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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1924
Page
2
Local brief highlights include visits and guests across Athens County towns with multiple families hosted in Hebbardsville Coolville and Athens. Church events, Odd Fellows memorial services, and summer school enrollments at Ohio University are noted alongside school board staffing decisions and area travels.
Fairview residents report visits and travel to Athens with Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Griffin and Donna motoring. Martha Dotson and children stayed with L. C. Washburns. Rev. Roberts preached. Charles Celie improves after a horse kick. Ladies' Aid met at Frank Caplinger’s. a misc shower honored Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Boggs with gifts and games. Additional visits from Boggs, Bond, Caplinger, Washburn, Wilson families noted.
Murray City residents report Henry K. Seidenfeld returning from the Shrine Convention in Kansas City after two weeks in Chicago Michigan and Canada. Mount Sterling Kentucky couple Mr and Mrs Henry Stratton visit local friends. Mr Stratton works in baking in Kentucky as Headly Laws runs for County Commissioner.
Darrell Moore son of Mr and Mrs Harry Moore and Olive Grear daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Grear near Barnesville were married by Rev Cooper at the Methodist parsonage in St Clairsville on Tuesday about 3 pm June 10. A wedding dinner followed at the bride’s parents home and the couple then went to the Moore home where a serenade and truck joy ride were enjoyed by relatives and friends. The bride, formerly a teacher near Barnesville, will reside with her husband at this place.
Carpenter Lester Cottrill and wife of Barnard Missouri visit relatives here. John Vernon and wife attend Mrs Vernon's father David Caster sale. Teachers for Columbia township hired for next year Edith Throckmorton Swett Corby Ogdin Glenn and Alta Webb Cone. The Carpenter Sunday School plans an all day picnic June 22 at the state farm park.
Coolville Troy Grange marks its anniversary with a postponed all day session on Saturday June 28 featuring a Children's Day program and dinner. The day opens at 10 00 AM with the program followed by dinner at noon baskets and a full day of activities anticipated by attendees. The record notes attendees at a funeral in Carthage Presby terian church and local residents visiting relatives in Athens.
Mr. Ray Strickler is on a two week vacation from Washington and attends Summer School at Ohio University while staying at home. Mrs. Ralph Wolf visited Parkerburg Friday. Mrs. Orville Brideberry of Ireland visits relatives here. Children’s Day at the M E Sunday School is set for next Sunday evening. Local youths attended the Lucilen show at Tuppers Pisins last week. Mrs. C. E. White spent days in Columbus. Mrs. Guy Metcalf visited Harrisonville to see her parents. Mrs. Farnest Cole visited Stark ereburg Tuesday. Charles Smith returned home after visiting Athens and Nelsonville. Mrs. Hope Walden returned from Cincinnati after weeks with her daughter Anna. Ladies Aid of the M F church held an all day quilting at Mrs. I. W. Chapman’s home.
Amesville reports include Miss Anna Lovell of Marietta as a priest’s candidate,Marianna Linscott’s Athens visit, and Kings Daughters meeting hosted by Mrs Glazier. Visits from Mr McGill of Stewart, music teaching by Gladys Woodrow, and families from North Liberty join local residents. A birthday surprise for Charles Gardner, obituaries for S H Hite, and a Athens wedding of Hattie Jago and Chester Inman wrap rural life notes.
At the Albany Grange meeting last Saturday night ten candidates received the first and second degrees. About fifty members attended. On Wednesday night the third and fourth degrees will be conferred. The County Grange meeting will be held in Albany this Saturday in an all day session with members expected to bring well filled baskets.
Miss Hazel Cline returns from a year in Pelham Manor New Jersey. Greta Lash from Athens visits the Cline home. The Coe family hosts relatives for Sunday noon dinner including J P Coe and Frank Coe. Mrs Florence Strong hosts her mother Mrs Litle of Wilkesville for a week. Richard Fought and Pearley West visit relatives in Athens. Lester Cottrill of Savannah Missouri visits after thirty years. Harvey Duffey and son Dr Walter Duffey with family stay in Columbus.
Mr. John Stanley with Hilah and Ernest joined Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Mc Vay their two daughters and Mrs. Mary J. Radcliffe for a birthday dinner. The Denver McVay family with four children traveled from Chillicothe to Greenland to join about fifty others celebrating Will Hults 1st birthday, brother in law of John Stantey.
Mr and Mrs J Warner of Columbus spent Sunday to Monday with Mrs Frank Coe and her sister Clara who had visited them for a week. Clara returned home with them after the stay.
Rev Moryer and Rev Burdette preached at the Methodist church to an appreciative audience. Miss Martha Humphrey of St Louis visits her uncle Lew Humphrey and family. The Duttons return to Milford after visiting E A Duttons. Parkersburg visitors include Mrs Joe Keever and Mrs Nellie White Cohen. The Garretts hosted relatives from Columbus and Wheeling. Harry Logan buys a new automobile. Traveling salesmen Dickenson and Adams spend Sunday locally. George Parker and family plan a Akron visit then summer in Hockingport. Edith Humphrey visits before Ohio University. Cowdery graduates and vacations with parents. corn planting praised.
College Hill residents Fred and Leo Goodrich hosted Saturday evening guests Aunt Mrs Edward Coffman and family. Elmer Patterson of Red Town visited with sister Mrs Ralph Sawyer. Goldie and El Wemmer vacationed with relatives in Chauncey. Charles Milpres left for Magnet Springs for treatments. Parson of Trimble visited daughter Mrs Delbert Tippie and family. Jack Palac and family attended church at Buchtel. Russel Powell and children returned home after a stay spent locally.
A brief social item records Mrs Minnie Ruskie visiting relatives in Oak Hill for a few weeks and Monday visits with Mrs William Tippie. It also notes Mr and Mrs Phill Ro of Millfield spending Sunday and Monday with Mr and Mrs Richard Sapp.
Citizens visit and calls fill the week as Vanderhoof McCall and Davis families host dinners. Neighbors stop by in Coolville and nearby towns including Athens and Bethel Ridge for visits, calling, and a family reunion for the Branchs at Tuppers Plains.
White Hall Mrs Chauncey Lawson and three children visit her mother in West Virginia. Mr and Mrs Mack Era ley visit Wellston. Misses Elsie Braley and Edna Moore depart for a two week visit with friends at Tuscarawas. Mrs Rosetta Jones and two children return to Huntington after two weeks with G C Lawson. Pearl Lonas hosts his mother from Stewart. Herbert Moore and sons visit Columbus relatives. Roy Parker joins for a week. Floyd Nye and children visit C M Higgins. Orley Moore of Toledo called here after grandmother Jane Gift's death. Homer Graves Jr visits Aunt Atta Allen in Washington DC.
Pratt's Fork residents hosted and visited neighbors from Chase Athens Pleasanton and Pomeroy. Mr and Mrs Will Gilkey welcomed Pratt's Fork guests while John Hanning and Elza Sapp near Athens joined local hosts. A large crowd attended children's day services after rain delayed attendance and a kitchen shower honored Mr and Mrs Carne Slusher.
Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob King include Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Goldsberry and their Athens children. Roy Goldsberry has moved his family into a new home he is building to replace the one lost by fire last spring.
Farmers in Hocking county toured five farms Tuesday to view soil treatment trials led by E. E. Barnes of Ohio State University. Recommendations included limestone to fix acidity and 400 pounds of 16 percent phosphorous acid fertilizer, with no tillage needed and sweet clover as a post-correction cover crop. Mr Ferguson, county agricultural agent, ends service as he moves to a new field in Columbus.
The Ohio District of the Evangelical Synod of North America holds its annual session at Peace Evangelical Church in Pomeroy starting with an evening service led by Rev. S Lindenmeyer of Portsmouth. Regular sessions begin Thursday at 8 30 a m and run to Saturday evening with about 120 ministers and laymen attending.
A 66 year old man says two years of stomach and liver troubles left him near death. He credits three doses of Mayr's Wonderful Remedy with a full cure. The notice endorses the remedy as a simple preparation that clears mucous and reduces inflammation. It cites a money back guarantee and lists McKre Drug Co Athens Gem Pharmacy Nelsonville and other druggists as retailers.
Belgian balloonist Ernest De Muyter, piloting the Belgica, is believed to have won the James Gordon Bennett Cup for the third time. A telegram reports his landing safely near Edinburgh, Scotland, with unofficial distances indicating he may outdistance all 16 international entrants.
William G. McAdoo, seeking the Democratic nomination, said he is not concerned about abolishing the two-thirds rule. Traveling with his wife and daughters en route to New York, he stated he is confident of winning under either rule.
Los Angeles authorities conclude Norris Nodler's tale of a nobleman murder is false after Count Miguel Escoto, film actor and Spanish nobleman, is discovered alive in a local apartment. Nodler had claimed Escoto was killed and buried on the beach near Oceanside, prompting two days of beach searches.
In Elyria Ohio a mex Pete boxcar used by Mexican section hands was burglarized. Thieves stole a Colt automatic revolver and two dress shirts among other items, implying lingering tensions in the area.
A free trial program invites anyone with asthma or hay fever to try a breathing method at no cost. The offer targets long standing or recent cases, including chronic asthma and hay fever, and promises relief from wheezing and paroxysms without payment or postage.
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