4-H Sewing Club Meets at Albany Grange
Thirteen members and two visitors attended the Albany Grange meeting. Plans were made for a picnic on Wednesday July 17 and refreshments were served by Virginia Morrison.
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1935
Page
8
Thirteen members and two visitors attended the Albany Grange meeting. Plans were made for a picnic on Wednesday July 17 and refreshments were served by Virginia Morrison.
Local notice reports Reverend Holman, who preached in Reno last Sunday, will speak at the Christian Church in Tuppers Plains next Sunday. The item also lists assorted visits and family gatherings across nearby households including the Shraders, the Coles, the Bahr family, and others.
Jo travels with Douglas Mare to Crest Lake where his outspoken mother Mrs. Aaron Marsh questions the match. Jo senses underlying family tensions and fears a protective, suspicious matriarch may challenge her place in the farmer's life.
Broadwell’s baseball squad opened the season with a loss to Fisher Station, 19 to 9. The lengthy column lists several local visitors and residents from Millfield Athens Malta Columbus and West Virginia, detailing weekend guests and family connections.
The reading notes strong activity from planetary influences with high stimulus to faculties. It warns of impediments and adversities while predicting adventurous openings and accelerated new projects despite possible frustrations. It cautions signing papers and notes a child born today may be enterprising and practical.
Chesterhill telephone operator Mabel Embree and Emmett Reder of Warsaw united in marriage Sunday at McConnelsville with two attendants. A wedding dinner followed at the bride’s parents home, the Embrees. The couple left for Warsaw to start their life together.
The Standard Bearer Society of Asbury Methodist Church and members including Mrs. Fred Shumway and Miss Marcia Karr traveled to Shade for a Thursday outing. They enjoyed a veranda dinner around a rustic cabin, swam, hiked, and toured a flower garden, with hot weather and spring water at hand.
Katherine Johnson, 18, a private school student from Columbus, disappeared July 4 and was found Tuesday along the Ohio River bank at Kanauga in boy’s khaki clothing. She claimed her father Hayden Johnson of Marysville and that her mother, now Mrs. Lesia Edwards of Sunbury, hope to join relatives. She had traveled through Lancaster and Athens, crossed the river by rowboat, visited Pt. Pleasant, W Va., and returned to Gallipolis. Edwin Lafayette Wythe, 71, West Virginia church leader, died after a long illness in Hogsett, W Va.
Miss Anna Graham wed Ifra Boyer Friday at Athens. The couple received an old fashioned serenade at the home of Mr and Mrs John Frost where Mrs Boyer has lived for years. Several relatives and friends from Cincinnati Charleston and local towns attended and visited.
Local items from New Straitsville note Mr and Mrs Edward Lawson and son Eddie visiting their cottage on the Muskingum River. Walter Matthews announces the birth of a nine pound son named Bobbie. Swastika Council members host lunch Monday night. Various families travel to Columbus Akron Marietta Detroit and Eureka for visits and duties.
Rev. William Genheimer, a returned missionary from Africa, addressed a large crowd at Bunker Hill church Saturday night discussing life and conditions in Africa. The event followed upcoming Africa talk by Mrs. William Genheimer on Saturday evening at 8 p.m. Various local families hosted and visited over the week with community notices of gatherings and anniversaries.
Coolville Recreation Committee plans Community Night with pie and ice cream and a ball game featuring Stewart to raise funds for the local playground. Also noted is Coolville Lodge No 27 I O O F to install officers on Thursday July 18 under District Deputy R I Wolf.
In Fargo, North Dakota, Federal District Judge Andrew Miller ordered a retrial of former Governor William Langer on charges of misuse of federal relief monies while in office. The report then digresses into unrelated anecdotes about ostriches and the diet they supposedly consume, noting early naturalists’ claims without relevance to the case.
Large attendance is expected at the Taylor Ridge Church of Christ homecoming on Sunday July 21. Activities begin with Bible School at 9 30 a m followed by communion and worship with a noon basket dinner. Rev G B Courtney heads the afternoon program and Rev Miles E Hoon of New Marshfield will be principal speaker. Several local families are noted among attendees.
The Rev Miles FE Hoon will fill his regular appointment at the Millfield Church of Christ on Sunday July 21. In the afternoon he will preach the homecoming sermon at the Taylor Ridge Church of Christ. The item also notes visits and guests including Mr. and Mrs. R B Erwin of Lancaster and other locals visiting or ill.
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