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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1950
Page
3
City auditor Harry Evans reports Nelsonville’s total fund balance rose to 31 304 77 as of Aug 31 from 29 257 60 at July end. August receipts totaled 15 148 34 with 13 101 17 in disbursements across multiple funds including general light water works and park accounts.
The Circle of Ruth meets in the First Presbyterian Church social rooms at 6 p.m. Hostesses are Mrs James Gilbert Mrs Robert Wilson and Miss Margery Hill. Mrs Ellsworth Rife reviews Rural Prospect and Mrs James Knight leads devotions. The Wilson reunion held at Mr and Mrs Woodrow Wilson Nelsonville Route 1 drew seventy attendees despite rain.
Local churches in Nelsonville list morning worship times at 9:30 or 10:30 with Sunday school. Denominations include Christian Fort and Short, Epiphany Episcopal, First Methodist, First Presbyterian, Pilgrim Holiness, First Baptist, Wesleyan Methodist, and Nazarene. Weekly activities span choir practice, youth groups, meetings, and potluck events.
The Martha Class of the First Methodist Church met at Mrs. Edna Shough's home on E. Washington Street with Mrs. Mabel Lancaster assisting. Devotional lead by Mrs. Miriam Butts featured scripture and prayer followed by readings and a poem. Mrs. Miles Howe presided over business, with songs led by Mrs. Lancaster at the piano. Dessert was served to 15 members and one guest, Mrs. Minnie Yerkey of Pennsboro, W. Va.
Mrs Henry Perkins and Mr and Mrs Charles Vaughn attended the Waldeck reunion in New ark on Sunday with 112 people present. Mrs C C Ervin returned Tuesday after visiting Columbus with daughters and granddaughters for a party honoring William McLean who left Monday with the Marines for California. Mr and Mrs F W Downhour returned from a trip through the south visiting Natural Bridge Mt. Mitchell Cherokee Indian Reservation Smoky Mountains and Mammoth Cave in Virginia North Carolina Tennessee and Kentucky.
Lon Coakley reports an antlered deer in a field with horses in the Mason City Hill district near Russell Wickliffe's home. The deer, described as playful, raced with a horse for several minutes before vaulting a fence and vanishing into nearby thickets at about 6 a.m. Thursday.
The executive committee of the York Roosevelt Club led by president Calvin Lanning will gather at the Dew Hotel in Nelsonville on Tuesday at 8 p.m.
A committee of judges from Ohio University will choose Miss Nelsonville tonight at 8 in the high school auditorium. The winner, from four finalists, will lead the Hocking Valley Festival events and form a court with the remaining contestants. A band concert and solos accompany the selection festivities.
Millie Anderson aged 77 widow of Adam Anderson died Thursday at her daughter Mrs. Ethel Simon’s Akron residence. Former Murray City resident she was longtime Methodist Church member and WSCS Masonry affiliate. Survived by daughter Mrs. Simon with funeral at Murray City Methodist Church Sunday at 2 pm, burial in Greenlawn Cemetery Nelsonville.
Birth notices list Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Allen of New Plymouth Route 2 as a son. Admissions include Mrs. Martha Heinlein of Logan and several residents of Logan Nelsonville Glouster Union Furnace and other nearby towns. Discharges include Miss Wilma Herrold Dorothy Lane Flora Hoskins Walter Woodruff and others. A humorous line notes the Ohio governor declines a milking contest with Indiana's governor.
Roy Wright 53 a Pomeroy businessman died at Meigs General Hospital from a self inflicted deer gun wound suffered at 1 30 a m He is survived by his wife Gladys and two children from a prior marriage Irena Erickson of Niagara Falls NY and George Wright Funeral services are set for Sunday at 3 30 p m at Ewing Funeral Home with burial at Beech Grove Cemetery Friends may call the funeral home anytime
Mrs Mae Adamson Ford wife of Rev C M Ford pastor of Shenandoah Virginia Christian Church died unexpectedly at her home Thursday noon. She was a Nelsonville native graduate of the 1908 high school and taught before marriage. She leaves her husband a son Dr Malcolm Ford of Jacksonville Florida and two sisters Mrs Belle Lancaster and Mrs Doris Jack. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
Mrs Helen Bookman is elected superintendent of the Union Sunday School with Vance Glancy as assistant superintendent Charles Sorrell as secretary and Mrs Vance Glancy as treasurer New teachers include Mrs Vera Peacock and Patty Robertson for the 930 a m session
The Chauncey Dee ver homecoming committee will meet at 7 30 p m Friday at the city building. The homecoming is scheduled for October 12 13 14 and 15.
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