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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1949
Page
5
A special Chauncey meeting is scheduled Thursday at city building to decide dates for the annual Chauncey Dover Homecoming. The event is sponsored by the Chauncey Ladies Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Last year’s three day affair drew several thousand attendees and plans aim for a bigger event.
Frank Malinouski of Columbus is hospitalized in White Cross with stab wounds from an altercation at the Vinton Inn east of Nelsonville. His condition is described as more serious, possibly involving kidney damage. Gerald Thomas of Millfield suffered a minor cut. Malinouski and Thomas filed charges against Lawrence Elliott and Dick Elliott. Hearings delayed to July 30 to await condition details.
Nelsonville city police will run two traffic checks this week from 4 to 5 p.m. on Thursday and Friday. Officers will inspect defective lights horns tires steering and windshield wipers on likely W Canal Street as part of a state wide safety program by the Ohio Police Chiefs Association and the State Highway Patrol in July.
Hartley couple Mr and Mrs Murray Hartley have moved into their purchased home at 188 W Washington St Nelsonville The previous owners Mr and Mrs R H Sayers have moved to the Fred Wilson property at the corner of W Washington and Madison streets
Mrs Selina Drake who died unexpectedly in Nelsonville will have funeral services Thursday at 10 a.m. in St Andrews Church conducted by Rev William A Kelly. Burial will follow in Greenlawn Cemetery. Rosary services are set for tonight at 8 o'clock at Stout funeral home.
VFW Auxiliary will meet at 8 o'clock in the Post rooms. Members will bring miscellaneous articles puzzles pencils matches and books for shipment to the Veterans Hospital in Chillicothe. A pot luck is planned.
Mrs William Mc Knight and Mrs Elizabeth Grueser hosted the Hartford Methodist Church Ladies Bible class meeting with Mrs James McKnight presiding. Plans were made for a church dining room social in late July. Various guests visited or stayed with local families and several notices of births and appointments among residents were noted along with an appointment of Woodrow L Ferrer as executor of Benjamin Franklin Ferrer estate.
Mrs. Mary Catherine Lanning 77, of Murray City, died Tuesday at Hocking Valley Hospital Logan after treatment from her home. Widow of Richard Lanning, she leaves two sons Harvey of Willoughby and James of Murray City, sister Mattie Sampson of Tucson, and brothers Sam Spencer of Murray City Frank and John of Glouster and Clarence of New Straitsville.
Mrs. Pete Shough reports her nephew Oscar W. Shaw Jr. is in Shreveport Louisiana at Inn Hotel serving as a registered pharmacist for Shreveport Druggists Inc. He graduated from Howard University Birmingham Alabama last December six months early and passed the State Board for Pharmacists in New Orleans. He often visits his aunt in Nelsonville where he is well known.
NELSONVILLE The Rev and Mrs L E Evans former pastor and wife of the local Christian Church were guests of honor at a basket dinner in the church social rooms Sunday at noon. Friends were asked to bring food and table service and all were invited.
Mr and Mrs James W Morcum announce the birth of a son James Robert on June 29 at Sheltering Arms Hospital. Mrs Morcum is the former Jean Brooks of Albany. Grandparents are Arch G Brooks and Mrs Brooks of Athens Route 4 and Warden Morcum of Albany. Great grandmother is Mrs Jesse Ely of Mineral.
Circle 5 of the WSCS led by Mrs. Hattie Voigt will gather at Miss Irma Wilson’s home on W Washington Street Thursday at 7:30 PM.
Pfc. Bill Lewis of Camp Meade Md spent the weekend with his parents Mr and Mrs Grover Lewis then traveled to San Francisco en route to Alaska where he will be stationed for six months. Mrs Dix Powell and Paul Betts visited Cleveland with their mother Mrs Frank Betts who is recovering after surgery at Cleveland Clinic Hospital.
Mrs Earl Mace hosted 14 Naomi Class members from The Plains Methodist Church at her home. Officer roles were noted and a $50 church building fund donation planned. A shower for Jean Schmidt and farewell for Althea Snyder who moved to Athens were arranged.
Nelsonville churches conduct union Sunday evening services with a rotating speaker plan. Last Sunday at the Presbyterian Church Rev. Paul M. Niswander of the Methodist Church spoke. next Sunday at 7 30 p m the Episcopal Church hosts Rev. John Lloyd Evans, pastor of the Presbyterian Church. Public invited.
Police investigated a break in at the home of Robert Lent at Second and Poplar Streets with the front door lock broken after the family went berry picking about 7 a.m. Nothing appeared to be missing. Patrolman Max Valkinburg led the inquiry.
Nelsonville United Foundry Machine Workers Local No. 259 schedules important Wednesday meeting at 7 p.m. in the 1.0.0.F. hall with details for union members.
William Meade of Haydenville pleaded guilty in Mayor Oral Daugherty’s court to operating a motor vehicle under the influence. He was fined 100 dollars plus court costs.
Nelsonville WSCS Circle 3 of the Methodist Church schedules a July picnic supper at Lancaster Canyon on Friday. Members wishing to attend should contact Ruth Patton or Mary K. Backus by Thursday.
Mr and Mrs Wilbur Householder and children Ruth Mae Jean Ann Wilbur and Rodney Ray of Glouster visited Chauncey Sunday as guests of the Rev and Mrs Ray Pidcock on High Street.
Howard Bradford Riffle aged 3 died at 1 20 a m in Holzer Hospital Gallipolis after ten days of illness from a heart condition. He was an employee of Marietta Manufacturing Co for 25 years. Funeral services will be held at Heights EUB Church at 11 a m with calling hours at Raynes Funeral Home.
Weekly cottage prayer meeting of the Chauncey Lgrim Holiness Church will be Friday at 7 30 p m. at the home of Mr and Mrs Walter Grigsby with Newton Grigsby leading.
The Rev. and Mrs. Ray Pidcock of Chauncey were in Murray City Monday visiting Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cook, formerly of Chauncey, and Mrs. Elsie Walton.
Chauncey Millfield Needle Club members will be entertained Wednesday night at the home of Mrs Mabel Smith in Athey.
Interdenominational Vacation Bible School in Chauncey Fort Wayne Indiana operates two weeks daily 9 to 11 30 am culminating with a program and exhibit at 7 30 pm Friday at The Plains Methodist Church. Children ages 4 to 16 invited regardless of church affiliation. Directed by Mary Coles and Marguerite Giguerue with assistance from Patricia Hanning Norma Howard and Dorothy Cade.
Chauncey residents Mr and Mrs Chauncey Simpson welcomed weekend guests at their High Street home Their son Robert Simpson of Xenia Ohio and Mrs Cornelia Tyler of Co came to visit joining Mrs Simpson and the Simpson daughters Lois and Ruth The gathering highlighted family ties and local hospitality
Mrs Henry Evans is reported ill at her home in The Piaina. The brief item notes her condition but provides no further details on diagnosis or duration.
Mr and Mrs Albert E Watkins Chauncey hosted their son and daughter in law Mr and Mrs Albert T Watkins and daughters Charlotte and Martha of Cleveland on a two week vacation. Also visiting were son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs John Mann Irene Wigkine and daughter Linda of Glen Ellen Ut
Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey Linscott and Mr. Charles Linscott of The Plains are in Cleveland as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Richard McDonald and are also visiting in Buetit.
Chauncey Mr and Mrs Howard Pryor of Corning Route 1 welcome daughter Carol Kay. Granddaughter of Mr and Mrs J C Snider New Marshfield. Mrs Pryor sister of Mrs Ray Pidcock Chauncey and former Mineral residents.
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