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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1928
Page
5
In Chauncey on July 9 the Home Economics club of The Plains will convene Wednesday at 2 PM instead of Thursday. The session includes a business meeting and rehearsal for an upcoming play.
The body of Charles R. Sayers 64 former Chauncey resident and former Chauncey president was brought for a Sunday afternoon funeral at Saint’s church Athens minister Rev Poole. He was killed Thursday when thrown from a horse near Wrightstown leaving a widow three children and several siblings. The service drew a large crowd and the body rests in Athens cemetery mausoleum.
Glouster Ohio July 9. The Board of Education hired Miss Sara Meredith to fill a vacancy in the grade schools caused by Mrs Mildred Nida not applying. Harry Cheney was rehired as fireman. A contract for repairs to school buildings will be set soon. Also noted are residents traveling to Magnetic Springs for a week and others from Akron visiting.
Reports state Dover Township will see multiple wells drilled to the Clinton sand at about 3700 feet. A Bailey Run gas well drilled in 1926 produced 2,000,000 feet and spurred tests for gas and oil nearby. Ohio Fuel Supply and New York Coal Company plan wells near Bailey Run and True farm, potentially igniting a broader oil and gas boom.
Marian Coe entertained Zeta Tau Alpha guests at 1023 North Lancaster St honoring Mrs L I Boxell theme of chautauqua in Athens. Activities included a Married People's Class picnic and several family visits to Parkersburg Columbus and Athens with trips to Rocky Ford Inn and Seven Caves.
Dr. William A. Matheny of Ohio University spoke on Liberty and Restraint at a Chautauqua service near Athene High School. He argued civilization may enter a peaceable new era with education shifting to community service and humans mastering their environment. He cited rising murders and dependence on government, bersama with rapid aviation progress, as signs of both decay and progress.
The Biblical seminary hosts annual conferences at Italia Bay for leaders from colleges universities and seminaries. Attendance by invitation with groups rotating over ten days focuses on church functioning and religious education. About 180 fronted attendees in past seasons while estate matters in Athens County Probate Court prompted a public sale order with two-thirds appraised value.
Dr. Matheny outlined signs of civilization’s decay including wrecked morals and wealth inequality. He urged recognizing imperfections to perfect character and called for cures through honesty, religion guiding toward Heaven and science providing engineering plans to reach it.
Rev. C. M. Coulter of the First Methodist church received an invitation to the fourth annual conference of the New York City Biblical seminary to be held at Columbiana On Lake George near Silver Bay New York. Columbiana is an estate just north of Silver.
Born in Waterloo township in 1880 he attended common schools and Ohio University. He worked on a farm taught school and later for Luhrng, Sunday Creek, and Canaan coal companies. He served two terms as county treasurer. Wife Clara Baird Imes. two children Wilbur 21 and Richard 11.
Minstrel of Health will be presented tomorrow afternoon in the Chautauqua tent by members of the Junior Town Chautauqua. Mrs Ethel Boxell the junior manager says all Junior Town citizens will take part. The minstrel is a major feature of the year with specialties and novelties, costumes, jokes songs and an interlocutor. Ruth Hayden and Louise Kempton will perform clog dancing and Cleo May Howell will do toe dancing. Principals Ralph Dalton and Richard are listed as cast.
Rutkoskie appears as end man with Overmeyer as locator. The minstrel lasts about 80 minutes and is followed by Solis Ma rimba band presenting orchestra music from classics to modern airs. A second program is scheduled tomorrow night. Letter Golf defines PARTY versus BALLS with five stroke difference. One solution appears on the last page.
The piece explains letter golf: transform one word to another in a fixed number of strokes by changing one letter at a time with valid common words. It notes you cannot alter letter order and provides COW to HEN as three strokes. A printed solution appears on the last page.
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