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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1940
Page
8
Cool weather boosts church attendance in Athens district with programs this Sunday including visiting speakers and special music. Church leaders report varied activities such as ice cream socials picnics and homecomings scheduled alongside services.
Churches of Christ in the Bradbury Bradford Dexter circuit announce a youth program led by Rev. J. P. Miller. Bible schools start at 9:30 each church. regular services follow with sermons by Miller on youth. Victory Band practices at Rutland and a Meigs County youth rally at Middleport feature Miss Catherine Morris and Rev. Robert Tuck as guest speaker.
The Life topic will be read as the Sunday lesson sermon in the Christian Science Church of Athens. The golden text declares eternal life is knowing the only true God and Jesus Christ. Included scriptures cite Daniel 9 13 and a passage from Science and Health urging spiritual understanding over material senses.
The Ohio District Church of the Nazarene camp meeting is in progress at Columbus and runs through July 28. Local services Sunday July 21 include Sunday school at 9 30 a m with Cecil Cox, church services at 10 30 a m and 7 45 p m with Rev Floyd Hondell, and youth and adult prayer groups Wednesday at 7 45 p m.
Annual home coming for New England and community at the Presbyterian Church on Sunday July 28 includes Sunday school at 10, preaching by Rev. Fred Cochran, a basket dinner at noon, an afternoon program with old time singing led by J H Grosvenor, readings and talks from visiting friends, and music by a Athens men's quartet. All former residents and friends are invited.
Dr. H. T. Houf of Ohio University will preach at First Methodist Church Athens next Sunday at 10 30 a m. The theme is Big Sinners and Little Saints and the choir will sing Turn Ye Even Unto Me by Steane. Sunday School meets at 9 30 a m with the Wesley Foundation opening exercises.
The Rev Stanley Jeffery will lead services at Central Ave Methodist Church with 9 15 a m unified service led by G W Pierce. Sermon topics are The Remnant of Israel and Dangerous Idolatry plus an ice cream festival on the church lawn Friday evening. Next Sunday he leads services at The Plains and Clarks Chapel.
The Athens Salvation Army outlines weekend services with outdoor gatherings at 7 30 p m on Saturday before the Court House and 9 45 a m on Sunday. Sunday School is led by Lieut Howard Burr with worship at 11 a m and Young People's Legion at 6 30 p m led by Mrs W W Hinshaw. Sunday night services directed by Major Hinshaw.
A revival series starts Saturday July 20 at 7 30 pm in the Old Floodwood school with C C Shaw of God's Bible School Cincinnati in charge. Special singing will be provided and Sunday School gathers every Sunday at 2 30 pm.
The Union Class Meeting is set for July 21 at East Canaan Pilgrim Holiness Church with Dowler and Oliver leading songs and testimonies at 2 p m. A long partition case No 17500 in Athens County Common Pleas lists many defendants including Carl McDaniel and others over real estate in Township 5 Range 12, noting two parcels and the prayer for partition and equitable relief with defendants required to answer by July 27.
Graysville evangelist W F Parks who studied at Harding College in Arkansas begins a two week revival at the Church of Christ on 6 Stimson Avenue Athens starting Sunday morning July 21 His topic for the first service is Behold It s Morning It s Noon It s Night.
Sunday service schedule for Guysville Stewart and Canaanville churches lists times for church school worship and sermons. Stewart hosts the annual home coming and Community Day with a basket dinner, while Canaanville and Guysville will have no preaching services on Sunday July 28.
An all day gathering is announced at Luhrig Church for Sunday July 21 led by Rev Music. Sunday School at New Marshfield precedes a 10 30 a m preaching service while Luhrig Sunday School meets at 9 30 a m followed by a class meeting. An old fashion praise meeting is planned in the evening with all invited. Fast Canaan Church schedules Sunday School at 1 30 p m followed by Union Class meeting.
A prayer meeting is set for this evening at 7 30 at the Free Methodist Church in Athens. Sunday services include Sunday School at 9 30 and preaching at 10 30 by Clarence Woods of Jacksonville. An evening service at 7 30 will be led by Rev. Walter Martin, with Tuesday prayer meeting at 2 pm led by Bertine Farley.
Sunday schedule at Albany Methodist Church includes Sunday school 9 30 a m Epworth League 7 15 p m and evening service 8 p m A half hour musical program will be presented by the Winner family of Stewart with Mr Winner and three daughters singing and playing instruments
The Alexander Presbyterian Church in Hebbardsville holds Sunday school at 10 am and morning worship at 11 am. In Harrisonville the Union Sunday school meets at the Methodist Church at 9:30 am followed by an evening Presbyterian worship at 8 pm.
The Christian Church will meet at 9 15 am on Sunday July 21 for Bible school with a sermon by Rev I J Cahill on Providence in the Life of Paul. Walter Pahner will sing the tenor solo Sing Alleluia with the choir.
The Presbyterian Church will hold a Sunday service July 21 at 10 45 a m centered on Four Archers The church closes July 28 until September The Social Education Committee meets July 22 at 7 p m at the manse
Services announced by Rev. J G Deeds include New Plymouth Church School 9 30 Young People Meeting 7 30 Ebenezer Church worship 6 30 Church School 10 30 Locust Grove Church School 9 30 worship 10 30 Friday July 26 Wilbur Fish of Columbus to present sacred musical service with five novel instruments at Newmouth Church free will offering collected no door charge
The Rev. Ernest Nicholas of Hocking Street Church of God lists Sunday events for July 21. Morning study and worship begin at 9:30 with a message by N. W. Jinks. At 6:30 p.m. youth discussion led by John Bailey. Evening service at 7:30 features song with the Reverend Nicholas delivering the message. Midweek prayer and praise is at 7:30 Wednesday.
The Rev. E. C. Kenney will preach the Sunday 10 30 a m sermon after a 9 30 Sunday school led by Franklin Maerker. An evangelistic sermon follows at 7 30 p m with music at all services. The youth meeting is Tuesday 7 30 p m. Regular prayer is Thursday 7 30 p m and the Wesleyan Prayer Band meets Friday at the church.
Sunday school starts at 9 30 with morning worship at 10 30 led by The Rev H E Osborn who will preach. The Rev Mel T Rothwell speaks to the youths at 6 45. An evangelistic service and a mid week prayer meeting follow on Wednesday at 7 45.
Gibisonville church plans a home coming and anniversary on Sunday July 21. Sunday School starts at 9 30 AM worship at 10 45 AM a basket dinner is served at the Rock House with a social afternoon in the park. A musical program by the church choir is scheduled for 7 30 PM.
Samuel F Downard will read morning prayer and sermon at St. Pauls Episcopal Church Logan at 9 o clock Sunday. The Rev Robert G Purrington will be celebrant and preacher at the holy communion service the following Sunday at 9 15.
The Rev. Lester E. Barnett of New Marshfield Christian Church will lead services on July 21 with morning preaching on The Growing Christian and an 8 p m evening sermon Christ Crowded Out. A duet by Ed Hawk and Blanche Burkett will open the day and the Misses Josephine and Helen Estep sing in the evening. The Young People’s Society meets at 7 p m to plan a junior society and fall program.
Samuel F. Downard will read morning prayer at 10 45 a m Sunday in Trinity Episcopal Church McArthur The following Sunday at 10 45 a m will be a Holy Communion service with Rev Robert G Purrington as celebrant and preacher
The church will celebrate Holy Communion at 8 am on Sunday July 21 at Good Shepherd Episcopal Church. The 10:30 service will be morning prayer and a sermon by Rev. Robert G. Purrington.
McArthur resident Mr. O W Williams will start a series of meetings at the Keno Church of Christ on Sunday evening, July 28, continuing in the coming weeks.
A Church of Christ communion and preaching service is set for Sunday July 21 at 9 30 a m at the Pomeroy Church of Christ The sermon titled A Vision of Peace will be delivered Youth month features participation by the church youth Miss Wanda Blake will read scripture and Miss Celia Leifheit and Miss Catherine Morris will discuss the topic Elizabeth Duffy will sing Satisfied with Jesus by McKinney Bible School class follows the service
A change in the weekend program for the Pomeroy Salvation Army. Major W. W. Hinshaw will take youths to Pomeroy and Middleport for an open air meeting Saturday night. Sunday School starts at 2 30 p m under James Gates with a Christian Praise Meeting at 3 30 p m.
Pastor F. G. Strickland will preach at Dyesville Community Church Saturday evening and Sunday morning and evening. He will address Christianity and The Church in the present World Crisis.
The Rev. Robert G. Purrington will oversee the regular Sunday evening service at Poston Community Church this Sunday at 7 30 p.m. He will preach and lead the worship with the congregation.
The Shawnee State Forest and Theodore Roosevelt State Park and Game Preserve form Ohio's largest forest reservation totaling about 43 000 acres north of the Ohio River in Scioto and Adams counties. The regions offer camping hiking picnicking and fishing with shaded trails, deer and wildlife abundant and a lake stocked with fish. Access via Route 125 and Route 52 leads to a 175 acre lake area near a 9000 acre preserve with motor roads and trails. Camping is allowed with agency permission and the area serves as a field for nature study.
Sunday services listed for Albany churches include Baptist Church of Albany with Bible School at 9 30 led by Supt. Loyd Bolin Young People at 7 and evening service and Are Children Saved. Carpenter reports Bible School 9 30 morning worship 10 30 You Must Come Down to Go Up. South Canaan offers Bible School 9 30 supervised by Mrs. Kayser.
The church schedules an ice cream supper on July 26 featuring home made cake ice cream salad sandwiches and coffee. Proceeds support church activities and community outreach.
Chauncey Church union services at Greens Run Church will feature Rev I J Cahill of Athens next Sunday at 7 30 PM. Youth chorus and vocal numbers planned with ministers G B Courtney and Glaze Thompson. New members to receive baptismal certificates after the service. Schedule shows Courtney at Greens Run 9 30 Chauncey 10 30 and Thompson at Taylor Ridge 9 30 Trimble 10 30.
Chauncey friends held a Lake Hope outing and picnic supper in Za leski Park on Monday. The event honored Miss Julia Johnson, nurse trainee at Miami Valley Hospital Dayton, visiting her Chauncey parents Mr. and Mrs. Dan Johnson. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Dan Johnson, Julia Johnson, Russell Johnson, Rev and Mrs. Gilbert Courtney, Betty Jane Isabel, Charles and Gilbert Courtney Jr, Jo Ann Williamson, Virgene Palmer, William Watkins, Fred Russell Jr, and Rodge Seiber Jr.
Mr and Mrs Henry Osborne and daughter Millie of Chauncey and Florence Ann Osborne Vere Ridge visited Chauncey friends Mr and Mrs Harry B Noble then traveled to Middleport to see nieces and cousins. They visited Plants Cemetery where Lyle Powell and his wife are buried. W R Sayre of Bradbury whom they visited Sunday died Wednesday from heart trouble.
Mr and Mrs F H Staffinger entertained a group of friends at their Con verse Street home Wednesday night Mrs Staffinger served ice cream and cake The guests included Mrs Katie Guess of Athens with her son in law and daughter from Columbus Mrs Fln Six The Plains Mr and Mrs William Horn of Salem and Mr and Mrs Lewis Champlin of Chauncey
Hockingport and vicinity social items include Alfred and Mrs Dumper camping at State Park near Zaleski with daughter Mrs Pugh of Columbus. Arthur Ice and Joseph McCullick enlist in the U S Army for training in New York before assignments to Hawaii and the Panama Canal Zone.
The Rev Miles E Hoon of Hoopers Ridge Church of Christ lists Sunday July 21 events Bible School at 9 30 am preaching at 10 30 am a basket dinner at noon and afternoon services by Rev I J Cahill All times local and subject to change.
The Rev. Robert G. Purrington will read morning prayer and preach at the 9 o'clock service on Sunday at Epiphany Episcopal Church in Nelsonville.
Funeral services were held Tuesday for Charles Johnson 23 son of Mr and Mrs Leslie Johnson and nephew of Charles Tippie Chauncey at a Columbus funeral home. Burial was made there. Survivors include his parents a sister Mrs Mary Campbell and two brothers Fred and Lewis. Uncles and cousins from Chauncey attended. Johnson died after a car struck an abutment causing the crash that also killed Mrs Edna Luzader 18 and seriously injured Howard Elias 20 the driver.
A tent is being set up at Jobs Junction for a series of evangelistic meetings starting Monday July 22 at 7 30 p m and continuing each night for two weeks The evangelists are Rev John Currans Pilgrim Holiness Church Murray City and Rev Frank Walton Chauncey The Martin sisters Mabel and Eileen from New Pittsburg will provide guitar backed singing during the meetings.
Chauncey authorities report many complaints of dogs roaming at large and damaging gardens. Marshal Alva Karns orders all dogs confined immediately to curb damage and public nuisance.
The WPA recreation center at Chauncey playground hosts a turtle contest on Monday July 22 at 6 30 p m. Community youngsters are invited to secure and enter a turtle with prizes awarded. Organizers include Mrs Loretta S Ogg and Wilbur Grandstaff.
Mrs Cynthia Karns and Mrs Esther Ferrer, Chauncey, traveled to Athens on Wednesday to See Mrs Viola Sanders, formerly of Millfield, who suffered a badly sprained right ankle in a fall at her sister Mrs Cleo Pencelli’s home in Albany.
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