The Athens Messenger 1826 Publisher and staff notes
The Athens Messenger publishes weekday editions with Sunday morning issues. Publisher Frederick W. Bush led 1896 to 1920. Charles H. Harris as managing editor. Owen Qa on staff. Subscription rates list various U.S. and Ohio terms. notice of postal matter and association memberships.
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Athens
Prederick W. Bush
the Messenger Publishing CO
Gercon K Bush
Mgr
Charles H. Harris
Owen Qa
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Ohio
Audit Bureau of Circulationa
Ohio Newspaper Association
Associated Press
Messenger
Mae Eee Buterec
Athene Post Office
Ile Emmicenjnemenee Rational Representatives
Joan W. Cullen Company
Chicago
New York
Columbus
Cleveland
Peoria Plan for rehabilitating handicapped veterans
The Peoria plan creates a city wide program to rehabilitate and re employ wounded veterans by surveying jobs they can perform and mobilizing community support. It aims to help veterans rejoin civilian life with dignity and reduce war related disillusionment during an election year.
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Peoria
Ill
Capitol Hill
Cafeteria Heat For Cave Dwellers
A column imagines individual thermostats for apartment dwellers as a postwar improvement. It predicts less window opening and fewer janitor disputes as tenants gain control over heat, while cave dwellers lose some freedoms such as late radio listening. The piece notes owners may save money and concludes with a nod to personal temperature choices.
Black Magic and Postwar Coal Innovations
American industry highlights progress in bituminous coal research yielding a smokeless coal stove and a fully automatic mechanical stoker. The industry boosts efficiency and reduces unit consumption to expand markets, benefiting consumers as it meets competitive postwar conditions.
Stamp of disapproval signals Nazi shift in
A report from Germany notes officials may not stamp Heil Hitler on documents but must write it by hand. The change appears to undermine the machine of propaganda, giving individuals a chance to act personally, seen by some as a symbol of growing dissent and a potential collapse of regime control.
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Germany
Hitler
Senate panel rebukes Ward seizure in war production dispute
The Senate Judiciary sub-committee reveals new facts about the Montgomery Ward case. It shows Sears Roebuck was ruled not in war production 11 days earlier and questions the basis for executive orders and Army calls, urging Congress to require specific constitutional citations in orders.
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Washington
Montgomery Ward
Congress of the United States
Judiciary Committee
Senate
Biddle
Sears Roebuck and Company
War Labor Board
National War Labor Board
United States Conciliation Service
Department of Labor
National Labor Relations Board
Congress
United States
Capitol Hill
U. S
McCarran
Letter From Washington on Political Action Committees
Peter Edsons column critiques early CIO PAC tactics and a sample guide, noting planned growth to 100 new congressmen and calls to pressure Congress. He frames the effort as war rather than politics and cites dialogue from the guide used by unions. The piece threads in a closing personal aside about aging and media.
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Sidney Hillman
Tammany Hall
C. I. O. United Electrical Workers
P. A.C
U. E
Marty
Joe
Italy
Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Splendid Memorial Day Address in Glouster Church
A Sunday service at the Glouster Methodist Church featured a Memorial Day sermon by Rev. A. G. Freeman of the First Baptist Church. The program included choral and vocal renditions, scripture reading by Rev. Dc. B. Tigner, and Freeman’s address urging shared world peace, freedom, and the American way of life.
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Gertrude Pride
Elias
Isabel Vernon
Dc. B. Tigner
Church of Christ
A. G. Freeman
America
Christ
Rev
Freeman
Poppy Sale Drive By Scouts Across Glouster Area
Scout troop No 72 led a two day poppy drive in Glouster Trimble and Jacksonville raising 85 15 from 750 poppies sold 50 by the American Legion and 25 by Mrs Esta Haskins. Top seller day one was Billy Rigney and two day top Junior Carpenter with Charles Bailey close behind. List of participating scouts and aiding Girl Scouts and Ladies Auxiliary members is given.
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Glouster
Ralph Hines
Trimble
Jacksonville
American Legion
Esta Haskins
Billy Rigney
Junior Carpenter
Charles Bailey
Kenneth Skinner
Kenneth Boyer
Sonny Cotter
Junior Crawford
Gilbert Bingman
Darrell Phillips
Ray Rogers
David Byers
Richard Jones
Junior McClelland
William Stahl
Betty Lou Robinson
Ethel Atlas
Wilma Hines
Judy Vernon
Jeannine Hines
Trimble 4-H Club Reorganized With New Officers
Trimble Stitch and Chatter 4-H Club held its first meeting at the home of advisor Mrs Betty Addington. Officers elected include President Nellie Lou Phillips and Vice President Barbara Ann Shumway. The club plans to meet at members homes with next meeting set for May 31 at 7 30 p.m.
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Trimble
Betty Addington
Nellie Lou Phillips
Barbara Ann Shumway
Janet Earich
Bonnie Arnold
Ruth Anna Grigsby
Shirley Kay Heiser
Jeanne Gooding
Return to Glouster For Brief Visit
Theodore Williams and Richard Williams, Cleveland workers, visited Glouster on Saturday for several days. Theodore expects a Navy call soon and his family will live on Atkins Street in the Gayton property after he enters service. Richard will keep working in Cleveland through the summer.
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Glouster
Theodore Williams
Richard Williams
Cleveland
Theodore
Navy
Gayton
Atkins St
General Decoration of Graves Urged
An observer laments few decorate graves on Memorial Day and notes Decoration Day now covers all graves. He urges every reader to place flowers on the graves of their dead to show they are remembered.
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Glouster
Class Holds Meeting At Church Friday
Loyal Daughter's Class of the Church of Christ held a potluck dinner in the church social rooms Friday evening at 6 30 oclock. Rain reduced attendance but guests enjoyed a fine supper and social evening. Two guests attended Mrs Lois Balderson of Brodhead Ky and Mrs C B Tigner.
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Glouster
Church of Christ
Lois Balderson
Brodhead, Ky
C. B. Tigner
Torch Brief News Notes Summary
Kenneth Russell left for Fort Thomas Kentucky last week. Raymond Baker in the Navy at Great Lakes is on furlough and visited relatives here. Several local guests visited Rowena Nixon and others over the week.
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Kenneth Russell
Fort Thomas
Raymond Baker
Navy
Great Lakes
Margaret Roberston
Ruth Shafer
Akron
Jean Kincade
Coolville
Jake Lyons
Fannie Dewees
Lucy
Rowena Nixon
Ed Drain
Belpre
James Criss
Glen
Zaleski
Arcadia
Arthur Ward
Morace Miller
Herald Rainey
Harry Shafer
Parkersburg
Camden- Clark Hospital
Faye McGirr
Athens
Chauncey High School Grads Honored At Sunday Services
Eight Chauncey Dover High School graduates who attend or belong to the First Church of Christ at Chauncey received Bibles during Sunday morning services. Gifts came from the Friendship Bible Class, presented by Pastor Gilbert Courtney. Recipients include Naomi Savage, Mary Helen Sweeney, Betty Lou Jandes, Virgene Nye, Mary Carolyn Bricker, Everett Patterson, John Edward Pierce, and Donald Nye. A Millfield Needle Club meeting is set for Wednesday at Mrs. Bertha Sanders’ home, while the Chauncey Ladies Aid Society will hold an all day quilting session at the church Wednesday.
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Chauncey
Chauncey-Dover High School
Church of Christ At
Friendship Bible
Gilbert Courtney
Naomi Savage
Mary Helen Sweeney
Betty Lou Jandes
Virgene Nye
Mary Carolyn Bricker
Everett Patterson
John Edward Pierce
Donald Nye
Murray City Personal Mention
Murray City notes list local visits and travel among residents and families. Seamen and military spouses, along with relatives from Norfolk, Camp Maxey, Great Lakes, Logan, and Columbus, are mentioned visiting, returning home, or hosting relatives amid hospital and Lake Hope excursions.
Local Social Notes From Millfield And Surrounding Areas
Mrs Iona Goodman and grandson Gerald Robert Goodman returned from Lancaster after visiting Mr and Mrs Warren Tippie and family. Mrs Gerald McDaniel and her Dayton children visited the H O McDaniel home in Millfield. Miss Betty and Miss Henrietta Heffken, Columbus workers, spent the weekend with their Millfield parents Mr and Mrs Henry Heffken. Mrs Lizzie Robinett of Millfield spent Sunday with her daughter Mrs William Sisson and family in Trimble.
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Claude Clendenen
Nelsonville
F.H.A
Mary Thompson
Mabel Lefever
Grace Thomas
Lake Hope
Dorothy Simons
Irene Sikora
Ladonna Poling
Betty Shuttleworth
Mary Louise Donson
Becky Craft
Mary Jo Giffen
Mary Ellen Mitchell
Jeanne Martins
Marcia Snyder
Ruth Alice Tignor
Jean Craft
Shirley Lanning
Blanche Brooker
Eva Garner
Wanda Jenkins
June Gill
Coleen Hellyer
Ira Hellyer
Effie Spencer
Logan
Donald Spencer
Charles Mitchell
Chester Mitchell
Betty O'Rourke
Adaline Penn
James Lanning
Delores Nida
Emmett Short
Lon Coburn
Gasnel
Columbus
George Potts
Harold Potts
McArthur
Lawrence Short
John Dyker
Andy Cloid
Sam Cloid
Cloid
St. Francis Hospital
Homer Lanning
Monay
Chauncey
Iona Goodman
Gerald Robert Goodman
Lancaster
Warren Tippie
Gerald McDaniel
Dayton
H. O. McDaniel
Millfield
Betty
Henrietta Heffken
Henry Heffken
Lizzie Robinett
William Sisson
Trimble
Richard Osborne Receives His Wings at Williams Field
Chauncey native Richard P. Osborne son of Dane Osborne and the late Ida Hayden Osborne earned his pilot wings at the Williams Field Army Air Forces Pilot School graduation exercises held Tuesday May 23. He is grandson of Mr and Mrs Henry Osborne and Mrs Blanche Hayden Champlin of Chauncey.
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Chauncey
Richard P. Osborne
Dane Osborne
Ida Hayden Osborne
Williams Field Army Air Forces Pilot School
Op Gtard
Henry Osborne
Blanche Hayden Champlin
Chauncey and Millfield Families Attend Dover High School Grads
Chauncey Simpkins and family spent days in Millfield then returned to Dayton after attending Chauncey Dover High School commencement where Norman Simpkins graduated. Betty Lou Jandes, omitted valedictorian, is daughter of A. L. Jandes superintendent at Chauncey County Home. Mrs Ruth Stewart Goodman and Mrs Iona Goodman received red roses for Mother’s Day from Pvt. Gerald R. Goodman stationed in England. Mrs Dan Keirns of Millfield injured her left foot when a cow stepped on it. no bones broken but bruised.
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Chauncey
B. W. Simpkins
Dayton
Millfield
Chauncey- Dover
Norman Simpkins
Chauncey-Dover High School
Betty Lou Jandes
A. L. Jandes
Ruth Stewart Goodman
Iona Goodman
Pvt
Gerald R. Goodman
England
Dan Keirns
Real-life at a wartime plant from a society girl's view
A society girl recounts lunch hour at Kerry Kraft wartime plant. She notes casual routines, clothing, slang, and social pecking orders among workers, including Eunice, Gert, and coworkers. The piece ends with a hint of romance and a transfer prospect as the story continues.
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