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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1934
Page
3
Supt. old announces commencement exercises for graduates. Baccalaureate to be delivered May 26 in the high school auditorium with music by the school chorus. Alumni banquet and related activities to follow, led by school officials and local clergy.
Rev Lester Evans of Cambridge and moderator of Ohio Presbyterians spoke at a Nelsonville gathering urging men toward integrity and purity. He said the ideal man blends personal discipline, broad kindness, and firm fidelity to duties, with church groups arranging future meetings and a dinner.
May 16 note shows the Luhing of Education employing teachers for second to eighth grades. Eilen Murphy Nelson and Mildred peville occupy specific grade roles while Paul le replaces Stanton who resigned after years of service. Several local names attend meetings and travel to Columbus for illness and events. A Junior Teacher Association gathering is planned with officer elections and a round table on the year’s work. A separate degree night at Valley Lodge is announced with refreshments served.
Three hundred copies of The Saga, Nelsonville High School's annual, are being distributed with scarlet and grey covers. Sponsors appear on each page as a new advertising approach. The staff includes Harold McCray editor and Miss Jo Riley assistant editor, with faculty adviser E Franklin Stedman.
In Nelsonville revival meetings began Sunday at the A M E Church on Poplar Street. Rev Otto Grace leads the services and evangelist Mrs Clara Price will preach. The events run for two weeks.
Mr and Mrs Ralph Wilson and daughter with Ervin Thomas visited relatives in Leon and Lertat West Virginia over the weekend. Earl Tolliver and Deanville were guests of Clarence Tolliver on Sunday. Raymond Brown moved to Detroit for work. William Dearing and Mrs B H Wagner traveled to Athens on Tuesday. Joe Stanley of Nelsonville with Mrs Stanley visited her parents in Athens. Edward Conley and daughter visited relatives Sunday at Athens R F D.
Nelsonville public school teachers gathered in the high school auditorium Monday night for a general discussion of professional problems tied to the financial condition of schools across the state.
Nelsonville High School Alumni Association members will be asked this week to pay their yearly dues by a committee named by association officers. Nelsonville Woman's Home Missionary Society of the M E Church meets Friday at 7 30 p m at Mrs Ed Crouse home. Mrs Phil Miller and Mrs Alva Patton assist as hostesses. Mrs Patton leads devotions and Mrs Bertha Barker directs the program. Election of new officers will be held.
Nelsonville chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will host a covered dish dinner on Saturday May 19 at 6 PM at Mrs Gladys Whitlatch home. It is the year end meeting and officers will be elected.
Mizpah Class of the Methodist Sunday School will gather at 7 30 tonight at Miss Margaret Clarke s home in Nelsonville. Officers for next year s senior class have been nominated by students. Nominations were by secret ballot and the top three become regular election candidates next week.
Final exams for the Senior Class will be given Thursday. Graduates will be selected by Saturday, when invitations for their commencement exercises will be distributed.
In Helsinki on May 16 twenty one passengers drowned when the steamer Louhi sank in Lake Kallevesi. Local authorities investigated the disaster and rescue efforts followed.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Beveridge announce the birth of daughter Beverly Jane at their Nelsonville home on Chestnut Street May 14. Grandparents include Mrs. Jane Wilkerson and Mr. Eugene Rosser with other relatives listed from Nelsonville Carbondale New Marshfield and beyond.
Nelsonville court records show Buster Moyer pleading guilty to operating a vehicle while intoxicated before Mayor G. Holland. A $100 fine plus costs was imposed and driving rights suspended six months. Wright changed to guilty on petit larceny related to sugar theft. sentenced to six months total. Kearns pleaded guilty to operating with a fictitious license. fined $25 and costs.
Mr and Mrs Ed Dean spent Sunday in Columbus as guests of Dr and Mrs W S Jones. They were joined home by Sarah Crafts Akron who will stay a week at the Deans. Dr and Mrs J M Hyde Nelsonville and Mrs G I Putnam Athens left today for Pittsburgh to visit Rev and Mrs Alexander Lamb.
Nelsonville class No 11 of the M E Church taught by Mrs Charlies Monks will meet Friday evening at the home of Mrs Agnes Woodard in Connett. Assistant hostesses are Mrs Bessie Warehime and Mrs Agnes Green. Mrs Bessie Higgins leads devotion, Mrs Bessie Bland the program. Transportation group must meet by 6 at Hoodletts store corner Public Square and Antle grocery corner Harper and Poplar Streets.
Mrs. Leo White hosted her bridge club and guest Katherine Newman at the Cottage Tea Room in Athens Tuesday evening. High score awards in three table play went to Mrs. Fanny Gibson first and Mrs. Donald Shafer second.
Cleveland authorities and Akron police opened a rapid inquiry into the forceful abduction of four year old Joseph Mitchell of Morgantown West Virginia. The child was forced into an old touring car by three men and driven away before a license plate could be recorded.
School officials from 22 Southeast Ohio counties meet in the Chamber of Commerce rooms in Athens to discuss the financial plight of the educational system. Representatives from county city and exempted village systems attend a special meeting requested by the school officials organizations.
Mrs. C H Hannahs hosts the M M Class of the Methodist Church for a mothers breakfast in the church parlors. A pink and white 9:30 table featured garden flowers and corsages. A vocal and piano program followed with toasts centered on the word Mother and a closing toast by Miss Mary Katherine Miller.
Nelsonville high school conducts next year’s course registration this week. Registration blanks were issued earlier and must be completed and returned to home rooms today. Parents are asked to sign the cards.
Rufus C. Hopkins of Athens has been appointed official registrar in Athens County by the Retail Solid Fuel Authority Division No. 21. Coal dealers must register, with blanks issued at the Security Bank Building, Columbus to be forwarded to the divisional headquarters.
City and county and exempted village school superintendents of Southeast Ohio gathered this afternoon in the local Chamber of Commerce rooms for a meeting about regional education issues and coordination efforts.
The N. T. Club met at Locust Street home of Mrs Alfred Morris Jr Friday night. A program featured Mother’s Ps readings a Sylvia Ma n solo and the reading of Dickens L of Christ. Hostess and Mr Alfred B Morris served luncheon to 13 members present.
The Standard Bearers at M E Church honored mothers with a program featuring Cecilia Mandrell violin Ralph White piano and a talk by Mother Pickering. Mothers Day services included a Juvenile Choir and a pantomime, with several area families visiting.
Funeral services for J A Bert Oxley 58 will be held at Clarks Chapel at 1 30 PM Thursday after dying Tuesday in a Columbus hospital. Burial follows in the church cemetery. He was the son of the late Peter Oxley of Angell Ridge and left the West to live in Columbus. Surviving brothers Charles and Herbert live in Athens. sisters Nellie Leach and Angie Latimer reside in Columbus. He was unmarried.
Kingston Ontario May 16. A $100000 fire left the south wing of Portsmouth Penitentiary a ruin as guards and Royal Canadian horse artillery stood by after a week of unrest. Officials declined comment but sources said convicts sparked the blaze.
Miss Jeanette Smith, librarian of Athens County CWS, will visit Coolville School on Thursday May 17 at 10 am to add books and magazines to the school library.
Mayor Harry L. Davis assured Cleveland the city would stay in order for the year after a special election approved a 1 million deficiency bond issue.
Dr G H May hugh of Westerville visited with relatives including Cora McElroy and George Shame party. Guests gathered for Mother's Day visits and multiple families shared Sunday time. The Alumni Banquet is set for high school May 26 with Catherine Enlow visiting Albany sister.
Chauncey area residents report a series of Sunday visits. Charles Harvey and Marguerite Courtney visited aunt Mrs. George Williamson in Athens. Dow Sanders of Albany joined his parents in Chauncey. Mrs. Herman Theisen Jr. of Millfield visited her parents in Lathrop. Theisen family gatherings in Millfield marked by Mother's Day visits.
Mr and Mrs Nile Dew and daughter Alice hosted guests at their Jacobs Avenue home. Also visiting were Mr and Mrs Ernest Shell and Roy and Thomas Dew from Wheeling, and Miss Lizzie Moody and Miss Louise Dew of Lancaster. Pocahontas Masonic degree work planned for Thursday night with degree staff on hand.
In Hunterdon on May 16 nine year old Mary Lenigar nearly drowned when riding an aerial water lift. Her father Walter Lenigar acted quickly and pulled her from the spring as the bucket conveyance reached the water. She sustained head and shoulder injuries. Miss Ann Morgan the county health nurse aided at the scene.
G. H. Stewart, located in Jacksonville six weeks, was arrested by Marshal Francie Barrett for Washington D. C. officers. Stewart is wanted for taking a mortgaged car out of the county and is a parole violator. Lester Talbert was arrested Sunday for intoxication, pled guilty, and arranged to pay fine and costs.
A son named John William was born to Mr. and Mrs. Leo F. McMenamy in Jacksonville. He is the grandson of Mr. Thomas McMenamy, Sr., and Mr. and Mrs. George Fitzer of Milford.
The Hollister production of The Absent Minded Bridegroom plans to include Elizabeth Banfield and Lavena Banfield, two cast members whose names were omitted in a prior report.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the U M W A announces postponement of the Jacksonville social from Thursday night to May 2.
Mr and Mrs Gilbert Strausbaugh hosted about twenty children Saturday afternoon for Ernestine Strausbaugh fourth birthday. Refreshments were served as gifts were opened. A Mother's Day play at the Church of Christ followed Sunday School with readings by students and a solo by Mrs Strausbaugh. Bible School attendance reached 62 with 14 mothers present.
Mary Sams, longtime Dover Township resident, turned 94 on Monday. She enjoys car rides and was honored with a family dinner at grandson Guy Sams in CHAUNCEY. Guests included Fritz Sams, Gertrude Brown, Barbara Jean Sams, and the Sams family in Millfield.
The Plains high school teachers hosted a reception for the grade teachers with a picnic supper at the grade building. A Mother's Day program was presented at Nazarene Church Sunday School. Several local residents visited family in town and around Columbus this week, including Mrs. Clara Medders and relatives from Athens, Floyd Matheny in Columbus, and the Humphreys traveling with Mrs. Humphrey’s mother.
Mrs Loren Landrum entertained Monday evening in honor of her husband Landrum's birthday anniversary. Twelve neighbors and friends gathered at the home for a social time and a plate lunch. He received several gifts including a large birthday cake sent by his sister Mrs Bescoe.
Mr and Mrs Henry Osborne hosted relatives at their Mill Street home on Sunday for Mother's Day celebrations. Out of town guests included Mr and Mrs Fred Osborne and daughter Rachel Mr and Mia Virgil Conkey and daughter Betty Mr and Mrs Harry B Noble and daughter Frances, all of Athens.
A twilight baseball game will be played on the local grounds starting at 5% Thursday afternoon in which a team composed of players from Local Unions 4s and 202, Ohio Collieries, will meet a team from the local union at Kimberly. A meeting will be held at Chauncey next Saturday to arrange a schedule for teams from local unions represented at Nelsonville last Saturday.
A special meeting of the Ladies Auxiliary of the American Legion will be held Thursday at 7 30 p m at the American Legion Hall on High Street.
Funeral service for Mrs. Frank Beard is set at the M E Church in Mountville Friday at 1 30 PM. She died Tuesday at the home of her son Dwight Beard in Duncan Falls.
GLOUSTER Kiwanis Club met Tuesday noon for a luncheon at the Hotel Gordon. The group discussed business affairs with fair attendance and E L Jones presenting an attendance prize won by Ben Goldberg.
Mr Meinhardt announces a private demonstration of the Meinhardi Rupture Shield in his rooms at the Lafayette Hotel Marietta Ohio on Saturday May 7 from 7 00 PM to 7 00 PM A hotel clerk can provide room numbers This event is for white people only and there is no charge for the demonstration
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