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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1943
Page
6
Fragmented OCR note mentions Audrey Ry Nd Mrs and several names linked by kinship. References a husband or spouse and a child, with garbled text suggesting an obituary or family notice. No clear event date or location is legible.
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Nelsonville defense workers are notified to report to posts for tonight's blackout drill. Dr. M Sheffield announces the first signal will start the blackout with an all clear to follow. Red Cross and Ohio Fuel Gas Co. will operate a canteen and demonstration at the air square.
Mrs. Ruby De of Canton learns her son Pvt. John W. DeLong, formerly of this area, has been stationed at Fort Belvoir Virginia and awarded a medal for marksman display.
Miss Rowena Sprout of Athens installs Nelsonville club officers at a 6:15 dinner in the First Presbyterian Church for 24 guests. Officers named include Venice Brown president and Blanche Moorehead vice president as community notes cover social events and visits in Nelsonville and nearby towns.
Mona Chapter No. 226 O E S held its annual inspection at the Masonic hall Saturday evening led by Deputy Grand Matron Edith K Dunkle. McArthur’s Jenola McKibben presided with her husband James McKibben present as East. Visitors from Logan Lancaster McArthur Hamden and New Marshfield attended. members distant for inspection joined local hosts for refreshments. Others noted include families visiting relatives and Army inductees Edward Jack Molihan and Albert Pinney. Private Ward left Florida camp due to his father’s illness and returned to duty Tuesday. Revival services were held at Nazarene Church. no Methodist services that evening.
In Nelsonville on June 9 194? at 7 30 p m Rev W M George officiated a single ring ceremony at the Warren home uniting Miss Marie Warehime daughter of Mr and Mrs Homer Warehime with Staff Sergeant Charles Ernest Hoskins son of the late Mr and Mrs W R Hoskins Oak Grove. The couple stood before two seven branched candelabra with sister Kathryn Warehime and W W Warren as attendants. The bride wore a soldier blue suit and pink corsage while Kathryn wore brown. The ceremony included string music and wedding marches. Hoskins to report to Army Air Corps Base Waycross Ga next week. Cantons Pvt John D DeLong visited wife Ruby DeLong in Canton.
The Office of Price Administration says surveys show net operating income from rental properties rose 9 to 17 percent since rent control began. It cites steadier rent payments higher occupancy and reduced maintenance service offsetting higher materials and labor costs.
The Band Boosters Club will host a benefit party at 8 o'clock tonight at the high school to aid a local cause. The event proceeds should be counted on despite an expected blackout later in the evening. Meanwhile reports note heavy livestock losses as sheep calves and colts were killed by porcupines.
Fire on Jackson Street gutted a large two story frame residence owned by the George Badwell estate. One side, rented to Mr and Mrs Ivan France, was occupied. Mrs France escaped unharmed after the oil stove exploded while lighting it. Interior only remains, with all household effects burned. Firefighters confined the blaze after two lines of hose.
Mrs Harriett R Monks of Nelsonville returned from Barberton after the death of her sister Mrs Ellen Lottridge Michaels Shafer a former Nelsonville resident Funeral services were held Monday evening at 730 oclock following the Christian Church Barberton custom Burial is held the following morning at the convenience of the family
The Ohio State Liquor Board announced suspensions for Nelsonville’s A. W. Hallett and Columbus figures John Ashton for sales to minors. Penalties listed include 20 day suspensions for Hallett and 40 day suspensions for Ashton.
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