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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1932
Page
12
Carl Patterson gave an informative talk on prohibition as he viewed European whitening, painting summers, during the Ww. Cc. 7. U. meeting at Mrs. Carrie Snyder home in Shelterh ile. Sept. 10 gathering included devotionals by Myra Buyner and a business session with 15 attendees.
Albany members met Tuesday night for the first Class 99 gathering of the year at the M. H. Church. New president Mrs Ed Rickey will preside and act as hostess with help from Mrs George Spring Mrs George Bailes and Mrs Ed Bailes A programs being planned and men from Albany invited to attend Committees for the coming year will be formed and refreshments served.
Sharpsburg reports a new mill moved to the Myron Keney farm after purchasing timber land. Residents Meriam Lucille Aldrige with Mr and Mrs Watson and children from Racine visited Mr and Mrs Mary Aldrige. Mrs Lucy Huffman of Nelsonsville visits sister Lida Hanson and brother Howard Harris. Ernest Adrian and children from Cincinnati visited Clarence Herns in Mt Hermon. Reverend Bennington and family left for LL B Conference in Portsmouth. The boys will spend weeks with grandparents Chester Palmer and Thomas Jones families of Columbus. Mia Minta Dille returned home after Mt. Sterling visit with Carlos Lovell family, parents of newborn Richard Ass. McCune Thursday. The meeting was held under shade trees, Miss Erie Huttman of Planteville attended at Fotverairy Hospital. Removal of Jonaila known and highly respected. She had never married, but lived with her father, who with one brother survives. Lillian Bardin visited Mrs Henry Burns of Amesville Friday night. Saturday bath with Daisy Burns and Garnet Sedwick went to Athens. Mrs Eunice Armstrong retired after months visiting relatives in California. Mrs Geota Strode and children visited Monday with Mr and Mrs Webster McPeak and family.
Funeral services for Mrs Mary Cunningham Richardson were held Friday at the Troy Baptist Church near Frost with Rev Pugh officiating. Burial followed in the nearby cemetery. She died September 7 in Stewart after three months of illness aged 80 years five months and 16 days. She was born February 22 1852 daughter of James L Cunningham and Eliza Cunningham. Surviving are two sons in Axton and Golden Gate Ill, a daughter Dorothy Norris, a step son Okey of Frost, three grandchildren and eight step grandchildren. She belonged to Troy Baptist Church.
A string of visits tied towns together as Jacksonville figures, including Julius Bycofski and family visiting Mrs Sia Cuba on Peach Ridge. Other gatherings included the Kalt and Nichols families at Racine, Southard remaining in Minersville, Bernard and Bipscher at St. Clairsville, and a Zanesville visit by von Scheele and Edith Tinker. Monday highlights include Hilt and Thompson families visiting Mrs. Hill's sister in Va, while Lloyd White and Josephine Crawford of Glomster wed in Glomster.
Funeral services were held Wednesday from the Methodist Episcopal Church for Mrs. Margaret Wilson who died Sunday after a lengthy illness. She was survived by her husband, Robert Wilson, three daughters, and two others.
Syracuse obit notes Wenton Roush 78, born March 2, 1854, longtime advocate of good roads in Meigs County and Sutton Township pioneer of the first concrete road in Minersville. He once ran a Minersville store, later lived in Syracuse, owned a produce boat named Couregy sunk near Evansville, and worked on Stedmboating before marrying Tiklsa Zelda Houdashelt. He fathered Homer, Ernest, and Edison, plus brothers Emory and David. Funeral details reference local lodges and community ties.
Carpenter Mr and Mrs Harry Haning plan in Athens on Thursday. Columbia schools open Monday Sept 17 with same teachers as last year except Principal Wille Frank who replaces W E Campbell Eddie L Howery from Ohio State University in Columbus visits his parents Mr and Mrs S F Howery Mrs Jennie Kuhn Albany spent last week with Mrs W E Reeves and family W Sisson and family Mrs I M Swett entertained at her home with children and their families Mr and Mrs Charles McCahill Lancaster Labor Day visit with the Rawlings family.
Family groups from New England gathered for Labor Day visits in Glouster and nearby homes. W A Steinmetz and children visited fosmerts relatives in the area while Frances Vandyke spent a week with Columbus kin. Ada Steinmetz, employed in Lancaster, joined her parents for the holiday. Relatives from Columbus also visited Mr and Mrs Peter Van Dyke and family. Glenna Steinmetz visited Aaron Congrove and family.
The Rev. McDaniel the new pastor at Carbondale M E Church will preach Sunday. Local seniors enroll at Union Furnace High School with several named students listed. The Sept 6 opening, road resurfacing activity between Routes 56 and us, and multiple Labor Day visits by residents to Barberton and Akron are noted along with healing hospital news and family updates.
Harrisonville hosts a social gathering with Mr and Mrs Howard Wilson hosting Sunday guests including Mr and Mrs John Wilson from Mason City. Also attending were Mr and Mrs Harley French and family from near Columbus and Mr and Mrs Ray Wison and daughter Maxine of Mill Street. Mrs Emma Yeager of Ravenna, G. attended as well.
Sept. 10 Kimberly Carbondale Road is being improved with slag and tar. The seven mile connector between Kimberly and Carbondale widens to 20 feet in places to handle rising traffic. A concrete bridge on the Kimberly Oak Grove Road near the mine is completed reducing crossing angles. The article notes local events and people including school reopens Sept. 12 and a Kimberly All Stars game at Carbondale Tuesday.
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