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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1931
Page
6
The Business and Professional Women’s Club will hold an outdoor pot luck picnic supper Friday evening. Members are to meet at 6:90 o’clock in the City Building club room, and those without transport are asked to come prepared to share rides.
Pi Theta, the honorary kindergarten sorority of Quio Liniversity, held an upper picnic at Ash Cave on Wednesday evening. Seventeen attendees joined Miss Constance MacLeod, head of the kindergarten department, in the event.
Ten employees from two Athens Kroger stores and their families joined about 5 000 Kroger workers and kin for the annual picnic at Glentangy Park in Columbus. A basket supper preceded a company program featuring free tickets to park concessions. Athens managers Emmett V Baughman and Charles Marquis accompanied the group. Morman A Engh and his family also traveled.
Hollister defeats Happy Stars 7 to 3 in a contested game. Harrington and C F Wallace contribute for the Happy Stars with notable plays as fans observe a tough loss.
Gerald Jones of this city and Miss Rosalie Harmon of Helliston were married Wednesday morning at 10 20 o clock at the Church of Christ parsonage with Rev. M S Rogers officiating. Attendants were Eugene Calloway and sister Miss Christene. Both are well known in the locality with many friends.
GLOUSTER July 30 Christian Workers present a dramatic play Just Before the Wedding at the Church of Christ Friday night. Scene set in the Harringtons living room with cast including Mrs Harrington society matron Mrs Miles Hoon Betty Harrington the bride Mrs M S Rogers Tony the gardener M S Rogers Lena the maid Mrs Sara Williams and Fredi.
A surprise birthday dinner Saturday night was hosted at the Eddy home near Weotervile in honor of Mr Eddy. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Jo’l Eddy and family, Mr and Mrs O E Eddy, and other relatives. the Ed dys are former Glouster residents now living in Columbus and near Westerville.
GLOUSTER July 3 Janitors for Greens Run and Hollister High School buildings will hold over for another year per Trimble Township Board of Education. Janitors were hired last year for a two year term. WILLING WORKERS MEET GLOUSTER July 30 The Willing Workers Class of the MoE Sunday school will meet Friday night at the home of Mrs Nettie Lewis All members are requested to be present at this meeting.
In Glouster Ohio Mr C A Vernon and family visited Akron relatives and celebrated his ninth birthday with his first airplane ride. The gift came from his son-in-law George Norris and daughter, Mrs Harold Vernon, as they toured the Akron airport on a summer trip.
Charles Young aged 86 died suddenly Wednesday at 4 a m at 24 East 4th Street Athens after health appeared fine. The Rev Cose Miter conducted the services in West Street and Cam Lends with private burial. He leaves a widow and nephews Weittt Ed Yeust er and Mereung, with several other relatives. The death notice notes a long residence in Athens and mentions his anniversary on December 29.
Washington bound trip for the Morton Daughters Jean and Mary Cleansr Merion, daughters of Frofo and Mr Ro Moermor, as they join the University of Washington summer session faculty member in Athens. Dorothy Dickerson of Nevada No. visits from Baltimore and Fairmonts. Birth announced for Elver Scott to Mr and Mrs J. E Bowles of Athens. Several residents, including the Dents of Cleve Nyand and Putnams of Columbus, spend summer at Buckeye Lake and at homes in Athens.
Chauncey Millfield of The Plains solicits want ads for The Messenger, instructing readers to phone 0243 for ad placement and listing Charles 5. Bradfield Jr. as contact.
The funeral of Theo Adolf Boudinot longtime Dover Township resident was held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o clock from the Church of Christ in Chauncey. The Rev G B Courtney officiated with hymns sung by a quartet. Interment followed at Nye Cemetery Chauncey. Survived by wife Lela and three daughters Neirms Amexville Mrs McHnuben Sugar Creek and Mrs Skinner Gatens Ohio.
A Woodside Long Island woman reports dropping 64 pounds in a year using Kruschen. She weighed 19 pounds at first and now weighs 123, claiming she looks younger than her age and that friends call her reduced. The ad promises a half teaspoon daily in hot water before breakfast, with a 65 cent bottle lasting four weeks.
Mr and Mrs Ernest Johnson of Chauncey announce the birth of a daughter named Mary Lou at their home on Monroe avenue this week The baby is a granddaughter of Mr and Mrs Henry Locke and J C Johnson of Chauncey
July 30 announcement from Mr and Mrs Julius Manning of Chauncey reports the birth of a son named Milford Junior weighing nine pounds. The notice notes the baby was born Wednesday at their Chauncey residence.
Prayer meeting of the Morristown Holiness Church will be held tonight in the home of Mr and Mrs Andrew McKinney. Also Chauncey birthday social noted with refreshments. social honors Mrs Noah Harvey at Pleasant View lodge. Local court actions include probate of the will of Joseph Basem and warrants for contributing to delinquency of a minor.
In southern Athens County of Lodi Township about 11 miles from Athens lie numerous caves most small but inviting for an afternoon visit. Directions from Athens include Pomeroy Road to Jerseyville then a mile and a half to the first road left to the farmhouse where a tree leads to the caves. The first cave is semi circular with a rock ledge large enough to sleep and a crawl opening to a tunnel said to bear the country’s last bear. South of this cave is another small cave guarded by large boulders known as Buzzerd Cave where buzzards once nested.
Boothing cooling ZEMO brings prompt relief to itching and burning skin. Claims include effectiveness in severe eczema and other conditions like ringworm rashes pimples dandruff. Describes ZEMO as safe and dependable with extra strength option priced at $1.25 and standard at $1.00.
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