Nelsonville Graduates Hear Address by M E Pastor
Nelsonville High School held the 1944 bac calaureate with Rev. William M. George of the Methodist Church delivering a sermon titled Foundation Stones for Success. He urged graduates to decide firmly, know themselves, and seek Christ's measure for moral life while facing poverty disease and ignorance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelsonville
William M. George
Methodist Church
Nelsonville High School
Margaret Freyburg
Janet Cope
John Lloyd Evans
L. E. Evans
B. A. Awe
E. C. Bond
George
Washington
Columbus
Martin Luther
Jesus
Community Potluck and Local Social Notes in Stewart
Stewart Saturday eve May 27 hosts a potluck and program by the Oddfellows Family and friends invited. Local visits include Claud Barnes guests from Columbus and Mrs Felix Swope visiting from Alexandria Virginia. Several Stewart residents travel to Canton and entertain relatives, with church group gatherings and family visits noted throughout the period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Byron
Clare Norris
Springfield
Charlie Norris
Methodist Church of
Stewart
Ralph Coulburn
Vern Parsons
Earl Root
Annabell Root
Canton
Lennie Cage
W. B. Copeland
Loucille
Billie
Co Jurntem
J. M Copeland
Goldie Shuttleworth
Rendddughtern
Donna Mee
Ele Bean
Sunny
War Echoes From Civil War Letter in Atkinson Line
Miss Nellie E. Leach preserves a 1865 letter from great-grandfather James W. Atkinson, a private in Co D 55th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, describing a foot wound near Sandersville Georgia and his march to Savannah Davids Island New York Camp Dennison and muster out. He notes a pension application context and mentions seven children, only Mrs Myrtle Matsen remains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rachel Ann
James
Atkinson
Sandersville
Pavillion
Savannah
Davids Island
N. Y
Camp Dennison
Ohio
Myrtle Matsen
Walnut
Nelsonville Social Notes Highlights Local Events
York Township Service Club meets at 8 p m at the Legion building. Methodist Class No 21 gathers at Mrs Albert Inman 178 Fort St. Graduating class mothers honor 17 members at a church dinner Tuesday. Cpl Bill Lawson on a ten day furlough visiting family. Mrs Bertha Law son hosted relatives in Fairmont. Mrs Louis A Woolery returns to Fort Worth after two weeks with local family. Mrs Luster Shivers recovering from operation at City Hospital Akron. Contact for Mrs Skivers at City Hospital Akron Second Floor Main 2.
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Methodist Church
Albert Inman
Fort St
Cpl
Bill Lawson
West Texas
Bertha Lawson
Luster Shivers
Nelsonville
City Hospital
Akron
Bernard Powell
Skivers
Sam Mount
Haydenville
Army Air Forces cadet undergoes appendectomy in Texas
Cadet Robert Jack undergoing an appendicitis operation at Camp Laredo Army Hospital after training at Laredo Field Texas. Sunday telegram advised his parents Mr and Mrs C A Jack of Nelsonville of the development.
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Nelsonville
Robert Jack
Army Air Forces
Laredo Field
Texas
Army
Camp Laredo
C. A. Jack
Social Notes From McArthur and Nearby Towns
McArthur area social notes recount residents visiting relatives and traveling. Pvt William Lucas of Harlingen Texas spends a furlough with his parents in Wellston and with Mr and Mrs Earl Foreman in McArthur. Mrs William Lucas visits from Bitoni Mississippi, staying with her parents Mr and Mrs Karl Foreman. Several social visits are listed including Mrs Peter M Lomax Mrs O S Cox Mrs G C Frye and Mrs William Palmer in Chillicothe. Jean Hayes and Danny Hayes from West Virginia visit son Joe Hayes. Mrs G C Frye attends a buffet for Mrs Charles Hamrick, and Mrs George Pilcher hosts a handkerchief shower for Mrs James Pilcher bound for Tucson Arizona. Airplanes speed measured by air speed indicators rather than odometers.
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Mcarthur
Jackson Garrison
Ft. Myers
Pla
William Lucas
Harlingen
Texas
Wellston
Earl Foreman
Bitoni
Miss
Karl Foreman
Peter M. Lomax
O. S. Cox
Two Held on Robbery Charges in Nelsonville
In Nelsonville three locals face charges for breaking and entering and larceny. Pat Allen pled guilty and was bound over to the grand jury on $1,000 bond. Lucious Fisk pled innocent with $1,000 bond. A third man named in the affidavit remains at large. The trio allegedly entered the Earl Barber residence in District 29 and stole two bicycles and a radio later sold for $16. Bicycles and radio were recovered. The Barber family had moved some goods to New York state. Also, Robert Vernon Nixon pled guilty to unsafe operation of a motor vehicle, fined $25 plus costs. Police report $15 in change taken from a till at the Orpheum Theater ticket booth. entrance gained via a booth window.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelsonville
Miles Howe
Pat Allen
Lucious Fisk
Earl Barber
District 29
Barber
New York State
State
Highway Patrol
Robert Vernon Nixon
Orpheum Theater
James Cope
Conference For Workers Announced
A one day coaching conference for vacation Bible School planners in Athens Hocking and Vinton Counties will be held at First Presbyterian Church Nelsonville on Wednesday May 24. Morning and afternoon sessions begin at 10 a m Leaders and workers from many denominations are invited with Rev E A Walker Rev James Holliday and others listed as participants.
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Nelsonville
Athens
Hocking
Vinton
First Presbyterian Church
Ohio Council of Churches
Ohio
E. A. Walker
Massillon
James Holliday
Adama Mills
Carl Wilson
Enterprise
Charles Courtney
Chauncey
John Lloyd Evans
Helen J. Chappie
Blanch A. Riley
Scout Board To Hold Whitlatch Board Meeting
Nelsonville Whitlatch Board of the Boy Scouts will meet at the Presbyterian Church on Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. Ralph Cook announced the gathering and all members are urged to attend.
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Nelsonville
Whitlatch
The
Boy Scouts
Presbyterian Church
Ralph Cook
Memorial Service For Veterans At Nelsonville Church
Memorial services for veterans of all wars will be held at the Church of Christ in Nelsonville on Sunday morning May 28 at 10 30 oclock. The memorial sermon will be preached by Rev L F Evans pastor of the church. All veterans and service men are urged to attend.
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Nelsonville
Church of Christ In
L. FE. Evans
Oak Grove News Notes from the Pilgrim Holiness Church
Oak Grove residents share weekend visits as sixty one attend the Mothers Day program and Sunday School. Several families, including Hartmans, Cagg, Smart, Heightland, Startman, Johnson, Wachenschwanz, Hall, Conrad, Summers, and Dailey, host or visit relatives across Marion Athens Zion Ridge Camp Polk and Columbus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Grove Pilgrim
Zion Ridge
Wilbur Hartman
Arnold
Connett
Pie
Paul Wachenschwanz
Camp Polk
Charles Wachenschwanz
Hod Smith
Guy
U. S. Army
South Pacific
Virginia Hall
Athens
B. J. Hall
Pauline Conrad
Edna Summers
Logan
Lucille Conrad
T. F. Lowery
Eugene Wolfe
Ruth Dailey
Columbus
William Foughty
Ann and
Vandarless
Harley Allen
Just for Fun Club Hosts Social Evening
Mrs. Edward Dalton hosted the Just for Fun Club at her home with Mrs. Dalton presiding. Violet Hillyer spoke on home appliances and led a demonstration followed by refreshments for numerous members and guests. The next meeting will be at Mrs. Lillian Dupler’s home on Church Street with a drawing for several named members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Kuhn
Paula
Ann
Charles Dalton
Patty
Steven
May Couch
Eddie
Hillyer
Joe Gabriel
Joanne Skelly
Victoria Halby
John Halby
Sherry
Lillian Dupler
Church Street
Social Evening at Donahue Home Hosts Ladies Auxiliary
Mrs. C. B. Donahue, president of the Ladies Auxiliary to the Knights of St. John, opened her home for a potluck social with four Lancaster guests. Prizes were won by several attendees as husbands and wives mingled and played games and cards into the evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. B. Donahue
Knights of St. John
Lancaster
Charles Eberst
Mike McBride
Mary Smith
Kessler
Lawrence Kessler
Mathew Murtha
Lawrence Fox
Jake Savey
Gus Kessler
Walter Savings
Richard Bittinger
Joe Brown
Cyrus Rochester
Francis Roberts
Rudolph Brown
George Eberst
John Connor
Howard White
Ed Eberst
Frank Weiland
John Geiger
Leo Redhenwald
Thomas Walsh
al Kaiser
Mary O'Wiler
Clarence Johnston
Norma Dolan
Ben
Lottridge Social Briefs Highlight Weekend Visits
Lottridge residents hosted numerous visitors over the weekend. Guests included Lesta Ray of Ripley and Edith Jordan with families from Nelsonville and Point Pleasant. A birthday dinner for Mrs. Davis was held, with calls from Henrietta Hughes of Salem. Reverend John L Morgan preached a Mother's Day sermon with Mrs. Morgan and children in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lottridge
John Jeffers
Columbus
John Chevalier
Chevaliers
Harold Greiner
Ira
Bessie Robinson
Paul Robinson
Fred Hooper
Athens
Bruce Nichoson
Harvey Rerson
Nial Koehler
Puesta
Gordon Collins
Russell Spears
L. H. Allen
Eleanor
Otis Wade
Mary Alice Allen
John Ll. Morgan
Morgan
Helen
Robert
Amies Sunday School Meeting Supports Induction Breakfast Fund
The Les Amies Sunday School class met Friday in the church dining hall with Miss Olive Linn presiding. Devotions by Mrs. Warren Bright used The Light of the Bible as a theme. A Theater Guild sketch The Purple Door knob was directed by Mrs. Robert Keynes, Mrs. Lewis Graham and Miss Eleanor Durr. The class voted $10 for the Selective Service Board breakfast fund for inductees leaving the county. Thirty-two members and four guests attended. Refreshments were served by the hostess committee chaired by Mrs. Charles Struble. other committee members included Mrs. John Leach, Mrs. Harold Larimer, Mrs. Robert Jones, Mrs. Sam Bright and Mrs. Hattie Bright.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Les Amies
Methodist Church
Olive Linn
Warren Bright
Robert Keynes
Lewis Graham
Eleanor Durr
Theater Guild
Wilhelmine Deissle
Selective Service Board
Carrie V. Durr
Roy Gottman
Miriam Dunnick
Norma Jean Linn
Charles Struble
John Leach
Harold Larimer
Robert Jones
Sam Bright
Hattie Bright
Social notes from Grove City and Logan extended visits
Mrs. Howard Sigman and Jack Mollard return home to Grove City after a lengthy visit with daughters and families. Numerous locals are listed visiting relatives in Logan as well as travels to New York and Columbus for short stays and work arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Sigman
Amy Mutchmore
Jack Mollard
Mary Mutchmore
Grove City
Bess Mutchmore
Ambrose Hotel
Logan
Blanche Moorehead
Miss Blanche
Nelsonville
Logan Closes Hocking County Scout Camporee at Rachelmacher Park
The Hocking County Boy Scout Camporee ended with religious services led by L. P. Mooney and a final camp inspection. Troop 153 won first honors despite lacking a scout master for a year, led by patrol leader Bob Sauders. Second honors Went to Troop 160 under Rev. Cecil Jones with Dick Holly as leader. Third and fourth honors were claimed by Troop 99’s Flying Eagle and Cobra Patrols respectively. multiple troop advancements were announced during the Court of Honor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Sauders
Dick Leonard
Keith Summers
Herbert Hiles
Floyd E. Loomis
Willard Dieble
Sidney Martin
The
Presbyterian Church
Cecil Jones
Dick Holly
Roop
Rudolph Rempel
James West
George Lohr
Jim Frazee
Malcolm Delmatch
Barry Dean
Stanley Norris
Bill Smith
Richard Bowers
Ralph Hinerman
Flying Eagle Patrol
Methodist Church
George Wolfe
George Gribble
Cub
Tenderfoot
Donald Kimble
Fred Nutter
Don Gribble
John Yates
Leonard Kinnison
Jim Logan
James D. Wells
E. L. Ewing
M. Billes
Floyd Loomis
Laurelville
Carbon Hill
Heinlein Class Outing Marks Seventeenth Annual Trip
Harry Heinlein led his Sunday School group on their seventeenth annual outing. They gathered at Rachelmacher Park for morning Boy Scout services, then picnicked at the Heinlein cabin in Washington Township with a wiener roast, swimming, baseball, and horseshoes. Attendees included Harold Heinlein and many local youths. Charles Lewis Holdren volunteered for pre induction physicals per Selective Service notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rudolph Riggs
Bob Fisk
Jack Nixon
James Logan
Kent Holmes
Bob Schrader
Bill Saxton
Don Bowers
Dick Peppers
Vernon Devol
Leonard Kinnison
Charles Conrad
Charles Reynolds
Scout Camporee Sunday Morning
Local column recounts weekend social happenings and hospital news. Notes on prom memories, Dorothy Jean’s engineering studies with U.S. Army funding, Rotary attendance, and charity plant slips. Updates on Walt Rochester’s spinal operation and family travel for care. Final tourney results place Gladys Lee and Fae Kinser fourth among ninety eight couples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladys Lee
Fae Kinser
Oil Man Hurt in Fall at Millersburg
Otto Hamilton, an oil company worker in Millersburg, suffered severe injuries after a derrick fall Saturday. He has a broken hip, a compound leg fracture, and a crushed chest and is hospitalized. His wife and daughter Irma are with him. a Marine son serves overseas and transfusions have been needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan
Millersburg
O. Otto Hamilton
Mr. Hamilton
Irma
Marines
Blum Divorce Granted in Logan Court
Nellie Blum has been granted a divorce from Delmar Boyd Blum on grounds of extreme cruelty after a 27 year marriage. The couple has no minor children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan
Nellie Blum
Delmar Boyd Blum
Blums
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Nelsonville Social Notes
York Township
Legion
Louis A. Woolery
Fort Worth
Walter Breeze
Bessemer Rd
G. C. Woolery
Nelsonville Rt. 2
Scout Board
Oak Grove
Frank O'Hara
Gloria of
Marion
William Hartman
David E. Berger
Phil Morehouse
Berger
Malibu Beach
Calif
Lottridge Social Briefs
C. W
Jack) Jones
New York
J. G
C. W. Jones
Norfolk
Carl Frenier
Dayton
Fete Cole
Cole
George Schwenke
Harold Thrush
Ed Kemper
Clarksville
Tenn
Barbara Till
Nick Till
Carl Judy
Miss Till
Bob
Dick Judy
Foster Crumley
Crumley
Frank Stevens Pit
Clarence Hart
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Indianapolis
Clarence Hartman
Julia Donahue
Dave Watkins
Rton
Ge Burberry
S. Walnut St
Clyde Pinnell
Millard Brown
Charles Lewis Holdren
West Front Street
Selective Service Office
Cema
Cal Shine
P Theatre
Bill Boyd
SUN
U. 8
Main Street
Cleq
Haley Montgomery
Mary Blasius
John
North Africa
Gladys Shriner
Dorothy Jean
Miami U
Oxford
Dorothy
Sam
Udy
Buchannon
W. Va
Charley Achauer
Rotary
Arthur Miller
Walt Rochester
White Cross Hospital
Harry Lafever
Bill Rochester
Buffalo
Fred
Betty Rochester Evans
Mrs. Rochester
Will
Betty
Mr. Rochester
Ginger Rogers
Yo Andrews
Rica
Granger
A Meyusu
Mike HP
Big Harvey
Glover
Zenners
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