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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1949
Page
10
Miss Sabra Arm s sixth grade class will stage Beauty and the Beast as a puppet play on March 25 in the high school auditorium. Six scenes feature dance vocal and instrumental numbers. Proceeds from admission will fund visual aid equipment for Glouster schools.
World Day of Prayer will be observed Friday at 7 30 p m at Glouster Methodist Church. Women of the church will lead the service and offerings will aid global religious needs. Contributions may be given to the Rev Devol or church women.
Glouster residents report Mrs Ray Fulton attended the funeral of Dean Glancey in Orbin ton on Wednesday. Mrs Joe Chatman of Millfield visited Spring Street home of Mrs Ray Fulton over the weekend. Mrs Beulah Lee and Mrs Nell Lawson made business trips to Parkersburg West Virginia on Monday. George C Bryan, with a fractured leg at Bucyrus, returned home to Jacksonville Friday and will wear a cast for several weeks.
At First Baptist Church in Glouster the Hattie Jackson Guild Girls offered a Sunday program. Emma Viney played piano, the young peoples chorus directed by Mrs. Ora Viney sang, and readings were given by Mrs. Rachel Bland and Mrs. Rosa Williams. Shirley Kirby became a new member.
About 40 members of the Church of Christ young people group and sponsors will attend the Tar Hollow Christian Service Camp banquet Friday evening at the Indianola Church of Christ in Columbus. Laverne Morse will be the speaker. A New Marshfield delegation attended the local church service Sunday with Daniel K. Teater preaching on Spiritual Fullness and Homer Vian conducting the baptismal service. Edwin Carpenter Jr. will serve as ad interim minister to the New Marshfield church.
Mr and Mrs Earlin Roberts of McLeish announce the birth of a son born Tuesday Grandparents are John Roberts Regenia Grandy Thomas Grandy and William Grandy with Lewis Hounestine as great grandparents The baby is named Densil Lee Roberts
The WCTU schedules a Monday 2 p.m. gathering at Mrs. George H. Campbell’s Main Street residence with Mrs. Elizabeth Gordon serving as co-hostess. The date shift moves the meeting from Tuesday as previously announced.
Mrs George H Campbell and Mrs Hubert Guess of Zanesville stayed in Dayton from Friday to Monday as guests of Mr and Mrs Russell Brewer and their son Georgie.
Two hundred persons attended the Amesville Amesville district Founders Day program at the high school on February 17. Rev. Harold Jeffers opened the event with performances by a primary rhythm band, a seventh and eighth grade girls chorus, and a candlelighting playlet honoring the PTA.
The Metta S. Glazier Class met at Mrs. Fred Wilson's home with Irene Mc Dowell leading a missionary service. Esther Methodist Class met at the church led by Mrs. Carl Sedwick. Busy Bee class reports twenty two members and four guests with officers elected. Multiple visits and guests noted. marriage of Virginia Beds ley and Richard Vernholt Holzer at Athens Methodist Church on Feb 20.
Mrs. Helen Leach vice president of the Baptist Missionary Society will lead the program at the church Sunday at 11 a.m. Mrs. Florence Richards supervisor of children's bands of the Hocking sub district will reorganize a local children's band after the Missionary Society program. Parents and children invited.
Mrs. R. Davis hosted the Senior Progressive Study Club on Spring Street with Mrs. W. R. Drury presiding. Members voted a contribution to the Memorial Forest Fund and elected officers for the year.
The Methodist Youth Fellowship met at Kenneth Kempton's home Monday evening in Jacksonville. Ruth Williams read The King and won a prize, Shirley Davis read Scripture, Ann Williams led opening prayer, Jane Burdiss read Food, Anna Marie Lowery discussed Immorality, Kenneth Kempton spoke on Faith, and Duane Bryan on Democracy. Lunch was served by Mrs. Kempton.
Mr. and Mrs. George Palmer of Zanesville Ohio visited Chauncey on Sunday as guests of Mrs. Palmer's brother-in-law and sister Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Russell of Ellis Ave. The Palmers are former Chauncey residents.
Undergoing minor surgery at White Cross Hospital in Columbus. Mr and Mrs J F Linscott returned Monday from Chesterhill where they had stayed with their daughter Mrs Dick Kirkbride. Mrs Clara V Wilson was injured after a fall from a neighbor's doorstep. Clarence Henderson was confined at home last week due to a muscular ailment. George Webster Jr visited on leave from Great Lakes training station last week. Mary Grosvenor.
Harry Hillyer 60 former Chauncey resident died in a West Virginia hospital after an operation. Funeral and burial were at Raiselle West Virginia where he had lived. Born in Orbiston he moved to Chauncey to enter the ministry. Survived by wife Zema Lovesey and ten children. Attendees listed include Hillyer relatives and friends from Chauncey Crown Hill Akron Painesville and others.
A series of short social visits is recorded with locals including Frank Omar of Nelsonville meeting Vance R. Wolfe. The Pattons and Wood families, and Gary, spent a day with Mrs. Walter Haskins of Cornett. Other visits include Mickey Brandon with grandparents in Logan and several households from Nelsonville New Plymouth Zion Ridge and Carbondale.
The Church of Christ in Chauncey invites members and the public to a Thursday 7 30 p m reception at the church. A sacred concert will be held on a new organ with Robert Bingman as organist. New members will be received and baptismal certificates presented followed by a fellowship hour with refreshments at the parish house.
CHAUNCEY Mrs Walter Overbeck of Columbus has ended a visit with her mother Mrs S G Nichols and sister Mrs S G Nichols and Mrs Arthur Coon of Athens. She and her husband expect to move to Cleveland. Mrs Frank Perry of Albany recently visited her mother Mrs Overbeck at the home of Mrs Nichols.
Chauncey Mila C. Stalder of Springfield, a former Chauncey resident, is spending a week with local relatives while recovering from a several week illness. He hopes to return to work in Springfield on March 15. He visited his daughter Mrs. Mary Tribe in Athens and his three sisters Mrs. Ella England of Chauncey, Mrs. Ollie Somers of Nelsonville, and Mrs. Frances Gabriel of Lower Plaines.
Mrs Libbie Reeves of Chauncey, a carpenter, is spending time with her sister Mrs S G Nichols of Lower Plains. Reeves also visited nieces Mrs Arthur Coon of Athens and Mrs Audrey Overbeck of Columbus, who has been staying at Mrs Nichols’s home.
The Plains Band Boosters Club will meet Monday at 7 30 p m in the Community room at The Plains school with Ralph Calendine presiding.
Chauncey Carl Starkey of Nelsonville underwent major surgery at Grant Hospital in Columbus last week. He was admitted with his mother Mrs Samuel Starkey and is reported in favorable condition. His sister Mrs Gladys Simonton and her husband were in Columbus when the operation occurred.
Mrs. Charles F. Danford of Trimble is in Burbank California visiting her daughter Bernarda wife of Rev. Dwight Burkham.
The Sunday Creek Valley Sportsman Club schedules an important meeting in the American Legion Hall on Friday at 7:30 p.m. Members are advised to attend for club matters and upcoming events.
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