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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1944
Page
2
Eastern War Time will begin in Nelsonville on Saturday April 1 with clocks set forward one hour at 12:01 a.m. March 31. The city council ordinance last October aligned Nelsonville with Central War Time for the six months ending March 31. Clocks will revert to Central War Time on October 1. Victory gardeners welcome the change.
Nelsonville social pages report Tri Pst Sorority dinner with thirty members and a shower for the apartment. Naomi Circle meets Wednesday at Mrs. L. E. Butts home. Theta Mu Club gathering hosted by Peg Barber with eight members and guest Dana Barber. Honor dinner for Gene Shunkwiler before army departure. attendees include extended families from Nelsonville, Willoughby, Detroit, and Columbus. Mrs. Howard Butt returns from Jefferson Barracks visit.
Service men from York District report a Nelsonville reunion in Italy after a letter from Tech Sergeant Bill Y Hall. The event connected Charles Helley Ira Whitmore and Joe North, with Hall later meeting them at his camp. Meanwhile Walter W Chapman of Nelsonville Army overseas, promoted to sergeant, served in Sicily and Italy. Funeral services for Mary Jane Short of Murray City were held, with burial at Bethel Ridge Cemetery.
The Buchtel Service Club schedules a Wednesday meeting March 15 at 7:30 PM in the high school. Attendance urged as important business will be discussed. Legal notice: Etna Katzenbach as Administratrix seeks a court order to sell real estate of John Katzenbach to settle the estate. Bonnie Jean Gillee must answer by April 22, 1944 or judgment.
Garden hints from Victor H. Ries urge careful seed purchases for a family garden. Old seeds may still germinate. use only needed amounts and follow the recommended seed list for a family of four. Suggests optional crops for larger gardens and notes price and purchase details.
Sylvia Cohen pleaded guilty on arraignment for intoxication and paid fine and costs. She filed an affidavit against J. C. Hallett, who pleaded innocent to assault and battery and posted bond for Thursday hearing.
Gallia Red Cross annual drive chairman Albert G. Giles reports $3 693 49 raised through March 11 toward the county goal of 12 800 00. Saturday contributions total 461 18 as he asks precinct chairmen in Gallipolis to report current totals by Wednesday afternoon.
Gallia County chairman Ruth Thom As Cheshire announces a state wide verse writing contest for schools under the State Department of Education. Poems from high school junior high and elementary grades are due April 15 for judging and potential publication in an Ohio poetry brochure. Teachers are urged to cooperate to make the contest worthwhile.
A WAVES recruiter will visit the Gallipolis post office on Wednesday March 15 to interview applicants. Women aged 20 to 35 with no children under 18 and who have two years of high school or business school training are eligible to join.
Ellen M. Burnette daughter of Mrs Eva M Burnette of Gallipolis has graduated from the Naval Training School for Women Reservists at Iowa State Teachers College Cedar Falls Iowa with the rating yeoman third class She is awaiting active duty orders to a shore station within the continental United States
One hundred forty Gallia County young men were sent to Huntington for pre induction physicals the largest single Gallia contingent. The Modern Woodmen committee served coffee and doughnuts at the Courthouse and Rev Safron of Eureka offered prayer for guidance and protection. Names may not be published under Selective Service policy. most men returned to their posts pending called.
GALLIPOLIS R. M. Farmer bought the restaurant on Second Ave adjoining Moore Motor Sales from John Vanden who ran it for nearly 18 years. The transfer happened Saturday night. Vanden plans rest after serving at the stand since November 1936 and ten years earlier in part of the current site. Farmer, World War I veteran and American Legion active, is an engineer and mechanic with no announced plans for the restaurant.
Rev Samuel Wilding of First Presbyterian Jackson conducts three Lent and pre Easter services at the Gallipolis church this week. His sermons cover The Christ with a Steel Face An All Night Wrestle With God and The Dynamic of the Uplifted Christ. Rev Cecil V Marley leaves for Charleston for Navy chaplain exam reporting March 16 at Williamsburg Virginia.
A Point Pleasant Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star hosted a banquet for Worthy Grand Matron Pearl Earle of Elkins during her lodge inspection. The event at Trinity Methodist Church featured J B Couch as toastmaster, singer Barbara Jean Smith with Mandellen Skene on piano, St Patrick theme decor, and a social of numerous chapter members.
Perry Township became the first in Gallia to surpass its Red Cross goal according to Ben R. Evans, campaign head. The committee led by Mrs. Walter Frye raised 295.35 dollars against a 204 dollar target, surpassing it by 1.35 with expectations to raise more. Members include Arlie Davis Will Hutchins and several others.
The Union Furnace Missionary Society held a Friday meeting at Mrs Don Bisbennet’s home with Mrs Dallas Worthman leading and readings by several members. Mrs Worthman elected as new president. Numerous locals attended a funeral in Logan and social visits noted including birthday dinner for Floyd Pence.
Mason County dairyman Barton Jones gains favorable early support for West Virginia commissioner of agriculture. Local officials report Republicans from other counties see him leading in nominations though travel limits exist. Jones plans modest travel to eastern Panhandle and extreme southeast, with farmers praising his business leadership as a potential asset.
The March New Haven Garden Club gathering at Mrs. L J Ruttencutter home in Mason City featured a Birds topic presented by Miss Goldye Hart. John Curtis Roush won first prize in the bird box display with 23 entries, others winning prizes and a program of songs and patriotic numbers followed with refreshments for members and guests.
A daughter Helen Marie weighed 12 pounds born to Mr and Mrs Clarence Bonecutter of Gallipolis Ferry at Point Clinic. Mrs James Smith from Milton, a surgical patient, was discharged home. Weekend discharges include Mrs Eugene Morgan and daughter Cheryl Ann of Leon, Mrs Golden Warner and son John Hobart Route 1, and Mrs Walter Clendenin and son Charles Edward Point Pleasant.
Mrs Otto Carter, chair of the Red Cross Surgical Dressings committee in Gallipolis, announced Monday that the work room will close for the remainder of the week due to a delay in new material arrival.
A wartime report cites an official saying the West Virginia Ord nance Works could produce 120 000 pounds of TNT daily at full capacity across 12 units. Four units now operate at 100 000 pounds daily, totaling 400 000 pounds. Shipping dangers and costs may lead to shutdowns and greater use of coastal plants, The Messenger notes.
Mrs. Caro Line Rayburn widow of Lewis Rayburn died at her Mason County home after a long illness. Born June 25, 1852 she lived nearly 92 years in the county. Funeral from the home at 2:30 Wednesday with burial in Lone Oak Cemetery. Survived by son Dinnie Rayburn and two sisters Lucy Blessing of Cleveland and Mrs John Clendenin of Marion Ohio.
Anderson of Keewatin Minnesota employed at the ordnance works and living in Point Pleasant is said to be ill with spinal meningitis. Mason County Health Department reports no new cases. Mr. Anderson is improving at the plant hospital.
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