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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1922
Page
3
After a wrestling match in Athens Zbyszko visited Nelsonville staying with Charles Sisson before driving to Columbus for the big Zbyszko Caddock match. Local social notes list visits from multiple relatives and friends, church activities, and district conference plans.
The Woman's Missionary Society of the Christian church held its regular Thursday meeting with good attendance. President Mrs. C. L. Johnson led the session as officers for the coming year were elected: President Mrs. Johnson, Vice President Mrs. Viola Keplar, Recording Secretary Mrs. S. Lane, Treasurer Mrs. Charles Barron, Pianist Mrs. Chas. Coleman, Program Reader Mrs. Frank Betts. Mrs. Kate Blake and Miss Hyla Harold read papers on Applied Christianity. Hostesses served refreshments after the program.
W R C holds a meeting Monday night at 7:30 at the American Legion hall with expected strong attendance and community interest.
Rev. Cecil Mender will conduct services at the Doanville M E church Sunday evening at 7 PM. His subject is He Paid the Price.
The morning service at A M E Church features the subject Christ the Eternal Rock while the evening sermon centers on Gods Charge to Gideon delivered by pastor B M McLinn.
Mr and Mrs Everett Higgins announce their son Everett Ford. Mr and Mrs Eugene Brickles reveal the birth of an eight pound daughter Alberta Gail on May 31. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Henry Courtney and Mr and Mrs Charles Brickles.
Mrs C H Newton is the guest of a father in Athens for the week, staying at his home and visiting local relatives and friends. The visit highlights social ties in the Athens community this season.
York township board of education hired and assigned teachers for multiple schools on June 1. Edith Kepler will teach in Doanville room 4, Gladys Bowers in Doanville room 3, Dorothy Covert in Doanville room 2, Elizabeth Murphy in Doanville room 1. Also appointed were Myrta Ashworth and Ellen Mahory in New Floodwood rooms 2 and 1 respectively, with Nellie Hamer in Old Floodwood.
Pastor L Johnson leads a full day with Bible school at 9 30 morning worship at 10 30 and evening evangelistic service at 7 00 Bereans visit Murray City men’s class Junior and Senior Endeavor Societies meet at 6 00 Children’s day is June 11 That Which Rings True and The Saving Power of a Worthy Task are the sermon titles implied.
The Pythian Sisters of Snow Fork Temple No. 77 in Murray entertained for their district deputy and new district temples. More than 100 visitors from Logan Chauncey New Lexington Buchtel Athens and Middleport attended. Speeches solos and readings followed a decorated hall. A banquet served about 3800 persons.
Mrs. D. D. Crawford and her two children are visiting the former’s parents in Cleveland for a stay with family.
Mr and Mrs Leonard McKinley and their little daughter visited Toledo where they were guests of Mrs Will Burnelle on Friday.
Rev J F Woods of Huntington West Virginia will preach at both morning and evening services. Sunday School and class meeting at usual hours. Public welcome to all services. A H Plunkett, minister.
The Episcopal Church holds Holy Communion at 8:00 A M officiated by Archdeacon John H Dodson. Sunday School begins at 9:30 A M and the evening service with Archdeacon Dodson preaching at 7:00 P M All are welcome.
The church lists sermons titled Heads and Ax heads and Inward Renewing by Pastor Leon Arpee. Services at 10 30 a m and 7 p m with Sunday School at 9 30 a m. A youth meeting at 6 p m covers Better Friendships. Prayer meeting Wednesday night led by Mrs Oril Griffin.
Paul E Kemper pastor invites all to Sunday School at 9 30 morning worship at 10 30 with Rev Dr Rockey missionary to India for 37 years Epworth League class meeting and evening service at 7 with Mrs Rockey speaking Monday night Christian rally and Sunday School Broad meeting at 7 Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7 all welcome.
A gold watch stolen in 1918 was found in a Denver pawnshop this week and returned to owner P. R. Riordan a local political leader. Riordan received the watch twelve years ago as a gift from friends and was later robbed by footpads four years ago, losing the piece which had been missing ever since.
Accidents in U S coal mines during the first four months of 1922 killed 648 miners. The Bureau of Mines reports a fatality rate of 3.89 deaths per million tons of coal produced.
Ohio reports 16 dead and 74 injured in May fires, according to State Fire Marshal Dykeman. The prior May saw 20 deaths and 54 injured, marking a higher fatality year but lower injury count than last year.
DANVILLE Ill W B Bartlett bugler at the National Soldiers Home is a good boy. Bartlett a veteran of the Spanish American war who saw service with the American fleet has attended Sunday school regularly for twenty years. He says he has not been tardy once in all this time.
Walter S. Ward claims self defense using an automatic pistol in the duel that killed Clarence Peters. Peters allegedly fired a revolver at Ward. Judge Frank J. Young dismissed a habeas corpus writ. Ward, a self confessed slayer, is free on $50,000 bail after turning two guns over to authorities. Ward says Peters and two others tried to blackmail him for 75000 before he refused and began shooting.
In Cedar Creek near Vancouver B C a gold strike draws prospectors recalling the Klondike days. A. E. Platt and John Lyne rediscovered the vein after a mud hole revealed color. They mined $4 000 in gold and the find spurred a rush to Cedar Creek now under development.
Figures from Paris indicate airplane travel is nearly as safe as boat or rail travel. In about 3,000,000 miles flown with 22,844 passengers since January 1919, only seventeen killed and four wounded. Data from six French air lines covering routes to England, Poland, and Africa. Freight carried last year totaled 192 tons.
A fast mail train on the Oregon Short Line near Mover Junction Wyoming was halted for thirty minutes when a woodpecker pecked a signaling wire, knocking the block signal system out of order. The engineer reported the bird stopped the train after finding the damaged wiring and believing it had captured a worm.
Miss Helen Hopkins, captain of a Washington Girl Scout troop, earned a gold valor medal presented by Secretary Herbert Hoover for aiding eleven lives during the Knickerbockers Theatre disaster. The ceremony gathered Girl Scouts nationwide and council members.
Martha Virena Wilson McCoy born October 23 1846 in Belmont County Ohio was the eldest daughter of Peter Baker and Rebecca Wilson. She married Angus McCoy September 15 1867 and had eight children seven surviving. she joined Heath Methodist Church after move to Middleport and died May 18 1922 aged 75. Her home life and faith defined her role as a caring mother cherished by her family.
The eighth grade commencement for Athens township and Salem graduates will be at Factory school house on Wednesday June 7 at 1 PM. County Superintendent Guy Dinsmoor will deliver the principal address. Graduates include Celesta Graham Cyrena Burt Stella Malone Ulah Malone Cameron Richardson Roscoe Brickles Ralph Joseph Ross Goodwin Monette Moody Robert Rowan Florence Bolin Mary Gift French Erwin Verona Shaw Robert Sheridan William Shall Marie Pyles Mildred Aernom Katie Dailey Edward McGneKen.
Denver police report a wave of thefts targeting radio equipment with many head phone sets stolen from radio gear at the voice headquarters. The incidents mark the latest in a series of thefts affecting local broadcasting facilities.
Canton Ohio June 3 Timken Roller Bearing announces a ten percent wage increase for all workers effective June 5 restoring pay to levels before the September 1921 cut. The plant once peaked at about 4000 employees and is now running near full capacity. United Alloy Corp says four operations at the Canton Sheet Steel plant, purchased from Hydra Ulitc Pressed Steel, will resume Monday at capacity for 1800 workers.
Officials at two Oberlin banks report about a dozen checks daily written by Oberlin College students on overdrawn accounts. Most bad checks are actually good, with only about one percent unpaid. Bank officials say coeds are the chief offenders.
Officers pursued Leroy and Alle after a break in at the Gibson residence. Leroy was fatally shot while fleeing and attempting to reach an officer. Alle collapsed and died during the confrontation as gunfire erupted from inside the house.
Five Russian Orthodox priests were sentenced to death by Bolshevik courts in Riga for obstructing the government seizure of church property used for famine relief, according to Moscow reports.
The report notes butterflies are abundant in Australia and are suffocated in pillons by Aboriginal people. They are then detached from their wings, pressed into cakes, and eaten as sustenance.
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