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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Aug 02, 1943

Page

5

Obscured OCR Item Leads to Sparse Card

Fragmentary text mentions a person named Robert and a home setting but lacks clear event, date, or location details. The readable names and context suggest a local note or notice with insufficient facts to specify activity or outcome.

Navy Construction Battalions Seek Recruits at Athens Post Office

The Navy urges men ages 17 to 50 to enlist or be drafted into the Construction Battalions. Recruits may work on docks, barracks, tanks, air fields and other war fronts worldwide. Interviews at the Navy Recruiting Station at the Athens Post Office are available weekly, with Lt. Zunser authorized to assign ratings. Two Reynolds residents were fined for intoxication after pleading guilty before Mayor Franz.

Iceland Alaska Australia Europe Asia Navy Athens Zunser Civil Rs Corps

Meigs County Mobilizes Blood Donors For Athens Drive

The Athens Blood Donor unit reported 442 volunteers last week led by Dr. Carl A. Frey Athens County chairman. A large Meigs County delegation and many Athens residents contributed blood many earning three time donor pins. The list includes E W Kirk Clara Cavanaugh Carrie Smith and dozens more with Meigs contributors named separately.

Athens Carl A. Frey Athens County Meigs County Columbus Red Cross E. W. Kirk Clara Cavanaugh Carrie Smith Wilbur D. Withem Belle Gold William Maple John J. Fritz Marie Elliott Hester Rose Martha Nessley Carl Nessley Margaret Thompson Byers Stella Dust Marie Dodson Helen Edna Jones Vernal Parks Annie Gochnauer Margaret McAfee Geneva Dilley John Rood R. F. Beckett Clarence Davis Herman Slater

OUR MEN IN SERVICE AND HIGHWAY BLOOD DONORS

Pfc Donald R Sedwick graduated from aircraft mechanics school at Seymour Johnson Field North Carolina after four months. Sgt Richard C White promoted to staff sergeant in the Panama Canal Zone base of the Sixth Air Force. Lt Gilbert Theodore Savage Jr wings earned and stationed in Sebring Florida. Pvt William Byron Wolfe on furlough at Athens after basic training with the 27th Infantry Battalion at Camp Croft. Lloyd Barnes discharged from Camp Chaffee Hospital due to back injury from Louisiana wreck. Athens county volunteers and other highway workers donated blood alongside 41 state workers. blood donors include George Shinn Ronald Tooley Leslie Hawk Frank Thomas Harvey Mohler Orla Fickel Harry St Clair.

Donald R. Sedwick Earl Sedwick E. State St Seymour Johnson Field N. C Army Air Forces Training Command Sedwick Columbus Curtiss- Wright Richard C. White Vintton White Stewart Panama Canal Sixth Air Force William Byron Wolfe Byron Wolfe Columbia Ave W. A. Carpenter Elmwood Place Athens Wolfe Camp Croft S. C Lloyd Barnes Harry Barnes Camp Chaffee Hospital Ark Sergeant Barnes Louisiana Sgt John Barnes Frances Smart Lula Hampton Nellie Winston Charles Lewis Virginia Kesterson Helen Mullen Otto Hartenbach Elizabeth Carman Margaret Vadish Ruth Huber Patricia Shain Dorothy Morrison Edith Spencer Edith Joachim Kate Sinclair Nancy Buchanan Willard Ebersbach W. O. Barnitz Edison Forsythe Verlie Conway Florence Hood Charles Hoffner Florence Davis Margaret Bolan C. H. Wise Paul Smart Laura Young Ora Scott Norma Wayland Clinton Gilkey Marie Roush Margaret Lallance George Kock Lawrence Smith Edna Swick Cleo Ridley Mabel Mingus Columbus Highway Workers Athens County State Highway Department Highway Department George Shinn Ronald Tooley Marietta Leslie Hawk Frank Thomas Vinton County Harvey Mohler Orla Fickel Harry St. Clair Hocking County

St Joseph Aspirin Advertises Value

An advertisement promotes St Joseph Aspirin as a cost effective choice urging buyers to demand the product as the world’s largest seller at 10c with a claim it can do more than competing brands.

Local draftee sails to Fort Hayes for active service

Report states Army draftee Earl W. Wright, colored, from Glouster, was inducted via Athens County Selective Service Board No. 1 and left Athens by bus today for Columbus to report to Fort Hayes for active duty. Temperature ranged from 93 in Athens yesterday to 64 overnight with noon at 84 today.

Earl W. Wright Glouster Army Athens County Selects Service Board Athens Columbus Fort Hayes

Allen Attends Conference on Milk Markets

Mr. Si Allen travelled to Cleveland as a representative of the Athens Milk Sales Association to attend an OPA Conference at the Statler Hotel. Five states Ohio Michigan Indiana Kentucky West Virginia were represented with 200 members. The meeting urged a higher producer milk price amid a looming nationwide shortage and a Cleveland milk shortfall estimate of 2000 cans daily for Sept to Dec.

Si Allen Cleveland Athens Milk Sales Association OPA Statler Ohio Michigan Indiana Kentucky West Virginia Ohio Milk Producers Association of Cleveland J. I. Shafer Akron Henry Inger- Soll Associated Milk Dealers of Edward C. Welsh Charles Holden Washington H. H. Varney Allen Ingersoll

Albany Social And Personal

The Baptist Missionary Band will meet the first Thursday in September, with August meeting omitted. Various local families and visitors are mentioned, including the Lewises with guests from Cleveland and Cincinnati, and many relatives visiting or staying with local residents. A number of residents and travelers are noted, along with excursions and recoveries, reflecting the community’s social scene.

Albany Athens Will Cable Paul Cable Amboy Lil Zern Ross William Michael Columbus Robert Gibbs Fort Hayes Marie Pauley Charleston Jesse Gilkey Ada Parker Everett Neff Wilkensburg Walker Neff Carl Lulu Harold Baughman Osborn Calvin Bobo Edith and Dale Hamilton Wilbur Baughman Phillip Sweeny Emmett Sweeny Dayton

Railroader’s Africa Letter Details Train Ride and War Scene

Delno Bretz receives Pvt. Glenn H. Sickels’s letter from Africa describing a 12 ton car with single wheel brake, standard gauge track, long mountain tunnels, and a modern rail system. He also recalls a nighttime air raid with flares and anti aircraft fire witnessed by the guard unit. The note ends with an odd line about beetle capture in Japan.

Delno Bretz Athens Glenn H. Sickels Africa Sickels Mr. Bretz James Sickels Mineral America

Dessie Hudnell Dies at Hebbardsville Home

Mrs. Dessie Hudnell age 60 wife of Winfield Hudnell died at her home in Hebbardsville early Monday after a three month illness. Funeral arrangements had not been completed today.

Dessie Hudnell Winfield Hudnell Hebbardsville

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