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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1922
Page
5
McLaughlin Bros undertakers and embalmers open a Washington Street establishment with motor equipment and ambulance service. Mr P Gaskill of McArthur withdraws from the firm. Nearby, social events, lodge notices, and funeral announcements fill the Nelsonville item list.
They extend gratitude for kindness during a family sorrow and announce the arrival of a baby boy named Robert Warren to Mr and Mrs Robert Bone. Several neighbors and friends including Dr Butt and Rev Johnson are mentioned with visits in Columbus.
The Queen Esther girls of the Methodist church hosted a marshmallow toast on Monday evening. Chaperones were Mrs. Robert Williams, Mrs. George Lowden, and Mrs. Susie Millinger. Attendees included Helen Reeves, Rachel Wilson, Lenore Logan, Edna Barron, Mary Lowden, Martha McCullough, Ruth Price, Don Kontner, Thelma Kontner, Carl Starkey, Ena Stephenson, Willard Hall, Rachel West, Floyd Cook, Bernice Backus, Bob Phosphical, Esther Cline, Roy Nash, Pearl Fiske, Gilbert Young, Doris Woodruff, Wesley Wolfe, Edna Hawk, Max Barstow.
The Elks lodge plans an athletic evening featuring Youssiff Mamute the Crazy Turk versus Bob Mainfort University of Virginia coach. Sisson won a prior bout but refuses more, urging the Elks to match Mamute against Mainfort for a family event amid the May membership drive. Dr. Cann, Charles Sisson and S. J. Dew organize.
Mrs J M Hyde writes about Nelsonville smiling, helpful residents who form the town’s backbone. She praises sincere, hopeful citizens who lift the community, warns against grouches, and urges ongoing efforts to build a better town together.
T B Pitkin an Akron Ohio Goodyear accountant at 287 Wheeler St reports relief from muscular rheumatism after thirty days on Tanlac. He says his appetite returned, strength improved and he gained weight. He learned of Tanlac from a Goodrich Company contact and urges others to try the medicine sold by druggists.
The article highlights local volunteers in Nelsonville who lead a campaign to improve the town by removing nuisances and fostering beauty. It recalls Abraham Lincoln’s idea of replacing thistles with roses as a guiding motto for community effort. The piece emphasizes friendly residents driving progress toward a wonderful town.
Glouster Arnold Lott and Andy Thompson of Redtown entered not guilty pleas in local court after arrest north of the city Tuesday morning with a Ford car carrying about five and a half gallons of white mule. Bond set at $1000 each. trials scheduled for Friday evening. Lott’s liquor law case postponed to next Tuesday due to attorney travel. Mayor Gormley and wife left for Cochoton after sister-in-law’s death in the family. services set in Coshocton. Mrs A A Allen returns from Alabama and St Clairsville visits. alumni banquet planned for Glouster High seniors with low dues and ticket details distributed. Samuel Frew, owner of Mid-Hocking mine, dies in Columbus hospital. prominent Perry county citizen. Frank Galbraith returns to Germany after brief city visit.
Local outages spread Tuesday night and Wednesday morning as exceptional rainfall drenched Athens. Dr. C L Jones, manager of the telephone company, said wind and lightning were not to blame but water entering pinhole cable leaks disabled about 600 phones at dawn.
In Worcester Massachusetts seventeen year old Philip G Abisamra a student at the High School of Commerce wrote a four page composition titled The Storm while dying in City hospital from pneumonia He completed the essay about three hours before his death teachers praise the work as exceptional and note his effort to uphold his standing in elaga
Toledo May 10 John N Willys president of the Willys Overland company says sales of their automobiles exceed production at the annual stockholders meeting The executive notes the main hurdle is securing raw materials Eight thousand men are employed current figure
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