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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1931
Page
17
Millfield Parent Teacher Association will meet Monday night at 7 30 in the West Side School for the election of officers A brief program has been arranged and parents and patrons of the district are invited to attend.
A Wednesday meeting at the home of Mr and Mrs Ralph Brown in Champ Jos Kang directed the business session for the Church of Christ. Officers were elected with Mrs Ralph TWh as class president Ruth Fiske named secretary and Mrs Wg Pickering assisting as treasurer. A November class meeting was planned with refreshments chaired by Mrs Arthur ith and entertainment under Floyd ye. Chauncey held a birthday party for Charles A Bradfield Sr with family and friends attending at his Converse Street home.
Members of the Episcopal Sunday School class at The Plains will host a reception at the church Wednesday night for Rev. HL Reitz and Mrs Reitz, who have returned to the pastorate for another year. Class members, families, and church leaders will attend. Mrs ay Michael presides and Mrs exasah Humphrey leads the program.
In Chauncey Oct 10 a session of the Chauncey Dover Board of Education and Chauncey Dover teachers was held at the high school auditorium with Superintendent Wesley Walburn presiding. Talks by Walford members and teachers discussed monthly meetings and upcoming sectional gatherings for round table discussions. The next meeting is set for the first Monday in December and refreshments were served after the social period.
Chauncey October 10 Mr Elmer Stage announced the birth of a Vernon Elwood stage born at lower plains weighing nine and a half pounds. He is the grandson of Mr and Mrs H E Miso of the lower plains. Nearby notes list other local moves and visits including Denzill Phillips and Clifford Eld Jr. visiting Chauncey relatives and hospital updates.
Bethany and nearby communities report visits by Nancy Morris Mildred Kern Lorene Brandeberry and others. families travel for dental surgery see relatives and return from Northern Ohio while local crops like Irish Cobbler potatoes and sawmill activity on Garrett farm are noted.
Chesterhill two month old twin son of Mr and Mrs David Waite near Tabor died Thursday at University Hospital Columbus after birth illness. Surviving are parents one sister and five brothers. Funeral services Saturday with interment at Tabor Cemetery. Also notes on the first A B Smith and Wogan family reunion at Chesterhill Fair grounds. Officers elected for the year. next reunion at Wrightstown. Several local notes on schools and residents follow.
Forestry chief Secrest of the Ohio Experiment Station advises autumn planting of hardwoods such as walnut, hickory, and oaks with seedlings 18 to 24 inches high or direct seeding of nuts and acorns after fall. Nuts planted two inches deep, spaced about five feet apart, can germinate for a future forest stand. autumn work reduces spring congestion.
The itemized rural notes report several illness recoveries and family visits. Garden Bins Randolph shows improvement from typhoid fever while Mrs Exa Mohler cared for her sick grandson Hubert Weatherby in Athens. The Weatherbys traveled to Lawrence County for a pastoral appointment. Visits to Burlingham and Holzer Hospital are noted along with a range of Sunday gatherings and planned church meetings.
NEW YORK October 10 Let not the gardener rest in any feeling of false security in October It is a time for planning another season s garden Here soil conditioning bulb burying perennial planting cleanups and shielding of inter needs of garden areas are crowded into the next eight weeks A blanket of fresh soil enriched from the compost heap should be put on depressions filed extra piles of earth for half hardy plants Lady bugs found in digging should be left alone for they feed on pests Gardens should be limed except where sour loving plants grow Summer flowering bulbs should be removed and stored Fall planting should be done remembering that the kinds that bloom first should be planted first
Logan Ohio October 29 30 a soils laboratory truck owned by the State Extension Service will visit Hocking County under D R Dodds specialist with three or four stops for lime and phosphorus tests free to farmers. Local communities with greatest interest will host the stops and farmers must register at the local extension office early to determine test sites. A later schedule of stops will be announced. Stewart Mr George Chesser of Guysville repaired the roof of Rome Township High School building
H Miller Canton 47 night watchman at Hunterdan Mine No 267 Ohio Collieries Co died after a stroke aggravated by acute indigestion. Local physician and Coroner Loy Jones held inquest. Miller had worked two weeks since joining Sept. Body prepared for burial. Survived by wife and five children. He came from Canton to work in the coal company. Funeral plans pending.
Mrs Ray White hosted a bridge shower at her Meadilaon Street home Thursday night honoring her sister in law Mrs John Clark Jr Four tables played with Mrs Ella McDonald high Mrs Norma Powers second and Mrs Elizabeth Faires low A two course lunch followed served by the hostess and Mrs Owen Meredith Guests included Mrs Clark and many others from Glouster and nearby towns including Nelsonville and Columbus
The Good Odd Fellowship Club of the district, affilated with Mage City Lodge I O F, will meet at Philo next Thursday night. Meetings are open to Gold Bellows and their families and Rebekahs and their families. The meetings are usually well attended by members of Odd Fellow and Rebekah Lodges throughout the district.
Miss Margaret Molnar has left for Cleveland to enter City Hospital and begin the Nurses Training School course.
A regular meeting of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society was held at the home of Mrs Mary Binderbasin with Mrs John Bulle presiding. Mr K Rockhold led discussions and one new member joined. Refreshments were served to 18 members.
Hollister October 10 large turnout at the Hollister P T A meeting in the high school auditorium. Miss Ann Morran health nurse spoke on child health and talks of interest to parents followed a health play by third grade pupils. The banner for most parents present was awarded and Alex Raut of Athens will attend next meeting to speak.
Rothwell Club met at Mrs WoA Craft s Spring Street home for an afternoon program on presidents from Grant to Coverage. Members read papers, received responses on presidential terms, and donations for needy children were discussed. Mothers Club and WCTU announcements follow with Oct acts in Jacksonville Trimble and Barbour Street meetings.
Ohio Legislature approved funding to remodel the Carnegie Library at Ohio University. Work begins after Oct 15 and the Edwuin Watts Chubb Library remains in use, with full remodeling by February. The event features educators from Athens and state universities, with lectures on laboratories, visual education, and industrial arts to accompany the restructuring.
A convention for junior high and related teachers will be held in the Arts Auditorium at 6 pm. Speakers include Professor Colveott from Columbia Public Lab, Dr Anne Vrewington of the University of Chicago, and Dean Asbhaugh of Miami University. Topics cover teaching methods across mathematics and physical education.
Funeral services for K. Jackson and John Rayford were held in Cleveland after police shot two Black men during a Tuesday night chase. Crowds attended at Spero Hall as mourners filed past brown coffins. An admission fee of 10 cents was charged for visitors who walked through the entrance marked by black and red mourning pins and Communist Party insignia.
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