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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1924
Page
3
Mr and Mrs Frank Green announce the marriage of their daughter Ruth Green to Mr Sam O Bellville of Zanesville. The ceremony will be followed by services at Zanesville M E Church and a musical program hosted by the church youth groups.
Sunday school begins at 9 30 and morning services at 10 30 with sermon Co-Workers With God. Junior and Senior Endeavor meet at 6 0 p m and evening services at 7 00. Weekday prayer follows.
Rev. A. B. Adams to preach at First Baptist Sunday. Minnie Holley of Columbus visiting her father. Mr and Mrs William Newson travel to Barnesville for Carl Newson s funeral in The Plains. Ismae Howard and Augusta stay all day. Guy Binett of Athens visits. Steward Chapman guest of sister in Lancaster hospital. Stanley Turner of Lancaster visits. William Motley of Clarksburg Va guests of E Dexter. Marguerite and Caroline Dexter motor to Lancaster Sunday.
Mrs. A. G. Mechem and hostesses entertained 50 members of the Women’s Missionary Society of the Christian church at their West Washington Street home. The meeting included prayers, a jubilee discussion, offerings, program led by D Brown, readings by Mary Kessinger, a Japan and Philippines expansion discussion, a piano solo by Mary Elizabeth Kessin, and a talk on Philippine work with a social hour and refreshments.
Mrs. T. E. Wells and her daughter Miss Leona have returned after an extended visit in Louisville, Kentucky, where they were guests of Mrs. W H Grady, their daughter and sister.
Dr. C W. Cable took Ed Fiddler of Buchtel to Mt Carmel hospital in Columbus today. About three weeks earlier Fiddler suffered an electric burn at the New York mine No. 36 near Buchtel. The burn caused a severed blood vessel and subsequent hemorrhages led to his hospital transfer.
At the regular Elks meeting held Tuesday night the lodge elected Exalted Ruler Ed Rosser L R Leiland Krieg L K Albert Barber L K J F Mulligan Treasurer O A Rider Tyler E M Sheffield C H Vorkes trustee Joe Ball delegate grand lodge Will Tedrow alternate Tedrow will serve alongside Ball in the duties.
The Sunday school class of Miss Bertha Nixon hosts a bake sale at Wilson's Grocery serving all day Saturday. Proceeds support church activities and community programs.
The Chamber of Commerce held a regular Thursday meeting with best attendance in months. Reports covered bus line ordinance concrete bridge for Monday Creek paving brick plant road and securing a lot for a new shoe factory building. Hal P. Tremton presented Kiwanis club work and an interim Kiwanis committee was formed to establish a regular club within a month.
Kiwanis club organized a temporary board of directors and elected new leaders. The new directors scheduled a Friday morning meeting at a noted hour to finalize arrangements aimed at pushing the organization over the top.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist church met Thursday afternoon on Monroe street. Mrs. Willard Bartoe spoke, with Mrs. Charles Monks giving the devotional leadership as Mrs. A. L. Barker presided at the business session.
The routine church schedule lists Sunday school at 9 30 a m and morning service at 10 30 with Rev Walter Purnell of Canton preaching both services and a large audience hoped for Ada Frances Butt leads the Intermediate Society at 6 o clock Evening service at 7 00 Junior Endeavor meets Wednesday at 3 30 Mid week prayer is Wednesday at 7 00 in charge of C E Weltzheimer
Nelsonville boys and girls scheduled to play Somerset Hi at The Y on Saturday evening. In earlier season games at Somerset the girls edged a close win while the boys, with only a week of practice, lost by a low margin. Nelsonville aims to win both games in the last home appearance of the year. First game starts at 7 50 with admission 35 and 50 cents.
Mrs Mayme Henry enjoyed a Tuesday birthday gathering at her home on Poplar Street. The event featured a two course lunch for guests Anna Linton Myer Brickies Maud Whitlatch Mae Fisk Nell White Nell Chute Winona Chute Lydia Ward Margaret Crane and son Ollie Brown Forest Barber Rissa Triplett Ruth Triplett Mae Reeves Bess Dille Ruth Hitchings Marcella Lowell and Juanita Henry with many useful gifts.
The International Bible students will hold a Bible study at 8158 Madison Street on March 9 at 6 30 P M. The subject is The Faith once delivered unto the Saints Jude 3 and Where are the Dead St John 28 29. Everyone is welcome.
Nelsonville high school promotes first time film program at Stuart Opera House this Saturday with 3:00 and 4:30 shows for elementary pupils. Proceeds fund basketball team travel to the state tournament as Mr Steenrod brings the event to the town.
The Glouster Church of Christ invites worshippers with morning services on “The Church Devotional” and an evangelistic evening. Minister C. B. Frampton leads both hours, and evening services emphasize “The World’s Only Saviour.”
All members of Chickamauga Council No. 62 Degree of Pocahontas are asked to send their bazaar packages to the Red Men's hall on Saturday March 8 between noon and 1 pm. The bazaar opens at 1 pm sharp. Come early for first selection. A dance will be held at night until 12.
The funeral of Ira Sands, who died by his own action at his Trimble area home, was conducted at his late residence this afternoon at 2 o clock. Interment followed in Maplewood Cemetery. Sands was twice married and is survived by his second wife, two children from his first marriage, and three children at home.
Mrs Tom Noon and son Edward travel to Toledo to visit Mrs Noon's parents Mr and Mrs B P Booth for the weekend. The sale at the Co operative store starts Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock with fresh baked goods.
A regular council meeting is set for 7 o'clock this evening the first of the month. Reports from department heads will be submitted. Two ordinances to authorize secret service payments from a special fund of fines face second reading. It is unclear if Attorney General Crabbe will defer these ordinances.
Mrs. Henry Shires returned to Columbus Thursday after a short visit with her son and daughter-in-law, Fred and Mrs. Shires. Miss Helen Lough of South Charleston visits in the city with Sumner Lewis, Mrs. Mack Stevens, and Ed ward Lewis, then leaves for Seymour Indiana. Mrs. Sadie Henry travels to Bremen to stay with Mrs. John Maxwell for a few days.
A weather observing station is being developed by the department of geography and geology at Ohio University on the Ellis Hall roof. It will support meteorology and climatology courses with instruments including rain gauge barograph thermograph thermometers sling psychrometer anemometer and wind vane.
The department of public speaking at Ohio University will present the first of its one act play recitals next Thursday night in Ewing Hall auditorium. The plays Tradition and Suppressed Desires will be performed by members of the one act play class with no admission charge.
Three-year-old David Pierce son of Mr and Mrs Victor Pierce of 15 Church Street remains unconscious after a fall from a second story window. Doctors note slight improvement in quietness, but continue to declare skull fracture and brain concussion serious with only slim hope for recovery amid the boy's notable vitality.
John M Goodwin president of the Triadice Scale Color company in Washington DC will lecture Saturday at 9 am to the Psychology club on Some Interesting Psychological Applications of Colors. At 3 pm he will address a joint Science and Psychology clubs session on Triadic Color Theory and Its Practical Application. Both talks in Training School auditorium are open to the public.
A physician argues fatigue is a medical condition rather than just tiredness. The line between exhaustion and illness blurs as work demands rise, prompting calls for better recognition and treatment.
Nelsonville Ohio March 7 Joshua Peters aged 51 years married and with three children sustained a compound fracture of the right leg when he was dught in a fall of sandstone at a shale pit of the Hocking Valley Brick Co near Buchtel Thursday afternoon He was attended by Dr C W Cable and removed to Mt Carmel Hospital in Columbus in a Stout ambulance Peters lives at Goose Run
A reflective note on how people cling to familiar routines as a sense of normalcy, even when circumstances shift. It explores everyday habits, mild nostalgia, and the feeling of steadiness amid change.
Mrs Ella B Hurssell of 712 Asbury Street Evanston Illinois says Tanlac met every test and she could not have gotten along without it. She praises Tanlac Vegetable Pills and notes her recent move from Chicago and strong enthusiasm for the product.
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