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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1940
Page
9
CHAUNCEY Pupils, parents and teachers prepare for the school operetta The Lost Clown to be staged March 29 under Music Supervisor Mrs. Christene Brown. Enrollment for the fourth six weeks reached 143 with 78 boys and 65 girls. average daily attendance 126.28 and 93.94 percent.
An advertisement extols Williams Formula as a remedy for constipation upset stomach and related symptoms promising improved appetite skin clarity and energy. It touts herbal extracts minerals and multiple effects from one medicine and encourages trying the product at Quick's Cut Rate Drug Store in Athens. Funeral notice reports Chauncey Mrs Leota Barrowman 32 died Tuesday with services Friday at Church of God.
The New York Company Store at Chauncey will close at noon Friday for the funeral of Fred Brown, manager who died by his own hand at the Eagles Hall in Athens. Brown, born near Chauncey, was the son of G. W. Brown of Sand Ridge, and his mother had died years earlier.
Chauncey area residents report visits and family news. Mr. and Mrs Pearl Lowery of Chauncey spent Sunday in Greendale with daughter Mrs Richard Dye and grandson Otho Dye recovering from a serious eye injury. Other visits include Mrs Lavonda Moore and Mr Rocco Stellisano in Chauncey, Mrs Ora Kittle in Chauncey visiting sister Mrs Hattie Hamilton, and Homer Cunningham of Columbus attending to Willard Watkins after illness and death. Thomas Lowery returned home from Marietta hospital after sinus operation.
Chauncey attendees Mr and Mrs Charles Tippie Miss Georgia Tippie Crate Morrison and Mrs Jessie Johnson attended the funeral of Mrs Melissa Warren aged 88, at Bartlett Church with burial in Bartlett Cemetery. Her husband died in 1922. Rev Oney Warrent formerly led the Chauncey M E Church.
Mrs Ella Miller aged 59 of The Plains dies at her daughter’s home in Middleport and will be buried in Greenlawn Cemetery near Nelsonville. She is daughter of John and Hannah Thompson and sister of Earl Thompson and Pearl Thompson. Survived by two daughters and a son in Middleport and twin brothers in The Plains and Wheeling W Va. Modern man knows 1500 uses for salt.
Chauncey Boy Scout Troop No. 78 met Tuesday night at the scout building with Scoutmaster Wilbur Grandstaff in charge. Scouts present included Billy Abdel la Nell Sweeney Paul Ley James Ley Jake Edwards Richard Leff ler Chester Baughman Richard Palmer Charles Henry William Scott Wiley Eisenaugle William Gretz Rufus Goodson Kenneth Russell and Richard Stalder. The troop completed second class signaling and began first aid work. Albany solicitors for Bethel Church in Knox Township Vinton County are Mrs Addie Danny and Mrs Worley West. Recent contributors to the church are James Ellis William West and John Burritt.
Triplets born in Yarmouth County have marked their 50th birthday all in good health. Dr. Emile LeBlanc of West Pubnico, Libraire D'Eon of Yarmouth, and Charlotte LeBlanc of Boston were each three pounds at birth.
McArthur Franklin McCarley, now in New York visiting sister Mrs Richard Cox, served on the Helena and returned from South America on March 2. Other notes include Mrs D T Reese and daughters in Chillicothe on business, Betty Lea Martindill spending the weekend with grandparents, Effie McCarley visiting Vinton, Ralph and wife in Cincinnati, O E Voll enweider guests of Mrs A G Ray, Ethel Saltz hosting the Monday Literary Club, and Mrs Milton Pearce ill with influenza.
An advertised tonic sold as a general family remedy made from roots and herbs. It claims to stimulate the appetite aid digestion and relieve occasional constipation for every member of the household.
Tonto Snake Oil Liniment recommended with Big Chief Tonic. Claims relief for neuralgia pains stiff neck from exposure cramps muscle soreness from exertion or fatigue mosquito bites frost bites back chest throat minor sprains and strains. Sold exclusively in Athens Ohio.
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