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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1948
Page
16
Chauncey Sugar Creek School plans a 7 p.m. Fall Festival with a student music program participation by all pupils. Chauncey Dover High School band will perform. The event includes games food booths and the crowning of a Prince and Princess.
Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah Morris Keirns die now and are set for Saturday at Hooper Ridge Church of Christ. She died at a daughter's home after a year of illness. Survivors include three daughters, 14 grandchildren, 19 great grandchildren, four brothers and one sister. Burial at West Union Street Cemetery Athens.
Chauncey residents gathered Sunday at the High Street home of Mrs. Ray Pidcock for a birthday anniversary dinner. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Adkins and children Oscar Benton and Rodney Ray, Mrs. Josie Adkins, Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Fink and son Paul David, Lois and Ruth Simpson, Sylvia and Adrian Pidcock, and the Rev. and Mrs. Ray Pidcock.
Relatives in Chauncey notified of the death of Don Border 43 of Dayton a Chauncey High School 1924 graduate. Funeral services and burial were held in Dayton. Cause of death not released. He was the son of H H Border and Anna Bell Border and brother of Mrs Homer Harvey of Dayton. He was nephew of W A Bell Wall Border and Mrs Ida McDaniel of Millfield.
Mr and Mrs William Koon of Pontiac Michigan were weekend guests of Mrs Koons mother Mrs Lew Jones in Orbiston They then called on Mrs Koons sister Mrs Carrie Channel and Mrs Rebecca Harrison and Mrs Helen Nelson all of The Plains during Monday and Tuesday
A consolidated church page lists Chauncey and nearby congregations with service times for Sunday school at 9 30 a m preaching at 10 30 a m and 7 p m for several denominations including Methodist Freewill Baptist Church of God Pilgrim Holiness and Nazarene with midweek prayer meetings and junior services noted.
Chauncey Walter Cardwell, back from Africa, will speak Sunday morning at the First Christian Church in Athens and attend the District 14 convention in Athens. He is listed as guest speaker at the Trimble church in Millfield and Chauncey. Delegations from the Church of Christ parish will attend the convention in Athens.
Dinner hosts Chauncey Mr. and Mrs. Bill Sanders and Lawrence Myers of Trimble Heights welcomed guests Vincent Bailey and his children Neil and Andrea of West Carrollton. They celebrated Nancy Marie Sanders first birthday and Vincent Bailey's anniversary. Cecil Antle and daughter visited in the afternoon.
Mrs. Goldie Fink of Chauncey entertained dinner guests Tuesday at her May Avenue home. Fern Crabtree and Thelma Hamilton of South Webster were special singers at the Pilgrim Holiness Church service near Carbondale. They were accompanied by Violet Shields, Mrs. Goldie Fink, and Minnie Pidcock.
Mrs. Andrew Tewksbury of Albany and a former Athens resident died Thursday in Winter Park Florida after a ten day stay. Survived by husband a daughter Mrs George Carr and son C W Tewksbury. Funeral Sunday 2 30 p m Albany Methodist Church burial Hebbardsville Cemetery
Mr. and Mrs. Lew Palmer of Cleveland attended funeral rites for Henry Poling in Nelsonville. Services were delayed awaiting Donald Poling from Portland. The Palmers stayed with Isaac Palmer in Chauncey and were joined by Mrs. Minnie Poling, the mother of Mrs. Palmer.
Mrs. Carrie Chan nell entertained dinner guests Tuesday including the Rev. Russell Bowman of Columbus who conducts services at Nelsonville Nazarene Church and Mrs. Eva Stalder of The Plains.
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Palmer of Chauncey entertained weekend guests from Cleveland including their children John Kaufman Maud Kaufman Stella Palmer Richard Palmer and Thelma Palmer.
Chauncey L. R. Gooding led a Tuesday night gathering of the Men’s Bible Class at Trimble Church of Christ. An oyster supper was served after the meeting.
COOLVILLE, STAFF Special. Mrs. Agatha Hart 47, died at home in Guysville Friday after an extended illness. A former Stewart schoolteacher, she belonged to the Grange Rebekah Lodge Kaiser Ashcraft Scott Legion Post Guysville WSCS and the Guysville Methodist Church. Survived by son William S. Hart in the Army four sisters Edson Carsey Athens route 4 E S Mihail Guysville George Andrews Columbus and R F Eaton Lake Charles La and her father G C Bridwell. Funeral arrangements are complete.
Members of Athens County Granges will present part of the program before the State Grange Degree on Saturday at the Washington school auditorium in Gallipolis. E H Carbaugh deputy master says many Grangers will receive the sixth degree, with the state degree team led by State Master Joseph W Fichter of Columbus. Fifth degree members may apply at the door or through their subordinate master.
Dorothy Dickerson Simmers of Chauncey petitions Common Pleas Court to overturn an Industrial Commission decision denying her access to State Insurance Fund benefits. She says her father Emmett Dickerson died in a November 1947 mine accident leaving her and her child dependent for support.
Two exams were announced by the U S Civil Service Commission a junior scientist post at 2974 dollars a year and lithographic work at 2225 to 4035 dollars. Lithographic openings include draftsman transferrer negative engraver process plate maker and related roles. Information available from W H Oldfield at the local post office.
Mrs. John Staten, 73, longtime Coolville resident, died early Thursday in a Portsmouth hospital. She is survived by a daughter Mrs. Ralph Thomas of Portsmouth and two sons Walter of Portsmouth and Basil of Coolville, plus eight grandchildren. Services and burial will be in Portsmouth.
Herman L. Ellis told Rome Canaan voters that a three mill levy for current operating expenses will be placed before them. He emphasized the levy is not new and effectively reduces the existing three and a half mill levy by half a mill, replacing it from the past five years.
Applications for farm management supervisors are being accepted by the U S Department of Agriculture at salaries from 2974 to 3727 dollars per year. Requires technical training in farm management and practical farm operation knowledge. Further information may be obtained from W H Oldfield at the post office.
The Rev. Don D. Tullis of Athens will be interviewed on WIR Detroit Sunday at 12 30 p m about his weekly column Every Day Religion and Gods Garage soon to publish. Two drivers from The Plains were fined 10 dollars and costs after arrests by the State Highway Patrol for driving without licenses.
The Rev. Florence Bromley of Meadville Pa will speak at a series of meetings beginning Tuesday at 7 30 p m at the Salvation Army Major Ruth Ward announced. The State Board of Pharmacy named 26 successful candidates from the Oct 12 13 pharmacist examination including Virginia Butterfield Krinn 179 N Culver St Logan.
Markets in Cincinnati on October 29 show salable hogs at 24 to 25 for 180-230 lbs, cows and calves steady with varying weight categories, good beef cattle and sausage bulls listed, sheep scarce with slaughter lambs in limited supply and under tone steady. Odd high and low prices noted across weights and grades.
Cincinnati market notes list poultry classes with price ranges for fowls turkeys and fryers and butter wholesale and consumer grades. Also shows potato price bands and current receipts for goods of varying quality.
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