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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1939
Page
2
Nelsonville WPA crews completed pool bleachers and lockers with keys ready for use. The pool has drawn large crowds all summer and plans to continue band concerts depend on broader student participation. About 25 players have joined practices vs the expected 40, risking concert continuation.
Nelsonville Greys beat Buchtel 6 to 4 to open the second half of the Twilight League schedule. Woodson allowed seven hits as Stubbs and Walters turned three double plays. Buchtel’s Shively and W Phillips each had two singles. Patton made a clutch triple. Tonight Carbon Hill faces Carbon Dale. game called at 5:30.
Oliver Bishop is bound over to the grand jury on assault and battery charges after an affidavit by Mildred Russell. He pleaded innocent at arraignment before Mayor Co. G. Dew in Nelsonville and was released on a $50 bond. Russell has filed a similar affidavit against Mildred Russell and awaits arraignment.
Floyd E Edwards 51 of 818 W Rich St a toolmaker at Columbus Belt Works for 17 years died at his home after eight years of ill health He was a Nelsonville native member of Gift St Methodist Church Survived by wife Helen a son Robert parents Joseph and Mrs Edwards Columbus brother Emmett sister Mrs Bert Daft all of Columbus
A district Eagles meeting is set for Thursday night July 27 in Glouster. All Aeries of District Four should send representatives to discuss plans for the national convention in Chicago in August. Nelsonville Aerie will help by providing a parade band. John Abel of Marion is named the new grand president.
Mrs James Beard hosted the Community Garden Club dinner and meeting with guests including Street Commissioner Raymond Raine and Mrs Raine. New officers were elected led by President J M Hyde. club plans include swimming pool support and future meetings in Beard Arnold and Hyde homes. Several residents reported travels, visits, and family events in Nelsonville, Rupert Idaho, Baltimore and Columbus.
Nelsonville Eagles picnic committee chairmen and trustees plus the president will meet Wednesday at 7 30 PM to discuss plans for the annual picnic on August 20. Tickets go on sale to Eagles and friends within a few days.
The tax budget hearing for Canaan Township for the year 140 August 5 1030 will be held at the Township Trustees office. Faye Eslocker Clerk. 7 25 39 1¢
Glouster Library receives new magazines and 41 books. Community notices include local visits by the Miles Hoon family and social events with birthdays and club gatherings.
Home coming for the Connett family will be held Sunday August 6 with a noon picnic dinner. A program is planned for the morning and afternoon and a large attendance is expected.
Nelsonville announces a missionary service at Juniper Chapel Friday July 28 at 7 30 night with Rev Charles Wachensz unzs as speaker.
Mr and Mrs Clarence Sanders of Millfield entertained Monday in honor of Mr and Mrs John Anderson and Mrs Elizabeth Woody of Columbus. Mrs Woody accompanied the Andersons back to Columbus Monday afternoon after a brief stay in the Sanders home.
Glouster library received forty one new books from Nelsonville on Saturday. Donations of new magazines came from Mrs Harriet Weymueller and Mrs L K Heiskell. Mrs Brown urges residents to visit the library to see its new decorations and furnishings and notes readers seek fiction biography agriculture and history as well as English texts.
William James Sr age 83 was removed to White Cross Hospital Columbus Monday for an emergency operation. He is reported in satisfactory condition with his daughter Mrs Mildred Ettinger and granddaughter Miss Audrey James by his side. Mrs James went to the hospital Monday afternoon and he was taken there by the John S Blower ambulance.
Mayor C F Wallace, Matthew Dawson, Ernest Parker and John Gale traveled to Columbus to arrange erection of a tipple and entry for a coal mine exhibition on the Ohio State Fairgrounds by the Ohio Coal Foundation at the State Fair.
The Young Peoples Dance Club and Alumni Dance Club will hold the final dance of the series in the high school gymnasium. No further dances will occur until after school resumes in the fall as arrangements are made for a new joint series of events.
One member attended the scheduled Monday night meeting. Unless a special session is called, no further meetings will occur until the regular session on the first Friday in August.
Retail Clerks Union will hold a meeting tonight to install officers. Refreshments will be served after the installation.
GLOUSTER Pocahontas Lodge will meet Wednesday evening at 7 30 in the 1 0 C F Hall. A potluck lunch will follow.
Mr and Mrs Adam Sherwood of The Plains hosted a Sunday chicken dinner for their son Emmetts birthday. Attendees included Emmetts family from Crestline Newark Poston and nearby residents. They visited Mrs George Potts in the afternoon who has been seriously ill but is slightly improved.
Announcement of the marriage of Mrs Martha Oliver Smith formerly of Frost to Mr Elton M Roby of Plain City took place Sunday afternoon July 23 at the Sunbury M E Church with Rev Glenn O Bennetham officiating. Mrs Roby has been teaching in Sunbury schools and they will reside near Plain City where he farms.
Ohio manufactured paving brick shipments in the first six months of 1939 totaled 10,872,077 compared with 7,777,037 for the same period in 1938. June shipments reached 4,337,067, up 49 percent from May 1939, with steady production and increased seasonal demand boosting employment across the state.
July meeting of the Martha Class at Millfield Church of Christ was led by president Mrs. Viola Howard in the home of teacher Mrs. Nancy Sanders. Gifts honored birthday anniversaries for Mrs. Sanders and Mrs. Ida Hill. August meeting set for Mrs. Hazel Earich’s home. Guest Mrs. Elizabeth Woody of Columbus attended.
CHAUNCEY The revival services at the Morristown Holiness Church will probably close tonight The meetings were moved from the tent to the church because of bad weather The pastor Rev B C Browning is assisted by Rev Frank Ervin Rosevill Ohio and Rev Hiram Mingus Sand Ridge
Murray City lights up with a surprise thirty-fourth birthday for Mrs. Ralph Andrews as relatives gather and a brown and white cake bakes the mood. Band Boosters elect officers and set the second Friday monthly meeting. Numerous local residents and visitors share Sundays and weekends in town, with trips to Columbus, Cleveland, Detroit, and the New York World’s Fair mentioned.
Andriew Simpkins, superintendent of the Church of Christ Sunday School, announces Promotion Day on Sunday July 30. The event combines with the Sunday School session and will include the nursery cradle roll beginners and primary departments with a special program arranged by department officers and teachers.
Chauncey District social items note Mrs. William Hicks of New Marshfield visiting Chauncey friends and Mrs. Lee Schoonover. Guests include Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Cramer and Miss Helen Cramer of Columbus. Elsie Schoonover Worden visited her aunt in Chauncey and returned with her parents.
Members of the Williamson family gathered for a Sunday picnic at Old Man's Cave. Present were Mr and Mrs James Williamson Sr Mr and Mrs Frank Neeley and daughter Jean Mr and Mrs James Williamson Jr and two sons Columbus Mr and Mrs George Williamson and children Jo Anne and George Jr Chauncey.
Chauncey Mrs Lauretta Ogg and her young son Bobby visited Sheltering Arms Hospital Friday where Bobby underwent surgery to remove tonsils and adenoids. He has returned home and is recovering well.
Michael Danko of Millfield entertained last week with a chicken dinner honoring Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Madek and their son Junior, friends from Detroit Michigan.
Chauncey Shafer underwent a surgical operation for a hernia at Sheltering Arms Hospital in Athens on Monday morning. His condition is reported as favorable.
Chauncey area residents Miss Eileen Bullock and Miss Ersen Bullock of Bailey Run are spending two weeks in Columbus visiting relatives and attending a camp meeting.
Chauncey residents received federal relief with 886 pounds of flour 256 pounds of beans and 260 pounds of butter distributed at the city building from 9 a m to 12 noon. Mayor W D Hines Marshal Laurence Reeves and Trustees William Smart and Harvey Courtney oversaw the event with Clarence Mullins assisting.
Chauncey Busy Stitchers of the 4-H Club will meet Wednesday at 1 30 p m at Chauncey high school. The club is sponsored by Mrs Lois Devore and Ethel Henry. Refreshment duties are assigned to Dorothy Stalder and Shirley Ryan.
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