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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1923
Page
7
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Decoration Day gatherings noted with Mrs A Dutton and Br A Dutton. Athens temperance men and supporters in Parkersburg report routing several booze shanty boats from along the Ohio river shores.
Belts of colored leather with de signa in cut steel are popular with sport dresses of white or colored silk.
Mrs. Wm. Markham visits Columbus with son Edwin Markham family. Mrs. Jessie Williams of Nelsonville guests in town for Decoration Day. L. Ferris visits Columbus on business. Newborns: a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. William Jewell and a son to Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Hobb south and north of town respectively. Engagement announced between Miss Grace M. Souders and Mr. Edward Crist. Various guests from Wellston, Chillicothe, Zanesville, Columbus visit relatives.
Decoration exercises at 2 p m with a basket dinner at noon, and many residents return home with well filled baskets. A speaker from Athens is expected. Mr Wheat moved his family to Akron. Sick list includes M A Dixon Mrs George Morrison and Mrs Grant Bolin with Dixon improving. Miss Mabel Kenney finished teaching at Negley and returned home with her mother.
Hockingport residents share travels and visits with kin in Spencer West Virginia and plans to spend time in Canada. Local figures include juror B K Parker returning home and Myrtle Adams appointed postmistress at Hockingport. Visitors and hosts span Parkersburg Racine and Parkersburg connections.
Carpenter Guy C Gorby and W H Hampton were at Rio Grande on Thursday. Mrs Jesse Marshall and baby were guests of Clifton Wood and family on Thursday. Grant Bobo and wife visited Fred Brooks and family in Athens on Wednesday. George B Kayser and family called on Wilson Weyand and wife Sunday. Davis Webb, recently released from Columbus hospital, returned home last Wednesday and remains in poor health. Alice Perry and Gladys Farley passed the eighth grade examination. Jesse Lewis and wife of Albany were Sunday guests of Jesse Mc Call and family. Glen Houdershelfe is doing carpentry for W E Harmon, E H Starkey painted the town house last week. Lewis Chase was at Albany last Tuesday. Fred Townsend is doing farm work for Harvey Robinett.
President Harding will summon a conference of state governors in Washington mid June to draft a new enforcement program before his June 20 departure on an Alaskan trip. The White House disclosed the plan as the administration seeks coordinated federal and state action on prohibition.
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