Select New Officers at Friday Lodge Meeting in Murray City
At Hock-Hocking Council No. 59 Pocahontas Friday evening officers for the coming term were installed led by Prophetess Mrs. Freda Wright and other positions including Wenonah Mrs. Dorothy Beitel and first scout Mrs. Ben Hellyer. Several local residents were noted visiting relatives and attending events around Murray City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murray City
Hock-Hocking
Virginia Atheny
Maud Penn
Nelsonville
Willis Six
Donna Louise
Margaret Gears
Barberton
Eugene Six
Dora Spencer
Ralph Mason
Chicago
Greenlawn
American Legion Auxiliary
Mary Potts
Hazel Storer
Mabel Poling
Sloria Jean, Logan
Vinton Ladies Aid Meeting Highlights New Officers
VINTON The Ladies Aid Society met with Mrs. Annie S Evans for an all day session. New officers named include Anna S Davis president Hazel Harmon vice president Lizzie Shenefield secretary Mabel Gerlach treasurer Emma Piper chaplain and a membership committee led by Margaret Glenn Margaret Ralph Hazel Harmon and Frazer Painter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lizzie Shenefield
Mabel Gerlach
Emma Piper
Margaret Glenn
Mararet Ralph
Hazel Harmon
Frazer
Butler
Nita Alexander
Golda Alexander
Marie Alexander
Beatrice Evans
Nelle Feltman
Georgia Gray
Dale McClaskey
Elsie McCoy
Ray McGhee
Boy Scouts of
Rel Hives
Columbus
Frank James Glenn
Holzer Hospital
Amesville P T A to view Yellowstone and Yosemite films
C R Kinison of Ohio University will present projected films on Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite Valley at the Ames-Bern P T A meeting Tuesday evening January 18. The item notes local church services, visits, and a birth announced by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Eckard. Lake Tanganyika is described with its area of 15000 square miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amesville
C. R. Kinison
Industrial Arts Department
Ohio University
Yellowstone National Park
Yosemite Valley
Ames
Mecc and
A. Boileau
Union Church
G. C
Howard Warner
Methodist Church
Presbyterian Church
Dwight Thomas
Joy Ann
Zanesville
Harry Joy
Nettie Jago
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Athens
Charles Eckard
T. E. Clark
Columbus
Robert
Weather Cuts Attendance at Buchtel PTA
The Buchtel P T A meeting saw smaller attendance due to bad weather. Miss Lenna Whitmore spoke about her Alaska trip as the February program is slated to be directed by Edith K. Hardy.
Death of 78Yearold Joseph L Stephenson in Straitsville
Straitsville social notes report the death of Joseph L Stephenson age 78 after a yearlong illness. Born at Harsden Furnace he leaves two sisters Mrs Scotia Howdyshell Oroville and Miss Jane Stephenson, two brothers Charles and Hubert, and several nephews and nieces. Funeral held at M E Church with Rev Bradds officiating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Straitsville
Joseph L. Stephenson
Stephenson
Harsden Furnace
Scotia Howdyshell
Oroville
Jane Stephenson
Charles
Hubert
M. E
Bradds
Gertrude Davis
Alice Deavers
Dorothy Devol
Onade! Wilson
Irma Pierce
Laura Warner
Goldie Whitmer
James Blankenship
Canton
Fred Blankenship
Thomas Nihiser
Rockbridge
T. J. Price
Columbus
Rodney Waldron
Joseph Stephenson
Janie Botzer
Toledo
Charles Botzer
Mac McQuade
The
Legion Hall
Margaret Carr
Somerset
M. E. Church
Raymond Young
Lancaster
Barney Blankenship
Frank Emrick
Wendell
Ruth Cramer
Portsmouth
Joe Kennedy
Union Furnace
Borough
Hamden
Akron
Gertrude Dicken
Marvin Conkle
Logan
Grant Dicken
Burl Lemon
Zanesville
Forest Coakley
Dorothy Burgess
Lydia Altop
Gracie Woods
Maxville
Opal St. Clair
Virgil Hite
Gulf Gas Station
William Hicks
Eugene English
PTA
Hi Dixon
Blanche Hart
Bertha Hood
Isaac Hite
Stanley Starr
James Mohler
John Summers
Gore
Garnet Criswell
James Barnes
Portland Briefs Highlights of Local Social News
The M F E Ladies Aid Society hosted an all day meeting and potluck at Mrs. Marshall Delaney home to honor Mrs. S J Lee and family moving from Dam 21 to Marietta Locks where Lee has served as lockmaster for 18 years. J M Cox and daughter Mabel Ann attended a Charleston funeral last Friday. Marvin Swan and Charles Lee, Marietta College students, visited family in Charleston. Mr and Mrs Floyd Joseph Charleston announce the birth of a son. Mrs Joseph formerly Rita Price. Mr and Mrs Herman Keelsch and Virginia traveled to Pittsburgh after Virginia's grandfather died. Charlies Newman attended his grandfather Mr Stahl's funeral in Pittsburgh. Mr and Mrs W E McDade of Kananga visited Mrs V E McDade. The piece notes that the American five cent piece contains more copper than the penny.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buchtel School
Pauline Heft
Brady Covert
Mary Andrews
St. Anthony's Hospital
Columbus
Mary Castell
Logan
Walter Tripp
Chillicothe
Kate Maurer
Eileen Stratton
Athens
Selby Murphy
Terry Bunton
Jimmy Wagner
Ben Wagner
Adolph Levandofsky
Esther Barletta
Barry Dean
Raymond Brown
Cherrington Hospital
D. Johnson
Nelsonville
Anna Harris
Clayton Bookman
Jack
Dana Bookman
Bobby Bookman
Paul Smathers
Curt Smathers
Jimmie Bruce
Jerry Wagner
Don Newman
Henry Dearing
William Newman
Cliff Brown
Lancaster
Mary King
Margaret Connors
Edith Kinneer
Bucyrus
Kenneth Kinneer
Kinneer
Ohio State University
Nelsonville Board of Education
Gladyvs Kinneer
Chauncey School
Chauncey
Kenneth
William McKnight
Danny McKnight
George Snowden
Althea Whitmore
Margaret Colbert
Michael Colbert
Roland
Bernard
Mary Margaret Colbert
Clarence Colbert
Rose Farm
Lawrence Colbert
Glouster
Ole Floyd Leake
Tommy O
Portland
M. FE
Ladies Aid Society
Marshall Delaney
S. J. Lee
Dam 21
Marietta Locks
Lee
J. M. Cox
Mabel Ann
Charleston
Marvin Swan
Charles Lee
Marietta College
Honor Two At Mineral On Birthdays
A chicken dinner was held at the home of Mr and Mrs Lewis Younkins on January 8 in honor of Mrs Lewis Younkins 79th birthday and Frank McDaniels 59th birthday. Attending were Hattie Reeves and others including James Sickels Sun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis Younkins
Frank McDaniel
Hattie Reeves
Alice
Hanning
Albany
Lorain Clendening
Etta Elliott
Everett
Harry Baugh
James
Barberton
S. P. Shingler
Margaret Goodwin
Thora Baughman
Betty Dinsmore
Hadley Ely
Marjory
Lawrence White
Joe Young
Ross Hoon
Friay
Gorrells Leave Friday After Long Bottom Visit
Mr. and Mrs. John Gorrell depart Friday for Columbus to visit relatives and plan to return Monday to Odessa Texas. Miss Genevieve Little stays with cousin Mrs Leona Babcock who is ill. Rural carriers Clark and Swan attended a funeral in Athens. The Long Bottom Division of Citizens Telephone Co held its annual meeting. Rev Clary preached at the M E Church. Mr and Mrs Kessel Ferrell and baby of Little Hocking visited relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philip Fisher
George Gears
Lancaster
Warren Darby
Orient
Darby
Emma Tippie
Harry Frazee
Matt Thomas
Hetty Thomas
Walter Hill
Glouster
Logan
Willis Six
Nelsonville
Eidos
Columbus
Wedness
Maggie Mansperger
Emma Shaffer
M. FE
Opal Jones
Sally Riggs
Connie Robinson
Sadie Foster
Margaret Gears
Irene Morris
Max
Bertie Boling
Nellie Spray
Bess Lovett
John Maraz
Ralph Grey
Maraz
Grey
John Gorrell
Odessa
Texas
Genevieve Little
Little Hocking
Leona Babcock
E. L. Clark
C. S. Swan
Athens
E. L. German
Coal Valley
Jewell
Harrisonville
O. E. German
Pittsburgh
Long Bottom
Citizens Telephone Co
Clary
M. E
Pratts Fork Sewing Circle Holds Meeting
The Rainy Day Sewing Circle met last Thursday with 11 members present led by Mrs. Leona Burson. Guests included Mrs. Audra Wells Mrs. Lydia Cairo Mrs. Gladys Burson Mrs. Cora Whaley and Mrs. Anna Hart. The next meeting is set for January 27 at Mrs. Ethel Guthrie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Ralph Perry
Athens
Harlan Story
Susan Bissel
Burlingham
Bernice Howett
Pomeroy
Bertha Williams
Ed O'Brien
Emmett Jones
Parkersburg
Rutland Residents Attend Local Musicale and Events
Rutland residents attended a musicale at the Middleport M E Church hosted by Miss Lee and Miss Loeb. Mrs Scott Canaday led the Merry Maids Class gathering, with prizes for Audrey Patterson Beatrice Porter and Kathryn Philson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beatrice Porter
Kathryn Philson
Rutland High School
Sunshine Bible Class Adds Six New Members in Jan Meet
The Sunshine Bible Class of M. E. Church at Guysville welcomed six new members Myrtle Simmons Margaret Cunningham Minnie Christy Edith Whetzel Frances Norris and James Harkins during a January 11 gathering at the home of Mrs Hattie Kincade and Miss Eva Norris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guysville
The
St. Joseph Hospital
Parkersburg
J. N. Rice
Canaanville M. E. Church
J. G. Hope
Athens
Vinnie Woode
Archie Coen
South Canaan
Glen Coen
Ladies Aid Society
M. E. Church
Anna Snow
Hattie Bailes
Coolville
Corrine Robinson
Faye Chapman
Victoria Storer
F. B. Bean
Laura Barnett
Marietta
Betty
Bright
Rome Grange
Stewart
Harvey Person
Kenneth Christy
Ewert Christy
Bennie Hutchins
C. C. Christy
Bishopville Personal and Social News Items
Local residents recount visits and family news with names such as Edwin Carpenter J M McDonald Marguerite McDonald and the Milhoan family. Travel notes include a trip to Athens for a highway club meeting and a visit to Cambridge St Clairsville and Corning. A distant note states England and Wales landforms will flatten over 5.5 million years due to river erosion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England and
Wales
Birthday Fete at Dyesville Church Highlights Community Gatherings
The Dyesville Church held its regular quarterly birthday meeting with a turkey dinner for 12 honored guests. Community members attended local events including a Danish folk dance by area youths Ada Belle Trainer and others at the Pomona Grange in Chester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilkesville
Wanda Starkey
Athens
W. S. Swett
J. L. Rawlings
Charles McCall
Lancaster
Winnie Rawlings
Charles Gheer
Columbus
Dyesville
Eulah Caster
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Board of Education
Columbia
Southern Ohio Electric Company
Clara Howery
Rutland
Benne Snowden
Claire Cummings
Eddie Lou Howery
Social Notes of Syracuse Highlights Local Health Updates
Social notes from Syracuse report several residents improving after illness including Jennings Bryan son of Mr. and Mrs. J B Wayland and Mrs. Carl Weese. Other recoveries noted include Mrs. Jennie Potts and Mrs. Faye Nease. A funeral for Elliot Prosser was held in Sharon Pennsylvania with Elizabeth Duckworth and daughter Anna in attendance and Don Cotterill celebrated a birthday at Alice Holmes’ home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Syracuse
Jennings Bryan
J. B. Wayland
Carl Weese
Jennie Potts
Faye Nease
Percy Williams
Elizabeth Duckworth
Anna
Sharon
Elliot Prosser
Don Cotterill
Alice Holmes
LeRoy Holmes
Pomeroy
Ernest McBride
Athens
Methodist Sunday School
C. E. Nease
CC. B. Weese
Dan Rizer
Kathleen Duffy
Ernest Duffy
Franklin Rizer
PTA
Curtis Lallance
Carl Lallance
Parkersburg
The
Presbyterian Church
Roscoe Harden
Pearl Zornes
Lucile
Helen
Patricia Ann
Harold
South Webster
Coles
Minford
L. R. Carmichael
Ruby Zornes
Emma Jean Carmichael
Lillian Moore
Jacksonville Lodge Hosts Party for Ill Member and Local News
The Ladies of the Moose surprised Mrs. Henry Forsbach at her Glouster home as she recovers from an infected ankle. Several members and children were served refreshments. Other items note Mothers' Club gatherings, a kitchen fire at Willaim Jansen's house, Epworth League plans, revival meetings, and nearby obituaries and illnesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacksonville
Ladies of the Moose
Henry Forsbach
Forsbach
Mary Kinsel
Margaret Gibbs
Nora Colley
Anna Stillwell
Josephine Miller
Glouster
Bertha Marquis
Myron Marquis
Trimble
James Williams
Mothers’ Club
Ninth Street
Shirkey
R. S. Lawrence
Anna Chappelear
Alyce Phillips
A. R. Woodgerd
William Jansen
Jacksonville Epworth League
Clea Conaway
Winter Institute
Logan
Chauncey Methodist Episcopal Church
Albany Church Society Meeting Notes and Local Updates
Albany The Phileathea Society met at the home of Mrs. Orville Ewing with president Miss Florence Brown presiding. Mrs. Ewing shared a resume on the Ark of the Covenant and the War in Ethiopia. Refreshments followed. Also noted were Albany Grange activities with four candidates receiving the third and fourth degrees under E. H. Lash. Additional items include funeral services for Miss Bertha Rickey and health updates on E. W. McVey and family visitors at Akron Red Cross scenes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Phileathea Society of the Baptist Church
Orville Ewing
Florence Brown
Albany Grange
Grange Hall
Charles Wies
Jerve Mansfield
E. H. Lash
Frank Pugh
Roma Douglas
Lena Green
Melva Radcliffe
Blanche Cline
C. V. O'Neal
Henry Chase
E. W. McVey
Akron
McVey
Clinton Jewell
M. FE
Bertha Rickey
Rev Lewis To Preach At Chapel Sunday
CARBON HILL Rev. Lewis Murray City will preach at Coe s Chapel Sunday at 7 p m. Twenty four friends and neighbors hosted a potluck for Mrs Coe s birthday Friday Jan 7. Several local visits and illnesses are noted along with a fact about English rivers washing over two million tons of solid matter to the sea each month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carbon Hill
Lewis
Murray City
Coe’s Chapel
Lizzie Devol
Goldie Winigiman
Carrie Green
Bert Green
Margaret Lehman
Hester Beal
Opal Crooks
Anna Coe
Coe
Annabelle Black
Donald Blake
Verna Dawley
Opal Devol
Stewart
Woodrow Devol
Emma Shaw
South Bloomingville
Helen Hawk
John Horn
Allie Hawk
Mable Hawk
Ermina Stacey
Lizzie Stacey
Hedley Lowes
Garland Hawk
Floyd Parry
Roscoe Evans
David Thorne
Indiana
Jean Bateman
Nelsonville
Howard Bateman
Forestry Films to be Shown at Kimberly
A Tuesday evening 7:30 program at the Kimberly schoolhouse will explain Forestry service work and good forest practices. Sponsored by the Hocking Valley District of the Wayne National Forest. The article also notes local visits and a marriage announcement for Verna McConaha and Virgil Huddy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kimberly
Forestry Service
Hocking Valley
Wayne National Forest
Benjamin
Electa Jeffrey
Melvin Forrest
Dorr Run
Coate Pickett
Marion
Meeker Run
NYA
Schoenbrum Park
New Philadelphia
Qhio
Clifford Pickett
Athens
Dorothy Johnson
Nelsonville
Homer Adams
James W. Ossman
Newark
Chuck
Rizer
Columbus
Abie Six
Corning
Lizzie Ryan
Beaumont
Nettie Pickett
William Searles, Jr
Faithful Circle Bible Class Meets in Millfield
The Faithful Circle Bible Class of the Church of Christ met in the home of president Mrs Eleanor Sharick. Officers and committees were appointed for the year including membership Garnet Blower Alice Theisen Maxine Boudinot finance Iva Evans Avanelle Crabtree Eda Heffkin flower Nellie Russell devotional Mae Boudinot Viola Sanders Helen Sanders. The meeting voted to move to the second Tuesday monthly and hostesses were Viola Sanders and Eda Heffkin. Rev Damon Watkins will preach at the Church of Christ Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Millfield
Faithful Circle Bible
Church of Christ
Eleanor Sharick
Garnet Blower
Alice Theisen
Maxine Boudinot
Iva Evans
Avanell Crabtree
Eda Heffkin
Nellie Russell
Mae Boudinot
Viola Sanders
Helen Sanders
Beatrice Theisen
Chauncey
Kathryn McDaniel
Circle Hill
Gabriel Pencelli
Albany
Jacquelyn Sanders
Pencelli
Ida Hill
Ernestine Tippett
Anna Pearl Earich
Viola Howard
Betty Heffkin
Lewis Marsh
Clarence Barnes
Roland
Hebron
Paul Farley
Jean Farley
Newark
H. O. McDaniel
L. W. Kelley
Athens
Mary Margaret Kelley
Roscoe
F. EF. Boudix
L. E. Woods
Roger
Nelsonville
Clarence Willis
Pocahontas Lodge
Russell Building
Brookins Building
West Millfield
Damon Watkins
Zanesville
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Sunday Messenger
Messenger
Ohio
Vinton Ladies Aid
Buchtel Pta
Harry Sayre
John Clark
Bob
Florence Clark
John White
Cincinnati
D. E. Bookman
Fisi Bookman
Goldie Laird
Maple Hill
Anne White
Will White
Elizabeth Brown
Richard Russell
Chris Russell
Weancosay
Social Notes of
Straitsville
Portland Briefs
South
Port Arthur
Tex
Neches
Mineral
Gorrells
Pratts Fork
Bishopville
Edwin Carpenter
Paris
J. M. McDonald
W. Palmer
McConnelsville
Dorothy Smith
Cambridge
Wendall Hall
Marguerite McDonald
W. H. Foura
Miss McDonald
Eleanor
Gallup
N. M
Charles Milhoan
Jacksonville Lodge
Trimble M. E
Millfield M. E
Jacksonville M. E
Epworth League
Jane Cox
E. S. Koons
Rex
Dois Fierce
Taylor Ridge
Albany Church Society
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