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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1936
Page
7
In Central Falls Rhode Island burglars broke into Joseph Kemich home and tried to steal a heavy safe. They could not open it and shifted it from the living room to the kitchen before abandoning the effort.
Dr. S H Bing of Ohio University spoke at Chauncey-Dover High School on Tuesday morning on the topic Fifty Years Ago. The program included two musical selections by the school orchestra and a student chorus led by Mrs Christine Brown performing The Christmas Song and O Holy Night.
Trimble Grange No. 1830 plans installation services for Saturday night January 2. Albany Grange members are invited to assist. Trimble Grange will hold practice Tuesday night December 29 to prepare for the Amesville Grange installation.
Donna Maxine Wells daughter of Mr and Mrs A C Wells Glouster married Harold Edward Jones Chauncey in the First Church of Christ Charleston W V on Sept 3 1936. The bride taught Greens Run schools three years. Jones son of Mr and Mrs Edward Jones Chauncey is Chauncey Dover High School graduate 1923 and civil engineering graduate now foreman at Sunday Creek Mine No 9 Corning. They will live in Glouster.
Word from grandparents Mr and Mrs George Shafer says Esther May Cochran remains seriously ill at her parents home in Walbridge. She has been bedfast seven weeks with streptococcic infection after falling ill while working in a Toledo beauty shop. The Cochran family formerly lived nearby. Mrs Cochran was Garnet Shafer.
In a tense scene at Pearl Pierre's Spanish New Mexico home Ramon and Bob fear capture as they plan a quick escape. Pearl Sam's corpse vanishes from the chapel altar during a family gathering as officers from town are awaited to resolve the dangerous situation.
A Chauncey area Christmas celebration at the Big Bailey School featured a tree, gift exchange, and a fine program led by Miss Nettie Keeton. Parents and patrons praised her for organizing the entertainment, which included songs recitations and dialogues by pupils Irene Davis Harry Davis Harold Davis Margie Bullock Esther Byers Wanda Carter Junior Powell Virginia Manning Helen Golden Robert Bullock Billy Walton Helen Smart Dale Walton Francis Bullock Roy Bullock Walter Taylor Paul Bullock Crystal Kasler Betty Staten Audra Smart and Helen Kasler.
Chauncey residents Mr. and Mrs. William H. Drake will mark their fiftieth anniversary Monday December 28 at their Winfield Kansas home. Their daughter Anna Mae Lawrence lives nearby. Mrs. Drake was active in the Church of Christ and greetings are being planned. Address Box 419 Winfield Kansas.
Chauncey and Dover residents are listed visiting relatives in Newark and Athens. Mrs. Evelyn Young of Jackson visits Chauncey parents A. E. Watkins. Various locals including Mrs. Lily Sweeney and Dr. C. N. Sanders are noted in Athens on Wednesday. Mrs. Carson Sanders Jr. is at home in Millfield. Mrs. Amos Matheny returns home from Mercy Hospital Columbus.
CHAUNCEY The Christmas Story a playlet by the Church of Christ Bible School was presented Wednesday night in the County Home chapel for residents. The audience received it warmly and the children and youths earned praise for their clever work. The committee of Gladys Pickering Betty Jane Courtney Alice Johnson Eva Ferrer and Christine Brown organized the event with a pianist.
Chauncey residents hospitalized or confined at home with illnesses over the past week. Edward Sauer and James Ferguson families ill in Lexington Avenue homes. Mrs Schoonover seriously ill with pneumonia at Drake Street. Mrs Schoonover's condition labeled critical. William Hartley improved at Mill Street.
Mrs Lorena Cochran convalesces at the Hartley home after pneumonia illness. Emmett Sutton recovering at his parents Mill Street home after a state fall injury in White Ash Mine near Chauncey. Mrs Newton Grigsby remains unchanged after a stroke a year ago. Mrs Warren V Sprague shows improvement after illness.
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