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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1957
Page
3
The Glouster Kiwanis and Key Club finalize details for a polio fund drive this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. A large drum on High Street will collect contributions as Kiwanis and Key Club members staff the street addressing system. Last year the drive raised $60.
Glouster Society Hostess Esther Lamborn invited the 500 Club to her Town Street home Monday evening with two tables. high score went to Mrs. Albert Gordon, followed by Mrs. Lamborn and Miss Josephine Hedfield. The Loyal Women’s Class met at Mrs. Kate Vaughn’s home with co host Erma Norton leading devotions and readings by multiple members. Prizes were won by Esther Lamborn and Bertha Carpenter, and a lunch was served. Thirty three members attended Junior Progressive Study Club at Mrs. Frank Meurer’s Monday with polio Mother's March planned for Jan 31 starting at 6 p m to collect contributions. Mrs. Robert Byers reviewed My Cousin Rachael by Daphne Du Maurier. Next meeting Feb 4 at Mrs. Carl Bradbury’s.
An advertisement touts COLONAID as a superior laxative. It claims the product hydrates and stretches the colon to stimulate normal urge and bowel movement, safe for pregnancy, with 60 tablets for 98 cents.
The Jacksonville Trimble PTO will meet Thursday at 1 p.m. There will be no refreshments. The gathering was postponed last week because of bad weather.
Mrs Edward Davis came back from Waverly after four weeks aiding in the care of their new granddaughter Doreen born December 19 to Mr and Mrs Ralph Schultz Jr The item notes family roles and birth details.
Mr and Mrs George Last and daughters spent an evening with relatives. Paul Daugherty called on his mother Mrs Margaret Daugherty. Mrs Raymond Daft visited her mother in Holzer Hospital over the weekend. Delbert Pearse was a business visitor in Logan recently. Garnet Martin and family dined with Frank and Eberts. Sawyer Hixenbaugh and Mrs union Furnace called on J E West. Edna Daft participates in local notices.
Mr and Mrs Robert Fennell announce the birth of a son, Thomas William, January 18 at Sheltering Arms Hospital. Grandparents are Mrs Edith Goodman of The Plains and Mrs Effie Fennell of Chauncey.
Chauncey The Church of Christ Parish will host a Mortgage Burning ceremony Sunday night at Trimble church to celebrate paying off the parsonage bought 19 months ago. The 7 30 program includes parish chorus performances, a youth choir led by James Danner, and remarks by parish pastor Gilbert Courtney with Dr Herald Monroe as guest speaker.
Community members and relatives from Hudson to Athens and Millfield visit relatives in the Chauncey area. Mentions of Frances Howard and sisters, the Fenell family, Elmer Bellershies guests, and several Mingus and Schoonover family appearances follow. James Bellar honored at a Sugar Creek home birthday dinner. James Nelson, 82, of Downington ill hospitalized at Sheltering Arms but improving.
The western diamondback rattler is described as the deadliest snake in the United States, likely causing more human fatalities than other snakes.
Mr and Mrs Monty Brown announce the birth of a son Bruce Montgomery on January 15 at Painesville Hospital Grandparent is C W Howard Chauncey Ohio.
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