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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1949
Page
3
The Community Garden Club expresses appreciation to the Business and Professional Women's Club for tulips blooming on the Public Square for ten days. Garden Club officers say Nelsonville Public Square has never looked so beautiful in early spring.
East School showcased displays from twenty countries in observance of United Nations Day. Exhibits included items from Cuba the Philippines Germany China Japan Tunisia Australia and more. The list of represented nations included Philippines Germany Japan China England Czechoslovakia Italy Guatemala India Mexico Belgium Arabia Cuba Australia Venezuela Peru Jamaica Tunisia France and the United States.
The Youn Matron's group of the Christian Church met at Mrs. Elizabeth Siddle's home Tuesday night. Devotions led by Mrs. Margaret Howe focused on The Christian Home and Family Week. Hostess served refreshments to 13 members. Next meeting moved to Monday June 6.
Fourteen members attended the VFW Auxiliary meeting on Wednesday. Mrs Eileen Wend, past president, installed Roxie Lightfoot as chaplain and Thelma Hutchins as color bearer and trustee. The group will send over 100 jig saw puzzles to the Veterans Hospital in Chillicothe and collect comic books for next month. A potluck is planned for the next regular meeting.
Sidney Rogers of Toledo pleaded guilty to operating a motor vehicle at excessive speed before acting mayor Earl Hilleary. He was fined 15 dollars plus costs for speeding 65 mph in a 50 mph zone. Clyde Barber of Carbondale was fined 10 dollars plus costs for an intoxication plea.
John Hawk of near Lima Ohio, brother of the late Nick Hawk, visited Nelsonville Thursday. A Hocking Valley native and former Lima Packing Co retiree, he is 80 and lives with his son John on a Lima area farm.
Mr. and Mrs. Leo McNutt hosted a birthday dinner at their Taylor Ridge home honoring family members with April birthdays. Guests included Frances McNutt Ora McNutt Potter Opal Rhoades Janet Tedrow Judy McNutt Arthur McNutt Jerry Lee and Arthur Rhoades Gloria Gay.
The Mothers Club will hold a bake sale on Saturday May 21 at 3 p.m. at Quality Meat Market. Proceeds go to support the youth center.
Mr and Mrs Brad ford Robinson and Ernie of Gallipolis visited C B Robinson. John Burkle of Vinton stayed with Hal Shoemaker. Garnet Mace of Gallipolis visited Grover Saunders. William Ward of Chillicothe phoned Henry Mitchell. Harry Phillips visited Carl Phillips. Ernie Bowen of Columbus visited C H Shoemaker. Bill Mitchell of Ironton a Bell Telephone employee stayed with his parents Henry and Lela Mitchell. C A Evans accepted a position at the Bidwell mill. Grayson Hendricks and wife moved to a farm they bought. Gloria Shoemaker.
Multiple area churches list Mother's Day worship times, sermons and special programs. The First Presbyterian, Methodist, Pilgrim Holiness, Wylie Chapel AME, First BST, Epiphany Episcopal, Christian Fort and Short, and Nazarenes schedule Sunday school at 9:30 a.m., morning worship around 10:30 a.m., with choirs, youth groups, and Mother’s Day programs.
In Glouster the annual Glouster High School Alumni Association banquet on Saturday May 28 will have the Women of the Moose serve dinner. Mrs Al Beshara chairs the dinner committee and high school sophomores and juniors assist. Dinner at 6 30 p.m. followed by a 9 p.m. dance with the Joby Lanning orchestra of Newark. Reservations contact Mrs Harry Parfitt president Mrs W O Bailey or Richard Guinther.
GLOUSTER The Kiwanis Club will operate a soft drinks concession at home baseball games this season. Profits fund underprivileged children and all proceeds stay in the local area.
The Corning basketball team will be honored at a floor show and banquet in the high school auditorium Saturday evening.
Mrs. Marion Cecil Donna Wend was taken to White Cross Hospital in Columbus for treatment.
Pfc Clifford Sutton of Toledo spent a few days with Pfc John Shifflet and his wife at Taylor Ridge. Sutton and Shifflet left Thursday for Camp Campbell Kentucky where they will be stationed.
The text recalls that although glass was invented long before, actual window glass appeared much later, with the first mention dated to the end of the third century AD. It tracks the long gap between invention and practical use in windows.
Dan Carter of Akron spent the weekend with his parents Mr and Mrs George Carter and other relatives at their home in Glouster.
The list provides Sunday schools, preaching times, and midweek services for churches in Glouster Redtown Mount Carmel Jacksonville Hollister Concord Glouster Trimble Spencer Ridge and Trimble West Side. Pastors include Rev W F Householder Rev Daniel K Teater Rev W H Mathias Rev H H Lafferty and Rev John Devol with services from 9:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. on various days.
The Murray City Eagles sponsor a Mother’s Day event at their hall Sunday at 2 p m Rev John Morgan of United Brethren Church will deliver the address Free carnations will be given to each mother and potted plants awarded to the oldest youngest and largest family mothers Dan Jenkins chairs arrangements.
Three youths from the Glouster Seventh Day Adventist Church attended the state wide youth congress held in the Mt Vernon Ohio high school auditorium. About 1000 youths were present. The event was directed by H R Nelson Ohio youth leader. Attending from Glouster were Miss Adrian Craig Miss Erma Craig and Mr William Elliott McConnelsville.
Glouster authorities begin installing parking meters with 125 units planned on High Main Front Republic Woodrow and adjacent streets. Excavations completed along north side of Main Street from High to the Old Opera House. Metres not yet set as work starts.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Welling and Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Smith with children Ronnie and Carol called on Mrs. Emma Tippie in Murray City Saturday evening.
The Marcellite Rebekah Lodge will meet in Odd Fellows Hall Saturday at 7 30 p.m. Members are invited to attend and discuss lodge business and upcoming community projects.
Doria M. Horeh 47 of Summit Station a former Nelsonville High School domestic science teacher and later head of a similar department at the Onlo School for the Blind died after an extended illness in Doctors Hospital Columbus She was the widow of Alvin Horeh formerly of Dublin and left Nelsonville in 1997 after five years there She leaves a daughter Mrs Gordon Sheldon Grove City her father Jackson Merrill Summit Station and two brothers Lee D. Merrill Delaware and Charles A Horeh Summit Station
GLOUSTER The temperature hit a season high of 92 degrees Thursday near noon. By late afternoon it fell to 86 and at 9:30 pm it stood at 66.
The kindergarten and first grade students of Glouster schools will present a Tiny Tot Circus this Saturday at pm. Tickets are being sold by pupils.
The Jacksonville Sportsmen's Club will meet this evening at 7 20 in the city hall. All members are urged to attend.
Hiram Linscott formerly of Barberton Ohio died on a morning at his brother Warren Linscott’s farm home near Millfield. Mr Linscott had recently come to the area to live with a brother. Funeral services are arranged by John and Blower Funeral Home.
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