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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1943
Page
11
Mason Board sets new office hours at the ration board with open times on Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday and Saturday. New tire and tube certificate rules take effect with certificates issued only on Thursdays. No. 1 Ration Book holders receive 10 pounds of canning sugar by presenting stamps Nos 15 and 16 while an extra 15 pounds may be requested later in summer or fall.
Ten Mason County men have been assigned to the Naval Training Station at Great Lakes Illinois for an eight week program. Recruits include Harry E. Johnson Frank L. Heck Louis L. Durst Walter F. Thornton William H. Proffitt Herman F. Stewart Dolas B. Tolliver Bert Adkins Virgil R Edwards and Hoyt L. Sayre with listed home addresses.
Christ Church Service Guild president Mrs. George H. Overholt has started bridge gatherings to fund redecorating and refurnishing the church. The first foursome at Mrs. Overholt’s home saw Mrs. Sayre win high score with players including Mrs. Windsor and Mrs. Bauerle. Future bridge hosts will entertain groups through June. In Point Pleasant, Mrs. Howard Yerges and daughter Betty stay with Mrs. Ray Somerville on Jericho Road until their Country Club Addition home is ready. Mr. Yerges will join them after his Ohio State graduation. J H Woodyard of O J Morrison department store has returned from Parkersburg improved in health.
Franklin Wamsley recently underwent surgery at Holzer Hospital and was brought back for follow up by E. F. Franklin. Mrs. Wamsley shows slow improvement. Louise Stone had major surgery at Holzer Hospital yesterday and is the daughter of Dr. Will H. Stone. Kathleen and Charles Ray, children of Rupert Ray, have gone to Columbus for employment.
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Lawrence Mohr of Gallipolis Ferry bought adjoining residential properties on Monroe Avenue in Point Pleasant for investment. The purchase includes a five room cottage at 71st Street and Monroe and a four room cottage of Mrs. Mary Plants plus others on Monroe Avenue with an 8 foot Monroe frontage. Rupert L. Kayser represented the sellers.
New officers of the Moose Women’s Auxiliary will be installed Friday evening in the ladies lounge on River Street. Katherine Lubee of Chicago national associate regent will conduct the ceremony and guest. Officers include Mrs Victor E. S. Park graduate regent Mrs John Clay Hutchinson senior regent Mrs S C Moystin junior regent Mrs Howard Proffitt chaplain Mrs Stanely Harris recorder Mrs James Hall sentinel Mrs Elza Martin argus and Mrs Carl Gardner pianist. A buffet luncheon will follow.
Pt Pleasant notes report a Lamb da Chi Omega Sorority meeting rescheduled to June 16 at the Moose Club lounge for pledges, with Edith Quillin as president. Funeral attendance for FE J McKay shifts to Mt. Lebanon Pa, while family members stay with relatives in Chicago. Various local visits and travels are listed including Huntington, Columbus, and Fort Bragg.
Mrs Essie Middlecoff Weber, native of Point Pleasant and cousin of Clarence Gibson, was buried in Ashland after a life of social and charitable work including the crippled children’s society and the Red Cross. Mr and Mrs George Sprenger and Mr Clarence Gibson attended.
At the recent city council meeting the city solicitor and treasurer J. G. F. Johnson was granted a leave of absence as he leaves next week for Washington to join the Maritime Commission as a senior attorney. The council asked the state tax commissioner to conduct a special audit of his accounts at his request.
A. A. Johnson of the Mason County AAA spent yesterday at the local freight yard inspecting a fertilizer shipment destined for organization members across the county.
Pfc. Robert F E McCulloch of Desert Center California and Cpl. Francis L McCulloch of Patterson Field Dayton Ohio are spending furloughs with their parents Mr and Mrs R H McCulloch Route 2. Mrs Floyd Cole is ill at her home on Jefferson Blvd Ducks like aviators fly in a V formation to avoid slip stream.
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