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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1921
Page
3
Four prize masquerade ball planned at Circle Hill Dance Hall on Wednesday evening. A four piece orchestra will perform with best of order and free lunch served.
The Messenger Watch Dog visited Nelsonville to aid residents in Christmas shopping. Daily Classified ad No 42 will feature gift ideas with article details and merits, some with prices. Readers are urged to consult the Watch Dog and submit gift items to Bartlett's Printery.
Relatives from several towns attended the funeral of Mrs Ruth Hall. Names listed include Mrs Sadie Pfaut Marietta Mrs Maggie Pinnick Crooksville Mrs Mary Cox New Straits ville Mrs T C Higgins Wellston Mr and Mrs Charles Fisk Beau mont Mrs Mary Moore Buchtel John M Cooley Athens Mrs William Edgar Mrs Wm Bechtold Mrs Sadie Carsey and Mrs Ross Rathburn Athens Mrs Anna Bodinet Logan Ohio.
Members of F. O. E. No. 391 are called for a Thanksgiving evening initiation by the Glouster degree team and officers. The text notes work to be performed and mentions a rabbit.
A notice states all members are requested to attend a banquet. The message emphasizes full participation and proper etiquette for the event.
The Nelsonville Schools will observe the week of December T1090 as education week to promote the value of schooling. The article cites 1920 census data showing 64 residents over age 10 unable to read or write and urges increased local interest to cut that number before 1930.
An old fashioned Thanksgiving service will be held on Thanksgiving Day at 2 30 PM at the International Holiness Church of Nelsonville. The program includes a sermon music singing and a love feast with a church crowd pictured afterward. Rev Harlin Plunkett pastor invites Christians of all denominations to attend.
On Sunday the Christian Church outlined three key events for the coming year. December 11 will be Every Member Canvass Day with potential participation by a national figure from St. Louis. Plans also cover the White Gift Christmas service. In January a strong Ohio evangelist will lead a major revival. The Bible school surpassed 500, and two baptisms occurred with steady weekly additions.
The Hocking Valley Fire Clay Company grants a lease for a 200 acre game preserve adjoining Baird Brothers land. A $200 fine is set for hunting on the property. Warn friends.
Chester Staley of Floodwood pleaded guilty to creating a disturbance while intoxicated and was fined 10 dollars plus costs totaling 22 dollars. He offered a lore about liquor procurement involving a hollow stump cash deposit and a bottle of corn liquor as a pay as you enter system.
John Parmiter of Athens pleaded guilty before Mayor McCune to possessing intoxicating liquor and carrying concealed weapons, receiving penalties of 100 dollars plus costs for the liquor charge and 25 dollars plus costs for the weapon charge. W. D. Brown of Athens was fined 10 dollars plus costs for intoxication.
Nelsonville Lodge No. 543 B P O Elks invites members to a November 24, 1921 dance featuring the Central American Marimba Band. The act, praised as the season’s best, recently cut Victor records and performed at venues in Atlantic City and New York. Admission by membership card. all Elks welcomed.
The Preston home filled with friends on Monday as they paid tribute to Mrs. Abbie Benson. Businesses closed from 2 to 4 pm for the funeral. Friends F X Rauch and Jennie Burrell Webb sang and Rev. Leon Arpee led the service at the First Presbyterian church. The body was laid to rest at Greenlawn amid many flowers.
Ruth A. Moore Hall of Nelsonville Ohio born November 15 1841 in Washington County daughter of Samuel and Martha Moore married James A Hall a Civil War veteran. She raised six children in Nelsonville was active in the Methodist Episcopal Church M E Sunday School W C T U and Woman's Relief Corps. She died November 13 1921 two days before her eightieth birthday leaving three sons one daughter fifteen grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Her family expresses deep gratitude for sympathy and prayers from friends and neighbors.
Col. R. P. Dickerson of Springfield Missouri adopted Harry W Haley a former soldier recently released from Leavenworth prison Haley had served to replace a buddy who saved his life in France and later married.
Dayton to install a lighthouse atop the water tower at McCook Field to aid night fliers this winter. The white painted tank roof will house powerful electric lights flashing to distinguish it from city lights.
Washington reports Eugene V. Debs will probably spend Thanksgiving Day in the Atlanta federal prison according to statements from the White House and the Department of Justice.
Burbank jokes about inventing a hen that lays best when egg prices peak. The quip plays on market swings and the inventor’s unlikely scheme.
The advisory council, once in the background, was summoned this afternoon for a 2.20 o'clock session with the American arms limitation delegation.
Glouster chamber and county commissioners agreed to ask the state highway department for a next year appropriation to build the Corning Glouster road. A hearing will be sought promptly with the highway board, with lawmakers and chamber reps to accompany the delegation to Columbus.
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