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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1945
Page
17
Sheriff George Bateman seeks information on a stolen 1929 two door sedan owned by Ezra Tabler Stewart bearing license X279L. The car was taken from State Street and is believed abandoned in the area. Call Bateman with any knowledge.
L C Staats will direct a separate Athens Community Chest fund drive running from Sept 20. Agencies participating include Boy Scouts Girl Scouts Child Health and Protective Committee Hospital Board Salvation Army YWCA and City Recreation Board. Directors O C Bird F H Sands Rowena Sprout D E Barr R D Williams L Wood and Miss Josephine Garvin presided.
Dover area unit announces a nationwide Grocer-Consumer Anti-Inflation Campaign opening Sept 3 to enforce price ceilings. Local War Price and Rationing Board to host Sept 4 meeting at Hotel Berry with GPA district speaker. The report lists board members and community volunteers, plus University School enrollment and staff details. It also notes Chauncey-Dover veteran Carl Douglas Howard heading to Camp Atterbury for further duty, with honors including ETO Ribbon and Purple Heart. A chicken dinner at Chauncey hosted by Mrs. Syx honors the Howard family.
Athens Aerie invites 30 new members to initiation this evening with William G. Watson mayor of Zanesville and state Eagles trustee as speaker. Lunch and refreshments follow the meeting.
Local Selective Service Board in Athens reports postponement of pre induction calls for this Saturday September 1 and induction call for Monday September. Revised calls will be issued for new dates during the week of Sent. 17 per a letter from Colonel Goble state director.
The operating week will be reduced to five eight hour days Monday through Friday. All U S Revenue Offices will be closed on Saturdays until further notice as part of a 40 hour workweek.
A. D. Townsend, 52 State Street, oil and gas operator, is seriously ill at Grant Hospital in Columbus. His wife remains at his side as friends may visit in room 221. The Rev C B Tigner will deliver two talks on Archeology and the Bible at Hooper Ridge Church Thursday and Friday at 8 o'clock.
Ration details continue for fats and meats with stamp validity dates through late year. Sugar stamps 36 through 38 specify five pound limits. Shoes stamps remain valid indefinitely with no cancellation plans. Gasoline fuel oil stove and processed foods blue points rationing ended August 15.
CHESHIRE Sept 4 opener announced by D W Hoffee. Regular classes begin Wednesday after a half day session. Local families and area residents listed in social notes include Massie family moving to Ashville for new superintendent post, plus numerous Sunday visits and county fair attendance.
Rev Robert Phillips and family visit Chauncey as his two week tent revival at Six Mile Turn north of Glouster on State Routes 13 37 and 75 concludes Sunday with the sound picture The Man Who Forgot God a 30 minute feature. A 2 30 pm song fest precedes the 7 p.m closing sermon as special music and preaching mark the final services with good attendance.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry W. Moore hosted a two course chicken dinner at their Lower Plains home on Sunday. Attendees included Mrs. Wendell G. Moore, sons Roger and Rehard, and relatives from Ravenna Ohio, plus Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Dicken, Mrs. Florence Hysell and children Judy and Larry of Athens.
Mrs Elizabeth Robinett of Millfield entertained dinner guests Sunday naming Mr and Mrs Richard Hadden Mrs Lorena Mae Sisson from Columbus Mr and Mrs Witltar Sisson and daughter of Trimble Mr and Mrs Verne Robinett and son Max of Logan and Mr and Mrs Ronald Robinett and children of Laurelville.
Chauncey and Millfield social items list Mr and Mrs Frank Cook and daughter Sharon of Toledo spending two weeks with Finn Cook and family on Lower Plains while visiting relatives. Athens and Ravenna guests include Mrs Wendell G Moore son Roger and Mrs Dorothea Biltz.
Funeral services for Mrs Ernestine Tippett of Chauncey are delayed due to her son Russell’s illness in an Oklahoma hospital. The body will be moved to the family home and services time remains uncertain with Rev Gilbert Courtney presiding. Burial is planned at W Union St cemetery in Athens.
Broadway star Evelyn Wyckett guest stars as armchair detective in The Adventure of the Green House on CBS WBNS. Harry von Zell Nora Martin and Fred Martel lead a made up comedy on Wednesday With You on NWEC WLy. On a Blue Moon offers Curtain Tims American WCOL. District Attorney counters The Case of the Traveling Rat on NBC WLW. The Human Adventure dramatizes the Thomas Paine piece on MBR WHKC. David Haring follows a Jananess plot in The Case of the Hole in the Ground on American WCOL. Miram Day understudy in Tp in Central Park is guest vocalist on Columbia Great Moments in Music CBS WBNS. The Story of Major Richard Bene dramatized at CMH NRC WLW.
Richard Moore of Ravenna spent summer with grandparents Mr and Mrs Harry W Moore of Lower Plains and Mr and Mrs W E Dicken of Athens and was entertained as a dinner guest Thursday by Mr and Mrs C C Mantz of Athens He accompanied his mother Mrs Wendell G Moore home Monday Mrs Shafer shows slight improvement from heart trouble after illness
Chauncey and Mrs Evans Bingman hosted a steak fry honoring Hal Osborne recently discharged from service and Staff Sergeant William H Noble returning from overseas. Mrs Bingman noted Hal is her brother and Sergeant Noble is her nephew. event included Mr and Mrs Everett Byngman and Vere Ridge in attendance.
CHAUNCEY Ralph Brown Junior Courtney and Richard Stalder returned to their homes Sunday from Camp Moores near Zanesake where they spent a week attending the Church of Christ Young People's Conference.
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