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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1953
Page
21
The Lovel Women’s Class of the Chauncey Church of Christ will meet in the home of Mrs. Andrew Jackson on Thursday at 1 30.
Glouster village endorses a Boy Scout fund drive to raise 500 dollars for an automatic artificial respiration device known as the predator. Rev. Edwin Carpenter reports the plan to-house and aid drowning or heart attack victims, with firemen and scouts sharing training duties. The drive date to be announced. also approved were firehouse shelves for the equipment and street repairs on Cherry Street.
The Chauncey Garden Club met Monday evening with Mrs Irene Davis presiding. Ten members attended as they discussed and planned the upcoming Flower Show scheduled for Sunday July 26 while light refreshments were served.
The Rev. and Mrs. D. K. Teater and sons Dansy and Timmy came home Friday from a week in Pleasant Plains and Springfield Alabama. Grant Teater will spend the summer here with them. Methodist Church Youth Fellowship attendees from Glouster include Carolyn Perkins Donna Lane Carolyn Conway Gayla Clemons Melinda Gamwell Karen Williams Sharon Perkins Judy Parks Edna Markins Beverly Conway. Mrs Edna Conway chaperoned. Supt and Mrs L G DeLong visited Buckhannon West Virginia with Mrs DeLong’s parents H H Withers. Mr DeLong returns Sunday. Mrs DeLong stays through the month.
The Woman's Society of Christian Service conducted its annual installation Thursday evening at the Methodist Church. New president Edith Zinn led the service with Rev. Robert Lawrence officiating. New officers include Dorothy DeLong as vice president, Garner Drury secretary, Mable LeFever treasurer, Lucille Dorton promotion and recording secretary, Ethel Blower student youth work, Elizabeth Gordon spiritual aims, Florence Ogg supply work, Margaret Ettas literature and publication, Enid Cox missionary education, Bertha Angle status of women and rural church activities. Refreshments followed in the social rooms.
Enterprise notes visiting relatives and friends in the area including Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Martin and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Johnson of Baltimore with Rev E F Braden conducting a Daily Vacation Bible School at Bethany EUB Church closing July 12. Also mentions reunions and several local visits among residents and visitors from Canal Winchester Princeton Mansfield and Logan.
Chauncey residents hosted and visited relatives and friends across Columbus Newark and Willoughby Ohio. Luanne Sanders and Anita Sisson called on Trimble acquaintances while Mr and Mrs Glenn Davis toured Columbus and Delaware visiting Mr and Mrs Raymond Hoffman at the New Delaware Dam. Joan Fiske returned from Dayton to Ohio visiting relatives Jim and Mrs Stanley. Mary Jane Blick and family joined visits with the Harveys and Madeks from Detroit and Yellow stone trip details noted. Alice Sherwood, Miss Majorette of Lake County, competed at Buckeye Lake and Wheeling W Va securing a silver cup and second place among 1400 entrants.
Funeral services for Maurice M Bryson, who died in Sheltering Arms Hospital, were held at his home on 22 Main St with Rev John Deval of Williamsport and Rev Robert Lawrence officiating. The service remembered his community work, taught many youths, and featured floral tributes and a broadcasted sermon. More than 200 friends registered. pallbearers included Bryson grandsons and sons-in-law. Out-of-town attendees listed.
Liberty Circle WSCS plans a Aug. 5 picnic at Rachelmacher Park Logan with devotions by Ona Dell Wilson on Christians Don't Criticize and Your Church and You. Lunch served. Attendees include Hazel Feid Minnie Strawn Nell Shuttleworth Pearl Backus Margaret Call Anna Brown Myrtle Wallace Evelyn Hillis Margaret Sherrard Irene Green of Madison WVa. Also Pocahontas Lodge Swastika Council held a wiener roast at Tecumseh Park Shawnee with several attendees. Shelby Pratt treated for leg infection. News notes visits and travel from Detroit to Niagara Falls and funeral services for Arch Bay. Oakum explanation and caulking use.
The Ohioan Library Association will award humorist James Thurber a special sesquicentennial career medal at its October 24 meeting in Columbus. Regular 1953 career medals go to Dr. Grayson Kirk president of Columbia University and Howard Barlow composer and orchestra leader from Plain City.
Mrs Lawson hosted the canasta club gathering Tuesday with members Lau Muzio Emma Heffken Erla Heffken and Hattie Ming in attendance Mary Brown attended as a guest. The hostess served refreshments.
Funeral notices record Mrs Peart Henry of Sunday Messenger publishing a brief remembrance dated July 5 1953. The item notes the death and provides funeral details in a concise local notice.
An unclear report describes forces of vegetation vapor in a near vicinity with forced escape. The fragment mentions a decay process and references a therm element and a vague event, leaving specifics unreadable. Not enough readable entities to identify people, places, dates, or organizations.
Village residents enjoyed the first pleasant night in weeks after three rains during the week. Temperatures dipped into the 60s by 5 a.m. Saturday, bringing cooler air and relief from heat.
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