Two Prisoners Escape From Jail In Millview Inn Burglarized
December 26 1944 Athens tale reports two prisoners escaping from a jail via a window rope using blankets. The Millview Inn on W Union St was burglarized Christmas afternoon with about 100 in cash and candy boxes stolen, plus damages to a register and machines. Police suspect the escapees Wilson and Gilkey, with sheriff and chief Grogan investigating. repairs hindered by a previous jail remodel.
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Athens
Millview Inn
Bateman
Wilson
Gilkey
J. B. Grogan
Mill Mew Inn
Drelock
Russell Stover
Ceach Register
Emmett Poston
Weather Arrives a Day Late in Festive Streets
A fragment describes Christmas weather arriving late with rain turning to snow, pools forming in wet streets. The ground is white and air sharp while the day features a bright sky and cold temperatures near freezing.
FFA Pest Hunt Opens as December Meeting Sets 1944 45 Plans
The Troy FFA chapter held its December meeting at Colville to set the 1944-45 calendar with monthly duties for members. The annual Pest Hunt began with Charles Butcher and Vernon Depoy directing the event targeting English sparrows mice starlings moles pigeons crows weasels foxes and hawks. Top three record setters will earn FFA letters as basketball followed with doughnuts and milk served.
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Troy
FFA
Soldiers and Families Share Christmas News of Service
Word from servicemen and relatives across town brings Christmas greetings and updates. Walter Jordan’s son EW in Fort Lewis is promoted to first cook at a General Hospital. Denver Short, in Williamsburg, VA, is overseer of compressed a ses with furlough planned to Montezuma. Other notes: Steinmetz returns to duty in Italy after hospital stay. Catherine Tucker’s husband transfers from an Army Air Field to Great Bend. Chr Bernard Lonas in Holland advances to T 5. Sgt Kenneth Smith in England writes home.
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Frank Clark
Catherine Tucker
Athens
Army
Dalhart
Tex
Great Bend
Kans
Charles Lonas
Stimson Ave
Chr
Bernard Lonas
Holland
Ross Wright Reports 1944 Athens County Extension Work
Ross Wright summarizes a busy year for 1944 detailing 292 4 H boys and girls in 27 clubs with 299 completing projects and exhibits. The report notes war program outputs, hours of farm and home work, salvage campaigns, and war bonds purchases. Wright logged 395 farm visits, 1 729 office calls, 1 628 calls, and 3 317 bulletins while coordinating with volunteers and Mary Kathryn Bowman on food production and preservation.
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Athens County
Ross Wright
Wright
AH Chibs
Mary Kathryn Bowman
Ats
Athens groups announce dinners and meetings amid hospital pause
Knights of Athens Commandery No 15 announce a dinner at Romantown and a program for Wednesday evening as Pfe. Edgar E. Bauer lies in hospital. Fellow Craft Degree to be conferred by Para mythia Lodge No 25 with Elie D Woodworth presiding. Kiwanis to elect a new board director with four nominees. Meanwhile Mayor Franz Woodworth reports three court fines for intoxication and a $10 fine for assault on Oba Rhoades.
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Knights of Athens
Knights Templar
William Bauer
S. Court Steen
Pfe
Edgar E. Bauer
Inva Hospital
Romantown
Harold A. Pierce
Paramythia Lodge
Elie D. Woodworth
Franz Woodworth
Starling Shingler
Mineral
Harry Richard Webb
Columbus
Albert Johnson
Riverside Drive
Oba Rhoades
Christmas lights burn out as townsfolk face outages
A reader recounts widespread Christmas light failures with many unable to buy replacements. One woman has one working strand and two spares likely to fail by midweek. Children make festive crafts from cotton puff bells and small dolls to keep spirits up as decorations persist beyond Christmas.
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Shirley ‘Sisson
Clarince Sisson
Columbia Ave
Shirley
SUI
M.br
Plains girls plan Christmas activities and parties
The Plains girls organized wartime Christmas projects under Miss Margaret Hanning and Miss Bary Cone. Ninth grade girls crafted reed sack ornaments and aprons. eighth grade boys shared a party with Mr L V Calvin. Advanced girls, guided by Miss Margaret McColhim, studied family activities and produced seasonal cakes cookies and gifts.
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Plains
Margaret Hanning
L.V. Calvin
Miss Bary Cone
Anna Live Wright
Mascot
Mary Mason
David Miller
Thelma Gabriel
Norma Howard
Margaret McColhim
Family Dinner Party Honors Seaman Richard Baughman
At the home of Mr and Mrs E M Baughman in Albany a turkey dinner honors Seaman Richard W Baughman on leave after boat training at Great Lakes. He will return Thursday Dec 21 for radar training. Guests include family and Athens residents among others.
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E. M. Baughman
Albany
Richard W. Baughman
2-C
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Seaman Baughman
Great Lakes
8. P. West
Belle Fought
A. J. Enlow
Donnie
Sue
Floyd Clark
Chilren
Perry
Patricia
Albay
Mrs Harvey Hosts W R C Christmas Party
Mrs Harvey presided over the Women’s Relief Corps annual Christmas party with a purse chicken dinner, a business meeting led by Mrs Blanche Mills nominating officers, a Christmas story by Mrs Vinnie Woode, and gift exchanges. Next meeting at Mrs Flora Murphy’s home will install officers. Grant Ferguson, on leave from the Illinois Institute of Technology, visits his parents at 9 Church Street.
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Women's Relief Corps
Blanche Mills
Vinnie Woode
Flora Murphy
Mary Hanning
Grant Ferguson
Illinois Institute of ‘Technology
CM. Fergusson
Church St
Mrs James Seward Hosts Mothers Circle Meeting
Mrs James Seward hosted the Mothers Circle at her Locust Heights home on December 20. The program featured group singing, a Merry Christmas letter game, Christmas stories and poems read by members, a stunt by Mrs Kennedy, and a gift exchange. Prize winners included Mrs Irving Dickman, with hostess duties assisted by Mrs Glenn Atkinson and Mrs Huffman.
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James Seward
Locust Heights
Ial
St. Nicholas
Owen Kennedy
W. Ashton
Kennedy
John Huffman
Trving Dickman
Barbara Lee
Foster
TL. C. Ridenour
C. R. Morrison
Glenn Atkinson
Huffman
Irving Dickman
LC. Ridenour
Christmas Party At The Plains Home Economics Club
The annual Christmas party occurred Tuesday afternoon in home economics rooms. Betty Deter led the creed, followed by roll call by Betty Cochran. June Miller presided as vice president and program chair. Students sang and read Christmas pieces, with Mary Thompson and Caryal Ann Bean performing. The tenth grade girls shared in the social hour and a decorated table featured red doors, red candies, and a red sock favor pinned to each guest.
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Wns
Betty Deter
Betty Cochran
June Miller
Ader
Mary Thompson
Caryol Ann Bean
Juanita McDonald
Allee Maccombs
Earol
Gwendolyn Allen
Caryal Ann Bean
Mary Brammer
Betty Kochman
Tin Katzenbach
Margaret Sharpe
Mary Ellen Thompson
Ad Fin Maccombs
Louise Jane Diver
Jessie Radford
Mise Berstone
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Inn
W. Union St
Bate ‘Gman
Glentemma
Coolville
Pepsi-Cola Company
Long Irland City
N. Y
Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of
Cornells
Frederick William Steinmetz
Italy
Lewis Steinmetz
H. S. Smith
Christias
Sgt
Kenneth Smith
England
Atheindery
Kiwanis
Athens Kiwanis Club
Hotel Beris
Board of Diretors
Eileen Baughman
Cincinnati
Merwin Mansefield
Carolyn
Reid Sewell
Reida
Arthur West
Nancy
Wendell Baughman
Baugh
France
Thad
Sereno
I. C
Mrs. Harvey
W.R.C
Mothers’ Circle
Ce Nunn
Bush
Deliberte
Stanley's Shoe Store
South Court St
Pete
Regul
Bargain Hunters
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