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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1941
Page
8
The Committee on arrangements calls a mass meeting for miners in the district Sunday afternoon June 15 at one o'clock in Chauncey High School. A report on unemployment benefits for 1939 will be presented. A large attendance from Hocking and Sunday Creek districts is expected.
Dinner was served Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Novel Wilson for Mrs. Wilson’s birthday anniversary. Sister Ellen Musgrave baked the cake used as the centerpiece for a table set for six. Gifts flowers and cards cheered the honored guest.
Funeral services were held for Lydia A. Root age 89 lifelong Cutler resident at Centenary Church with sons Elza E. Root and Edwin Root and daughter Mrs Montella Whitlock as survivors. Also noted Morris O. French age 69 longtime Jackson County resident who died after a long illness with a large survivor list. Various local community happenings include 4-H club plans and graduations and a family trip to Roswell New Mexico for a wedding.
Oak Grove York Grange met Friday with Master Adda Mac combs presenting a talk on a trip to the nation’s capitol. Plans were laid for a July 13 picnic at the Nancy Ann cottage on the Muskingum River. The next meeting is set for June 20 and a birthday dinner for April to June birthdays will follow at 6:30 PM.
Mrs. Mary Chaves of Detroit and her grandson Herbert H. Thompson along with Carl Jamison were Wednesday guests of Miss Irene Jackson in Chauncey. Thompson and Jamison are United States Marines stationed at Paradise Island South Carolina on furlough visiting Detroit. Mrs. Chaves will take them back to South Carolina. Thompson is a grandson of F. H. Staffinger of Chauncey.
Broadwell announces a June 6 ice cream social was postponed to Friday evening June 13. It will be held in the basement of the U B Church. Also listed are local visits and relocations including families moving to Gifford property and relatives visiting from Cleveland and West Virginia.
The Millfield Church of Christ Ladies Aid Society met Friday night at Mrs. Mabel Smith's home with Smith presiding. Olive Brookins led devotions. Mary Wade, Nellie Russell and Elizabeth Robinett won contest awards. Next meeting is a picnic dinner hosted by Mrs. Smith with attendees listed.
Mrs. Orissa Lee Eblin suffered a fracture of the right forearm in a fall down the back porch steps at her home on Tuesday.
Chauncey residents and visitors mix at events in Columbus and Chauncey. Chauncey figures include Chauncey Gilbert Courtney at a state planning conference in Columbus and visits from Delware Ohio guests to B E Carter and family.
Chauncey Bert Smith a Dover High School graduate and Eastern State Teachers College student in Richmond Ky spends a week with his mother in Millfield. He will work at Wheelwright Ky this summer and returns as a four letter athlete in football baseball basketball and track. He is the first to make this record in his college history.
Chauncey Athens County Church of Christ men's brotherhood will meet tonight at 7 30 in Glouster. Dan Johnson of Chauncey is chairman. Chauncey men planning to attend are asked to meet at their local church at 7 o'clock.
The family traveled to Nelsonville on Monday for a weeklong visit with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Morrison.
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