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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1944
Page
7
Local merchants plan to keep Thursday afternoons open during the pre Christmas season. Bend area stores will announce holiday shopping hours later. Merchants report brisk holiday sales with shelves likely to go bare if trends continue. County shoppers make multiple trips due to gasoline and tire rationing. Good weather aids early shopping.
Two Meigs County youths, Robert Wolfe a Pharmacist's Mate 2c and Robert Flesher a Boatswain's Mate, have seen action at Leyte Harbor. Wolfe is reported safe by his parents, Chief of Police and Mrs Walter Wolfe, while Flesher serves on a destroyer credited with destroying several Japanese vessels and planes.
Forty two students at Pomeroy Senior High and 25 from Junior High earned places on the honor rolls after the second six weeks. Seniors include Edward Duckler Jack Rosenbaum John Thomas Charles White and others. juniors Edgar Atkins Roy Holter John Isle Howard Mullen and more. Sophomores Horace Abbott Richard Rosenbaum Horton Thomas and others. seventh eighth and ninth graders also listed with multiple students named.
Funeral services for Guy Lee aged 38 who died at White Cross Hospital Columbus from injuries after being run over by a car in the Pennsylvania Railroad yards will be held at Wesley Chapel at two o'clock Wednesday with burial in Gravel Hill Cemetery. He was a car inspector for the Pennsylvania Railroad and survived by his wife five children his father Robert Lee of Letrat W Va a sister Mrs Jo Turner Middleport.
Middleport social notes report a Saturday wedding of Eva Tewksbury McElhinney to Wilfred Struble in Logan with attendants and future home in Middleport. Also listed are an amateur Gardeners Club Christmas party at the Ebersbachs on Mulberry and a Jolly Bunch Sewing Club gathering hosted by Mrs. Weber, with plans for a Christmas party. Local notices mention Mrs Harry Houdashelt and others in Middleport society events.
Pomeroy notes report a farewell party for a former Elberfeld employee now at General Chemical Defense Corp. and a vocal chorus rehearsal in Middleport with plans for a Christmas Vesper Service at Heath Church. Other items include visits, illnesses, travel, and new clerks hired for holiday season in local stores.
Sharpsburg social notes list dinner attendees for a trip to Arizona including Gail Smith Holdcroft Browers Hanson and relatives. Charles Hanson marked 18th birthday celebrated November 26 with family and friends. Additional visits include Parson family travels, kinship notes, and Thanksgiving in Kenton and Amesville contexts.
Central School names a list of honor students across grades I through VI. Notable students include Shirley Bowers, Howard Cecil, Jane Spencer, Nancy Splaettar, Kathryn Hood, Sally Bartels, John Foster, Harry Keig, and William Smith among others, reflecting strong performances across all classes.
Middleport Masons F and A M announce installation of officers at the Masonic Temple at 7 30 p m led by Fred Russell W M All Masons are invited to attend Refreshments will follow the ritualistic work
RUTLAND Ruel C Forrest aged 77 died Monday afternoon at his home in Rutland. He is survived by his wife a son Homer Co For rest of Middleport a daughter Mrs May Herman of Minot North Dakota three sisters Mrs Priscilla Benedict Columbus Mrs Mary Massingill of Texas Mrs Myrtie McComas Dr Athens. Services will be held at the Baptist Church in Rutland with burial at White Oak Cemetery. Time of services has not been announced.
War shortages push high school youths to join Ohio Forest Fire Fighters Service. Floyd Loomis outlines duties and demonstrates gear at Pomery High School with H B Trips. Many students sign up. more blanks available from Principal J E White.
Sinke of Chicago tops the city field in the all star match tourney with a 12 game total of 3,677 in the 24 game preliminaries. Among 120 entrants from 20 states 48 top scorers advance to semi finals tonight and 11 tomorrow after four days of round robin for the title. Pvt Joe Wilman led day one with 1,250 for six games but dropped to seventh with 3,546.
Pom eroy council held a brief meeting at the City Hall with all members present. Mayor George Howell presided and reported $211.06 in fines and licenses, including $101.16 for garbage collection. Bills were read and paid, and routine business discussed. The mayor asked citizens to inform him about furnished and unfurnished rental housing.
Edgar Ervin of Meigs County Court of Common Pleas will serve only until January 1, 1947. Appointed by Governor Bricker October 1 1943 to serve until the next general election, and until his successor was elected and qualified. He was elected to fill the unexpired term ending January 1 1947, serving about two years after qualification.
Baseball notables attend minor league convention in Buffalo aiming to reform major minor relations. With Landis gone, 26 leagues face draft and territorial issues. Proposals include doubling draft price to 15000 and tighter territorial protections as 18 amendments loom.
Byron Nelson won the San Francisco Open at Harding Park with a 281 total, earning 2 666 in war bonds and lifting his yearly winnings to over 43 000. Ferrier was runner up with rounds 75 66 70 71 and took 1 866 plus 100 as low scorer. Sam Snead tied for third with 287. Ed Furgol captured low amateur honors with 296.
Thanksgiving and weekend social notices from Coolville and nearby areas list guests and hosts. Names include Gibbs Shafer Frost Davis Davis Gehring Westfall Aiken Summerfield Griffin Brandberry Holter Sweeney Hart Burd Hoisington Chevalier Pratt Hangar Cecil Dill and others in Athens Marietta Malta Monaca Decatur Pomeroy.
REEDSVILLE A farm machinery repair school will be started here Wednesday evening Dec 6 at 730 with Wilbur Sprague as teacher. The schedule calls for 12 meetings and the plan is for farmers needing repairs to bring equipment to the meetings to help with the work. Courses offered through the vocational agriculture department of Chester High School. Meetings in the Coleman garage.
Detroit boxing results show Verne Escne of Toronto weighing 185 pounds defeating Dan Mer rritt of Cleveland at 206 pounds. The bout outcome favors Escne with a decisive points win, highlighting his cleaner technique and superior reach.
Boxing notes highlight Painting Phil Scott as likely the longest remembered import despite a label of quitter. Archie Moore joins the stable with prior Australia fights. Conley Sadler Mighty Menichelli and Lou Nova also back from the Army. Schmeling reportedly instructing workers in central Germany. Ernie White learns first game score en route to England. Hepler cowboys double ante for Shoe Fry match. Two Indiana VI football stars likely to join Navy next fall. Hundy Hoernschermeyer and George Soindheim secure Navy appointments.
A newborn son named Larry Paul for Mr and Mrs Roy Picker ing on November 28 is noted. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Charley Pickering. Mrs Louise Carr plans wintering in Redondo Beach California with her son Arthur and wife, then visits Tulsa before returning home. Karl Harris returns from a three week furlough near Plantsville to rejoin the Seabees. Mrs Pauline Daugherty of Chicago underwent a tonsillectomy at Memorial Hospital Marietta and will stay with her parents. Former Supt B E Workman, now of Zanesville, has returned from Columbus hospital after an operation. Mr and Mrs W A Howard Elliott moved behind Union Hall. Mrs Destie Rowland and son Bobby visited with Lena Rowland and Malta family. T S Niceswanger returns to work at Pittsburgh after auto accident. Mrs Edgar Michener of Perkinsville assists with granddaughter Jean Carpenter who is ill. Orders were received to close Black Diamond mine at Lathrop and pull track, with about 140 miners affected and coal output around 700 tons daily. Gail Harris, operator of the company store, has orders to close within a week.
NEW YORK AP Army replaces Notre Dame as the national collegiate football champion. The Cadets, undefeated after a 28 to 7 win over Navy, lead the final AP poll with 95 of 121 first place votes and 1165 points. Ohio State is second with 941, Randolph Field third, Navy fourth.
PORTSMOUTH Ohio opening day of the second Ohio deer season in half a century saw 24 bucks bagged by shotgunners. James W Stuber of the state division reported the tally and named several successful hunters from Portsmouth Athens and nearby towns. The season runs daily 8 am to 3 30 pm through Saturday with a one buck limit in Roosevelt game preserve Shawnee State Forest and the use of No 4 or larger buckshot or bow and barbless arrows.
Leslie Horvath, star back for Old State University's Buckeyes, will be honored as the nation's top collegiate grid performer at a New York banquet. He wins the Heisman as voters rate him No 1 in a nationwide writers and broadcasters poll. Bowling Green state beats Lockbourne Air Base 75 to 43 in season opener with guard John Tayak scoring 17 points.
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