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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1946
Page
2
Nelsonville Knights of Pythias Valley Lodge No 169 conferred degree work on three candidates Wednesday evening. Additional first and second degree work is planned for next week to accommodate a growing group. Returning service members and new entrants have increased interest in the order.
Sunday School at 9:30 with National Disaster and Deliverance lesson led by Walter Primmer. Morning worship at 10:30 with sermon by Rev. B. A. Awe. Young Peoples service at 6 p m led by Miss Lilian Kinsey. Cottage prayer meeting tonight at 815 Chestnut St. Lodge officers plan recreation and an activities committee to organize events. Dining room redecorated to open in two weeks under Paul Wolfe. Knights of Pythias trip to Gallipolis set for March 12, invites contact with District Deputy Raymond Patton. Four visitors from Glouster lodge attended Wednesday night. Monthly payment policy for ordinary accounts approved.
Nelsonville reports the Martha Class of the Methodist Church met Tuesday evening March 5 at the parsonage hosted by Mrs. William George and Mrs. Julius Fischer. Mrs. Hyde led devotions, Mrs. Howe presided, a business session followed, and roll call featured an Irish verse.
In Nelsonville Lucy T Turnbull was fined ten dollars and costs after being charged with crossing a yellow line on a state highway in arraignment before Mayor Oral Daugherty, based on a State Highway Patrol affidavit. Curtis Artz of Columbus pleaded guilty to driving fifty mph in a thirty five mph zone and was fined fifteen dollars plus costs. Also notices announce inventories and appraisements filed for estates of Alonzo M Smith Robert Hixson Charles W Walker Fred Juniper with a hearing set for March 25, 1948 and instructions for interested parties to file exceptions before five days prior to the hearing. Francis D White Probate Judge.
The Probate Court of Athens County schedules hearings on estates of James S. Melanahan Mary Kistler Emma Maks Weteared May Smith Marquis Charles Q Burnet Henry Wilson Carson Boudinet Leys Wend and others. Administrators guardians and executors must file first or final accounts by late February to early March 1946. Interested parties may submit objections or written exceptions five days before the hearing date.
Nelsonville, Ohio John Storick 63 lifelong resident died Thursday after an extended illness. He worked as a miner until retirement. His wife died 17 years ago. Funeral services are Sunday at 2 PM at Warren Funeral Home with Rev. L. E. Evans officiating. Burial at Greenlawn. Survived by four daughters Thelma Draxe Valine Nichols Elizabeth George Amy Jo Faigley, two sons Don Storick and Kenneth, and five grandchildren.
Nelsonville program for Sunday March 10 at 10 30 features four talks on Personal Religious Life World Fellowship Social Relations Time Talents and Money as God Given Trusts and a Youth Fellowship emblem interpretation. James Lee Ruth Tomlinson Clarence Woods Joan Carter and Peggy Ann Green also participate with a choir offering. Evening service at 7 PM with Rev. Wm. M. George preaching For Thine Is the Kingdom.
The Loyal Woman's Class of the Church of Christ met Tuesday evening March 6 at the homes of Mrs Allie Dil cher and Mrs Josie Baugh. Maude Barron presided. Mrs Susan McManaway reported the secretary treasurer’s figures. Twelve members attended and refreshments were served.
Nelsonville church notices outline a Bible School at 9:30 followed by a 10:30 worship with the Lord's Supper an anthem by the choir and a sermon by Rev. L. E. Evans on There They Found Him Christian Endeavor meets at e o'clock The 7 o'clock evening service will be led by the church youths in the pastor's absence due to a revival in Chauncey.
The First Baptist Church in Nelsonville announces Sunday March 19 services led by Rev. B. J. Hall with Sunday School at 9:30 a.m. and Mrs Goldie Brunston superintendent. preaching at 10:45 a.m. by Rev. Cc. H. Trotter, pastor of New Salem Baptist Church, Columbus.
Ethereal notes of a morning prayer service at the Church of the Epiphany Nelsonville on Sunday March 10 at 9 39 o clock with Mr Ray Ashby reading the 2nd Office of Instruction also notices of appointment drawing jurors and road closing proposals in Athens and Hocking counties including executors Ann Rosser North and Edward Rosser and dates for public hearings and hearings March 15 1846 and March 9 1948 with county commissioners signatures and clerk details
George A. Herman, past state president of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, will deliver the principal address at Murray on Sunday afternoon March 10. Murray City Avenue hosts District 4 lodges for a Victory meeting with a large class of candidates to be initiated. Opening ceremonies start at 2 o'clock.
Glouster Ohio senior Progressive Study Club met at the home of Mrs. M. M. Bryson on Main St Tuesday evening. Officers elected for the coming year are Miss Lalla Danford president Mrs. Dorothy DeLong vice president Mrs. Blanche McAfoose treasurer Mrs. Sara Willis secretary and Mrs. Carl Pico pianist.
Mrs. C H Patton hosted the Friendly Neighbors Club at her riverside home with a noon dinner and a program led by Mrs. Don Campbell including Scripture, a theme song Help Somebody Today, poems, and a Lord's prayer recital. Prizes were awarded to several members, and a birthday table honored Mrs Warren Sowers. Numerous attendees and family visits followed, with birthday celebrations and gifts to Mrs Norris.
Clinton Daniels a Pacific war veteran was taken to Columbus to begin a life term in Ohio Penitentiary for the 10 year old slaying of Clarence Dickey East Liverpool milkman. He was arrested by the FBI after his return to the United States.
The Chauncey Church of Christ launches evangelistic services led by Rev L E Evans of Nelsonville joined by local pastor G B Courtney with a morning sermon Life Begins at the Cross and an evening service. Music will be provided by four parish choirs and a youth program is planned at Trimble church.
WEW YORK reports postwar home radio receiver production remains behind pre Pearl Harbor levels. January output estimated at 500,000 units, about 45 percent under the prewar monthly rate. Also notes CBS writer Hank Warner’s nylon-script pilot for Inner Sanctum and upcoming NBC Symphony Toscanini appearances. Tonight’s broadcast slate includes NBC-S Paul Lavalle Concert and Duffy's Tavern, with CBS and ABC lineups, and boxing on NBC. Local listings list several programs and times.
Rev William M George of First Methodist Nelsonville will preach at Concord Church three miles east of Jacksonville Sunday at 230 pm on Our Master in the Garden. Public invited. Notices also show probate appointments in Athens County with four month claim deadlines.
At 4 45 p m on Tuesday February 5 1946 Miss Helen Margaret Mingus became the bride of Sidney Harold Keirns at the Mingus home Chauncey Dover area. Rev H J Mingus officiated son and daughter in law attended by Edward Mingus Grother and bride’s sister in law. A two course dinner followed and a three tier white cake was used as centerpiece. The bride a Chauncey Dover High School graduate Class of 1942 and the bridegroom recently discharged after 26 months in the Pacific with the Army Medical Corps.
Revival services led by Rev. Russell Bowman continue at Pilgrim Church with evangelist Dickerson Sisters in charge. Sunday School at 9 30 led by Mrs Carrie Chant nell. Young Peoples meeting 6 15 pm. preaching at 10 30 am and 7 15 pm. Local residents visit Newark Columbus Athens Millfield Chauncey and Midfield.
Parker Boudinot, formerly of Millfield now in New Lexington, returns from St. Anthony's Hospital Columbus after major surgery and recovers well and plans to resume work soon. His mother Celia Boudinot, brother-in-law and sister Mr and Mrs Arthur Corwin and Roger of Millfield visited last Sunday. Paul Rodgers, 13, of Chauncey, was taken by Stouts ambulance to Osteopathic Hospital Marietta for an appendectomy.
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