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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1942
Page
3
Local business leaders in Pomeroy and Middleport mobilize for the defense stamp campaign. They push a 90 percent employee participation plan to deduct stamp purchases from payrolls. Leaders T T Reed Alfred Elberfeld Paul Smart praise broad merchant support and list participating stores.
Meigs County fund drives beat May quota with 21 000 in stamps sold toward an 18 000 goal. The June target rises to 27 000. Middleport shops including A and P Rowley and Reed Evans Grocery Welch's White Grocery and Citizens National Bank are listed as participating in the employee stamp plan.
At First Baptist Church Sunday worship at 10 15 highlights from the Northern Baptist Convention by Rev Ralph Zundel and Mrs Zundel who have returned from vacation. Sunday School led by David Durst Jr and BYPU at regular hours. Evening study titled What Was Wrong With the Elder Brother. Flowers supplied by Ladies Bible Class. Red and Blue Attendance Contest continues at Church of Christ. William Theobald superintendent. Junior Intermediate and Senior Endeavor groups meet evening. Mt Moriah Baptist Church pastor Rev B R Smith outlines Jesus Our Example in Christian Service for Sunday morning with communion in the evening.
Thelma Neigler a Racine High School home economics teacher is on a two week California vacation visiting friends. Mrs Harold DeWolfe and Roger of Eureka returned home after visiting her parents. Rev Walter McCarley and Janet returned after a church conference in Dayton. Pomeroy the Dan Hartinger case fined $200 plus costs as previously reported.
Middleport residents reported a Class No. 12 Heath Methodist Church picnic at the John Kincaid home on N Fourth Ave with buffet service hosted by Mrs Kincaid Mrs Frank White and class president Mrs Leo Kennedy. A brief business session followed with a $20 payment planned for parsonage store and sink debt and a nominating report led by Mrs C A Emmish listing officers.
Rev. S. J. Nihizer warns that ignoring church worship could be a spiritual Pearl Harbor. Sunday School at Enterprise and Syracuse at 9 30. Morning worship at Syracuse 10 30. Evening service at Enterprise 8. Prayer services at Syracuse Tuesday 8 and Enterprise Wednesday 8.
Meigs County AAA sponsored a broadcast over station WPAR in Parkersburg at 12 45 p m. Speakers listed include Wayne H. Chase county committeeman Elizabeth R Frisch secretary treasurer and Glenna A Rummel chief clerk The talks covered the Food for Freedom program.
Notice lists multiple executors administrators guardians and estates with first final and other accounts filed inMay June 1942 and sets a July th deadline for publication and exceptions prior to a hearing. Interested parties may file written objections before five days prior to the hearing in Francis D P White Probate Judge's court.
Miss Hazel Hawkins returns from two week visit to Crown City with the Wil son family. Betty Hartinger has passed civil service exams and goes to Washington as an employee. Violet Hartinger moves from Columbus to Dayton for work. Janet Dillard becomes secretary to Superintendent L. W. McComas. Jeanette Hughes born to Lonnie and family in Park Street home. Harry Craig Jr. stationed in Denver with the Army Air Corps. Mrs. Jones and Miss Burdettes travel with Willard Greenlee to Columbus. Phyllis Diles and Pauley Anne Kincaid extend stay near West Point cadet John Kincaid. Mrs. Britton visits Columbus and Crestline for family time. The McCarty family returns from Cleveland and Huntington with work and visits noted.
Local visits include Mr and Mrs Albert Ebersbach and sister in law Josephine Genheimer traveling to Richmond Virginia for treatment before returning to East Orange New Jersey. Social events feature Pioneer Senior 4 H Club at Reedsville and Chestnut Ridge Stitchers meeting at Dorothy Gillogly and Betty Cone homes. Marilyn Ashworth sustains leg injury from bicycle spokes needing nine stitches at Dr Oliver clinic. Torch Bearers plan Hallelujah Train event at Salvation Army Hall this evening.
A joint service at Heath Methodist Church starts at 10 Sunday morning featuring the pageant Who Bids presented by Church School members directed by Mrs Roy Barnes and Mrs L W McComas. Infant baptism will be welcomed and Youth Fellowship hosts a social with potluck supper.
Long Bottom Riverside Garden Club gathered Tuesday evening with Mrs. Mary Matlack and fifteen members plus two visitors. Papers by Mrs. Swain Brooks and Myers. Refreshments served. Meeting closed with a birthday song for Matlack. Next meeting June 23 with Mrs. Swain. Local residents home and visiting include Coleman from Fort Benjamin Harrison and families from Neville Island and Kananga.
Leroy Lawrence twenty of Portland and Mattie Holter nineteen of Racine obtained a marriage license in probate court on Thursday.
Combined church school and worship service at Simpson Methodist Church Sunday at 9 15 AM. The Methodist Student Day Program will be directed by Mrs Elsie Smith. Rev Nobel M Rompe and Mrs Rompe visit relatives in Chicago. the local minister’s son will occupy the pulpit in his father’s stead.
An old belief persists that tremors come from a giant frog’s skips and breathings among Asian peoples. The notion reflects folkloric explanations for natural disasters rather than scientific causes.
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