War Veterans to Star in Athens County Bond Drive Show
War veterans in Army hospitals will headline an Athens County Bond Drive show to launch the campaign. Roger Connor organized the event with Red Cross help, featuring veterans from the Pacific and Mediterranean theaters, a minstrel quintet, Dr. E. A. Hansen of Ohio University speaker, Darrel H. Sams and B. A. Wolfe to perform, and local musicians. Tickets and dates span Mechanicsburg, Amesville, Chauncey, New Marshfield, Nelsonville, Plains with potential Coolville and Albany add ons. The Amesville event includes a Jan. 18 meeting at 7:30 in the Ames Bern High School auditorium.
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Cambe
Athens
Roger Connor
Red Cross
Pacific
Theiterranean Theater
Ivery Entertainment
E. A. Hansen
Ohioiversity
Pobbin Gardner
Nelville
Criface
Darrel H
Jonsey
Sams B
Wolfe
Connor
Arry Simmons
Ates
Mechanicsburg Ool
Amesville
Chauncey
New Marshal
Nelsonville
Plains
Coolville
Albany
Ames-Bern High Ool
Ryone
Gas Coupon Violators Aid Black Market Says Prater
Leonard Prater, chief clerk of the Athens War Price and Rationing Board, warns that lax handling of gasoline coupons and gummed sheets fuels black market activity and counterfeit stamps. The Office of Price Administration sets strict endorsement, sheet, and registration rules to curb fraud and protect war effort.
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Prater
Office of Price Administration
Leonard Prater
Athens War Price and
Tioning Board
Raton
CPA
Oma Schofield Dies At Home Friday
Oma Schofield age 70 died Friday night at the family home 211 W Union St. She leaves her husband John two daughters Bertha Brown Barberton and Sylvia Linn Athens four sisters Zell Bean Pearl Love Athens R D Charles Hoffner Barberton Katherine Sommers Cleveland and two brothers John and Martin Grimm Canton. Funeral services will be held at the family home Monday afternoon at 2 conducted by Rev E C Kenney and burial at New Marshfield. Friends may call at the family home after 3 Sunday afternoon.
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Oma Schofield
Union St
John
Bertha Brown
Barberton
Sylvia Linn
Athens
Zell Bean
Pearl Love
Athens R. D
Charles Hoffner
Katherine Sommers
Cleveland
Martin Grimm
Canton
Methodist Church Plans For Series Of Services
First Methodist Church opens a Week of Prayer titled Religion in a Day of Judgment. It runs tonight with topics on Christianity and the world crisis through Sunday evening and January 16. Sessions include Costs of the Peace, What Will the Non Christian World Think of Us, Christ or White Supremacy, Has the Church Forgotten the Working Class, The Church's Obligation to the Jews, and Christians in an Unchristian Society. Evening services at 7:30 with music by city churches. public invited.
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First Methodist Church
Degree to be conferred at Para mathia Lodge meeting
The Fellow Craft Degree will be conferred at Para mathia Lodge No. 25 F. and A. M. Tuesday at 7 30 p m. Visiting Masons welcomed and members urged to attend, announced by Ernest E Hart worshipful master.
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Paramathia Lodge No
Ernest E. Hart
Service families share Christmas notes from overseas
Pvt. Paul L. Wogan writes from a mobile hospital on Bougainville that they wiped up the island’s Japanese foes and expects Christmas in the States next year. His brothers and other local service members in the South Pacific, Italy, England, and Nevada report health, deployments, and holiday greetings as families in Sharpsburg, Athens, New Straitsville, and nearby towns hear from sons in the Army Air Forces, Navy, and Marine Corps.
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Bougainville
Paul L. Wogan
Paul Wogan
Sharpsburg
Wogans
Gene
Arthur Gaston
Athens Route 4
William
South Pacific
Charles
Camp Barkeley
Tex
Abilene
James Gaston
Fort McClellan
Ala
Carl B. King
Gerald King
Pratts Fork
Sicily
Italy
401St
Army
United States
California
Desert
Births and hospital admissions listed at Sheltering Arms
The report records several births at Sheltering Arms Hospital last Sunday including children of Estel Ward and Jack Lax. It lists numerous admissions on Monday and Tuesday for medical treatment and major or minor operations, with names and addresses of patients and guardians, plus a few medical recoveries and a 5 year old undergoing a minor operation.
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Estel Ward
Mill St
Jack Lax
Hebbardsville
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Laura Parker
Poplar Ave
Dennis McManaway
Millfield
William G. Dowd
St. Paul's Catholic Church
Joseph Hutchins
Stewart
Sandra VanMeter
Ohio Ave
John Williams Fractures Hip After Fall
John M. Williams former Jacksonville superintendent suffered a fractured hip after a Friday fall at his Cuyahoga Falls home. He was taken to a hospital and his condition, due to other complications, was described as serious. His wife Mary Fulton Williams, Athens native, teaches in Cuyahoga Falls schools.
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Athens County
John M. Williams
Jacksonville
Cuyahoga Falls
Mary Fulton Williams
Athens
Knights Templar to Initiate Class Thursday
A special Athens Commandery No. 15 meeting is set for Thursday at 7 30 p m to confer the Order of the Temple on a class of candidates. Visiting Sir Knights are welcome and all members should attend in full Templar uniform, announced Commander Fred H Irvin.
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Athens
Knights Templar
Order of the Temple
Templar
Fred H. Ervin
Funeral Services for Mrs Martha Wilson Held at Somerset
Funeral services are set for Sunday at 10 a.m. at Thomas Funeral Home in Somerset for Mrs Martha Wilson widow of Thomas Wilson. She died Friday night at her home near Somerset. Surviving children include Bert Somerset Blanche Dupler Newark Belle White Nelsonville Annie Epley Zanesville John Wilson Cincinnati Roy Wilson New Lexington and daughter Mrs Roy Hummel who died in Logan last year.
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Thomas Funeral Home
Somerset
Martha Wilson
Thomas Wilson
Dennis Wilson
Trace Run
Carbondale
40 Per Cent Decrease in Arrests Here
A comparison of Athens police activity in 1943 with 1942 shows a 40 percent drop in intoxication arrests and a 38 percent fall in total arrests, but a 32 percent rise in juvenile cases. Chief J B Grogan announced no fatal traffic accidents occurred in 1943.
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Athens
J. B. Grogan
Mrs. Eda Nolan Dies at 76 in Coolville
Mrs. Eda Noland 76 died after a lengthy illness at her Coolville home. She was widow of Strode Noland and survived by brothers William Bingman Wesley Bingman of Coolville and Strode Bingman of Marietta. Abraham Bingman died a week earlier. Funeral at 10 a.m. Sunday at White Funeral Home with burial at Torch Cemetery.
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Coolville
Eda Noland
Strode Noland
William
Wesley Bingman
Strode Bingman
Marietta
Abraham Bingman
White Funeral
Torch Cemetery
St Joseph Aspirin Ad Claims Purity and Low Prices
An advertisement proclaims there is no aspirin stronger or faster than genuine St Joseph Aspirin. It touts being the world's largest seller at 10 cents for 36 tablets 20 cents for 100 tablets five cents each and urges readers to demand St Joseph Aspirin.
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State St
Rapid City
S. C
Tampa
Fla
Scott
Joseph Henderson
Dallas
Tex
Air Force
St. Joseph
Charles Williams Dies In Hospital Friday
Charles Williams age 83 a lifelong Meigs County resident died Friday afternoon in a Parkersburg hospital after an extended illness. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2:30 p m in Reedsville Church of Christ with interment in Reedsville Cemetery. Surviving are a daughter Mrs J D Kibble of Parkersburg a son Clarence of East Palestine four grandchildren and one great grandchild.
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Reedsville
Charles Williams
Meigs County
Parkersburg
Hollister PTA Meets Monday With Henry J. Jeddeloh Speaker
Henry J. Jeddeloh professor of sociology at Ohio University will speak at the Hollister PTA meeting at the schoolhouse Monday night at 7 15.
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Henry J. Jeddeloh
Ohio University
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