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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1943
Page
3
The readable fragments mention a pardon, a county jail, a parole status, and an unidentified offender in a district or circuit context. Names, dates, and places are garbled, but the text hints at legal or correctional proceedings and a pending or past sentence.
Fragmentary text appears to reference a game or event with unclear details. Readable items include possible team names and a score fragment, but essential specifics such as participants, location, and outcome are missing.
Workers from FE B Badger & Sons Construct Company and families held a farewell picnic at Rock Springs Fairgrounds Sunday marking the ceasing of construction at the W.V.O.W. plant. Seventy attendees enjoyed games, music, a hillbilly quartet, and a fried chicken supper as the McCurdys prepare to move on.
Pomeroy J H Eastman representative of District 71 covering Meigs and Gallia Counties left for Columbus Sunday afternoon to attend the Grand Lodge I. O. F. convention which is to be held in that city June 14.
Streets of Pomeroy were crowded with shoppers Saturday as merchants reported one of the largest sales days this spring. Shoe stores were thronged with buyers using their No 17 shoe stamp and all shops reported rushing business.
Warner French Seaman 1st Class from Brooklyn visits with his wife Rosalie Rice and relatives in Pomeroy. Several Meigs County graduates from the Class of 1943 ply duties at Camp Stewart and in anti aircraft units. Others in the group include Pvt Norman R Spencer stationed at Camp Stewart and Pvt William F Warner at Camp Stewart. Local furloughs from Ft. Lewis to Pom eroy, Columbus, and Ft. Wayne are noted along with visits by family and friends. Lieutenant Fred Bovie Fisher, first from Ft. Knox OCS, now at Ft. Benning. Stephen Cope promoted to Second Lieutenant in Egypt. Joe Gibbs visits from Pensacola to Bradbury.
Meigs County treasurer Vernon Lee Archer announced real estate tax books are open for the second half to Sept 10. After that date delinquent lands will be turned to the prosecuting attorney for forfeiture to the state of Ohio. County residents are making June payments and paying delinquent taxes.
A farewell dicnic at Roadside Park honored Mrs James Noble and Mrs George Reckard whose husbands worked at W W O W and are now terminated. The event noted club membership, prior meetings at Mrs Perry Mitch’s home, and social outings including a lighthouse swim and a picnic at Syracuse Park.
Meigs County Agricultural Agent B F Blakeslee urges gardeners to prepare for 1943 pest control. Rotenone and sulphur dust for beans, copper with calcium for potatoes and cucumbers, paris green and lime dust for late cabbage. Apply with a plunger dustor at dusk when air is still. Materials are limited so share equipment and buy wisely.
Middleport reports Rev C C Creamer of Covington Ky will begin a series of evangelistic services at Pearl Street Church of the Nazarene on June 15 at 7 30 each evening led by Pastor Fick. Guests of Mr and Mrs Sidney Pickens included Coastguardsmen Walter Harding Warren Harding Harry Ward Jeanne Rupe and Dorothy Davidson among others.
JOHN HAWKINS JR a machinist at the New York Central Shops in Hobson was chosen to represent the Hobson Charleston and Dickinson shop committees at a conference in Albany New York and left the last of the week for Albany Mrs Hawkins and daughter are guests of her parents in Bladen and sisters in Gallia County
Middleport doctors report a light chickenpox epidemic locally with one scarlet fever case and several strep throat infections. The illness mix suggests limited spread and milder symptoms among residents.
Middleport announces a children’s program at Heath Methodist Church on Sunday June 27. Rehearsals begin this week with the first practice at 2 PM Tuesday at the church.
The article reports Thomas W. Bowen from Pomeroy Athens road has become a Corporal and qualified as marksman. It lists weekend visits and travels of residents and relatives including Miss Esther Leifheit in Columbus, and multiple family and friend gatherings at Lake Alma Buckeye Lake Ashe ville and Columbus with extended family in Syracuse and Chicago.
Report notes that members of a little known Siberian tribe reportedly chewed iron lollipops as a traditional tonic. The claim appears in a brief exotic health anecdote without broader medical validation.
A fragmented notice mentions a spice product formerly named Mexican Heat and powder form. The brief text notes the product costs little per unit and suggests savings in larger sizes. No clear company or exact figures are provided.
Robert Crow and four Meigs County natives Verne Story Jimmy Terrell Tom McKay and James Cook are together somewhere in Australia word to Staff Sergeant Crow's parents Mr and Mrs T Ho Crow states. Crow Story and Cook joined the Ohio National Guards at Athens and left together. On a Southwest Pacific island they were joined by Terrell and sent to Australia. Tom McKay met them there and they were the first familiar faces he had seen. Crow has sent his mother gifts from the Southwest Pacific over the past 14 months including a grass skirt and native jewelry. Another Crow son Thomas D Crow is at the Naval Air Technical Training Center Memphis Tenn.
Methodist Youth Sunday was observed at the United Methodist Church with youth in charge of Sunday School and special features. Dwight Cobb acted as superintendent and Lois Ann Neutzling opened with a prelude. Margaret Jean Bryant read Prayer for Forgiveness. Mary Jo Sanders read Methodist Student Day Will Pave the Way.
POMEROY Ohio funeral services for Mrs. Mary Grueser 81 of Minersville will be held Tuesday at 2 30 p m at the Minersville Peace Evangelical Church with burial in Minersville Cemetery. She died Sunday after a weeklong heart illness widow of Wendell Grueser. Surviving are two sons Julius J Schmoll Otto Schmoll of Middleport a granddaughter three grandsons and several stepchildren including Willis Grueser of Middleport.
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