Nelsonville Faces Pomeroy High in Local Dedicatory Game
Nelsonville expects to win a dedicatory league game tonight against Pomeroy High School at 7:45. Coaches Abraham and Campbell report peak team condition and high student enthusiasm with Beat Pomeroy signs, banners, and fundraiser concessions by the junior class.
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SSS
Nelsonville
Pomeroy
Mercy
Abraham
Campbell
Girls’ Athletic Association
Future
Homemakers’ Association
Special Song Service Planned at Church
Nelsonville Church of Christ plans a Sunday night program with a community song service from the screen, a colored-light pantomime of The Old Rugged Cross, and a sermon titled Are we in the Saturday night of the World's History. Bible School at 9 30, and a dawn sermon on The Twin Laws of Spiritual Prosperity. Ticket prices for adults raised slightly to help fund new lighting. student and season tickets remain. Gates open at 7 00 with exercises at 7 45 including band God Bless America dedicatory remarks and school song.
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Church of Christ
Jes Walker
Leland Krieg
J. K. Kinneer
N” Association
L. I. Krieg
Tom Sheppard
Nurse Beggs Attempted Extortion From Mrs Frick
Lillian Beggs a Lyndhurst New Jersey nurse aimed to extort fifty thousand dollars from Helen Clay Frick. FBI chief J Edgar Hoover said Beggs was seized in New York as she accepted a package she believed held the money. Frick, daughter of a steel magnate, is a prominent American heiress.
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Lyndhurst
N. J
Helen Clay Frick
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Nelsonville Couple Wed in Wheeling in September
Mrs. W Hess Nichols of Wheeling announces the marriage of Elaine Nichols to Robert E. Chaney of Columbus. Reverend H J A Bomberger officiated at St Mathews Church Wheeling on September 25. The bride, a Nelsonville native, and her sister attended by Joseph Weishar III. The couple left for an East wedding trip after a Windsor Hotel dinner. Elaine is a 1936 Nelsonville High School and 1939 Mercy Hospital graduate now employed at Ohio Valley General Hospital in Wheeling. Chaney is a 1936 Bexley High School and 1940 Cincinnati College of Embalming graduate.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Elaine
Robert E. Chaney
Otto C. Chaney
Columbus
Ohio
H. J. A. Bomberger
St. Mathews Church
Nichols
Nelsonville
Louise
Joseph Weishar III
Chaney
Nelsonville High School
Mercy Hospital
Ohio Valley General Hospital
Bexley High School
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Windsor Hotel
East
Athens and Waterloo Township Election Ballot Proposals 1940
Notices announce general election for November 5 1940 in Athens County Ohio. Proposals include increasing taxes for poor relief up to 2 mills and funding road hard surface improvements in Waterloo Township up to 1 mill for three years. Board of Election chaired by Frank W. Poston.
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Ohio
Athens County Board of Election
Frank W. Poston
Botw O. K. Parrett
Waterloo Township
O. K. Parrett
Dedication Planned for Dorr Run Presbyterian Mission Chapel
Nelsonville announces a dedication service for the Dorr Run Presbyterian Mission Chapel on Sunday at 3 30 PM with Rev Edwin B Townsend presiding. The ground was dedicated by Mr and Mrs Frank Minner and a week of services will follow ending Oct 6 with Holy Communion. Notable attendees include Rev John Sharpe Rev Wood Duff Rev Lloyd Evans and others.
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Dorr Run
Edwin B. Townsend
D. D
Frank Minner
Synod of Ohio
Blanche Riley
Doerr Run
John Sharpe
Wood Duff
Sidney
Lloyd Evans
Clarence S. Gee
D. D. Columbus
Cecil Jones
Logan
Fred E. Luchs
Athens Presbyterian Church
Athens
York Township Democrats to Organize Club Meeting
Democrats of Nelsonville and York Township meet at 7:30 tonight in Buckeye Building rooms on W Washington St for organizing a York Township Democrat Club. All township Democrats are invited to attend and participate.
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Nelsonville
York Township
Buckeye Building
W. Washington St
Stag Picnic at Lake Postponed for Weather
The annual event sponsored by Nel sonville Sportsmen's Association at Sportsmen's Lake Circle Hill Sunday Sept 29 has been indefinitely postponed. Weather uncertainty and lack of rain shelter prompted the delay with indoor plans to be announced.
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Nelsonville
Nelsonville Sportsmen's Association
Sportsmen's Lake
Circle Hill
Association
Funeral rites for William Spencer in Nelsonville
Funeral services for William Spencer who died Wednesday will be held Saturday at 2 PM at the Murray City Pilgrim Holiness Church. Burial will follow in Salem Hollow Cemetery.
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Nelsonville
William Spencer
Murray City
Pilgrim Holiness Church
Salem Hollow
Stocks Slide As International Clouds Drag Markets
New York stocks sag as international clouds darken sentiment. Leading issues fell more than a point with U S Steel Bethlehem Chrysler General Motors N Y Central Standard Oil of N J American Telephone United Aircraft Glenn Martin Douglas Aircraft Consolidated Edison and DuPont among decliners. Dun Bradstreet survey shows retail spending slowing this week while weather tempers the upward curve though sales stay above typical seasonal levels and wholesalers' backlogs grow.
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Dun & Bradstreet
Nelsonville Board Aids Band Program with Instrument Purchase
Nelsonville city board of education moves to aid band efforts by joining Band Boosters and teachers to buy about 1200 dollars worth of new instruments and to foster a junior band in fourth to sixth grades to supply high school bands with new players. The plan keeps parental instrument purchases, approves a tenure safeguard resolution, and covers payroll, tax advances, and bus shelter plans.
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Nelsonville
Band Boosters Club
Harold LaFavor
E. N. Dietrich
Elm Brook Coal Co
Co. W. Monks
R. W. Parks
Livestock Prices Reported at Pittsburgh Market
Salable hogs ranged steady to 5c higher with loads 160 to 290 lb auctioned at 6.25 to 6.65. Cattle numbers steady with steers 8.50 to 12.50 for good dry feds, heifers 7.50 to 10, cows 3.75 to 6.50, bulls 5.50 to 8.50. Calves steady at 9 to 13 for medium to good, 12 to 13 for good to choice.
Rally Day Planned by Nelsonville First Methodist
Nelsonville's First Methodist Church announces a Sunday School Rally Day for October 6 with all departments cooperating. Rev. William Martell George will preach September 20 at 10 30 on The Power and Influence of the Sunday School. Evening sermon on Christ in Art precedes a board meeting October 2 with covered dish luncheon.
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Methodist
William Martell George
Livestock Market Report Harbors Mixed Prices and Steady Tones
Hogs sold 3 200 generally steady with top 6 60 for 200 to 250 Ib and 6 45 to 6 20 for 250 to 350 Ib. Sows strong to 250 up at 5 75. Cattle and calves mostly steady cleanups. heifers 11 50 for 610 Ib, grain fed steers scarce at 8 50, cows and bulls steady with cows 4 75 to 5 50 and bulls 4 50 to 6 50. Vealers steady good and choice 10 50 to 11 50, some 12.
Three Doctrines Theme At Nelsonville L D S Church
Nelsonville church announces Sunday schedule including Church School at 9 30 sermonette at 10 45 study class at 6 30 and preaching by the assistant pastor at 7 30 with the theme Three Doctrines.
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Nelsonville
Latter Day Saints
Mrs. Koon Dies at Home in Murray City
Nelsonville reports the death of Palmelia Koon 79 at her Murray City residence. Funeral services are set for Sunday at 1 30 PM at the Murray City Methodist Church with burial at Roseville. She is survived by four sons six daughters and a sister Alamda Koon of Roseville.
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Nelsonville
Palmelia Koon
Murray City
Murray City Methodist Church
Roseville
Davis Family Reunion at Lancaster Fairgrounds
Nelsonville announces a Davis family reunion to be held at the Lancaster Fairgrounds on Sunday, September 29, with a large expected attendance from members.
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Nelsonville
Davis
Lancaster Fairgrounds
Revival Continues in Nelsonville at Nazarene Church
The Church of the Nazarene in Nelsonville extends its revival through Sunday September 29 with evangelist Rev. M. W. Lemunyon of Mendon Ohio leading services nightly at 7 oclock.
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Nelsonville
Church of the Nazarene
M. W. Lemunyon
Mendon, O
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