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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1924
Page
3
A special city council session is scheduled for Monday evening to consider the semiannual appropriation ordinance and other measures the council recently adopted but vetoed by the mayor.
Geo FEF Tifft announces Sunday School at 9 30 a m with classes for all comers Preaching at 7 30 p m Epworth League and class at 6 39 p m Third quarterly conference Sunday June 29 at 7 30 a m Official board meeting Monday June 23 at 7 30 p m Mid week service Wednesday 7 30 Choir rehearsal Friday at 7 39
Bible School at 7:30 p.m. Morning Worship at 7:39 p.m. Sermon titled What Following Christ Means. Evening Christian Endeavor at 6:39 p.m. Delegates from the Wilmington Younger People's Conference will lead the Christian Endeavor meeting and report on it. Evening Worship features Sermon A Mess of Pottage.
Nelsonville Monday afternoon and evening hosted a large hooded Klan parade at the city playgrounds. About 200 robed knights formed the parade line after a 4 o clock thunderous start. Nelsonville defeated Murray City 12 to 5 in a baseball game with nine first inning runs. Short local addresses preceded naturalization ceremonies seen by a large crowd. W W Blair of state headquarters gave the evening address and a Rob bins hill fireworks display closed the event. The gathering was orderly and well conducted.
Mr and Mrs R M Gillian and family of Creola were guests at the home of Mr and Mrs Albert in Lairs on Thursday.
The eighth annual reunion of iGore school mates and teachers was held Thursday at the Gore school house. Members gathered early and spent an enjoyable day. At noon a bountiful lunch was served. Nelsonville attendees included Miss Bertha Nix and her mother Mrs Julius Fischer, Mr and Mrs Chas Evans and family, Mrs Rose Cook and family, and Mr Ernest Hite.
Sunday School at 6 30 am and morning worship at 7 30 pm mark a church week. The Ma sonic lodge will attend for a memorial sermon from Revelations 21 16. Mrs Evans and the pastor invite visitors and questions about spiritual matters at the manse. Mr and Mrs R R Staller report their daughter Luile has completed a four year art program at Ohio Wesleyan University.
The advance man for the Red Path Chautauqua completed preliminary advertising for this year's program. Chautauqa will be held here five days from July 8 to 12 with an unusually fine program presented.
Frank Rosser pleaded guilty to intoxication and was fined $25 plus costs at arraignment before Mayor Lax this morning.
Work on the new American Legion hall has restarted after a three week suspension due to a delayed Bedford stone shipment. The car arrived yesterday and crews resumed progress, with plans for a dedication in October.
The Nelhville company announced bids for the new shoe factory building would be opened today and again in a week on June 27. About 20 contractors are bidding on different portions of the project, delaying the opening to allow full preparation of proposals.
Chauncey resident Chauncey Miss Fouth Turben visits Chauncey guest Garnet Smith for a weekend and plans to return to Lancaster. Mr and Mrs Peter Pendergrass travel to Middleport for a several day visit with their son and daughter in law. Funeral services were held Thursday for Mrs Jiza Tittle following an accident in Chauncey last Friday with Rev W V Harter presiding and burial in Chauncey Cemetery under Undertaker Stout.
Mr. Clint Powers Miss Alma Breaker and Mrs. B H Piedcock were guests of friends in Columbus this week.
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Thom as Hoffman hosted a mer ry party yesterday afternoon from 2 to 4 honoring their son Lawren ee's twelfth birthday. Games and contests entertained the guests and a three course luncheon was served to Evelyn Fonty Waiva Fonty Gerald Trainer Ethel Trainer Neel Tippett Montford Cunningham Mary Stalder Nihel Kilmer Gladys Phillips Jack McCafferty Cecil McCafferty Dean Hamilton Mr and Mrs Cecil Brickles of Athens were visiting Chauncey friends Thursday.
Mrs Barney Hill and her children Noah and Pauline traveled by bus to Colum this week to visit Mr Hill who remains confined in a local hospital.
Mr and Mrs Leo Bradley prepare to relocate to Pomeroy after purchasing property and expect to locate there.
Mrs. Ulmer Bingham of Athens spent Thursday in Chauncey as a guest of her brother in law and sister Mr and Mrs Guy Brookins.
Walter Boline of Lancaster traveled to Chauncey Thursday to see his mother Mrs. Lillie Boling and sister Mrs. Robert Warner on Sycamore Street.
Mr and Mrs Robert Warner and Mrs Lillie Boling drove to Lancaster on Thursday evening in a family outing.
Columbus dispatch reports Miss Felicite Oglesby of a prominent Tailinois family announced engagement to Count Alesandro Bologna of Rome. Her father John G. Oglesby once governor and lieutenant governor, and the match was noted amid Ohio golf events and political ties.
St Louis boy Johnnie Martinez swallowed a three inch nail and resisted doctors before they persuaded him to allow removal. He remained calm as medical team prepared for the procedure.
The text follows Miss Ryan leaving her parents in Chauncey to work in Fort Wayne after a stop in London Ohio. She accompanied the remains of her sister Miss Olive Ryan from Fort Wayne to Chauncey for funeral services and burial two weeks earlier.
Georgia Coss 18 of Columbia Street is back home after being apprehended by Sheriff McKinley and Deputy Peter Barrows on Friday as she boarded a bus for Lancaster. She had returned after a two week absence. The wanderlust struck again Friday.
Twenty six teachers have been employed for the Dover township schools it was announced by county superintendent H R McVey The list was mailed by Dover township clerk Earl Downey and includes staff for Sugar Creek Miullfield Morristown Oregon Ridge and other districts with several named educators.
Inmates at the county jail staged multiple escape attempts Thursday night. Aiming to escape through a sewer drain and by prying a window bar failed. The main effort, a two and half inch bar securing cells, was broken by a force of about 20. officers waited with shotguns until early Friday. Five inmates are under surveillance.
The Messenger will rely on the International News Service to cover the Democratic national convention in New York. About 490 IN S staffers will report from Madison Square Garden and key hotels like Waldorf Commodore Pennsylvani a Madison Square Hotel. Wires will flash events instantly to The Messenger as delegates caucus and news develops.
Mrs John T Moore of Cambridge Ohio reports Dr Pierce s Golden Medical Discovery restored her strength after she became run down with low blood and a hacking cough She could eat again and gained vitality after three bottles She recommends the remedy and notes availability from druggists and free medical advice from Dr Pierce Buffalo NY
Special telegraph and telephone wires tie scattered offices into one large newsroom. The system lets reporters follow developments on major stories within seconds, creating a unified hub for national news reporting.
Frank Kennedy filed an appeal in the state supreme court challenging the Utilities Commission decision that refused to authorize him to operate a bus line between Cambridge and Caldwell on the Cambridge Marietta road.
In Columbus on June 20 Evan E. Watkins of Cleveland was ruled out by Secretary of State Brown for the Republican nomination due to unsigned petition signatures. The elimination leaves 18 Republican candidates for the post and notes a monthly immigration quota limit of 20 percent per nation.
Health, vitality, and freedom from pain are promoted by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad claims women suffer less aging signs by using the root and herb remedy, which renews life, energy, and a healthy glow.
Memorial rites for the late Judge Wanamaker of the state supreme court were marked by a five minute halt in all state departments at 2 20 p m as funeral services were held in Akron.
In Bellefontaine Ohio Mr Andrew Ierick raises pheasants near a potato patch in Winsted Conn. A ring-necked hen hatched eggs including a snow white chick, prompting wonder if a white ring-necked pheasant can exist and when birds can be changed in eggs.
Subsidences of land in England due to underground workings have brought into view areas once buried. The ground subsided revealing features measured at six, ninety, and one hundred feet in some locations, where solid earth once stood.
The United States adopted standard time in 1888 on the initiative of the American Telegraph Association.
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