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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1949
Page
6
Nelsonville voters will consider a single special school levy in November. Superintendent D W Codding says two existing operating levies of three mills each are not expiring or up for renewal. The sole proposal is an additional two mills for three years to cover staff and plant costs. renewal ballots will be invalidated.
The Band Boosters Club will hold a rummage sale on Saturday starting at 9 a.m. in the Elk's building on Hocking Street.
The Rev and Mrs Paul Niswander Mrs Harry Ball Mrs Mabel Lancaster and Charles Wiseman attended a Zone mass meeting of Methodist workers in Springfield Ohio Tuesday promoting the national theme Advance for Christ in nation wide conferences. Bishops Warner Watkins and Brashers addressed the gathering of more than 1000 attendees.
Nelsonville advance ticket sales for Mount St. Mary Hospital benefit film Come to the Stable exceed expectations. The Majestic Theater will host showings Sunday through Tuesday October 16 18 with multiple daily times and a lobby stamp collection for sales tax stamps.
Lees McKibben of Indianapolis, son of Mr and Mrs James McKibben of Zaleski, fractured his left leg in a fall last Sunday while descending steps to a furnace room. The report notes his roles as organist and choir director at Church of the Advent Episcopal. The page also mentions a yellow billed cuckoo and its eating of fuzzy caterpillars and stomach lining effects.
Nelsonville Methodist Church Queen Esther Sunday School class held its annual Halloween party in the sorority rooms on W Washington Street. Thirty members attended in masquerade costumes, with Mary Tigner presiding and Jeanette Grimm reading scripture.
Mr and Mrs Terry Tigner hosted a Saturday fish fry at 1014 Poplar Street with Lake Erie fish prepared by Emory and Alice Miller of Norwalk and Cleveland guests. Attending were the Millers from Nelsonville and Shelby Barber family along with several Tigner relatives and their children.
Willing Workers To Meet The Willing Workers Class of the Christian Church will meet Friday at 7 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Frank Anderson, 86 Myers St. Members have been asked to take their favorite dishes.
Mary Hutchins and Cecil Willis announced their marriage solemnized in Texas on Friday afternoon September 30. Attended by Mr. and Mrs. Galvin Wiseman, the bride wore a winter red street length dress with black accessories and gardenia corsage. The groom works as a mechanic for a Texas construction company and they will reside in Texas. Mrs Willis is visiting her Madison Street home.
The VFW Auxiliary changed tonight's regular meeting from 8 p.m. to 7 30 p.m. The change was announced this morning.
A meeting of the Willing Workers Sunday School Class scheduled for Friday night has been postponed, it was announced this morning.
Nelsonville High School Rural Boosters plan a bake sale Saturday starting at 9 am at the Central School Building. The article also notes Henri de Toni, called the Man with Iron Hand, an explorer linked to La Salle, famed for replacing a lost arm with a metal prosthetic.
The West German Communist Party urged members to prepare handmade presents for Premier Stalin on his 70th birthday December 21. The party said Germans Communists have a special obligation to thank Comrade Stalin.
An educational film Gateway to the West about early Ohio Valley settlement by French and English was shown at Nelsonville High School assembly sponsored by Mrs. Belle Whitman. Dorothy Brunston served as mistress of ceremonies and a comedy speech skit drew enthusiasm from the student body.
Nelsonville Community Concert Association will hold a membership drive the week of October 24 to 29. Co chairs are Mrs Edward Sharp and Mrs W H Hyde. Directors plan final campaign details at the Hyde home on E Columbus Street next Tuesday.
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