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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1929
Page
23
A massive hell-bender, an aquatic salamander, was caught in a pond at the State Hospital area and stretched to inches long. It drew students and faculty from the University, with observers stroking its back while the creature remained mostly in water.
Leaders of 4-H clubs will visit the proposed camp site on a river in Jackson County on Sunday. They plan to leavefor funding at 1 a.m. and will meet a luncheon. Southeastern Ohio counties weigh building a permanent 4-H camp. Athena County leaders and farm agent T. H. Johnson will decide if the location suits a permanent camp.
A large Nelsonville Methodist Men turnout heard Doan speak on The Moving World after a supper by the Ladies Aid Society. Dr C E Welch was chosen president with H L Galvin as secretary, as Ralph Parks led songs and welcomed the Columbus resident speaker.
Dewey Scheeler Mas Eula Scheeler and Mrs. Ray mond Raine hosted five tables of bridge at their East Frank street home Wednesday. A galad course with pink carnation centerpieces followed play. Dewey Scheeler won high score with Londa McPride second. consolation trophy went to Mrs. Roy Davis. Out-of-town guest was Mrs. Albert Slater of Lancaster.
Mrs Alva Johnson entertained her bridge club Wednesday afternoon at 58 West Franklin Street with a guest, Mrs Louis Rice. Rice won first prize for high score, Mrs Walter Mechem took second, and Mrs William Mills finished third.
Miss Edith Marie Murry and Mr. Richard Allen Forgrave of Nelsonville were married in Athens on Thursday afternoon. The ceremony took place at 3 oclock at the Christian Church parsonage with Rev. M. E. Chatley officiating. The couple will reside in Nelsonville.
In Nelsonville on May 3 the Church of Christ organized Seventy a personal workers band of 70 in seven ten member squads Judean Berean Samaritan Ephesian Galatian Corinthian and Galilean led by captains The Seventy aims to renew contacts with census respondents and assist minister with dispersed membership The Ephesian band led by Mrs John Reed meets next Sunday May records of attendance will be kept and cards distributed at services A May 21 observed as Every Member Communion Day
Mr and Mrs 8 8 Lane spent Friday in Columbus with their son in law and daughter Dr and Mrs Clyde Vanneter. Mrs James McKee and daughter Lillian are with Mr and Mrs Clyde Rodda in Wallbridge. Dr W H Hyde will be in Sharon Pennsylvania this weekend with Mrs Hyde returning home. Mrs William Morgan visited Columbus friends Friday. Mrs James Beard called on her Columbus son and daughter in law Charles Beard. Mrs Ellen Donley returned to Columbus after visiting here. Rev C P Pridgen, back from a two month European tour, will preach at Pilgrim Holiness Church Sunday. He visited fifteen nations and twelve national capitals. Clifford Scott and Charles Finsterwald visit Columbus relatives. Mr and Mrs C H Bartlett will go to Kansas City for White Shrine sessions. Bartlett plans to visit Miami Oklahoma at week’s end.
Former Nelsonville residents and friends gathered at 138 Fort Street for a one o clock May Day luncheon hosted by Mrs J M Hyde. Spring flowers and a yellow and white color scheme enhanced the pretty affair with guests including Mrs James Sheppard Mrs Mac Poston Mrs Orrin Thacker and other local women.
Charles W. Etsinger of Bucyrus is appointed editor in chief of Ohio University's Green and White for 1929 30 by the Campus Affairs Committee. The news editor last year and Messenger reporter, he is a junior and will lead the semi weekly publication.
The Hyperion Club will meet Saturday afternoon at 8 o clock with Mrs James Sharp at her home 147 Fort Street.
In New Lexington on Wednesday noon Rev J M Cosby of the local Presbyterian Church officiated at the wedding of C C Brown and Mrs Eva Treadway. Both are well known local residents.
The U S Chamber of Commerce adopted unanimously a resolution praising the Federal Reserve system and its adaptability to new conditions. It urged maximum cooperation and stated basic industries and small units in manufacturing distribution and agriculture should not face high interest rates due to security excesses.
A Toledo report links a red haired Tiffin youth to the New York torch murder of Mrs. Dorothy Peacox. The 21 year old husband Fort Peacox is involved. The wife taunted him with letters about the youth visited in Toledo for six weeks last summer and autumn.
The Athens County Pomona Grange will hold its meeting on Saturday May 11 instead of May 4. Master C O Bryson will preside. A degree team practice follows an elimination oratorical contest featuring seven delegates from Washington Morgan Athens Meigs Vinton Gallia and Jackson counties.
Awards for work done among Girl Scouts in Athens during the last year will be presented at a meeting in the Athens High School Auditorium Sunday afternoon May 12 at 3 o'clock. Parente and friends of Girl Scouts are invited to attend. Winifred Kingsley and Catherine McCall two Girl Scouts of Ohto University gave reports from the sectional meeting held late last week.
Officials of Cunard Lines said they would file a damage suit against the Royal Spanish Mail Line after the collision between the freighter River Orontes and the passenger liner Cristobal Colon yesterday near New York.
Opal Cotner of Athens accuses her husband Paul Cotner of wasting wages in a divorce petition filed at the Common Pleas Court. She says his spending forces her to work to support their two year old son Paul Jr. The couple married in December 1922 and she seeks custody and control of the child.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Thomas Aloysius Dorgan known to readers as Tad originator of the Indoor Sports drawing and countless slang expressions.
A telegraph dispatch from Bombay reports two Indians killed and many Hindus and Muslims injured in widespread communal rioting across several sections of the city during the day.
Mrs. Martha A. Lee, 87, of near Hebbardaville, died Thursday morning in Mt. Carmel Hospital, Columbia, from nephritis. The body rests at Walbourn's parlors until funeral services Saturday afternoon at the Hebbardaville Church. Burial will be in the adjoining cemetery.
In New Lexington May, A. W. Welfe of this city filed suit in Common Pleas Court against coupde and Estella Mynus to recover 424 on a promissory note.
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