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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1939
Page
9
Rev S C Elsea named pastor to succeed Rev Robert Lawrence on the Chauncey M E Church circuit including Jacksonville Trimble Millfield and Chauncey. Lawrence ends three year service. Elsea previously led the local church years ago and is well known by area residents.
The Chauncey Loyal Woman's Bible Class of the Church of Christ held a dinner meeting at Mrs. Rice Thomas's home after a potluck. Mrs. Carl Shafer chaired the business session. lesson was by Mrs. Thomas Hamilton and Mrs. Lloyd Pendergrass. The next meeting is in two weeks at Mrs. Burg Johnston's Converse Street home.
Chauncey hosts a week of visitors including Dr T H Morgan and Edmund Efaw with Atlanta area names and families from Athens Nelsonville and The Plains. F E Boudinot hosts a chicken dinner at Millfield with Boudinot family and friends. Dorothy and Elaine McKinney plan a Morristown Holiness Church Young People prayer night with host Andrew McKinney and Myrtle Simpson in charge.
Judge O. F. Rowland of Athens will be the guest speaker at the September meeting of Everyman's Bible Class at the Church of Christ. Other men's group members of the parish will attend as guests.
The article discusses Britain's sea power and a proposed use of small four-torpedo-tube torpedo boats to breach the Baltic minefields. It notes a U S Navy inspection of a vessel of this type, its speed and range, and how such craft could clear mine passage for larger ships like the Hood. An additional brief item reports Edward Wade, Millfield, and L E Wood starting an electric company in Gloucester.
Chauncey District Social and Personal notes list a Shriners picnic in Columbus with Dr. C N Sanders H O McDaniel George Duncan and Carson Sanders Jr of Millfield. Weekend guests include Mr and Mrs Glenn Channell and Dale Channell of Mansfield visiting Mrs Carrie Channell The Plains. Other visits feature Mrs Isabel Bradfield Mr and Mrs George Williamson and children Buddy and Jo Ann in Murray City with Mrs Elizabeth Koenig and additional Koenig relatives from Columbus and Lewisburg West Virginia. Floyd Matheny Athens visited The Plains area with James Matheny and family. Franklin Stalder and Barbara Florence of The Plains plus Charles Mitchell and Jane Ann of Athens joined Bertha Cook family in Crooksville. Marjorie Lee Lewis Amesville attended Chauncey Sunday visiting Elizabeth Rupe.
George Raft leads the Friday feature I Stole A Million at the Athena Theater. Claire Trevor co stars with Raft in a tale of a man who tries to go straight but reverts to crime, challenged by love and past misdeeds with strong supporting turns from Dick Foran Victor Jory and Henry Armetta.
Ames Bern Short Course Association meets Monday evening at 8 in the vocational agriculture room of the High School to elect officers for the next year. All old members graduates of 39 and others past high school age urged to attend under Mr Murphy. Several local families are noted visiting relatives and traveling to New York for the World's Fair.
A Bashan family reunion was held at Orvie and wife Gainer's home on Sunday with attendees including Audra Kelly Edyth Keith Ethel Estrail Kathryn Robert Ellen Dora Ola Watman Stump Ernest Clark Adron Stevens H O Schreckengost William and children Jesse Gainer Carrie Little Una Brinker Evert Ours Clifford Morris Warden Ours Bald Knobs Maxine Bailey and relatives The Latter Day Saints meeting began Sunday evening at Pleasant Hill Church in Bald Knobs.
Betty Jane Court ney Amy Jo Sanders and Roger Gould graduates of Chauncey Dover High School last spring began their studies at Ohio University this week as new enrollees.
Roger Herwick of New Plymouth Route was seriously injured Friday when struck by a coal truck at the mine on the late George Reynolds farm. He was taken to Grant Hospital Columbus with a crushed pelvis and shoulder and multiple fractures.
The Rev end S C Elsen newly appointed pastor will lead services in Jacksonville at 9 a m Millfield 10 a m and Trimble 7 30 p m Public worship also led by Rev R S Lawrence at Commercial Point charge south of Columbus Ohio The Jacksonville Methodist Ladies Aid Society hosts a dinner on election day Mr Claude Weldon spent the weekend in Columbus.
Mr and Mrs Charles Sherman hosted a gathering honoring relatives of Mrs Sherman and Mrs Edna Hoodler in New Marshfield. Attendees include Lawrence Haines and daughter Patty from Hundred West Virginia and several families from Athens and The Plains. A cafeteria lunch with ice cream and cake followed. Darrell Gorby will stay in Athens for the school year with his mother.
Pleasant Valley Ladies Aid met at the home of Mrs. Emma Inman with 12 members and seven visitors. A potluck lunch followed a program by Evalyn Pugh, Barbara Bolin, and Dwight Bolin. Several locals and guests visited Ms. Inman and other area households during the week.
Mr and Mrs A L Pritchard of Nelsonville called on Pearl Woods and Edward Brooks Sunday evening. Mrs Mary Hanning of Athens spent Monday at the home of Mr and Mrs Pearl Woods.
Lowell printer Joe Sullivan operates a local plant and prints pari mutuel tickets for 28 race tracks. He boasts that in 1938 he printed 10,000,000,000 daily double tickets, illustrating the vast scale of the horse racing business.
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