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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1943
Page
10
Threshing in Hocking County shows poor grain yields this year with most grain to be fed to livestock. Wet weather delayed threshing and prevented field access, so little grain reached local elevator as farmers plan for winter stock feeding.
Miss Rena Wiant and Mrs Fred Ryan attended church activities at Lancaster Camp Grounds. Mrs Lawrence Webb hosted a party for her husband heading to Great Lakes Naval Training Station. Corpral Donal Johnston on ten day furlough from Camp Siebert. Private First Class Arthur Walters at Fort Mommouth spending furlough. Porch and lawn party planned at Mrs L K Showalter's home. Presbyterian picnic supper at Rachelmacherr Park. Commencement at Ohio University noted. Tuesday Extraid ery Club host at Vera Woodrell's on Zaneville Avenue. Meetings set for seven thirty.
Straitsville 4 H Wee Club closes for summer with a party for the girls and their mothers. Mrs Robert Schmidt Perry County will judge the girls projects. 22 members aged nine to fifteen attend under leader Mrs C M Ostermeincallad.
Logan reports Townsend Club No 3 will hold its monthly rally Tuesday evening August 5 in the Macatee Hall. A special program of entertainment and speeches is planned by the committee with a luncheon served by the ladies of the club.
Court records reflect a funeral service held Sunday for Courtney with attendees noted by local officials. The ceremony followed a period of illness and was conducted at a community church in the county.
Corning social notes list Mr and Mrs George Exnerick hosting a euchre party at their home with Mrs Cecil Bell as hostess. Several residents, including Mrs Gieda Morgan and Mrs Margaret DeGarme, won prizes while luncheon was served to a group of neighbors. Visits include Mr and Mrs Jet Bay and Mr and Mrs Wright hosting guests. James Towner family and Eldon Snowden relatives traveling to West Virginia. Victoria Fouts visiting her mother Nancy Fouts and kin.
Mrs Lucy Winneberg hosted a euchre party at her home on North Valley Street Wednesday evening. Neighbors and friends attended the gathering.
Two motorists faced penalties after arraignment before Mayor W. Denzil Weltner. One man was fined 109 dollars and costs after being taken into custody Saturday night by state highway patrol on U S Route 18 north of Logan. The other driver had driving rights certified for suspension by the state registrar of motor vehicles after patrols on State Route 75 near the city.
Funeral rites for David Allgood 61 a State Highway Department employee were held Monday at 2 p.m. at the Leonard Home with Rev. Stanley W. Wiant of the First Methodist Church officiating. Burial followed in Park Grove Cemetery. He is survived by his wife one daughter three brothers and two sisters.
Buchtel notes list seniors Sheskey Dearing and Graham enlisting for WWII service. Bernard Colbert reports Africa letters and knee trouble while Betty Tolliver visits Toledo. Gerald Newman sends a birthday cable from India. Other items mention Ben Kirkendall heart attack, Virginia Syre family visit, Bertie Lou Taylor in town, Frendship Club, Lydia Brown hip fracture, and local church activities.
Chauncey Bill Sanders seven year old son of Dr and Mrs C Nile Sanders Millfield was seriously injured Saturday afternoon at their home. The Sanders accompanied him to the hospital and will remain there with him.
Mrs Mabel Smith and sister Mrs Viola Wade returned from a visit with relatives in Columbus. Miss Esther Byers visiting her parents Mr and Mrs Edward Byers and her grandparents Mr and Mrs Andrew Guy. Mrs Mabel Smith announces a Ladies Aid Society meeting Friday night at Mrs Henry Heffkin's home.
Mrs Ora Copeland and Mrs Carrie Decker hosted a club meeting with Mrs Fern Copeland and Mrs Vinnie Van Dyke as guests. The next meeting is set for August 4 at the home of Mrs Virmie Van Dyke.
Word received by Chauncey Ley and his wife Mrs. John Ley reports a son from the family has been sent to a college near Lubbock Texas. The note names Chauncey and Mrs. Ley as the parents.
Corporal Ernest Wade of Camp Grant TA is home on furlough to visit his mother Mrs. Viole Wade in Mifielé. He is accompanied by his brother Gerbert and sisters Mereaend.
Residents mention plans to visit her brother John who is on furlough while husband Leo Ormont stayed this summer at Mason and associated locations.
Mr and Mrs Dan Johnson of Chauncey entertained with a two course dinner Sunday. Guests included Mr and Mrs Herbert Mingus Gordon Mingus Mrs Julia Mingus Mrs Alice Johnson Mrs Julia Johnson Smith and Mr and Mrs Dan Johnson.
Pfc Bernard Sikora in Africa writes to Miss Sophia Guy near Chauncey that he is in good health and has seen activity at the area for the first time in six months.
Hemlock residents update on service members with transfers from Ft. Benjamin Harrison to Camp Bowie Texas and from tion to Washington. Navy enlistment and carpentry training details for Paul McDaniel. private Ernest Lanning and Ralph Post furlough news. Local social updates include visits and funeral services in nearby towns.
Hocking County Selective Service Board held their regular weekly meeting at their Court House headquarters where registrants will be interviewed, classified and reclassified. In 1942 the Army Air Transport Command flew over 80,100,000 miles.
Dr G W Hocking County health officer announces Sandusky County Department plan in Fremont. Mrs Daly resigns as health nurse from Toledo and will take a new position in Northern Ohio by August 16.
Pvt Charles Baum, son of Mrs Daisy Baum, is in combat training with parachute troops at Camp Mackall. He enlisted three days ago in the U S Army and earned his Wings in parachute troops on February 15, 1943. He attended Bremen School and worked in Virginia before this assignment.
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