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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1949
Page
3
The NT Club will meet at Mrs John Heney's home on Republic Avenue Thursday at 7 30 pm. The meeting time has shifted from Friday evening to Thursday evening.
Nelsonville Frank DeLong 72 dies at Sheltering Arms Hospital Athens from injuries suffered in a week earlier automobile crash. A coal miner of 50 years and Nelsonville resident, he belonged to the Nelsonville Eagles. Funeral Tuesday at 2:30 pm Stout Funeral Home burial Greenlawn. Survived by wife Lottie four sons a daughter three brothers a sister twenty grandchildren thirteen great grandchildren.
Mrs. Edna Courtney 61 died Sunday morning at her daughter’s home in Oak Grove after several days of pneumonia. Survived by husband Edward, parents Oscar and Low, a daughter Gertrude Merritt, six sisters, eight grandchildren. Funeral Wednesday at 1 pm Nelsonville Pilgrim Holiness Church with Rev. William Brown. burial Greenlawn.
Nelsonville event dinner honoring Grand Outer Guard Raymond C Patton will be held at Valley Lodge 169 Knights of Pythias following the regular lodge session. Dinner served by the Pythian Sisters at 8 oclock.
Scouts of Troop 66 hike Sunday with leaders and new scouts in the hills south of Nelsonville. Patrol Leader Bill Monk Jr. A S M Gib Simonton Keith Butts join Billy Palmer Eldin Cox and Darrel Bacus on the trek.
Athletic Boosters Club will meet Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock in the City Building. The notice was announced today.
The Eudora Chapter No. 72 CES will hold its regular meeting Tuesday at 7:30 PM in the Masonic Temple.
Ohio Education Association official J O Keefe spoke to Nelsonville Classroom Teachers Association urging increased state aid for schools amid rising enrollment. He noted Ohio ranks seventh in teacher training and seventeenth in teacher salaries, with 69 percent holding bachelor degrees. A 1954 projection warned of growing elementary school populations.
Nelsonville report says Raymond C. Patton was installed Grand Outer Guard at the K of P Grand Lodge session in Cincinnati. It marks Valley Lodge No. 169's first member elected to a Grand Lodge office. Delegates C Roy Tomlinson, Mrs James Hollenbaugh, and Mrs Raymond Patton attended. Mrs Hollenbaugh and Mrs Patton also attended the Pythian Sisters state meeting.
Edward Walsh of Camp Gordon spends furlough with his mother Mrs. Mary Walsh. Pvt. Dwight Bond of Fort Knox visits grandparents in area and reports for duty at Fort Sam Houston. A birthday party honors Larry Belcher. Numerous visits and marriages mentioned among families in Charleston, Reading, Rosemond, and Letart with brief travel and base assignments.
Middleport police reported a quiet weekend with no arrests. Officers noted activity was routine and no incidents requiring a callout occurred in the area.
Nelsonville Emblem Club plans a kitchen shower for the new dining room at a Tuesday meeting. Members will bring vessels or money and refreshments will be provided by the committee.
Mrs. Orin Thacker, Mrs. Harry Edington, and Mrs. James T. Sheppard of Columbus were guests Friday of Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Shepard. Mr. and Mrs. Emil Fraedich of Oceanside, Long Island, N. J., are listed.
Mrs Carl Denison entertained the Emma Kincaid Circle with refreshments for numerous guests including Rosa Barnes Grace Thomas Edith Bean Allie Gardner Bertha Giles Rebecca Folan Evelyn Jordan Hattie McKenzie Ira Fleming Lee Myers and Linnie Taylor. Notices also report baptisms at First Baptist Dorothy Warner Richard and other local social movements and an appointment of Clyde Beasley as Executor of Jennie Beasley with probate filing deadlines.
Margaret D. Paepke files for divorce custody and support from Paul H. Paepke in Court of Common Pleas Athens Ohio. Respondent listed from Alhambra California. Hearing set on or after November 3 1940.
Nelsonville born Ray C. Patton named grand outer guard among newly elected grand officers at the closing session of the Ohio Knights of Pythias and Pythian Sisters convention in Cincinnati.
WBA Review No 240 will meet Tuesday at 7 30 in the Buckeye Building. A social hour with refreshments will follow the meeting.
The Loyal Women's Class of Trimble First Church of Christ met at Mrs J W Herreld's home on Thursday evening. Mrs Frances Clark led a Psalm review and topic for study for months. Refreshments were served to Mrs Gertrude Rainey class teacher, Mrs Frances Clark, Mrs Edna Kasier, Mrs Margaret Davis, Mrs Bessie Pettit, the hostess, and two guests B H Pettit and J W Herroid.
Mr and Mrs Wilbur Stine of Washington DC visited Glouster Saturday afternoon to see friends after taking their daughter Sylvia to begin her junior year at Ohio State University in Columbus. Stine a former Glouster resident and 1907 high school graduate had been in the Navy Department in Washington.
Mr. and Mrs. William Hodgson marked their 61st wedding anniversary at home in Hollister on September 18. A noon dinner was served for guests including William Hodgson Jr. of Chesterhill, Jack Brown of Columbus, Arthur Hodgson and family, and other honored visitors.
Mrs John Stocklin of Chestnut Street entertained the September meeting of the DYD Club in Nelsonville. Sixteen members and one guest attended the social hour with a refreshment course served. Mrs Henry Perkins will entertain the group in October.
The OES Thea Chapter of OFS will meet Tuesday at 7 30 p m in the Masonic Hall Corning Chapter holds friends night this evening and has invited Thea Chapter members as guests James Sawyer of Trimble was hospitalized in Newark a week ago for observation and possible surgery in serious condition
The Pythian Sisters met in K of P Hall and practiced the degree team work to be conferred soon. The Try Women of the Moose will meet in Moose Hall Thursday at 7 30 p m.
GLOUSTER The fronts Friday and Saturday night caused little harm in this area with frost sensitive crops. Most corn is in shock though some late planted fields survive. A killing frost in the next week could ruin fall flowers that are just blooming.
Glouster and Trimble residents visited relatives across several towns. H. E. Pettit and granddaughter Judy Pettit traveled from Crooksville to spend Sunday with J. W. Herrold and B. H. Pettit in Trimble, then all went to Athens to visit Erland Coffman. Mrs. Kasler remained in Athens for an extended visit, while Zane Kasler and family returned to Columbus.
James Sawyer 75 of Trimble died Sunday at 6 p m in Newark City Hospital after a week illness. Born in Morgan County he moved to Trimble and lived there since. Survived by wife Hat tie two sons Kenneth and Kermit of Columbus two daughters Bernadine Sawyer and Mrs Virginia Border a brother Dave in Jacksonville and two sisters Mrs Sylvia Post Corning and Mrs Celia dinot Midfield. Funeral Wednesday at 2 p m at the Trimble home with Rev. Gilbert Courtney. Burial Maplewood Cemetery. Friends may call at the home.
The Jacksonville Methodist Sunday School Faithful Class will gather Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at Mrs Wahneta Exenkamper’s home. The event is hosted at the Exenkamper residence in Glouster.
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