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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1926
Page
3
Nelsonville May 17 The Presbyterian church plans a seven thousand dollar improvement program. A bene factor will pay one fourth if the congregation pledges the rest. Three families have added another fourth leaving about 3500 yet to be raised. Committees will visit members and a Friday meeting may announce full pledges.
May 17 update shows the Nelsonville Methodist church group postponing its Woman's Home Missionary Society meeting until next week.
Sunday visitors arrive in the area with Mr and Mrs T J Davis hosting in Athens. Arthur Burgess from Lancaster visits Pen syles. Arthur Vorhes of Columbus calls on Dr and Mrs Welch. Mollie Six from Columbus visits her sister Mrs Thomas Wilson. R C Graham of Marysville stays with her mother. Will Burnelle and family visit Leighton Aumiller in Columbus.
A joint social will be held at the Nelsonville Methodist church parlor Tuesday evening by Sunday school classes taught by Mrs A L lg Mrs Charles Monke and Mrs Thomas Spencer. A picnic dinner is planned for 6 30 with class members to bring a dish. Mrs Julius Fischer will give the featured address on her recent trip abroad. Guests may attend.
Mrs Lowell Quigley of Columbus spent the weekend in Nelsonville with her parents.
Mary C Oberdorfer daughter of J T and Mrs J T Oberdorfer of Lancaster to wed Charles C Clark son of Mrs Harriet A Clark of this city on Saturday June 5 at St Peters Lutheran church in Lancaster. Both graduates of Ohio State University with sororities and fraternities listed. he a chemical engineer with Pure Oil in Cincinnati. she has taught at Canal Winchester with Cathleen Swope as maid of honor and George Ruhl as best man. wedding announced by State Journal.
All services at the Nelsonville Methodist church were well attended. The morning sermon titled The Ministry of the Trees discussed nature, and in the evening Dr. W. W. Davis spoke on missionary work in China representing the Athens district. The vested choir provided fine music.
Nelsonville church parlors host a Sunday school board meeting tonight following a May 17 notice. Members and attendees will discuss church activities and planning for upcoming programs.
Seventy Nelsonville residents rode a weekend excursion to Detroit on the Hocking Valley railroad. The train departed Nelsonville at 9 55 p m Saturday night and returned early this morning.
Nelsonville on May 17 reports Mr and Mrs Lou Rice hosting Sunday guests including Mrs E McNally and daughters Ada and Bess, John Conover and John Doolenweyer and Ray Doolenweyer of Cincinnati, plus Mr and Mrs Fred Langwotz of Pomeroy.
Athens postoffice handles about 9 000 letters daily with peak flows from the Hocking train at 10 30 am and northbound freights at 5 pm. Mail from Cincinnati and St Louis moves via eastbound B and O and New York central lines, while local pouches go to Nelsonville Logan Columbus and nearby towns.
Records indicate about 6500 deliveries in ninety days, averaging 72 per day or 2100 monthly, with more specials dispatched over weekends.
Steubenville reports Henry Dell 11 and William Sambious 13 were near death after a third boy dropped a lit match into a gasoline tank of a car. The tank exploded and the youths were hurled from the vehicle.
The government communique reports that after coal strike conditions, work resumed throughout Great Britain in almost normal conditions. It notes agreements restoring railway omnibus and tram transportation and resumed dock work, with publishers and employees settling to return London evening newspapers to their usual size.
Pittsburgh agencies report a 25 cent gain in three crude oil grades. Cabell grade reaches 2.40 per barrel, Somerset medium 2.50, and Somerset light 2.65.
The Athens county board rules require reporting any absence of elementary and high school teachers to the county superintendent for immediate substitute deployment. Substitutes earn five dollars a day in elementary and six dollars in the high schools, with the regular teacher receiving one quarter of their salary not to exceed ten days, and retirement fund contributions unaffected.
Dr. W. W. Davis, a missionary to China, will address the Athens district at 7 30 Tuesday evening. He is making a two weeks visit to the area and will discuss his work in China at the Central Avenue church.
A Chicago committee plans a five year scientific study of human behavior with a target of 275000 dollars in funding. The effort aims to explore patterns in behavior and decision making over time.
Chauncey May 17 The Pleasant View Temple Pythian Sisters observe May birthday month with a pot luck supper. Honorees include Edith Harvey Minnie Palmer Ruth Smith Dorothy Miller Mary McBrayer Lillie Sweeney Thelma Linscott Verna Martin Mrs Shafer Hostess Chauncey May 17 The Loyal Woman's Society of the First Christian Church plans a Wednesday meeting at Mrs John Shafer's home with G H Nye leading the program.
Chauncey will stage a musical event next Friday at 7 30 p m in the high school auditorium featuring The Hat of Other Days a humorous song by Chauncey women with hats of all sizes and styles on display. The program includes vocal solos trios violin and piano numbers a girls chorus from Athens and humorous readings by Mrs Church tickets are on sale through a committee.
Benjamin Allen, Civil War veteran and father of Mrs. Nicholson and Mr. Allen, was laid to rest in Hollister after a funeral at the A. B. church. The service, led by Rev. Tippie, featured three musical selections by the Chauncey quartet and burial in Hollister cemetery.
Mrs William Donaldson returns to Chauncey from Columbus where she accompanied her daughter Mrs Agnes Carsey who went to St Francis hospital for an operation.
Chauncey residents Mrs A L Preston and her son Clark stayed in Nelsonville last week at the home of their uncle Maurice Wilson. Mrs Wilson underwent tumor surgery at Mount Carmel hospital in Columbus and is reported to be recovering and hoped to return home to Nelsonville this week.
May 17 Three Chauncey men aged and frail are critically ill at their homes. George Evans of Main street and David H North and Joseph Ford on Mound street are reported seriously ill in Chauncey.
Chauncey residents hosted and visited relatives over the weekend. Ath ens residents Mr and Mrs A R Ely and son-in-law Mr and Mrs John Brewer shared time on High street. Several Chauncey families hosted guests from Columbus New Lexington Logan and Corning including Mr and Mrs Carl Conrad and children Franklin and Faye and Mr and Mrs Frank Neeley and daughter Jean. Joe Ford’s ill condition drew relatives from Logan and Chauncey.
Athens and nearby areas will host an exhibition of leading American artists as the collection travels from the American Federation of Arts to Ohio University. The show, the second held in Athens, runs through June 1 in Miss Louise Stahl’s studio with Dr. E. B. Bryan aiding the opening. Noted artists include Childe Hassam with Mouth of Connecticut River and Georgian Chair, Emil Carlsen with Venice, and Leon Gaspard with Tienstein.
Pard's contribution to the exhibition features Miss Louie Stahl who studied with Mr. Gaspard in Taos. The collection includes works by Alexander Bower, Maurice Brown, Jay Connoway, Paul Dougherty, Anna Fisher, Ben Foster, George Hitchcock, Eric Hudson, Paul King, Hayley Lever, DeWitt Lockman, Robert H. Nisbet, Leonard Ochtman, Henry W. Ranger, Robert Spencer, Gardner Symonds, Henry Oliver Walker and Charles Woodbury.
The Athens Council of Royal and Select Masters of the Masonic order will inspect and administer the Super Excellent Master degree on Tuesday. Commander Charles A. Cornwell says state grand officers are not yet confirmed, but Albert School of Chillicothe is expected to attend. Visitors from across the state will attend.
At p. m. dinner at 6 o'clock and degree work at seven o'clock follows a yearly rite. About a dozen men will take the degree, an exposition of a Biblical incident by the local council. The ancient Athens council ranks fifteenth among over three hundred statewide councils, with spring inspections by state officers.
Notes show albinos occur in nearly all animal groups, including birds, mammals, reptiles, and insects, highlighting their surprising prevalence and the rarity of true white coloration in nature.
реклам claims tens of thousands of thin people gain flesh fast using McCoy’s Cod Liver Oil Compound Tablets. A woman reportedly added 15 pounds in five weeks while a sickly child aged 9 gained 12 pounds in seven months. Doctors and pharmacists mentioned, with a money back guarantee if no 5 pound gain in 30 days.
Troy May 17 Jacob Pitt, a young Troy salesman and former Ohio State student, confessed to killing his wife in a red rage. He will be brought into court to face a degree murder indictment and plans to plead guilty while opposing a life imprisonment sentence.
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