Simmons Succeeds Harris as Phillies Manager Tonight
The Philadelphia Phillies appoint Freddy Fitzsimmons to replace Bucky Harris amid a late season slide after Harris was ousted following a string of losses to St Louis. The move aims to spark a flagging club as Fitzsimmons makes his managerial debut against the Cards with high expectations from owner William D. Cox.
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Akron U Joins Wave of Colleges Abandoning Football
A fragment notes Akron University joining a regional trend of higher education institutions dropping football as the war era shifts priorities. The item highlights institutional alignments and broader impact on athletics programs.
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Akron UP
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Brewers Hold Lead After Split With Hoosiers
Milwaukee and Indianapolis split a doubleheader as Greg Clarke's bases loaded homer boosted the Brewers to a 4-3 win and kept Milwaukee 1.5 games ahead in the American Association. Fletcher blanked Indy 3-0 in the opener, while Columbus moved within one game of second with two wins over St Paul.
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Indianapolis
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Indians
Glen Fletcher
Columbus
St. Paul
Kansas City
Louisville
Blues
Minneapolis
Toledo
Mudhens
Tin Can Drive Planned for Chauncey Dover Area
Chauncey examines plan led by Mrs Thelma Ferrel chair of the salvage committee to start a tin can drive in the Chauncey Dover district. School children will assist in collecting cans and 4 H clubs will collect grease in August.
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Chauncey
Thelma Ferrer
Chauncey- Dover
Church School To Hold Lawn Party
The First Church of Christ Church School primary department will host a lawn party Thursday at 5 30 p m on the church lawn. Eva Ferrer Benedum supervised, with Mary Helen Sweeney and Thelma Jean Brookins in charge. All parish children invited for games entertainment and refreshments.
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First Church of Christ Church School
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Mary Helen Sweeney
Thelma Jean Brookins
Church Parish
Air Corps Man In California Hospital With Pneumonia
Chauncey Richard Osborne of the air corps is in a California service hospital recovering slowly from pneumonia. His wife has joined him there. He is a son of Dane Osborne and grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Osborne of Chauncey.
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Richard Osborne
Air Corps
California
Dane Osborne
Henry Osborne
Chauncey District Social and Personal
Chauncey District social news notes visits and travel of residents. Louise and Virginia Nagle, Cincinnati workers, spent weekend with Rex and family in Millfield. Funeral attendance for Harvey Courtney in Chauncey and Columbus visitors are listed.
Former Perry resident writes from Gulfport Mississippi
Chauncey resident Charles C. Shields received a letter this week from J. J. Mills, a long time Perry County friend and well known to Athens County residents. Mills is a 92 year old lawyer living in Mississippi with his wife deceased about 25 years. His son in law Edward Price Bell lives in Gulfport and has worked as a newswriter for Chicago and London papers.
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Charles C. Shields
J. J. Mills
Gulfport
Miss
Perry County
Athens County
Mr. Mills
Mississippi
Edward Price Bell
Chicago
London
Entertain Guests at Jacobs Ave Home
Chauncey and Mrs. Henry Osborne hosted recent visitors at their Jacobs Ave residence. Guests from Athens included Mr. and Mrs. Fred Osborne and Pearl A. Miller, plus FE L Bingman and Vivian Whitford with Carolyn Sue, Vere Ridge. Vint Miller. Dorothy Conkey and two Athens daughters. and Frances Noble with her mother. Frances, recently hospitalized in Columbus, is slowly improving and able to go out occasionally.
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Chauncey
Henry Osborne
Jacobs Ave
Fred Osborne
Athens
Pearl A. Miller
the Plains
FE. L. Bingman
Vivian Whitford
Carolyn Sue
Vere Ridge
Vint Miller
Dorothy Conkey
Harry B. Noble
Frances
Columbus
Braves Rally In Opening Tilt At Crosley Field
The Cincinnati Reds and Boston Braves opened a benefit series at Crosley Field to aid the Red Cross. A twilight charity game pitted star Reds-Braves players against Lieut. Comm. Mickey Cochrane’s Great Lakes sailors, followed by a regular Reds Braves tilt. Boston won 6 to 2 as catcher Phil Masi homered? no, three hits and a walk highlighted the Braves’ offense. Bucky Walters took the loss for Cincinnati in seven and two thirds innings.
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Baseball Leaders and Standings From The Season
The data lists key players and leaders: Vaughan of Brooklyn and Nicholson of Chicago with 3 runs batted in. Musial of St Louis with 125 hits. Ott of New York and Nicholson with 14 home runs. Vaughan 12 steals. Sewell of Pittsburgh 152 pitching wins. Wakefield of Detroit 326 at bats and 121 hits. Etten of New York 63 runs batted in. Stephens of St Louis 14 homers. Case of Washington 26 steals. Grove of Chicago 91 pitching wins.
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Dodgers to open three day baseball camp in Ohio State League Park
The Dodgers announce a three day baseball camp at the Ohio State League Park led by George Sisler Mike Kelly and Harold Roet ger. Boys 16 and older will report tomorrow morning.
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Edith Bar to Host Plains Garden Club Meeting
The Plains Garden Club will meet tonight at 8 at the home of Mrs Floyd Linscott. Mrs Paul Tipton conducts the meeting with officer elections and dues payable. A social hour and refreshments follow.
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Edith Barrows
Plains Garden Club
Floyd Linscott
Paul Tipton
Missing name in Tuscarawas River trip report
A weekly river excursion on the Tuscarawas near Coshocton led by Mr and Mrs Frank Butts and Evangelist Harry Anguish. The report omits the name of Mrs Harry Anguish who was in the party.
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and Firs
Frank Butts
Evangelist Harry Anguish
Harry Anglish
Fullerton's Roundup Highlights War Era Sports Notes
U S Association secretary Joe Dey notes golf facilities in Army camps and wonder about postwar golf talent. Nat Fleischer catalogs boxers discharged for injuries. Mussolini resignation headlines reach baseball fans via Erie's Dispatch-Herald. Hal Peck eyes 1944 return after gun sale. Gunder Haegg sends spikes to Gil Dodds. An umpire sports taxicab chest protector in Cooperstown. Ray Robinson qualifies as marksman at Mitchell Field while serving.
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Ring Magazine
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Glouster Kiwanis Map Plans for Rest of Summer
Glouster Kiwanis Club held a 6 30 dinner at Hotel Gordon with Harold Kittrell presiding. The business session planned union church services for August 8 and an August Ladies Night at Antle's grove August 17 with a potluck.
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Family Letters From Frontline Servicemen Mention Moves and Visits
Pfc Larry Vaughn writes his parents Ed and Vaughan that he is en route from California to Scott Field Illinois after a one hour stopover with his brother Bill in Denver. Bill teaches at the Armament School Lowry Field Colorado. The brothers have not seen each other in over nine months. Pfc Robert Skinner Jr son of Mr and Mrs Skinner from Patterson Field visited his parents in this city over the weekend. Cpl Robert Brunton arrived in Glouster from Camp Adair Oregon where he served three months. He spent 32 days in hospital with a hip ailment involving the sciatic nerve and received an honorable discharge from the Army in the Quartermaster division where he was Chief Oven Man in the Field Bakery.
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Jacksonville Bible School Enters Second Week
The second week of daily vacation Bible school is in progress at Jacksonville with Mrs Horrenadel and Elvira Thompson of Nelsonville in charge. First week enrollment was 40. Mrs Philbh directs older children and Mrs Florence McCaskey supervises the primary class.
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Nelsonville
Helen Philbh
Florence McCaskey
Glouster News Briefs Include Surgery and Transfers
Miss Bernadene King underwent an appendectomy at Mari etta Osteopathic Hospital with her mother present. Mrs. Roy Hall and Mrs. Vern Hall of Glouster report Sgt. Vern G. Hall has been transferred from Fort Bliss Texas after 19 months to Orlando Florida for special training.
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Trimble Area Sees Long List Of Visiting Kin
Glouster and Trimble families travel to relatives in Columbus Marietta Athens and Springfield. Visitors include Edna Raber L R Gooding Gertrude Rainey J W Herrold and many others as kinfolk spend weekends with Trimble and surrounding towns.
Honored at Dinner In Glouster For Pvt Estel Cox
Pvt Estel Cox and wife Frances Lucille spent a 10 day furlough with families in Glouster Route 1. A chicken dinner at Don Cox's home honored Cox and Clara Cox on her sixteenth birthday and Mrs Elden Six's wedding anniversary. Attendees included Howard Rowland, Doris, Dan Cox and family, James Coey, elders, and local neighbors. Refreshments were served.
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Estel Cox
Frances Lucille
Howard Rowland
Don Cox
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Clara Cox
Tommy
James
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James Russell
James Jr
Elden Six
Gerald Leroy
James Coey
Ralph
Neil
Willard
Kenneth Hanson
Paul Chauncey
See Ree
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Ayi City
Grand American Handicap To Be Streamlined Affair
The 20th Grand American trapshoot in Vandalia will be a streamlined three day event August 25 to 27 due to war shortages. The $10,000 handicap returns to a 100 target format after a 200 target trial and the program is reduced from 1900 to 500 targets per contestant with 13 championships on day one. Competitors must supply their own shells and no practice traps will operate amid ammo shortages and travel limits.
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Frauueany Cvely
Engie Wee
Standings Update From The Circuit And Association
Pittsburgh leads 8 5 over New York 5 and St Louis 6 with Philadelphia 2 and Boston 6. Other results show New York 4 over Cleveland 3 and St Louis 8 over Philadelphia 4. Association teams Columbus 4 4 and St Paul 2 3. Indianapolis 3 3 and Milwaukee 0 4.
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Vacation Bible School at Trimble Enrolls 40 Pupils
The second week of the Daily Vacation Bible School at Trimble reports an enrollment of 40 pupils. Mrs. Ada Frances Brunton, Mrs. Floyd Martin and Miss Laura Mae Sisson lead the work with Mrs. Brunton out of town this week and Miss Sisson serving in her place. The school will close at week’s end.
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Ada Frances Brunton
Floyd Martin
Laura Mae Sisson
Brunton
Miss Sisson
Picnic Planned by Jacksonville Methodist Class
The Willing Workers Class of the Jacksonville Methodist Church will hold a picnic in Jacksonville park Friday evening at 6:30. Husbands of class members are invited to attend.
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Glouster
Jacksonville Methodist Church
Jacksonville Park
Faithful Workers Class to Meet at Mrs Exenkamper Home
The Jacksonville Methodist Sunday School Faithful Workers class will gather Thursday at 7 30 p m at the home of Mrs Henry Exenkamper for a regular meeting with prayers and studies.
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Glouster
Jacksonville Methodist Sunday School
Henry Exenkamper
Fleming Couple Move to Corning for Rail Job
Mr. and Mrs. James Fleming, long-time residents of Braun Street, Glouster, are relocating to Corning where Fleming will take a position with the New York Central Railroad.
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James Fleming
Braun St
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Potluck Dinner Planned at E. H. Taylor Home
The WSCS potluck dinner on the Taylor lawn begins at 6 PM Thursday evening. The event will be hosted at the E. H. Taylor residence with neighbors and members expected to attend.
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WSCS
Tribe Kayoed In 13 Innings Dickey Is Hero
The Cleveland Indians lost to the New York Yankees 4 to 3 in a 13 inning opener at Yankee Stadium. Bill Dickey delivered the decisive single after Allie Reynolds earned six and a third innings of hitless relief following Al Smith and Pete Center.
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Ladies Aid Program at U B Church in Murray City
The Ladies Aid of the U B Church met at the Brown home on Main St with Mrs. Hartman presiding. Guests included Miss Connie Thompson and several others from Chillicothe, Columbus, Huntington, and Lancaster. Numerous local residents attended as visitors or stayed for refreshments and future hosting plans were announced.
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