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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1944
Page
20
A garbled OCR pass references timing for multiple days and offices. It mentions observers and officials, with unclear dates and periods. The text hints at averages, periods, and revealing full office usage but lacks coherent structure or names.
Corning Railroaders rally to beat Glenford 59 52 in overtime to claim the sectional Class B basketball championship at Logan High School. Chiplinski scores 22, Fitch 16, Fenneken 9 as Corning advances to the regional tourney at Logan Auditorium next Saturday with potential state contention. Ridenour leads Glenford with 13 while Danison and Clark add 10 each.
George Edward Smith of Rockbridge was fined 100 dollars plus costs after appearing before Mayor W D Weltner on a DUI charge. He was taken into custody by a state highway patrol officer over the weekend.
Logan Senior High School announces the honor roll for the fourth six weeks. Juniors make up 18.2 percent of students on the roll, followed by sophomores at 15.9 percent and seniors at 14.7 percent. Names listed include Foreman, Jean and Fox, Catherine among junior honorees. Armstrong, Robert and Bowers, Betty among sophomores. Aurand, Ruth and Brehm, James among seniors.
Logan Harry L. Smith chairs the Hocking County War Price and Rationing Board announces a drive to mobilize control forces among retailers and consumers. A survey of every food store will check common market baskets for selling and ceiling prices to improve compliance and aid stores against black markets.
George Cherry 70, longtime Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad employee and former Orland postmaster, died Saturday after a three week illness. Funeral services are Tuesday at 2 p.m. at his residence with burial in New Plymouth. Survivors include wife Edna Cherry and daughter Mrs. Robert Trowbridge. two sisters and a brother preceded him in death. He was a Presbyterian and Mason.
John Popson 89 a Murray City resident and Ward Township coal miner died Sunday at the county infirmary near Logan after five years as a patient. A native of Czechoslovakia he is survived by one daughter Mrs Joseph Cheroch Barberton Ohio. Services Tuesday at Roberts Funeral Home with burial in Buchtel Cemetery.
The fragmentary text references the Athletic Round Table and serviceman ballots in 1944. It suggests a political or civic context involving the president or related electoral processes, but the readable lines are incomplete and provide limited factual detail.
Corning notes Chronicle social page reports the Pinochle Club at Sam and Delores Frasure home with prizes won by Mrs Hickok and a male winner. Euchre and lunch events list participants and prize recipients. Nearby visits include Ruth Ann and Charlotte Davey of Columbus, and several hospital and church group activities. Missing persons and broader travel are not present.
East End Needle Club meets at Pottery Street home hosted by Mrs. Joe Brooker with sister Mrs. Ray Snider as guest. Contests yield prizes to Mrs. Russell Poling and Mrs. Charles A. Bright. next meeting is March 18 at Mrs. John Weaver’s Church Street residence.
Admissions listed include Miss Jean Bumgardner Nelsonville and Rev Gladstone Woodhouse from Nelsonville. Dismissals include Miss Mary Margaret Johnson from Glouster.
Straitsville reporter lists community happenings from March 12 including Mack McQuade displaying a Lewis Newman attendance record at a barber shop. It notes Newman’s plant career, Dayton residency, FBI involvement, and various local residents’ health moves, travels, and family news across Ohio towns.
Rutland WSCS met at Mrs. Isaac Taylor home with a miscellaneous shower for Mrs. Carl Miller and a bake sale planned for March 18 at Rathburn Store to aid the Red Cross. A separate shower honored Mrs. T. M. Conover at Mr. and Mrs. John Spires home. Cpl. T. M. Conover reports assignment to Camp Atterbury Indiana. Residents and travelers are noted including Murial Stanley from Great Lakes Naval Station and furloughs to London and Scotland in the families of local servicemen.
St Patricks Church sponsors a games party and lunch at the parish hall on March 16 with soup sandwiches pie and cake. Seven Sisters Club meets at Agnes Clark's home. Local notes report clergy aiding during Forty Hours Devotion March 6 7 and 8 and various boot training updates from Great Lakes and naval service personnel.
Chauncey officers report the first Red Cross solicitation in Dover Township was led by Mary and Bonnie McClellan and Madge Hubey from Chauncey Dover High School. They collected 43.50, part of a drive aiming for 2000 dollars or more than two dollars per family. A committee meeting will be held early next week to review progress.
Chauncey resident Virgil Green has returned home from San Fernando Valley California where he visited his brother John Green and family. John Green and three children are visiting Chauncey from California. Virgil plans to go to Pontiac Michigan on Thursday where he was formerly employed.
Chauncey McKinney and wife inform that their son Paul A. McKinney, in the air corps and stationed in England, has been promoted to sergeant. He has been in England since January, after time at New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
The Church of Christ parish lists meetings at Chauncey tonight at seven, Trimble Tuesday at seven, and Greens Run Thursday at seven. Definite plans will be made for special Easter services across the parish.
First Lieut Willard Border and Mrs Border announce the birth of daughter Jacquilyn Ann born Sunday March 12. Grandparents Mr and Mrs Yoho Athens and Mr and Mrs Walter Border Millfield.
Mrs. Eda Heffken will host Millfield Needle Club members at her Millfield home on Wednesday night for a gathering focused on sewing and needlework activities.
A service board dedication at Lottridge drew many parents and friends as students performed plays music and songs under the direction of Miss Marjorie Malone Coolville. Several local families hosted and visited relatives with Army Air Corps induction and furlough updates noted.
Chauncey residents hosted weekend visitors including Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Shafer and Miss Lois Ann Shafer from Columbus. Funeral services for Fireman William A. Finney Jr. were attended in The Plains by Millfield guests.
Staff Sergeant Alfred Gabriel and Mrs. Gabriel formerly Gloria Hintz are visiting family in Chauncey from Camp Blanding. They call on parents Denzil and Mrs. Gabriel and Lettie Coevitz, plus Ralph Gabriel and grandmothers Frances Gabriel and Isabella Coe. Mrs Gabriel works in Camp Blanding Finance Office during furlough.
Members of Mazon Council Degree of Pocahontas will host a quilting party at the D of P Hall in Millfield Tuesday night. A potluck dinner at 6 30 will precede the quilting.
Sixteen people attended an all day quilting and potluck at Mrs. Alan Larson home. Navy induction for C R McKnight was announced with a March 18 departure to Huntington and Great Lakes. Other guests included the Carbaughs Kennedy McKnight and Morrison families. Mickey the Boston bulldog died after 13 years. Cadet nurse Madlyne Morrison visited grandmother A M Morrison. Shanks and Gibbs hosted dinners last Friday.
Reedsville hosts slide program by C E Blakeslee and Geneva H Nolan celebrating National 4 H mobilization week. Garden Club hears talks on essential facts about dehydration and how to set out plants. Red Cross War Fund receives a club contribution. local deaths and visits to Parkersburg noted amid community updates.
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