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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1939
Page
6
Murray City on May 10 lists visits and guests including Charles Shaffer and sons John and Williard, Miss Sarah Thomas, Gloria Jean Shaffer Jr. family, plus many other townsfolk from Columbus Glouster Logan Nelsonville Barberton Athens and Crooksville. Readers see a long parade of weekend visitors and relatives calling on local residents.
The General Camp Committee will meet at the Ross Hocking camp on Thursday May 11 to finalize plans for five 4-H camps. Camps run July to early August with varying costs and hosting counties including Ross Fairfield Athens and others. Ross Wright, Athens County extension agent, says the Ross Hocking site is among Ohio's best equipped on a 14 000 acre U S forest tract.
More than 2,500 public school pupils participated in a large music festival in Lorain Ohio. The cantata titled Childhood of Hiawatha featured a combined chorus of 1,100 voices.
Taylor Ridge-Mother's Day activities at the Church of Christ include a choir program and floral gifts for all mothers, with special prizes for the oldest youngest and the mother with the most children. Local clergy Rev Autio conducted services in Redtown and was hosted by the Smiths.
Seventy one eighth grade students from York Township took the state scholarship tests in Buchtel on April 28. High school teachers scored papers and results were sent to Columbus to form norms. Top ten included Wollett, Hoskins, Searles, Donley, Levering, Monk, Bletcher, Sheskey, Bennett, Sheskey.
Mother's Day program scheduled at the M E Church in Coolville for Sunday May 14 at 9 45 AM with Rev E B Dean delivering the service. Social notes list visits among local families, moves, gatherings, and celebrations including birthdays and a Pilgrim Fellowship Rally in Cheshire.
Leslie Howard stars as the phonetics professor in the film version of Pygmalion arriving at the Athena. Wendy Hiller plays the Cockney flower-seller transformed into a duchess with comic results. Gabriel Pascal produced the film with Anthony Asquith directing.
New Plymouth residents attend revival services at Asbury M E Church. Local families hosted visitors from Logan Union Furnace and Columbus. Miss Pauline Peters earned top history score and will receive a DAR medal at Hamden eighth grade commencement May 20. The community welcomes Rev W E Bancroft and wife from McArthur for a missionary talk May 16 at 7 30 p m at the Presbyterian.
Grass Run Side Hill notes a series of Sunday visits and weekend guests from Athens Dexter Columbus W V London Pomeroy Bunker Hill Happy Hollow Vinton Middleport and other Ohio towns. Families listed include the Cra wford Dulaney Molden Plummer Bratton and Moore households with updates on Henry Molden’s illness and recovery.
Alfred G. E. Guthrie and Francis Booth spent last week in Columbus. Vern Story Pomeroy and Mrs. L. F. Clifford Athens were Sunday guests at E. E. Story's home. Harry Guthrie and family visited at the home of E. A. Stout Columbus Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Pierce Athens were Sunday dinner guests in the G. E. Guthrie home. The funeral of Mrs. Hattie Martin Woodford formerly of this locality was held in Elkins West Virginia last Thursday. Attending from here were Dr. Errett Person Murray City Mrs. Emma Findling Sumner Mrs. Lucy Guthrie Alfred. Rev. D. G. Holman filled his appointment at the Orange Church Sunday. Dinner guests at Charles Findling's home Sunday were William Schreiber and wife Earl J. Person and wife Huntington Gene Pierce and family Coolville Lewis A. Person and wife Pomeroy. Brice Chapman and family spent Sunday with relatives near Canannville. Mrs. Rodger Clark Coolville is spending time with her parents here. Her mother is ill. Margaret Cook returned Sunday after visiting relatives at Gallipolis.
Bradford Personal And Social Mention lists visits and family news. Bradford Church members held prayer at Mrs. Sheridan Bailey in Middleport where she recovers from severe burns. Bible School attendance was 80. The Arctic tern is noted for its 7000 mile seasonal migration from the Arctic to Antarctica.
Wilkesville prepares for graduation events with a baccalaureate address on May 14 at the Presbyterian Church and commencement on May 18. Walton Bliss will speak. graduates include Beatrice Hartley Earl Cray Juanita Foley Kathryn Strong Harley Strong Carl Norton Edythe Thompson Milford Long and William Cottrill.
A new field already producing gas for 38 000 homes is under development in suburban Highland Heights. Ten wells have been brought in recently, mostly unnoticed by residents who are unaware gas is produced nearby. Otto Moser, 74, who ran a downtown Cleveland restaurant for 44 years, says he never used a cash register. Agents stopped selling him one years ago.
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