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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1946
Page
8
At the Philadelphia Zoo staff equip shovels and boats to count animals in winter hibernation including snakes turtles and waterfowl. Curator Roger Conant notes insects are not counted and estimates about 2 000 creatures worth 107 000 dollars will be listed.
Rutland column recounts local Christmas- New Year social rounds. Families visit kin in Harrisonville Middleport Syracuse Wadsworth and Columbus. Weddings announced for Harriet Bentley to Charles Williams. Margaret Stichuck to Juror Stichuck. Bette Casto to Nathan Biges. Farm Bureau gathering held at Whitney Ingraham home with gifts, music and games.
Funeral services were held Friday at the Carpenter Church for Yua Rawlings, a former local resident who died in Columbus. Relatives attending from afar included Harley and Elsworth Rawlings, Fase Shafer, Charles McCall, and more. Several Christmas guests and local families are listed, along with health updates and community movements.
Cincinnati and Pittsburgh markets show steady to moderate demand. Cattle and calves mixed with good to choice steers and heifers priced up to 17 dollars, hogs 45 to 29 dollars per hundredweight, lambs 15 to 16 dollars, and feeders, canners, and culls varying by grade.
Radio listings show 306 Lumn nn Abner and The Norths Put Everything on Ice. NBC WLW features Bob Chester's Orchestra saluting armed services from Camp Butner. OMBS WHEC presents Indemnity racketeers trial with The District Attorney. CBS WENS airs an all Schubert program. Dave Elman hosts a Radio Auction Gallery and the Andrews Sisters perform hit tunes on CBS WRNS.
Tokyo reports the latest shifts as women enter politics with a party of their own while Japan drafts a measure to lift one hundred billion yen from war profiteers. Three soldiers died of denatured alcohol poisoning at Dugway Proving Grounds. Probate notice announces RK W Finsterwall as administrator of Allen August Kincade’s estate in Athens Ohio with four months to file claims.
Local items from Tuppers Plains note visitors and relatives across Ohio and West Virginia. Ralph Hoffman party from Lyons, Kansas, visited family, and Clover Farm Stores hosted a banquet in Athens. Other briefs list Christmas gatherings, guests from Nelsonville and Bellaire, church Sunday School meetings, a decorated Christmas dinner, and illnesses.
Zaleski George Goodin of the army stationed in a western state spent Christmas at his home here. influenza cases reported as E F McKibben and others recover. Mayor and Mrs J A Bedinghaus hosted Christmas guests including daughters Mrs James Barnhouse Athens and Mrs Max Rathburn Cincinnati with husbands overseas. Maxine Hayes and others spent Christmas with parents Frank and Mary Hayes. Several Columbus workers also visited. Donald James of Columbus negotiated purchase of the Zadeski property, former home of Mrs James grandparents Weig G Henninger.
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