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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1929
Page
3
Nelsonville May 1 The M E Church hosts an indoor picnic pot luck supper and reception for new members during the conference year. Dinner at 6 39 o clock cafeteria style with sandwiches and another dish per family. Rev J R Fields of Logan will give the principal address. music readings and short addresses follow.
May 11 Nelsonville reports the banquet committee plans to sell about 200 tickets for the Thursday 16 event. They anticipate an attendance of 400 with guests from surrounding towns. L. J. Eberle Donald Johnson and Lloyd Evans handle ticket sales.
Murray City May 1 The Pythian Sisters of Murray City host a euchre party at 8 pm Thursday at the K of I Hall to raise funds for the Pythian Sister Home in Medina Miss Orvil Smith wins high score trophy and Mrs Lee Pritchard second high Mrs Frank Mellinger hosts her bridge club at 108 Monroe Street with guest Mrs Harry Galvin A luncheon is served Loyal Women's Class meets with Thirty attend Devotional led by Miss Hyla Harrold business session by Mrs Samrkkey plans for a social the last Tuesday in June next meeting May 28 with Mrs Allie Dilcher and Mrs Josie Baugh
Mrs. Durward North entertained at her Franklin Street home Monday with guests including Mrs. Floyd Rosser of Detroit Michigan Mrs. E C Schloss of Athens and Mrs Ti Rosser along with Mrs. E D Rosser and her daughter Becky Ann.
Mrs Minnie Parry announces the marriage of her daughter Rhoda to Ernest Helver of Logan on Saturday April 27 in Lancaster. The ceremony was officiated by Reverend B F Roberts of the Lancaster Methodist Church. The couple will reside in Lancaster where Helver is employed.
The women of St. Andrews Parish held a benefit bridge and euchre party Tuesday at Parish Hall with ten tables. Bridge high scorers were Mrs. Earl Baker and Ti Rosser while euchre high scorers were Mrs. J. W. Wien and Albert Barber. Miss Hazel Wallace won the door prize and refreshments were served.
Nelsonville Ohio May 1 Vocation Day will be observed at the Nelsonville Junior and Senior High Schools Friday May 3. Students will have 15 minute conferences with business or professional men from Columbus and local firms. A noon public meeting at the high school auditorium features Edward Johnson of Lorain Coal and Dock Company.
L G Edenhofer of the Canadian Railway System gave motion pictures of famous Dominion vacation spots to the Rotary Club in Nelsonville. Camp life hunting and fishing scenes were shown and one stream had fish so plentiful the angler must bait behind a tree. St Fuller of Athens attended as an interested guest.
Mrs. Tom Hardy hosted a Saturday afternoon party from 1 to 3 o'clock in honor of her son Tommy's fifth birthday. Guests included Evelyn Hitchings, Bobby Dolman, Royal Gilbert, Mary Cook, Earl Evans, Kathleen Hayden, Evelyn Wolfe, Ruth Siebert, Jean, Leah, Bobby Oliver, Ross Smith, Jane Dolman, Gerald Dolman, Dorothy Dolman, Betty Kesterson, Paul White, Rex Clark, Bernadine Whyte, Norma Spencer, Bob Lent, Bill Lent, Bernadine Adkins, Robert Clark, Bill Bean, Erma Adkins, Wilma Adkins, Kathleen Ennis, Billy Keeton, Vivian Beagle, and Dick Dolman.
Former dry agent H. A. Sines will face a hearing before Mayor L. J. Eberle on an assault and battery charge filed by Charles Wolf. Sines, once a prohibition inspector, pleaded not guilty and waived trial by jury. the hearing date is not yet set.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary of the M E Church invites all church ladies and friends to a Missionary Tea at the parsonage 80 East Columbus Street Thursday at 7 30 PM. A special program will be held and a silver offering taken to support the work.
Nelsonville May 1 The King's Men plan a Friday night prayer meeting at 7 30 pm at William Millers Back Street home E W Allen to lead the service and Frank Johnson to read the lesson All men are welcome.
Mrs Fern Parry returns from Logan visiting relatives including Mrs George Schwenke and Mrs R M Henry in Lancaster. CC Sharp visits Columbus on business. Frances Parry weekends in Athens with Miss Doris Sponseller, Ohio University student. Muriel Gilbert visits sister Mrs Donald Jodyneon in Columbus. Mr and Mrs Tom Schena of Wellston visit parents Mr and Mrs Henry Schenz. BE. Poole of Boston and C M Bartlett hosts in Charlies. Poston visits Columbus on business. Nelson Dowler spends Wednesday with Fred Stracke in Logan. John Monks attend Henry Stalder funeral in Guysville Tuesday afternoon.
Albert Rhodes of Athens faced Magistrate Carl H. Porter this morning for trespass. He was arrested at Elliott and Mill Street Tuesday night by Constables Guy Carpenter and Harry Dalton and paid a $25 fine plus costs.
In Chicago on May 1 three buildings housing soft drink parlors were bombed. Police and fire crews responded to the blasts causing property damage but no injuries are yet confirmed. Investigators sweep the area for clues and motive amid heightened city tension.
Mrs Della Pidcock entertained a group at 184 West Columbus Street Tuesday evening for Mrs Ella Patton who departs soon for Toledo. Guests included Daisy Kesterson Lulu Sanders Cecil Adkins Ada Groves Jennie Sanders Paul Rex Maude Evans Elizabeth Scott Gertrude Pensyl Bertha Ray Mary Robertson Sophia Mann Alice Dresher Ellen Steenrod Etta McKibben Florence Whitmore Phebe Clements Mary Eccles.
The Missionary Society of the Christian Church will hold a Thursday evening meeting at Mrs Effie Lamborn's Franklin Street home. Miss Verna Hand leads the program after a brief business session and officer elections.
The Rainbow Class of the Christian Sunday School meets at 7 30 this evening in their classroom at the church. Members are asked to bring silverware and china for refreshments served cafeteria style.
Athens County Common Pleas Court expects 256 witnesses to appear in the first four days of next week as the May term of the Athens County Grand Jury convenes to consider over 75 cases. Transcripts for five cases filed. remaining transcripts due from magistrates and justices offices. About 60 witnesses are Athens residents and 42 come from Nelsonville with others from Carbondale Glouster Albany Ruchtel Sugar Creek Chauncey Jacksonville Trimble Coolville The Plains Burr Oak Ploodwood Murray City Morristown Deanville Salem Factory.
Eighteen cases are slated for Monday May 6 with twenty five for Tuesday and five for Wednesday. A definite grand jury list for Thursday is not yet complete. Officials estimate five days may be required to bear all Ne cases.
News arrives of the death of Charles Flagg aged 35 on Tuesday at 7 AM in Columbus. He lived with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Frank Knoble, who moved from Athens to Columbus last November. Flagg and Knoble were employed at the McBee Binder Company in Athens.
About 4 500 members of building trades unions in St Louis walked out demanding higher wages. Employers, via the Associated Building Interests group council, refused the pay rise.
Charles London of Chillicothe was sentenced to Mansfield Reformatory on charges of creating an automobile belonging to Daniel V. Morrison of Columbus. The term is indeterminate.
The Athena County License Department turned over 827.27 to County Auditor J. Clyde Edmundson. Deputy commissioner David Johnson reported sales from April 18 for passenger cars, commercial vehicles, trucks, trailers, and motorcycles totaled 432. Funds sent to Columbus included transfers from seven other counties in Ohio with minor totals from several towns.
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