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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1949
Page
3
Mr and Mrs Frank Cook and daughter Sharon Lynn visited Chauncey and spent a week with Mr and Mrs F B Cook in Lower Piaina before returning to Charleston West Virginia.
Nelsonville area progress on permanent improvements for State Routes 216 and 7% from Nelsonville to Glouster and Burr Oak Dam via Buchtel and Murray City is reported by Charles Miller of the local committee. The American Legion posts of Glouster, Murray City, and Nelsonville sponsor the campaign to spur local and state official interest. Petitions total about 2500 signatures and a house to house canvass is planned. Civic and lodge groups endorse the movement by resolutions and letters.
The Nelsonville Christian Church hosts a district meeting of church women on Sunday September 11 at 2 30 p m at the Nelsonville church with guest speaker Mrs J D Wyker Mt Vernon Ohio an ordained minister and former president of the Ohio Women s Work board who attended Transylvania and Columbia universities She is a World Council of Churches delegate and mother of two All church women are invited Also Mr and Mrs James Gabriel Lower Plains dined with Mr and Mrs Albert Rink Athens on a separate note
Mary Hutchins hosted the M M Club gathering on Wednesday with potluck for 16 members and one guest. Prizes were awarded to Jean Smith Virginia Bolen and Gertrude Ray. The next meeting will be at Jean Smiths home.
The Young Matrons group of the Woman's Council of the Christian Church met Thursday night at Mrs Ethel Tharp's home. Devotions were led by Mrs Howard Plummer with a piano selection by Mrs Elizabeth Siddle. Mrs Vera Newman read a poem A New Start. A prayer by Mrs Wilma Tolliver closed the meeting. Nine members and one guest Miss Marcella Long attended. Refreshments served and the group's current project is selling Christmas and all occasion cards and Christmas items.
Local 358 UMW members at Chauncey Mine No 25 of New York Coal Co meet in Shaw Building Chauncey Saturday at 10 am to discuss the current work stoppage. District VP Adolph Pacifico and district officials call the meeting with mine committee members Calvin Lanning Arthur Green William Calvert Dilcher Call and Ralph L Coe in attendance. Walter Kovaleski and David Christian will participate.
Community church notices list multiple denominations with service times and events. Nelsonville Church posts youth fellowship and midweek sessions. Epiphany Episcopal reflects Holy Communion times. Christian Fort and Short notes morning worship. Pilgrim Holiness announces a district Young People conference at Beech Grove camp grounds with sessions starting Monday.
In Nelsonville the summer union services of Christian, Methodist, Presbyterian and Episcopal denominations conclude with a final gathering at the Presbyterian Church at 7:30 p m Sunday September 4. The Rev Rollin S Polk Jr of Epiphany Episcopal Church will deliver the sermon.
NELSONVILLE charged with intoxication Sarah Finn pleaded guilty at arraignment before Mayor Oral Daugherty Thursday and was fined $25 plus costs. Joe Lopez of Clarksburg posted a $20 cash bond after being cited for failing to observe a stop sign and is slated to appear in the mayor's court September 5 at 5 p.m.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Betts returned from Durham North Carolina where their daughter Miriam Betts graduated in June from Ohio Wesleyan University Delaware She will enter Duke University for a year's internship in dietetics
Robert Smith husband of Julia Johnson Smith remains unimproved at Veterans Hospital Huntington West Virginia. He has been there since June 10 and is visited weekly by Mrs. Smith and members of the Johnson family.
Regional church notices list services across Chauncey and nearby towns with multiple denominations. Pastors named include Lena Brandenburg Herbert Wilson R. Bata H. H. Lafferty Betty Courtney Gilbert Courtney John Thompson Ora Waldeck and Donald Weller various worship times and midweek prayer services noted along with Homecoming Sept 11 activities.
Henry Bruce Buchtel injured his leg in a slate mine fall. Family and friends trace vacations and visits across Osborne Lancaster Athens Logan Zanesville Crooksville and Nelsonville with campers, graduates, coaching news, move plans, and home redecorations.
CHAUNCEY Miss Betty Jane Courtney arrives this weekend for a two week visit with her parents the Rev and Mrs Gilbert Courtney. She will complete her B D at Yale Divinity School next spring after graduating from Chauncey Dover High School and Ohio University in 193. She previously served as assistant pastor at Lakewood Church of Christ Cleveland and at Salem Church of Christ. She will preach at the Church of Christ parish in Chauncey and neighboring parishes with listed service times on Sunday.
Mrs. Stewart Bell of Athena, a former Plains resident, visited friends at The Plains on Wednesday and was entertained at dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Moore.
Chauncey residents Mr and Mrs Max Reynolds and their sons Gary and Tommy are moving to Columbus this weekend.
Mrs Rosemary Bailey and children David and Lyn da and Mrs Bailey's mother Katharyn Ford of Ravenna Ohio spent a week visiting Mr and Mrs Wendell Moore New Marshfield Rea. They were entertained at dinner Monday by Mr and Mrs Harry W Moore Lower Plains.
Relatives were hosted as guests by James Henderson Chauncey and family. Their son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Chester Woodrum Nel sonville attended along with the former's brother in law and sister Mr and Mrs Frank Grate and Mrs Wolfe of Zaleski Ohio.
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