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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1943
Page
2
A scrambled newspaper classifieds page outlines ad submission rules for the CLAS Phone section. It mentions lines per ad, payment by cash or card, obituary notices, and a three day window for claims directed to Anne. The text is garbled but resembles a standard classified ads guidance parchement.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions a local unit, a meeting time, and names like Athens Verne F and Fred art. The garbled lines reference a reward and a bookpenter, with scattered numbers and places. The readable content is insufficient for a coherent event or outcome.
Nelsonville Board of Education re employed janitors and special school officers for the coming year. The session approved bills and noted donations to the swimming pool fund. Secretaries, the school nurse, and custodians were retained, and fall cleaning plans were outlined. Home Economics will move to Room 313 in the Senior High building under Miss Pauline Fierce.
The Coal Co. in Point Pleasant installs a steel conveyor to speed coal handling. Sheriff Lieving and son H A Lieving own the mine and say the device doubles output by moving coal along the seam face from room to entry, then into cars. The electrically powered system aims to meet rising demand amid labor shortages.
Eudora Chapter No 72 Order of the Eastern Star observed Friendship Night at the Masonic Temple with about 50 members and guests present. Welcome by Mrs Ida Hill and a response by Roy Sayers followed by group singing, solos, readings, and refreshments marking the last meeting until September.
Nelsonville social items report bridge club guests and high scores with Florence Wood and Phyllis Mills noted as guest players. Announced M.M. Club annual picnic at Rachelmacker Park Logan with car pooling due to transportation limits. Circle 4 S C S meets at Mrs. William George home with nine members and study chapter presented. Local residents travel to Jefferson Barracks and Fort Bragg for family visits and employment opportunities.
Evangelist Nelsonville camp meeting will run June 28 to July 11 at Beech Grove east of Nelsonville on U.S. Rt. 33. Sponsored by Pilgrim Holiness Churches of Athens Hocking Fairfield and Ferry Counties. Evening services at 7 30 and Sundays at 2 30 and 7 30. Rev B A Awe chairs, Rev William Brown secretary, C G Hartman treasurer. Rev FE P Qualls evangelist. Song evangelists Rev and Mrs William Stone. Public invited to all services.
The Nelsonville South Haydenville Church of God lists Sunday School at 9 30 a m evangelistic services at 10 30 a m divine healing and ordination at 2 p m young people meeting at 7 p m and evening evangelistic services at 8 o clock led by Rev Morton Thomas with the sermon The Trail of Blood From Eden to Calvary.
Gerald Forbes son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Forbes of 208 Myers Street is training at the U S Naval Station Great Lakes. He enlisted in May and reported June 19 mark of his departure. He belonged to Nelsonville High School’s last graduating class.
Jack Wooley of Willoughby Ohio, formerly Nelsonville, left June 19 to join the Naval Training Station at Great Lakes Illinois after enlisting in May. Murray City PD party slated for June 28 at 8 p.m. in the K of P Hall with officer installations set for July 2.
Mr and Mrs W H Vaught were summoned to the Montgomery hospital bedside of their son Stephen K Vaught who has been a patient since early in the week his condition listed as critical.
Nelsonville. Rev. Wm. M. George of the First Methodist Church will preach on The Eternal Amen at morning worship Sunday at 10 30. Sunday School starts at 9 30 and Youth Fellowship at 6 o'clock.
Gallipolis 4 H Club elected officers led by Betty Miller as president and Doris Nowlan as vice president. Ruth Miller secretary treasurer Opalene Nichols as vice secretary treasurer Norma Arnold named news reporter Rebecca Hughes recreation leader Doris Simms assistant recreation leader. Next meeting set for July 6 at 7:30 pm at Centreville School Building.
At Church of Christ Nelsonville delegates to the Philadelphian Youth Conference sponsored by the Ohio Christian Missionary Society will be commissioned. Delegates include David Davis Marie Davis Arlene Hall Mary Jack Miner Helen Miner Margaret Warren Edna Mae Shaner Ella Jane Shaner. Conference runs Sunday afternoon to July 4 with services and sermons by Rev. L. E. Evans.
Mrs Parker S Sniffen hosted the Retta Howe Class of the M E Church for a picnic dinner on June 23 in Nelsonville. Twenty members attended including new members Mrs Olive Hardy and Mrs Pence from Carbon Hill. The next meeting will be at Mrs Robt Whitmore's on Buchtel Road.
Navy seeks construction workers aged 17 to 50 for voluntary enlistment in the SEABEES. Interested men may meet Construction Officer Lieut. Walter Potokar in the Gallipolis Post Office Building on Saturday June 26 for interviews at 9:30 a.m. or afternoon, then proceed to Cincinnati for a Navy physical and draft processing.
Robert Rannells, cashier of the Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Company, was elected treasurer of the Gallia County Chapter of the American Red Cross, to begin July 1. He succeeds Robert F. Ru land, praised for wartime drive service and steady office efficiency.
GALLIPOLIS A petition was filed Thursday morning in a suit brought by C C Thornton as guardian of Ann Thornton a minor age 19. Defendants are Walter Lane Joe Moch as executor of the estate of Gladys Lane Ripley deceased William L Ripley a minor 19 years of age Dave Dixon Lillian Buckley and R M Switzer. The plaintiff seeks her share of the estate in Ohio of her grandfather the late John W Lane.
Dr. J. W. Diddle of Henderson credits a George Spencer farm turkey hen with laying 93 eggs and hatching 84 of them as part of a World War II food production story. The hen and gobbler, on Kanawha Three Mile, near Henderson, continued laying with eggs set and hatched, while more eggs arrived for future settings.
Captain A R Martin will travel to Washington on Saturday to attend the wedding of his granddaughter Miss Katherine Averill Butterfield to Mr. Winfield Scott Preston Jr. The ceremony is set for Wednesday, June 30, at 12 noon at the Admiral Club.
Elephants are capable swimmers and can breathe while submerged using their trunks as peri scopic breathing tubes.
Six volunteers and 55 selectees from Mason County were summoned for final examination and induction. They will depart July 2 for Huntington induction, then may return home for 21 days before training. Names include Emile Jiiden, Kermit Little, Elroy Kaylor, Oren Barker, Ernest Ballard, Raymond Hill, and 55 others from Gallipolis Ferry, Point Pleasant, Apple Grove, Letart, New Haven, Hartford, Arbuckle, Grimms Landing, Mason, Elmwood, West Columbia, Ashton, Glenwood, Cottageville, Beech Hill, and transfers from Washington County Ohio.
Circuit Clerk Vernon Jones received a court order suspending the three day delay after an application. Warren Sullivan of Elmwood and Miss Eleanor Smith of Elmwood were named beneficiaries of the leniency granted by Judge Lewis H. Miller in vacation by telephone.
Funeral services for Mrs. Letha Jane Newell age 71 were held at Viers Chapel Church. She is survived by husband George Newell and several sons including Arnold Robert and J W Newell and daughters Mrs Virgie Pittsenberger Mrs Edna Thomas and others.
Mrs Melis sa Hellems and her daughter Miss Mary Hellems traveled to Columbus for the funeral of Jama G. Hellems age 82 who died at a daughter’s home. He is survived by his widow another daughter Mrs Myrtle Cook and three grandchildren all of Columbus.
Invitations go to about 80 young residents for a dance hosted by Miss Nancy Ferguson Miss Patricia Ingraham and Miss Annette Lewis in the Parish House with Cline's Orchestra from Middleport providing music at 9 30 Monday. Hostesses mothers Mrs Robert H Ferguson Mrs C C Lewis and Mrs F W Ingraham to chaperon.
C W Withers principal of Senior High School will keynote the Lewis District Sunday School convention at Main Street Baptist Church Sunday 1 30 to 4 p m His topic Christian Basis of a Just and Durable Peace The session opens with devotionals and contributions followed by a round table on Sunday school needs led by F A Morrison Officers present include L A McMillin president P H Steenbergen vice president L L Caldwell secretary treasurer and department heads Vernon Jones Josie Smith J B Couch Bertha Filson Miss Bessie Johnson Holly Simmons Miss Goldie Pratt Miss Inez Barnette The meeting ends with roll call reports nominations and officer elections.
Ben Roush, 58, Apple Grove, a state road commission employee, was struck on the head with a timber Wednesday night over chickens in a garden. He has a skull fracture and was listed fair but improving at the Point Clinic. Marvin Knott, of Apple Grove, was arrested and held to the September grand jury on $1,000 bond after waiving a hearing.
Point Pleasant reports a revival at the Holiness Tab ernacle Henderson led by evangelist Rev Cole. Interest is strong and growing as services continue.
Mr and Mrs Lemuel Lieving and children of Detroit will spend the weekend with Sheriff and Mrs F B Lieving. Miss Bethel Newman of Wayne assisted Mason County Public Assistance this week. Elwyn Bull from Norfolk joined The Marietta drafting department. Bobby Joe Chapman visits grandfather Edward Green in Gallia Ohio. Dr C W Petty of Hartford was in town for business. Attorney Nathan Poffenbarger met with Point Pleasant Development Co directors.
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