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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1942
Page
2
Ferry Dillon of the U S employment office announces two registrations for high school pupils. The first will cover all students aged 16 or older seeking summer farm work or war industry jobs. The second will list graduates seeking permanent positions.
City commissioners approve a 75777.76 dollar annual appropriation package covering general fund water works cemeteries street repair and bond retirements. The plan includes a three month temporary appropriation and designates park board members to serve without compensation. Authorities also order closing cemetery and park entrances at sundown daily.
Mason County carpenter Harry Johnson, about 55, is in critical condition at Holzer Hospital after falling from a high scaffold at the Marietta shipyards last Saturday. Doctors ordered his removal to the hospital and Franklin's ambulance transported him. Reports state he sustained a broken back, a fractured hip and pelvic bone. Johnson's home is near West Columbia. the scaffold slung alongside a ship under construction.
Gallia Academy will present a first ever joint concert by its a cappella choir and concert band on Monday evening April 20 at Washington Auditorium. Directors Elizabeth Shough and Richard Downs arrange final numbers for combined performance of Block's America hymn and The Star Spangled Banner. The band performs one number alone and the choir sings two groups, with public invited.
Gallia county draft board will mail questionnaires to February 16 registrants this week. Registrants should answer fully and legibly, using ink or typing. Free assistance is available from advisory board members in Gallipolis and surrounding towns including Cherrington, Thomas, Myers, Halliday, Bailes, Betz, Howell, Thurman, Bradbury, Lanier, Stevers, Lewis, Lew is, McCoy, Bodimer, Wood, Davis, Webster, Denny and others.
Gallipolis reports that WPA school gardens will shift to female workers to free men for war defense tasks. Three men currently cultivate the Washington School garden. no replacement details given. An intensive drive seeks 10,000 quarts of canning containers to support school lunch programs.
Clyde A. Dale of Gallia County, formerly a construction engineer, reports living in Troutdale Oregon where he is employed by the U S Defense Corporation as junior engineer and brickwork inspector. The plant lies 15 miles east of Portland on the Columbia River and will draw power from the Bonneville Dam. He cites labor shortage and shipping facilities as difficulties. two carbon baking furnaces will require four million firebrick sourced east of the Mississippi.
About 100 members attended a Pomona meeting in Bulaville Monday with Joseph Fichter of Miami University as guest speaker. The group discussed the Grange’s national defense position and urged members to cooperate with government requests on food and feed production. A new Grange chorus performed patriotic numbers and a buffet supper was served.
Funeral services for Mrs. James L. Haskins will be held at First Baptist Church Wednesday at 2:30 p m following a long illness. She died at her home on Fourth Ave opposite the high school. Interment will be at Mound Hill Cemetery. Born near Buffalo West Virginia in 1867 she is survived by Morris E. Haskins and Mrs Burh Hood. Her husband died two years ago.
Gallipolis principal C C Byers releases a bulletin detailing end of term events. Activities include April 15 faculty dinner, April 17 formal dance, April 24 25 state music contests at Ohio State University, May 1 8 9 state solo and ensemble, May 15 junior senior dinner dance, May 20 21 seniors exams, May 22 class night and freshmen sophomores juniors exams, May 24 baccalaureate at Grace Methodist Church, May 26 faculty breakfast, May 28 commencement, May 30 report cards.
Large attendance at the French Colony Chapter D A R gathering held at Miss Anna Simmerman’s home. Hostesses were Miss Elia Rothgeb and Mrs Elias Wetherholt. Mrs M T Epling led the program with a review of the book Trees. refreshments followed. Miss Simmerman delegates to the Continental Congress in Chicago in May with Mrs Henry R Hurn as alternate.
Announcement says Miss Sara Petry graduate of Holzer Hospital School of Nursing will marry Ambrose Ostroski of Port Clinton at Im maculate Conception Church on Saturday April 25. Petry, daughter of Mr and Mrs Albert Petry Wellston, has worked at Poole Hospital Port Clinton since graduation. Ostroski, a radio engineering graduate from Angola Indiana, is employed in Akron.
The Gallipolis Branch AAUW held a Monday evening meeting at Rev. and Mrs. R L Pabst home in Rio Grande with Miss Mildred Wise speaking on art. Mr and Mrs S A Clendenin hosted ten neighborhood children for an egg rolling on their grounds for Billy and Larry.
Mr and Mrs Thomas Jenkins hosted Sunday guests including their daughter Imogene and Mrs R W Lewis from Oak Hill. Raymond Jones and daughter Jeanne returned from Akron. Eric Cox of Mill Creek Street welcomed a son John Robert born Friday April 3. Grandparents named including John Cox Bladen and Robert Harrison Gallipolis. Edith Nuckles transferred to Ravenna office and will live in Akron. Alice Jean Bush returned from Easter break at Oberlin College. Numerous relatives visited in Dayton Columbus Bowling Green and Oberlin areas.
A Monday operation in a Cincinnati hospital successfully removed a toy rabbit's eye from four month old Billy Myers bronchial tubes after the child swallowed the eye while playing Sunday.
In Gallipolis the Aid for the Aged rolls list 1016 pension recipients with 40 cases pending investigation. Belief exists that the peak is near and reductions may follow as relatives in defense work or 65 plus employment support eligible applicants. Investigators are to scrutinize all income sources, with several pension refusals issued once excess income was found.
Gallia county licenses to wed issued to ten couples including George Snyder and Mary Ellen Adkins in Huntington Olen Ellis and Dain Campbell in Athens W E Paxton and Margaret Moore in Charleston Bobbie Erwin and Virginia Walker in Bidwell Roger Williams and Catherine Lewis in Thurman Joseph Maynard and Edith Sammons in Pulaski Everett Showalter and Macel Baldwin in Charleston Russell Koontz and Helen Harrison in Charleston Lewis Gantz and Doris Sellars in Linworth James Millican and Barbara Barnard in Cleveland.
Newly elected Elks officers were installed Monday in Gallipolis. Exalted ruler John Halliday, leading knight J. E. Morrison, loyal knight H. W. Dexter, lecturing knight R. D. Thomas, outer guard Aaron Davis, secretary J. H. Bovie, and treasurer Frank Shaw led the ceremony followed by a buffet supper.
Gallipolis Charles R. Baird rector of St. Peter's Episcopal Church will deliver the baccalaureate sermon to 85 high school graduates Sunday night May 24 at Grace Methodist Church. Commencement exercises follow Thursday night May 28 in Washington Auditorium.
Woodrow Cre hey was arrested in Gallia County on a charge from two East Gallipolis women claiming he followed and insulted them.
Gal lia County Commissioners order all property from the closed WPA Sewing Center moved to the surplus commodities HQ under H. D. Smiley. Surplus foods and clothing will be issued only to eligibles in person with permits signed by M. R. Allen. Trustees of the Children's Home replaced for non attendance by Ora Gillmore and Frank Plymore. Deputy Sheriff Morton Dickey.
Sunday School and Easter morning service at Trinity Methodist Church drew capacity crowds. A new worship center background, a gift from Mr and Mrs Ben Franklin Jr, was unveiled at the morning service. A class joined the church and several members came by letter from other churches in Kentucky Ohio and West Virginia.
E. J. Jones, 60, died Saturday after noon while crossing Shadle Bridge. A carpenter by trade, he lived near his home and worked in Charleston. Services were at Mt. Carmel Church Monday at 2:30 PM. burial followed. He is survived by wife Goldie, daughters Reba Bright and Faye Jones, sons Robert Glen and Tut Jones, a brother Homer Jones, and sisters Gusta Jones and Emma Anderson.
Otis E. Nobles of Monroe Ave. joins Point Pleasant police to work daytime duties with Chief Jividen. Night officers remain Toral Morrison and Floyd Redman.
Pt Pleasant column reports Colonel Charles Lewis Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution met at Tu Endie Wie Mansion. Highlights include a change of date for the 51st Continental Congress to Chicago May 4 7, cancellation of the Twelfth D A R luncheon, and a book drive. Community recreation for soldiers discussed. a $5 donation to American International College approved. Several members and guests listed with local social notices and local hospital and college updates.
WPA Sewing Center appears to stay closed with officials seeing the closure as permanent. No equipment has been removed, says M. R. Allen, certification officer for WPA, in Gallipolis.
E F Wiggins auditor for E B Badger and Sons Co. working on the 55 million dollar West Virginia Ordnance Works project is a patient in Holzer Hospital Gallipolis with critical condition.
Mound Street resident Logan L Showalter will add a first floor bedroom with Emanuel Wolfe supervising the carpenter work.
Paul Ratliff of Charleston representing the AFL heavy construction division was expected in Point Pleasant to organize workers on the million dollar access highway serving the West Virginia Ordnance Works.
Deputy Sheriff Ernest Hesson State Patrolman Harry Coyner and Night Officer Toral Morrison conducted a late night raid in a local hotel room arresting ten men on gambling charges. Those named include Chester Plants Raymond Moss Harry Meal Harless Benson Leo Benson Ned Lambert Bob Carr B K Somerville Ernest Slim Smith Harold Merrill. Eight posted cash bonds and were released pending hearing while two were jailed.
Vern Miller of Henderson's volunteer fire department was the sole available member who rushed by river to battle a blaze that nearly destroyed Bert Stanley's garage and threatened his cottage and home. Water from a booster tank was pumped as Henderson volunteers aided. Damage to the cottage was slight.
William Van Matre of Mason was held for Grand Jury findings after a February break in at two up river business places in Point Pleasant. Magistrate Sam Taylor set bail at 1500 dollars. unable to post, Van Matre was remanded to jail.
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Danford entertained at Easter dinner. S. S. Danford and Miss Merle Danford attended. Miss Bernarda Danford of Western College and Miss Dorothy Jo Danford of Capital University are spending a brief vacation at their parents’ home.
R F Mus attorney for H A Johnson administrator seeks settlement in circuit court for the McDermitt estate against Elmer McDermitt and others. A separate partition suit T G Hulbert versus William Gray and others is filed by Somerville and Somerville for the plaintiff.
Gallipolis chamber of commerce directors met last night and discussed several matters not released for publication. No action was taken on selecting an executive secretary to replace Mrs. George Bovie whose resignation becomes effective April 15.
The iron contained in the human system is indispensable to life. Even a slight reduction of the amount causes serious illness.
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