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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1939
Page
2
Oak Grove hosts a birthday dinner at York Grange hall for Grange members with birthdays in the past three months. The program includes a degree demonstration by York Grange for thirty candidates during the business session.
Advertising copy touts FASTEETH as a solution for denture wearers. It claims teeth stay firmly in place without slipping or wobbling and adds a pleasant powder flavor. The product is presented as alkaline and non acidic and is said to reduce denture breath. Available at drug stores.
A Nelsonville Telegram report from Charles J. Wolf in New York City says operators offer the 1935 scale as a basis for negotiation. A 16 person miners sub committee and a 16 person operators group hold the proposals. Miners seek a 50 cent raise a 30 hour week a year guarantee and two weeks vacation. George Curdie and Wolf represent District 1 at the national wage conference.
Nelsonville notables present a variety show Friday night at eight in Buchtel Gym to raise funds for the Buchtel High School Band. E. Esser serves as interlocutor with Corwin Cookson Jack Raybould C D Shafer Roy Sayre Paul Davis Converse Crawford Jimmy Monks and Bob Kinney in the circle and Martin Alexander plays the Hammond organ.
Nelsonville reports Girl Scouts arrange an attractive display in the Southern Ohio Electric Company window for National Scout Week. The girls show handiwork and varied projects of interest. PTA to Meet Nelsonville Friday at 3 PM at Central School Building.
Letart Falls notices list a revival meeting with Rev. Johnson and Rev. Thayer starting March 19 at East Letart. P.T.A. social at Community Hall Saturday night, Grangers visit Ohio Valley Grange, Ladies Aid serves soup and sandwiches and makes a quilt Friday noon. Various hometown visits and family news fill the page. The Letart Civic Association met with committees named for Read utilities publicity ways and means sports and recreation industry and business.
Nelsonville workers in the WPA are summoned by President Harold Dupler to a special Friday 7 p.m. session in the Bon Ton store building on Poplar Street. Oscar Elkins serves as secretary of the group.
Federal Judge Mell G Underwood confirms a report by John P Kelso of Nelsonville acting as special master finding Wellston Manufacturing Company of Wellston insolvent. Court adjudges bankruptcy and refers to Referee John P Kelso for further proceedings.
A railroad spike was placed on the C. and O. branch near Happy Hollow, wedged between joints. A passing engine and cars would likely have been derailed and wrecked, say trainmen after the detector discovery Tuesday.
Nelsonville notes record a Women's Christian Temperance Union meet hosted by Mrs. Ashworth on Walnut Street with Mrs. Sam Starkey presiding and plans for a county institute in Athens. The report lists visits and literature distributed, a new member, and a program on alcohol rights. Other items note a March dinner for the Past Matrons and Patrons Association at the Masonic Temple, Faithful Workers Class activities, a hospitalizing influenza case of Helen Francis, and Dorcas Society meetings with social plans at Deanville Community Center.
Miss Margery Workes of Columbus visits Nelsonville for a week with her parents. Miss Harriett Davis attends nursing cap at Grant Hospital in Columbus. Mrs. Wesley Hawk and Mrs. Dana Windon also travel between Nelsonville and Columbus and Pomeroy. Red Division Class No 11 meets with Mrs. Charles Monks Friday evening at the M E Church. Blue Division invites all friends.
A benefit party will be held Friday night at 7 40 at St Andrews Parish to support local causes. Organizers invite community members to attend for a night of entertainment and fundraising.
Langsville society notes record the March 9 birth of a son named Carol Dwight to Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Carpenter. The piece also notes a James Saxon funeral at Midway Church and interment in Robinson Cemetery, along with a parade of visits, birthdays, illness, and travels involving local residents and nearby towns. It ends with a national statistic about Americans spending 40 cents a year on books.
A degree team and members of Westwood Lodge of Columbus will visit Valley Lodge Knights of Pythias in Nelsonville to induct several candidates at 8 PM. A 7 PM luncheon precedes the ceremony. August M. Webber of Columbus will attend. The notice had listed March 25 previously.
Nelsonville Troop 66 prompts planning for second quarter activities. Assistant Scoutmaster Bennie Sterling Dr Edward Murphy and Donald Sanders meet Scoutmaster Wilbur D Mender at West School headquarters tonight at 7 30 to outline troop events. Treasurer Harry Wolf notes most scouts have dues paid and urges timely payments as a good record. Next meeting set for Thursday March 23 at 7 15 p m with several votes expected.
Nelsonville church choir rehearses a new Easter cantata Rise Glorious Conqueror by E. K. Heyser under director Charles E. Poston. This marks the first Nelsonville presentation with robed choir members offering spiritual support to services.
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