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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1943
Page
12
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Gallia district reports $1 124 77 raised as of Wednesday with rural areas slow to donate due to poor roads. Marietta Manufacturing Company Warehouse G and Gallia Academy High School credited with reaching 100 percent of their goals.
C H Swanson, former sheriff, remains at home with a heart ailment after a serious recent attack. Rest and quiet were ordered by his physician to aid recovery.
Gallipolis Ohio former polio chief John Fraley suffered another heart attack Monday and will remain confined at his home longer due to the serious condition.
Leona Cummins pleaded guilty to issuing a non sufficient funds check and was bound over to the grand jury after signing a $100 own bond. Shareman Reese was jailed on charges of removing mortgaged property in Gallia County by Sheriff Elmer Hatfield.
Walter Fields driving a Dodge truck collided with a 12 year old boy on a bicycle in an alley on Second Ave. The boy apparently was not injured.
Gallipolis society pages note Mrs. Norris D. Carter hosted a surprise shower for Mrs. Harvey Brown at her home with Misses Sylvia Mayer and Lillian Lambert assisting. Guests played games and enjoyed refreshments as Brown prepares to join her husband at Chanute Field. Also honored was Mrs. Cos Neal on her 80th birthday with a tea in Ironton. Other local notes include the birth of Vernon Keith Rayburn, plans of Mrs. John Halliday, and updates on Merle Warren and Navy-bound John Hollis Davis.
Lincoln School's PTA schedules a March 18 meeting at eight. Miss Alta Steward urges parents and teachers to discuss spring projects and report on the Red Cross War Fund goal of 10 dollars, about seven cents per pupil, with progress expected in the coming month. Absences fall due to sickness as the penny milk program pumps 110 half pints daily for 93 pupils. The operetta Hansel and Gretel and folk dances at Washington Auditorium drew a festive crowd, yielding a balance of 36 dollars after expenses. A new orchestra will form with rhythm instruments by first and second graders and melody by third and fourth graders.
Daniel T Porter 87 of Bladen died Tuesday night at Holzer Hospital. Retired coal miner previously lived with Mrs Walter Porter. Survived by nephew guardian Jim Porter Eureka sister Melissa Halley Eureka and brothers Daniel John William Porter all of Ohio Township. Funeral held at Bethel Church with Rev H W DeWolfe officiating burial at same site.
Gallia County public health workers swing into action after a typhoid fever case in Harrisburg Raccoon Township. Nine persons were inoculated by Wednesday morning as part of an immunization campaign.
The Pastor's Aid Club of Paint Creek Baptist Church will hold a social on Thursday evening March 11 at 8 o'clock at the church. Ice cream pie and coffee will be served and free entertainment will be provided.
In January 1940 Swan Lake near Sitka froze over so thoroughly that local schools dismissed to allow children to skate on the lake.
The angel fish features extended feeler-like appendages that alert it when approaching the sea floor to prevent damage to its delicate lower fins.
Three cars were involved in a Wednesday crash at Locust and Second in Gallipolis. Nicholas Wolfe's car struck C. F. Burton's car moving into Second on Locust and Third, causing Burton to hit Junior Simmon's parked vehicle in front of his dry cleaning business. No injuries. all cars damaged.
GALLIPOLIS Board of Directors met Tuesday night and elected Homer Thomas as president La Vierre Lovett as vice president Clyde Mitchell as secretary and Mac Scott as treasurer for 1943 44.
Governor Bricker asks every graduate nurse in Ohio to cooperate with the national inventory of graduate registered nurses. The effort urges nurses to report current whereabouts for emergencies. registration is voluntary and separate from the draft. Postage is free for questionnaire mailings to those not yet responding.
Funeral services are set for Alex Knight 71 a retired steamboat mate who died at 4 30 p m Wednesday at his Miller Ohio home. The Rev Pearl Dial and the Rev Dennis Wyrick will conduct services at Miller Methodist Church with burial in Miller Cemetery. Knight's father Captain Barlow Knight and grandfather Captain W A Knight were noted rivermen and owners of the Whites Dollar Line. He is survived by two sons Ezra E and W A Knight.
Holzer Hospital reports new admissions including Ed F Jones 59 of Cambria Packing Co Jackson for observation Velma Rayburn 18 months Point Pleasant for treatment Ed Whetstone 64 Wellston admitted for surgical operation Mrs Jennie Counts Gallipolis admitted for observation Discharges include Mrs Mary McGowan Oak Hill Mrs Donald Facemire Charles E Ridge Jackson and Mrs W A Smith Pomeroy.
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