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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1934
Page
7
GLOUSTER The second annual bazaar of Holy Cross Church will be held at the Stoecklein Building near the depot square on Thanksgiving Day. A chicken dinner and supper will be served and provisions will be made to entertain a large number of guests. There will be booths and various amusements with prizes and sale of articles.
Mrs Helen Earich hosted her bridge club on Wednesday evening. High score: Miss Velme Barstow. Guest: Mrs Grace Binderbasin of Jacksonville. Members present included Mrs Marjorie Anderson, Mrs Marie Anne, Miss Velma Barstow, Miss Lillian Deal, Miss Evelyn Deal, Miss Helen Green, Miss Una Miller, Mrs Faye McKinley, Mrs Eleanor Sharrick, and Miss Edith Wolfe.
Miss Pauline Shepard, a Mountville grade school teacher, was rushed to Grant Hospital in Columbus on Wednesday night due to appendicitis. She was accompanied by her brother Wilmer in a Glouster ambulance. Her mother Mrs. Mary Shepard and J. M. Watkins planned to join her in Columbus on Thursday. She will not undergo surgery immediately.
The Shelton Missionary Society met at Mrs. Lena Barich’s home with 10 members and three visitors. Mrs. Christman led devotional scripture, the program study Oriental Americans was dramatized, and members Rainey Herrold Brown Raber participated. Heckman and Sawyer spoke on Chicago churches aid to Chinese. December meeting to be hosted by Mrs. Rich with Mrs. Earich leading.
Funeral services for Mrs Owen Meredith will be held Sunday at 2 PM at the home of her son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Ray White Madison Street. Burial follows in West Union Street Cemetery Athens. She died Thursday at 8 30 AM at the White home after an operation in Grant Hospital Columbus on Aug 13. She was born in New Straitsville and moved to the city with her parents at age one. Additional notes detail social visits by Courtney Pettit and Mr Harry Vernon with families in Trimble Glouster and nearby towns.
Freeman and Thacker were executed in the electric chair after their conviction for murder. Sheriff Turner and Deputy Warren witnessed the sentence as crowds gathered outside the prison waiting room. Double funeral services are set for Sunday at Mount Olive in Vinton County.
The House approved a sales tax plan with exemptions of 1000 for single filers 2500 for heads of families and 400 per dependent up to 3000. Liquid fuel tax would raise 10 million and excise utility tax add 3 million. Of 40 million projected, 10 million funds old age pensions 6 million relief 5 million poor relief bonds 25 million state school fund with rest to county budget pools. The liquid fuel tax to poor relief. Milk and food exemptions were fought. Senate marked time as Governor White asked reconvened session to consider banking laws planning board water conservation housing and insured mortgage loans.
Dr. Murray N. Fowler, newly elected Athens Kiwanis president, announces the next year’s officers and committee chairs. Officers include Rev. Lloyd W. Clarke as vice president Fred Sands as treasurer and T F E Byrne as secretary. Chairs cover agriculture attendance classifications business standards good will inter-club relations Kiwanis education music public affairs publicity underprivileged children vocational guidance laws rural relations and the Rev Clarke program.
The First Baptist Church in Middleport schedules a Sunday program with Sunday School at 9 15 morning worship at 10 15 sermon theme Thanks for Mercies Past and Present and an evening service at 7 with the First Acts of the Apostles The 5 30 gathering brings together youth groups from local churches at the Presbyterian Church A weekly prayer meeting is planned for Wednesday at 7 pm
Thanksgiving Sunday observed as a day of prayer at the First Baptist Church in Racine. Rev. T. T. Shelton to preach with morning sermon titled Baptist Power and an evening talk on Source of Power. Junior and Senior B Y P U groups meet at 6 45 p m and a prayer meeting is set for Thursday at 7 30 p m.
Reverend G B Courtney of the Church of Christ invites all high school students to a Sunday evening service. Glee clubs will provide music under Miss Cosgrave. MM Bryson will discuss Relationship of Schools Home and Church. Reverend Courtney will deliver the sermon. A donation for the M E Church cleanup fund comes from Miss Bessie Curfman Akron a former Glouster teacher and current principal at Aeron.
The Athens County National Re-employment Service office moves from the main floor to two rooms on the armory’s upper floor this weekend, with reassembly Monday morning. The vacated space will host a skating rink.
Festival items and canned goods donated by the Epworth League and Worthington councilor will benefit White Cross and Methodist Hospital. The Ping Church entry won first prize at the festivalite event.
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