Miners to Receive Merry Christmas Pay Over 200000
Ohio Universitys war bond show Present Arms toured Athens County high schools nightly from Nov 30 to Dec 21 drawing 2000 to 3000 viewers per venue. Cast members including Vera Shapiro Don Fritz Carolyn McWatters Mary Weimer Sue Ellis and Charles Watts performed Gags songs and dances, then returned to campus for Christmas vacation. Mee Bee Co sponsors seek a hospital performance for wounded servicemen at Fletcher General Hospital Cambridge.
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Athens Messenger
Athens County
Ohio University
Vera Shapiro
Fletcher General Hospital
Cambridge
Mee- Bee Co
Isabell Brown
Mary Weimer
Betty McCaskill
Wanda Quest
Marie Lang
Marjorie Reese
Martha Smith
Carolyn McWatters
Lois McCoy
Sue Ellis
Mary Bricker
Joan Seaman
Don Fritz
Dick Thompson
Eddie Brown
Don Harris
Mr. Charles Watts
Hocking District to receive Christmas pay checks Saturday
More than 200000 in "Merry Christmas" pay will be issued Saturday to 1800 miners at nine railroad coal mines in the Hocking District. Additional funds will go to strip mines and truck mines for mid December wages, with Dec 23 designated for early payout per agreement.
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Hocking
Millfield
Chauncey
Kimberly
Lost Run
Carbondale
Rendville
Murray City
Veterans Plan Party At Armory In Athens County
Veterans groups including Conrath-Bean Chapter Disabled American Veterans Floyd Bolin Post Veterans of Foreign Wars invite all veterans discharged for disease or injury or in foreign service to a Christmas party at the Armory club room Friday evening December 22 starting at 7 30. Commanders Parker and McGraner invite Athens County veterans to attend.
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Conrath-Bean Chapter
Disabled American Veterans
Floyd Bolin Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Armory
C. A. Parker
Earnest McGraner
Athens County
Trimble Men Wounded in Action in Germany
Mrs. Collie Ray of Trimble reports a telegram from the War Department confirming Pvt. Bernard Ray was wounded in action in Germany on Navy 25. Mrs. Catherine Sabo of Glouster receives word that Pvt. John Sabo was wounded in the left arm on Dec 3. Sabo has been overseas nine months.
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Collie Ray, Trimble
War Department
Pvt
Bernard Ray
Germany
Navy
Catherine Sabo
Glouster
John Sabo
Sabo
Dining Car Employee Fined in Court Here
George Hines, dining car employee of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was arrested on a train arriving in Athens on vacation. A railroad detective charged intoxication. He pled guilty before Mayor Franz Woodworth and was fined $5 plus costs this morning.
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George Hines
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Athens
Hines
Franz Woodworth
Smart Christmas Gifts Made by AHS Girls
Junior and senior Home Economics students at Athens High School crafted a variety of gifts. Tea aprons use flowered handkerchiefs, dolls feature dual eyes and yarn hair, and other dolls reuse old stockings. Felt pouch bags cost 2.50 each, with options in velveteen, corduroy, or wool. Many animals from prints and yarn, mittens, and child aprons with bib and red rickrack trim. Ninth and tenth graders made 43 Red Cross kit bags for the Navy, and contributed 3 dollars to fill three bags.
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Athens High School
Navy
Miss Stocklein Dies In Canton Wednesday
Miss Beatrice Stocklein age 45 former Athens resident died yesterday in Canton. She lived with twin brother Cletus Stocklein and worked in war effort there after WPA secretarial post in Athens. Survived by three sisters and two brothers. Burial in Canton Saturday morning. Member of Catholic Church.
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Beatrice Stocklein
Athens
Canton
Minnie Hughes
Morris Ave
Miss Stocklein
Cletus Stocklein
WPA
Glouster
James Vincent Stocklein
Athens County
Stocklein
Glouster High School
St. Aloysius Academy
New Lexington
O. C. Smith
al Weber
Columbus
Deloris Lucas
Dayton
Cletus
Isaac
Frit
Mrs Buckley Funeral To Be Held Saturday
Funeral services for Mrs. Georgia Buckley of Chauncey will be held Saturday at two o clock in the Canaanville Methodist Church. Burial follows at the W Union Street Cemetery. Friends may call at Dowler and Ferguson Funeral Home until 1 30 Saturday.
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Georgia Buckley
Chauncey
Canaanville Methodist Church
W. Union St
Dowler and Ferguson Funeral Home
Troy and Tuppers Plains Youths Chart Year in Farming
Vocational agriculture students at Coolville and Tuppers Plains plan 80 projects and 143 supervised practices this year. Harold Starkey of Coolville, a junior, aims to raise Hereford cattle and improve his family’s farming operations for a solid start in agriculture.
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Coolville
Tuppers Plains
C. E. Stout
Ohio Division of Vocational Agriculture
Harold Starkey
Starkeys
Harold
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