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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1919
Page
5
The wedding of U graduate and Phi Delta Theta member Dr Walter 8 McCleery to Muriel Maxine Main was held June 6 in Covington Kentucky. He served as a lieutenant in the medical corps and previously worked as house physician at Delaware Springs sanitarium. The couple will reside in Conneaut where the bridegroom is affiliated with Dr Royal H. Johnson.
Cambridge hosts a dinner for ten at the Wood residence with yellow and white decor and chrysanthemum arrangements. Mrs. Hogg is identified as sister to Hon. J. Perry Wood and Judge J. M. Wood.
The Pallas Club met Saturday at the Misses Clara and Amy Weiher home to study Ex President Roosevelt. Mrs. W. F. Copeland led the afternoon with current events by Mrs. L. J. Addicott. Mrs. P. B. Lawrence read an abstract from Major General Wood’s Theodore Roosevelt dedication speech.
Miss Ethel Shoemaker appears with piano accompanist Miss Ruth Henry as part of a local recital. The event features duo performance and showcases guest musicians.
A Saturday night party at the Beta Theta Pi house 27 President Street featured pink and blue decorations and a service flag. The Finney brothers and Don Swaim provided music as Mr. and Mrs. Roger J. Jones chaperoned.
A pleading testimonial ad praises Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for children’s headaches fevers stomach troubles and irregular bowels. It claims the powders are easy pleasant and effective and urges mothers to share the remedy with others as druggists everywhere sell it.
An Ohio era notice lists L E Munden & Co advertising white potatoes and pea green alfalfa hay with upcoming deliveries. Henry Gee’s music store hosts Bronsdon the piano tuner for a few days. A Pastime Theatre Jacksonville show features The Hearts of Humanity with afternoon and evening screenings. A Greens Run school building contract is awarded to Theodore Kundts of Cleveland for seats. Funeral services for Mrs. H Wolf are planned at the Jacksonville Methodist church.
Extended notice of local families including deaths and interment in Athens West Union street cemetery. Mentions Moses Williams visiting from Columbus, Stahl family moving to Zanesville, L. B. Lines visiting Nelsonville friends, Friendship Circle meeting at Methodist church, birth of daughter to Herman Kempton of Taylor Ridge, and Helen Crawford visiting parents in Nelsonville.
Mary E Hawk wife of Joseph Hawk was found dead in bed Sunday morning at six o'clock from organic heart trouble She was 69 Funeral services will be held at Graham chapel church Tuesday forenoon burial in the cemetery The funeral party leaves the residence at 9 Tuesday morning She is survived by four children and several siblings with two children predeceased her including Mrs Ottie Gaston Hastings Foraker Ruth Edson Ruth and others in Jerseyville and vicinity
Voters are urged to cast ballots for the two referendum laws while opposing the two amendments. The guidance stresses clear choices at the polls and reminds residents to follow local voting procedures.
L L Connett, 68, died Sunday at his Columbus home after a long illness. Funeral services Tuesday at 10:20 AM at the family home with burial in Union Cemetery. Born at The Plains he lived in Athens and Columbus, leaving a wife, two children Levi and Louie, and siblings A W and L W Connett and sisters Mrs Nichols and Mrs Lydia Hayes. He worked in the lumber and coal business in Athens.
Monday sessions in common pleas court adjourned with few cases carried over to November 3. The Grover C Stotte Amanda Stotts divorce was dismissed at plaintiff's cost. A new trial motion was filed in the Thomas Birge case after a Friday conviction. Mary Fierce James Vierce divorce set for November 3. Verna Rose Julius Rose divorce grants temporary alimony of 50 dollars. In R R Lewis D W Brill and son and Jacob Glenn injunctions a temporary restraining order was granted. A bond of 50 dollars was set.
The venire list for the grand jury includes A A Dodds Rome John Fouts Trimble H E Barnett Troy Fred Dorr Canaan F H Fair Carthage Samuel Hartley Lodi Orley Porter Athens Des Antle Trimble Tom Davis York Joe Sweeney Jr Trim ble Elza Dean Ames E D Sedwick Bern J H Cabeen Athens William Ryan Dover C V O Neal Ames The petit jury venire includes Thomas Vare Athens J B Hanning York T W Gold Athens W E Foster Lee H M White Troy A L Davis York Wilbur Downey Lodi L L Howard Ames George Brown Bern Frank Anthony Alexander H B Taylor Athens Knowlton Lee J H Gillett Athens Frank Emish York Elmer Halbert Canaan John Sweet Lee Maxfield Chapman Carthage Nelson Clifford Canaan C E Colburn Lodi W S Phillips Waterloo.
Steinway & Son Co. sues Thomas J. Davis of Buchtel in a replevin action to recover a player piano. A novel full sized bath tub with a gas or oil water heater attachment is described as liftable on one end and rollable on casters to different rooms.
An old advertisement notes a laxative bromquinine cold remedy with E. W. Groves signature on the box priced at 30 cents. It claims to remove the cause of colds and influenza.
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