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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1944
Page
17
Fragmented classified card text lists contact lines like Phone 0242 and mentions categories such as Lost Found Automotive and Moving. The readable bits include personal names and garbled phrases suggesting a small-town newspaper classifieds page with miscellaneous notices and contact prompts.
Livestock for sale listing details cows calves and sheep at Hamsey Run Nelsonville Road. An aged Dura cow, a Durham heifer, and several young animals noted. Exact names and quantities are unclear due to damaged text, but buyers are directed to contact the seller for full details.
A local public notice appears under Farm Equipment Parat Bureau with reference to Pines 852 or 4. The fragmentary text provides limited readable details on the action or stake.
Dayton man Charles McLaush was arrested on an assault charge. At arraignment before Mayor E Thomas Williams he pleaded guilty, fined $50 and costs, and sentenced to 30 days in county jail. Sentencing suspended on good behavior. arrangements to pay costs noted. Another man, James Brunton of Buckingham, was arrested for intoxication and fined $5 plus costs. Local updates include travel plans and illness notes about a Joe, ill with meningitis.
A New York team secured its second win of the week with a Tuesday afternoon victory at home. The opponents were the Sacksonville-Trimbie third team, and the final score was not clearly stated in the readable text.
Glouster notes report a Sunday chicken dinner honoring Elmer Clade at Ernestine Foughty’s home on Trimble Road with guests Miss Sarah Foughty and Elmer Foughty among others. Also noted are local personals about Helen Leach’s return from Columbus, Donald Watkins’ arrival in England, Esta Cunningham’s Columbus weekend visit, Kinney birthday party guests, Lady Auxiliary meeting, Wanda Lewis’s burn incident, Saunders birth of Mary Sharon, and updates on Estell Cox and Prances Luce, plus local residents Rowland and Barrowman.
Glouster Church Women outline annual plans guiding events such as a pot luck supper, public tree eyectn, kitchen towel shower, and personal programs. Mrs Es Peugh spoke for the church, praising past year service while Mrs Henhaw announced upcoming plans.
Scoutmaster Hines sets Saturday morning at 8 30 for displays of training habits. The week ending Feb 2 totals 881 25 dollars in receipts. Billy Stahl reports for Troop No 72 Boy Scouts.
Sunday visitors at the home of Mrs. Gertrude Jewell on Jan 23 included Cpl Frank Jewell and wife and son from New Hampshire, Mrs. Lester Champlin and daughter from Akron, Louise Jewell of Detroit, Mr and Mrs Ralph Sewell and children of Rittman Ohio, Mr Francis Love and children, Mrs Darewood Jewell and daughter, Opal Dorothy and Jimmy Andrews, Mrs Loren Phillips and children, Mr and Mrs Ben Vaughan and family, Mr and Mrs Guy Vaughan and family of Gloucester, and Mr and Mrs Sidney Cutler and son Gary of Barberton, plus Cpl Frank Jewell, wife and baby, who had spent five days with Mrs Gertrude Jewell and her mother Mrs McCoy of Murray City.
Miss Sanford of Trimble graduates Western College Oxford and Michigan Master’s. She left a clerical post at Lockbourne Columbus to teach at Mary Baldwin College Staunton Virginia in the second semester. On Friday Staunton, Professor Alston hosted her introduction to faculty and students.
The Philadelphia area WCTU held its regular monthly meeting with prayers and readings. Mrs Isabel Butte and other members assisted the hostess as plans were discussed to promote hygiene and health treatments among attendees.
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