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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1923
Page
3
Mrs. A. M. Mann ape Pegcy Ann of Pataskula are guests of friends here. Mr. and Mrs Dale Farrow and their son left today for Columbus where they will make their home. Mr Farrow has tied to a Lancaster based large motorcycle business and spent the day here.
Glenford Dugan post distributes six page booklets titled The Flag to Nelsonville schools. The pamphlet explains how to display the flag and how to show respect, and will be used in classrooms.
A brief note urges schools to operate tomorrow and Friday in preparation for Armistice Day on Sunday. It also highlights the value of the book’s rules and diagrams and suggests each city maintain one.
East End Parent-Teachers' Association will hold a meeting Friday afternoon at East School promptly at 2 o'clock. Members discuss upcoming events and school concerns.
Walter Thompson, 52, died at Lancaster hospital following an operation linked to an automobile accident a year earlier. Born and raised in Nelsonville, he moved to Lancaster five years ago to enter the restaurant business. His body was brought to Nelsonville and laid at his sister Mrs. R. A. White’s home. funeral arrangements are not yet announced.
The Cosmopolitan club ladies begin the annual Christmas Seals sale in Nelsonville on December 1 chaired by Mrs Walter Wolfe. Proceeds aid tuberculosis patients with hospital care and at home meals while school milk and an open air camp for children are funded by the Drive. Eighty percent of sales stay in Nelsonville to fight TB.
Miss Bertha Nixon leads preparations for the annual Red Cross Roll Call in Nelsonville starting next Monday. She selects committees and asks all chosen helpers to cooperate and assist in the campaign.
After two weeks idle, the Bennett Creameries meet the Carroll Indians representing the Carroll Athletic Club at Haydenville ball park on Sunday at 2 p.m. The Indians are undefeated in four games, beating the Linden Gophers Rochester Clothiers of Columbus Lancaster Mocks and Newark Triangles. Nelsonville shows new players including Silcott Ashby W Cope Elliott Alias Shafer C Hartley and Hutchins in a reorganized lineup.
Miss Ruth Powell hosted the S H T club at her home on Tuesday evening for a shower honoring Mrs Malvern Wilson Inez Backus to be married in early summer. Guests included Mrs Ivan Matheny Mrs Fred Carpenter and Charlean Garner along with club members Florence Cook Leah Reynolds Pauline Wagner Fern Parry Lucille lisk Mary Mathewson Elsie Kreppel Merle Gilbert.
Revival services run November 9 to 25 at the Pilgrim Holiness church Murray City with Rev. Tilden H. Gaddis of Cincinnati as evangelist and the Moser sisters of Indiana as featured singers.
All Klansmen in Athens and Hocking counties are summoned to Klanhall Nelsonville Sunday November 11 at 9 am to march to a church for a Sunday school contest. A separate bake sale by Class 21 of the Methodist church will be held at the Blue Lantern on Saturday.
Fire department responded to an early morning alarm at the James Auflich residence in Bone Hollow. Soot was reported from the fire, but no damage occurred.
Local officers capture a wild man nicknamed Bill three miles from Millfield on Wednesday afternoon. Deputy Cady finds seven cans of canned heat on him, pockets full of matches, and a large club believed to be a weapon against wild animals in Athens county.
A nameless 30 year old man, colored and known as Bul, was found near Athens with no memory of his identity. He appears to have escaped from an insane asylum weeks or months earlier and carries a sheriff’s letter from Washington County dated October 12 stating he was released after a night in Marietta jail. He begged meals in Millfield before officers brought him in. he awaits possible probation.
Mrs. Mary Perry seeks a divorce claiming cruel conduct and frequent arrests by her husband. She asserts police have become tired of answering her calls, citing ongoing incidents and distress prompting the legal action.
In Columbus Common Pleas Court yesterday Medora Binns applied for a receiver for the Crane Ohio Ice Cream Co a subsidiary of the defunct R I Dollings Co of Ohio The Crane Ohio unit had avoided prior receivership action and ceased operations in Columbus Ohio November date indicated.
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