Local notes and visits amid wartime furloughs and family news
Mr and Mrs James Flowers receive word their son Lt James A Lowers has been wounded and is at a base hospital. Several local families share dinners and visits during a busy weekend with relatives from Corning Columbus Athens Millerstown and New Lexington. Army furloughs keep residents connected as news of service and duty circulates through the community.
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Forrest Dennis George Snowden
le Mary Binderbasin
Gleus
Gladys McDaniel
William Chivers
Murray City
McDaniel
Fred Barnett
Corning
Frank Murphy
Millerstown
Alice Tharp
Mary
New Lexington
Fitzer
Baltimore
B. O. Fitzer
Edythe Fitzer
Columbus
Glenna Williams
Nolan Williams
Floyd Fuller
Athens
Howard Dishon
Dishon
U. S. Army
Coolville and Troy Notes from The Athens Messenger
Local society notes detail visits and events in Coolville and Troy. Families hosted soldiers returning from training, plus gatherings at homes of Gibbs Chapman and Daugherty families. Members attended Eastern Star inspection in Athens and various weekend visits across towns.
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Coolville
Virginia Knecht
Gertrude Barth
H. H. Chapman
Harry Summerfield
Alfred Daugherty
C. R. McKnight
Eastern Star
Athens
Frank M. Chapman
U. S
John Root
Felix Isaacs
Dayton
Leonard Figley
Sandra
Cairo
W. Va
Amelia Chapman
Charlene Bingman
Lumber for Farm Work Promised During Summer Months
The War Food Administration and War Production Board announced extra lumber for essential farm repairs and certain new construction excluding farm dwellings. An AA-2 preference rating will allocate 500 million board feet on purchase certificates, distributed under WFA control with state quotas to be set soon.
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Washington
War Food Administration
War Production Board
WPB
Food Agency
WFA
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