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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1929
Page
7
The Plains area lists Sunday to Wednesday visits and travel notes. Families, neighbors, and relatives from Meigs County to Athens and Logan are mentioned, with several individuals visiting, hosting, or traveling for work, school, or religious events. The Meigs Church Ladies Aid and local residents are noted in social details.
Fragmentary OCR yields scattered names and events including Carpenter, Knopp Aloene, Mrs WL, Mrs Vesta Rotinsoy, Stanley, Mimera, Downington tours, and a basement of local social life. The text hints at services, a baseball game, and summer plans but details are garbled.
Tuppers Plains social notes list dinners and visitors from Steuart Guys ame Pint Brooks Athens and Columbus. The obituary notes the death of D. Shields aged 79 with funeral at the Christian Church. Also mentions Mrs Sarah Shields visiting Bethel and Mrs Belle Heller and Elsworth Weller among local guests.
Syracuse residents report a string of visits and relatives traveling between Huntington West Virginia Rutland and Parkersburg. Walter Karr and family from Huntington spent a week with Avery Roberte and kin. Mrs Carrie Sebtenabel and Hortense visited Rutland. Ambrose Flannagan spoke at Chester on Memorial Day. Mrs Helen Underhill returned to Columbus after a lengthy visit with relatives.
Sunday evening worship at the M E Church and Ravinewood Christian Church with several pulpits filled. Mattle Henry of Athens visited for her brother's funeral. Ruth Larkina and two daughters from Long Bottom stay with relatives. Richard Green of Coolville visits grandparents W E Mathack for a few days. Decoration Day attendance from here to Chester. David Kint and family from Mort began a visit for the holiday. A Jodse and Mrs Dana Hoffman with Wheeling relatives. Rev Flora held a meeting at Hemlock Grove. Children Day services planned by Hoffman continues.
Shawnee Bawnem and family from Athena spent Memorial Day with relatives. George Gaver and daughter La Roma Dee of Athena visited Rosetta Gaver and Bea trice. Frank Laton and children from Akron called on relatives. James McGrew of Columbus and Micard Petersen visited here. Earl Simmers returned home for Decoration Day. Lillian and Marla Tern pull of Columbus called on Jack Turnbull. Betty Rothman of Columbus is visiting for a few days.
Rutland residents and visitors are noted in a June item. Mise R eda Woods returns home from Bloomsfield where she teaches high school, while Harley Stone and family visit from Pennsylvania. G K Bradford of Columbus visits, Mrs M E Rathburn plans Columbus trip, Lee Combs returns from Charleston, and Howard Fond family spend Sunday at their Salem farm. Elza Batton buys Ray Rawlings property, Pearl Clark moves to Dana Anderson’s, and Dr Dell Church of Akron visits her mother Mrs Sarah Church.
Parents Mr and Mrs Bant Kormman Albert Craig of Columbus visited relatives and friends on Memorial Day. Misa Thelma Thompson of Columbus was guest of her parents and Mrs Theater Thompson Thursday. Mr and Mrs Earl DeVore of Columbus visited Mrs and Mrs J Beyeranen Thursday.
Coolville 4 H Club met at Grange Hall Wednesday at 2 PM with 21 members listed. Next meeting scheduled at Grange Hall Saturday at 6 PM. Business notes report B M Daugherty purchasing West Main Street store property and renovations. Charles Charter and wife of Rockland bought the Wilson hotel and restaurant property with possession to be taken Wednesday. former hotel owners E F Matlack undecided on future plans.
Mrs Genevery Bates, injured in an atte accident, rests at home of Afro and Mea Pmerqon Stout in Rock Street as neighbors and friends including Clyde Parrish and Dora Walden attend a Parkersburg show. Mr and Mrs Tastor drive to Rayton. Cecil Rockhold and Nisa Rats dolph visit Belpre. Lizzie Dixon attends Tamner Shields funeral. Grace Stoutte visits grandmother in Hemlock Grove. alimony and social calls fill the week ending with a Grange meeting and plans for Pomeroy.
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