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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1943
Page
3
Local leaders gathered in Pomeroy for a county wide meeting urging the initiation of a soil conservation project. Officials outlined potential methods and invited community input to tailor plan steps and funding.
An old advertisement promotes FASTEETH denture powder to keep false teeth in place. It claims a non-acid formula that prevents slipping and sliding, neutralizes odor, and offers a tasteless feel. No reference to actual 1940 Crocheting Champion.
Ensign Charles Lewis, recently promoted in the Navy, is on a 10 day leave visiting his mother Mrs. Evelyn Lewis and grandmother Mrs. Elizabeth Maupin in Middleport. He will attend a naval communications program at Harvard after duties in the Caribbean and previously worked with The Repository in Canton.
Paul Smart tallies Sunday attendance gains across churches in Middleport as part of the Victory for Christ effort. First Baptist leads with Sunday School up 18 percent and Church Service up 64 percent, followed by Church of Christ with S S up 21 percent and C S up 19 percent, Heath Methodist S S up 20 percent and C S up 18 percent, First Presbyterian S S up 16 percent and C S up 19 percent.
The Meigs County War Price and Rationing Board moves to Guth and Whitlock Building at 115 Lower Second St. Office hours given. Members listed for tires, fuel, food, and other panels. Meigs housewives to begin rationed purchases Monday March 29 with War Ration Book II red stamps A through E valid through April 30. Also obituary: Mrs Barbara Baker, 74, died Tuesday in Columbus. funeral Friday at St. Leo's Church.
Meigs County Probate Court issued licenses to Earl Temple and Ruby Vermillion both of Middleport ages 42 and 29 respectively and Ray Lilly age 28 of Beckley with Clarice Bradford age 24 of Middleport. A muff keeps pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff warm before concerts.
Middleport Chief L. B. Higgins entertained Mayor C. O. Fisher, City Solicitor Edgar Ervin, Clerk C. P. Bradbury, Treasurer Gene Grate, council members, Sheriff Ralph Welker, Deputy Clark, Night Patrolman Wesley Stewart, Hem lock Grove, Mrs. O. P. Klein of The Messenger, and others at a chicken dinner marking one year since he started as night patrolman and merchant police.
Miss Esther Louise Hoyt has transferred from Maryland Heights Missouri to Conly Junior College at Caney Creek Community Center Pippapass Kentucky. The master’s degree holder from Ohio University Athens now serves as critic teacher for Grades 5 and 6 and pledges to teach among her own people in the southern highlands.
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