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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1939
Page
8
Gallipolis Ohio hospital plans a large Christmas observance for 2,300 patients and 320 employees. The piece details gift drives, holiday meals, tree displays, and band performances leading up to and beyond New Year’s, with special services and dances.
Gallipolis reports the death of Lydia Dove Beardsley Cherrington on Monday night at her home in Grand Junction Colorado. She was the daughter of the late Joseph Donnally and Mrs. Donnally and native of Gallipolis. Her brother Joseph Donnally of Lancaster and sister Mrs. Major C Brown of Columbus survive. A daughter Mrs. E W Titus of Washington D C was with her at death.
Funeral services were held this afternoon at Cheshire Methodist Church for Wade Yeanger with interment at Graves Hill Cemetery. Yeanger belonged to the Cheshire Masonic Lodge and the Chapter and Council in Gallipolis.
Dr. C Ross Niday died at his home in Gallipolis on Tuesday after repeated paralysis events. The funeral will be Thursday at 2 p m at Entsminger Funeral Home with Rev. Robert Leake likely officiating. Burial in Pine Street Cemetery. He was a veterinarian with real estate holdings and distributor for a large oil and gas company. Survived by widow Maude Canaday Niday their son Vérne and Vérne's three children. He belonged to St Peters Episcopal Church Gallipolis Lodge Elks Naomi Lodge Knights of Pythias Lafayette Post American Legion.
Gallipolis Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star held an installation ceremony at the Masonic Temple on Monday evening with a casserole dinner arranged by Mrs. Minnie Catzen. New officers include Loren Stone as worthy matron and C. M. Yeanger as worthy patron, with a full slate of titles and officers listed. Afterward the bride’s family hosted a dinner and several locals and guests were mentioned among visiting relatives and friends.
Mrs. Tena Armstrong of Pt. Pleasant was guest of honor at a Hotel Libby dinner honoring her retirement from the Ohio Hospital for Epileptics at year’s start. Attendees included Mrs. Lena Dillon, Mrs. Jennie Vogelgesang, Miss Alice Donnally, and many friends who gave parting gifts.
Mr and Mrs Ross Kerr entertained at dinner Sunday at their Portsmouth Avenue home joined by Mr and Mrs M M Kerr of Athens Mr and Mrs Homer Kerr and Misses Mary Millie and Artie Watts of this city.
Mr and Mrs John Paulie of Hamburg Pennsylvania celebrated their twenty fifth wedding anniversary by visiting Mr and Mrs Ray Campbell and family over the weekend.
Mr and Mrs Ralph Boster announce the marriage of their daughter Ruth to Otho Belville. The ceremony was read by Rev Jennings Cremeens at his home on Saturday.
Justice of the Peace Ward Rush ordered Frank Clark of Tulare into a ten day confinement in the Tulare justice court after Clark asked to be placed in Judge to sober up.
In Gallipolis a Washington Pool Auditorium crowd heard the Girls Glee Club and A Cappella Choir under Miss Elizabeth Shough. The Glee Club performed Christmas carols from various lands, then the A Cappella Choir, conducted by Dr. Louis H. Diercks, presented the Christmas cantata Childe Jesus with James Vornholt narrating and soloists Eloise Clark Rose Riggs Eileen Wells John Gwinn Wendell Lloyd. The choir has 45 voices and the Glee Club 33, with some members overlapping.
Gallipolis reports Christmas buying remains steady as merchants say advancing Thanksgiving did not boost sales. They note fixed salaries limit impact of holiday timing and hope snow flurries will spur further Christmas shopping this season.
Gallia County growers lament opening prices on the Lexington market which are over four dollars per hundred pounds lower than last year. The Huntington market, where most Gallia County tobacco is sold, is not expected to top the larger Kentucky market.
Centenary Grange program for Friday evening includes roll call Christmas thoughts a Christmas story recitations readings Christmas carols by members and a gift exchange followed by a pound party after the regular meeting. Participants include Geraldine Morgan Billy and Estella Mae Northup Virginia Halley Audrey McCall and Junior Siders.
The lunar aspects promise a very lively day with opportunities for progress and high‑level friendship but warn of possible opposition from those in authority born of enmity and deceit. The advisory notes emphasize prudence, vigilance and cultivated social trust for credit and friendships. A birthday child may show versatility, ambition and religiously oriented prudence guiding a successful life.
Gallipolis plans a fuller holiday program with Christmas observances for lower grades on December 21 and upper grades the next day. All schools dismiss to January 2, a Christmas dinner for indigent children, WPA and Rotary Club special items, and a Friday candy treat for all district students. Washington PTA will prepare 1500 gift bags. A Christmas tree with Santa Claus in Washington Auditorium and toy distribution by American Legion, local theaters, and school departments will follow, with recipients chosen from lunch lists and teachers.
GALLIPOLIS local friends and relatives have been advised of the death of Rev Henry A Barlow retired Methodist minister and a native of this county at his home in Columbus recently Five adult sons and daughters are residents of Columbus.
In Yakima Washington a mare owned by Rock Sabtella fell into a concrete lined ditch and could not free herself. Kenneth Arrowsmith used his boom truck to pull the animal out of the ditch.
Gallia County offers Christmas turkeys around 18 cents per pound for live birds with no expected price rise. An abundance of birds from a good production year keeps prices down despite higher holiday demand. Young birds fetch the top price while older turkeys average 12 to 15 cents per pound. Funeral services for Dr C A Poin dexter will be held Thursday at 2 p m in Middleport, Gallia County.
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