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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1923
Page
3
The Nelsonville alumni officers thank all who helped with this year’s banquet and dance. Special thanks go to the girls who collected dues the Elks who donated their home for the event and Mr. W Gibson for the flowers and others who helped in any way.
A Pythian Sisters meeting is set for Thursday at 7 30 PM. Nomination of officers will take place and a pot luck supper will be served. Members are urged to attend and bring their favorite dish.
About fifty delegates registered for the Marietta District Conference of the Methodist church meeting at the First Methodist church. The district stretches from Marietta to Gallipolis with sessions featuring Rev. Dr. Carlis P. Hartgraves from Chicago as a noted speaker. Lunch and a chicken dinner were served. further sessions will continue with more delegates expected today.
The chamber schedules tomorrow evenings regular meeting with expected full attendance. C C Sharp, national councilor, will recap high points from the national convention held in May. The membership drive has doubled local membership and new members are urged to attend. President Welch asks all new signups to attend at 6 15 PM with a social dinner to follow.
Chauncey residents send good wishes as Mrs. William Watkins shows steady health improvement after surgery in Columbus. Visits from Mrs. J L Urwin William and grandsons McBride of Buchtel, Mr and Mrs Garfield Grimes of Chauncey and guests in Millfield. Ray Crosser Cecil Cunningham and William Myers return from Zanesville to Chauncey. Mrs Ray Crosser visits her parents in Happy Hollow.
Mr and Mrs Harry Linscott and family and Mr and Mrs Ezra Karns and Mr and Mrs Charles Carr attended the funeral of Edgar Ewing at Harmony yesterday afternoon. Young Ewing met death Sunday when a truck in which he was involved overturned in the area.
Wilbur Linscott son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Linscott of this city married a sister of the deceased Edgar Ewing, adding a family tie amid the somber context of the locally reported event.
Reverend Harter of the M. E. church calls all choir members to Thursday at 7 P M for practice. The choir will provide music for the all day service at Millfield on Sunday June 10. Notes on local visits and agency movements are reported.
An all day meeting at Millfield M E Church on Sunday June 10 features good speaking and singing for the whole charge. Attendees are asked to bring baskets for a basket dinner at the church. Rev. Frederick Brown of Athens will speak in the afternoon. Mr and Mrs R Steadman of Columbus are visiting Circle Hill.
Michael Duvall, 26, an electrician, was killed instantly in the Garden of Allah near the White House when a motor truck struck a stand supporting a ladder. A helper was seriously injured as they fell about fifty feet.
Word reached friends of the death of Moses A. Mantz at his home near Trimble. Mantz, a Civil War veteran, was widely known throughout the Sunday Creek valley where he had lived for many years.
Mrs Florence Richards president of the Ohio Women’s Curtains Temperance Union urged arming every dry agent and giving him authority to shoot first before he is shot at a Lucas county W C T U meeting in Toledo Ohio on June 6.
A squadron of naval airplanes circles a triangle course in San Diego in the largest aeronautical competition staged by the U S Navy to break endurance distance and payload records held by European fliers.
Four well dressed men stormed into a Broadway jewelry shop today stealing gems and a clerk, valued at about $70,000, according to the proprietor. The robbers fled as police were alerted in New York.
An angry mob seized 20 year old Rank Lanceris from his home in Hollywood and dragged him to Hollywood Mountain. They bound him to a pole and lashed him with wire ropes until he fainted. Police did not confirm motive but suspect he attacked a young girl.
F W Carruth an oil boom era operator faces federal court in Fort Worth as part of the government crackdown on indicted promoters. Four have pled guilty and eight more are to be tried.
Mrs Mae E Stannard declares politics drove her removal as chief matron of the Delaware Girls Industrial School. State Welfare Director Harper announced the action and Stannard vows to fight to a finish claiming the move was political.
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