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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1935
Page
3
A display in the Sec Building shows Bibles in English and various languages, some nearly three centuries old. A 1804 Thomas facsimile translation is featured. visitors may view the collection and learn about biblical history.
Meigs County Public Health League started selling Christmas seals Thursday to fund tuberculosis prevention. The sale runs from Thanksgiving Day through Christmas Day, announced by Mrs. J K Harley, Meigs County seals chair.
Dyesville hosts an institute over two days with Rev. F. G. Strickland as Friday evening speaker and Mrs. Everett J. Noland heading Saturday sessions. The program includes prayers, music, readings, talks on soil conservation, poultry, and county extension topics. Prizes will award the oldest and prettiest quilt.
Rev. R C Ditter will preach at Federated Church Pomeroy on The Light That Shineth in the Darkness with Divine Worship at 10 15 and Sunday School at 9. Workers should return pledge lists for next year. At St Pauls Evangelical Minersville he will speak on Standing Before the Judgment Seat at 2 pm Sunday.
Officers were installed at a Thursday evening meeting of the Middleport-Evangeline Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star. Light refreshments followed the installation services.
A surprise birthday party honors Dorothy Skiver on her twelfth birthday at her home in Haydenville. Attendees listed include Dolores Rheinscheid, Helen Gastin,Jimmie McGrainer, and many others. Refreshments followed late. Morris Vollmer ill at home.
Pomeroy brief notes by district report record Charlies Gilkey and wife from Gallipolis visiting their son-in-law and daughter on Harrisonville Road. Girl Scouts held their first regular meeting in two weeks at the Episcopal parish house after repairs and painting. Sons of the Legion met Tuesday at the Legion Hall with Squadron Captain Richard Vaughan in charge and served refreshments.
Beginning Sunday Rev Clarence Swearingen will lead a sermon series at Heath M E Church on Nativity. December 8 topic Nativity As Essence of the Universe, December 15 Nativity As Anticipation of the Ideal, December 22 Nativity As Revelation of Gods Name. The Nativity is shown as the beginning present in creation. Also noted is Sir Thomas Liptons auction of a pound of tea for 180 dollars in Mincing Lane to prove good tea.
Friends of Dr. Amy L. Whaley plan a quiet December 9th gathering at her Court Street home to celebrate what would be her ninety eighth birthday. The oldest woman dentist, she remains mentally active, keeps informed via newspapers, and still resides in the family building once housing her dental office with her husband. Her daughter Amy Kingsland, now in New York, has lived nearby to help.
Alonzo Russell and grandson Stanton have left for Toledo to stay indefinitely with Stanton’s parents Mr and Mrs Fred Russell. Riverview Camp 3244 Royal Neighbors of America hosted a pot luck dinner and bingo at their hall. Misses Helen Ruth Walters and Woodrow and Lawrence Berrie returned to Clyde after visiting since Thanksgiving. J M Burton spent Thursday in Marietta on business. Mrs Martha Dunn visited Mrs Roscoe Fowler then traveled to Middleport to stay with Mrs E Sanborn on Gravel Hill before returning to Huntington. Mr and Mrs Henry Mossman moved into the William Huggins house on Lincoln Street vacating by the Huggins who moved with Mrs Huggins’ parents nearby. Although 1149 miles distant Midland Island is part of Honolulu Hawaii.
Edgar Ebersbach and family of Lincoln Hill will travel to Florida in a new house car trailer built in Chesapeake. The 2,800 pound trailer includes electric lights, running water, a toilet and bathtub, two main rooms, a bed, a davenport, kitchen sink and storage, and a water tank. They plan to depart Saturday.
Paris reports Premier Laval agrees to Radical Socialist demands for action against semi military political forces to preserve his cabinet and avert a crisis.
The six week honor roll lists Freshmen Warren Bennett Ruth Entsminger Ethel Finney Marcella Frasier John Harley Grace Ingles Alice Louise Lama Evelyn Mayer Pauline Mitch Kathryn Monahan Neva Walker Lavada Woodward Sophomores Franklin Edwards Mary Hackett Violet Harting Melissa Hennessy Betty Hoefflich Harold Hubbard Geraldine Parsons Hazel Romine Mary Jane Roush Juniors Janice Collins Phillis Diles Florence Fraser Frances Pullin Wallace Russell Saul Wiley Seniors Rosalie Carrol William Cooper Lois Diles Mary Eunice Hennessy Charles Lewis Elwood Lewis Sybil McCoy Charles Pickens Agnes Staats Sophia Staats Hazel Thomas Frances Wright.
The Past Chiefs gather for a Christmas party this evening at Mrs. Zella Cross home at Lincoln and Pear Streets. Assisting hostesses are Mrs. B. F. Fultz Sr. and Mrs. R. H. Horden. Members will exchange gifts during the evening.
Government estimates show slow progress in reducing unemployment over the last two years after an early surge. Nathan’s figures, used by agencies, indicate seven months of large declines followed by little change, with a 1929 unemployment baseline of 2.63 million and a need for about 4.5 million more jobs to eliminate joblessness.
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