Athens Area Selective Service Registration Set for 1 700 Men
The third general registration for men aged 20 to 44 in Athens County aims to enlist about 1,700 in Athens Dover and Trimble Townships over three days. Registration sites include Athens City Building, Robinson Building in Chauncey, and American Legion Hall in Glouster, with OU students and faculty registering Feb 16 at Memorial Auditorium.
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Athens
Dover
Trimble
Athens County Selective Service Board No. 1
Athens Township
Selective Service
Athens City
Dover Township
Robinson Building
Converse St
Chauncey
Trimble Township
American Legion
Glouster
Mandry Rites Held For Glouster Native at 73
Mrs. Sarah Mandry 73 widow of John Mandry died Thursday at her daughter’s home in Little Hocking after living in Glouster 50 years. Born in Aberdare Wales, she came to the U S at age four. Survived by three daughters Mrs Yester Mrs Richard Erbel and Miss Betty Mandry a son John Mandry three grandchildren one great granddaughter two sisters and two brothers. Funeral Sunday at 1 30 p m Wallace and Son Funeral Home Glouster with burial in Hollister Cemetery.
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Sarah Mandry
John Mandry
Millard Foster
Little Hocking
Glouster
Mandry
Aberdare
Wales
John
Elizabeth Morgan
Calvary Baptist Church
Daughters of St. George Club
Yester
Richard Erbel
Canton
Betty Mandry
Girard
Sullivan
Ind
Emma Halbert
Mary Cheshire
William Morgan
Joseph Morgan
Millfield
Knights Templar Conclave To Convene Tonight In Athens
Athens Commandery No. 15 Knights Templar will hold a special conclave at 7 pm in the Masonic Temple asylum. The Order of the Temple will be conferred on two candidates. Sir Knights urged to attend in full Templar uniform with swords, announced Commander Robert J. Studer.
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Athens
Knights Templar
Masonic Temple
Order of the Temple
Templar
Robert J. Studer
Books for Soldiers Drive in Athens Sets Tomorrow
Boy Scouts collect books to be sent to men in military camps across Athens. All types of books of interest to servicemen are welcome and residents should place donations on their front porches for pickup tomorrow.
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Athens
Boy Scouts
Honor Roll Lists Brighten Athens Schools Trio
Twenty five seniors and juniors at Athens Senior and Junior High plus sophomores and eighth graders are named on the third six weeks honor roll. The listings detail students by grade with numerous named individuals across all classes.
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Athens
Dinionerind
Evan Jones
Edward McPherson
Bill Pendry
Dix Schenz
Bob Sprague
Marvin White
Isabelle Brown
Virginia Coleman
Martha Cottingham
Sue Coury
Barbara Danford
Martha Dowler
Marjorie Gaston
Ruth Gentry
Betty Griswold
Hattie Lee Grones
Ruth Ann Grover
Annabelle Houck
Jane Maccombs
Dolores Whaley
Mary Jean Williams
Ruth Alice Wright
Emory Koker
Clarence Lasure
Dick Mackinnon
Julian MacQuiston
Dick Paynter
John Reed
Edward Wilsey
Helen Bailey
Thelma Coffey
Jo Ann Murphy
Wanda Quest
Martha Smith
Jo Ann Graham
Martha Caskey
Johanna Daugherty
Ann Dilley
Rachel Hoffman
Anna MacKiener
Kathleen Lavelle
Betty Love
Mary Parestides
Mary Pierce
Marjorie Bardin
Jenny Sue Rousey
Veda
Gretchen Barstow
Don Bingman
John Caskey
Cleora Coopers
Marilyn Covert
Mary Daugherty
Paul Farley
Philip Fox
Ursula Green
Lois Hansen
Wallace la Baw
Delmar Lee
OU Coed's Brother Reported Missing in RAF
Janet McCulloch, an Ohio University junior, learned her brother Pilot Officer John R. McCulloch of the Royal Canadian Air Force is missing in action in England. The notice came via her mother from Otawa authorities. the family lives in Pt Pleasant, West Virginia. The pilot served in the coastal bomber command and took part in several raids on the European coast.
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Janet McCulloch
Ohio University
John R. McCulloch
Royal Canadian Air Force
England
Miss McCulloch
A. B. McCulloch
Pt. Pleasant
W. Va
Ottawa
Canada
McCulloch
Ohio
Athens School Budget Shows Decline to 1942 Finance Plan
Athens City Board of Education adopts a 1942 appropriation budget totaling 4,185 less than last year. Most savings come from debt service as bond retirement and interest costs peak in 1941 and fall rapidly to about one third of the current 38,000 annual outlay by 1946.
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Athens City
Young Athens Students Buy Defense Savings Stamps Record
Young patriots at Athens Junior High and Central Grade School have bought defense savings stamps. S. E. Gilmore says 657 students have purchased stamps, representing 49 percent of total enrollment. Last week 518 students had purchased stamps.
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Athens
Central
United States Defense
S. E. Gilmore
Lewis S DeVore Funeral to Be Held Saturday
Funeral services for Lewis S DeVore who died Thursday will be held Saturday at 2 PM in the Canaanville Church conducted by Rev Ben Pugh. Burial will follow in Canaanville Cemetery. Friends may call at the home at any time.
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Lewis S. DeVore
Canaanville
Ben Pugh
Rex Koons and orchestra play for CMC Athens club
Rex Koons and his orchestra will perform Saturday night from eight to twelve for the C M C Athens High School Girls Club sweetheart format. Tickets are available from Joan Armstrong chairwoman or any club member.
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Rex Koons
C.M.C
Athens High School Girls
Joan Armstrong
Athens Junior High Falls to Cleveland JH in Tourney
The Athens Junior High School basketball team lost 34 to 6 to Cleveland Junior High School of Zanesville in a junior high tournament last night at Marietta.
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Athens
Cleveland Junior High School
Zanesville
Marietta
Troop 59 Scrap Drive Scheduled Across Multiple Streets
Boy Scout Troop 59 will collect waste paper magazines newspapers scrap iron rubber rags and old books tomorrow starting at 9 am. Volunteers will visit each street twice with collections on specified north south and east side blocks including Northwood Grosvenor Franklin Spring Marietta Shannon Kern and Kurtz. Books for soldiers will be gathered concurrently. No collection Saturday February 21 due to other troop activity.
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Boy Scout
Mill
Court
State
Elliott
Stimson
Morris Ave
Campbell
May Ave
Carpenter
Congress
N. Congress
Carpenter North
Northwood Addition
Grosvenor
Franklin
Spring
Marietta
Shannon
Kern
Kurtz
Personal and Social Notes of Syracuse
Morning Worship at Asbury Methodist Church will be held Sunday Feb 15 22, led by Pastor J L Buckley. Scout Week observed in United Brethren and Presbyterian churches with local Troop 1 and Scoutmaster Earl Foit at services. Frances Willard memorial tea planned at Irving Karr home February 24 with Caryl Cook W C T U president invited as speaker. Dana Hysell of Columbus visited Syracuse over weekend.
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Syracuse
Asbury Methodist Church
J. L. Buckley
United Brethren
Earl Foit
H. L. Carr
Joe Quisenberry
Patterson Field
Dayton
B. F. Quisenberry
Young Quisenberry
Helen Wetzel
Kathryn Holmes
Columbus
Morgan Dean
Roy Holmes
S. J. Nihiser
Rutland
George Rea
van Johnson
Point Pleasant
Irving Karr
Parkersburg
W. A. Adams
Martha Echols
John Hodge
St. Joseph Hospital
C. H. Williams
Syracuse Garden Club
F. A. Shumway
John Gilmore
N. J. Karr
Marcia Karr
Jack Weese
Frances Willard
Caryl Cook
Meigs County
Dana Hysell
Weather drops to eleven in Athens and climbs by noon
The Athens thermometer fell to 11 last night the lowest since February 3. Yesterday's high reached 35 with temperatures rising to 21 by noon today.
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Athens
Dance and rally at Red Men's Hall on West Washington
A dance at Red Men's Hall on West Washington Street Saturday night features music by the Divine Five. A patriotic rally for Red Men and their families is planned Sunday at 2 PM with entertainment and lunch.
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Red Men's Hall
W. Washington St
The
Divine Five
Waterloo Men To Sign At Marshfield School
Registration of Waterloo Township men for possible selective service will be held at the New Marshfield High School Building. Enrollment hours are noon to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, and 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday. Principal Robert Harrison and teachers Miss Lois Glancy and Mr. Adrian Collins oversee. girls from the typing class assist.
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Waterloo Township
New Marshfield High School
Robert Harrison
Lois Glancy
Adrian Collins
Junior High Honors Nation with Defense Stamp Valentines
Patriotic Valentine events at Athens Junior High feature seventh grade girls in Room 210 buying U S savings stamps instead of cards. Room 207 boys, led by Don Finsterwald John Nye and Don Ferguson, display stamps and bonds on a large red heart with Uncle Sam greetings.
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Athens
Uncle Sam
Room 210
U. S
Don Finsterwald
John Nye
Don Ferguson
Valentine
West Siders Have Parties at West Elementary
West Siders celebrate Valentine parties at West Elementary with gaily decorated mailboxes for pupils to deposit cards. First graders receive valentines from local post staff while other grades share treats and crafts.
Legend Behind St Valentine’s Day Origin
Legend links Saint Valentine’s martyrdom on February 14 270 at Rome to birds mating and love on that day. The custom of selecting valentines and sending love missives arose, with Saint Valentine revered as a patron saint associated with love.
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Claudius
Rome
Valentine
Local Hospital Discharges and Admissions Noted
Litters show Leroy Robinson of Athens Route 4 and six week old Danny Calentine of Amesville Route 1 released from Sheltering Arms Hospital. Admissions include Mrs Laura Savage Athens Route 2 for X-ray and Miss Esther Dicken New Marshfield for emergency appendectomy. Savage released morning. Athens firefighters respond to chimney spark fire at 260 West State Street home of Harry Trout with no damage.
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Sheltering Arms Hospital
Leroy Robinson
Athens
Danny Eugene Calentine
Naaman Calentine
Amesville
Laura Savage
Esther Dicken
New Marshfield
Harry Trout
State St
Danes and Norwegians Placed Under German Slavery
Dr. E. B. Smith of Ohio University spoke at Memorial Auditorium on Denmark and Norway before the German occupation, describing peaceful roots, swift invasion on April 9, 1940, and the post occupation rule of terror under the German High Commissioner. He compared the plight to Lincoln’s slavery definition and noted the series continues next Tuesday with a lecture on the fall of Luxembourg Belgium Holland and France.
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Denmark
Norway
Germany
E. B. Smith
Ohio University
Memorial Auditorium
University Committee On National Defense
Luxenburg
Belgium
Holland
France
PTA Serves Ice Cream At East Side Valentine Party
East Side School children celebrate a Valentine party begun at 1 PM with poems songs and distributions. Miss Ellen Shannon's fourth grade has five gift boxes for each class row. PTA plans candy ice cream and cookies after the entertainment with Valentines given in every room.
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St. Valentine
West
Mable Durst
Carol Goodchild
Billy Marlow
Patty Townsend
Helen Edgar
Bernece McLeod
Louisa Steele
East Side
Ellen Shannon
PTA
George Wein Dies at Hartford Home
George Adam Wein a former Athens County resident died at his Hartford West Virginia home on Wednesday He is survived by his wife Mary a son Norman and a daughter Nellie Mc Knight Funeral services will be held at the family home in Hartford Saturday at 2 30 p m
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George Adam Wein
Athens County
Hartford
W. Va
Mary Wein
Norman
Nellie McKnight
Return Those Drug Tubes Tin Required
America needs tin and citizens can help by returning collapsible tin tubes to druggists. The program, approved by the Bureau of Industrial Conservation, collects tubes for non profit recycling with government allocation. In Athens, Quick's Cut Rate Store Cline's Pharmacy and the Athens Pharmacy provided containers today.
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America
Bureau of Industrial Conservation
Washington
Athens
Quick’s Cut Rate
Cline’s Pharmacy
Meigs Chapman Dies Suddenly Thursday
Meigs Blaine Chapman 60 of Coolville died suddenly Thursday at his Carthage Township farm. Born in West Virginia he moved to Athens County in 1913. He leaves a large family and is survived by wife Amelia and several siblings. Funeral in Coolville Methodist Church Sunday at two with IOOF ritual at the grave. Friends may call at Spencer Funeral Home Belpre.
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Coolville
Meigs Blaine Chapman
Carthage Township
West Virginia
Maxfield
Ellen Chapman
Athens County
United Brethren Church of
Midland
Leonard Figley
Cairo
W. Va
Murl Jackson
East Liverpool
Juanita Chapman
Wirt
Emory
Athens
J. C
Tuppers Plains
Carrie Gainor
John Miller
Spencer
John Combs
Bridgeport
Abe Burdette
Carthage
Order of Odd Fellows
Spencer Funeral
Belpre
Patrol Arrests Driver After Route 280 Crash
Paul Kierns aged 60 of Trimble was arrested by the state patrol after his car collided with Thomas L. Smathers 48 of Glouster at Route 280 near Cassler Creek Road. Both escaped injury and Smathers’ car sustained about 300 dollars in damage. Kierns was cited to appear before Mayor Thomas Clark in Amesville Friday for failing to yield the right of way. A Valentine dance will be held Saturday at 9 pm at the Eagles club for paid members and their families, featuring round and square dancing.
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Paul Kierns
Trimble
Cassler Creek
Thomas L. Smathers
Glouster
Smathers
Kierns
Thomas Clark
Amesville
Eagles Club
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H. T. Houf
Athens County Board No. 1
Roosevelt
Hattie Walker
William Hines
Max Wilson
Thomas Williams
al Craft
Charles H. Fair
Ohio University Rotc
Mother Gray Co
LeRoy, N. Y
Nite Club
Vic Joyces
the Mutual Home and Savings Association
E. Washington St
Nancy Leeka
Mary Nash
Mary McCrum
John Pence
June Schuler
Dick Shoemaker
Marjorie Smith
Dora May Starkey
Robert Ayers
Mary Baker
Dick Clippinger
Bernard Cooley
Virginia Dabritz
Beverly Davis
Marilyn Day
Wendell Drake
Norma Jean Dry
John Good
Lenora Graham
Dick Grekila
Jane Grooyer
Ardath Hansen
Robert Hart
Sallie Hawkins
Dee Henry
Janet Ing
OU Coed
RAF
Lewis DeVore
Junior High
Troop 59
Eagles Hall
Waterloo
Marshfield School
West Siders
Smith
Vr. Omitnn
Balkans
George Wein
Mickle
Stacks
David Davies
Frankfurters
Meigs Chapman
Sjoseph
Yworld
Atios 4
Bill Henry
Shelia Ryan
Sun
Saddle Songstef
Monsters OF the Deep
In the News
Normandie Wire
Jimmy Durante
Phil Silvers
Jane Wyman
Robert Ett. Preston
Drew
Katha VA
Aes Tracy
Hepburn
Tracy
Sam
Kate
Tess
George Stevens
Ray Bainter
Reginald EN
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