls was on the basketball floor but unharmed. The injured were dressing for practice.
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