Roadside Beautification Talk Guides Nelsonville Civic Groups
State Highway Department landscape chief Dallas D. Dupre spoke to the Garden Club and Rotary Club in Nelsonville, outlining ten years of highway beautification and roadside park work. He noted no state funds buy sites for roadside parks, all such lands must be donated, and emphasized simple planting with trees and shrubs for towns and highways.
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Nelsonville
Dallas
D. Dupre
State Highway Department
Highway Department
Marietta
Garden Club
James Beard
Fayette St
Dupre
Mr. McCormick
Rotary Club
Beard
Kenneth Orwiler
Rotary
Ida Putnam
J. M. Hyde
State Department
Ohio
Orwiler
C. D. Shafer
Athens Club
Official table drives Ada consumer point values for foods
The March ration chart updates processed food points for items such as apples, peaches, grape juice, tomato ketchup, and citrus juices. It notes increases for certain fruits and juice, decreases for apricot and pear juice, shelled beans, prunes, raisins, currants, and dried fruits, and varying point shifts for meats and bacon.
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Fee Camaires
SAUL
Viet
Heme Ouetade
Ete
Shires Cheeses Group II
Neutchatel
Boston Butt
Anne
Comey
Rosie Stine
Boston
Neene
Helly
Zion
Ong Bastion Marmalades
Erie
Semen Abe
New England
What Causes Epilepsy
An advertisement offers free information on epilepsy causes sent to readers by the Educational Division in New York. It notes materials are available by mail to interested individuals and addresses unit Dept. C-1020.
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Ting
Fifth Ave
New York
N. Y
Dept
Geography Club Holds First Meeting in Nelsonville
In Nelsonville the Seventh Grade Geography Club held its first after school meeting Tuesday. Officers elected were Janie Krieg as president Dorothy Ross as vice president and Jean Fick as secretary. The club plans educational and entertaining programs and meets the third Thursday each month.
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Nelsonville
Janie Krieg
Dorothy Ross
Jean Fick
Carnegie Club Holds First Meeting at Nelsonville High
NELSONVILLE The Carnegie Club held its first meeting at the high school. Donna Patton was elected president with Mary Jack Miner as vice president and Helen Miner as secretary treasurer. Members discussed biographies and book reviews and celebrated February birthday themes.
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Nelsonville
Tu Fkers
Donna Patton
Mary Jack Miner
Sec.treas
Helen Miner
Jane Eyre
George Washington
Waverine Hartman
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Donna Mallon
Jean Cooley
Maxine Cope
Jimmy Preston
Anne Preston
Abraham Lincoln
Louise McDaniel
Thomas Edison
Sue McDaniel
Sally Jackson
Arlene Hall
Edna Mae Shaner
Patricia Murphy
Eileen Simmons
Nelsonville Social Notes Highlights Local Visits
Nelsonville residents note Walter Evans on 30 day furlough from SeaBees and Walter Evans to Rhode Island for further duty. Mae Wilde Arnold of Akron visits, with James Evans family hosting and Pythian Sisters meeting planned. Also church meeting by Swams Club and missionary society gathering announced.
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Nelsonville
James Evans
Walter G. Evans
C.M
Mae Wilde Arnold
Akron
O. Walter
SeaBees
Earl Hillery
Adelbert Patton
Frank Betts
Harry Stage
Bronson Davis
Walter Evans
Rhode Island
Ashland
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Mary Dezso
Cincinnati
Sgt
Charles Dezso
New Guinea
Service Men of York Township Leave News
Pfc Paul Barrows stationed in Washington D C arrived Tuesday morning to spend a three day leave with his parents Mr and Mrs John Barrows and other relatives and friends Pvt Charles Robert Pete Glenn recently at Camp Wheeler Ga arrived Monday for a 10 day leave and will report Tuesday at Fort Meade Md Pvt Jack McCall from Fort McClellan Ala has been transferred to the 106th Division at Camp Forrest Tenn and his parents have been advised
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Paul Barrows
Washington, D. C
Naval Research Laboratory
John Barrows
Charles Robert
Pete) Glenn
Camp Wheeler
Fort Meade
Jack Huston Dies At Residence Tuesday
Nelsonville report states Jack Huston age 20 died at his grandmother Gertrude Henshaw 526 Chestnut Street. Funeral Friday at 2 PM Pilgrim Holiness Church conducted by Rev. Ben Awe. Burial in Greenlawn. Survived by father Carl Huston New Lexington, sister Betty, and brother Max living with grandmother after their mother’s death years ago.
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Nelsonville
John
Jack) Huston
Gertrude Henshaw
Chestnut St
Henshaw
Pilgrim Holiness Church
Ben Awe
Greenlawn
Jack
Carl Huston
New Lexington
Betty
Max
Fourth War Bond Drive totals reported in Nelsonville
Tuesday night Doris Pergrin secretary presented ward results for the Fourth War Bond Drive with Blake Mech em, C. Roy Tomlinson, Chas. Schaffer and D. W. Codding leading wards one through four to a combined 109 thousand 734 dollars with over quota by 11 thousand 440 dollars. York Township adds 27 thousand 400 dollars with incomplete returns.
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Nelsonville
Doris Pergrin
Blake Mechem
C. Roy Tomlinson
Chas. Schaffer
D. W. Codding
York Township
Army men return from furloughs and visits noted
Corporal John W. Turn returned to the Army air base in Richmond Virginia after a 10 day furlough spent with his wife and parents. Mrs Turn and Mrs Carl Turn and son Richard visited friends in Barberton during the furlough. Miss Elizabeth Turn visited her parents over the weekend. Pvt John H. Wooten returned to Elkins West Virginia after a few days with his wife and son. A botanist notes bananas grapefruit grapes and other fruits as berries.
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John W. Turn
Army Air Base
Richmond
Turn
Carl Turn
Richard
Barberton
Elizabeth Turn
John H. Wooten
Elkins
W. Va
Worker Fractures Hand in Bellemeade Fall
Neb bergall an employee of Marietta Manufacturing Co. is off work this week after fracturing his right hand in a fall at his Bellemeade home. Gophers are able to dig holes three feet straight down.
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Point Pleasant
W. C. Nebbergall
Marietta Manufacturing Co
Bellemeade
Nelsonville Cable Store marks 95th anniversary
Nelsonville’s oldest family-run mercantile, Cable’s Hardware Store, celebrates 95 years since Charles Cable opened a general store on W. Washington Street in 1849. The firm evolved through Cab le family leadership, expanded floor space, modernized displays, added a complete grocery department, and remains a fixture as of this week.
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Nelsonville — Cables
Nelsonville
Charles Cable
Washington St
Charles A. Cable
Capt. Cable
Eugene J. Cable
C. A. Cable & Co
Cable
Moore
S. E. Dean
Service Club Meets at American Legion Building
Nelsonville York Township Service Club held a February 28 meeting at the American Legion building. President Mrs. Parker S. Sniffen led, Grace Shepard gave the flag pledge and prayer, and a talk on the Red Cross Drive followed. Kits were distributed, social time with tea and cookies concluded, with guests Mrs. Ida Duskey Mrs. Gerald Nelson Jr. and Mrs. Max Sniffen.
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Nelsonville
York Township
American Legion
Parker S. Sniffen
Grace Shepard
Sniffen
Red Cross
United States
Bessie Stephenson
Ida Duskey
Gerald Nelson Jr
Holden
Maine
Max Sniffen
Chicago
Nelsonville High School Bond and Stamp Drive Surges
At Nelsonville High School Tuesday the sale of stamps and war bonds topped prior periods with stamps totaling 87.20 and War Bonds 56.25 in cash value. Room 204 led bond sales with 22.75 across rooms and multiple rooms report strong purchases as students continue to buy at a higher rate than last term.
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Nelsonville
Nelsonville High School
Elks Initiate 16 In Nelsonville Watson Wolfe Class
Sixteen candidates were initiated by the Elks in Nelsonville forming a class named for Watson Wolfe the local secretary. Short talks were given by Miles Howe Watson Wolfe and Robert Green district director. A fish fry fed about 100 members after the lodge session.
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Nelsonville
Eagles
Watson Wolfe
Miles Howe
Robert Green
Arrest Girl After House Burns Down
A Goosetown First Ward home burned Tuesday morning with firemen arriving at 10 30 to find the building destroyed. Miss Marie Burgess is arrested on a charge of incendiarism and to be arraigned today. Mrs Ella Booth, the widow occupant, reported prior trouble with Burgess. Burgess had just been released from county jail for intoxication days earlier.
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Point Pleasant
Goosetown
First Ward
Crooked Creek
William H. Bardin
Marie Burgess
Ella Booth
Miss Burgess
Suit for Divorce Filed in Mason City
Gladys Thomas sues Everette Thomas for divorce in the Mason circuit court. They married in 1926 and lived in Mason City where they owned a home and a grocery store. She alleges he was convicted of a felony in a 1943 federal court and his last known address was the Tallahassee Federal Prison in Florida.
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Point Pleasant
Gladys Thomas
Everette Thomas
Tallahassee Federal Prison
Fla
Mason City
Sell Stock of Country Club Homes in Point Pleasant
Raymond Wharton and Barton Jones have disposed of their stock in Country Club Homes Inc and are no longer involved with the housing project begun two years ago and finished in 1943. About 150 homes were built on a 27 acre tract once known as the Country Club land. Seventy three homes were recently sold under deeds of trust to Buckeye Savings and Loan Co. which financed the project under the federal emergency housing program. A. E. Thomas has succeeded to management as local real estate agent.
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Point Pleasant
Raymond Wharton
Barton Jones
Country Club Homes, Inc
Country Club Land
Fairgrounds
Buckeye Savings and Loan Company
Bellaire, C
Building Residence for Sandy Lewis at Poplar Grove Farm
A four room cottage with full basement is planned on Poplar Grove Farm at Gallipolis Ferry to replace a burned dwelling. The new house will house one of the tenant families aiding Poplar Grove Farm’s productivity in the Ohio Valley.
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Point Pleasant
C. A. Alen
Sandy Lewis
Poplar Grove Farm
Gallipolis Ferry
Ohio Valley
Some Don’ts for Pimples Advertisement
A brief advertising note promotes Peterson’s Ointment for pimples eczema and itching. It claims quick relief and a 35 cent price with money back if not delight. The copy also touts soothing tired or itchy feet and cracks between toes.
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Peterson
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