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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1947
Page
6
Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Harper will drive to Coonskin Ridge Airport Charleston to meet Ensign Robert Harper who arrives for holidays. The Harpers secured delivery of a new sedan Wednesday as the ensign’s Christmas gift.
The Junior Woman's Club met at Christ Episcopal Church to approve contributions to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis the Mason County Tuberculosis Association Morris Memorial Hospital for Crippled Children and the Boy Scouts of America. Members planned a tuberculosis canvass and a Christmas clothing drive for the needy.
Victor Park Jr a photographer in the Air Force has been transferred from Japan after a year there to Guam His parents Mr and Mrs Victor Park Sr plan a big Christmas for him in 1948
Pomeroy Edison Hobhstetter presided as master of ceremonies at a Riverview restaurant banquet hosted by the Down Town Coaches. Fred Crow Jr praised players for conduct and sportsmanship and thanked Jed Hartinger and Olan Goodwin for football field work. Eddie Ash named to All-Star Football team. W A Smith, Charles Gibbs, and Gerald Nummi introduced. 15 players and 3 managers received letters. Harold Wise of Ohio University spoke and showed pictures of Butlers and Xavier games.
Funeral services for James Clatworthy aged 62 who died Tuesday evening at Holzer Hospital will be held Friday at 9 a.m. at Sacred Heart Church with burial at Riverview Cemetery. Rosary will be at 8 p.m. at Rawlings-Coats to which friends may go. He was a New York Central engineer and a Sacred Heart Church and Holy Name Society member.
Meigs County land transfers include multiple deeds among Baer family members and others. Transfers cover parcels and certificates in Sutton, Rutland, Syracuse, and Orange with buyers and sellers listed.
W. W. Hayes, a New York Central Railroad employee, slipped into the automobile well at the Gilmore Service Station Wednesday. He was taken to Holzer Hospital for treatment and returned home the same evening.
Edward Foglesong and Walter Rice were re-elected as president and secretary of the Mason County Rod and Gun Club at Tuesday night’s meeting. Russell Newton Jr. was elected vice president as members discussed creating a lake on a 300 acre tract in the TNT area at West Virginia Ordnance Works and urged state acquisition as a game preserve.
Dencil Wedge reports Roy Ankrum well drilling at 200 feet on Monday near Mount Alto. Spudding was slated to begin Tuesday at the Jordan well, and operations were ready at the Gerlach well except for a missing gas engine. About 70 workers were employed in the field as lines connected the old wells to four new locations.
POINT PLEASANT The C. W. Van Matres have received a letter from Harry Fong a laundryman here for many years who left last summer for his old home near Canton China He sailed from San Francisco Oct 3 and reached home Nov 4 to find that his only sister had died a year ago.
Mrs. Chris Thorniley reports $850 raised after three weeks of the Christmas Seal sale, about one third of the quota. Donations are expected to pick up after Christmas as contributors mail in funds. Several volunteers assisted at a Murphy store booth and community groups earned $5 bonds in the campaign. Mrs. Vanna Cherrington was reported critically ill at a relative’s home.
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Knight of Condor Street announce the birth of a seven and one half pound son, Dayton Richard, at Holzer Hospital on December 17. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Ashworth and Bert Knight of Chester. This is the couple’s second child.
Rose Jones of Portsmouth is employed as full time cook at the Snack Bar. She has been the guest of Mr and Mrs O Hindy at Middleport.
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