Nelsonville Airman Awarded War Medal by General Doolittle
Nelsonville native Staff Sgt. William E. Butt receives a War Medal for exceptionally meritorious achievement in five bomber missions over enemy Europe. The ceremony dated April 29, 1944, was issued by Lt General Doolittle and signed by Brig. Gen. Samford. Butt, radio operator and gunner on a B-24, has completed 20 missions since February in England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelsonville
William E. Butt
George L. Butt
High St
Doolittle
John A. Samford
U.S.A
Europe
United States
Butt
England
Nelsonville Social Notes from the Community Page
Executive meeting of the WSCS of the Methodist Church will be held Thursday evening at the home of Mrs Julius Fischer. Circle leaders and officers are requested to be present for reports. Girl Scouts and Brownies meet on the athletic field Thursday at 7 p m. M M Club meets Friday night with Mrs Gertrude Ray and potluck lunch. Several local residents and visitors are noted in this week’s social items, with families traveling to Columbus and back. The albatross note explains how the black footed albatross takes off after a run of 60 to 70 feet against wind.
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Nelsonville
WSCS
Methodist Church
Julius Fischer
M. M. Club
Gertrude Ray
Madison St
Jack Bowlin
Pacific Islands
Three Youths Pass Tests for Navy
Nelsonville youths Jack Maurer Charles Whyte and Cary Bud Hull aged 17 to 18 passed Navy physicals and will report in Columbus Friday for assignment to a training station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelsonville
Jack Maurer
Charles Whyte
Cary “Bud” Hull
U. S. Navy
Columbus
Service Men From York Returns On Leave
Nelsonville welcomes Lt. Col. Ted Voigt after a 10 week machine gunnery course at Camp Lejeune. He arrives with wife and son to stay with his parents, while Herbert E. Woody returns to Great Lakes after a five day leave with family. Tech Sgt. Wm. Friederich visits from Camp Ellis for two weeks with wife and relatives. Pfe. Arthur A. Kennedy, from maneuvers in Louisiana, now at Fort Fisher with a heavy artillery battalion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelsonville
Ted Voigt
Camp Lejeune
N. C
F. C. Voigt
Newark
Herbert E. Woody
S 2E
MD Corps
Great Lakes, Ill
Daugther
Tech
Wm. Friederich
Camp Ellis, Ill
Pfe
Arthur A. Kennedy
Louisiana
Fort Fisher
Three Men Fined by Mayor Howe
Nelsonville police filed two counts of quarreling and fighting and two of intoxication against Foster Tolliver of Columbus, Barney Pearson Jr. of Nelsonville, and Charles Courtney of Nelsonville after an East End altercation Monday night. Tolliver pled guilty and was fined 10 dollars and costs for quarreling and fighting and five dollars and costs for intoxication. Pearson was fined five dollars and costs for intoxication after pleading guilty. Courtney was charged with quarreling and fighting and will be arraigned Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelsonville
East End
Foster Tolliver
Columbus
Miles Howe
Barney Pearson, Jr
Charles Courtney
West Virginia U. President Ousted in Morgantown Move
Dr. Charles F. Lawall was removed as president of West Virginia University by the board of governors in Morgantown after Governor Neely appointed five new members. Three voting members, McIntosh Townsend and Deem, backed the ouster and left the meeting. Students protested the action calling for an end to politics in higher education. The governor left the campus as coins spilled from his pocket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Charles FE. Lawall
West Virginia University
Board of Governors
Morgantown
Lawall
Neely
Frederick ¥. McIntosh, Jr
Spencer
Tom €. Townsend
Charleston
Fred B. Bdeem
Clarksburg
South Side Man Injured by Falling Tree in Point Pleasant
Robert Kinnaird, 70, of South Side, suffered a fractured ankle, cuts, and bruises when a failing tree branches struck him Monday afternoon near Red House and Plymouth. He received care at Point Clinic. injuries described as not serious. The storm, stronger in the region, caused extensive damage.
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Point Pleasant
Robert Kinnaird
South Side
Point Clinic
Patton Home from Pacific Area to Visit Nelsonville Family
Jack Patton son of Mr and Mrs James Patton 298 Adams St Nelsonville has been overseas with the U S Army since March 1940 arriving in San Francisco June 19 and will visit home shortly M Sgt Patton with the 23d Bombardment Squadron Army Air Force was at Hickam Field during Pearl Harbor survived a bombing and served in Guadalcanal New Georgia and Admiralty Islands since early service He is a 1936 Nelsonville High School graduate and formerly worked for Athena Brick Corp prior to enlistment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelsonville
Jack Patton
James Patton
Adams St
U. S. Army
Hawaiian Islands
San Francisco
Patton
Army Air Force
Hickam Field
Pearl Harbor
South Pacific
Guadalcanal
New Georgia
Admiralty Islands
Nelsonville High School
Athena Brick Corp
Corning Social Notes and Baker Rites in Point Pleasant
Corning social notes record visits by Miss Thelma Latta Mona June Wright Vernie Wycinski Ruth Murphy Helen Klarenbeck Winnie Roof Norma Woods Leona Eddy and others from Columbus Newark Cincinnati and Columbus visitors with local families. The Baker funeral for Geneva Baker Kanawha Eight Mile Creek in Point Pleasant was conducted by Rev. Wilbur Baxter with burial at Wolf Valley Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mona June Wright
Columbus
Willis Wright
Vernie Wycinski
Ruth Murphy
Newark
al Fellows
Henry Hermey
Helen
Margaret Klarenbeck
George Klarenbeck
Winnie Roof
Norma Woods
Leona Eddy
L. J. Fimann
Mary Lou
Don
Margaret Halsma
B. J. Souders
Sue Johnson
Margaret
Cincinnati
RB. J. Souders
Helen Kochs
Virgil Reidel
Henry Kochs
Lewis Distelzweig
Maurice Rodgers
John Exenkemper
Jacksonville
Mary Carolyn Baker
Moxahala
Harley Rugg
Arthur Thexton
Zanesville
June Hensler
Walter Baker
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Ind
Mary Carolyn
New Lexington
Baker
Point Pleasant
Wilbur Baxter
Geneva Baker
Kanawha Eight Mile Creek
Wolf Valley Cemetery
Dover Man Succumbs After Defense Plant Injuries
Walter Slisher 27, a Chauncey native and Dayton defense plant worker, died from injuries suffered about a year ago. He leaves wife Helen McKee Slisher and two daughters Betty Louise 6 and Ruth Ann 4, along with his parents, a sister Mary Slisher Dowler, and four brothers all of Chauncey. Funeral arrangements not set. friends may call after seven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chauncey
Walter Slisher
George Slisher
Dayton
Helen McKee Slisher
Betty Louise
Ruth Ann
George
Elizabeth Slisher
Mary Slisher Dowler
George, Jr
Rolland
Charles Sweeney Reported Missing in Action
Chauncey Mrs Charles P Sweeney of Chauncey and Marion says their son Charles Sweeney with the infantry on the Anzio Beachhead in Italy is missing in action after eight months of service. He was inducted at Marion and his wife Ann and sister Mrs Robert Phillips live there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chauncey
Charles P. Sweeney
Marion
Sweeney
War Department
Charles Sweeney
Anzio
Italy
Ann
Robert Phillips
Chauncey Social Notes and Local Moves
Chauncey residents visit Charles P. Sweeney at High Street while Erma Roberts relocates to Totman property Mill Street and James Staley occupies Roberts former apartment. Buddy Howard of Chauncey fights a serious foot infection. Mrs. Nicholas Bendervich returns home from St Francis Hospital in Columbus after ten days of care and shows improvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chauncey
Robert. Phillips
Betty
Herbert Capehart
Marion
Charles P. Sweeney
High St
Erma Roberts
Guy Osborne
Converse St
Totman
Mill St
James Staley
Roberts
Chauncey Charles Harvey
Buddy) Howard
C. R Howard
Nicholas Bendervich
Sand Ridge
Millfield
Warrens Ambulance
St. Francis Hospital
Columbus
Bond Sales Reach $200,643 In Fifth War Loan Drive
Bond sales totaled $200,643.75 after an $18,187.50 Wednesday increase. Miss Glorianna Foster, in charge at the Fifth War Loan Bond headquarters in the Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric office, reports progress toward the county’s $800,000 quota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Glorianna Foster
Columbus
Stolen Cars Recovered in Lawrence County
Sheriff Hatfield found Carl Drummond's car stolen Saturday night near Scotttown. Clyde Mitchell's vehicle taken from Downtown Printing Company and later recovered parked near the sheriff's office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Carl Drummond
E. E. Hatfield
Scotttown
Lawrence County
Clyde Mitchell
Downtawn Printing Company
Sheriff's Office
Road Work Progresses on Route 17 East
Mat Stribling of the local state road commission said yesterday four to five miles of stone base have been laid from the paving end east of Henderson to the Lanier farm on Route 17. He noted good progress being made.
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Point Pleasant
Mat Stribling
State Road Commission Office
Henderson
Lanier Farm
Former Chauncey Resident Injured in Fall
Charles McCoy longtime Chauncey resident employed at the ice plant sustained a fall injury. He is in Sheltering Arms Hospital Athens with a leg amputated below the knee and is confined to a wheelchair at his home 104 West State Street Athens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chauncey
Charles McCoy
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Athens
W. State
Willard Watkins Jr. Goes to Great Lakes
Willard Watkins Jr. son of Mrs Pauline Palmer Watkins Chauncey enlisted in the Navy June 6 and left for the Great Lakes Naval Station. He was accompanied to Columbus by his mother and sister Nancy Watkins and visited local families over the weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chauncey—Williard Watkins Jr
Pauline Palmer Watkins
Chauncey
Navy
Great Lakes Naval Station
Columbus
Nancy Watkins
Homer Cunningham
Montford Cunningham
Agnes Cunningham Ganzer
L. L. Sweazy
Pauline Watkins
Nancy
County Home at Chauncey Reopens After Repairs
Chauncey report from A. L. Jandes superintendent notes improvements at the County Home. Front entrance concrete steps have been rebuilt and the inmates' kitchen replastered with new paint and redecorated. Work done by C L Williams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chauncey
A. L. Jandes
C L. Williams
Falls From Truck Injures State Worker in Chauncey
CHAUNCEY Bart H. Pettit, Millfield, a state highway worker, fell from a truck on Tuesday and suffered fractured ribs and severe bruising. He was transported to Dr. Sanders' office. Seaman George Smith, Chauncey, recently finished his boat training at Bainbridge Maryland and is visiting family in Wonderland. On Sunday Mr and Mrs Smith visited Chauncey hosted by his aunts Mrs Marinda Cruikshank and Jennie Courtney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chauncey
Bart H. Pettit
Millfield
Sanders
George Smith
Bainbridge, Md
Wonderland
Mrs Tony Vargo Removed for Treatment in Athens
Chauncey Mrs Tony Vargo of Millfield was taken by Warrens Ambulance Tuesday to Sheltering Arms Hospital in Athens for treatment.
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Chauncey
Tony Vargo
Millfield
Warrens
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Athens
County GOP Leaders To Meet Saturday
Bartow Jones, retiring county chairman, calls first meeting of the new county executive committee. It will gather in the courthouse at 11 o'clock Saturday to name a new chairman, apportion delegates to the state convention, set district convention dates, and plan for the fall campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Fairmont
Bartow Jones
Jones
Point Clinic Births and Discharges At Local Center
Point Clinic reports the birth of a son named Kenneth Carol weighing 80 pounds to Mr and Mrs Olvey Lloyd Kef fer of Leon at the home Monday. Mrs Jeff McAllister and infant daughter of Apple Grove and Mrs Arthur Eads and infant son of Route 2 were discharged. Tonsilectomies were performed yesterday on Mabel Nibert Harold Mayes Carolyn Mayes Russell Osher Florence McDaniel Jackie Lee Selby Marcella Rhoades Linda Oliver at Bellemeade.
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Point Pleasant
Point Clinic
Kenneth Carol
Olvey Lloyd Keffer
Leon
Jeff McAllister
Apple Grove
Arthur Eads
Route 2
Mabel Nibert
Harold and
Carolyn Mayes
Gallipolis Ferry
Russell Osher
Route 1
Florence McDaniel
Jackie Lee Selby
Marcella Rhoades
Linda Oliver
Bellemeade
Musgrave Sells Huntington Property After Rent Curbs
In Huntington C G Musgrave visited to view real estate but sold a residence on Fast Second Street that had been rented at a low wartime rate. He attended a court sale of the Day and Night Bank Building, bought for 109000 with 30000 down and ten equal annual installments, no prepayment option.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Musgrave
Huntington
Fast Second St
Lavoptik Eye Drops Ad with Bellarmine Jug
An advertisement touts Lavoptik eye drops for inflamed eyes and irritated eyelids with a money back guarantee. The ad claims relief from itching burning and tired eyes and includes an eye-cup and a Bellarmine stoneware jug as a novelty item, noting a 30 year succor claim and broad consumer praise.
Change in Paper Date Skips June Collection
Point Pleasant reports Elmer Grueser, chairman of the waste paper and fats salvage committee, announced the next collection date is moved from June 24 to mid July, likely July 16, due to possible interference with the war loan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Elmer Grueser
Waste Paper and Fats Salvage Committee
Peterson's Ointment Relief for Eczema and Skin Irritations
A simple way to quick relief from itching eczema pimples red blotches and other skin irritations is by applying Peterson's Ointment to the affected parts. It relieves itching promptly and makes the skin look and feel better. Also soothing for tired itchy feet and cracks between toes. 35c at all druggists money back if not satisfied.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peterson
Also Mentioned on This Page
Athens Messenger
Ohio
William Butt
Nelsonville Social Notes
Cuiab
Orrin Thacker, Sr
James T Sheard
C. G Shep
Harry Edington
Margie Ann Warren
Jean Evans
W. L. Lawson
Montgomery
W. Va
H. EF. Woody
Martha
Marjorie Pierce
Donna Gill
Leland Pierce
Gons
Leland and
Raymond
Marjorie Roberts
Florida
Meda Dempster
France
Normandy
York
Howe
West Virginia U
Pacific Area
Corning Social Notes
Corning
Thelma Latta
Dover
Gem Pharmacy
K. of
P. Bidg
Nelsonville, O
Wilson's Store
Chauncey, Ohio
Willard Watkins Jr
Great Lakes
County Home
GOP
At Point Clinic
C.G
Tad's Bar
Carbondale
Kimberly Road
Globe
Coca-Cola Company
Parkersburg
Coca-Cola Bottling Company
Aue
Coca-Cola
Stars and Stripes
Washington
Lexington
Saratoga
Yorktown
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