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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1943
Page
12
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A meeting at the Mason County Courthouse is set to elect two directors to the Ohio West Virginia Tri County Industrial Association. The plan envisions four towns choosing ten directors, with Pomeroy Middleport Gallipolis and The Bend invited to join. The effort seeks to keep war plants productive and promote postwar industry across Mason Meigs and Gallia counties.
After delays, the new grade school on 28th St begins excavation by Ang Construction Co. for 50 000 dollar project funded from 45 000 dollars allotted by Washington authorities. Built for children of war workers, it sits among unoccupied shelters, highways, an airport and future sites, in an area of 75 000 residents across three counties with farming lands and river bottoms. Washington officials underestimated local housing and labor surplus and needed more wartime production.
Attorney Aden Trickett and Charles L. Neal led the state road commission from Charleston to seek nearly 100000 in damages before the Federal District Court in Point Pleasant. The hearing covered roads inside and near ordnance works areas and extended as far north as Letart.
About 175 young men appeared at the draft board office for screening tests in Point Pleasant West Virginia. Roughly 125 had prior tests and were retested due to a lapse of several weeks. Doctors Max Koenigsberg and Frank C. Long Jr conducted the examinations. Herman Kirby of West Columbia arrived on crutches after an earlier accident at the West Virginia Malleable Iron Co left him unable to sleep due to foot pain.
Mr and Mrs Harry D Roush and daughter Miss Jean Roush visited Charleston Monday night meeting Mrs Helen Zeiher of Hollywood Florida who will stay weeks with Mrs Roush and friends in Pomeroy C H Quillin returns home from Grand Island Nebraska where he spent days with brothers W H and D E Quillin Mrs Casby Meadows Jr visits Cincinnati to see husband Sergeant Meadows Army Air Corps based at Scott Field Illinois Miss Josephine Young of Charleston does vacation relief work at Appalachian Electric Power Co local office Miss Sally Lou Durst visits aunt Mrs Raymond McHaffey in Huntington Pvt George Michael Snodgrass returns to Camp Knox after furlough with mother Mrs Nannie Snodgrass of Kenderson
In POINT PLEASANT the Circuit Clerk received Judge Miller’s order in the Caldwell Burdette versus Star case. The ruling voids the action as improperly issued and Caldwell and Burdette are ordered to pay the proceeding costs.
Charles H. Holloway, who died in Wilmington Delaware Monday night, will likely have funeral services in Point Pleasant Friday afternoon. A Masonic service was held in Wilmington this morning at 8 o clock before G C Hite took the body home.
Four marriage license applications filed with County Clerk John G. Aten over the past five days set a regional record. Applicants include Lowell Levi Morrow 21 and Minnie Sheline 18 of Gallipolis Ferry. John Emory Rayburn 49 and Rhoda Esther Wentz 36. Marvin Goetz 22 of Pomeroy and Louella Roush 21 of New Haven. J. S. Lamp Belpre and Edna Mae Leith Point Pleasant.
Mrs Ed gar Tuckerman hosted the Monday Evening Bridge Club at her Monroe Avenue home. Two tables played with Mrs James Hall high score and Mrs Frank C Long Jr second. guest Mrs Melvin Schmidt had low score. Club guests included Mrs Joe Buffington, and members listed were Mrs Hall, Mrs Long, Mrs L B Hannaman, Mrs Max Koenigsberg, and Mrs Richard H Melrose.
Mr and Mrs Dana Rayburn of Point Pleasant welcome a daughter Patty Joan born at the Point Clinic yesterday weighing 12 pounds. Yesterday several tonsilectomies were performed at the clinic including patients Lowell Clay Bourne Jackie Rogers Audrey Hoschar Mrs Bess McBee and Mrs Clyde Call Mrs Maxine Legg Robertsburg and Miss Clara Rollins Leon.
Mrs William Coleman of Steubenville visits Hartford to see kin including 90 year old Isaiah Gibbs and Kalf with her mother Mrs Mary Ann Glass. They joined Deputy Sheriff T E Blessing for dinner on Monday as Mr Coleman takes vacation from a steel mill job.
The street department repaints parking spaces and safety zones on the Public Square and along West Washington and Columbus Streets, as in former years.
Crowds attend the Union Camp Meeting at the Church of Christ in Christian Union 2130 Eastern Avenue. Services start daily at 8 15 P M with special singing as Rev J P Keefer brings messages through the week.
Nelsonville resident Leonard Diamond, 53, a master gunnery sergeant in the United States Marine Corps, is profiled in Time magazine for WWI service at Guadalcanal. A trench mortar expert and instructor, Diamond enlisted in 1917 and has earned multiple decorations while declining commissions.
Circle No. 5 of the W. S. C. S. of the Methodist Church met at Mrs. Ed Crouse home with Mrs. Rose Cook leading and Mrs. Janet Clark presenting the sixth chapter of On This Foundation. A 6 o'clock picnic dinner was planned for Aug. 16 at Mrs. Rose Cook's home.
Mrs. D. F. Shafer visits due to her mother Mrs. Marion Coakley’s illness. John Holland of Columbus visits his home for several days. Mrs. Julius Fischer hosts cousins Margaret Urick Betsy Heald from Ironton and Hannah Urick also from Ironton. Mrs. Harry Evans travels to Omaha to join husband Pfc. Harry Evans stationed at Camp Cook.
In Nelsonville area the gas test on Frank Minner property drilled by Marion Porter is labeled a duster. The Berea sand completion occurred Monday. Frank O'Mara in District 29 began No 2 well on the Hocking Valley Brick Co site after a strong No 1 well produced 800000 cubic feet.
Nelsonville Rotary Club held its annual picnic at the L. I. Krieg farm near Logan. Guests included William Brooks and Earl Washburn. President Kenneth Orwiler announced district governor Charles Evans of Chillicothe will visit next week. The meeting will be at Little House Tuesday at 6 15 p.m.
An all day reunion will be held Sunday August 1 at the Happy Hollow School. A basket dinner and program will feature the event. All former teachers pupils and friends are invited.
POINT PLEASANT the board met with all members present led by President Rogers. Coal contracts were awarded to City Ice and Fuel Co for Lewis district and Vitus Hartley for Graham Waggener and Robinson districts. The board approved Walden F. Roush’s teacher list with about 195 names expected to be placed publicly tomorrow and a few positions still unfilled.
The retirement board approved pensions for 37 state teachers in Point Pleasant. Included are Bertha Wilson of Hollywood Florida and Bessie H Brown of Apple Grove who recently retired after qualifying for pensions. Wilson taught in city schools for about 40 years.
New patients at Holzer Hospital include Mrs. Morton Stanley of Pleasant, W Va, and Mrs. Ted Waller of Gallipolis who gave birth to a boy at 3 36 pm Monday and a girl at 7 45 am Tuesday. Others listed with various medical and surgical admissions. Discharges include Mrs. Raymond Stoneking, Thurman, and Mrs. William Sprouse of West Columbia W Va among others.
Mrs. Rudolph Rogers will host the Ladies Aid Society of Vaught Memorial Church at her Route 17 home south of Kanawha Thursday at 8 PM. A pot luck supper will be served and other church groups have been invited.
In Gallipolis Ohio a crowd gathers to witness 50 Ohio State Guardsmen sworn into Company D Second Regiment Brigadier General Donald Pancoast presides. Captain Craig D Slagle Major O G Lyle Lt Col Louis B Hauser and Col Earl Brannen speak while Sergeant Charles Brannen trains new recruits.
Chairman Harold W. Wetherholt says Gallia County placed second in the sale of Series E F and G War Bonds during the first week of July. The county had previously dropped to fourth in southern Ohio in June.
Harold and Anne Notter of Gallipolis bought the Jones farm in Addison Township near Route 35 totaling 195.70 acres for about 5000 dollars. E. E. Cardwell sold to H. E. Keeney and wife in Huntington Township. C. L. Johnson bought half-interest in 84.15 acres in Green Township from Harold Swindler. Carl C. Myers bought the Doepping Building half from John Doeping of Grand Rapids, now housing Dan W. Thomas and Son Shoe Store.
Gallipolis funeral services are set for Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Old Rgger Church for 71 year old Willie H. Jacobs who died suddenly Monday. Rev. Melvin Dunn will officiate. Burial will follow in Gravel Hill Cemetery. He was married in 1890 to the daughter of Julius Boice. Survived by his wife, two granddaughters Vera and Mary Elizabeth, a great grandson Thomas Lynn Darnell, and the late Mr Jacobs’s daughter Fredah Irene was lost in 1940.
Hawk hosted the Fairfield Sen So 4-H Club at her Naoma home on July 8. Members worked on projects and played games in the evening before refreshments. The next meeting is set for July 22 at Mrs Opal Powell’s home.
Mrs. Dewey Mayes entertained at a dinner at their Henderson home honoring Thomas Waldie Jr. of Point Pleasant who is joining the military forces.
Gallia County reports blight killing locust trees in Gallia with beetles attacking leaves and nearby crops. Everett G. Royer, local official, announced the blight has spread from West Virginia to the county, with insects described as elongated black beetles with brown stripes.
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