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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1944
Page
2
Mayor Miles Howe announced a new Nelsonville crackdown on dogs running at large. The campaign begins Saturday April 1 with the county dog warden assisting. Loose dogs will be captured and held at a pound and destroyed if unclaimed.
Government table effective April 2, 1944 replaces March Table No 12. It details consumer point values and Blue Change adjustments for meat fats fish and dairy products. The notice specifies price per pound changes and lists active regions or categories affected by the wartime price program.
Nelsonville First Methodist announces Easter War Time services April 2 with Sunday School at 9 30 worship at 10 30 by Rev William M George on The Kingship of Jesus youth and adult services at 6 and 7 o clock union communion on April 6. Church of Christ outlines War Time Bible School at 9 30 worship at 10 30 sermon The Uncrowned King and Keepers of the Keys at 7 30 with Christian Endeavor meetings at 6.
Nelsonville observes China Book Week with a curated list of works available at the public library. The collection includes titles by Nourse Buck Lin Yutang Crow Whelan and Roosevelt among others, with reading guidance from librarian Miss Dorothy Wightman. April readings run through the month and Palm Sunday services at Epiphany Church are announced with Lent morning prayers at 7:00.
The item explains that times listed as E.WT. are one hour ahead of State Time and gives an example with No 4 Diplomat Daily leaving Athens at 12 34 a m Athens time. It then instructs to subtract one hour from each specification.
Nelsonville notes report eight members and one guest Miss Nellie Hamer responded to roll call as Miss Elizabeth Linton led devotions from the upper room. The group sang Brighten the Corner and Work for the Night is Coming. A brief business session and social hour followed.
Leo King of Springfield will represent the State Organization Department and speak at the district Eagles meeting in Nelsonville on Sunday afternoon April 2 at 2 o'clock. Mayor Earl Schob of Marietta will also speak. Robert Green district director and William Murray Sty district chairman lead the event. Plans for the rally are complete.
Red Cross solicitation in residential districts has produced multiple contributions. Listed donors include Mrs Fannie Williams, Mrs Marie Ashworth, Miss Alice Dusky, Mrs Ethel Moore, Mrs Thelma Starkey, Mrs Edith Betts, Mrs Rose Weigand, Mrs Mayme Fisk, Juanita Brown, Mrs Edith Patton, Miss Louise Shafer, Woman's Community Club, Daughters of American Revolution, Mrs Eleanor Kelly, Retta Howe Sunday School Class. Amounts range from $1 to $33.36.
Pfc Howard Hartman visits his Oak Grove parents while stationed at Camp Gruber Okla. Lieut Velma Popoczy of Camp Atterbury Ind, daughter of Mrs Velma Popoczy Murray City, promoted to captain after nursing school at Mt. Carmel Columbus Class of 1935 and Army Nurse Service enlistment in 1942. Jack Pritchard from Nelsonville arrives in England as his parents are advised.
The body of 65 year old William Louis Kennedy was found in his Murray City home after neighbors reported a two day absence. Officials say he probably died of a heart attack while smoking a cigarette and the bed clothing was still smoking. He resided alone and had been in ill health. Kennedy leaves a son, William, at the Licking County Tuberculosis Sanitarium, and a deceased daughter. Funeral services are set for Saturday at 2 in the Stout Funeral Home with burial in Buchtel Cemetery.
Mason County draft board chief Pat M. Wilson warns rumors about deferments hurt individuals. He says records justify actions, and public disclosure would be unjust. Wilson notes many rumors are unfounded and harm local men.
Mrs. Gail Faires hosted her bridge club at 702 Main St with two tables. Hilde rath Armstrong won first and Ora P. Biddle second. Guests included Mrs. Biddle Juliet Smith and Edward Newell. Mrs. Faires offered refreshments. Elsie Vaught spent Wednesday in Charleston with sister E Houston Halstead. Riley A. Blessing Charleston attorney visited here a business neighbor to F G Musgrave for nearly 40 years. Mrs. John J. Dower Sr. improves after ten days in Holzer Hospital. Dower daughters Powers and Wallace remain with her. Everett Sayre of Charleston, formerly from Capehart, was in town for business. Prosecuting Attorney William H. Bardin returned from New York City. Mrs. E C Winger and Lem Shifler visited Charleston. Mrs. Joseph Lawrence and her son Joseph of Arlington, Va. stayed with uncle W W Riley Jr.
Mrs. Hattie Elizabeth Tippett wife of H E Tippett died at her Wilmette Illinois home on March 22 She was a Henderson native who lived in Point Pleasant Plattsburg New York and San Francisco as a government inspector Survived by husband two daughters Mrs Josephine Potter Minneapolis and Mrs William Palhatchet Wilmette and son Frank Tippett Detroit Cremation completed ashes to be sent to Lone Oak Cemetery for burial
A meeting of AAA county and community committeemen in the courthouse aimed to finish a war food administration survey. Gibbs reported 1,196 Mason County farmers already ordered 12,500 tons of limestone in 1944, with 12,143 tons in 1943.
Mount Hope entrepreneur and politician Patrick Henry Garrett, Republican candidate for state treasurer, spent hours in Mason County rallying support. A Mount Hope native, he led First National Bank of Mount Hope until its voluntary closing in 1940 and has served as mayor since 1934 with multiple reelections. Garrett also operates in real estate coal mining and retail gas sales and introduced strip mining to Southern West Virginia in 1942, later expanding to Kentucky and Tennessee.
W E Kirk of Hogsett said yesterday that the Mason County Farm Bureau membership goal for 1944 has nearly been reached. Kirk is vice president and heads the membership committee.
Mrs. Robert A. Shaw, 71, widow of the late attorney who represented Wall Street interests, died in New York City Wednesday night. She was a native of Marietta Ohio and the daughter of the late Seth and Mary Helm Wilhelm. Survived by daughter Miss Elizabeth Shaw who lived with her mother.
Walden F. Roush Ernest Kincade R. J. Heslop and Miss Hildreth Arm strong met with Farley Bell from the State OCD in the City Building to discuss a local organization offering pre induction instruction for entering service members and postwar aid for education or job placement. Bell also outlined a recreation center for youths to 18 with supervised activities including dancing and indoor sports. The service men's group would provide inductees with preliminary training to reduce time before combat.
Jordan one of two inmates who escaped from a prison labor camp near Pliny was spotted by Buck Fruth on Ohio Route 7 near the Mason Pomeroy bridge and captured. He had been sentenced to ten years for breaking and entering. Albert Kitchen, also at large from Ohio County, reportedly has a 25 year term and was on his third escape attempt.
Russia had about 24 000 physicians and surgeons in World War I while Stalin's USSR boasted roughly 160 000 medical personnel when Germany launched invasions.
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