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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1944
Page
3
Pomeroy reports sales by Sugar Run Grade School Junior High Central Grade School and Pisa with weekly and cumulative totals. Overall week total $16,316.24 and previous grand total shown. Victory Garden figures note last year's 8,000,000 tons grown at about two-fifths of a ton per garden.
Theodore Reed, named president of The Farmers Bank & Saving Company, succeeds his late father William Reed. Reed moved from Akron in 1931 where he led the Ohio State Savings and Trust Company and has served as executive vice president. He and his wife Sara Calderwood have two children, Theodore and Agnes.
Pomeroy Junior Women's Guild meeting at Federated Church with $5 pledged to the Red Cross War Fund. East ern Star to conduct annual inspection at the Masonic Temple. Wedding announced in Gallipolis: Sara Rose Curtis to Pvt. Carl F. Dill on April 15, 1944 at Gallipolis, Dill stationed at Ft. Dix. Various local notices on residents’ moves, visits, and health updates follow.
Wilkesville plans closings from April 21 to May 19 featuring Junior and Senior plays The Hoodooed Coon and Mother-In-Law Blues plus a baccalaureate May 14 and commencement May 16 with Dean McCracken as speaker Two seniors on the basketball team receive letters and gold balls as the 80 attendees enjoy a banquet led by Home Economics teacher Olive West
News brief reports dairy barns and poultry houses facing production drops as abrupt temperature changes reduce milk yield and egg production, impacting farm revenue and supply.
Harold Story Jones of Burlingham Meigs County has been killed in action in the Southwest Pacific on March 16. He was born April 15 1924 and served after training at Ft. Riley Browns ville and Ft. Ord before overseas duty. He was 19 at death and is the fifteenth gold star for Meigs County with nine others missing or prisoners of war.
In Pomeroy two upper Main Street ventures shut this week. The Alice Ann Coffee Shoppe, leased by Mrs. Alice Spencer for ill health, and Gold's Recreation Center, whose bowling alleys were moved to Belle West Virginia for use by J. R. Simms. The Golds are moving operations to Jackson after 18 months here.
A waterproof resin compound is developed to keep earth from becoming mud. Its use could end muddy streets and roads and save time in road construction by preventing mud delays.
Staff Sgt Philip F Will, stationed at Headquarters Army Ground Forces in Washington D C, spends ten day delay with his mother Edna G Will in Pomeroy before reporting May 1 to Fort Sam Houston San Antonio Texas in the Eighth Corps Area administrative branch. ARE PARENTS OF SON LONG BOTTOM announces birth of Jimmy Clair Caldwell April 7 at St Josephs Hospital Parkersburg with grandparents Newton Kincaid and Clyde C Caldwell. Three milk bottles are made for every inhabitant in the United States.
In China the cost of gasoline is eight per gallon in terms of gold currency, reflecting a price fixed to gold standards rather than a fiat rate. The report notes the unusual pricing method and its potential impact on drivers and markets.
The Ferrary family's stamp collection in Paris is described as the world’s largest. Begun in 1865, it has accumulated an estimated value of about $2,000,000 to date.
An old cautionary note urges readers to use Penetro Nose Drops only as directed to treat head cold symptoms and avoid misuse.
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