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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1901
Page
8
Local notes list many visitors and residents from Nelsonville Columbus Athens Logan Parkersburg and nearby towns. Names include Sisson Patton Poston Hopkins Bendom Winchell McVickers Mitchell Scott Stackhouse Sparks Byerle and others. Several trips to Columbus and Lancaster noted along with a funeral for Ruth Scott and a Rebekah Lodge gathering.
Milcheld resident Marvin Miller and Columbus pastor Rev P A Baker were in Glouster on Monday. Bucyrus visitor Glen Sawyer called on relatives here. The Athens lumber company adds to its mill in town. Several local clergy spoke at Jacksonville and Gordon’s opera house. A smallpox vaccination rule kept some students from school. Frank Wogan suffered burn injuries from drying powder by a fireplace. The Vision paper Vialon debuted with Rev F R Crooks as editor. Quarterly M E meeting featured Dr Taylor and Lord’s supper.
James McMullen visited McConnelsville last week. Irvin Kelrns of Amesville attended Big Run events. Mrs. C. A. Nice visited Constitution last week. The Saturday dance and Viola Nice's event drew a good crowd. Charles Blaire of Amesville visited LE Rathburn's Saturday.
Mrs. H. H. Henry visited Athens on Thursday. Mrs. Charles Harrison fractured her arm Tuesday. Miss Nell Adaira visited Miss Clara Ebinger in Marietta. J. H. Jones and family moved to Elmwood Tuesday. W. E. Clark and Heber H. Henry attended to business in Chesterhill Monday. Rev. G. H. L. Beeman visits relatives at New Lexington this week. Harry Warrener of Chicago visits his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Orville Kiger host guests from New York. Miss May Haas heads to Hillsboro for summer work. Eva Mercer named postmistress at Armadale replacing Noble King. Grace and Audrey Donaldson of Hixon guests of Mrs Chas. O’Neal. H. A. Beasley of Marietta, formerly here, strikes $20,000 oil well at Graynville, W. Va. Bates and Johnson of Columbus here Monday for material for new store and house at Broadwell. F. J. Beasley sells new house to Mrs. Phoebe Williams for $825. Beasley to build another house on adjoining lot. Biddle of Hebbardsville preaching at Goddard school this week in place of Mary Biddle who is ill. Mrs. Wm. Pate of Garden City Kansas visiting daughter Mrs. H. H. Henry, leaves Thursday for Indiana to visit relatives */}
Chauncey G. A. Six closed his Sand Ridge school on March 2. C S Druggan visited after the death of Ethel Southerton. A protracted meeting is under way at the M E church led by Rev Pfaltzgraff. A wagonette driven by dir Keesey was struck by a freight train north of town killing occupants. Hastingses plan to move to Athens. The funeral of Mrs. Lewis Ryan was held at the M E church with interment in Nye Cemetery.
The store showcases a wide range of dress fabrics including mercerized chambrays Silk Westa Pongees Silk Strines Batistes Seersucker Madras Lawns Dimities Silk Mulls and more in new shades. Emphasis on brightness and newness with a large selection at attractive prices. Draperies and curtains also feature doubled stock and style.
Sunday visits and weekends feature residents and visitors in Athens Coolville Hull Hull Little Hocking Lettrid ge and surrounding communities. A marriage unites Mr Burch and Mrs Davis of Canaanville and Rev John Wright of Athens to give a stereoptical lecture at MM E church Saturday night and Sunday morning.
David Russell of Columbus reports a worried call during the week while Rev. Arthur of Gallipoli holds a revival at the Christian church with good progress. Carl Buck begins a new school term at Pleasant Valley with determined effort. Fisher Smith of Pike County visits friends after nine years away. Samuel Russell and John Leake travel to East Liverpool for work as teamsters. Miss Alma Russell of South Dakota arrives to tend her father James Russell who is seriously ill with the grip. Henry F. Finley sells his farm to Edward Norris who will move in on April first. Finley may relocate to Oregon. H. H. Haning Insurance, Athens, Ohio.
Orley Burch of Byers is the guest of relatives here. George Hill and wife spent Sunday with Mrs. O. Hill. Ray Burch plans to move to Athens soon. Dana Poston and wife visit Decatur this week. Master Frank Joyce visited his aunt at Little Hocking. Mrs. Gertrude Tucker of Athens visited her sister, Mrs. R. E. Sutton. Miss Kate Griffin attended the funeral of Dennis Quinlin at Athens. Nehemiah Linscott and Art Wolfe of Athens were guests of T. W. Leyland Sunday. F. C. Webster and nephew, T. W. Leyland, were in Athens late in the week. H. H. Wickham and wife and Mrs. W. H. Nicholson of Athens spent Sunday with Henry Bean. Mrs. Henry Finsterwald was called to Columbus by her mother’s illness. Mr. George Burch and Mrs. Rebecca Davis were quietly married at Guysville on the sixteenth and will reside here. Dana Poston and Miss Phoebe Martin were married on the tenth at Parkersburg, returning to Canaanville for an ovation from friends. The home of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Webster hosted a Rag Time Social in honor of Myrtle Webster’s friends from Athens. Attendees included the Misses Laird, Graham, and Mann and Messrs. Webster, Holston, Poston, Burch, and Leyland.
Ben Plummer relocated to Wells ton. D J Danny has been very sick for the past week. A son was born to Mr and Mrs John Emish on Monday. The Ohio Oil Company finished its tank line and is pumping. J H Boden and wife of Marshfield visited S B Phillips Sunday. W M Jaynes, bookkeeper at Inghams Coal Company, moved into the Wilson property.
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