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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1945
Page
21
Baseball leaders Chicago and Detroit clash in a World Series fearing postwar cutbacks after Jap surrender ends. Phillies edge Cubs 2 1 to 1 as Cardinals beat Brooklyn 3 1. Ostermueller wins again for the Red Sox and Giants top Reds 5 2. Detroit- New York rain delay leaves Washington closing in. Boudreau sidelined with possible ankle fracture.
Mrs A M Roberta hosted the Syracuse WSCS at Anbury Methodist Church with ten members present. Grace Breece led a book review and brief business meeting while Alice Capehart chaired the program. Social hour featured a salad course and several local residents visited or traveled. University officials noted as the column ends.
National New York 5 Cincinnati 2 St Louis 2 Brooklyn 1 Pittsburgh 7 Boston 5 10 inings Pittsburgh 6 Boston 2 Philadelphia 2 Chicago 1 American Cleveland 3 Boston 0 St Louis 5 Washington 4 New York Detroit rain Philadelphia Chicago wet surroundings Association Kansas City 8 Indianapolis 2 Kansas City 10 Indianapolis 4 Milwaukee 5 Louisville 3 Minneapolis 3 Columbus 2 Columbus ?, Minneapolis 7 St Paul 2 Toledo 1
Washington AP. Baseball postwar planning begins as Japan surrenders. A joint meeting of major and minor league committees convenes to discuss veterans returning to baseball and restarting peacetime sports. ODT to study easing travel curbs affecting World Series and other events. Coach Chandler and officials outline steps to return the game to fans.
Chauncey Church of Christ and Trimble Church of Christ will hold special services tonight at 7 30 to prayers and give thanks for peace and for the men who died for it. Parish members and other churches are invited to attend a service at either church.
Chauncey Joseph Cline, known as Dode, is on a 30 day leave to visit his parents Mr and Mrs Joseph Cline of Chauncey. He served nearly 11 months in the Pacific aboard the USS Ticonderoga and also saw action in the Atlantic including the Sicily invasion. His brother George is stationed in New York. Mrs Ernest Johnston and Mrs Joseph Cline are Chauncey residents and daughters of Mr and Mrs Henry Locke.
A Chauncey lawn party hosted by Mrs Christine Brown featured a picnic supper Thursday evening. Attending were Mr and Mrs Elward Daugherty and children Robert Donald and Carolyn, Mr and Mrs Frank McDaniel and son Larry Tom and Mrs Christine Brown and her son Bunk.
Mr and Mrs Andrew McKinney entertained a group for Sunday visiting including Mr and Mrs George Adkins and Candas James John and Rose from Lancaster Miss Elaine McKinney and Garnet Aten from Point Pleasant West Virginia Mrs Paul McKinney and daughter Paulette of Leon West Virginia and Zelda Mae McKinney at home.
Mr and Mrs Leonard Leniger Sr held a chicken dinner Monday night honoring Pvt Charles Edson Burchfield home on a 14 day furlough from Blanding Florida. Attendees included Mrs Taylor Blair and family Dayston Mr and Mrs Russell Riley Chillicothe Mr and Mrs Lewis Riley Mr and Mrs Edson Riley the guest host and hostess and their three children Leonard Jr Doris and Elaine Louise. Mrs Arlene Agin Chauncey is in Columbus for her mother s illness after a fall. Pauline and Nellie Agin visit relatives in Canton Ohio. A missionary meeting led by Rev Victor Glenn will be held Friday at East Millfield Mission Chauncey Ohio born in Egypt.
Mrs. Clara O Leary recovering after major surgery at Sheltering Arms Hospital Athens. Arthur McKibben arrives in New York from Italy where he served with the Fifth Army. Many local visitors and family updates across Zaleski including Shuster, Murray, Boyer, Egleberry, Pennell, and Tripp families with travels to Columbus Athens Chillicothe and Groveport. Seaman Bill Tripp on leave. Raymond Chesser taken to Columbus hospital for heart ailment care.
Hear From Son CHAUNCEY Mr and Mrs Ernest Johnston Chauncey received word Walter Lee Johnston Seaman 2-c is in the Pacific aboard the USS Situla They have two other sons in the Navy James Rocky Johnston M O M M 2- c also in the Pacific and Seaman Harry Johnston survivor of the ill fated Hornet Services Chauncey Weekly cottage prayer meeting of the Morristown Holiness Church will be Thursday s at 8 p m in Chauncey at the homes of Mrs Mary Meinhart The Plains new homes recently purchased by Willie Huston and Melvin Guess The Plains have been equipped with gas and new Moder gangs installed
New York reports major league expansion driven by fresh ownership, with White Sox rumored to change hands. Notes on NCAA rubber football tee use, Leo Durocher bonuses for Dodgers reaching attendance milestones, Army and Amos track meet planned, and managerial retirements in Newark. Camp Lee adds strong outfield via Reiser Lindell Maynard. Burman-India dispatches Army rest camp with ample sports gear.
Glouster and Sunday Creek Valley celebrated the end of hostilities with noisy parades and windows rattling from horns and bells. At 7 15 p m the war is over announcement sparked spontaneous processions along High Street. A real parade formed with an impromptu band as shops closed nationwide after Japan's surrender.
The seventeenth annual Keirns family reunion took place at the Church of Christ Hooper Ridge on Sunday August 12 with Bible School communion and morning sermon by John Tigner Trimble. A basket dinner followed. 117 registered. Eight surviving children of the late Augustus and Sarah Eleanor Keirns attended along with many relatives. Officers named for the coming years are Dayton Keirns president Spicer Keirns vice president and Mrs Willam LaFollett secretary treasurer. Next meeting set for August 11 1946. Numerous relatives traveled from Newark Columbus Zanesville Marysville and afar including Lt Harry A Keirns and Patsy now bound for Miami Beach Fla.
Glouster notices report Mary Alice Teft entering White Cross Hospital in Columbus for an appendectomy and recovering in Room 430. Thurman C. Judson has been medically discharged after a year overseas with the 79th Infantry Division in France and Germany, receiving the Purple Heart Oak Leaf Cluster and Combat Infantryman Badge. A farewell dinner honored a husband bound for reassignment to Chicago, with many local friends and relatives in attendance.
Bradbury notes list events and personal updates including Bible School attendance Aug. 12, B. H. Bailey moving to a Silver Run farm, visits from Victor Hysel and family, Dana Russell's son Robert visiting Crooksville relatives, Mrs. John Sisson and Nellie Jacobs visiting relatives, Wilbur Pierce under care, H. C. Archer visiting Ernie Tucker, and a NY cereal shop accident injuring two fingers.
GLOUSTER The Loyal Women’s Class of the Church of Christ Bible School will meet Friday evening at 7 30 in the social rooms of the church. Those members with August birthdays will lead the meeting.
Kimberly notes announce the engagement of Katherine Nelson to Pvt James Hatfield with the couple set to join Camp Atterbury August 26. The column then lists locals visiting relatives and friends including Ruth Beckler Harley Juniper Robert Beckler and others, with several trips to Columbus Lake Hope and Nelsonville mentioned.
Lt. Everett Henry returned home a week ago from Nichols Hospital in Louisville where he is treated for wounds received in action in the Pacific. He is improving but not fully recovered. He and his mother Mrs. John Henry visited his aunt Mrs. Ara Post in Corning for dinner Monday. Henry will spend part of his 30 day furlough with his brother and sister-in-law Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Henry in Detroit and is due back at the hospital on September 4.
Wanda McAllister acting president of the C I calls a special meeting for Friday evening August 17 at eight o'clock in American Legion Hall to address important business matters and seeks large attendance. Delores I McAllister returns to Norfolk Virginia after a six day leave with her father Thomas McAllister.
The WCTU met in the social rooms of the Methodist Church in Glouster on Tuesday evening with Mrs. Nelle Peugh presiding. Miss Lalla Danford led devotions, and the secretary noted a white rose given to Mrs. Maude Figjey for her West Liberty garden.
A postwar boom grips U S sports as baseball and racing plan full activity on the first peaceful day in years after Japan's surrender. Officials expect the world series this October and discuss major fights and an upcoming 1948 Olympiad as Avery Brundage travels to London.
Holmes of Boston tops the league with 367 batting as he also leads in runs and hits 169 while tied on 18 home runs with Workman. Walker Olmoe of Brooklyn drive 95 RBIs and Schoendienst of St Louis has 21 steals. Paasenu of Chicago posts 134 wins with a .765 ERA. Ferrias of Boston 155 strikeouts and .792 winning percentage cap the pitching leaders. Stirnweise of New York leads in runs 3 RBIs 70 and hits 131 while Stephens of St Louis has 17 homers and Myatt of Washington 23 steals. Cucernello of Chicago paces batting with .328.
Yesterday's Stars include Jim Bagby who shut out Boston 3-0 with three hits as Cleveland pressed toward the division. Vern Stephens homered three times for the Browns in St Louis' 5-4 win over Washington. Sal Maglie pitched well as the Giants beat Cincinnati 5-2 in his first major league start for New York. Whitey Kurowski broke a pitching duel with a ninth inning homer for a 2-1 Cardinals win over the Dodgers. Andy Seminick contributed for the Phillies in a 2-1 victory over Chicago with a fifth inning round tripper.
Ike Williams of Trenton wins a non-title decision over Charlie Smith of Newark. The card also lists George Knox of Elizabeth Nut outpointing Nick State of Springfield Mass in Hartford Connecticut.
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