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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1940
Page
2
Nelsonville business leaders probe securing a factory to manufacture a new self-stoking furnace. Meetings with the company, Retail Merchants Association, and Rotary Club discuss proposals and a local corporation, with inspections of units and positive user reports. Further developments expected soon.
Nelsonville Rotary Club menu featured a round table on vocational ethics and practice led by William Morgan. Members answered printed questions, a special Marys Birthday message from Walter Head was read, and guests from nearby clubs attended. Details of a proposed new furnace factory were discussed at the end.
Wilfred Swen son of the late Mary Jowers Swenson will bring the body to Athens for burial after her death Sunday morning at Prescott Arizona. Funeral arrangements not yet set. The casket will be taken to Mrs Dow Bowers home where friends may call.
Nelsonville New Marshfield Girls, coached by Mrs Walter Hawk, host Kilpatrick Girls Thursday at seven. The New Marshfield squad earned the rematch after a 20 to 17 defeat of the local team last Friday night.
Nelsonville-WBA Officers Club meets tonight at Spray Hall at 7 30. All officers urged to attend this important gathering and bring a dish for the potluck supper.
In Nelsonville the Lancaster Clover Farm five meet the Covert Ice Men at the high school gym. Clover Farm boasts seven wins and one loss this season while the Ice Men carry 13 wins in 20 games. Kilpatrick Girls play a 7 o'clock preliminary.
Fourteen senior students join The Saga staff with Dorothy Lowden as editor in chief Alma Galvin as senior editor John Johnston as business manager Pierce Baird and Charles Miller as assistant business managers Ruth Higgins leads intramural basketball reports Ruth Higgins also manages contests The Home Economics Department and F H A plan a recipe book to raise funds with sales upcoming The Junior Class dance follows the Nelsonville Logan game and new library books arrive
Nelsonville Eagles push toward a third quota in the current campaign. Last year the club hit four quotas. W orthy president Clyde Byers announces a drive for delinquent members. A special meeting at the club rooms Friday night will feature lunch by Robert Green and short talks on the topic Hold What We Have.
The Berean Class of the Church of Christ will launch a membership drive on Sunday February 25. Full details will be outlined next Sunday before the regular class at 9 30 a m. The membership committee includes Harry Betts Raymond Patton F A Davis and Charles Dewees.
The Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist Church schedules a chicken dinner at the church on Wednesday February 28. Proceeds support church activities and local needs.
Nelsonville hosts the annual Child Welfare Ball on March 15 at the Elks Club to support a depleted fund aiding child welfare work and medical needs. Mrs. Cavanaugh notes many homes lack basic comforts like beds and medical supplies while children miss school due to illness or injury.
Mrs Gay Aumiller and Mrs Gertrude Edington hosted the Elizabeth Zane Dew Chapter DAR gathering at Mrs Aumiller's home. The program included the President General's Message read by Mrs W H Weigand and papers by Mrs Lettie Coe Hintz and Miss Lulu Lane. A committee was appointed to select chapter officers for the next year. Refreshments were served during the social hour.
Leland I. Krieg of Nelsonville, among 31 engineers and surveyors passing the January state exam in Columbus, was qualified Monday for a professional engineering certificate. He serves as assistant general superintendent of the Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co., Southern Division.
The Nelsonville chapter sponsors a benefit party held tonight in Pocahontas Hall to support community programs. Attendees include local residents and members of the Pocahontas organization. Proceeds aid selected charitable efforts in the area.
Glouster reports an accident on Oakdale Road as Anita Yocum of Hollister is struck by a car driven by deputy dog warden Clifford Watkins. Yocum is hospitalized with a fractured left leg at Sheltering Arms Hospital Athens. Also noted are a Trimble resident with appendicitis and a Glouster youth returning home after injury.
Albany Baptist Church members enjoyed a potluck party at the Mitchells country home with music and greetings. The 90 and 9 Class and the Men's Class of the Methodist Sunday School met at the church for a February program on composers born in February and life of Thomas Edison, with Lincoln’s religious life closing. Council 2-A rescheduled for Feb 22 at the Dailey home. Rev Black will attend a Methodist Advance Conference in Columbus. Ladies Aid of the Methodist Church set Thursday afternoon at the church with Lucille Barnes leading the program.
The stars indicate conflicting testimonies and odd adventures in business and personal contact. Those born on this day may see progress by following traditional lines and elders counsel, while a child may face quixotic tendencies that training could steer into constructive paths.
Nelsonville Rural Dennett and Union Furnace schools closed last week due to severe weather. Lafe Wolfe, a local businessman, visited Nelsonville Saturday. Nellie Dennis stayed with her grandparents the past week and attended school at Union Furnace. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Thress of Nelsonville joined Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Wollett.
Mrs Ruth North of this city pleaded innocent to adultery at arraignment in the mayor's court. Further action was withheld as she agreed to leave the city by week’s end, police said.
Members of Boy Scout Troop 64 are asked to attend a special meeting this evening at 7 o clock.
Ruth Watkins hosted the Progressive Study Club with the program on Home Life in Civil War Days as read from Carolyn Richards diary excerpts. Thursday meetup set for Trimble Church of Christ, with hostesses listed. Mrs Edward Dugan announces Violet Dugan to Roberto Marcelo in Columbus婚 ceremony at Violet's home on Feb 10 with 23 guests and a blue wedding dress.
GLOUSTER-Scott Dairy posted a new team single of 987 and a three game total of 2768 to beat Atlas Store in City League action. Ralph Briggs led with 219 for high single and Red Janchius totaled 613 for best three-game all while Atlas Store posted scores from Wolf and Shumway in the 404 to 465 range.
Chauncey Young People Prayer Band of the Morristown Holiness Church directed by Mrs Myrtle Simpson will meet tonight at 7 o clock. Weekly cottage prayer meeting at 7 p m Friday in the home of Mr and Mrs Marion Walton Bailey Run. Young People meeting led by Myrtle Simpson Sunday at 6 p m followed by preaching by Rev Charlie Hook at 7 p m. Twenty six youths attended the rally at Pilgrim Holiness Church in Athens last Friday night.
Chauncey residents hosted and visited relatives over the weekend. Norman Nichols and Mrs. Nichols of Columbus spent time with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Adkins. Mrs. Carrie Channell returned to The Plains after two weeks in Lancaster with the Rankins and Mathenys in Athens.
The NEW MARSHFIELD group met Thursday night with Janet Russell and Blanche Burkett in charge. Mrs. Mary Collins presided as class president. They voted to donate to the Bible School in Grayson Kentucky and read a thank you letter for gifts to the Church Home in Cleveland. Seventeen members and three guests attended.
An advertisement promotes Peterson's Ointment as a simple quick relief for eczema pimples red blotches and other external irritations. It claims itching is eased the skin improves and also soothes tired itchy feet and cracks between toes with a money back guarantee if not delighted.
Earl Thompson Jr and Robert Lee McGranor of The Plains return home on a 10 day furlough from Newport Rhode Island where they joined the U S Navy last December and are with Company No 47 to visit their parents Earl Thompson Sr and Mr and Mrs E McGranor. Earl Thompson Jr is grandson of Mrs Mary Meinhart and nephew of Henry Morgan both of The Plains.
Walter Wharton and his son Dale from The Plains visited Walter Wharton Jr. in Columbus on Sunday. The junior was staying with Mr and Mrs Floyd Courtney and receiving treatments at White Cross anona and his condition is improving. Accompanying they were Mrs Victor Grinstead and her daughter Betty of Athens who visited Walter's in laws Mr and Mrs Claude Grinstead.
Mrs R Maness of Chauncey stays with son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Kenneth Thomas of Sugar Creek to aid Patsy Ruth her ill granddaughter with influenza. Monday visitor in the Thomas home was Mrs Grace Crabtree of Chauncey. Mrs Emanuel Crabtree Sr of Millfield is convalescing after a serious heart ailment.
Chauncey Library overseen by Mrs Nell Rupe will close all day Thursday February 22. Books marked February 22 will be due at the library February 23.
Chauncey Forest Rose Rebekah Lodge will meet Thursday at 7 30 p m with degree team practice. The postponed party from last week will be held this Thursday night with refreshments served.
The Trimble Church of Christ missionary society will be entertained tonight at the home of Mrs Iris Pettit in Chauncey Shelton.
Hollis Stalder III of Chauncey is reported seriously ill at his Mill Street home with pneumonia.
Chauncey Thelma Jane McDonald ten year old daughter of Mr and Mrs George McDonald Chauncey was taken to a Marietta hospital Wednesday with an infection in the left foot after stepping on a rusty nail She was accompanied by her father and George Sweeney Thelma Jean was in the same hospital last fall with a ruptured appendix She is the granddaughter of Mr and Mrs Pearl Lowery Chauncey.
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