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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1940
Page
2
Doanville Parent Teacher Association will meet at the school house Friday evening Oct 11 at 7 o'clock. Parents are urged to attend as several business matters will be considered including festival plans and committee appointments. Pupils will present a short musical program and a potluck lunch will follow.
Completion of work near officials says the Nelsonville canal road project is slated for October 26 with a tentative official dedication. Brick laying should finish Friday night and the street may be open to traffic in about two weeks. Open from west intersection to Harper Street, plans include high school bands, highway department officials speaking, and a large dance on the new street.
The South African Dutch bake bread in anthills by scooping a hole in large ant heaps and sealing it with iron to create a makeshift oven.
In Chesterhill social items, Wendyll Thomas dies and is interred in Friends Cemetery. Lena Faye Michener and John Woodward wed in a wedding at their new apartment with Rev. Nutters officiating. The list of social happenings includes relocations, visits, and social events around the community.
Twenty four members of the Past Matrons and Patrons Association gathered at the Masonic Temple last evening for a 6:15 dinner hosted by C. E. Washburn C. L. Stout Walter Lennox and Charles Walker. Garden flowers adorned the tables and dining room in a social evening following dinner.
Dr. N Hill visits Columbus hosts Mr and Mrs Dave Evans. Miss Blanche Riley departs for Philadelphia due to sister’s illness. Mrs Hazel Van Bibber omitted from Mrs Helen Norris party guest list at Logan home. Mrs Della Walters and Mrs Ada Coakley visited New Straitsville at Bartie Reinshall home. Mr and Mrs C D Shafer plan to Harrisonburg Virginia for Blue and Gray Trail Association annual meeting where Shafer sits on the board.
Nelsonville report of the Presbyterian Church Men’s Brotherhood fish fry with 75 men attending. Dobby Sayers led the refreshments as Charles Shafer’s Blues beat Eddie Brisack’s Whites in the attendance contest. Meeting moved to the second Thursday monthly with music by the Sunday School orchestra and talks by Prof. Neil Thomas and Dr Gamertsfelder on religion’s role in world crisis.
Miss Irene McDowell resigns after 14 years of Christian social service in the Hocking Valley under the Presbyterian National Missions Board. She led work in Deanville Floodwood and Kimberly and will become director of religious education at Westminster Church Steubenville leaving soon.
Funeral services for Mrs. Annabell Jones Goff age 34 former Nelsonville resident were held Monday afternoon at the Stout Funeral Home. Burial was at Greenlawn. Survived by husband Orlando Goff a foster son mother Rose Jones sisters Ethel Walker Columbus Mary Black Hamilton and Mrs George Evans Logan grandmother Maggie Topsail uncle John Topsail Nelsonville.
Ginger Burgess born last July weighed only one pound ten ounces. Doctors now report she weighs three pounds two ounces and they believe she may become the smallest baby on record to survive at Bellevue Hospital in New York.
Post office records show 89 109 regular and substitute mail clerks employed across the United States. The figure underscores nationwide staffing levels for the postal service amid ongoing operational needs.
A large crowd of high school students gathered at Nelsonville High School to hear H Max Good of the Wings of Prayer staff speak on Naaman. The event included a trio by Donna Virginia Patton and Janet B with special music by Mr and Mrs Good Jewell Speer and Merrill Good. Services continue through Sunday evening.
A community benefit party is set for Friday night in the LO.O.F. Hall. Organizers call for attendance to support local efforts.
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