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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1903
Page
8
Social visits and travels fill Nelsonville scenes with guests from Athens Lancaster Belva and Columbus. A large Embroidery Society reception brings together local and out of town women as family news includes illnesses birthdays and a fatal infant death. A Jerseyville high school basketball win and local boxwell commencement mark a busy weekend.
Hattie Norris and Phemia Russell attended an Epworth League convention in Marietta last week. Mrs. Margaret Plumly visits Chilli cothe this week to see her sons Charles and George. Mrs. James Bennett and daughter, visiting relatives nearby, returned home to Greensburg Pa. Monday. Tom Murphy and family of Chilli cothe visited Tim Murphy and wife Addie Zimmerman last week. Mrs. William Campbell, visiting her mother Mrs Thos Phillips, returned to Rendoville at the start of the week. Mrs. Elsie Shirley Seamons died at her Athens home last Friday evening. funeral held Sunday with Rev. Cherrington. Amelia Walker of Athens visits daughter Mrs. L H Smith for a few days.
Miss Wooley and Mrs. Morrison host, families visit from Glouster and Ashland. Births reported with a son to Lew and Mrs. Poston. Presbyterian Children's Day set for June 14. Lightning strikes and damaged phones amid local incidents. Funerals bring George and Alice Winner to Jerseyville for their aunt Mrs. Seaman.
Knowles of this place and young men from Amesville left Monday evening for El Reno Oklahoma to thresh wheat. Austin Fuller of Midway Indian Territory visits his mother here. Mrs Hope Walden and family visit relatives. R O Smith in Parkersburg on business. An old fashioned 4th of July picnic planned on Coolville fair grounds. Blanche Smith dislocated shoulder after a fall from a rig near Athens Saturday. A B White Jr builds a new house on Main Street. Many take the cheap excursion to Marietta Sunday. F M Shall moves to Vincent. Belpre beats Coolville 12 to 2 in baseball. Helene Mason returns from Chillicothe. Children day exercises held at Congregational church. Several from here attended.
Messra Coc Bolin auen visited Friday to aid farmer prosperity by paying thirty cents for wool. Howard Brooks and Pearl Wood returned home Sunday from Floodwood for work in the black diamond fields. Lon Mathews visited Gibson Ridge this past week. George W. Riley attended memorial services at Bates. Mrs. Isaiah Stotts visits her home this week. Mrs. Blanche Woodgett and her three children of Fostoria visit her parents here.
A quarterly meeting was held by Bishop and Bouquard. Attendees include Wm Hawk and family of Pratts Fork. George Kyle and family visited relatives. George Meighen and family visited friends. Mrs Geo Guthrie visited son and daughter. G W Sewell harvested wool at home. Mrs G W Sewell bought a Citizen's Telephone Co share and plans box connection.
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