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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1950
Page
2
The Chauncey Church of Christ Men’s Progressive Club met at the parish house Monday night to discuss improvements for April. Audrien Simpkins chaired the gathering and outlined proposed renovations and fundraising steps.
An article blends a Doan's Pills testimonial with church news. It notes Doan's Pills as a long running diuretic and mentions church business planning a rear parish house kitchen expansion led by Glenn Davis and Elwood Daugherty with committee collaboration from the Friendship class. Social committee hosting pie ice cream and coffee.
Helen Loper a Chauncey Dover High senior and her twin Ellen a junior have attended classes for 12 years without missing a day. They are children of Mr and Mrs James Loper and live in Beaumont.
Total Easter morning attendance across five Chauncey area churches Chauncey Millfield Greens Run Trimble and Taylor Ridge reached 1116 with offerings of 378 25 dollars. Six additions brought new members to 70 since January.
An old advertisement describes FASTEETH a denture powder that keeps false teeth steady on upper or lower plates. It claims the powder prevents sliding slipping or rocking, has no gummy taste, is alkaline and non-acid, does not sour, and reduces denture odor. Available at any drug store.
The CHAUNCEY senior youth fellowship elected officers: Kenneth Henry president Bruce Humphrey vice president Patricia Hanning secretary and Shirley McGee treasurer. The group meets Sundays at 6 30 p.m. with Rev Donald Weller and Mrs Thelma Talbert as councillors. Enrollment is 22 aged 15 to 23. An Intermediate group for ages 11 to 14 was organized two weeks ago meeting Tuesdays at 7 30 p.m. Councillors are Mr and Mrs Robert Dearing and Miss Gail Slater. Invitations are open to youths in the specified ages to enroll.
Mr and Mrs Walter C Border of Millfield are advised their son Jack Border was injured while playing with the 101st Harbor Craft base ball team on Okinawa. He is hospitalized and will be flown to the States after the leg cast is removed. Corporal Border has been in Okinawa since January 1949 and plans to attend Riggers School in Baltimore upon his return.
The Bureau of Mines urged supplementary safety measures at the Junction City Clay Co mine in MOXAHALA. The Perry County operation employed 16 men and averaged 85 tons daily in March. Inspector J C Reardon called for only permissible explosives, electric cap lamps, no smoking underground, six place timbering compliance, removal of hanging bone coal, improved ventilation, air reversing at the fan, and preshift fire boss exams.
Chester Fox and family spent Easter with his in laws the Hayes in Columbus while Mrs Hayes was ill. Several visits unfold from Cincinnati to Akron as residents attend WSCS meetings in Ironton and sunrise services in Pomeroy. Families host, travel, and gather for holidays across Ohio with friends and relatives in Columbus Cincinnati Ironton and Washington D C.
Mrs. Clarence FE McCafferty of 23 Main St returns from a visit with her sons and daughters in laws Richard J McCafferty in Cleveland and Cecil McCafferty in Willoughby Ohio. In Cleveland she attended the opera Samson and Delilah.
Chauncey Ralph Sayre of Concord returned last week from the Veterans Hospital in Dayton after two surgical operations. He expects to return to the hospital for further surgery in June.
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