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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1928
Page
6
Residents and visitors are listed at homes in Murray City and surrounding towns. An evening gathering at a local home featured games and music with guests including Thomas, Thomas and several families. Other entries note shopping trips, family visits, and weekend stays across Lancaster Columbus Logan and Bremen with multiple locals named.
The Sun day Messenger corrects that Harry Shutt leworth was misidentified as captain. Ralph Griffey will serve as captain for the coming year.
Father Briley and Effie entertained with an 8 o clock chicken dinner Saturday honoring Hal Richards of Cleveland. Other guests included George B. Briley of Lancaster Ruth Brooker and Emery Hughes of this city.
Mrs Wesley Householder of Bremen reads the morning and evening services at the Methodist Episcopal church due to Rev Householder illness. Meanwhile Murray City youths attend a Nelsonville American Legion dance. Mrs Cora Tigner and daughter Betty Jane visit Miss Violet Hoffman and Artenia Hoffman. Pauline Ayelsworth also present.
Local notices report Rev. Delbert Mills preaching on WAIU Columbus, travel and visits of residents including Miss Evelyn James at Old Inn Erie and Miss Laura Sedgwick from Bartlett. Rutland hosted a 33 25 Syracuse defeat as basketball season continues.
Harrisonville high school team played two games last week drawing 5 to 13 with Rutland's second team and 13 to 29 against Pomeroy. Walter French is ill at home. Presbyterian services were led by Rev Brown. Mrs Eliza Welsh Carpenter visited relatives. An entertainment and pie and candy sale at the school aims to fund girls basketball suits. The board will dedicate a room for basketball practice due to outdoor court limits, highlighting the need for a gymnasium.
Clark sisters Margaret and Martha Robinson in Athens for weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Robinson. Ladies Aid met at Mrs. Wilbur Young’s home. County commissioners completed cinder work on Cocilville Ridge Long Run pike. Frances Blackburn of Lima Peru to speak Sunday. Services at 10 o clock. White family visited Mrs. Ed Seiple in Athens.
Broadwell Meiner visited friends at Sugar Creek and mentions Pendergrass Lumber Co. operating on company land. Young of Rutland moved here and a blacksmith shop was started by Tuttie. Foutch and Dwight North worked at Malta on Saturday.
Clarence Swartz and Harry Carleton from Coolville motor to Cincinnati for an auto show. Athens residents Aylmer Ackley and family hosted dinner guests Daniel Ackley. Marietta trip by Mr Ackley. Mildred White and Forrest Frazier visited Rob ert Sharp’s home at Mound Crossing. Frost residents Bud Justice spent Sunday with Laud Barnhart family. Leroy Boggs family and Catherine joined C D Swartz dinner. L H Morris family from Athens visited C L Davia's home. Majel Chapman of Mason City spent weekend with F W Chapman family. VU B church quarterly meeting held here. Troy High students Wayne Sharp, Mable Buck, and Guy White out sick with measles.
Shade The Rev Rice filled his regular 10 36 appointment at Jerseyville. Gene Williams of Columbus was guest of home folks Sunday. Miss Pearl Blackwood and Grace Brory visited Miss Helen Guthrie. Miss Ruby Ashcraft spent end of week with Miss Ada OBrien. Mrs Will Harris is spending days on the farm. Elmer Browning principal of Leds high school carried a load of provisions to Gloucester for needy families. Load included eight bushels of potatoes three sacks of flour fifty cans of fruit nineteen corduroy pants bags and boxes of clothing. Meals were donated by the Lod high school and M E church. Mrs Lew Woode not well.
Silas Welker of Darwin suffered a serious accident Friday when a pan of ashes slipped and he fell breaking his leg in two places. He was taken to a medical facility for treatment.
Mrs Edith Whaley and son Dale and brother Everett Dixon of Albany visited W L Whaley and Ruby Ashcraft with Ada O Brien over the weekend. Dorothy Willard visited Audra Willard. Helen Chaffie daughter of Mr and Mrs Warner Rawlings died at her Nelsonville home Saturday night and funeral services were held Tuesday at Hemlock Grove.
Charles Schall aged 80 former Zaleski resident died at his son’s Nelsonville home last Tuesday. Funeral services at Zaleski Baptist Church with burial in Oak Grove cemetery. Daniel Knowlton also died Sunday morning at 80 after months illness. funeral Tuesday at home and burial Oak Grove. Mrs. Kate Hewitt and Mr. Sam Baughman recently married, residents of Athens state hospital, spent last week with bride’s family. Elizabeth Andrews of Columbus visited her parents near here last week.
Pleasant Valley residents report recovery for Mrs Odta Graham after surgery at Sheltering Arms Hospital. Mrs Jane Jackson, 91, dies at her daughter’s home. funeral and Wells Cemetery burial follow. Miss Primrose Hawk visits family near Shade. trips to Cincinnati with ill Dallas Carsey noted. Pearl Wood returns from Parkersburg. Charles Chase attends Bowers sale. Columbus visits Dorsey parents.
Amesville surgeon Dr Z Henry and Mrs Henry visited friends in town as the Amesville Music and Study club hosted its annual guest meeting at John Hartley’s home. An indoor picnic luncheon, games, singing solos, piano pieces, and a group choir of Negro spirituals followed a social hour. Oil and gas activity dominates town chatter as the Ohio Fuel Gas company shifts its operations to neighboring farms.
A reader reports persistent facial eruptions with burning and scaling for ten to twelve months. The lesions spread across the face and caused sleepless nights before healing.
Local social events include Alfred Hawks wedding to Lucile Tate at Point Pleasant and a dinner hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hawk. Sports note The Plains beat Hamden 33 to 15 in boys basketball while Hamden girls won 23 to 14. Various visitors and residents are listed with travels, visits, and family notes across The Plains and nearby towns.
Charlies Fox and party from Marietta moved a drilling machine onto the Dean farm on Monday for a first ever deep sand test. Athens men filled pulpits Sunday with Prof Gamertsfelder in the Presbyterian church and Rev Holcomb in the MFE church. Jewett Parmiter of Sand Rock returned home Monday after a three weeks treatment in Cleveland hospital.
Bishopville notes list a series of Sunday visits and social calls. Guests include Halli Chapman of Coolville with the Falls family, Hazel Hamble in Gloucester, and Dorothy and Donna Wells visiting Mrs. T. F. Davis. Other visitors span Gloucester to Zanesville and Jacksonville.
Peter Smith visited Frank Smith at Federal on Sunday. John Milhoan reported a broken leg after losing a horse on Sunday.
A well on the Woodyard farm last week proved good while the Lovie Elliott site was dry. Drilling plans include D. W. Brill and Charlie Elliott lands. Local residents share updates on health visits, guests, and family travel.
John R. MecKecknie aged 45 was killed and James Loftus 61 was hospitalized after a vehicle collision on the National road near Vandalia late last night in Dayton.
Hamden Mrs. C. H. Merrill's Sunday school class girls were entertained at Uncle Jesse's dining hall on Saturday night. A two course lunch with creamed potatoes fruit salad sandwiches ice-cream cake and coffee was served to Ruth Ester Sunnafrank Marie Winstead Louise Thompson Alice Beckley Mary Edna Lewis and guests Ruth Barnhill Ruth Roberts Virginia Brooks Kathaleen Jolly Laura Sprague and Helen Bullard.
Frank Beckley and Tra Sorrell called on Simon Dixon near Allensville Saturday. Charles Barnhill and family visited Mrs. Barnhill's parents near Allensville Sunday. The Rev. F. O. Koster closed a three week revival at the local U B church. The Kensington Sewing club met on Main street. Numerous local residents hosted guests from Jackson Coalton Radcliff and Athens. An infant son was buried by the Hogeland family.
An old ad claims Dr ward s Olive Tablets detoxify the system and restore energy and beauty. It promotes the vegetable formula as a safe remedy replacing calomel, promising clearer skin and rosy cheeks through gentle liver support. The text uses persuasive language and appeals to health concerns.
Albany notes a young people program to be presented next Sunday at Alexander Presbyterian Church as part of the Athens Presbytery pageant They Come by Dr William Chalmers Covert will be performed with a service order including hymns readings and prayers Also reported are local social visits a funeral for Luster Fought and high school basketball results Albany Grange plans a January 28 program with songs recitations and a farming discussion by local speakers
The Rev. J. W. Barnes led the funeral for Mrs. Jane Jackson last Monday at the home of her son-in-law and daughter Mr. and Mrs. Henry Johnson five miles east of Albany. Burial followed in Wells cemetery at Downington. Mrs. Jackson nearly ninety one, formerly of Stewart, had been living with her daughter recently.
Funeral attendance for Luster Fought in Alb and related family visits in Pickerington and McArthur. Miss Fern Lewis visits Athens. Church events include Hardsville M E day on January 22 and aid efforts for Hollister school families. Albany Baptist service changes and union meeting with Hebbardsville Sagbone and Albany MFE churches. Hazel O Neal visits Clyde Barnes in Columbus.
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