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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1929
Page
8
Social rounds fill Strouds Run with visits and family gatherings. A Reedville style report lists neighbors like the Smiths, Mattesons, and McCleads hosting relatives and friends from Athens to Mansfield. Local groups met with the Community Literary Society noting a November 22 program and a December 6 gathering.
Emma Hogarth is found strangled in a Rhodes boarding house room on June 29. Detective Bonnie Dundee and Lieut. Strawn investigate suspects including Emil Sevier, Cor a Barker, Henry Dowd, Norma Paige, Walt Styles, Bert Magnus, and Daisy Shepherd as possible killers.
In a continuing tale at the Rhodes House, detective Dundee uncovers stray clues among boarders and a roomful of clutter. Bert Magnus and Norma Paige figure in a web of gadgets and suspects as Norma prepares for a typing test and a future with Walter Styles. Cap'n the parrot and Daisy Shepard add color while Dundee searches Norma’s room for evidence.
McDougal and A A Easler spent weekend with son Wilbur in Columbus. Mrs. Elva Conner visited Chauncey and Athens. Mr and Mrs Frank Cone stayed in Athens. Raymond Mulpas and relatives, Garnet Conner, and others from Sugar Creek, Hooper Ridge, Glouster, Nelsonville and Akron were guests or visitors at multiple homes including those of A A Easler, Harve Wolfe, and Weaver family. Ace Linscott was an Athens visitor Monday.
Eden Miss Delcia Windon visits Mrs. E. E. Powell in Reedsville. Frank Durst of Long Bottom spends Wednesday evening with Miss Mae Stout. Harold Cowdery of Hockingport visits M. C. Rockhold family. Harold Brannon visits Joseph Cubbison family. Ira and H. F. Kibble in Coolville and Tuppers Plains on business. William Reed of Port Homer visits uncle Delbert Barber. Mr and Mrs Micheal Kerwin call on George Reed family. Ambrose Kibble employed at Parkersburg visits home folks. Reverend Harwood holds quarterly meeting at Eden United Brethren Church. Miss Delcie Window visits Saturday with Miss Ethel Barber and Do. E Blake and Eldon. Webster and William Reed visit Ira Kibble family. Mrs. Alvin Reed of Port Homer visits her parents. Ira Tribbet calls on Edward Read. Cc. O. Cowdery learns of sister Alice Beam's death in Reedsville. Webster Reed visits Cecil Swaim. Joseph Tribbet and son Heamon of Joppa here on business. Frank Durst spends end of week with George Reed. Harry Lovel of Joppa visits relatives. E. Kibble calls on Ira Kibble. George Reed family spends Sunday with Micheal Kerwin family.
Depend on Zemo to stop itching with soothing, invisible antiseptic. Used for twenty years with remarkable success for all forms of skin irritation. Relief with first application, says users. Prices 35c 60c and $1.90 from all dealers.
Mrs. Alice Beam of Reedsville dies from diphtheria and is buried in Reedsville Cemetery. The notice also lists local social visits and neighborly moves including the Chap mans and Hoffmans at Spence house and related occupancy changes.
All diseases of men women and children treated. Catarrh and stomach diseases receive special attention. If you are afflicted, consult this specialist. If curable, he will tell you frankly. if not, he will advise. Rheumatism nervousness dropsy heart disease and many conditions treated.
Promoting a male specialist for female health issues, the ad claims headaches, melancholia, spinal problems, and ovarian or womb troubles can be treated without surgery. It warns against surgical advice and promises hope through chemical and microscopical blood, urine, and sputum exams, inviting all communications.
Bishopville visitors Charles Milhorn family called on Cora Householder in Jacksonville. Lucille Bolinger returned to Marietta after a stay with Will and Lucille Bolinger. Herman Jones Floyd Smith visited Etdoris Smith family in Jacksonville. Artrup family returned to Columbus after visiting Lula Grubb. Pedicord visited his mother Ellen Pedicord. Kasler family spent time with Ira Kasler and parents. Koons and Lantz families from Columbus joined Moody family visit. Mrs Moody ill but improving.
Carbondale residents Willis Arnold and two sons Paul and Orville, Philo, spent Sunday with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Van Arnold. Rachel Easterling and Guy Lowry, with children, visited Creola with Mont Herwick family. Dora Hoak called on Mrs. William Clark Friday evening. Joe and Philo Stanton visited their parents Mr. and Mrs Sam Stanton and Mrs. William Clark over Sunday. Sarah Webb from Columbus spent the weekend with sister Mrs. William Pidcock.
Mr and Mrs Dwight Clark of Asbury Ridge and guests from Marysville and Columbus visited local families over the weekend. Colum bus residents Mr and Mrs Ford Doolittle entertained Mrs Sarah Webb at Sunday dinner. Other visitors included Mr and Mrs Walter Webb with children Rosamond and James from Columbus calling on Mr and Mrs Fred Dust. A business visitor Harry Pawk from Canondale returned home after eye removal. Miss Gail Doolittle of Columbus listed as daughter of Mr and Mrs Ford Doolittle. Mr and Mrs P J Stanley of Gloucester called on Mr and Mrs Mac Stanley Sunday afternoon. Mr and Mrs Frank Betts of Athens were Sunday guests of Mrs Jan Howson.
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