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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1903
Page
10
Social notes report birthdays and visits including Miss Edyth McCullough surprise party and Edyth receiving an opal ring. Birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Moses Baley on Sunday July 12 is announced. Various locals, guests, and convalescence updates from Mellonville and nearby towns are listed.
Albert Slhreinloen and wife with Miss Avia Niggemeyer of Pomeroy visited relatives here. Miss Olie Holland of Alfred stays with Mrs Blanche Pierce. Mrs Mary Kinnen recovers from rheumatism. John Parker and family visited H B Burson of Shade. Emmett and Everett Parker returned from Athens high school.
Miss Zoe Moore of Hebbardsville visits her cousin Besse Dent. Mrs Arthur Welling of Columbus and Mrs Wesley Welling of Chauncey visit here. Kate Fuller returns from Columbus. Mrs Bert Watkins of Chauncey visits relatives here. Wiley Sprague of Chauncey and family visit. Seven day Adventists hold all summer meetings. Stephen Gates returns to Kansas after visiting here. Mrs Ed Rose and son Phillips of Athens visit Thos Phillips family. Children day exercises held at Jerseyville M E Church with organist Mrs Emma Reading aided by Fred Finsterwald. Mr and Mrs Lucas Kelley of Athens visit J S Kelley. Ethel Bobo and Edna Copeland attend Boxwell commencement at Athens. John Roberts and wife and brother Wm Roberts called home for ill mother Mrs Wm Roberts of Angel Ridge.
George McKinley Frank Jackson and Ros Clark joined an excursion to Cincinnati Saturday. Mrs Nancy Rathburn Ellen Kasler and Clarence Rathburn of Federal visited relatives here last week. Relatives gathered for Grandma Wooley s 96th birthday and plans hinted at her 100th. Ice cream supper at Factory church set for Saturday July 18 with all invited.
Zelda residents attended several social events including a Pleasant ice cream supper. Grover Letts returns home from work with the K M railroad. G W Riley hosted a Sunday family reunion for his daughter Mrs Roeck of Toledo. Frank Lowther and wife visited on Sunday. The community mourns the loss of a good citizen as J P Cooley plans a future trip to Oklahoma after selling his farm to Ida Byers.
Social visits include A W Shinn and Clarence Dinsmore of Qualey with R B Henry family. Raymond Smith of Columbus visits grandparents E A and Mrs. Smith. Mrs M G Blunden of Cincinnati visits her mother Mrs Sarah Patterson. Various residents travel for business and birthdays. a barn on A J Ogg's farm was struck by lightning and burned. Ed White and Asa Warner relocate. Helen Ogg visits grandmother Drusilla Wyatt. Mrs George Fox and Mrs Albert Johnson visit Beasley family.
Mrs. Louisa Hamilton of Zaleski returns home after visiting her brother John Nichols and sister Mrs. Joanna Roden. Various residents including Rev. T. L. Lowe Minnie Duckler and others are noted visiting, moving, or hosting in the Marshfield region with church services and camp meeting mentioned.
Harley Russell Toach, previously kicked by a horse, is now able to walk out of doors and there are hopes for a speedy recovery. Ada Kemp returns to Parkersburg after weeks with grandmother Mrs Jones, accompanied by cousin Pauline Brewster who left Monday. Mrs W Y Rowles visited Carthage relatives with niece Miss Green. A daughter was born July 12 to Mr and Mrs Brewster. Timothy Rasell, ill, improves. Lena Brewster of Little Rock and nieces May and Helena Kirker and Richard Brewster Jr visited here early week. Dora Webster and Roy left for Muscatine to visit relatives. Mr and Mrs Ira Jones and son Cree and Ralph Johnson of Columbus are visiting here. Maggie Hendrickson and daughter Helen with cousins Johnnie and Maggie Baker of Wheeling visit relatives.
Judson W L Douglas called on friends at Amesville while H F Hartley of the A A spent the weekend at home. Miss Edna Kelley and Mr Joseph Norris wed at her home Saturday. Children's day set for Gra hams Chapel July 26. Funeral attendees traveled from South Canaan for Mrs Hoskinson's service. Mrs D B Stewart and two children visited James Smith’s home. N P Hoisington of Amesville visited Mrs D W Hoisington and family. Mrs George Starkey hosted Grace Hartley’s eighteenth birthday party with light refreshments. Cosette Dye of Athens visited her aunt Rose Sutton.
A Tuesday banquet at the F. and A. M. lodge hall served members and families. Visits include Henry Humpshrey and son to his father nearby, and Miss Edith Knight with Leona Knight of Marietta visiting locals. Other items note sick lists, visits to Athens, a Home Phone lineman Thomas Reeder moving his family in, and Rev. White killing a 5.5 foot snake in his house.
The Canaanville township commencement was held at the M E church with Emmett Kirkendall of Athens in charge. Speakers included Orpha and St Constance Graham and Harry Lee, and Prof. Mills of the OA gave the address. The choir provided music as residents and guests shared in the event.
A compressed account notes a harsh life battle against kidney ailments. It describes constant backache weariness and distressing urinary disorders as overwhelming burdens impacting daily life.
Mr Jacob Schaefer of 108 West Front Street Portsmouth Ohio proprietor of a popular restaurant endorses Doan's Kidney Pills. He says his backache cure in 1896 proved lasting and urges Portsmouth readers to try a course at Fisher Streich's drug store. Pills sold by all druggists at 50 cents a box. Poster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
The village council of Athens Ohio approves the plat of Cable Hickr s Addition in Farm Lot 45. The subdivision covers lots 1264 to 1365 with streets and alleys, prepared by Lucy C. Burchfield Hester Blackstone Mary E. Rich and William T Horsnell administrator. The ordinance takes effect per law after approval. July 6 1903. Mayor Henry and Clerk W B Golden. July 9?.
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