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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1943
Page
12
Fragmentary notes place Pvt. and Pvt. Elliott visiting relatives in Lancaster Street Albans and Orleans area. Mentions 15 day furlough and private matters tied to Fort Monrio.
Weissenburger chairs Mason County drive to raise 265100 beginning April 12 with Dyer and Tol Stribling as vice chairs. He urges residents to fund the war effort, explaining threefold benefits: stabilizing inflation, financing food and munitions, and earning interest for future purchases. He emphasizes patriotic duty and appeals to ordinary citizens to invest.
Radcliff social notes list births to Carl Cottrell and James Pendleton Jr. A minor hand operation on C. E. Pierce at White Cross Hospital. families visiting relatives in Ohio, West Virginia, and Indiana. Military updates include Orlin Gregory’s sergeant promotion and Pierce’s Solomon Islands service. Property changes and family outings round out the social roundup with travel to Columbus and Wellston.
Hemlock residents donated 215.25 to the Red Cross War Fund chaired by Mrs. Gladys Miller. Group contributors included local churches and Hemlock School along with Rend-Mar and Little Essex coal firms. Lt. Thomas Tharp and crew from Colorado Springs flew a B 17 over Hemlock. Fire destroyed Mary Hodgson barn. Emma Marshall thanks friends for cattle gifts and her daughter Mabel Oakley has returned home.
Mrs C R Cheesbrew returns to Steubenville from a sister visit. Mrs C H Frye visited Gallipolis yesterday. Elise Litz of Hotel Frederick Huntington and John Horton of Hotel Gibbons Dayton stayed with Mr and Mrs Harry Childers south of the Kanawha. G R Waggener returned from Columbus after visiting son S J Waggener and family. Frederick Roseberry went to Charleston to resume work after visiting his parents A Horton and Mrs Roseberry.
The Agricultural Extension Service of West Virginia University offers a New Farm Account Book for West Virginia farmers. Copies may be obtained from the county agent or by writing to Morgantown WV. It aids in accurate yearly farm records for income tax and financial analysis to identify gains, losses, and opportunities.
Milton Burdette, principal, said Central Grade School will graduate about 50 pupils eligible for Junior High next term. There will be no graduation exercises. The term ends around May 14. George Sprenger of Marietta Manufacturing Co. confined at home in the Imat week by illness.
Community members from Columbus and Kenton spend weekends with relatives in the area. Army Private Wade Rupe trains at Camp Bowie Texas. A WSCS meeting is planned for April 21 led by Mrs Mary B Rupe. Nevada mining totals exceed one billion dollars to date.
Floyd Jacobs of Leon is jailed on a non-support charge in the county jail after an arrest in Columbus by Deputy Ernest Hesson. He returned to West Virginia without extradition. Jacobs supports a wife and five children living in destitute conditions near Leon, with two dollars in his possession.
Homer D. Lowes will plant a garden on a half acre lot between their hotel and the river. The site has been grass for years and more recently parking for hotel customers.
John Clay Hutchinson visits his uncle Charles A. Hutchinson printing ink manufacturer in Detroit. Charles Hutchinson is reported seriously ill. Hutchinson, born in Henderson, is the oldest member of his family and previously attended a brother’s funeral in this area.
Completion of government shelter projects for 700 families in Point Pleasant is not expected before June 1 according to Walter Johnson, resident manager for the contractors. Most shelters lack utilities with linoleum, painting, and plumbing remaining. Delays in materials and severe weather pushed back the Dec 1 original deadline. Carlyle Whaley returned home yesterday from Holzer Hospital with Earl H. Arnett.
Mrs. T Pr Burdette owning land near the Jones and Wharton housing project has set aside 3% acres for lease to occupants. Four families hold 60 by 120 foot plots. Houses are leased as completed or before. The project plans 100 homes opposite Bellemeade on Ohio River Road.
Mr. and Mrs. Okey Burdette learn their niece Mrs. Frank Ganett of Greensboro N C welcomed a daughter born March 22. Mrs Ganett, formerly Loreda Baisden of Huntington, had often visited the Burdette home on Viand Street before her marriage.
West Virginia asks the federal government to fund improved highways within the ordnance works reservation. Several miles of gravel roads and adjacent farmland were taken and closed to the public. The state seeks about $100000 in compensation. investigators from Charleston and Huntington examined the claim. Gandhi travels with false teeth but uses them only when eating.
Attorney Jack Burdette has been promoted within the War Department land department legal staff after joining the land acquisition section months ago. He is the son of T. P. Burdette of Ohio River Road and a West Virginia University Law School graduate who previously practiced at local courts in Point Pleasant.
Mr. George Cottrill of Leon was admitted to the Point Clinic yesterday. Mrs. Virgil Love of Bellmeade was discharged. The clinic reports the birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. Austin Morrison of Fifth Street, weighing six pounds thirty four ounces, on Wednesday.
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