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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1940
Page
2
Nelsonville annual hall for police and fire departments to raise funds for equipment. Elks Club event Feb 16 features a good orchestra, dancing from 9 to 1, proceeds fund items not covered by city funds including a modern inhalator purchased last year. Tickets sold by department members.
Nelsonville hosts include Methodist Missionary Society meeting with Mrs Nelson Dowler as host and Mrs Thomas Spencer leading devotion and program. W E A review notes 20 members and two initiates, with guests Mrs Hannah Thomas Mrs Tish Dilcher and Mrs Hattie Joyce. Mrs A W Laessie honors Ruth Ellen 19th birthday with dinner party seen by Canal Winchester and Battle Creek visitors. Helen Weltzheimer returns from visiting Cuyahoga Falls. Adda Wright and Arlene Lamansy visit Wesley Hawk in Columbus.
Fred Wilson finished a new water well on West Washington Street in Nelsonville after a two week shortage. William G. Cook of Stewart drilled to fifty five feet, striking water at forty feet. The water is described as soft.
About fifty couples attended the annual President's Ball the first evening at the Elks Club in Nelsonville. Dick Trimbel's Orchestra of Lancaster provided music for the affair with Dr. C. G. Dew as general chairman and local Elks and Eagles co sponsoring.
The Albany 3 Garden Club invites Nelsonville Garden Club to a benefit luncheon on Friday February 9 at the home of Mrs. Howard Ayler in Albany. Nelsonville members may contact Nelsonville club officers for information.
The schedule lists several routes from Baltimore to Ohio including East Bound trains on the Diplomat Daily and Diplomat Daily services with daily and Sunday exceptions. It notes National Limited and Chesapeake and Ohio connections with arrival and departure times and a New York Central line with multiple daily slots. An Athens Airways service links Columbus and Pittsburg with connecting flights to Parkersburg and Marietta. Charter air service is available for special trips to any city with an airport.
Carbon Hill and Pattonville residents join meetings as the T eight social clubs discuss hobbies and plan a Valentine party. Members plus guests compare visits to Columbus Logan Haydenville and Lancaster while sharing weekend and visiting news.
A small group met Tuesday to discuss forming an amateur camera club at Nelsonville High School. A second meeting is set for Thursday Feb 8 in Room 208. All photography enthusiasts are invited to join.
Nelsonville girls basketball schedules three games this week. They host Buchtel tonight, travel to Logan Thursday, and go to Columbus Friday. An invitation to the Canton police tournament Thursday was declined due to work and travel constraints.
Funeral services for Oscar Simonton will be held Friday at 1 o'clock at the Pilgrim Holiness Church conducted by Rev. Ben Awe. Burial will follow in Mt. Zion Cemetery.
Funeral services were held today at 11 30 for Donna Lee infant daughter of Mr and Mrs William Hammond of New Floodwood. Burial was at Greenlawn.
Rehearsal of the Doanville Church Choir will be held Thursday evening at the church at 6 30.
The Eagles lodge in Nelsonville drew 143 members for a regular meeting on Tuesday night. Harry Mettier gave a short talk as two new members were received. A meal was served after the session.
Nelsonville Thomas Arnold aged 74 died yesterday at his Mineral home. Funeral services are set for Thursday at 2 p.m. at Mineral Church with burial in Brooks Cemetery. Survived by wife Dell and children Flora Pearson Alice Arnold Walter Arnold Verna Heater Flora and others. brothers Wash Jim and Deck Arnold all of Carbondale.
Jacksonville events cover lodge installations at Glouster and Charles Thomas Lodge led by William Golding John E Davis installed as Noble Grand revival services at Jacksonville United Brethren Church nursery school mothers meeting February 1 potluck supper planned ill health notes and a benefit party announced in Nelsonville WEA Review to be held at Spray Hall Thursday night at 7 30.
Bradbury Social Notes record weekend visits from Mr and Mrs Marvin Russell and children of Crooks ville to Dana Russell's family. Other guests include Mr and Mrs Robert Hyatt Jr from Columbus, the Hannings of Crooksville, Hobart Shields of Tuppers Plains, and the Reuter family of Dead Mans Curve. Bible School attendance reached 57, with Rev J P Miller away in Columbus for a pastors convention. A backwards party for Class No 3 was held at the church basement with 24 Dexter youths as guests. An entertainment and infantile paralysis fund program is set for Feb 22 at the church with a small admission.
Covert Ice Independents host Chillicothe City Club and Parkersburg at the high school gym in Nelsonville Thursday. Three games on the card open with Dewey Whyte's All Star Girls versus Logan. Ice Men aim to return to win column after two losses, holding 10 wins and five losses. First game starts at 7 p.m.
Funeral services for John E. McNeice were conducted at his home and Pleasant Ridge Church in Monroe County with Rev. E. B. Dean officiating. Attendees from distance included Leroy Barrett of Charleston West Virginia and Ross Conn family of New Castle Pennsylvania. Local events note postponement of a Troy High School sponsored movie and basketball games between Troy and Chester.
Mr and Mrs Edward Pugh and son Larry visited Mr and Mrs Howard Wood gerd in Albany. Pearl Wood spent time with daughter Mrs Dorothy Jones in Chauncey. Mrs Jones ill two months is much improved. Harold Powers visited Athens with his mother. Eli Hamilton, elderly resident, is critically ill at the McKinley home. E A Dixon stays with brother Henry Dixon in Downington to help care for pneumonia patient. Pleasant Valley Ladies Aid Society will meet Feb 1 at the Bolins for an all day program.
The ministry of agriculture leads a broad campaign backed by societies to urge households to use private gardens and allotments for food. About 3.5 million private gardens exist in England and Wales, with 1.5 million allotments planned for cultivation this spring.
NEW CASTLE Pa Mr and Mrs Wyatt own a pet raccoon described as an ice cream loving creature. The animal enjoys ice cream candy and cake and often washes treats down with milk shakes.
Magic City Lodge 797 and Charles Thomas Lodge 739 held a joint installation on January 26 in Jacksonville with W. G. Golding as installing officer. Officers for Glouster and Jacksonville lodges were named, followed by several speeches and a social hour with oysters.
Glouster resident Ambrose Gibbs learned his son Foster Gibbs was hit by a hit and run motorist in Columbus Saturday night after alighting from a street car. He suffered a dislocated hip and back injuries and was taken to Mt Carmel Hospital. His condition was reported satisfactory by his father.
Brown-Wolf Market, led by Jim Wolf and Jim McCready, won two of three games against Joe's Winter Garden to stay atop the standings. McCreanor posted 550 series on 220 550 while Wolf’s 539 series and the team total of 2497 beat Winter Garden's 2436.
Mrs Ambrose Gibbs and Mrs John Sweeney returned Saturday from Montezuma Indiana where they were summoned two weeks ago due to the serious illness of their sister Mrs Mattie Lindsey who remains in critical condition.
Mrs William Kin sale was discharged from Mercy Hospital Columbus Saturday in the Warren ambulance. A prior report incorrectly stated Mrs Kinsell had been in another Columbus hospital and returned in a different ambulance.
Citizens meeting in the mayor's office originally set for February 1 is rescheduled to February 8 due to a Coal Foundation gathering. The Board of Public Affairs will also meet that night. All residents interested in improving the community are urged to attend, with emphasis on township trustees, merchants, and city officials.
Elson Stephenson and Frank Weaver, Glouster youths employed in Warren, suffered serious injuries when their car skidded on ice and struck a telephone pole. Stephenson sustained a fractured skull, broken nose, and jaw fractures and is in serious condition at Warren City Hospital. Weaver had facial cuts and two teeth knocked out.
The American Legion Auxiliary will hold a meeting Thursday at 7 pm. Junior members will lead the program and entertainment and members should bring quilt pieces patterns needles and thread for sewing activities.
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