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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1943
Page
3
Merger details the Meigs County bond drive led by the war bond committee. Tuesday’s checkup shows sales at 388.50 with the goal at 968,000 and a plan to raise another 100,000 by month’s end. County workers and volunteers continue district-wide efforts to meet county quotas.
Walter Cluff dies suddenly of a heart attack in Hartford after ill health. Retired national director of the Kansas Life Insurance Company, he planned to relocate with his wife to Mid rt. Survived by widow, son Dr. F Cluff, and two sisters Miss Mer uff of Philadelphia and Mrs. Evans of New York. Funeral services will be held in Hartford.
In Middleport the Woman’s Music Club hosted a Youth Recital at Heath Methodist Church aimed at advancing local music. School choruses, M H S ensembles, a Boys Quartet, and piano violin and trumpet numbers faced an audience of parents and friends.
Wendell Frecker has bought the Plumbing Shop on Second Street from Mrs. Alberta Shumaker. Frecker, employed there 15 years, will run Frecker's Plumbing Shop at the same location and phone 433-M. Evan Will will continue working at the shop.
Ernest Hanshaw 23 of Eleanor West Virginia and Wanda Young 17 of Syracuse secured a license to wed in Meigs County Probate Court on Tuesday.
A farewell party for Ancil McKinney in Middleport honors his Navy enlistment with friends from Coal Street. Nora O Leary birthday party at Mrs Curtis home includes ice cream and gifts. Local residents visit Columbus and Great Lakes Naval Station with moves, transfers, and service updates.
Pfc. Richard D. Fink son of Mr and Mrs Herbert Fink has reached the third training stage at the Army Air Forces Technical Training Command airplane mechanics school at Roosevelt Field Long Island New York He was recently promoted to Private First Class The letter notes presence of English Navy Air Force Wrens and meals shared with his class He previously attended the Academy of Aeronautics LaGuardia Field and the Casey Jones School of Aeronautics Newark He is a MHS graduate and entered service from Patterson Field Dayton Moving notices include the Perrin family relocation Portsmouth to N Third Ave and the Clines move from the Brown property on N Second Ave to Gallipolis
Mrs. Caddie Dennison aged 48 of Whitethorne died here yesterday. She is survived by Finley Dennison her husband two daughters Freja and Annabel two sisters Cora Hallett and Ida Swan and a brother Walter McCaskey. Friends may call at the residence from noon Wednesday. The funeral is set for one o clock Thursday at the Methodist Church Salem Center Meigs County with interment at Salem Center.
Meigs County probate notes show multiple wills admitted including Jane Williams Herbert P Stewart Abe Eiselstein Sophia Lauterbach and Sophia Johns on. Estates report inheritance taxes with Racine Village listed for Emma Aumiller and Charles O Miles and bonds set for executrices Nora Christina Haggy Katie May Schaeffing Grace Klein Eis elstein Aina Hicks and others. Administrative actions include Nora Christina Haggy named administratrix with a $5000 bond and Eu nice Pullin named administrator with a $1300 note from Ohio Fuel Gas Co.
Baptismal services were held Sunday evening at Enterprise United Brethren Church at 7 30 by Rev. John L. Morgan of Tuppers Plains. Eight children were baptized Karen Sue James Walker Joseph Albert Albert Brown Luther Harlan Luther Davidson Paul Leroy Mary Frances Davis Joan Marilyn Swatzel James Schmidt Columbus Richard Brown Phylliss Weeks Gilbert Weeks joined the church at the service.
John Hysell age 75 died Tuesday at his home on Ash Street after a weeklong illness Funeral services will be at his Middleport residence Thursday at two o'clock Rev James Redman Church of Christ officiating Interment will be at Middleport Hill Cemetery He is survived by two daughters Mrs Garnet Davidson and Mrs Stewart Collins one sister Mrs Ed Oliver of Rutland Funeral notes say his wife died two months ago
Middleport readers learn of local servicemen. Billie Ward reports for active Navy duty in Philadelphia after visiting family in Wilmington Delaware. Gomer, a Middleport High School football alumnus, trains as an airplane mechanic at Camp Kessler Mississippi.
Middleport schools report brisk War Stamp sales. Total 740.85 across three buildings led by Middleport High School at 445.25, Central School 225.85, and Pearl Street 69.75. Top rooms include Susan Park 379.30, Mildred Hawley 95.35, Kennedy 69.75, Jones 38.65.
News from Meigs County lists Floyd Mescher of the Navy at Fort Pierce Florida on a ten day furlough with wife and father Harry Mecher. Corporal Donley Reibel at Camp Bewile Texas on a fifteen day leave with parents. Private Donald Leroy Brickles of the U S Marine Corps transferred from Parris Island South Carolina to Quantico Virginia for advanced training. Mrs Mark Clark reports Pvt John M Clark promoted to acting corporal. Corporal Clark is son of Mr and Mrs John L Clark of Downington.
Middleport reports two property transfers. H. N. Swift bought the Berg building on S Third Ave. Edward French purchased the home of Mrs. Eleanor Sauders on S Second Ave.
An old advertisement urges readers to wake up their liver bile with Carter’s Little Liver Pills claiming 2 pints of bile flow daily. It promises relief from digestion issues like gas and constipation and urges purchase of 10¢ and 25¢ packages.
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