26 May 1944
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1944
Page
1
The program lists graduates and performers including Harold State and the choir under direction by Floyd Paul and John Franc Lavin with contributions from Madge Jande Clella Myro and others. The note references music by the choir and auditorium events in June.
Gallia County Democratic Central Committee met Wednesday electing Hoyt Webster as chairman and Marable Haffelt as secretary treasurer. The committee named seven candidates for the executive committee to direct the fall campaign and approved local party leaders for various townships and wards. Also, Kenna Hughes faced a peace warrant arraignment in Point Pleasant, ordered to post bond for six months or serve six months in jail.
Mrs. Eva Barlow, 87, longtime Island Side resident now in Cleveland with son Capt. Alfred M. Barlow, will leave Saturday to visit her sister Mrs. Grace Brown Ross in Denver. She will fly Cleveland to Chicago and then take a streamline limited train to Colorado's capital.
Gallipolis announces the engagement of Mary Ann Plymale, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley A. Plymale, to Robert Hill Wolfe, Navy petty officer first class. The couple, both Gallia Academy High School graduates, plan a summer wedding. Wolfe is the youngest of three brothers in service.
A list of Sunday services across Gallipolis churches with pastors, worship times, and Sunday School details. First Baptist Church notes 9:15 Bible School and 10:30 morning worship. Grace Methodist lists 10 a.m. worship and 11 a.m. class times. Presbyterian, St. Peter's, Church of God, Nazarenes, Church of Christ, Gallipolis Mission, and others show varied service times and youth programs.
Columbus dispatch credits Don Anderson of Gallia City as alternate to the Rasor Scholarship recipient in mathematics at Ohio State University. The first choice is Frederick David Myers from South High School Columbus.
Six Holzer Hospital nursing graduates have started cadet duties as of May first, with Dorothy Langdon of Gallipolis and Mary Standley of Pomeroy assigned to the Naval Hospital in Seattle. Hazel Smith of Coalition and Helen Standing of Gallipolis joined the Marine Hospital in Baltimore on May 6, while Charlotte Scott and Betty Faulkner were sent to the Winnebago Reservation in Nebraska this week. Up to half the top students may become cadet nurses, or must complete essential civilian nursing to graduate.
Rev. R. P. Mc Carley announced the Rural Life Service for next Sunday at 8 o clock in the Ohio Valley Grange Hall. The program includes songs, readings, instrumental music, talks by Basil Evans and County Agent Everett G Royer, and a closing prayer and hymn.
Mrs Anna Long Onstott 73 died suddenly at her Mansfield home Wednesday night. She was mother to Mrs Martha Spear and grandmother to Mrs Mary Ann Crawford and Miss Grace Derry Wetherholt. Survived by another daughter and grandchild, Grace Noble and Clyde E Noble Jr. in the armed forces. Widowed 22 years ago, she served as an assistant to pastors and lectured on Methodism founding research. Funeral Saturday at First Methodist Mansfield with burial in Willard.
Funeral services for Mrs Virgie Lanier will be held Saturday at 11 AM from Mt Carmel Church. She died at home in Apple Grove. Survived by husband Lewis Lanier three sons Otho Burl and Harold Lanier a daughter Naomi Kinnaird of Cheshire three brothers Henry Bob and Jesse Lewis Harold in the Armed Forces stationed in Africa.
Marshall College Alumni Association will hold its annual dinner at the Hotel Frederick in Huntington Saturday at 7 o clock. Mason County alumni may obtain dinner tickets at the county superintendent's office.
The War Food Administration's division of distribution will announce a nationwide reorganization plan reducing state and area offices from 240 to about 65, consolidating operations to streamline food distribution during the war effort.
George G. Somerville, a Point Pleasant attorney, is elected delegate from West Virginia's Fourth District to the Democratic national convention in Chicago. In the district results Buford C. Tynes leads Cabell County. Somerville gains in Mason and the remaining ten counties. Final Republican selections and full district totals were not yet announced.
Boy Scout Camporee runs from today through Sunday at the Dr Fadeley farm near Charleston Road east of Point Pleasant. About 100 boys from eight Mason County troops and 30 from two Gallipolis troops attend with scoutmasters McKinzie and Saunders. Blaine Bell directs, Rev W C Stearns handles registrations judging and Sunday services, Elwyn Bull leads contests and activities. local troops and leaders include Walter Hickman, Raymond Stewart, Joe Grimm, Propps, Sherwood Costen and T C Caudill.
Miss Marguerite Asher of Sunny Side School and Mason County Red Cross reports the Hartford home of Mr and Mrs Charlie Wharf and their child burned May 17 after a lightning strike. Donations of clothing are requested and callers may contact Mrs Thurl Stone or Red Cross in Point Pleasant.
The Woman's Auxiliary of the Southern Presbyterian Church met in the church social rooms under president Mrs. W T Morgan and held devotions led by Mrs Peter H Steenbergen. The group marked the 41st anniversary of the auxiliary with a birthday cake and roses, and members served refreshments to a large list of attendees including Mrs Morgan and several Sul livan, Sprenger and Gibbs relatives. Personal mentions note visits and travels of local residents with relatives in Charleston Huntington Ripley and Jefferson Blvd, plus expected attendees for the Gibbs family Memorial Day reunion.
Distribution of 417,956 by the state to fund a 25 monthly salary increase for teachers was announced in Charleston yesterday. Mason county's share is 12,000.
Four Mason County eighth graders win Golden Horseshoe Awards from the state department of education. Winners listed by test rank include Elma Lines Yanger School Sally Lou Durst Henderson Grade School Lois Elliot Ramona McGrew New Haven Grade School. The usual expense trip to the state capital was canceled after Pearl Harbor.
Point Pleasant Lodge No. 33 LO OF F disposed of the Letart building and lot recently acquired from Evergreen Lodge which consolidated with the local lodge. Purchaser is L J Jones who runs a store on the first floor. deed signed by C D Ball Ernest E Kincade D L Wilson W E Foglesong and trustees C C Spencer.
Sheriff F K Lieving mails notices to Mason County taxpayers delinquent on personal property taxes. Those who do not pay by July 1 will have names and amounts published in local newspapers.
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