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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1945
Page
10
Trimble Township prepares for the Seventh War Loan Drive with a meeting set for May 20 in Glouster. Local chair man M. M. Bryson urges all former Lean Drive volunteers to continue in service and directs post office bond credit to Trimble Township.
The article lists a dinner honoring Francis Horner Jr with family and visitors from Murray City and Columbus. Francis Horner Jr reports to Fort Hayes on Tuesday for army induction. Private Bryant Skipper from Glouster writes he is en route to Europe. Sergeant Frank Price from Camp Gruber arrives on furlough. Mission services include Helen E. Tatlman delivering a sermon at Bethel Mission in Glouster Saturday at 7 30 p.m.
Radcliff social notes cover visits by Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Sanford and Mrs. Sanfrd returning from Toledo, a new daughter born April 17 to Thelma Sanford and Warley Osler, and the Osler family. It notes Pfc Harold Dailey’s return to the States from overseas and hospital plans, his service in the Admiralty Islands Leyte and Luzon, and Cpl Edward Dailey overseas in Europe. It lists local family movements, examinations, and calls, plus the death of Mrs Lois Napper and a family obituary detailing survivors and a grandson killed in France.
Senior class of Carthage-Troy High School will present the play Leave to Marry on Tuesday evening May 45 at 8 30. Various social events are noted including a Troy Grange meeting and East ern Star chapter activities at Belpre with attendees listed. Also mentioned are visits, farewells, family gatherings, and a bomber flight mission weather plot.
In Glouster the W C T U held a Mothers Day dinner in Church of Christ social rooms with eleven members and six guests attending. The program featured poems songs prayers and an address on Mother, with two new honorary members announced and illness relief cards signed.
Glouster Ohio notes that Miss Elsie Druggan of Athens spoke on cancer and urged sponsoring literature on the disease. The club voted to accept the invitation and named Mrs Eleanor Anderson as committee chair. Supt Roy Byers presented a history of the rubber industry with films on natural and synthetic rubber. Members thanked Druggan and Byers, and hostess candy was served to several members. The Past Matrons Society plans a Friday meeting at Masonic Hall with Mother’s Day themed roll call.
Trimble Grange met in Grange Hall Saturday evening. The First and Second degrees were conferred on two candidates. A class of 22 will receive the Third and Fourth degrees May 12. The Amesville degree team will perform. Membership drive extended to July 1. Potluck supper followed. Auxiliary to meet Thursday at 7 30 pm in Legion Hall with theme Cuba Pan American relations. Mrs Emmett Byers in charge and refreshment committee named. GLOUSTER PERSONALS report lists local residents visiting and staying with friends during a recent weekend.
Mrs C M Clark hosts a visitor Tuesday evening with Mrs Cora Sturbeck staying for several days.
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