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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1957
Page
3
Chauncey-Dover Volunteer Fire Department was called to the home of Earl Barber on Converse Street at 3 10 a m Thursday. A mattress in a second floor bedroom of the two story frame building had been ignited. The fire was confined to the mattress and bed. No estimate of the damage was made.
Mr and Mrs Lee Schoonover received Elvin McKibben of Columbus as Sunday guests plus attended the Harold and Katzenbach reunion at Rachelmacher Park in Logan. Local families including Antles and Lasures hosted relatives from Newark Athens and Chauncey. Glouster man Thomas Savage, recently released after ankle surgery, updates.
Mrs Mae Swaim and son Paul of Texas visited J W West. Clemens Ruth Ann and Robert Neil and Jean and Ann Dearth of Columbus attended Gladyose Bever age funeral at New Marshfield. Forrest Dearth and others attended from here. Nelson reunion at Dexter. Beverly Martin visited from Columbus. The Ogles visit Marietta. Paul Perry from Beverly spent July Fourth with his parents Bundy Perry. Cecil Mace of Columbus spent a week here. Mrs Edna Daft.
Mrs. Virgene Carpenter queen chairman of the Parade of the Hills Nelsonville will be in Chauncey at 1 p.m. Friday at a local school to meet queen contestants who must be 16 by Jan 1 1957 and not over 21, with mothers invited to enroll children in the Little Queen contest.
The Adult Bible Class of Millfield Methodist Church gathered at the Simpkins farm home. Ruth Simpkins led devotions. Mrs. Gertrude Brown and Mrs. Anna Vincent won contests. Seventeen members attended. The next meeting is August 11 with a church lawn picnic.
The Great Lakes Naval training center trained 125000 sailors during World War I and surpassed one million sailors trained in World War II establishing a major wartime training program and production hub.
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