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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Mar 09, 1923

Page

3

Nelsonville holiness church hosts degree ceremony and feast

Members and guests attended a Holmes church service at 9 20 morning and 10 30 morning sermon titled The Sigrim's ideal. An elaborate turkey dinner followed at Christian church hall served by the Eastern Star. The Super Excellent degree was conferred on 15 candidates as part of a York Rite Free Masonry event with music and solos by Fred Lee Tom of Athens.

Christian Church Order of the Eastern Star York Fred Lee Tom Athens

Bring Your Bible Jay Sunday at Christian school event

The pastor offers Bible school at 9 30 with attendance around 550 aiming to Bring Your Bible Jay. Morning worship at 6 30 includes Day by Day with the Master and a Sermons in songs evening service at 7 features illustrated hymns on screen and a solo by Miss Mary Yogkins of Circleville. Christian Endeavor Society meets at 6 with Leader Gladys Starkey in the large auditorium.

LL. Sohnson Pastor Bible School Atendance Mary Yickens Circleville Hristian Endeavor Society M. Wader Gladys Starkey

First Methodist Episcopal Church Schedule

Dr GE Pascoe leads Bible school at 9 30 A M preaching at 4 30 P M on The Breaking Point Epworth League 6 P M class meeting 6 P M preaching at 7 P M The Great Question of Life midweek service Wednesday 7 P M choir Thursday 7 P M mens prayer Friday 8 00 A M

Bible School Epworth League

Birthday Party for Miss Inez Bennet Attended by Friends

Miss Inez Bennet celebrated her thirteenth birthday with a party attended by many friends. Guests included numerous Bennet relatives and local youths, with music, games, and refreshments into the late hours. She received many beautiful gifts.

Inez Bennet Rith Stilwell Maldred Bryroz Lacie Muddy Grace Duantia Foussel Perecisa Seates Fienrietta Kidd Lottie Speerman Mary Bennet Tizibeth Branes Jelie Frank Burrell Bennet Jay Bennet Lillian Bennet Kenneth Smith Gilbert Dewhurst Dean Long Howard Miller Thomas Cole Ralph Seily Ralph Higgins Hermon Lyons

Nelsonville Students Prep for Athens County Music Memory Contest

Nelsonville schools plan to enter the Athens County Music Memory Contest on April 21 with up to fifteen pupils from grades five to eight and five from high school. Miss Velma Young provides two days of instruction weekly, and local merchants contribute prizes and supports. Individual and school prizes expected. offers for prizes directed to Sipt. D. A. Ferree or Miss Velma Young.

Nelsonville Genune Athens Velma Young Fountain Pharmacy Hickman Pharmcacy Gen Pharmacy Pythian Sipt D. A. Ferree Ber Yecords

Obituary Minnie Josephine Pierce Passes at 18

Minnie Josephine Pierce daughter of Lonzo and Ica Pierce was born August 15 1904 and died February 26 1923 at age 18 years six months and 111 days. A Nelsonville High School graduate class of 1922 she lived all her life here and was beloved by many. She became a Christian in 1921 at the Independent Holiness Church under Pastor Munsin and endured illness with patience, bidding friends and her mother farewell while trusting in Jesus. She leaves her father mother two brothers four sisters and many friends.

Minnie Josephine Pierce Lonzo di Ica Pierce Nelsonville High School Christ Independent Holiness Church Or Munsin Jesus Mother

Morning Sermon Topics Spark Thoughtful Reflections

A pastor presents a morning sermon centered on the question Shall the Sermon be Hanged with a provocative subject. In the evening service the topic What Woke the Master explores insights and moral questions drawn from scripture and community life.

Our Boys Off to Columbus for State Tournament

The Nelsonville basketball team left this morning for Columbus to compete in the state championship tournament. Many Nelsonville residents will travel to support the team, including former Nelsonville residents now living in Columbus who will join in cheering. Nelsonville faced Bellview at 2 o'clock this afternoon.

Columbus Nelsonville Bellview

Metropolitan Entertainers to Perform at Christian Church

On Wednesday night March 21 the Woman's Missionary Society of the Christian church presents the Metropoli tan Entertainers at the church auditorium. Four performers comprise the group and all are artists, promising Nelsonville music lovers a real musical treat.

Woman's Missionary Society of the Christian Church Christian Church Nelsonville

Married at Athens Genevieve Cavanaugh Weds Berry Pritchard

Miss Genevieve Cavanaugh and Berry Pritchard quietly married at the Athens Methodist parsonage at 10 a.m. by Rev. McGurk. The couple, popular in Nelsonville, will live here after a brief honeymoon with both families noted in attendance.

Athens Genevieve Cavanaugh Berry Pritchard McGurk Cavanaugh 7. J. Pritchard Nelsonville

Snowden of Columbus Attends Banquet for Super-EEx Cellent Work

Mr. J. G. Snowden of Columbus arrived yesterday to celebrate outstanding service at a banquet honoring notable achievements. The event highlighted distinguished contributors and recognized efforts supporting the organization.

J. G. Snowden Columbus

East End P T A Meeting To Be Held At Blast School

Mrs P Lama a Lancaster business visitor attends EAST END P T A regular meeting scheduled for tonight at 7 o clock at the blast school. The losers in the recent membership contest will banquet the winners. Girls of grades three to six present a plaquette in the program.

East End

First Woman To Preside Over Ohio Senate Recognized

Columbus March 9 Mrs Nettie B Loughhead of Cincinnati became the first woman to preside over the Ohio senate as Governor Broom transferred the gavel. The House highways committee delayed further action on the gasoline tax bill until next Tuesday due to opposition from automobile clubs statewide amid Republican leadership divisions on the measure.

Columbus Mar Ohio Senate Nettie B. Leoughhhead Cincinnati Broom Loughhead House

Lincoln Motor paid off debts in Detroit settlement

Henry Ward paid approximately 40 000 to satisfy debt for about 600 owners of the old Lincoln Motor Co. The affair involved seven directors who endorsed notes at banks. Receivers had closed the company, paying 47 44 cents on the dollar, leaving Ford's payment wiping out the remaining 62 cents per dollar owed.

Detroit Mich Mar Henry Ward Lincoln Motor Company Lincoln Company Ford

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