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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1955
Page
8
A Messenger feature recalls a market scene where a boy labeled Pretty Boy misbehaves over bread. Grandmother administers a stern disciplinary scolding, prompting a bystander to buy the bread. The piece moralizes on home discipline as key to national character and laments modern child-rearing methods.
New Straitsville notes mark the Baptist Church centennial with a day of services led by Rev. Martin and a 7 30 p m session by Rev. Jacob Leh. The Ohio State Fair saw the high school band, while Sunshine and Victory Circles met at the church with 12 members. Sherrard family reunion attended by many from Columbus and nearby. New Straitsville schools welcome six new teachers across grades and subjects.
The Rev. Duff, a former Meiji Gakuin teacher who endured wartime internment in Japan and later taught at the Syrian Protestant College in Beirut, will address an open meeting Sunday at 7 30 p m at Alexander Presbyterian Church Hed irdville. He helped in publishing the revised Japanese hymn book and served in Japan and Syria.
Local social column details numerous visits among families in Parkersburg and Portland including Mr and Mrs Earl Wells Mrs Van McDade Mrs Mayme Price and many relatives. It notes new home purchases moved trailers and hospital visits plus a stray historical remark about U S presidents who did not become fathers.
A scanned page lists multiple area churches with weekly schedules and contact notes. It includes service times such as Sunday worship at 10:30 am, Holy Communion periods, Sunday school around 9:30 or 10 am, and evening assemblies. It mentions pastors and church affiliations across Athens area congregations including Episcopal, Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist, Pentecostal and Holiness denominations.
A dense listing of Sunday schools worship times and church activities across many local congregations. Entries include Alexander Presbyterian Seventh Day Adventist Central Ave Methodist Jenovands Witnesses New Marshfield Charge Union Bates Pleasanton Guysville First Presbyterian Shade Poston Spechee of the Nazarene New York area Prairie Plains Church of Nazarene Church of God Whit’s Chapel Wesleyan and other small churches with times for services, MYF, prayer meetings, and youth groups. Church leaders listed include Rev. C Melvin Askire Rev. Roger M. Rice Jr Rev. Ralph Smith Rev. James Hough Rev. L.R. Mitchell and Rev Roy E. Deeter.
The Stewart Pilgrim Holiness church lists Sunday school at 10 am and an evening service at 7 30 pm led by the Rev Ray Pidcock with a sermon by Evan Plistle.
Sunday school at 9 90 am and evening service at 7 pm. Friday prayer meeting at 7 30 pm with preaching by Mex J M Kimmey of Athens.
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