Plan Booth At Preston Store War Stamp Sale
Community Garden Club members plan a Saturday plan booth at Preston's Dry Good store in Nelsonville from 1 PM to 8 PM to encourage stamps purchases. Reports from the Garden Clubs Flower and Vegetable show at St Andrews Parish House note a lawn fete there with Mrs Wesley Hawk as general chair and helpers. Cakes were baked and served with ice cream, the fete well attended and a neat sum cleared.
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Nelsonville
Community Garden Club
Preston
Garden Clubs
St. Andrews
Wesley Hawk
Miles Howe
Mayme Keplar
Joe Indersden
Nelsonville Garden Club Sells War Stamps Saturday
Members of the Nelsonville Garden Club plan a Saturday sale of war stamps. In Athens, an accident at College and E State left two cars damaged totaling 27 dollars. A Dieppe raid description recalls air bombardment and landing operations with Allied ships and RAF activity.
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Athens Messenger
Athens
Ohio
Nelsonville Garden Club
C. E Cullums
Franklin Ave
College
E. State St
Paul Li. Reynard
Colerain
Charles Pedigo Reports Crabby Popular in St. Louis
Pvt. Charles FE Pedigo at Jefferson Barracks writes that Estel Crabtree’s popularity is clear in St. Louis. He recalls fans from St. Louis asking when Crabby will return to the Cardinals. A Toledo youth also inquires about Crabby’s status. Pedigo notes Crabby put Nelsonville on the sports map.
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Nelsonville
Charles FE. Pedigo
Jefferson Barracks
Estel Crabtree
St. Louis
Ohio
Crabby
Cardinals
Toledo
Charles
Family and friends visit and illness noted in Athens County
Esther Mae and Phyliss Wright visit Aunt Mrs. Wesley Hawk in Happy Hollow. W. P. Reese returns to Buckeye Lake after a stay with sister Mrs. S. W. Gadbury amid his brother in law’s serious condition. Mrs. Albert Dodds and relatives plan a Washington DC trip for Betty Dodds. Mrs. S. D. Webb of Columbus operated on at White Cross Hospital with daughter Mrs. Pauline Heft at her bedside. Webb formerly Gladys Whitlock of Nelsonville and has ties in Athens County.
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Esther Mae
Phyliss Wright
Happy Hollow
Wesley Hawk
W. P. Reese
Buckeye Lake
Scrap metal salvage push urged by local council
Nelsonville officials led by Mayor Herman Ogg and salvage chairman Win Bols urge renewed scrap drives. They cite repeated public appeals failing to yield results and urge residents to collect worn machinery, oil rigs, rail pieces, auto junk, and other metal for the nation. Public relations head Mrs Parker S Sniffen presses the call.
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Nelsonville
Herman Ogg
Win Bols
Parker S. Sniffen
Bombers Impress In Dieppe Fortress Airfield Strike
A British escort pilot lauds a fortress attack on Abbeville airfield as “incredible” with bombs hitting hangars and key targets from high altitude. Major Fred M. Dean cites reduced FW-190s over Dieppe after the raid, while Second Lieutenant Harry Robb notes intense dogfights by flights. Also reported are Sgt. George E. Price killed in Royal Canadian Air Force service and a local arrest for driving without a license.
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Dieppé
Abbeville
Dieppe
Wth
Fred M. Dean
St. Petersburg
Fla
Dean
Gallagher
London
Harry Robb
New Philadelphia
Robb
Ohio
Ottawa
George Edward Price
Royal Canadian Air Force
Price
A. K. Price
Avon Lake
Wend Birth of a Son John Robert at Cherrington Hospital
Nelsonville announces the birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wend on Saturday August 15 at Cherrington Hospital Logan. The infant weighed seven and a half pounds and is named John Robert. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. John Hughes and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wend.
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Nelsonville
Robert Wend
Cherrington Hospital
Logan
John Robert
John Hughes
Carl Wend
Belie Patton
Wellston
C. E. Michaels
Lakemore
Ohio
McNutt Reports on Production Contracts
Washington war labor chief Paul V. McNutt announced that 19 percent of wartime production contracts from May 1 to June 20 went to regions with insufficient labor, 56 percent to areas with anticipated shortages, and 17.5 percent to zones with a surplus of workers.
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Washington
Paul V. McNutt
Rome Girls Completing Projects at Rome Canaan High School
Rome girls in Stewart under Miss Bernice Russell have largely finished home economics projects for the year. Notable work includes room redecoration storage solutions dressmaking and sewing food preservation and flower and lawn care among many others with names listed among the contributors.
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Stewart
Rome- Canaan High School
Bernice Russell
Mary Aldridge
Shirley Seamen
Catharine Barrows
Doris Klingenberg
Edna Dalton
Norma Root
Eleanore
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France
Bobby
Charles Pedigo
Ohlinger
Chestnut Street
Meat Department
RAYON
Wolfe
Miltex
Civilian Defense Council Speaks
Pearl Hunkerford
Route 1
State
Highway Patrol
Franz Woodworth
United States
Poplar St
Ness, O
R&w
Bologna
Oleo
Vanew Thers
Young America
Cole Croves
Meyers Crossing
Greenlawn
Leonard's Market
Middleport, Ohio
Colegroves
Leon Errol
Ara
Columbia Picture
Superman
Mysterions
Stooges
Captain Midnight
FBI
SAT
Colegrove
Prem
Texas
Swift
Borax
Chipso
B. Box
Peerless
Castile
Roman Cleanser
Palmolive
Robert Wends
McNutt
Rome
Siemers
W. Wash
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