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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1926
Page
6
Albany reports a Wednesday Helping Hands class bake sale set for November 24 at T. W. Coe hardware. Drury injured by accidental shot while rabbit hunting. treated in Gloucester. Mrs Ceph Lindley hosts dinner for Anna Brooks with ten guests. także Community members attend club events and a quilting bee recalls pioneer days.
Carbon Hill resident John Kesler returns from a hunting trip in Fairfield county. District 45 Rebekah Lodge reports on the last assembly during Tuesday evening proceedings. Detroit’s Stanley Crook visits his parents, while Roy Johnson recovers after a Cherrington hospital operation in Logan. Mrs. Roy Mays and son visit Nelisonville area relatives Fannie Sallie and Frank Thorn. Traveling tobacco salesman Robert Chute, from Athens, spends two nights with his mother and sister in Nelsonville. Mrs. Wil Winigmar and Mrs. Floyd Parry visit NelsonvilleWednesday.
The Plains region reports numerous visits. Aldie Matheney and Athens relatives stayed with Emaline Matheney. Tom Beck and family visited Ervin Nore and Warren. John Leonard quit at Logan and returned home to work at the Hocking mine. Rob Hawk and Fred Gabriel returned to work at the mine and bought a Foral houring car. Will Potts family visited from Mansfield. Lillian Hyselt’s family guests. Will Bowlby family will visit cousins Joe and Ruth Hutchina. Mike Dukeman sold property to Haney. Popowick family from Akran vacationing in Athens and The Plains.
Hamden Jr and Mrs J T Ogier Jr attended the Michigan Ohio State football game in Columbus. Blanche Davisson and Miss Marion Dye were guests at Columbus. Joan T Omer Jr joined a smoker and fine food dinner at the Country Club. Mrs Burley Henry of McArthur visits her son in law and daughter. Calvin and Charles Howe with Tom Anderson guests of relatives here return to Dayton. John Q C Martin Jackson is a young man with Mr and Mrs Atis. W E Stanton and Mrs Stanton are his relatives. Miss Ollye Suthers spent time with Miss Vergil Eberts and Mrs Inez Eberts at Puritan. Mr and Mrs George Evans and children motor to Oak Hill to visit Mr and Mrs S Bates and Mr and Mrs L Howell and their kids. Miss Arthena Dover of Jackson was guest of Miss Rosa Jackman. The two year old son of Mr and Mrs Ure McWhorter near Byers suffered a broken left arm in two places above the elbow while waiting for a truck to take him to school after a fall on a stone.
Doanville hosts a Wednesday birthday gathering with music games and singing. Guests include Loretta McConahay Sadie Nixon J N Nixon Ellen Pritts Irene McDowell Grace Covert Ethel Lang Etta Hutchison Lizzie Leudner Laura Stephenson and several Nixon Covert McConahay and Stephenson family members. James Stephenson slowly improves after three weeks of illness.
A carpenter from Manasquan New Jersey recounts a long ruptured condition cured without operation after trying an unnamed remedy. He says prior attempts failed and the rupture never returned despite hard labor. He urges others with ruptures to seek this information, claiming it saves time worry and future trouble.
Snow Fork Temple No 77 Pythian Sisters plan their 82nd anniversary and roll call on December 1 following a lodge meeting. A busy social period with lunch will follow. The Methodist Episcopal Ladies Aid held a regular meeting and quilting session at the church with a sizable group of members and several visitors from Nelsonville and surrounding towns. Numerous residents and visitors are noted in a long roster of local movements, visits, and family prayers across Murray City and nearby communities.
A Thanksgiving program by the grammar room will be held at the high school audioarium on Wednesday evening November 24. The band orchestra will furnish music. Gruhler is the teacher. Several local residents attended Sheriff Rive’s funeral in Widdellport on Tuesday. Mr and Mrs W H Hunter of Sandyville WV visited friends here. Ray Evans has sold his farm and is moving his family to Twentywood WV.
Hockingport Mrs Myrta Adams was a recent business visitor at Parkersburg. H. S. Dutton is spending the week in institute work in Noble County.
Buchtel Mr and Mrs Frank Mason and two sons of Logan visited Mrs George Worthington. Dorothy Bookman returning from Lancaster to spend the winter. Fifth grade scholars averaging 53 or more: Harold Tolliver Evelyn Rife Mary Margaret Shesky Marie Hayden Michael Cruttacky Floyd Harring Thomas Spurgeon. Mr and Mrs James Baroone and family back from Cleveland. Mrs Will Lewis visited Mrs Tra Whitmore Tweed. Mrs James Mahaffey surprised on sixth birthday with friends Ed Davis and grand.
New Marshfield High School and grades plan a community day on Tuesday November 23. Events include a 12 PM start with displays and class room decorations, followed by an 8 PM operetta The Feast of the Red Corn led by the Girls Glee Club. Emmet Soden of Anderson Indiana arrived after a funeral.
Local residents and visitors gathered in Coolville and nearby towns for funeral services for Alex Biles at Heiney Ridge. Numerous relatives and friends from Springfield Tulsa Decatur Athens and Columbus visited relatives and attended church, concerts, and revival services.
Redtown Mrs George Chapplear and Mrs Watte McDonald were in Athens Thursday. Mrs Fred Smith, recently back from Sheltering Arms hospital at Athens, continues to improve at her mother Mrs Will Reher home. The Rev Fowler will preach at 6 30 Sunday evening in the Free Methodist church. Sunday school at the usual hour. Turn to Page Seven.
An advertisement touts a new unbreakable spectacle enabling reading fine print and sharp sewing. True-Fit Optics Co of Chicago offers 1009 free pairs to promoters and claims easy agency access with earnings from 8000 to 9000 monthly, inviting immediate writing for details.
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