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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1944
Page
8
Gallipolis directors of the Chamber of Commerce unanimously back a program to build a one hundred bed tuberculosis sanatorium in Gallia County. The plan proposes a series of public meetings under Chamber auspices to raise public interest.
A Civil War era note states that stock prices and related items were printed on wallpaper as a workaround to blockade shortages. The unusual method reflects wartime scarcity and improvisation in publishing and commerce. The measure underscores resilience of trade and information flow during the conflict.
Gallipolis weekly Thursday Club meeting postponed due to illness among members. Mrs. John Baker to host Ann Judson Sunday School Class at her Garfield Avenue home at 7 30 p m Thursday. Cpl Ellis Carter on three day leave from Camp Forrest Tenn escorted homeward by parents. Mrs Harry K Mills Jr to move with baby to parental home while husband serves. Mr and Mrs M R Allen visiting sister Emily Kent in Vinton. Lawrence Henson of Addison leaves for Pasco Wash to work as a carpenter for DuPonts.
St Pleasant notes report five circles of the Women’s Auxiliary meeting yesterday with lessons from Learning and Living and Bible study on Mark. Circles One through Five held sessions at various homes on Ohio River Road and Main Street with hostesses, chairmen, and refreshments listed. Local residents James Kay Thomas Jr returned from Charleston. Evan McLinn ill with influenza. Lt. Harry Purdum on leave from Florida base.
GALLIPOLIS The Pembroke Club met Tuesday evening with Mrs. Jack Knight presiding. Mrs. Katharine Miller Foster led the program on Burma Surgeon by Dr. Gordon Seagroves, which received praise. A social hour followed with a salad course served by the hostess.
Gallipolis hosts the January meeting of the American Association of University Women with Dr. R Lloyd Pobst as guest speaker in the church parlors. He discusses Rio Grande College and future education, stressing education as democracy’s requisite and life preparation while training fits job prep. He closes by reading parts of the poem Awake by W R Rogers.
Mrs. Victor Nidy hosted the English Club's first year gathering at the Nidy home in Gallipolis. Members voiced New Year resolutions during roll call. Ethel Cowden led the program with a detailed talk on China and Far Eastern Allies. The group discussed the Josiah and Sarah Wedgwood romance, motivating members with affection for a distant cousin Sarah.
The Tanis Guild of First Baptist Church met at Mrs. Helen Brown’s Court Street home in Gallipolis on Tuesday evening. Bonnie Fife presided, with devotions on Light of Knowledge from For All of Life. The group voted a substantial donation to Miss Vera Shan, a Chinese student at Northwestern University, Chicago, to aid mission work among her countrymen.
The print dress worn by Sa rah when he proposed to her was cited as the source of the china signs in use today. A hostess served dainty refreshments at the end of the program.
A wartime collective bargaining talk between labor and Big Steel is under way in a Pittsburgh hotel room. Since Dec 14, the secret negotiations involve about 200000 steel workers in six U S subsidiaries, with potential impact on 800000 nationwide workers if patterns are adopted.
Two of the seven stars in the Big Dipper are moving in opposite directions, a change that will go unnoticed for thousands of years. The observation highlights surprising stellar dynamics within a familiar asterism.
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