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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1947
Page
2
The Priscilla Class Circle No 2 of the Methodist Church meets at Mrs Frank Skinner home Friday at 730 p m. Plan includes discussion and fellowship.
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Hartley of Monroe Sr. plan a golden wedding celebration this Sunday with a basket dinner at Glouster High School gym and open house for relatives and friends. The couple married July 28, 1897 in Jacksonville. Their daughter and son-in-law Daniel A. Pierce of Athens also mark a silver anniversary.
Mrs Nannie Glass ill cared for by son Lowell and wife. Garold Hull of Clifton staying with Mrs Hulls parents Mr and Mrs C P Fredrick. Elmer Bush of Rio Grande weekend guest of Mr and Mrs Cam Shaw. Bidwell WSCS to meet Mrs Carl Gothard Gallipolis Aug 12 at 2 pm. Garnet Mace and Ruby Miller GIS employees called on Mr and Mrs Grover Saunders last week. Mrs Grover Saunders.
Mr and Mrs Worley Reeves hosted a family reunion at their home on July 20 with attendees from Millfield Glouster Coal Grove Harrisonville Columbus Rutland Pomeroy Mason Homer Wells Marion and other nearby areas. Relatives listed include Wendell Wendell, Lonie and Billie Orme, George Cole and many Reeves and Wells family members.
Fifteen Kiwanis members attended a 6:30 p.m. dinner meeting in the Hotel Gordon on Tuesday. James Settles led the session after the opening song directed by Mrs. Harold Brown. Roger Kittle could not attend due to a sprained ankle from a baseball game between Eastside and Westside business men. The group discussed community improvement projects. Those present included James Settles, William Curran, Lawrence Colbert, Cy Rockhold Jr, E. H. Taylor, George H. Campbell, E. D. Coffman, Porter Dugan, Paul Kennedy, Bob Smith, Ray White, Enlon Grubbs, B. R. Angle, Marcella Brown, and Dan Kovach.
A Tuberculosis Association of Athens County meeting in Glouster featured Dr E H Hudson on early discovery and prevention and Dr O C Bird urging broader county membership. An eventual free X ray program was announced, with community chairmen listed and nine communities represented.
Gene Addington returns to Canton after a weekend with family. Bake Addington goes back to Mt. Sterling after a weekend with wife and baby. Richard Addington of Peterville Ohio visits grandmother Mrs Clyde Addington in Glouster for the week.
Mrs Elizabeth Gordon picked a large strawberry from a backyard patch in Gloucester news noting the fruit measured four and a quarter inches in circumference. A separate line explains the spider silk producing organ, the spinneret, attached to the underside of the abdomen.
Herbert Hoover is identified as the first president from west of the Mississippi and the election places him as the United States leader from California. The text notes his western origin and California connection as defining facts of his election.
The whooping crane population has dwindled to fewer than 100 individuals remaining. Conservation groups warn the species remains at grave risk as habitat loss and environmental pressures threaten recovery efforts.
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