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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1944
Page
2
Mayor Miles Howe of the Victory Garden Committee reports 110 plots sold out of 116 for the current season. Plowing will begin Saturday if weather allows. Six plots remain for rent with 70 sold across from the passenger depot, 17 at the site opposite the freight depot, and 29 rented on Rt 33 two miles above the city.
Cpl. Virgil Collins and Martha Kauff announce the birth of a seven pound daughter at Holzer Hospital Gallipolis on Sunday April 23. Grandparents are John Kauff Jr and Mrs Charles Tolliver with great-grandparents John Kauff Sr and Leonard Campbell. Collins on a 15 day furlough from Camp Atterbury Indiana visits wife and baby. Also noted Pvt. Lawrence Reeves Jr has arrived safely in Northern Ireland and Seaman Charles Anderson is recalled due to his father Frank Anderson’s critical heart illness.
Athens County ministers plan a joint sermon on Our Neglected Youth for Sunday April 30 following a ministerial association meeting. The event invites youths and parents to attend morning worship at their local church.
Service schedule for First Methodist Church Nelsonville lists Church School at 9:30 led by Robert Kinney, Worship at 10:30 with Rev. Wm. M. George preaching on Our Neglected Youth, Youth Fellowship and Intermediate group at 6, Evening Worship at 7:30 on The Quest for the Best Treasures, Bible Study Wednesday at 7:30 on John 18. All are welcome.
Murray City Aerie 1044 of the Fraternal Order of Eagles held a special meeting on Sunday April 23 to mark its 39th anniversary with over 150 in attendance including six of the original 117 charter members. A nine member class was initiated and the degree work shown by Logan Aerie. Seth Adams former Zanesville Aerie president spoke as guest. A chicken dinner followed at 6 p.m. Horace Cunningham served as worthy president with Bert Smathers as secretary.
Soot from a chimney flue fell into a closed grate at Simon Bond 418 Jackson Street causing damage to a frame mantel upright and prompting a fire department response. No further damage reported.
Nelsonville church schedules a 9 30 a m service of morning prayer and sermon on April 30 the third Sunday after Easter at Epiphany Episcopal Church.
Gallia County Mrs. Owen Walters of Bidwell Route 1 received the Purple Heart awarded to her brother Pfc. Howard C. Sheets. He was wounded in action in Italy and hospitalized there but later reported in a letter that he had recovered and been released from the hospital.
The Church of Christ will dedicate a 125 name Honor Roll of service members at the 7 30 Sunday service. Certificates will be given to those present through their families. The program includes organ preludes, hymns, anthems, a dedicatory address by L E Evans, and a postlude. Regular services follow with Bible School at 9 30 and morning worship at 10 30 featuring a sermon on Neglected Youth.
The Nelsonville Methodist Church women plan a general meeting in the church social rooms on Monday evening May 1. Devotions by Mrs Janet Clark program Nursery Schools presented by Mrs Parker S Sniffen music by Miss Bessie Stephenson hostesses Mrs Harry Hartley Mrs John Fisher and Circle bake sale by Mrs Spencer's Circle during social hour in the Sunday School room
Mrs. Lucille Long a Nelsonville High School teacher was moved Thursday to Charlton Hospital in Logan for treatment. A meeting of Girl Scout troop leaders scheduled for Sunday afternoon has been postponed.
Mrs Warren Robinette hosted a dinner on Rob bins Road to honor her husband who left April 14 for Navy service. He previously managed Western Auto of Nelsonville and is the second son of C G Robinette in the armed forces. The gathering included extended family members from Millfield Deanville Floodwood and England via grandson Jack C Perry and grandson-in-law John Glab.
Gallipolis notes cover the Pre-School Mothers Club annual officer election led by Mrs Robert Evans and Grace Methodist Church reception for new members. Engagements and marriages are announced including Sally Thomas to Charles Fallon and John F Long to Louise Reaves. Local movements include military families, travel, and Red Cross dressings room closure due to material shortages and a note on Chemical Society subscriptions.
In Gallipolis a mumps outbreak caused 120 pupil absences across Washington School two buildings. Several teachers Miss Isabel Boggs Mrs Leslie Blough Mrs Ruby Evans Mrs Vivian Wood and others ill. Substitutes cover classes as staff recover with Norma Johnston absent at Gallia Academy High School replaced by Mrs Coell Weatherholt.
Funeral services for Lester Stormont a Gallia County native who died Tuesday night at his Columbus home will be held Saturday at 2 p m at the Cook Funeral Home. Relatives traveling from Gallia include Mr and Mrs L C Cooper J B Walter Mrs Edith Walter and Will Walter. Mrs Stormont is daughter of former county commissioner J B Walter and sister of Mrs Cooper.
In Mason County the Republican primary heats up with D Boone Dawson and Raymond J Funkhouser campaigning for governor. Sheriff contenders Hesson Stevens and Snodgrass press their bids while Clerk Aten seeks renomination and Harden runs a mail campaign. House race includes Keefer Rairden Staats with Rairden sidelined by illness. Keener is active. No local Democratic contests, but governor race draws candidate contention among Holt Meadows Watts and Blackburn Watts.
Mrs. William Humphrey hosted a Wednesday party on Mt. Vernon Ave to celebrate six year old James Humphrey. Guests included Jimmy Gasken and many friends. cake with six candles sparked a round of singing and homemade ice cream followed. The Junior Woman's Club plans an evening meeting in the library for routine business led byPresident Mrs. Joe Barr. Local notes mention J S Window of Mason City handling local affairs, Misses Ferguson and Ingraham visiting Pittsburgh, and Lt. Alex Cruickshanks departing for Camp Rucker after a leave with his parents.
Democratic candidate Joe N. Kenna spent yesterday in Point Pleasant meeting local party leaders. Kenna, son of the late U. S. Senator Kenna, will complete a 12 year term on the state supreme court December 31. E. J. Somerville says Kenna is exceptionally capable.
Local friends announce the birth of the Holroyds daughter Mary Sandra on April 23 in Hinton. Private Sam Holroyd and Mrs. Holroyd welcomed their first child.
State Senator Raymond Musgrave reports rapid progress on Route 17 surface work from five miles east of Henderson to Buff alo, a 25 mile project begun last year with prison labor. Stone base laid in two courses, top to follow, with completion estimated around two years. While optimistic locals hope for 1944 finish, officials doubt it. An 111 mile parallel Route 2 project in 1942-43 near Apple Grove shows sturdy performance and strong pay, boosting optimism despite delays.
Mason County Teachers Association will convene at 10 o'clock Saturday morning in the Junior High School Auditorium. President Robert H. Ferguson will preside as officials discuss final term reports and vacation care of school property. Officers and delegates to the state education association will be elected.
The Point Clinic reports the birth of a daughter Janet Sue at the Jefferson Avenue home on Wednesday weighing 6 3/4 pounds. Norman Badgley of Leon underwent a tonsillectomy yesterday. Mrs. Gertrude Lane of Kanauga was discharged as was Mrs. Howard Miller. Garry Lowell, infant son of Mr and Mrs Carol Roush, was admitted for medical treatment.
The Red Cross home nursing school at the General Chemical Defense Corporation plant hospital has completed the course. Certificates will be presented to a long list of students including Florence Alexander, Blanche Armstrong, Mabel Blessing, Edith Brown, Erma Buffington, Millie Bumgardner, Billie Burgess, Elsie Englehardt, and others. The class organized February 1 under the direction of Mrs. William Meade, chairman of the Red Cross nursing program.
Private funeral services for Mrs. Mary Louise Yeanger 88 widow of J S Yeanger will be held from the Mason City home Saturday afternoon. Burial at Lone Oak Cemetery Point Pleasant. Surviving daughter Stella Sommerville Akron son W F Yeanger Middleport four brothers and one sister with four grandchildren two great grandchildren. Husband died New Year’s Day.
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