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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1945
Page
11
Glouster reports an 8 o'clock Friday meeting at Moose Hall to reorganize the Athletic Boosters Club. All former members and those interested in high school athletics are urged to attend. Mrs. D. D. Tillman says her husband D. D. Tillman, Si c, has arrived in Oakland General Hospital after five weeks with phlebitis.
Rev C B Tigner announces Bible School at 9am and communion at 10 with a sermon on The Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Evening union services set for the stadium at 7 30. Rev A G Freeman of Ironton to preach. If rain, union service moves to high school gym. First Baptist choir to assist.
Miss Betty Lou Robinson returns home after two weeks in Columbus visiting relatives. Church notices report Sunday School at 10:30 in the high school gym due to redecorating. no forenoon sermon due to Rev. Eugene Brown and family’s vacation. Evening union service at 7:30. Bishopville Church of Christ, Sunday School at 10, Communion and preaching at 11. Hooper Ridge Church of Christ hosts morning and evening services at 12 and 8. John Tigner preaches both services at Hooper Ridge.
William Rauch of Fort Riley Kansas arrived in Glouster last Thursday for a ten day furlough with his wife and family. He will report back to Fort Riley after the leave. He has served about four months. Miss Dianne Swart received a doll from her uncle Corporal Rolland Higgins stationed in Germany and he sent several German medals to Kay Swart. Arthur Janchius, also in the service, is spending a furlough here with his wife and children.
Glouster social notes list Mrs. BH Hawk returning from Athens after visiting daughter Mrs. Marie Mechem, with relatives Bentley and Mrs. Henderson also visiting. Other locals, including Mary Janchius and Betty Lewis, spent weekends in town or with relatives. Mr and Mrs John Bulloch and Mrs B K Bryson visited New Lexington and Athens. Families visiting Martha Snyder Greens Run hosted Sgt Eugene Snyder and family with furloughs and assignments noted.
Paul Jones ten year old son of Mr and Mrs Law rence Jones of West Terre Haute Ind underwent an operation for the removal of a ruptured appendix in a Terre Haute hospital He is reported as getting along fine The Joneses are former Glouster residents Jerry Gormley and Mary Ellen Shepard were taken to Athens Saturday where Dr John Sprague removed their tonsils They were returned to their homes in this city Saturday evening Each is recovering satisfactorily.
Miss Aldine Wemner of Columbus spent the weekend in Millfield visiting Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Wemner and Mrs. Mary Skiver. Charlotte Hubble of Nelsonville and Leonard Skivers of Portsmouth were Tuesday evening guests of Mrs. Charles Carr. Miss Patty Wallace returned home after a week with Miss Lovella Mingus of Sand Ridge. Miss Erma Day of Columbus returned after a week with Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Pughling of Glouster.
Carbon Hill notes honor roll items as Hawk receives honorable discharge after two years overseas. Army Adm. 3-c Walter Ritchason spends 30 days on leave with family before reporting to Columbus. Local travelers visit Columbus and Elyria relatives while others visit Fort Lauderdale and Willard, Ohio.
Mrs Elizabeth Harvey of Chauncey wife of Noah S Harvey sustained injuries in a fall at her home on Ellis Avenue this week. Her left arm was broken to the elbow and X ray pictures were taken to document the injury.
A visitor aboard the Gordon C. Greene anchored at Fourth Street Wharf asks if she is in Kentucky or Ohio. The Messenger notes tourists roaming Points of interest as she puzzled over the steamer’s direction toward Cincinnati.
Madeline Lewis Chauncey Cunningham of Gallipolis was granted a divorce from Carl Lewis on fault grounds. The court awarded custody of their three year old son to the plaintiff and ordered continued support for the child. Fidelia Wallace has been serving in the U S South Pacific since July 25.
Mrs Analee Virginia Miller a Mason County native credit manager for Star Clothing in Charleston died after a car collision on Lock Six Road near Charleston. She died at Charleston General Hospital. Funeral set Mt Zion Church near Flat Rock Sunday at 2230. Driver held without bond by magistrate.
LOCK ELEVEN CHURCH at Mason hosted its annual home coming last Sunday with morning services followed by a basket dinner and talks by visiting attendees. Out-of-town guests included the Rev W E Bennett and Mrs Bennett, Mr and Mrs Thaddeus Fowler, Mr and Mrs William Dial of Huntington, Mr and Mrs Fred Prichard, Mr and Mrs W M Channel of Parkersburg, Mrs Wilbur Bethle of Pittsburgh, Mrs Ray Windon of London, Mr and Mrs Hugh Walker of Winfield, Mrs George Dickens of Columbus, and Mr and Mrs Harry Bright of Hogsett.
In Point Pleasant the U. S. employment office displays no jobs on its front blackboard which has disappeared. The office remains crowded from morning to night with people arranging unemployment compensation.
A vintage ad touts Kleerex a safe medicated liquid that supposedly makes pimples vanish overnight. It promises a money back guarantee and claims dramatic facial clearing after first use. Sold by Athens Pharmacy on Court Street.
Burdell Neal was tried in Point Pleasant before a local magistrate on a charge of intoxication brought by his wife Marguerite Neal. No defense was presented. He appealed to the circuit court after the magistrate ordered a fine of $10 and costs.
The Plains Church of the Nazarene holds Sunday School at 9 30 led by Mrs Carrie Channell. Youngs People meetings at 6 45 with Mrs Lela Shrieve as president and teacher Owen Scarbade. Junior group at the same hour led by Mrs Goldie Gibson. Pastor Rev J N Lakin will preach at 10 30 and 7 30 p m.
Plains Garden Club will hold its monthly meeting on Wednesday evening led by Mrs Lucy McDonald at the home of Mrs Harold Winefordner in Chauncey. Ida McDaniel of Millfield was omitted from the Millfield Needle Club outing and picnic list at Rachelmacher Pack in Logan on Sunday.
Chauncey District social notes show Mildred Graham and her son Victor Lee visiting from Chauncey before traveling to Salina Kansas with Mrs Lovelace's family. Mr and Mrs Carlos Reed and daughter Regina visit Mrs Reed's mother in Chauncey while Junior Lanning returns from Columbus to Chauncey Dover high school. Hazel Mills and Betty Willis of Millfield spent a week visiting relatives in Cleveland. George Mullins Clarence Mullins and son Arthur of Columbus, former Chauncey residents, are mentioned with other local relatives. Joe Guerra Hubbard and family vacation with sister Mrs Louise Muzio in Millfield and other Chauncey relatives.
Rev Clarence Way will preach Sunday at 9 30 a m in the Church of God Chauncey followed by Sunday School at 10 10 led by Howard Pennell superintendent Young People's service led by Ruth Lester and Betsie Tope at the usual hour.
CHAUNCEY Miss Jennie Graham Dayton spent a week vacation with her parents Rev and Mrs Guss Graham and family On her return she was accompanied by Robert and Dana Graham to spend a week in Dayton with their sisters Misses Jennie and Dorothy Graham
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