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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1942
Page
2
Nelsonville Draft Board No 2 announces no screening tests this week and notes a large group from the local area will be sent to Columbus for final medical examination next week. A contingent of colored men will be called for service late this week with two weeks furlough before active duty. Both 1-A and 1-B classifications are included.
The Rev W Z Horbury of Lighthouse Tabernacle in Nelsonville resigns effective Aug 1 after one year of service. He also serves at United Brethren Church in Murray City and says the Columbus conference will require his full time in denominational work due to increased Army chaplain demands.
Acting Scout master Bob Johnson trains boys to lead in Wilbur D. Mender’s absence. In two months junior leaders Lloyd Johnson Rodney Jonas and Bob Beteman have taken full troop responsibility as junior assistant scout master and senior patrol leaders.
Nelsonville Rotary Club honors Mike Brooks at the Tuesday meeting at Little House. Brooks, junior past president, receives the pin from Victor Oakley as Sherman Lyke from Logan Club attends as a guest.
Funeral services were held today at Steubenville's Stuben ville for Thomas Loup who died Sunday at his home after a stroke two weeks earlier. He was the father in law of Mrs. Walter Floto formerly Esther Vorhes of this city. Miss Dorothy Yorkes is in Steubenville with her sister.
Nelsonville reports the Berean Class of the Church of Christ will hold an important gathering Thursday evening at 7 30. Attendance of all members is requested.
NELSONVILLE The Presbyterian Missionary Society will meet Thursday at 2 PM at the home of Mrs. Charles Tedrow on W Franklin Street. Assisting hostess will be Mrs. H D Krieg.
Nelsonville earned a 2-1 victory over Logan in a city twilight league game. Manager Ward Phillips plans a strong second half push as former Eagle Juniors return to form with Hilleary Dupler Toth Nelson and Harkins. Bobo pitched four hits allowed while Wiley faced eight hits. Hilleary led the offense for the Eagles.
Lawrence Buges age 38 and Charles Queen age 32 are held in Gallia County jail on petit larceny charges after being reported leaving the East Gallipolis school lunch garden with baskets of carrots sacks of beans and other vegetables. The American Legion Post plans to establish a volunteer guard at the gardens to prevent further thefts.
The Gallipolis Rotary Club held its annual outdoor picnic last night in the river terrace gardens at the home of Dr. Leo C. Bean. Stanley Evans and a committee served supper and a social hour followed. there was no program.
Miss Kate Lewis aged 78 a member of a prominent Gallipolis Ferry family died Tuesday afternoon in Holzer Hospital. She and her three single siblings operate one of the area’s largest farms and are noted cattle raisers in the district.
Callipolis County health office in the courthouse saw a busy morning as nearly fifty residents lined up for free typhoid inoculations. Officials say the service will continue as long as there is public demand.
Three boys were tracked from B. O. Glassburn's Bidwell melon patch by Constable Ed Harrisons blood hound to their homes. Police say they admitted the theft but found no ripe melons. No arrests were made.
Dana Bradshaw city clerk notifies all license holders to renew permits by August 1. After August 1 a 10 percent penalty will be added to the regular fee.
Mrs. Mary Dezso of Robbins Road hosts her sons Charles Dezso of Lorain and Pvt. First Class John Dezso at Fort Knox Kentucky. Also visiting is daughter Mrs. Donald Townsend from bus, Ohio, for the weekend.
Gallipolis reports the completion of a large storage room to be added to several others in the basement of Washington School No. 2. Superintendent E E Higgins announces the subterranean store rooms are connected by passageways and rapidly filling with equipment for school operation. The basement, once absent, now extends under the structure after sections were excavated over six decades.
County Sanitarian Max Bunce surveys six tourist camps and trailer camps for sanitation and water supplies and reports generally good conditions. He also checks food handlers in public places for health certificates, noting several workers have relinquished positions after failing examinations.
Gallipolis officials announce a regular meeting where the board of county commissioners will choose a new court house custodian from a long applicant list. Incumbent John Norman will report in at Point Pleasant for assignment in war work.
Mrs H Kerr Butler of Vinton is hospitalized here for treatment of a broken hip from a fall at her home. Her condition is reported satisfactory.
At Gallipolis the Chamber of Commerce notes that daily applications for houses and apartments range from ten to fifteen as a listing of available rentals grows. Demand is rising with expanding Marietta Company shipyards and General Defense Chemical plant activity driving housing needs.
Announcement by L H Woolweaver of the marriage of his daughter Virginia to Lawrence Harrison of Gallipolis. Rev J Edward Hakes read the ceremony on Sunday July 26. The bride wore a navy and white street length dress with pink rosebud corsage. The couple resumed duties at the Ohio Hospital for Epileptics after a brief wedding trip.
Mrs. Arthur H. Smith of Newark is spending a week with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Charles Weaver. Elias Sisson, of St. Louis, visits his mother Mrs. Carrie Sisson of Porter and his wife gives birth to Charles Elias. Mrs. S. F. Smith returns from Huntington. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Goodhart and son Tommy come back from Bethesda to stay with Chief Frank Goodhart and his wife.
Reverend K. Plank of Charleston will lead a two week revival at the Church of God in Hartford West Virginia starting Sunday August 2. Evening services are at eight. The New Haven Church of God cooperates and an afternoon service is planned for Sunday August 16 with visitors from out of town churches. Local pastor is Rev. Denver Smoot.
William Golden of Parkersburg was fined $5 and costs after arraignment before Magistrate Sam Taylor on a drunkenness charge. Ned S Faulkner, arrested on the same charge, was released after posting $7 bond for appearance before Mayor Krodel.
Gallipolis board expects a long meeting tonight to discuss up to ten teaching vacancies. The Straight family plans a gathering at Rev. R. P. McCarley home near Clipper Mills on Sunday, August 9.
R P Bell has optioned about 38 acres in Roseberry Addition adjoining Point Pleasant for 50 days at 1100 per acre with a 500 option fee. The tract lies west of Lincoln Avenue toward Old Town Creek, near the navy yard harbor dredging and Senior High School. Utilities include gas and a government grant funds sewer and water extensions.
Capt W D Curry head of the Ohio and Kanawha Masters and Pilots Association spends a few days home while a coal cargo is loaded on the Kanawha. He notes coal moves out of the Kanawha in smaller volumes with some shipments diverted to rail. River freight is constrained by priority orders. Harvey McMillin of Charleston flew 265 miles Cincinnati to Charleston following the canal and never lost sight of a towboat.
Jesse James Poffenbarger of Mason County has been commissioned a lieutenant in the army mail service and will report to duty in Charleston South Carolina. He spent nine months with the army of occupation at Coblenz after World War I and has served as assistant superintendent of mails in Charleston post office for 17 years.
Jones and Wharton begin construction on 100 homes on former County Club Holding Company land. The project operates as Country Club Homes Inc with excavations for basements completed and some materials received as work started last week.
Point Pleasant reports Marion H. Peters listed among state recruits for the Navy. Peters joins other local enlistees as the service publicly lists new recruits from the region.
Washington approved a plan to build 700 war industry worker homes in Point Pleasant. Construction starts July 30 under the Point Pleasant Housing Authority with two 350 unit shelters on North Point Pleasant land and near Dam 25, prefabricated in New Jersey at about 3000 per unit total near 3 million dollars.
Point Pleasant chief Jividen asks owners to remove weeds and rubbish from all city vacant lots. If owners fail to comply, the city will perform the work and bill the owners for the service.
POINT PLEASANT The board of education accepted the resignations of Coach Jack Rogers and Miss Katherine Evelyn McCulloch, teacher and Girl Scouts executive secretary in Mononagala County. The board authorized free text books for Grades 1-3 upon parental applications. The term starts Aug 31 with a teachers meeting Aug 29 at the Junior High School auditorium. H K Baer will address staff. Christmas break is one week, term ends May 14 per Supt. Roush.
David C. Ward age 88 died Monday afternoon at his home near Apple Grove after an illness of months. Funeral services were held at Beale Chapel with burial in Beale Chapel Cemetery. A native and lifelong Mason County farmer, he was the son of the late M. L. and Francis Ward. Survived by three daughters Mamie Porter Bessie Wray of Bladen Ohio and Addie Wray of Columbus and two sons Edward Ward of Apple Grove and Lawner E Ward of Fraziers Bottom.
Ed Berridge of Gallipolis toured Point Pleasant this week to renew acquaintances and observe the town’s boom aftermath. He previously worked on The State Gazette and The Register during his years in the area.
Public land records show several new deeds from former owners of farms within the ordnance works reservation to the United States. Names include Musgrave Howell Gibbs Burdette Kearns Somerville Poling Somerville Windon McDermitt Taylor Acree Hall Noble and others with acres ranging from 2 to 197 and prices from 400 to 10040 dollars.
Lavoptik, a boric acid eye rinse, claims to soothe tired inflamed eyelids and granulated eyes. The ad touts 25 years of success and money back satisfaction, urging purchase at all drug stores.
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