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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1945
Page
28
Mayor W. D. Hines appeals to Chauncey residents and property owners to participate in the annual cleanup campaign. City trucks remove rubbish and cans only when placed in containers at curbs or alleys, and no refuse is collected without containment. The effort aims to keep the town clean and sanitary.
A candle light service at The Plains Methodist Church dedicated funds from the Crusade for Christ program to community servicemen. The church choir performed special music and a radio playset was presented as Rev. Charles Carfrey delivered the sermon.
Glouster social notes report church groups meeting Friday with scripture readings by Mrs. Patience Wallace and others. The April salad hour served 18 members and one guest, with May committee members named. Orpah Class at Main St. home plans 7:30 p.m. Friday. Local residents visiting relatives and students are listed, plus Eastern Star and Rothwell Club activities and a date change for a meeting to Friday.
Chauncey Dover High School Music Department presents a womanless wedding tonight at 7 p.m. in the high school auditorium. Christine Brown directs sixty students as they perform a mix of old and new songs for an unusually entertaining program.
Chauncey Mrs Mary Ab della Preston receives a second box of items from her husband Virgil Preston with Patton's Army in Germany. The collection, taken from the Germans, is on display in the Abdella store window in Con verse Street. Andrew McKinney to preach Friday at 8 p m in the Coonville Mission Church. Sunday School at 10 a m led by Mrs Ethel Taylor. Class leader to conduct Sunday night service at 8 p m. Mrs Caroline Tigner improving after serious illness since March 15. she is 87 and mother of Rev C B Tigner.
Samuel Johnson Jr Flight Officer stationed at Blytheville Arkansas spends a 16 day furlough with his wife and parents in Trimble. Lt Helen Zalupski leaves for Miami Beach Florida for a 14 day vacation from the distribution center after 14 months in England. She will be reassigned after vacation and visits her parents in Jacksonville. Mrs John M Bryson who enlisted as a nurse reports to Fort Knox on May 22 after serving as a nurse at St Anthony's Hospital Columbus.
Kiwanians gathered at the Hotel Gordon Tuesday evening with a dinner followed by Dan Kovach reporting on a clothing drive sponsored by the club. He urged members to contact more people in the final days of the drive as they plan future meeting programs. Attending were W. G Hughes Rev A G Winkle L E Richardson Dan Kovach Ben Goldberg George W Rose Enlon Grubbs and Marcella Jonas.
Chauncey residents hosted relatives from Charleston and Columbus including Mrs Ethel Miller and Miss Nella Dawson. Visitors stayed with Mrs Isabelle Bradfield as families visited Chauncey. Morriston Holiness Church plans a Thursday cottage meeting at Wes James Mitlins home near Chauncey. Jacksonville high school sophomores held a class party with a grand march led by Bill Bartels. Grange plans a Grange Hall meeting in Grang Grange with first and second degrees and a supper.
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