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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1944
Page
2
Records show township officials including the treasurer and clerk approving a period for a standby action. Names such as Harold Burh and D Hughes appear in the document alongside mentions of warrants and executory steps. The item outlines payment or authorization procedures to move the project forward.
Nelsonville reports the Church of Christ will host annual religious Memorial Services honoring veterans and service members on the Sunday before Memorial Day. Rev A E Evans will deliver The Path to Peace as the choir led by Miss Sigrid Love sings. Services include Bible School at 9 30, youth Christian Endeavor at 6, and an evening service at 7 30. Also noted, Seaman 3 c William S Powell stationed at Great Lakes Training School visited with his wife, daughter, and his parents.
The public is invited to attend a memorial service for veterans of all wars at the Church of Christ Sunday at 10 30 in the morning. The memorial sermon will be delivered by Rev L E Evans the church pastor.
Twenty three members of the Buchtel high school class of 23 received diplomas at the annual commencement in the auditorium. Glen C. West delivered the address as Mary Ellen McKee earned valedictorian honors with a Readers Digest certificate and a district state scholarship award in bookkeeping. Lois Ann Heft received an honorable mention in the district state scholarship test in Biology. Twelve boys earned certificates for two years of automotive training. The high school band played and Rev Clouston gave the invocation and benediction.
Ernest Howard McCumber of Nelsonville pleaded guilty in the court of Mayor Miles Howe to intoxication. He was fined 100 dollars plus costs and committed to Athens County Jail until the fine is paid. He used a borrowed car to take six gallons of gas without paying and without ration stamps. the car was later found abandoned on Robbins Road.
Ravenna resident C. E. Washburn and his niece Armel Higgins of Wadsworth spend a weekend at the Washburn home for the 1899 Nelsonville High School reunion. Robert Mann arrives from Great Lakes Naval Training Station Chicago to attend Nelsonville High School commencement where June Mann graduates. John Deer enters Dayton Veterans Hospital for treatment with sister Mrs. Harry Ball accompanying. Mrs. Horace Smith and Mrs. Harold Nanna travel to McConnelsville to bring home a daughter employed at Rocky Glen Sanitorium, who attends Buchtel High School commencement.
The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Nelsonville schedules church school at 9 30 a m followed by preaching services at 10 45 a m and 7 30 p m led by Elder D O Norris.
Col M Thomas Tchou former secretary to Chen Kai-shek urged the 66th Nelsonville High School graduation crowd to fight to a conclusion in war and warned against appeasing aggressors. He spoke on world community responsibility as diplomas were awarded to 51 seniors including Jack Hickman Harold Hoch and Billy Monks.
Nelsonville social notes report the May 20 1944 wedding of Sgt Alfred T Rhoades of Zaleski and Pvt Delma Jeunnesser of Rapid City S D in Rockville Maryland. The bride joined the WACS in 1945 and serves in Washington while the groom a Zaleski High School alum was drafted in 1941 and stationed at Camp Barkley Texas since 1943.
Nelsonville note: Guy Ellsworth Smith son of Horace and Mrs. Smith, of Nelsonville Route 2, serving in the Navy in the South Pacific, has been promoted to Pharmacist's Mate Second Class. parents have been informed.
George G. Somerville, a Point Pleasant attorney, was elected delegate from West Virginia's Fourth Congressional District to the Democratic national convention in Chicago this July. He received 10,418 votes, behind Buford C. Tynes of Cabell County who led with 12,289, while Tracy T. Starcher and Hugh N. Mills also won district slots. Somerville led in Mason County, but Tynes carried Cabell by over 5,000. The district Republican results remain unofficial.
Eva Barlow, 87, of Cleveland, will depart Saturday to visit sister Grace Brown Ross in Denver. She will fly Cleveland to Chicago and continue by streamline limited train to the Colorado capital.
In Nelsonville on May 27 the Rev. F A Atkinson of Cincinnati will administer Holy Baptism at 5 pm. On May 28 Whitsun Sunday a Holy Communion service with Atkinson as celebrant begins at 9 15 am instead of 9 30 am.
Funeral services for Phillip Fisher who died Wednesday at his Murray City home will be held Saturday at 2 p m at the Murray City Methodist Church with Rev John Lloyd Evans of Nelsonville’s First Presbyterian Church officiating Burial will be at Greenlawn Cemetery
Nelsonville memorial services for the late J R Howe will be conducted by the K of P Lodge at Stout Funeral Home on Saturday night at 8 30 oclock Members of the lodge urged to meet at the hall by 8 15 to attend. Nelsonville Mrs Oria North Jr Marjorie Holland is recovering at White Cross Hospital Columbus after a major operation Her mother Mrs S G Holland is with her.
Members of Tri Psi will hold a rummage sale all day Saturday in rooms beside Palace Furniture Store on Washington Street.
Wo mans Auxiliary met at the Presbyterian Church with Mrs. Ww. T. Morgan presiding. Devotions led by Mrs. Peter H Steenbergen themed Light of Tomorrow. Laula Lewis reported on Defense Service Council and Mexican Bible Schools. 41th anniversary observed with cake and roses. Hostesses Mrs. Laula Lewis and Mrs. Bess Gygax served many members. Memorial Day reunion of Gibbs family planned with attendees from South Point Charleston Chester Cleveland.
Mrs. William Meade returns from Charleston after visiting friends. E. E. Shriver of Morgantown visits Jefferson Blvd family. Mrs. Jean McGrew of Ripley joins Mrs. J. G. F. Johnson in Arlington Va. and others visit Huntington. Lt. Windon Waggener of Bainbridge Md. plans weekend leave with Waggener family. Distribution of 417 956 by the state to raise teachers salaries includes Mason County's 12 000 share.
Golden Horseshoe Awards go to four Mason County eighth graders from Elma Lines Yanger School Sally Lou Durst Henderson Grade School Lois Elliott and Ramona McGrew New Haven Grade School The awards usually include a trip to the state capital but trips have been canceled since Pearl Harbor New Haven Grade School stands out for winning two awards and girls have outdistanced boys
Point Pleasant Lodge No. 33 O. C. F. sold the Letart building and lot acquired from Evergreen Lodge. Purchaser L. J. Jones operates a store on the first floor of the former lodge hall. Deed signed by Ball Ball, Kincade, Wilson, Foglesong and Spencer as lodge officers and trustees.
Sheriff F. B. Lieving mails notices to Mason County residents with delinquent personal property taxes. Those who do not pay by July 1 will be listed with names and amounts published in local newspapers.
In Point Pleasant the revival at the Main Street Church of Christ and Christian Union led by evangelist Rev A Brown of Wellston draws many converts. Pastor J P Keefer reports great success with regular evening meetings at 8 o clock and special singing as part of the program.
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