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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1945
Page
7
Chauncey Mine No 25 will resume operation Friday morning after a two day idleness in observance of V J Day. Cap Smith orders all miners to report for work Friday morning.
Nelsonville public schools will open Tuesday morning September 4 after Labor Day. The Board of Education approved the new calendar and finished building repairs and supplies. A new music supervisor Miss Juan Elsnagle from Jackson Ohio was named to oversee elementary music. School dismissals mark the Southeastern Ohio Education Association meeting and Thanksgiving, Christmas, and winter recess dates with May activities including the Alumni Association reunion May 31 and promotion cards May 21.
Dover honors victory with citywide parade and celebration. Reds rout Giants 14 to 4 in a baseball game. Also announced are a Friday missionary service at Newtown Holiness Mission in Murray City with speaker Rev Kenneth Mendenhall and music by Rev and Mrs Frank Hunter, ChiIlhothe.
Paul Allen former deputy county engineer and Navy Seabees chief petty officer Returning from 30 months service in the Asiatic Pacific region spoke at a Rotary Club picnic near Logan He described Seabees work building roads hospitals landing fields and a 7000 by 600 feet landing strip His unit suffered about a quarter of personnel lost mainly to illness or accidents not enemy action The talk covered New Caledonia Guadalcanal New Guinea Leyte and other islands Joe Spray a Nelsonville native served with Allen from the start The Chauncey V Day parade followed Japanese surrender celebrations closing with church services and a car parade through Chauncey Nelsonville Millfield Jacksonville Trimble and Glouster
Mrs Lucy Hay ward of Millfield visited Mrs Roy Dawley in Jacksonville. Everett Patterson finished boat training at Great Lakes and waits final reassignment in Chauncey with his mother Evelyn Patterson. Mrs Thomas Oliver of Chauncey spent Tuesday in Athens visiting daughter Mrs Edgar Burt and family. Floyd Rivers and son of Akron, visiting Chauncey on vacation with parents Frank Rivers and Thomas Fennell.
NELSONVILLE The Murray City Nelsonville Bus Line will resume service Friday morning August 17. Four daily trips depart Murray City at 6 30 am 11 30 am 2 30 pm and 4 30 pm and return from Nelsonville at 7 am 12 30 pm 3 pm and 5 pm. The route will park on Fort Street by Central School.
Funeral services for Mrs. Sarah Swart Pritts of Chauncey were conducted Tuesday at Dowler Ferguson Funeral Home by Rev Givert Courtney with Chauncey singers. Burial followed in W Union St cemetery. Survived by husband Joe, daughter Bernice, sons Ernest and Ralph and spouses, two grandsons Sonny Rodney, sisters Estella Jones Nell Jorden, brothers George John Swart Arthur Swart Harry Swart, with ties to Athens Toledo Albany Glopster.
Members of the Ladies Aid Society of Mull Field Methodist Church held their annual picnic and all day meeting in Jacksonville Grove. Pastor Rev and Mrs Charles Caffrey attended. An afternoon program followed a picnic dinner with games and contests. Next meeting hosted by Mrs Helen Gillespie in Millfield.
Chauncey Mr and Mrs Roy Walsh hosted a social at their Albany area home honoring their nephew Seaman Everett Paterson on a short visit. A two course chicken dinner was served with guests including Wilbur Grandstaff and daughters Florence Betty Carolyn Sue of Millfield Mr and Mrs Charles Spearry Mr Frank Palmer Mrs Evelyn Patterson and W Mound St Chauncey.
Major surgery performed at Memorial Hospital in Marietta. Delbert Bennett of Fletcher General Hospital on furlough visiting Bartlett relatives. Charles Roberts of Shepherd Field Texas and Mrs. Roberts of Maringo hosted Sunday supper for his sister Mrs. Raymond Palmer. Donna Jean Horne of Columbus visiting Mrs. Della Martin. Carol Graham and son from Newark weekend guests of A. A. Graham. Donald Lauet returned to Lowell after visiting his mother Mrs A D Ullman. Martha Calle Poling of Marietta spent weekend with John Foling. Mildred Martin returned from Bluefield West Virginia visiting sister Mrs William Ayers. Mrs Lillian Novack of Kenosha Wisconsin and Mrs Allen Lumsden of Los Angeles stayed with Delmer Medilev last week.
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