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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1939
Page
9
GLOUSTER Brown-Wolf Market won two of three games from Scott Dairy in the City League Monday to break a two way tie for third place. Marketman E. Wolf led with a 225 single and a 556 triple.
Gallipolis reports Leo Shaver state hospital employee in fair condition at Holzer Hospital with a well defined case of rabbit fever.
Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard headline the Athena Theater debut of Paramount’s The Cat and the Canary a spook and spoof film based on the famous stage play. Elliott Nugent directs with a cast including John Beal Douglass Montgomery Gale Sondergaard Elizabeth Patterson and George Zucco delivering eerie and comical moods.
Miss Nannie Viney and Mr Lawrence Williams wed on Thanksgiving Day drawing attendees from Indianapolis Indiana to Columbus Mississippi and Rendville Ohio with guests including Hale Williams Cecil Woodson Frank Key Rocky Cassels James E Williams William H Williams Ernest Goins Thelma Conley Frances Viney Thelma Edwards Julia Miller Albert G Allen and Vernarda Preston.
Glouster residents welcomed a wide range of visitors over Thanksgiving including E S Weimer and Marjorie Findlay, Kermit Blosser Columbus, William Howard Athens Ohio Univ, Max Martin Belmont, and many relatives. The community also updates on funerals and travels with local families visiting from Portsmouth Hebbardsville Nelsonville and Athens. A Trimble Church of Christ Progressive Class meeting is announced for Friday Nov 30 with a communal lunch plan.
On this day strong planetary impulses push forward new projects and group ventures. Born on this day gain definite accomplishment through courageous initiative and practical creative work, though beware overzealous, headstrong impetuosity and obstinacy.
Mrs. Esther Lamborn hosted the N T Club in Glouster on Friday evening. Plans were made for the December 22 Christmas dinner at Mrs. Emma Heffken’s home. Readings included Season's End Life The White Rose The Family Deception Two Months Before Christmas. A turkey contest added merriment with prizes to Mrs. Mary Johnston and Mrs. Dena Morris. A refreshment course followed for 12 members. Hansard is noted as the official Parliament report.
GALLIPOLIS Deserved promotion has come to Carlos W Stone a native of the city and brother of Mrs. G A Tabit. Stone has been made manager for Clark County Lumber Co with headquarters in Springfield after twelve years in lesser capacities.
Miss Margaret Noel, a former teacher, is appointed attendance officer for the local schools succeeding Miss Dorothy Burnett who resigned from the post.
Mrs. Tena Armstrong and George Roe will retire on pension from the Ohio Hospital for Epileptics roster effective January 1 due to age limitations.
Miss Marguerite Fay, a Huntington accordionist, will be featured at tonight's Rotary Club Ladies Night meeting. Next week's program will be presented by Dr. W. Lewis Brown.
GALLIPOLIS Applicants for marriage licenses are Everett Thomas, 30, and Myrtle Dowell, 30, both of Southside West Virginia, Sherman K. Frye, 21, Yorkville, and Viola Munsey, 21, Middleport Ohio, Okey Cunningham, 22, and Mildred Kay, 22, both of Ripley.
Herbert A. Cardwell, post office receiving clerk, notes no foreign mailings for Christmas have begun. He warns the deadline for such mailings will come early in December.
Gallipolis report says 1 C Ross Niday is in critical condition after a second stroke of paralysis with only small hope for recovery.
The Eagles club plans a Christmas Night dance for the public featuring Clyde Trask’s orchestra providing the music.
Frank C. Ghr a local bank cashier departs Gallipolis by train for Potter County Pennsylvania to spend a week deer hunting in the countryside returning home after the trip.
Yesterday's temperature mark of 18 degrees finished a new low for the season, reported by Edwin McCormick, log government observer.
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