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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1929
Page
3
Nelsonville December reports the Outlaws a youth basketball group have worked out plays during a week of practice aiming to form a winning team. Members listed include Hallett Voigt Cox Minner Wright Pierce and Alkire.
In Nelsonville the Women's Missionary Society of the Christian Church will hold a 7 o'clock service Friday evening. Mrs. Adda Teachout, general secretary of the Ohio Christian Missionary Society, will speak.
Class 21 of the Methodist Sunday School was entertained Thursday evening at the home of their teacher Mrs. Carl Coakley on Oak Street. Twenty five members responded to roll call. A three course dinner was served at 6 30 oclock. The house was decorated for the holiday season and a Christmas tree held the gifts for the exchange. Christmas carols were sung.
A free dance is announced for Saturday evening at Moose Hall. The Old Time Fiddlers will furnish the music for the event.
Past Chiefs of the Pythian Sisters hosted a three course chicken dinner for their annual Christmas party at Mrs. W. W. Gibson’s Madison Street home. Yuletide decor, miniature trees and Santa favors were used. An exchange of gifts preceded a social hour with fortune telling. Attendees included Mrs. Ida Green Logan, Mrs. Besse Fleck Athens, Mrs. Carl Coakley, Mrs. I. E. Hellyer, Mrs. Hubert Lancaster, Mrs. Harry Davis, Miss Louise Pearce, Mrs. Robert Eddy and Miss Bertha Howard.
A violent buying surge on the curb market after the opening drew heavy profit taking and selling by professionals. Leading issues slipped back toward their opening values before noon.
Pinkie Gardner of Schenectady New York won two of three falls against Hugh Nichols of Cedar Rapids Iowa in a light heavyweight bout at Columbus. Gardner earned a challenge to light heavyweight champion Clarence Eklund.
Mrs Mary Woods aged 75 died Thursday evening at the home of her son Thomas Pargeon in Shawnee Indiana. Funeral services will be held Sunday at Smiths Chapel at 1 PM with burial in the church cemetery. She leaves eight children from a former marriage. Beulah Mae Misner five months daughter of Mr and Mrs Raymond Misner died Thursday evening near Beaumont. Funeral at Clarks Chapel Church Saturday at 1 PM.
The body of Richard Lewis Connor five months old son of Mr and Mrs Lewis Connor formerly of Athens will be brought to Albany for funeral services and burial. Death was pneumonia. Services Sunday at 10 30 am from Mrs Mary Bobo home with burial at Hebbardsville. Survived by sister Frances and brother Junior two grandmothers a grandfather and a great grandmother.
The W B A Club will meet this evening with Mrs Emory Shaw on Scott Street. Attendance of all members has been requested.
Governor Cooper approved a requisition to extradite Joseph White from St. Clairsville to Grant County Indiana. White faces charges of automobile banditry and armed crime for the Gas City Bank robbery of $27,000 on July 12. Accomplices William King and Will Seratenno were arrested in Belmont County and waived extradition.
A baby boy was born Tuesday December 1 to Mr and Mrs Roy Maze of Pleasantview Avenue Nelsonville. The birth was announced locally with the family residence listed.
Daniel K. Crissinger U S controller of the currency under Harding and Maryland congressman Frederick N. Zihlman were indicted by a District of Columbia grand jury on mail fraud charges. Both served as directors of the Jf H Smith Company of Washington, now under investigation. Zihlman resigned from the board.
Mrs Joel J Evans handles Messenger Classified ads for Nelsonville column. Call or phone to place your ad at S24k rate.
Mrs Dow Bowers Jr and daughter Martha visited her husband in Columbus at the start of the week. Mrs RK Jackson spent several days in Columbus. Lengley and William Morgan visited on Thursday. Families including Stedems Mulligans and Heidys circulated in Columbus and Murray City. Several friends and relatives, among them Donley Harmony Replar Kelceh Morrison and O’Dell attended gatherings Friday and Thursday in Columbus.
Nationalist mine strikers were arrested in Central Illinois coal fields on warrants for dis orderly conduct and inciting riots. At Nokomis 100 strikers with 200 sympathizers, many women, descended on several mines employing about 1,000 men. Additional arrests followed at Poulpitt with 23 more strikers and sympathizers, including 16 women, taken to town by the National Guard.
Emperor Hirohito attended a baseball game in Tokio marking the first such public event in Japanese history. The appearance underscored a historic moment as the emperor watched from the stands.
U R Vorner Congressman George White of Marietta will announce his candidacy for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in due time. Colum bus political associate G Henry said White will be a candidate and will be elected after a statewide survey of friends in both parties.
Mrs Mary Jane Keller aged 78 was sentenced to one to seven years in the Marysville Reformatory on charges of performing an illegal operation.
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