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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1925
Page
10
Vic Pierce of Athens born in Alexander township. treasurer of Hewitt & Boden parquetry and former restaurant owner. Daniel A. Rardin leads Rardin Brothers Lumber with East Side plant. also a large Alexander township farmer.
Emmett Parker, a skilled pianist with Parker Brothers Piano, is connected to the Athens Kiwanis club. A Lodi township native who attended Ohio University, he has spent about twelve years in local business.
John H Preston becomes a Kiwanis member and has served as treasurer of the F L Preston Company for twenty five years. He also holds mercantile interests in other cities, notably Nelson and Bellefontaine. A former Nelsonville resident in his youth.
Lewis W. Roberts serves as president of the Athens Lumber Company, a four-decade operation with mills in Glouster. A Lodi township native and Ohio University alumnus, he is noted for pursuing fair, right minded positions on issues.
Russell H. Rupp, newly elected president of the Athens Kiwanis club and principal of Athens Junior High School, is a Harrisburg native. He graduated from Lebanon Valley College and earned a degree at Columbia. He served in World War I.
Oliver F. Rowland serves as vice president of the local club. Born in Freeport in Harrison County, he has built a career as an attorney in Athens.
The former two term mayor now serves on the Athens city council. He remains affiliated with Woolley Rowland, the law firm listed as his professional affiliation.
James Ruston, once connected with the Athens Brick company before Ita plant closure, became general manager of the Cook-Wil son Mine Supply company with offices in Charleston West Virginia and Athens.
Wiley T Sprague, now a physician in Athens, has practiced medicine for years after leaving Chauncey where he began his career post medical college. He originates from Sunday Creek in Dover Township.
John R Sprague from a family of doctors grew up in Dover township. He finished public schools, attended Ohio University, and completed medical training at Starling Medical College in Columbus now the OSU. He has practiced in Athens since entering the medical profession.
Charlie E Stailey served as Kiwanis club president and for years supervised Athens public schools after teaching at Ashville and Portsmouth following his graduation from Ohio University. He represented the Athens area in civic affairs.
He serves as a delegate to the Atlanta Kiwanis convention and holds a degree from Columbia University. He is a Defiance County native.
Field Scott has lived in Athens for fifteen years and focused on coal conditions across territories. He served for several years as service director of Athens.
Jerry J. Sisler, longtime salesman for a Wheeling dry goods house, now co runs McHenry and Sisler. He chairs the Kiwanis program committee and works to provide entertainment for the group.
Robert J. Studer practices dental surgery in Athens since finishing at Ohio College of Dental Surgery Cincinnati in 1912. He serves as director and program committee member and plays an active role in organizing the Kiwanis convention.
Bert W Simpson, an originator of the J. H. Grayson Manufacturing company, serves as purchasing agent. He came here five years ago from Charleston and was formerly at Indianapolis. England is his native land, but he is described as an Athenian in all respects.
Carl D. Stewart proprietor of the Stewart Toggery and advocate of the motto Dress well and succeed is identified as a former resident of a location not specified in the available text. The clipping centers on his role as a shop owner and promoter of sartorial success rather than detailing his current residence.
Rome township notes a local businessman balancing Athens ventures with other enterprises employing forty or fifty people. He is a charter Kiwanian.
Milton E Twiss has lived in Athens since 1902 when he and the late W W Daggett founded the Home Furnishing company. The firm has occupied its current quarters since 1907. Twiss, born in Iowa, later moved to Nebraska and Chillicothe before settling in Athens.
Dwight D Triipp, once with Lostro Auto Sales, came to Athens a decade ago and started his current company five years ago after attending Ohio University. He spent his youth in Zanesville and now serves on the classification committee.
Fred S. Wheaton is the active owner of the Wheaton Hardware company. He has spent practically his entire life in Athens and attended public schools and Ohio University. Wheaton has had complete charge of the business for the past five years or more. It is one of the pioneer firms in its line of business.
Ned J. Wolfe, third Kiwanis president, longtime Athens resident and former Wolfe Feed Store owner, is tied to Swanson Furniture. He served as a delegate to the Atlanta convention two years ago.
The principal of Walsh Electric, a company he founded seven years ago, has spent his life in Athens. After high school he completed electrical engineering at Ohio University in 1908 and has been in the electrical business for twenty years.
A and Whaley, manager and treasurer of the Athens ice and Store age company, has been connected with Athens for eighteen years since moving from St. Marys West Virginia in 1907. He serves on the Athens city board of education and is a co owner of Torch Hill Orchard company.
Robert L. Woodworth was born at the Forks of the Creek just north of Trimble. He moved to Athens in his early youth and attended the public schools there.
The record notes nine years as express agent and since 1917 serving as assistant cashier at the Athens National Bank, highlighting a steady progression in local financial service.
George Whipple is manager of Cline Pharmacy and president of the Athens city board of education. A longtime Athens resident, his interests include improving schools and school facilities. He also serves on the Kiwanis education committee.
Abbott Y. Wilcox, pastor of the Athens Presbyterian church for nine years, is a native of Clifford New York. He studied at Syracuse University and Auburn Seminary New York. He is the only ...
R. H. White, recent Kiwanis convert, has long resided in Athens though he hails from Cumberland Ohio. A graduate of O. A. he serves as manager of the Bennett Company dairy products in the area.
E. C. Woodworth vents frustration about unreadable weather and jokes about broadcasting his life story after the first frost, reflecting a humorous wartime or early radio mood.
A medal from the Swedish Academy of Engineering Science was awarded to the inventor of a simple device that stores steam during slack hours for use when larger quantities are needed.
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