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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1935
Page
2
About 100 musicians will perform an open air concert Saturday at 7 p m on the Central School lawn. Logan and Nelsonville High School groups will play pieces from the South Eastern Musical Festival held in Logan on April 26. The event is sponsored by the Band Boosters Club.
NELSONVILLE The mattress factory and the College Avenue improvement project continue active with a full force of relief workers, though a committee from the Unemployed League makes daily visits urging support of the strike announced days ago. Police report a group of 16 talked to relief workers at the City Building before work time, then visited the mattress factory and paving project. All workers continued on the job.
The Central Parent-Teacher Association will hold its meeting Friday at 1 30 PM replacing the usual hour due to the program that will follow.
Mrs E E Bell returns from Columbus after visiting ill cousin J W Hanning. While there cousin J W Myers dies suddenly and Mrs Bell stays for Myers funeral. Mrs Ted Lies and Sau ra visit Ties parents in Lancaster. D of A plans Nelsonville benefit bingo at IOOF Hall Friday evening inviting public.
Mrs. Kate L. Blake of Columbus, a State W. C. T. U. worker, will visit Athens County for Sunday activities and attend the June 11 monthly meeting at Mrs. Williams’s home in Poplar Street. The Nelsonville Union announced the visit at a meeting hosted by Mrs. Anna Allen on Chestnut Street. The gathering featured devotions, reports, a program led by Mrs. Maude Bryan, discussions on Child Welfare, and a luncheon social hour.
A ten week attendance contest by the Presbyterian Sunday School culminated in a 6 pm dinner in the church basement. Roy Snackenburg led entertainment with Roy Sayers as conductor. Group singing, duets, harp and cello, readings, and beginner class acts delighted 110 guests. Pastor Rev. Lloyd FEvana’s absence was the only regret.
The Southeastern District of Red Men will hold a gathering at the Wigwam of Kill Eagle Tribe No. 179 in Nelsonville on Saturday evening May 18. The Ascohance Tribe of Pomeroy will confer the ritualistic work. Refreshments will be served. All Red Men are welcome.
Nelsonville scouts under leader Mr. Mender start playground entrance beautification sponsored by the Woman's Community Club. Last Saturday they planted purple and white azaleas white wallows and hydrangea. The public is asked not to disturb the plants.
Miss Margaret Gandee and Mrs. Louise Grace hosted a kitchen shower for Mrs. Forest Bolen (Agnes Burt) at the home of Mrs. Mattie Weekley. Guests and the bride received gifts and were served lunch by the hosts, with many local attendees listed.
Oak Grove hosts visits from Mrs Frank Johnson and daughter with Miss Ethel Johnson in Nelsonville and Mr and Mrs Thomas Schultz. Nearby families in Nelsonville and Bishopville visit their relatives as Measles reports rise in the district.
Out of town mourners gathered for the funeral of the late Charles Gettie in Nelsonville. Among the attendees were Mrs. Charles Gettie and daughter Crystal from Columbus, Ray Foughty and family, Don Trubee, Jack Primmer from Columbus, Louis and Johnny Ditebel of Parkersburg, Mrs. Tom Riddiebarger of Haydenville, Ed Kabbes of Newark, Clinton Boles of Zanesville, Mrs. Ed Smith, Mrs. Margaret Nobile of Middleport, Mrs. Bessie Carman, and Harrison of Athens. The G. T. Club meets Friday May 17 at Esther Gabriel’s home, 799 Poplar Streets.
Margaret Colbert and relatives traveled from Buchtel to Hartford West Virginia to visit old friends. Detroit weekend guests included Mary Conrad Alfield Johnson and Mildred Kimble. The McNamee family from New Straiteville visited Selby Murphy’s family. Della Syx from Columbus spent the weekend with her mother in town. Blanche Hayden and grandson Bobby Ruttgers went to Chauncey to stay with relatives. Thor Phillips and daughter from Sciotoville spent Sunday with James Tolliver’s family.
Oak Grove reports revival meetings will begin May 20 led by Rev. Finger. The Union Class Sunday gathering at Holiness Church drew a large crowd, with the next session scheduled June 9 at Asbury Church. Local residents Arthur Hartman and family visited Hartman relatives in Nelsonville.
Glouster High School will hold its 44th annual commencement in the high school auditorium Friday at 8 p.m. The class of 34, including 15 girls and 19 boys, will receive diplomas with senior class members and local talent performing. Music directed by Kathryn A. Wells with accompanists Mary Jane Morris, Margaret Trasin, and Theo Williams.
Dr W A Pride age 73 veteran dentist died at his South High Street home after years of declining health. He practiced in this city over 40 years, previously ran an Albany office. Survived by wife four brothers and two sisters. Funeral planned Sunday at home with burial in Rockland.
Andrew Scerba a coal loader at Ohio Mine No 1 was injured in a Friday incident, suffering facial injuries that crushed one side of his face and blinded one eye. He was moved to a Columbus hospital by ambulance Tuesday with his wife and children joining him.
Harold W. Dean of Martford City Indiana was fatally injured when his car struck a D T I train on a crossing in St Paris Wednesday. The crash occurred as the train stood at the crossing.
At a Tuesday night meeting the Jacksonville Trimble Joint High School Committee hired teachers for the next school year including Helen Crawford, Sara Willis, F. M. Guthrie, Hazel Pride, W. M. Anderson, and Ira Conway as janitor. M. M. Bryson was rehired as superintendent for three years.
A man from Palos suffered a facial injury when a piece of a Suffolk Railway train struck him above the left eye. He was treated at a local office after the incident. three stitches were needed to close the cut and an artery was involved in the bleeding.
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