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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1930
Page
3
Local notes from Nelsonville and vicinity inviting readers to submit society items and notices via telephone. Reads as a classifieds and circulation message encouraging use of the service and providing call numbers for staff correspondence and representation.
Nelsonville reports on a family event with Jack Pritchard Jr son of Mr and Mrs Jack Pritchard. The elder Jack Pritchard Sr secretary of the local Masonic order hunted with his son and supplied the meat for the dinner, delivering the legal limit.
Many Columbus area visits are listed with relatives and friends including Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Ogg and Sharp. Diphtheria claims Maury Magdalena, 15 months, with private Morristown funeral and Greenlawn burial. Mrs Amanda Daugherty 62 to be buried after Massillon death. Funeral in Carbondale Church Tuesday at 10:30.
The first in a series of benefit card parties will be held Monday evening in St. Andrew's Parish Hall. Sponsored by ladies of St. Andrews Catholic Church, the event includes bridge and euchre. The public is invited and play is set to begin at 8 o'clock.
A simple daily half teaspoonful of Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin prescribed for bottle fed or constipated babies. The doctor with forty seven years practice claims it trains tiny bowels to regularity and avoids crying vomiting and weight gain problems. Millions keep a bottle at home.
Nelsonville report shows Ohio produced 549000 tons of coal for the week ended November 1, matching the prior week and the year-ago figure. National soft coal output for the week ended November 8 fell to 9698000 net tons, while year-to-date soft coal total stands near 394,590,000 tons through November 8.
At the school house Happy Hollow a Child Study Group of mothers was organized with Elsie Bookman as chair. It will meet on the third Monday each month to study issues in raising children and improving home life.
Mrs Jesse Willis entertained Friday night for her daughter Edna Dell turning seven. After games and music refreshments were served to guests including Audrey DeLong Ruth Riley Catherine Bircher Phyliss DeLong Elenor Weaver Betty Kesterson Mary Ellen Patton Julia Bell Gilliam Dorothy Helen Bateman Clara Gilliam Junior Auflick Elizabeth Ann Fisk Jack Kontner and Raymond Henshaw.
Announced birth of daughter Nancy Lou to Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler Newton at their Charleston West Virginia home on Wednesday November 5.
Nelsonville Lodge No. 543 BPO Elks will hold initiation ceremonies here next Tuesday evening. A lunch will be served after the session.
Mrs Will Patton hosts the Esther Class of the Christian Sunday School this evening at 7 30 at her Railroad Street home assisted by Mrs Frank Johnson and Mrs James Coleman.
Frank R. Bonifield aged 24 of Athens Louise Johnson 21 of Nelsonville Kenneth Grimm 21 of Athens and Almeda Johnson 21 of Athens are named in community notices.
Mrs William Patton will entertain members of the Mother Class of the Christian Sunday School Monday evening at her Railroad Street home. A dinner will be served by the hostess.
The first in a series by St Andrew's Church ladies takes place this evening at 8 o clock in the parish hall. The public is invited to attend.
Wayne Wingett sheriff elect of Athens County and John W Bolin prosecuting attorney elect for the county received commissions from the Department of State to day.
The Athens Messenger announces a new booklet The Fifteenth Census offering state population figures from the 1930 enumeration. It invites readers to mail ten cents with a coupon to obtain the unique publication.
In Nelsonville on November 17 the Rev. Evans preached from Ezekiel 14 at the Presbyterian Church about how Noah Daniel and Job would save only themselves in today’s world. He warned ministers to balance comfort with warnings of hell, urged personal responsibility, and cited a Millfield accident where a worker bore scripture on his desk as he saved himself.
Clyde Viper dreamt he was marching with lodge members in a parade but awoke to find his marching ended when he fell from a second story window. He survived the fall unhurt though shocked by the mishap.
Dr J S Leonhardt offers HIEEM-ROID as an internal cure for piles claiming it strengthens the bowel and relieves symptoms. The dealer Quicks Cut Rate Drug Store guarantees money back if it does not end piles misery, urging readers to avoid external treatments or surgery.
Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, fresh from a tropics tour, says she feels like a new person. She denies visiting cabarets in Colon Panama and declines to comment on a so called Hallelujah Cocktail threat at Bilgray's Cabaret in Cristobal.
Representative George Holden Tinkham files a formal demand with Attorney General Mitchell for a federal grand jury investigation of Bishop James Cannon Jr. over alleged campaign violations during the 1928 election. The charge focuses on Cannon’s anti-Smith activities and possible Corrupt Practices Act breaches.
A Scarsdale mother credits Smith Brothers Cough Syrup with easing her son Johnny's severe cold. She describes coughing, congestion, and a rapid recovery, stating the syrup saved her boy from a real illness.
A U S report from Colombia states a laboratory error led to 16 children dying and 38 in critical condition after a doctor at Casas Canas Free Hospital allegedly inoculated them with diphtheria germs by mistake for anti diphtheria vaccine.
A Sunday high of 76 degrees was logged at the government weather station run by FE. VV. Wolfe in Lower Plains, believed to be a seasonal record for Southeastern Ohio. Nearly an inch of rain fell since Saturday morning, with the forecast predicting rain and colder conditions tomorrow.
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