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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Oct 13, 1950

Page

11

High School Grid Games This Week and College Slate

Friday schedule features Nelsonville at Athens and Jackson at Pomeroy with several other varsity matchups. Ohio University hosts Western Reserve at 2 p.m. while Ohio State plays Indiana and several top colleges face regional foes across the Mid‑American area.

Vriday Nelsonville Athens Gallipolis Wellston Jackson Pomeroy Middleport Logan the Plains Chauncey McArthur Jacksonville Trimble Glouster Coalton Rutland Williamson Point Pleasant Ravenswood Pennsboro Crooksville Dresden Caldwell Philo McConnelsville New Concord New Lexington Parkersburg Little Reds Belpre Marietta Stadium Ohio U Western Reserve OU Stadium Western Michigan Miami Pitt Uniontown Cincinnati Kentucky Dayton Toledo Ilinois Ucla Akron Carnegie Tech Alfred Buffalo Butler Ball State Marietta Kent State Marshall Murray Ohio Wilmington Ohio Northern Olivet Bluffton Ohio State Indiana Denison Wooster Capital Heidelberg Findlay Ashland Cedarville Defiance Slippery Rock Muskingum Assumption Wittenberg Union Baldwin Wallace Youngstown John Carroll Louisiana Tech Xavier Bowling Green Central Midh Ohio Wesleyan Case Grove City Hiram DePauw Obertin

Rice Trap Up The Middle Shifts Fullback In Football Diagram

NEA service diagramed play shows Rice using a trap up the middle. First string fullback Bobby Lantrip and regualr George Glauser execute the trap with guards highlighted. Quarterback hands to the fullback, fakes left, then passes. UCLA outside trap noted.

Rice Kree Houston Texas NEA Bobby Lantrip George Glauser

Lambeau Brings Star Card Squad to Cleveland

Chicago Cardinals coach Curley Lambeau arrives at Cleveland Municipal Stadium with a potent lineup that includes Charley Trippi Elmer Angsman Pat Harder Jim Hardy Bob Shaw and others. The team boasts league scoring leader Harder and top ground gainers Angsman and Trippi as they pursue the National League title in 1949. A Community Fund tableau and band performances are planned at halftime with bus and rail excursions organized from multiple cities.

Cleveland Curley Lambeau Chicago Cardinals Cleveland Municipal Stadium Eagles Charley Trippi Elmer Angsman Pat Harder Jim Hardy Bob Shaw Jack Jennings Mal Kutner Bill Fisher Garrard Ramsey Bob Nussbaumer Angsman Trippi Harder Ohio State Dim Hardy Lambeau Bears Lakewood High School

Shirley Spork Joins BG Faculty as Golf Instructor

Shirley Spork joins Bowling Green State University as the women's golf instructor in the health and physical education department. A 1949 Michigan State Normal College graduate, she turned professional last May and played seven tournaments last summer. In 1947 she won the women's national intercollegiate title at Ohio State, defeating Grace Lenczyk. She will teach all women's golf and other physical education courses and plans BG's first women's golf team next spring.

Bowling Green Shirley Spork Bowling Green State University Health and Physical Education Department Michigan State Normal College Miss Spork Grace Lenczyk Ohio State Links

Michigan State Welterweight Boxer Also Plays Band Trumpet

Jack Tierney is noted as a crack welterweight boxer for Michigan State who is also a skilled trumpet player capable of holding the solo chair in the college concert band.

Jack Tierney Michigan State

Chauncey Dover Homecoming Parade Scheduled Saturday

Chauncey Dover's third annual homecoming parade will start Saturday at 2 30 p m with four bands clubs organizations Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts and floats lining up at Chauncey Memorial Stadium. A 15 minute concert by the bands will follow the parade and Friday night Miss Dana Robinson a Chauncey Dover senior will be crowned queen between halves of the football game.

Chauncey Chauncey- Dover Chauncey Memorial Stadium Drake St Lexington Converse Sycamore Dana Robinson Chauncey-Dover Miss Robinson Barbara Staley Jean Maton Barbara Ryan Shirley Schoonover Ruth McLean Shirley Green Ann Roberts Janice Kasler Plains High School

Chauncey Church Schedule and Area Faith Service Times

Area churches list weekly services with pastors, Sunday schools at 9:30 a.m. and preaching at 10:30 or 7:30 p.m. including Chauncey Millfield Morristown Plains and nearby communities. Cottage meetings and midweek services noted.

Birthday Observed At Home Near Chauncey

The birthday anniversary of Mrs. Olfie Daugherty was celebrated Sunday at a family gathering at her Chauncey area home. A Daugherty birthday cake served as a centerpiece amid a two course chicken dinner with relatives from Canton Ohio and local family members listed.

Chauncey Olfie Daugherty Coe Daugherty Cee Daugherty Ruth Ann Canton Ohio Dorothy Daugherty Robert, Donald Carolyn Sue Pauline Daugherty Charles Daugherty

Boy Scout Fund Swells After Canvass Report

Chauncey residents contributed to a Sunday Creek Boy Scout Committee fund drive. Richard Wilcox reports total receipts of 357.20 dollars from canvasses in Chauncey Millfield Jacksonville and Glouster with many listed donors and solicitors.

Chauncey Richard Wilcox Boy Scout Fund Sunday Creek Boy Scout Committee W. G. Davis Millfield Jacksonville Glouster

West Berlin man convicted on morals charge for Nazi salute

Erich Waltbach, 51, was convicted in a West Berlin court on a morals charge and given a one year suspended sentence. When informed he could go home he saluted Heil Hitler, prompting the court to retract and detain him for three more days for contempt of court.

Berlin West Berlin Erich Waltbach Waltbach

Social Roundup from Vinton and Surrounding Areas

Mr and Mrs G E Elliott visited in Chillicothe with Mrs Ein Mathews seriously ill. Revival services led by Rev Gilkerson continue at Pilgrim Holiness Church. Walter McCarley and children visited Paul Wilson in Athens and Mrs Jennie Reed in Rutland. Families hosted and attended birthday events and dinners. George Bates on ship work spent time with family. Evan Dillon and Mrs Dillon visited relatives near Gallipolis. Mrs Horace Metcalf spent a week with daughter Mrs Hobart McGinnis in Charleston.

Pilgrim Holiness Church Gilkerson Walter McCarley McCarley Paul Wilson Athens Jennie Reed Rutland Della Fishbaugh George Ward Junior Scott Walbridge Margie McCarley Bertha Russell Frank Cardwell Ollie Swick Kenneth Ward McGhee Everett Evans Marie Alexander Lena Wallace Marion Ida McGhee George Bates Evan Dillon

Homecoming Planned By Chauncey Churches

Annual Chauncey homecoming hosted by First Christian Church with Gilbert Courtney preaching at 10 50 a m A noon basket dinner Parish House afternoon music by Junior and Senior Choirs Union service at the high school auditorium to close four day event Wilbur Fish bellringer from Columbus to present a program following devotions and local choir performances

Chauncey First Christian Church Gilbert Courtney First Christian Chauncey- Dover Wilbur Fish Columbus Bellringer

Chauncey Dover seniors sponsor booth for Washington trip

CHAUNCEY Dover High School seniors sponsor a booth during homecoming to raise funds for a trip to Washington next spring. They will sell candy hot dogs coffee pop soup magazines and Christmas cards. Thirty classmates recently took a hayride to Sand Ridge with Miss Juanita Jones as sponsor.

Chauncey Chauncey-Dover High School Washington Sand Ridge Juanita Jones

Church Services Schedule From New Marshfield Pleasanton

Directory item lists church service times for New Marshfield Union Pleasanton and mentions a Wesley Foundation deputation team conducting a service at the Union Church. It also notes the Pleasanton church school at 9:30 a.m and Rev H H Lafferty as pastor.

New Marshfield Union — Church Wesley Foundation Pleasanton — Church H. H. Lafferty

Sunday worship and school hours for area churches

GUYSVILLE worship 7 30 p m church school 10 a m CAN AANVILLE worship 9 30 a m church school 10 30 a m STEW ART worship 11 a m basket dinner for board members will follow church school 10 a m with Gideon representative speaker at all worship hours Rev Frederick W Haley pastor KILVERT CHURCH OF GOD Sunday school 9 30 a m morning worship 10 30 a m YPM 6 30 p m evening worship 7 30 p m prayer meeting Wednesday 7 p m

Guysville Canaanville Stewart Gideon Frederick W. Haley Kilvert Church OF God Gideon Bible Society L. A. Robinson

Sunday Schedule at Local Church

The Rev. Herbert Harris leads Sunday school at 10 am with evening worship at 7 pm. A cottage prayer meeting also begins at 7 pm with ongoing devotional activities.

Cottage Herbert Harris

Church Services Schedule Across Three Towns

Carpenter Albany and South Canaan list Bible school at 9:30 a.m. Morning worship 10:30 a.m. Albany evening service 7:30 p.m. Mid week prayer 8 p.m. Wednesday. South Canaan Bible school 9:45 a.m. Prayer 10:45 a.m. YPM 6:30 p.m. Friday prayer 7:30 p.m. Rev. John I. Snedden, pastor.

Carpenter—Bible School Albany—Bible School South Canaan— Bible School John I. Snedden

Athens Area Church Services Summary

Several Athens area churches list weekly schedules with Sunday school at 9:30 or 9:45 a.m. and morning worship around 10:30 or 10:45 a.m. Evening services run at 7:30 p.m. with guest speakers, prayer meetings midweek, and additional activities including missionary sewing circles and women’s fellowship.

Community Church Schedules and Church Events

Saturday evening and Sunday services listed for multiple congregations. Ireland Congregational holds Sunday school at 9 30 a m with prayer hour at 10 a m and interim pastor Bill Schmidt. Canterbury Club and university church activities include Holy Communion and nursery care. The Nazarene church lists Sunday school at 9 30 a m junior church 10 30 a m and evangelistic services led by Rev W F Miller and Rev Drell H Goff.

Christ Bill Schmidt Ohio University Music Hall Church OF the Nazarene Sunday School W. F. Miller NYPS Mr. Miller Korea Drell H. Goff

Sunday church schedule with Rev Roy Deeter preaching

The Sunday program lists Sunday school at 2 pm and preaching at 3 pm followed by a Friday prayer meeting at 7 30 pm led by Pastor The Rev Roy Deeter. The item notes the church duties and the pastor in charge.

Sunday school at WOUL Radio Hall in Ohio University Campus

Elder Norman Carr presiding leads Sunday school at 10 a m in WOUL Radio Hall on the Ohio University campus.

WOUL Ohio University Norman Carr

Sunday religious activities and events notice

Worship services at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. feature a sermon on The Miracle of Self-confidence. Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. and a parents class led by Mrs. Fred Luchs. Session meeting after the second service. Various youth activities scheduled through the week with a Gideon service at 10:15 a.m. led by Joe B. Maffett.

Fred Luchs Forest James Seward Dalton Ave

Pauls Missionary Journeys Sermons by Edward White

Bible study at 9 45 a m with preaching at 10 30 a m song service at 7 p m and preaching at 7 30 p m on Pauls Missionary Journeys with Edward White as speaker. Mid week Bible study and YPM held Wednesday 7 30 p m and Friday 6 30 p m.

Paul Edward White

Church Services and Gideon Society Guest Speaker Schedule

A listing of worship services across multiple churches including Central Avenue Methodist and First Wesleyan Methodist. Notable items include Gideon Society guest speaker Raymond Armstrong of Wooster and a guest sermon from Myron Martin at First Wesleyan. Regular Sunday school and prayer meetings are detailed for each church.

FIRST Wesleyan Methodist Raymond Armstrong Wooster Gideon Society Myron Martin

Athens Churches Schedule Highlight Condi tional Salvation Faith

Athens Ecclesia outlines Sunday 2 pm services with a 9 30 am church school and 10 30 am worship plus a 1 30 pm Thursday district meeting and Friday choir at pastor James L Hyde's home The Rev H R Cartwright and W H Marshall lead other area congregations with varied service times in Albany Townhouse Temple Pearl Chapel Snowville and YPS meetings.

Gideon Society Athens Presbyterial James L. Hyde Albany Temple Pearl Chapel Snowville W. H. Marshall

Church Schedule Listing With Pastor Name

Morning worship at 10 30 a m evening service at 730 p m prayer service Wednesday at 730 p m The Rev R D Kelchner is the pastor.

Whites Chapel Wesleyan Church Service Times

Sunday school at 9 30 a m Prayer and praise at 10 30 a m WYPS at 7 p m Preaching at 7 30 p m Prayer meeting Wednesday 7 50 p m led by The Rev Roy E Deeter pastor.

Whites Chapel Wesleyan Roy E. Deeter

Sunday religious services and guest speakers listed

In Mineral and nearby towns Sunday school at 9 30 am with worship at 10 30 am in Mineral Carbon dale Conn e t t Salem YF sessions and prayer services through the week with preaching on Wednesdays The Rev Dennison LeMaster and Rev Phyllis LeMaster noted as guest speakers

Mineral Carbondale Connett Salem Dennison LeMaster Phyllis LeMaster

Sunday schedule for church with Rev Charles Hill pastor

The listing outlines worship times and youth programs led by Pastor the Rev Charles Hill. Sunday services include Sunday school at 9 30 a m worship at 10 45 a m YP at 7 p m and an evangelistic service at 7 30 p m A Saturday program runs at 7 30 p m and is led by the same pastor.

Charles Hill

Coolville Methodist Charge Services and Times

Schedule lists worship and church school times for Coolville Hockingport Decatur and Little Hocking. Rev. O C Lockwood leads weekend services with W you dates shown. YF meets at 7 p m and worship at 7 30 p m in Little Hocking.

Hockingport Coolville Little Hocking Decatur O. C. Lockwood

Friday Open House and Weekend Church Events

An evangelical schedule lists events at the church: Friday open house at 8 p.m., Sunday school for all ages at 9:15 a.m., Trinity Class for young married couples at 9:40 a.m., morning worship at 10:25 a.m. with a sermon on Is Religion Intellectually Out of Date. JHF hosts 4 p.m. events, supper and vespers at 5 and 7 p.m., SHYF at 6:30 p.m. Evening activities include Ushers and wives supper with Dr. George M. Wilson at 6 p.m. Tuesday, pop in at 3–5 p.m. Wednesday with an illustrated lecture on the pastor's European trip at 7:30 p.m., choir rehearsal Thursday at 6:45 p.m., Sigma Theta Epsilon at 7 p.m., and Kappa Phi at 7:15 p.m.

Trinity George M. Wilson WF Popin Sigma Theta Epsilon Kappa Phi

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