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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1942
Page
2
Nelsonville City Baseball Commission meets Thursday at City Hall to plan the Twilight League opener set for early May. Managers players and others may attend and a sporting goods representative will display baseball equipment.
Nelsonville group backs a beautification project to honor service men with memorial trees. Miss Bertha Nixon proposed the idea. she bought a tree for her nephews in service. Members may donate memorial trees by contacting club officers.
Nelsonville Troop 65 sponsored by Nelsonville Lodge of Elks will meet Thursday evening at the troop room in Elks Home. Seven members completed an overnight camping trip on an island in the Hocking River north of Nelsonville with Thomas Lax in charge. The prior meeting included rope climbing tracking and games on the hill.
Women returning to war work can obtain new Social Security cards in their married names while keeping the same number as their original cards. Applications for name-change cards are available from the Nelsonville field office located in the Y M C A building.
Nelsonville Monday evening Tri Psi Sorority members held a dinner meeting at their club rooms. Lilacs decorated the tables and rooms while a roast beef dinner was served by a committee including Mrs. Lillian Haffner, Mrs. Mary Jo Wolfe, Miss Helen Jackson, Miss Adaline Ray, Mrs. Helen Devore and Mrs. Ruth Cookson. The regular meeting followed.
Edgemont Road residents in Gallipolis apply to the city commission for assigned house numbers to enable orderly mail delivery as the suburb expands along the city’s western edge.
Plans for Nelsonville alumni banquet on Friday May 29 call for several class reunions and an effort to locate all graduates now in military service. No local invitations will be issued to graduates.
In Athens County Draft Board No 2 four registration days covered seven centers. The total enrollment reached 2035 men aged 45 to 65 with Nelsonville listing 922 and Coolville 250 along with Stewart 250 New Marshfield 184 Amesville 178 Albany 142 and Shade 108.
Nelsonville reports the Class No 21 of the Methodist Church held an April party in the social rooms with 19 members and a guest, Mrs Florence Ogg of Glouster. Presbyterian Society to meet at 2 PM at Mrs W L Hudsons home. Visitors to Akron include Mr and Mrs Louis A Woolery and others. Bob Morris leaves for Dayton induction. Mrs William Mills visits New York. Roland Forbes returns to Boulder City Nevada after vacation with parents in Nelsonville.
Gallia native Miss Lucille McKean of Gallipolis will be crowned May Day queen at Rio Grande College on May 9. The event includes a minuet and maypole dance, a pageant Fiesta Pan-Americana from 5 to 5 30 p m featuring Roger Williams of Thurman, plus an informal Community Hall reception and a campus carnival. Dancing closes the day from 8 to 12 p m.
Rio Grande College will begin its first regular summer term on June 1 with student teaching. Arrangements with the village board of education provide grade school access for 46 children from June 1 to July 4, enabling eligible students to complete teaching credits through in classroom experience.
The Nelsonville BPW Club held its regular dinner at the Methodist Church with dress style decor. A tea for Nelsonville High seniors is planned for May 2 from 3 to 5 at Miss Helen Largent’s home.
Mrs Catharine Carroll aged 76 died Tuesday at her home in Murray City. She is survived by her husband John Carroll and eight children: George Murdie Glouster Mrs Catherine Alichney Mrs Mary Campbell Mrs Anna Simons Joan Hardie John Carroll Joe Carroll and Mrs Mary Weiderhold. Funeral services will be held at St Phillip Neri Church.
Mrs Sue Heslop Wilhelm broke the wine against the prow of the Abbott sixth Navy mine planter launched by The Marietta Tuesday afternoon. She is wife of Cr S Wilhelm buyer for The Marietta and active in Episcopal Church D A R Senior Woman's Club and social circles.
Clerks and carriers at the Point Pleasant post office campaign for better addressed mail as a surge of incoming workers and unreadable mail strain operations. Six Charles Smiths on Viand Street illustrate the problem of partial or incorrect addresses.
Elva Allen Rice of Waterloo was fined 25 dollars in municipal court for driving while intoxicated. His driving rights were suspended for six months.
Local residents report weekend trips to Wheeling Parkersburg Lorain and Huntington. Members of East ern Star and Christ Church Service Guild meet as rummage sale plans unfold. A marriage license issued to Clarence Clemons and Ida Mae Burgess. Visitor guests include Mrs. G E Mitchell Judy Ellen Kapp and others.
Dr. A. C. Arnett leases a three acre tract on lower Viand Street from Mrs. E. E. Heiner for two years to install an extensive parking lot. Campbell Smith will manage the enterprise as demand for parking space grows with streets often full.
Mason County Health Department announces a county wide immunization schedule for children over nine months. Health staff will administer vaccines at multiple current and future locations including Mason School New Haven School Henderson School Glenwood Clifton Sunnyside Letart Champion Rose Hartford Mt Olive Broad Run Roosevelt Beech Hill Watterson Clay Lick Red Mud Wood Arbuckle Elmwood and other sites across several dates in May.
Work on the Marietta Manufacturing Company expansion has begun on land north of the old plant. Bulldozers clear trees on a tract owned by Point Pleasant Development Co, amid rumors of government acquisition and shipbuilding expansion. Attorney E J Somerville says he was unaware of possession until the previous day.
Federal Housing Authority representatives Cordner Imerie and Engiehart visited Point Pleasant this week to study housing needs. They met with city officials health department and local business leaders while the Point Pleasant Housing Authority held a meeting with members Ferguson Filson Somerville Bauerle and Price. Mayor Krodel and secretary Miss Margaret Thomas are noted as ex officio and secretary respectively.
Donald F. Roush Mason county selective service clerk reports 1959 men aged 45 to 64 registered Monday. Registration proceeded smoothly at 31 designated county locations.
Police arrested Charles O Conn or, Jack Thomas and Roy Coleman in Point Pleasant Monday evening. Officers Morrison and Noble released them to Mayor Krodel for hearings on drunkenness. Deputy Blessing reports jail population at seven Tuesday evening, the lowest in months.
POINT PLEASANT The reflooring of Silver bridge moves ahead with about half completed by week’s end. As steel girders go in on the first half, the second half should be laid by early June. Traffic slower due to bridge work and access highway construction for workers at the West Virginia Ordnance Works, with travel to Gallipolis averaging one and a half hours after sunset.
Mrs Har old Sayre will attend the national congress of the Daughters of 1812 in Philadelphia this week as an officer of the national society. Before returning home she will attend the National Congress of the D A R in Chicago next week and serve as Chief Page during the sessions.
Calvary Baptist Church at Rio Grande holds a meeting tonight to hear annual reports and select church officials. A worship service will follow the meeting, led by Rev. D. S. Hobbs.
The welding school building in Point Pleasant is completed ahead of schedule but classes are not yet organized. Delays in securing permission from Washington and missing welding machines from the state department hinder opening. Mr Conley of the state department met with County Superintendent Roush to review plans.
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