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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1932
Page
5
Chauncey Dover High School Music Department led by Mrs. Ralph Brown plans an April operetta titled Jerry of Jericho Road. The two act show features 11 leading roles, a 40 voice chorus, cowboys, tourists, ghosts and masqueraders plus special dancing. Tryouts are next week.
Mrs. Floyd Linscott hosts the Past Chief Club of Pythian Sisters in Chauncey for a monthly business and social meeting. Mrs. Mae Boudinot leads the business session with Mrs. Linscott and Mrs. Arthur Smith portraying George and Martha Washington. A program and refreshments will punctuate the social hour.
Mr and Mrs Charles Ogg and family of Chauncey welcomed as guests over the weekend Mrs Oggs mother Mrs Charles Carpenter and sister Mrs Della Carr of Zanesville at their Jacobs Avenue residence entering into a family gathering with neighbors and relatives.
In Chauncey on February 18 Mrs W E Dicken hosted a luncheon at Eva Smith's home in Carbon Hill. Attending were Mrs Wendell Moore and son Roger plus Mrs Clarence Langly and Mrs Ralph Hysell, all from Lower Plains.
Edward J. Owens of Boston reports relief from headaches belching sour taste and indigestion after using Pape's Diapepsin. He can now enjoy coffee late at night and meals like lobster or pork and sleep soundly. The candy-like tablets stop heartburn gas belching nausea and other indigestion symptoms as soon as trouble starts.
S Bradfield Jr Messenger staff correspondent reports from Chauncey Millfield and The Plains with local briefs and community notes for The Messenger.
At Millfield East Side School principal Miss Jessie Smart oversees a Wednesday noon meal for 28 needy children. The lunch was prepared by Mrs. F. E. Boudinot Mrs. Arthur Tripp let and Mrs. Isabel Leffler with daily help from East Side women.
Pupil groups at Sugar Creek School will present Washington Birthday programs Friday afternoon. Each of the three rooms with teachers Miss Fielder Miss Hall and Miss Smith will feature playlets recitations and songs.
Chauncey Feb. 18 Rev. Guss Graham pastor reports revival services at Chauncey Methodist Church drawing good attendance and several conversions. assisting preacher Rev. Fred Fields of Athens.
A large congregation at the Pentecostal Church in Chauncey heard Rev. T. H. Spears preach from the fourteenth chapter of First Corinthians on Sunday afternoon. Revival services continue with sizable crowds each night.
Gerald King son of Mrs Fannie King principal of Lincoln Grade School Chauncey returned from a month long visit in the south He was joined by his cousin Harold Reeder Athens They toured Florida Louisiana and Cuba during the trip.
Miss Lena Wilson of Chauncey will entertain her bridge club this Saturday night at her Converse Street home. Her sister Miss Edith Wilson will assist as hostess.
Mrs Roy Smith and son Stewart of Carbon Hill stay with Mr and Mrs W E Dicken. Mr and Mrs Wesley Luman and two children visit relatives in Columbus. Mr and Mrs George Gabriel Jr host Mrs S B Shaw and Mrs Ruth Montgomery and daughter Betty of New Marshfield Road.
Mrs. L. H. Pendergrass of McRoberts Kentucky is visiting Chauncey with her son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Paul A Theisen. She travels with Mrs. Herbert Pendergrass and infant who joined family in Pomeroy for relatives visit.
Postmaster Clarence McCafferty and Mrs. McCafferty spent Tuesday in Columbus. Mrs. William Omen is ill with influenza at her Millfield home. Arlyn Blanser and Marie Morgan of Lancaster visited Chauncey relatives. Mrs. James R. Wade remains seriously ill in Millfield with Mrs. E. Robinett helping care. A daughter of Mrs. A. M. Truitt of Cleveland is at her mother’s bedside. Mrs. Hildreth Reeves of Chauncey, ill, shows slight improvement. Ralph Smith Woodrow Witham and John Franz of Chauncey visited relatives in Columbus and Cleveland. Mrs. Louis Canter and Mrs. Ernest Johnson visited Mrs. Henry Locke. Mrs. Dora France of Chauncey ill with pneumonia, then somewhat improved with her sister assisting. Mozella LaHugh of Millfield spent a week in Albany with relatives Dow Sanders. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Myrtle and family moved from Chauncey to Lancaster.
Pleasant Valley residents Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Knowlton spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Wood visited the Dorsey household. The Brooks family Harley Russ and Margaret joined Sunday visitors at an unspecified location.
Word was received Sunday of the death of T. G Guinther of Mari etta. Mr. Guinther drilled several gas wells in the neighborhood. Mrs. Ellan Wood and others visited, families moved between homes on the Statts farm and H. C Brooks house. Pearl Wood builds a workshop. K. B. Brooks does carpentry work. Lotus Gorby and family visited Mrs. Gorby's mother.
A long list of Sunday dinner guests from Albany R D No 1 and nearby towns visited the Collins home, with brief notes on visits to Sheltering Arms Hospital, cattle vaccination by Dr. Stansbury, a cow death, lookouts and indeterminate visits, and a funeral at Hebbardsville. Ben Dorsey ill with tonsillitis.
Haydenville announces the birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Phil Moore. Twin babies were born to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Devol, a boy and a girl, both died shortly after. Local high school games against Carbon Hill ended with girls 9 to 3 and boys 21 to 17. Numerous social visits and events are listed including dinners, guestings, choir practice, and a Bible class gathering hosted by Mrs. Goldie Evans.
Mrs. Norman Cooper and Mrs. Willard Seel visited in Nelsonville on Tuesday. Mrs. A J Skiver and Nora Skiver were in Logan on Monday with Nellie Allen, Lucy Beougher and Jean McMillin. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Lock from Logan Route visited Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Lock on Saturday. Kenneth Hinerman of Waterford and Mrs. Sinnott spent the weekend there.
Paris reports France has ordered millions of gas masks to protect civilians from chemical weapons. Estimates suggest 50 million masks to be produced over two years with 10 hours of immunity per canister. The Interior Ministry aims to supply every citizen and store the gear in Army Corps or Red Cross warehouses. Masks will be sold in drug stores for about $2 each.
Marietta reports additional excitement in the Cady Run neighborhood as the Crago farm deep sand well resumed flowing Wednesday morning. indications suggest the well may be drilling deeper into the pay sand after previously flowing.
Over the past week tanks were added to hold oil with one tank added to a 260 barrel capacity. The Buckeye Pipe Line Company connected with the tanks on Wednesday morning and began pumping away the surplus oil produced by the well.
Canal Winchester board of education removed windows doors blackboards and seats from the Jefferson one room school to stop attendance by Jefferson children. The board had warned teacher Miss Pern Sager Basil of arrest if she returned, while Jefferson parents resist centralized schooling.
Tokio dispatch says Henry Pu-Yi, the deposed boy emperor of China, is believed named president for life of a new Manchurian state, according to the Mukden correspondent of the Tokio Nichi Nichi.
Professor Giauque, associate professor of physical education at Ohio University, will leave in fall to direct all men's physical activities at Boston University. He will oversee gymnasia, Nickerson Field and macro athletic facilities, with salary gains and expanded duties across intramurals and varsity athletics.
An advertisement touts Peterson's Ointment as a powerful aid for itching burning and soreness from piles. It claims rapid relief within days and eventual banishment of severe cases, urging purchase at a drug store.
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