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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1956
Page
3
The Nelsonville Board of Trade will hold a directors meeting Thursday at 7 a.m. in the city building. William Freadrich, governor, reports the kickoff. A verger is a sword or mace bearer and an officer who guards the interior of an English cathedral.
Chauncey residents Mr. and Mrs. Witam Rneisen and son Bill returned from a week with daughter Frederica in Philadelphia and time in Atlantic City. Frederica accompanied home by her brother-in-law and sister Mr. and Mrs. William Chappelear. Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Simpson returned to Sidney Ohio. Dinner guests at Mr. and Mrs. George Fitzer included Mr. and Mrs. Mac Omen and Mrs. Julia Patton.
More than 300 amateur radio operators will gather in Athens County on Sunday for the annual Hocking Valley Radio Club picnic at Lake Burr Oak. Participants from Washington DC and multiple states will join locals for a day of radio activity with Station WSVPP guiding attendees. Door prizes totaling over 900 dollars are planned along with a bring-your-own-picnic lunch and club-supplied pop.
Mr and Mrs Walter Green hosted a family dinner July 8 in observance of their 50th wedding anniversary. Attendees included Dow Green and sons David and Donald Beverly Ohio, William McCulloch and W L McCulloch with son Billy Columbus, L E Butts and son Jimmy Marietta, Robert Butts, Phil Ong Miriam Butts, Nelsonville.
Mr and Mrs Malvern Wilson hosted a family birthday dinner at Burr Oak Lake honoring Fred Wilson and Bob Wilson. An ice cream social in Nelsonville on July 13 at Central School will benefit the recreation commission. Charles Tanny underwent surgery yesterday at Mount St Mary Hospital and is reported in good condition. Tender steaks were humorously described as being tenderized by saddles during horseback rides.
Nelsonville Rotary Club members heard a noon luncheon talk on vocational service and employer employee relations. Pierce Baird outlined Rotary’s Four Way Test and upcoming programs on vocational talks, panel discussions, and plant visits. John Koch summarized Ohio Bell Telephone Co. hiring practices and labor management issues. William Preadrich leads the next committee effort. Guest: William Parks of Detroit.
Out of town relatives and friends attended funeral services for Joe Carsey. Attendees included Dora Bass and family, Charles Crum and family, Olive Sidders, James Hawk of Columbus, Nellie Carsey and daughter, Helen Russell and son, Naomi Cullison of Zanesville, John Reed of St. Louis, Sable Russell of New Haven, W. Va., Junior Springer and family of Shawnee, Ernest Rogers and family, Herbert Bailey and son from Nelsonville, Jesse Carsey, Laura Coen, Betty Coen, Jack Coen and families, Frank Risley, Thelma McKibben, Ruth Carsey, and Elwood Carsey of Athens.
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