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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1931
Page
3
Nelsonville and Vicinity notices urge readers to telephone Your News Your Society and Locals to 412-W for classified ad circulation assistance. The column requests readers to contact an experienced representative for service.
Nelsonville church hosts Rev James A Verberg Columbus field secretary for the Synod of Ohio as Sunday speaker at 10 30. He oversees Presbyterian colleges young people and Sunday Schools and related Christian education in the state.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Fisk returned to Walbridge after visiting Mr. and Mrs. Art Fisk. Mrs. C. A. Stover stays with relatives in Columbus. Mrs. Tom Morgan and Mrs. Lu se Ward and son visited here Thursday. Mrs. Ida Hanning and Mrs. in Columbus visited her mother Mrs. A. J. Juniper. Mrs. O. A. Rider spent Thursday in Columbus with her brother, Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Chapman. Mrs. George Beagle visited Lancaster Thursday. Mary Jo Bowers, Marret Scott, Max Bowers and Sam McNamee were in Lancaster Thursday evening.
The Happy Hollow Parent Teacher Association will meet at the key school building Monday evening February 2. A pot luck luncheon will be served. All members are requested to be present.
Mr. and Mrs. I. B. Warner hosted a noon dinner at 11112 West Columbus Street in Nelsonville in honor of Lavina Warner's ninety four birthday. Guests from local families attended and gifts of flowers and a potted plant were given.
Nelsonville residents report Jack Davis donated a substantial check and five percent of last weekend’s sale proceeds to the Junior Red Cross feeding program at the high school. About 70 children are being fed daily.
Funeral services for Alonzo L. Barker age 59 who died Wednesday at his Chestnut Street home will be held Saturday afternoon at 1 40 o clock at the residence instead of Sunday as previously announced. The Rev H A Sayre of the Methodist Church will officiate and burial will follow in Athens Cemetery.
Ruth Call of St Charles Street won a 25 dollar cash prize while Rolland Mills of Nelsonville earned 10 dollars in The Columbus Dispatch Old Man Riddle contest. Call had previously won a 10 dollar award in a prior Dispatch contest.
Revival services led by evangelist Rev. James Maffin of Marion Ohio will run through next week. Sunday programs include 10 30 a m service and 7 p m evening service with a 2 30 p m healing service for the sick.
Mrs. Sarah Leffler aged 58 died early today at the family home in the Diamond Nelsonville. She leaves husband Fred Leffler three sons and four daughters. Funeral arrangements were not yet set.
Betty Esmond and Gerry Allen pose in Miami to elude the hungry grizzly Smoky as they attempt to climb a tree in a sunny south setting. The scene highlights bear behavior and safety around the large animal at the Florida attraction.
Further discussion of the apportionment of funds occurred at a Thursday night meeting of the Athens Community Chest board of directors. No final allotment plans have been announced by the board.
Perfect attendance honored for the first half term among pupils in Room 1 and Room 2. Notable names include John Cogni Max Jones Robert O Nall Patsy Ja Leo Mihalek Donald Brady Do McDonald and many others. Room 1 attendance reached 98 percent and Room 2 reached 99 percent.
Mr and Mrs Willis A Rees announce the arrival of a son named Charlie Allen on Thursday January 22 in Nelsonville. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Charl-en Pritts of this city and Mr and Mrs Allen Rees of Butterville Indiana.
In Boston last week a Yale psychology student James Angter was dismissed from Harvard University following an investigation into the grapefruit bombardment of Rudy Walt in a theater.
President Hoover will entertain Prime Minister Richard L. Bennett of Canada the Canadian charge d affaires and Secretary of State Henry N. Stimson at a White House dinner tonight.
Courtney, known as Zip, 42, a Marion County inmate born in Athens, is slashed on the right face by Charles Morgan a Cleveland bank robber at the Ohio Penitentiary. Morgan is said to have attacked after alleging Courtney stole meat at noon. Courtney, a former warden’s cook and musician, lives on Dean Avenue and faces potential serious injury as the weapon narrowly missed his jugular.
Dr William Flatph Hall of Philadelphia will lecture at 7 o clock Sunday night as part of a series of popular evening services at Athens Presbyterian Church. Special music is being arranged by Prot C D Glauquae.
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