Two Groups of Registrants Leave Nelsonville Early Today
From Athens County Selective Service Board No 2 two groups departed for induction and pre induction examination. Eighteen listed for induction will be sent to training, while the pre induction group will return home after exams with potential three week wait for call. Names include Yeader Howard Cunningham Osley Johnson among others.
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Nelsonville
District of Athens County
Selective Service Board No. 2
Armed Forces
Legion Building
City Ministerial Association
Yeader
Charles Martin Howard
Walnut St
Volunteer
Gail Howard Cunningham
W. State St
Athens
Kenneth Les Osley
Carpenter Rt
Robert Wayne Johnson
New Marshfield Ri
Local Residents Named In Regional Notables List
Davy Wesley Watkins aged 94 of Myers Street Felsonville and Emery Foster Cae of 8713 Mill 6t Athens are listed alongside Nelsonville residents Junior Stimpson Wollett Reginald Thomas Levering 242 Gross tenor St and others such as Kenneth Edward Coen Stewart Ralph Vinton Mantle Guysville Kennett Briven Quinn Amesville Junior James Johnson Nelsonville Rt 2 Clyde David Pratt Athens Rt 5 Walter Kinnebrlel Nelsonville Rt 2 Robert Denver Adams Nelsonville Rt 1 Hverelt Virgil Lott New Marshfield Robert Emerson Webb Guysville Rt 2 Eldon Junior McCombs Nelsonville Rt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davy Wesley Watkins
Myers Bt
Felsonville
Emery Foster Cae
Mill
Athens
Junior Stimpson Wollett
Nelsonville
Reginald Thomas Levering
Gross Tenor St
Kenneth Edward Coen
Stewart
Ralph Vinton Mantle
Guysville
Kennett Briven Quinn
Amesville
James Johnson
Clyde David Pratt
Walter Kinnebrlel
Robert Denver Adams
Hverelt Virgil Lott
New Marshfield
Robert Emerson Webb
Eldon Junior McCombs
Bond Sales Reported in Nelsonville War Drive
Nelsonville reports total bond sales of 59300 in the Seventh War Loan Drive, about 1000 short of halfway to its 121310 quota. Ward subscriptions list contributors from Nelsonville, Athens, New Marshfield, Millfield, and surrounding towns, with numerous names and addresses scattered throughout the document.
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Nelsonville
Ward Aeere Willimn
Bent Kayser
Guys
Ward
Wit
Arthur Bernard Hit
W. Muinch
Columbus
Leo Lawrence Ervin
Athens
John William Judson
Haydenville
Virell Leroy Huddy
Homer Vernon Sayers
Millfield
Floyd Lee Allbaugh
New Marshfield
Westminster Youth Fellowship Leads First Presbyterian Service
Nelsonville social notes report Westminster Youth Fellowship members and president Lloyd Shafer will lead the 8:30 morning service at First Presbyterian Church. Eight graduates from the Presbyterian congregation received Bibles, while Ralph Boyd received a New Testament before departing for the Navy last week.
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Nelsonville
Westminster Youth Fellowship
pLieyd Shafer
First Presbyterian Church
Boston
Presbyterian
Helen Lehiman
de Pyle
Barbara Poole
iBieen Simmons
Florence Coffey
Norma Boyd
Roger Johnson
Ralph Boyd
Point Pleasant Boy Scouts Earn Eisenhower Award for Salvage
Boy Scouts in Point Pleasant received the General Eisenhower War Service Medal for exceptional paper salvage work. The presentation by Navy and Army officials honored Joe Kayser Irving Houghton Alan Johnson and others. A check for 29550 was given to War Mothers Club president Mrs. Lee Pratt from Elmer Grueser who supervised salvage in Mason County. Gold Star Mothers stood on the platform during the Memorial Day exercises.
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War Mothers Club
Point Pleasant
C. G
Billups
Eisenhower
D. W. Wetzel
Navy Material and Redistriction Center
J. D. Fraser
Ordnance Works
Joe Kayser
Irving Houghton
Alan Johnson
Jimmy Johnson
Carl Gardner
Howard
Lee Pratt
Bonnie ‘Hrebs
Bertha Halstead
Route 2
Jim Mayes
Henderson
Sam McKinney
Leon
Point Pleasant Social Notes and Personal Remembrances
Pt Pleasant social column notes a Ladies Bridge Club event hosted by Mrs S and Mrs F Leslie Heck at Main 1 Wilhelm 1902 Jefferson Blvd with prize defense stamps won by Mrs Miller. Also reports Memorial Day visits and various local families visiting relatives in Ravenswood Cottageville and Charleston with multiple names and locations.
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Point Pleasant
F. Leslie Heck
Main
Wilhelm
Jefferson Blvd
William H. Bar
Ladies Bridge Club
Irs
Robert J. Heslop
Ravenswood
GC. R. Sehneider
Song
C. Q. Weissenburger
Tommy and
Bobby
Columbus
Milton J
B. E. Harrison
J. H. Fergu
Son
Cottageville
Paper Collection Scheduled Sunday in Point Pleasant
Preparations are being made to collect waste paper in Point Pleasant on Sunday afternoon. The salvage committee has a large part of a warload already on hand and aims to collect enough to complete loading the car, with no carry over due to lack of safe storage. Paper will be collected at six week intervals from now until the end of the war, said Mrs Watts, assistant state director.
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Point Pleasant
Giants Top Cubs 19 to 3 in Nelsonville rout
The Giants overwhelmed the Cubs 19 to 3 at the City Playgrounds. Bruce pounded four hits in five at bats while Figgins and Fick added three hits each. A long sports section also lists church services, local personals, and notes from Nelsonville.
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Nelsonville
Giants
Cubs
Fick
Cub
Ty Bruce
Figgins
Bruce
Miller
Davis
Sbs
Iss
M Sewer
Guus Wolfe
Pth
HL Martin
Kansa
West
Bean
Onerson
Pfe
Jack Martin
Los Gheen
Angeles
Cal
Matlin
Tas
Hemsworth
Long Beach
Newton
Phoenix
Bartlet
Trcson
Arizona
SS. Lane
Marsailes O
Standall
Jn _ Bateman
Rt — Starrett
Helen Roscoe
Lancaster
W. L. Cooley
Sylvia Cooley
Columbus
Sally
Inez Erh
Cis
Annual Service Observed at Buchtel
Crowning of the Blessed statue at St. Pat in Buchtel featured Miss Josephine Byers and escorts from Chauncey Dover and Buchtel High School Class of 1945. The procession included Miss Helen Erdy and presiding priest Rev Father C F Gallagher delivering a Marian sermon.
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St. Pat
Buchtel Suday
Our Aétual Help Clues
Odor
Boti
Josephine Byers
By‘ors
Chauncey-Dover
Robert Simons
Jacksonville-Trimbie
Helen Erdy
Chaunceyigh’ School
Willian White
Donald’ McDonald
Buchtel High School
Erdy
Mary
Gor
C. F., Gallagher
Services Announced for Church of Christ at Nelsonville
WNELSONVILLE Church of Christ will hold Bible School at 9 30 a m with George Barrows supervising all ages and morning worship at 10 30 a m featuring the Lord s Supper. Miss Sigrid Love will accompany a choir anthem and the pastor the Rev L E Evang will preach on Christi janity s Skyline. Christian Endeavor at 6 p m. Union evening service at Presbyterian Church 7 30 p m with a sermon by the Church of Christ minister.
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Pilgrim Holiness Church
Nelsonville
Chestnut St
Walter Pee
B. A. Awe
Marion
Lillian Kinsey
Imbet
Agatn
Lon Adams
Meyers
Thomas Wilson
C. F. Junkerman
Columbes
Wnelsonville
Church of Christ
Etude Bible School
George Barrows
Sigrid Love
L. E. Evang
Christi’ Janity
Christian Za Jdeavor
Union
Presbyterian Church
James Shafer Wins Service Promotion
Nelsonville resident James L. Shafer appears on a Marianas base promotion list. The 71st Bomber Command sailor, son of Mr and Mrs James W Shafer of 482 Poplar St Nelsonvilla, is promoted from private to private first class.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelsonville
Ohio
71St Bomber Command
Marianas
James L. Shafer
Nelsonvilla
James W. Shafer
Poplar St
Episcopal Services Set At Church Of The Epiphany
Nelsonville service plan lists four morning prayer and sermon services on Sunday June 3 the first Sunday after Trinity at 9 30 at the Church of the Epiphany Episcopal. Mayor fines two on intoxication pleas are entered in Nelsonville court. Floyd Tennihill of Glouster and Gladys Deer of Buchtel pleaded guilty and were fined five dollars and costs each.
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Episcopal Services
Nelsonville
Church of the Epiphany
Episcopal
Miles Howe
Floyd Tennihill
Glouster
Gladys Deer
Buchtel
Veteran’s Wife Plans For Postwar Future
A Mason County farm woman told The Messenger she receives $140 monthly government allotment for herself and four children and earns about $180 monthly in a local war plant. She saves all possible for when her husband is discharged and returns home, a common though not universal practice.
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Point Pleasant
Mason County
Doung
Postpone Meeting In Welsonville County Youth Event Delayed
Postponed due to the high school baccalaureate service in Athens and other circumstances the county youth meeting at the Church of Christ Sunday night will be rescheduled to a date to be announced later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Welsonville
Athens
Church of Christ
Open Tieyard to Be Built in Gallipolis
Gallipolis tenants announce Gallipolis site near Ohio Valley Livestock yards for a new tieyard. A. W. Biffie resigns as supervisor at West Virginia Ordnance Works to lead the venture today. Mr and Mrs Lee Piatt learn their son Pf John E Piatt has arrived on the West Coast en route home.
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Gallipolis
D.B. Framton and Company of
Pittsburgh
Ohio Valley
A. W. Biffie
West Virginia Ordnance Works
U. S
Point Pleasant
Lee Piatt
10Th St
John E. Piatt
West Coast
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