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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Jun 19, 1902

Page

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Ohio University Baccalaureate Address Opens Commencement Week

The Ohio University commencement week begins with the Baccalaureate address by President Alston Ellis at the college auditorium. He urges valuing education, outlines the link between college training and business success, and stresses adaptability, effort, and the educated mind as key to progress and leadership.

Ohio University College Alston Ellis Ellis Athens America Iim

True Wisdom Springs From the Deep Heart

The passage argues the mind endures and resists annihilation, urging nurture of knowledge to empower invention and discernment. It warns evil uses power when placed in wrong hands, and echoes Whipple that true wisdom arises from a mind fed by a deep heart.

Satan Whipple

Annual Sermon Sunday Evening by Rev. W. D. Cherrington

A large audience heard Rev. W. D. Cherrington of the MES deliver a sermon linking heavenly analogies with moral life. He urged humility before God, described Christians as light in the moral world, contrasted with outward morality like the moon, and warned against self-centered looks like comets and meteors.

W. D. Cherrington MES Getters Earth

Fragmented religious excerpt notes light and righteousness

A religious fragment cites scripture about those wise shining as the brightness of the firmament and those who turn to righteousness, reflecting on divine promise and faith.

Inspiring Address by Washington Gladden Delivers Moral Lesson

Rev. Washington Gladden spoke in Athens in a long, eloquent lecture. He urged parents to teach resilience and overcome ease in raising children, praising moral strength and character. Gladden, known as a Columbus Congregational pastor and philosopher, is on a Nature Study lecture tour and returned to Columbus Tuesday.

Washington Gladden Coluntias Cherrington T. L. Lowe Floyd Crooks McVey Eui Gladden Athens Columbus Jess

Dr Emerson White Addresses Societies On Character

Dr Emerson FE White of Columbia spoke Tuesday night to literary societies on character, noting that moral action builds power and tendency, shaping the total human soul. He cited thoughts, words, and smiles as enduring imprints, warning against surface appearances and praising inner culture.

E. E. White Emerson FE. White Columbia McVey White Dr. Johnson Burke

Fragmented Verse Fragments Echo Horace Mann Motto

A garbled OCR like chorus quotes noble living and the idea of character. The lines reference Horace Mann, flattery, self reform and returning the soul to night, with phrases about manhood character and joy of life in a disjointed text snippet.

Horace Mann Gerard

Art Reception Showcases Student Works and Studio Pieces

A university art department reception drew a few hundred attendees, highlighting crayon and china painting, with several large oil portraits by Mina Stahl. Notable works included portraits of ex presidents Scott and Crook, and a study of Monroe Higgins in Spanish attire. Punch was served during the event.

Stahl Cha Iistruetor Des Bend Thoxa China Mina Stohl Scott Crook 3Fonroe Higgins Z. MM. Higgins Mra Mary Dodge Berry Punch

Commencement Banquets Mark Phi Delta Theta and Beta Theta Pi Events

Commencement week features Phi Delta Theta banquet at Hotel Berry with over fifty guests including W. E. Bandy as toastmaster. Beta Theta Pi held a supper at New Hotel Athens with about forty attendees and several impromptu toasts. Alumni meetings, a Cincinnati speaker, and an alumni banquet at Hotel Athens followed. Graduates will receive diplomas and deliver orations, led by Mary Townsend and George Lamb, with a musical program to close the exercises. President Ellis and Mrs. Ellis will host a reception at Camgressy Street residence to end the events.

Phi Delta Theta Hotel Berry W. E. Bandy Cincinnati A. M. McCaughey Akron J. M Zang C. F. Beery E. A. Townsend Ellin Fred Bright Beta Theta Fi Athens Alumni Associaton John W. Dowd Toledo Levi Gilbert Hotel Athens George W. Caldwell May S. Connor William F. Copeland Fred P. Johnston Mary E. Kayler George F. Lamb George H. Lapp Howard Ray S. Conner Toussaint L'Ouverture Ellis Camgresy Street

Hardware Store Change in Goldsberry Coe Firm

Saturday a deal closed with F. E. Goldbberry purchasing G. A. Coe interest in the hardware business run as Goldsberry & Coe.Goldsberry will take full management. Change effective Monday. Coe had not chosen a new business location.

F. E. Goldbberry G. A. Coe Goldsberry & Coe Goldberry Montay Coe

Moody Case Settled After Long Litigation

The Tahar Moody versus William Tod Coal Company dynamite disaster case ends in a compromis with Moody to receive 3000 dollars while paying costs. Lefever, also seeking damages, reached the same terms. Attorneys for both sides met Friday morning to ratify an agreement after a lengthy conference. Fifty witnesses were involved, with experts detailing explosives and safety.

Tahar Moody Trim William Tod Coal Company Dallas Moody Sud Don Lefever Trimble Lafever T. HB. Goodwin Malta A. J. Berry A. J. Bankaton John Millikin Marietta W. B. Bentley Ohio University Don Lefever William Job Coal Company Lefever Moody''s Athena County Common Pleas Court Oiff

Memorial Service for Athenian Lodge Knights of Pythias

Memorial services for Athenian lodge No. 164 Knights of Pythias and the Uniform Rank will be Sunday. Morning services in the Christian church feature Rev T L Lowe. line of march to the new cemetery follows. Rev G Walton King to give invocation and memorial prayers by son B D Sayre and Dr F P McVay to preside. Rathbone Sisters invited.

F. P. McVay Rathbone

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