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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1951
Page
3
A joint meeting of the Auxiliary and the VFW will be held in the post in Jacksonville on Sunday at 2 30 pm. Clara Pinney, president of the 12th district, will meet with the auxiliary to help form its charter.
Nelsonville hosts annual Ohio Society of Dokkies and Nomads ceremonies with a 7 pm street parade and 9 am Dokkie initiation. A 2 pm Nomad class initiation follows a 1:30 pm joint meeting, with a 5:30 pm banquet at the Methodist Church and a 7 pm parade led by the VFW drum corps. Notables from both orders are listed. preparations involve a large statewide turnout and a fireworks display on the Public Square.
Nelsonville’s summer recreation program enters active phase under Director Harry Westfall. Pool attendance limited by cool weather. swimming registration opens for an owner’s class pending interest. A pool swimming team is planned. Senior Twilight baseball league runs with six teams, including Nelsonville Junior Vets and Legion, Athens, Amesville, Buchtel, Carbon Hill. schedule through Aug 24 with playoffs possible if first and second rounds differ. Basketball league organized. Kuhn’s defeats Hook’s 47 to 45.
NELSONVILLE The Synod of Ohio will convene at the College of Wooster Tuesday at 1 30 pm to elect a new moderator after the opening sermon by retiring moderator Reverend John Lloyd Evans, pastor of the local Presbyterian Church. Visiting speakers at the 11 am and 8 pm convocations will be Dr John Wick Bowman of San Francisco and Dr Raymond Finquist of East Orange New Jersey. Choral groups include the Huron Westminster chair Tuesday, the Venedocia Welsh Maile chorus Wednesday, and the Jackson Ohio mixed chorus Thursday at 8 pm.
The "Young Couples" club of the Methodist Church will host a wiener roast on Tuesday at 7 30 p m at the home of Mr and Mrs Bill Davis on Kimberly Road. All couples seeking to join are asked to attend. Mr and Mrs Max Sniffen and two children from Beaumont Texas end a week's visit with his parents and plan a two week Southwest vacation.
The Rev. and Mrs Daniel K Teater and son Timothy will leave Monday to visit friends and relatives in Illinois. Danny Teater has stayed with his grandparents in Pleasant Plains since summer break and will return with his parents on July 6. During the minister's absence church services will be handled by church staff.
The Buchtel Band Boosters club will sponsor round and square dancing at the high school gym Saturday at 8 30 p m. The Buckeye Ramblers will furnish music for the evening and the caller will be Dick Dye. The public is invited.
Nelsonville area churches report June 17 schedules. Fort and Short Street services include 9:30 a.m. worship and 7:30 p.m. events. First Methodist lists junior and senior MYF meetings, Vacation Bible School, and midweek activities. Epiphany Episcopal notes morning prayer and Holy Communion. First Presbyterian covers morning worship with sermon "To Stare or To Look" and no evening service.
In Nelsonville, a 4-year-old boy Milton Berry and his family were at a Daily Vacation Bible School when he offered a novel hymn title "God on a Ferris Wheel." Grandmother Mrs Frances Steenrod checked with other children who attend the school and found the favored song among the girls is "Fairest Lord Jesus."
Local church listings from Glouster and surrounding areas outline weekly schedules. Churches include Candale Church of Christ under Edwin Carpenter Jr with 9:30 a.m. Sunday school and 10:30 a.m. worship, Bishopville Church of Christ led by Homer Vian with 9:30 a.m. school and 7:30 p.m. evangelistic service, and Glouster Methodist with 9:00 a.m. Sunday school and 10:30 a.m. sermon, among many others such as Trimble West Side, HeMlock, Hooper Ridge, Glouster First Baptist, Jacksonville EUB and Oakdale Church of God services and event notes.
Sunday services at Pilgrim Holiness Church were led by Rev. W. W. Gilkerson of Vinton. Mrs. and Mr. Williams and two daughters were in Chicago for a weekend meeting. Wesley Barrett suffered a broken leg in a wreck that injured his father Will and Carl Nelson. Carl broke an arm and Will sustained bruises. Larry Price is recovering from chicken pox. Keever, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Grate, returned home after tonsil and adenoid surgery. Ada Harrison visited Mary Dyke and the Earl Vance family. Mrs. Roy Rogers and daughters Mary Frances and Betty and Ovie Fitzwater of Valley Fork, W. Va. visited Callie Metheney and Mrs. Gladys Moran and son Francis with Francis’ grandparents near Charleston. Sarah Frost, 74, died June 8 at Meigs General Hospital, Pomeroy. she leaves sister Ida Ogden and daughter Dorothy Barrett, with other children. funeral at Danville Church of Christ with Rev. Gilkerson presiding. burial Coy Hill Cemetery. Acting Chief Petty Officer Cecil Hewitt, serving in Korea, on 30-day leave visiting mother Alta Dye and relatives. His ship USS Philippine Sea undergoing overhaul in San Francisco harbor. In Africa, twins are considered unlucky.
The Rev. Franklin Cooley will serve another year as pastor of the Jacksonville Charge of the Methodist Church following a Methodist Conference appointment at Lakeside. His churches include Jacksonville Trimble Millfield and Chauncey, marking a second year on the charge.
Mrs Amelia Hanning longtime Redtown resident dies Friday morning at Miami Valley Hospital Dayton Funeral services set for Sunday at 2 p m at Redtown Methodist Church Burial in Taylor Ridge Cemetery Friends may call at Blower funeral home Glouster
Miss Sadie R Seidenfeld and her brothers Charles and Louis have returned to Murray City from Florida. During the trip Charles suffered a heart attack and is now recuperating at home.
Pythian Sisters sponsor a bake sale Saturday at Wilson Bros. store on West Washington Street, starting at 9 a.m. Members are urged to bring baked goods early for the sale. Also notes there is one trolley coach bus or streetcar per 1500 people in the United States.
GLOUSTER The Daily Vacation Bible School of the Hollister EUB Church will close with a program at 7 30 this evening. The two weeks session concluded with this event.
A dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Bryson on Fair Street marked their 30th wedding anniversary. Guests included John Bulloch, E. D. McGee, A. O. Hall and daughter Patty, Ernie, Arthur and Billy Bryson, M. M. Bryson, and Doris Lee Hall of Morgantown, West Virginia.
Glouster Personal items note Bob Johnson of Mount St Mary Hospital Nelsonville eye treatment on Monday. Weekend guests include Evan Morgan Jr and Evan II of Columbus with Mr and Mrs Ernest Glass and children Carol Edith Ernestine and Clair of New Marshfield. Carol return from ten days with the Morgans accompanied her parents home. Benny Matyskalla of Columbus visited Jacksonville with Ad am Matyskalla's parents. Also, Riley Judson ill. he is improving. Edward Noon of Columbus visiting local families T A Noon and Harry Vaughn host.
GLOUSTER-Oakdale Friendship Circle met at Georgia Barnes home and arranged their annual Buckeye Lake trip. Contests were won by Mac Losey Zenith Jewel and Gertrude Jewel. Members present included Bernice Lowery Della Loomis Madge Harry Sophia Yeago Betty Huffard Ida Mae Phillips Rosa Love Lorna Jewel Sarah McClellan Lillian Nott Geneva Jewel Ruby Norris and Faye Nott. Guests were Getty Brunton Jimmie Duckler Sandra and Kay Nott of Barberton Ohio.
GLOUSTER A Ferndale Church of Christ homecoming is set for Sunday with morning worship and a noon basket dinner on the lawn. In the afternoon minister Ed win Carpenter will deliver a message and music directed by Darrel Antle. Guests include attendees from the church’s first homecoming many years ago.
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