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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1939
Page
3
Har vey Courtney, hospitalized at home after a serious illness, showed slight improvement on Wednesday and has been bedfast for several days.
Many sufferers relieve nagging backache quickly once they learn the real cause may be tired kidneys. The ad claims kidney disorder lets poisonous matter remain in blood, causing pains, swelling, and fatigue. It promotes Doan's Pills as a decades long remedy to flush wastes and restore energy.
Chauncey Guy E. Osborne longtime Dover Township clerk and resident sustained serious injuries in a Wednesday fall while on a Jacobs Ave log house project. He plunged more than 12 feet, was unconscious, with a broken left arm and facial lacerations.
Mr and Mrs Herbert Lemaster have opened a grocery store and filling station in the former Andrew Mc Kinney store building at Morristown after renting it from him They moved here from Sidney Ohio and bring new local commerce to the point.
A testimonial ad touts Vendol as the quickest best medicine for constipation and general well being. Mr J P Steward of Columbus Ohio credits Vendol with long relief and renewed appetite, recommending the Root Herb and Alkaline remedy as sold at Athens Pharmacy and Hickman’s Drug Store.
Fall fashion notes highlight Scotch caps with streamers and plaid, berets, casual brim hats with feathers, and postillion crowns for teens and older sisters. Trends feature black choices in Athens shops with a Holland silhouette, urging try-ons in millinery departments for upcoming dress occasions.
Chauncey relatives and friends are invited to the Howard home in Millfield for the Golden Wedding of Mr and Mrs L L Howard. A noon dinner will be served and an open house from 2 to 5 in the afternoon for calling guests.
Librarian Miss Nell Rupe says magazines are available now at Chauncey Library. Full time library service is expected to begin within a few weeks, expanding access for residents.
Pasteeth powder secures dentures without sliding slipping or rocking. It is alkaline and non acidic, leaves no gummy taste or odor, and prevents denture breath. Get FastEeth at any drug store.
Relatives from Chauncey who traveled to Jackson for the funeral of Clarence Shears included Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Oliver, Mrs. Ethel Scott, Mrs. Elsie Staley, Mrs. Evelyn Burt and her son Lloyd, Mrs. Edna Brannon, Harry Oliver, William Oliver, Mr. and Mrs. Asa Canter and their son Delbert, and Lewis Canter. Clarence Shears was a nephew of Mrs. Oliver, Asa Canter and Lewis Canter. A bat colony near San Antonio devours about 600 tons of live insects annually.
Opens Station CHAUNCEY-Moores and Ross Company of Columbus runs a cream station in the tile building beside the EF. T. Abdella store Converse St Chauncey Earl Pyle will operate a truck collecting cream from surrounding communities After testing local cream it will be shipped to Columbus at least twice weekly The building also houses a feed store run by Earl Pyle
Readers learn that weakfishes prove formidable in angling contests, delivering surprising challenge to any fisher. The article highlights their resilience and the vigor they bring to a fight, making them a noteworthy quarry for sport anglers.
Mr. and Mrs. Courtney Pettit announce the birth of a seven pound daughter at their Trimble home on Sunday September 24. She is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Pettit of Millfield. A note mentions canal rules about blasting grounded vessels in the Suez for over two days.
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