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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1943
Page
2
The Nelsonville Department of Public Service will accept bids for a one year coal supply for the municipal light plant starting Aug 1 1943. Bids due by 12 noon Thursday July 29 at the plant. Mayor Herman Ogg notes recent market savings since a former contract expired.
Twenty five members of the First Presbyterian Church choir enjoyed their annual picnic Thursday evening at Lake Hope. The party left the church at 5 o clock and brought covered dishes for a supper after arrival. Baked chicken and home made ice cream were served followed by a social evening. Committee members were Glenn Haines Peg Barber and Imogene Sayers.
Nelsonville notices warn cyclists that sidewalk riding is forbidden by state law and city ordinance. Police instruction is to enforce the rule due to pedestrian complaints. Also lists executors and administrators for Athens County estates with deadlines to file claims.
State aid to Mason County teachers will rise to 231 490 for the 1943 44 term from 213 014 last year based on an estimated 187 teachers. Kanawha leads with 1 497 teachers and total state aid to 55 counties exceeds half a million dollars less than last year’s 15 million.
In Point Pleasant West Virginia Mrs Peter H Steenbergen hosted a watermelon party for Mrs Maxwell C Byers of Baltimore who is visiting relatives at the McCulloch home 1002 Main St Guests included Mrs Byers Miss McCulloch Mrs William Steenbergen and others Deputy Assessor T E Blessing after a month of illness resumed tax collection in rural districts midweek.
Gallipolis learns that Lewis Lupton son of Mr and Mrs Harry Lupton has been promoted to sergeant He serves as an instructor at Seymour Johnson Field Goldsboro North Carolina
The document provides a financial statement for Mutual Home & Savings Association of Athens Ohio as of June 30, 1943, with figures for assets, loans, deposits and interest, and a certification by the secretary Ruthlonas Flock and directors confirming accuracy and condition at close of business. It includes signatures, notary attestation, and an auditing committee certificate.
The Marietta Log salutes Mrs. Oscar S. Kelley for a record Poppy Day raise of 454.80, highlighting her 24 years as a registered nurse and extensive career in nursing, welfare work, and child care.
Mrs. Charles E. Pullin of Charleston Road near Point Pleasant has been ordered by the rent control office to cut rent on three four room cottages from 6 to 3 dollars a month and to refund tenants about 200 dollars. The gardens and location six miles east of Point Pleasant are noted with the area’s housing demand once high due to influx of workers.
Virginia Pearson and Irene Gillespie, both of Robertsburg, were arrested Wednesday night on fighting charges after a courthouse grounds encounter. Witnesses say they struggled and fell twice. Gillespie’s shirtwaist was torn. Gillespie posted a cash bond and was released. Pearson was released to the city yesterday afternoon.
Torch Baptist Church will open its Bible School Monday with preaching by Rev. Filmore Cobb. The vacation program runs July 19 to 23 from 9 to 11 a.m. A closing program is set for July 23 at 7 45 p.m. Georgia ranks second to Vermont in quarry marble.
The annual Brotherhood Day will be observed tomorrow with volunteers selling artificial flowers crafted by blind individuals. Miss Dora Ellis leads the library headquarters on Viand Street issuing flowers and instructions to volunteers after 10 oclock Saturday morning. Sponsors include Mayor B W Krodel Revs Frank T Cady and C G Billups Mrs Robert Ferguson and Mrs Gall Faires.
Mrs. R. P. Harper will spend Sunday in Huntington. The Hoggs of New York City visit Mrs. C. E. Hogg. Colum bus shoppers included Mrs. J. B. Couch and Miss Inez Barnette. D. L. Cottrell, former Jackson County agent, takes the Wayne County post. Mrs. Fred Brown of Charleston visits S. Chandler Wilhelms. Margaret Sutton and Ang Schriver are on vacation.
Joe Nowlin of Pliny spent yesterday here seeking ration relief. He needed extra sugar for canning and gasoline for the washing machine. His lime allotment was dumped on one tract, and he asked the AAA head to divide it between two tracts.
The Point Clinic reports the birth of a son, Dallas Lee, weighing nine pounds, to Mr and Mrs Robert Knapp yesterday. It is the couple’s first child and Mrs Knapp is the former Ada Keener.
Nelsonville the regular B O Fellows supper in the Church of Christ social room at 6 30 Friday evening will feature Rev Stewart Radford of Harrisburg Ul as guest speaker. He and his wife and daughter are visiting Mr and Mrs Frank Betts. Delegates from the church to Moores Camp youth conference will attend with camp songs and entertainment.
Nelsonville residents report activity as visitors and traveling soldiers stop by. Toledo guests Mr and Mrs E Ross Betts and son Billy return from a visit with Harry Betts family at 235 Short St. Pte Wilbur Gathers on nine day furlough visits Elizabeth Gathers and kin. Platoon Sgt Ted L Voigt moves to First Sergeant School in Philadelphia as his wife and son stay with Voigt family during training. Leighton Aumiller and Columbus couple visit relatives in town. Sam Starkey returns after visiting Willard Simon ton and family in Albany.
Services at the Church of Christ Sunday July 18 include Bible School at 9 30 with George Barrows as superintendent and morning worship at 10 30 The sermon subject chosen by Pastor the Rev L E Evans is The Hope of an Ideal Union evening service at 7 30 will be in the Presbyterian Church Music by the host church and a sermon by the Rev William M George Methodist minister.
Miss Wave line Skivers aged 17 daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Skivers of 233 Canal Street Nelsonville was the first summer snake bite reported. She was struck on the foot by a copperhead Sunday while fishing along the Muskingum River north of Zanesville and was treated at Good Samaritan Hospital before returning to her sister Bessie Lehman’s home.
All Scouts and candidates report to troop headquarters for an initiation hike tonight at 7 o clock. Lt Rol and Pierce, furloughed, will lead the hike at the Nelsonville troop 64 location. Sunday church service at A M E Church Nelsonville July 18 at 3 pm. Rev Frank Cunningham to preach. Margaret Wright of Happy Hollow improving after appendectomy at Marietta Osteopathic Hospital room 202.
Gallipolis reports John Gwinn a senior pre medical student at Denison University Granville has returned for the summer term which opened last week.
Gallipolis reports a busy social week with the Business and Professional Women's Club picnic at Island View Inn hosted by Mrs. Henke and Mrs. Hake leading. Tanis Guild and Rio Grande Baptist Ladies Auxiliary held meetings with devotions, Burma study notes, and music, while scouts friends, the Maggieds, vacation at a Boy Scout camp near Huntington. Lieut and Mrs Rue spend ten days with his parents, while Rue is stationed at Camp Campbell on the Kentucky Tennessee line.
George Whitney Folmer of Star Route Pomeroy was arrested by the State Highway Patrol on the charge of driving a dump truck with insufficient lights. He paid a $3 fine and costs before Mayor Malcom Hartley in Pomeroy.
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