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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1940
Page
2
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Nelsonville citizens discussed a Community Chest plan at the Elks Club with nine trustees named to study the program. The board meets Wednesday at City Hall with Athens Chest representatives to outline operation, budgets, and eligible local agencies. Participants include D. M. Sheffield, E. J. Arnold, J. K. Kinneer, and others.
Fred Stuffle bean pleaded guilty to operating a car while intoxicated and was fined 50 dollars plus costs after arrest by Police Chief James Copey and Patrolman Charles Thompson for driving into a car on Canal Street near the Greenhouse. Francis Carsey was fined 10 dollars and costs after pleading guilty to operating a truck without a license.
In Nelsonville Valley Lodge Knights of Pythias plan a 6 PM Wednesday dinner served by Pythian Sisters. Blues team losers must act as waiters per Chancellor Commander C R Mender. Glouster Lodge members will attend and Knight rank work is expected to be presented.
Novena services at St. Andrews Church in Nelsonville move from 7 30 to 6 45 tonight because of a festival in the Parish Hall. Church ladies served dinner today and plan to serve supper. the public is invited. The supper will be followed by the festival.
Charles F. Klein of Columbus, formerly of Nelsonville, has been seriously ill at home but is slowly improving after a week of illness.
G W Pearce was sent home to Nelsonville yesterday from Grant Hospital Columbus where he stayed a week for treatment after suffering a facial bone fracture in an automobile accident.
The Will give dance tonight in Nelsonville sponsored by the Elks with music by the Rex Koons Orchestra. Dancing runs from 10 to 1 o'clock.
Bonna Jean Kittle eight year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Harley J Kittle underwent a signsilectomy in Athens Friday.
Two cars were badly damaged in a collision at the Chestnut and Fourth Street traffic light Sunday evening in Nelsonville. No injuries occurred. Mary Elizabeth Wolf of Nelsonville drove west on Chestnut, Clifton Donley of Buchtel drove south on Fourth.
Nelsonville notes describe the Cosmopolitan Club gathering at Grace and Mildred Roberts home. Vice president Mrs James Beard led the business session while program leader Mrs John Saltz presented pictures from a western trip this fall. Refreshments followed.
The Business Girls Class of the Church of Christ will meet with Mrs. Ednah Backus Thursday evening at 7 30. A covered dish dinner will be served and a program will follow.
At the regular meeting of Eu dora Chapter O. E. S. the annual election of officers will be held Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock in the Masonic Temple. A good attendance is urged.
The WRC will meet tonight at 7 o'clock in the 1.0.C.F. Hall. A large attendance is expected.
Mr and Mrs William Edgell of Columbus spend a week with Mrs W W Gibson and others. Mr and Mrs Wallace Glenn host relatives from Columbus at McArthur on Sunday. Akron pair Mr and Mrs David Thomas visit Mrs Thomas parents. W L Hudson and family plus Newport Ky guest Mrs Edger Kazee spend weekend with Mrs Naomi Brooks. Bertha Nixon and Ralph Nixon visit Columbus relatives. William and Hazel Glenn spend weekend with son Wallace and wife. Earl Campbell and Mable Campbell of Columbus join Sunday at the Bakers.
Knothole Club met Friday night at Kathleen Willis home with dancing cards and music. Special entertainment was provided by Kathleen Willis Jean Russell and Henrietta Heffkin. Members present included Mary Lee Blower Clifford Dunkle Henrietta Heffken John Earich Jean Russell Jack Border Frederica Theisen Dick Wade Violet Theisen Virginia Theisen Raymond Brown Gordon Mingus Kathleen Willis Minnie Willis and her son Charles.
Weekly Morristown Holiness Church cottage prayer gathering set for Friday at 7 p m in the Huston home The Plains formerly Bailey Run district hosted by Mr and Mrs Edward Huston.
A benefit party is planned tonight at 8 in Chauncey K of P Hall under Addie Tippie. Another benefit party is scheduled Friday at 8 in the Luckoff store room overseen by Maple Martin.
Millfield school boys basketball defeated Sugar Creek 14 to 8 at the Chauncey Dover gym. Victor Robinette scored for the opponents on the first play of the second half. Millfield lineup included Canter Dickens Robinette Keish Roofe with Sim mer acting as coach. Sugar Creek was coached by Ley and refereeed by Sweeney.
Albany high school juniors present a three act comedy Miss Westfield High at eight Wednesday evening Nov. 13. Cast includes Aldine Radcliffe Twila Knowles Margaret Pearman Beulah Calvin Helen Thomas and others with Kessel Smith Emory Allen Lee McVey Worley Perry as crew and Mary Alice Patrick Evelyn Genheimer among volunteers. Music by the school orchestra directed by Mrs Wanda McDonalday.
Chauncey district social column records visits and family ties. Mr. and Mrs. James Mullins hosted dinner for their son and daughter in law, John and Mrs. Mullins of Chauncey. Mrs. Lena Clarey Bailey is recovering after a Marietta hospital operation. Hazel Lahugh spent the weekend with Mrs. Lucille Sanders in Millfield. Mrs. Mary Thompson and Alice traveled from Columbus to visit Mrs. Alice Glancy in Orbiston. The Blowers from Bishopville visited Harold Blower in Pete Sanders, Columbus, while Chester Sanders recovers from a fall. Betty Heffken, from Columbus, stayed with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Heffken in Millfield. Verne Robinett and children Max Sonny and Carol of Haydenville visited Mrs. Elizabeth Robinett in Millfield.
Mrs Olive Brook entertained guests at a Chauncey dinner party honoring her aunt Mrs Laura Roberts and her cousin Miss Helen Howard of New Castle Wyoming. Also present were Mr and Mrs Guy Brookins and daughter Thelma Jean of Chauncey.
Miss Josina Newitz a returned missionary from Jamaica will speak at Morristown Holiness Church on Tuesday November 12 at 7 p m. The public is invited to the missionary service.
Nelsonville Elks host Circleville Elks and edge them by 17 pins to extend their perfect start to six wins. Johnny Johnson surged with a 265 game and 597 series as Nelsonville totalled 1038 in the final game to seal the victory. Shadley led Circleville with 244 and 598.
Nel sonville Public Square is closed to vehicular traffic this morning for the Armistice Day service. Ex service men turned central grass plots into a miniature Flanders Fields with white crosses to mark the day and honor veterans.
Long Bottom reports a ditch accident when Perry Curtis with Glen and Sylvia Seals ended up off the road due to a lights-out incident. Garden club meetings, hospital observation for Mrs. Stout, precinct voting tallies, Halloween party, and visits by Morgan Yates and other relatives are noted along with long-time Suc cess Telephone Exchange managers celebrating 33 years.
Millfield Church of Christ Sunday School drew 40 attendees on Sunday Nov. 10. The Largest class, the Young People’s class taught by Miss Mary Wade, had 14 present, followed by the preaching service led by Rev. Glaze Thompson.
A local water line break in Glouster disrupts service while residents await repairs. The Catholic Action Guild holds a business meeting Tuesday at 7 30 PM and all members are urged to attend.
A broken water main near the C. E. Handley residence on the west side caused Saturday night water loss for residents there and on S High St. City linemen labored through the night to restore service, with water restored by Sunday morning.
The Orpah Class of the Methodist Church will gather Thursday night at the home of Mrs. John S. Blower with Mrs. L. G. DeLong serving as co hostess.
Eldon Hoffman spent the week end with his father Harry Hoffman. Mrs Hattie Ray of Uniontown Pa visited the Kirkbrid es and Claybergers. Andrew Chute hosted Ed Berger from Cleveland. Frank Cunningham of Ohio State visited grandfather F P Kientz. T W Figley hosted Earl Cain and family from Dayton. Margaret Dunlevy from Columbus visited parents. Anna Louise and Mary Virginia Logue spent Saturday in Columbus. Willard Buchman hosted daughter Alice of Columbus for the weekend. Katherine Hinton of Columbus visited her parents. Jack Mundew, OSU student, visited E E Mundew and family.
United Mine Workers Local 3 905 and Congo Local 81 will send delegates to the scale committee meeting in Atlantic City on November 12. The group will draft a wage scale to be submitted to mine operators in March 1941.
Toots Staulters daughter of Mr and Mrs Albert Staulters was taken Saturday to Mt. Carmel Hospital Columbus in John S Blower ambulance with pneumonia. Her parents accompanied her.
MT UNION Marion Nicholson is ill. Mae Wood spent two weeks in Mobile Alabama returning Saturday. Don Ross and family from Columbus visited the Nicholsons. Dolly Smith and son Robert and W B Caster of Columbus visited the Nicholsons. Emerson Carr of Akron and R Saxton of Middleport visited Harley Carr. M A Epple family visited A C Williams of Union Furnace. Harley Carr and Charles King of Bradbury hosted visitors. Billy Anderson of Cheshire and Dell Rice with family joined an oyster supper for M A Nicholson. Ward Nicholson and Gerrold Minor of Dexter were among guests.
Hollister High School begins boys basketball on Friday November 15 against Carbon Hill. The schedule includes league games at Ames Bern J T Albany and other opponents such as Glouster Murray City Rome The Plains and Greens Run with key dates from November to February.
Funeral services for John Allen Blosser day-old son of Mr and Mrs Kermit Blosser were held in Logan Saturday afternoon. Grandparents Mr and Mrs Alfred Howard and daughter Miss Florence and Mr and Mrs Donald Howard attended. The baby was born Wednesday morning at Mt Carmel Hospital Columbus.
The Rev J A Thompson invites all townspeople to attend an 7:30 evening service at the Methodist Church. Dr J Ira Jones superintendent of the Chillicothe District will speak.
Racine P T A met Tuesday evening with plans for an entertain ment program led by Kenneth Cleland and fifth graders. Miss Dixie Spencer started work at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles in Columbus on November 1. Mrs Harriett McClintock, of Leetart Falls, rents rooms over the First National Bank and will reside in Racine. Barney Shain Ralph Smith and Chick Price, Braddock Pa employees, spent the weekend with their families in Racine R D. Mrs Sidney Fadely visited daughter Allegra Fadely a student at Ohio University Athens, joined by Mr Fadely at the Southeast ern Ohio Teachers meeting. Mr and Mrs Gomer Lewis were luncheon guests of Pomeroy National Bank officials.
Mrs. Minnie Jay John of Columbus announces the marriage of her daughter Gladys to Paul G. Hudson of this city at Russell Kentucky on December 30 1939. Rev John R Gilpin read the ceremony. Gladys taught in Zaleski after Ohio University and Paul is a Wooster College graduate now with the State Welfare Department in Columbus.
Nelsonville Troop 66 scouts are ordered to meet at 6 15 this evening at West School before a 7 o clock Arnold Field football game. New patrol lines will be organized and emergency mobilization instructions will likely be given. Explorer Scouts and Troop 66 members eligible to become Explorers should also attend Thursday at 7 30 with officers and committeemen to hear Field Executive Joe Stratton discuss Senior Scout programs.
Crown City residents share news of visitors and gatherings. Hilda Patterson of Asheville visits her mother Mrs. Bertha Jenkinson while families from Proctorville Ledger, Tuppers Plains join Brumfields at Lake Vesuvius. Local quilting and church events occur as Ed Jenkinson returns from Gallipolis and voting day draws crowds from Ashland and Chesapeake.
The timetable lists East Bound No. 4 Diplomat Daily 1:56 a.m and No. 44 Daily Except Sunday 11:06 a.m, West Bound No. 1 National Limited 9:42 p.m and No. 3 Diplomat Daily 6:05 a.m, plus No. 30 and No. 37 South/North bounds, and New York Central trains No. 2 No. 4 South and North. Athens Airways links to TWA with Eastbound 11:30 a.m 1:40 p.m 5:00 p.m and Westbound 10:50 a.m 2:05 p.m 4:00 p.m with possible connections at Pittsburgh.
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