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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1921
Page
3
The Nelsonville Episcopal Church announces Sunday school at 9 30 A M and worship at 10 30 A M with Rev C B Plummer officiating. Members are urged to attend. An Adult Bible Study with Mrs Ather at her residence Tuesday 23 at 7 00 P M on Acts 1.
Pastor L. Johnson leads a sunrise prayer meeting at 6 00 A M and Bible school at 9 80 A M as the Bereans, Portsmouth, and women’s department target 300 185 250 attendees respectively. Morning worship 10 30 A M features The Stone Rolled Away in the large auditorium. Evening service 7 00 P M includes a children’s program Ministers Fairies. Junior and Senior Christian Endeavor Societies meet at 6 00 P M.
Pastor J. C. Brillhart leads Sunday school at 9 30 followed by Easter message and communion at 2 30 A program includes a singing service and local participation at the Chass area church.
The notice lists religious activities for Easter week including tee and sermon at Kimberly Services on Sunday, church prayers Wednesday and cottage meetings Friday, plus a Sunday program by the Methodist Sunday School and an Easter drama at the Presbyterian Church. Also mentions local social events at the Needles Club and nurse-led school health survey progress.
Shrine members plan a Monday meeting in Athens with seven candidates and a six o'clock dinner. Nelsonville group will depart at five o'clock. All Nelsonville members urged to attend.
A base meeting of the East Division of the Woman's Community Club is set for Monday March 28 at 6 30 pm at East School. A musical program and talks on How Can East End Be Made More Beautiful will be given. All women are urged to attend.
A sixty year old woman faced sexist remarks when she started building her bungalow alone after a man urged it was a job for men. She dug the foundation with concrete, proving capable, while acknowledging some help would come for the furnace.
William H. Anderson warns that fake drug stores selling beer will arise if breweries gain medical exemptions. He argues dishonest prescriptions and lax licensing could flood the market, undermining Prohibition and encouraging breweries to employ unpaid or bonus-earning workers, imperiling dry laws nationwide.
Cincinnati March 26 Big Four officials and railroad detectives guarded lines after an apparent attempt to wreck train No 3 the Royal Palm Limited. A broken switch lock near Lockland Ohio a damaged ground signal and a thrown switch halted by automatic red signals. A week earlier an iron rail fragment was found on the track.
John Daintyfield 35 of Charleston West Virginia was found dead on a creek bank in Wheeling on March 26. Local police described the death as the alleged result of drinking a pickhandle.
A white crepe dress with embroidered flowers appeals to home sewers. It is simple to make and would look impressive with heavy yarns. the project requires comparatively little time for completion.
The Ghosr group will present The Risen Sing cantata by P A Schnecker at First Methodist Church Easter Sunday at 10 30 am The Methodist choir will preside at the organ and deliver a suite of choruses recitatives and solos including This Is the Day Which the Lord Made He Whom Ye Seek Is Not Here and The Lord is Risen The cantata features Miss Bowser as alto soloist and concludes with Him Who Loved Us and other selections
An 11 year old boy accused of setting a public school fire on Wednesday was sentenced to three weeks in the juvenile detention home to learn to love school. Separate dispatch from Chicago notes four bandits seized a payroll of $13 000 and a match factory planned in Malaya.
Athens High marks a banner year with football basketball and baseball letters awarded. Sixty students received awards and twelve football and five basketball lettermen are projected for next year. Track revival aims for ten meets with forty-three baseball candidates and sixty track hopefuls practicing on the school grounds.
The last message from the five naval balloonists missing since Tuesday says their supplies are exhausted as they drift south over the Gulf of Mexico. The report appeared in Navy department communications. Frost is forecast for the Ohio Valley and Tennessee with cooler temperatures and chances of rain midweek.
Washington March 26 James C O Davis of Town is understood to day to have been named director general of railroads He has served as general counsel of the railroad administration
In New York on March 26 a 18 year old Staten Island Museum turtle named Old Hatchet Face finally woke after sleeping since October 22, 1920. He yawned and stretched as keepers urged him up, showing obvious fatigue and reluctance to leave his bed like anyone craving more rest.
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