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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1942
Page
10
Chauncey Dover Blue Devils basketball teams will play Jacksonville Trimble Car d Friday night January 16 at the auditorium. Reserves will play first followed by the varsity contest. Blue Devils previously lost to The Plains by close scores in Tuesday night action.
Mrs Elwood Daugherty presides as president with Eva Ferrer as vice president Ruth Fiske as secretary Audrie Simpkins as treasurer and Mrs Henry as instructor. The group met at Rev Gilbert Courtney and wife’s home Monday night to map programs and activities for the year and enjoyed refreshments afterward.
Lieut. Erle Bridgewater Jr., stationed at Camp Wolt ers, Texas, transfers to Camp Robinson near Little Rock Arkansas. He travels with Mrs Bridgewater nee Virginia McQuaid daughter of Mrs Viola Sanders. Lieut Bridgewater is son of Mr and Mrs Erle Bridgewater Chauncey.
Mrs Ruth Bridgewater hosted the Esther Class of the Methodist Sunday School at High Street for the January meeting. Ann McClanahan led the session with devotions by Mrs Bridgewater and Elizabeth Boling read the secretary's report.
Rev. Henry O. Ours of Pt. Pleasant West Virginia serves as supply pastor for Morristown Holiness Church. He conducts services each Sunday and will lead until a new pastor is hired to succeed Rev. Charlie Hook. Services are at 10 30 a m and 7 p m.
An epidemic of measles is reported in Morristown and Bailey Run neighborhoods with many children sick and some homes hosting three or four cases. Local health authorities urge guardians to seek care and prevent spread.
Oak Grove notes perfect attendances for 1941 Sunday School by Hartman and related families. John Campbell announces the birth of daughter Dora on Jan 3. Norma Hartman marries George Heightland of Athens, the Hartman family's fourth marriage this year. Local visits and illnesses reported among Hartman, Allen, Watton, and Davis families. Morristown Holiness Church cottage prayer meeting set for Jan 16 at 7 p.m. hosted by Grace Juniper in Oregon Ridge.
Chauncey residents share visits and travel plans. Betty Jane Harris visits her mother Mrs. Roger Boling and family. A group attends an Ohio University concert. Other notices mention departures to Sandusky and Port Clinton, visits from family, a Rebekah Lodge meeting, and a death in the Clarey family.
Mrs Edna Rawlins announces the marriage of her daughter Janetta Ridge to Mr Keith Nelson currently employed in Dayton. Dayton visitors included Mr and Mrs Joe Watson joining Mr and Mrs Harold Phillips. Ladies Democrat Club met at Mrs Kate Thynes January gathering with lunch served. Next meeting set for Mrs Minnie Hallams home. Weekend guests Mr and Mrs John Tinkham of Duncan Falls visiting Mr and Mrs Sam Russell. Mrs Bertha Barrett hosted Sunday guests including Mr and Mrs Francis Barrett and sons of Trimble and Mrs Angel Stoltz and son.
Mrs. Hill is installed as Associate Matron Mrs. Sanders as Electa and Mrs. Sharick as organist during a Tuesday night meeting for installation and initiation in Millfield attended by CHAUNCEY Mrs Eleanor Sharick and others.
Gallia County officials note the jail basement as the county's least vulnerable bomb proof shelter. Stone walls and floor reinforced with steel, plus two concrete floors in corridors above.
William A. Miller Roscoe Fox and L E Black are appointed as commissioners to appraise a 30 acre tract near Rodney in a partition suit involving Mollie Stevens and Charles Shoemaker as principals.
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