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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1935
Page
3
Fragmented report notes a candidate for village clerk and local civic events. Mentioned are church gatherings, visits by relatives, school activities, social events, and a party honoring individuals with scattered names and places in Parkersburg and nearby communities.
Mother's Day events are scheduled Sunday with Rev. T E Maness at Simpson Mt Church presenting a life sketch of the founder and origins of the holiday from 9 to 10 30 AM. An evening sermon titled The Safest and Most Beautiful Highway follows at 7 30 PM, with church boards meeting afterward.
Middleport residents Cunningham brothers travel to Cleveland to visit their brother Paul and likely attend league baseball games. Lucille Dutton hosts a Friday bridge dinner in Marietta with Mrs. McBride and daughter Margaret joining. Mrs. McBride heads to Cleveland for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Trainmen auxiliary convention opening Saturday for a week or more. In Columbus, D S Farmer and W E Russell with Mrs. Griff Russell visit Dan Farmer and Del Russell for a Mother's Day banquet at their fraternity house.
Robert Van Meter returned from a California CCC camp after more than a year. The Oris Gaul family attended Martha Fick's funeral in Chester on Wednesday. A. L. Cole family visited friends in Athens County Sunday. John Pulling traveled to Huntington for a sem ent. Tuppers Plains School students will have nine months of work this year. Miss Mary Cole of Marietta visited Sunday.
Meigs County 4-H marks its twelfth year with the Reedsville Girls 4-H Club, active since 1923. Reels of enrollments include Earlene Humphrey and others, while Long Bottom reorganizes with officers Elizabeth Swan and Dixie Swan. Nease Settlement adds eight boys under Ira Wolfe. County club leader Mildred Smith notes 231 members enrolled midyear, with 129 boys and 102 girls in seven and eight clubs respectively. county agent George W. Kreitler says progress is ten days ahead of last year.
Plans for a May 14 reception honoring Chester High School graduates were announced at a Tuesday night meeting of the Chester Council Daughters of America. The newly formed Patriotic Youth Council will attend, with officers slated including Carol Morris as president and Gene Koblentz as vice president. Floral tributes marked Martha Fick’s funeral Wednesday afternoon, and a Mother's Day program is planned at the M F E Sunday School. Jefferson county Florida yields percent of the world’s watermelon seed.
Rocksprings Grange members will present Mother’s Day selections Friday night. Attendees include Mrs Earl Collins and two sons, Mrs Helen Radford, Mr and Mrs Roy Eastman, Mr and Mrs Fred Geoghen, Mr and Mrs Joe Weyersmiller and son, Mr and Mrs Vernon Nease, Amos Leonard, William Kestersen, and Carol Greuser.
Funeral services for Edward Steele, lifelong resident and bricklayer, will be held Saturday at 2:50 PM at Gravel Hill residence with Rev F J Gardner officiating. Burial in Middleport Hill Cemetery. Survived by wife, one son Clifford, three daughters, and nine grandchildren.
Sam Day, 23, pursued across states after escaping Arkansas prison. He sought revenge against those who blocked his pardon plea. Day is nephew of a Texas ranger captain and was sentenced to life for killing a sheriff in a still raid.
POMEROY County gathers Sunday at the Community Church in Salem Center for a meeting of the new Farmers and Workers Organization. The session starts at 2 o'clock and will review policies for inclusion in the constitution. The group, which has absorbed the Unemployed League, reports about seven hundred members.
Prof. Jasper T. Lewis, former Meigs County Orchestra director, now Wahanna High School conductor, announced the ensemble will travel to Wheeling West Virginia on Thursday to compete in the regional musical festival.
The Pomeroy district meets Sunday in Chillicothe. Ten members of Gerber Camp the Meiga County Unit will attend.
National forests recorded approximately 34,672,125 visitors in 1054 according to the latest figures. The report highlights sustained use across multiple regions and notes peak attendance in summer months.
About twenty veterans attended a preliminary organization meeting at 1.0.0F Hall led by J. F. Mahoney to form a local Veterans of Foreign Wars chapter. Adjutant Kirwin and Zone Commander Greisheimer were present. a charter banquet will follow enrollment. In Middleport, Mrs. William Cheatham remains hospitalized in McMillan Hospital, with daughter Lucille Cheatham aiding in Charleston.
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