Memorial Day observance urged in Athens May 29 1945
Athens residents were urged by Memorial Day Committee chair Herb Sutton to attend the observance featuring a 9 am parade along Court Street. Prof. L C Staats to speak at W Union Street Cemetery with wreaths placed on the Ohio University campus monument at 8 55 am by veterans groups. The parade forms on College Street near Union and proceeds to Shafer and W Union Street Cemeteries with services at Mt Calvary and W State Street Cemetery. A full lineup includes American Legion and VFW units, veterans organizations, scouts, and school bands. Byron A Wolfe leads arrangements. Rev Joe Maffett will give the invocation and taps will be sounded.
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Athens
Herb Sutton
Court St
L. C. Staats
W. Union St
Ohio University
College St
Union
State
W. State St
Shafer
Mt. Calvary Cemetery
American Legion Color Guard
Ohio State Guard Company
Gold Sur Mothers of All Wars
Clydedmundson
C. J. Ailstock
American Legion
Nora Atkinson
Daughters of Union Veterans
Ernest McGraner
Clarence Parker
Veterans of Foreign Wars
John Dowler
Clyde Gibson
G. E. White
Clyde Edmundson
Atkinson
First Methodist Church
Sergeant McGovern seeks Swinging the Ingots recording
Sgt John D McGovern injured in a plane crash and hospitalized in Cleveland writes to Curtis Janssen Ohio University band director asking if a recording of Swinging the Ingots exists and if so how to obtain it. He recalls his OHU days in 1940 41 and offers to pay. The piece notes the band's lone recording and Janssen’s remark about it. It also mentions parts of a broader town column about music and local notices.
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John D. McGovern
Crite Hospital
Cleveland
Curtis W. Janssen
Ohio University
Ohio UW
Crile Hospital
Farewell Party for Arianne Sarver in Athens
A farewell party was held Saturday night at Betty Thomas home 12 Maplewood for Marianne Sarver who is leaving Athens to live in Cincinnati June 7. The informal evening featured games and group singing with guests including Mary Blaker Kathleen McAfee Dorothy Bean Ardath Hansen Dorothy Lasher Lenora Graham Janice Wiggin Beverly Davis and Lois Hansen.
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Marianne Sarver
Betty Thomas
Maplewood
Miss Sarver
Athens
Cincinnati
Mary Blaker
Kathleen McAfee
Dorothy Bean
Ardath Hansen
Dorothy Lasher
Lenora Graham
Janice Wiggin
Beverly Davis
Lois Hansen
Piano Pupils Recital Highlights Local Talent
Miss Nellie MacGowan hosts a piano recital at 64 MIN St on May 24 featuring Shirley Miller Lina Hess Jun ior Miller Joan Whaley Paul Kelly Cullum Shurley Miller John Dick Kelly Virginia Williams Patsy Rohrer Elsie Driscoll Jerry Josten and Therese Lavelle. Beethovens Fifth Theme and Haydn and Spanish dance pieces noted. refreshments served to pupils relatives and friends. Also rummage sale and Past Chiefs Club meeting announced.
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Nellie MacGowan
Paul Kelly Cullum
John Dick Kelly
Virginia Lou Williamts
Haydn
Patsy Rohrer
Elsie Driscoll
Beethoven
Lina Hess
Baily Driscoll
Jerry Josten
Therese Lavelle
Ware
Sigma Phi Gamma Bridge Party At Cottage Tea Room
Sigma Phi Gamma sorority members attended a bridge party Monday night at the Cottage Tea Room. A business meeting led by president Mrs. Douglas Spaulding preceded the games in which Mrs Spaulding and Miss Dorothy Frank won prizes. Hostesses were Mrs. Ray Rose, Mrs. William Orr, and Jane Quest.
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Sigma Phi Gamma Sorority
Cottage
Douglas Spaulding
Mrs Spaulding
Dorothy Frank
Ray Rose
William Orr
Jane Quest
Wounded Pfc Docie Reported From Okinawa Fight
Pfc Docie age 25 son of Mr and Mrs Alex Docie Glouster Route 1 wounded in action April 20 on Okinawa and held in a naval hospital in the Marianas. In a letter to his parents he says he is getting along fine. This is his second wound. He has served 45 months, 39 in the South Pacific, and earned several medals. He was a loader machinist before entering service in October 1941.
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Docie
Alex Docie
Glouster
Okinawa
Mariannas
South Pacific
New Meaning Attached To Dairy Month
Dairy Month observed in June celebrates dairy foods while noting rationing of butter and cheese and limited ice cream. Crozier, member of Masonic Lodge and First Presbyterian Church, appears in a note urging wise use of foods. Funeral arrangements for Mazesjing men, T. Carl Smith, Columbus, referenced with services in Findlay.
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National Dairy Council
Crozier
Masonic Lodge
First Presbyterian Church
Findlay
Dairymen
Walls Crozier
Fyour
Dowler and Ferguson
Fred Luchs
W A Crozier Dies at 52 in Athens
Walter A. Crozier aged 52 died Monday at Shelby ing Arms Hospital after three months of illness. Born in Findlay he was for years division manager at Arcady Farms Milling Co. of Nashville and bought the local Athens Cash Feed Store on N Court Street last November.
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Walter A. Crozier
Athens
N. Court
N. Court St
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Mr. Crozier
Findlay
Arcady Farms Milling Co
Nashville, Tenn
Porter Dicken resigns as Athens County dog warden
Porter Dicken, 20 years in the post, has submitted his resignation to county commissioners. He was appointed assistant dog warden in 10 and named warden the following year under Ohio law. Commissioners seek applications for his successor at the Courthouse. Eastern Star members plan to attend B. M. Covert's funeral at First Methodist Church Wednesday at 3 p.m.
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Porter Dicken
Athens County
Dicken
Ohio
Dicksen
OES
Athens
Order of Eastern Star
B. M. Covert
First Methodist Church
Ohio dairy industry ranks among nation’s leaders in 1943
Ohio is highlighted as a key dairy processing state with high national rankings in 1943. It stood second in evaporated milk production, third in cottage cheese, sixth in ice cream and milk sherbet, seventh in cheese and dry milk, eighth in whole milk processing and distribution, and ninth in butter manufacture.
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Ohio
Mechanicsburg High School Tonight Commencement
Mechanicsburg Junior High School holds commencement exercises at 8 30 p m with Charlene Nicholson named valedictorian and Marilyn Tucker salutatorian The Rev M T McDonald will offer the invocation and benediction The Girls Glee Club performs Farewell To Thee Therese Lavelle speaks Cui Bono and For America is sung by eight graduates Lewis Hamilton recites the class poem Harold Douglas presents the class history President Guy Morrison distributes diplomas Read list of ninth grade members including Charlene Nicholson Marilyn Tucker Therese Lavelle Lewis Hamilton and Harold Douglas among others
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Mechanicsburg
Charlene Nicholson
Marilyn Tucker
M. T. McDonald
Richland Ave. Methodist Church
Therese Lavelle
América
Lewis Hamilton
Harold Dougglas
Guy Morrison
Board of Education
Vauna June Allen
Thomas Ashton
Margaret Ann Ashworth
Harry Elson Bowles
Robert L. Calentine
Ruth I. Carr
Dixie D. Carsey
Errol E. Coen
Maurice B. Currens
Joan Dailey
Harold Douglas
Virginia E
Zion Church Re-Dedication Program Planned
Zion Free Will Baptist Church Lower Plains hosts a Sunday program on June 3 with speakers on the Christian, American, and Service Flags. Rev. G Graham Rev. WN Herman Mr Herman Humphrey and Rev. George Osler will speak. invocation by Rev. F Fields. songs by the audience.
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Zion Free Will Baptist Church
Lower Plains
G.graham
WN. Herman
Herman Humphrey
George Osler
F. Fields
Grace Burchfield
Cyn
Feate Dickens
Darst Sisters
Memories of 22 AHS Boys Honored at Assembly
Athens High School honored 22 alumni who died in World War III at a morning assembly. Dr. Clarence D. Samford argued freedom and democracy endure. Names read included Powers, Houf, Speicer, Tom, Terrell, Oliver, Chappelear, Riggle, Ross, Roads, Williams, Davis, Sayre, Coen, Gordon, Schenz, Lewis, Swanson, Hess, Chute, Henderson. America was sung and prayers offered.
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Athens High School
Clarence D. Samford
Rodney Powers
Paul Houf
Ensign Lewis Speicer
Bernard Tom
Harold Terrell
Haroll Terrell
Arthur Henderson
America
Knoll Dupler
Jo Ellen Young
Schubers
Handel and Herson
Handel
Meachem
Francis Frebault
Pastors Named for Ohio Conference Methodist Churches
The Ohio Conference of the Methodist Church announces new pastoral assignments across districts including Chillicothe Athens Glouster Joplin Logan and Dayton with several supplies listed for unfilled posts. Supervising pastors John W Dan ford Ernest E Fowler H A Rothrock W S Westerman and C W Swengel are noted along with others.
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Ohio Conference of the Methodist Church
Chillicothe
Albany
F. E. Andrews
Athens
Harold Kellogg
Wesley Foundation
Dor Alien
Central Ave
E. G. Roessmer
Richland
M. T. McDonald
Bartlett
L. A. Buell
Carbondale
Coolville
W. C. Dennis
Glouster
Eugene Brown
Hamden
O. C
John W. Danford
Portsmouth
Ernest E
Fowler
Bidwell
Cheshire
Eureka
Gallipolis
Westerman
Letart Falls
Patriot
Pedro
Thurman-Rio ‘Grande
Middleport
H. A. Rothrock
Pomeroy
Albert Bitters
Portland
Cecil
Racine
W. McCarley
Rutland
L. Schmidt
Rodney
Major Lee Speaks at Athens Rotary Meeting on Memorial Day
Major Raymond Lee, professor of Military Science at Ohio University, told Athens Rotary Club members that Memorial Day should be a rededication to American principles, noting the holiday originated in the South after the Civil War and was proclaimed by the Grand Army of the Republic in 1868.
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America
Raymond la. Lee
Athens
Rotary Club
Aunch
Lee
Tacilties
Ohio University
South
Grand Army of the Republic
Logan
Club
Ralph Miller
Don Peden
C. H. Harris
W. H. Pmley
Walter Musgrave
Fred M. McKay
Army nurses class at Regional Hospital Fort Knox
Lieutenant Phyllis D. Bryson of Glouster has reported to Fort Knox and joined the basic training class for Army nurses at the Regional Hospital. She is the daughter of Mrs. Hennah Dyer and wife of John M. Bryson, now serving in the Navy, and is a former registered nurse from Cleveland.
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Fort Knox
Phyllis D. Bryson
Glouster
Bryson
Hennah Dyer
John M. Bryson
Navy
Cleveland
Personal news notes from Athens area society pages
Mrs. Louis Tyroter returns to make her home in Athens after eight months in Chicago with her daughter in law Linda Tyroler now Mrs. Robert Tyroler. Capt. Louis Tyroler directs civic affairs in a German town as judge and mayor. Miss Maxine Bartlett visits Springfield. Mrs. E. Burchfield and daughter Tina visit Athens. Alexander Women meet June 1 at 1 30 pm with program on The Horizon of the Love of God.
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Louis Tyroter
Chicago
Robert Tyroler
Linda Joseph
University of Chicago
Ohio University
Louis Tyroler
Germany
S-Saet
Maxine Bartlett
N. Lancaster St
Springfield
Floscoe Burdette
Darrell West
Ernest Burchfield
Tommie Lou Wood
Linda
Newport
R. I
E. A. Wood
Amesville
Pearl Burchfield
Athens
Alexander
Women's Association of
Alexander Fresbyterian Church
W. H. Allen
Maplewood
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Athens Messenger
Hollywood
John Wayne
Los Angeles Musicians Association
Janssen
Musicians Association
670Th Army Air Forces Band
Iva Hawk
Milt
Arianne Sarver
Marine, Army and Navy Women's Club
City
Chiefs Club
Ruth Smith
Chauncey
Sigma Phi Gamma
Similac
Castile
Pablum
Bac
Wrr
Hogke
W. A. Crozier
Quick’'S
Mechanicsburg School
Cleveland— AG
Paul Jones
Major Lee
Smeck Flying Service University On
Robert W. Hollingsworth
Court Street
Ranty Comausy
T. H. Littler
Columbus
Thomas Littler
N. Congress St
KERR
Iaco
Tremett
Gallaher
Orford
Clarence B. Dillon
State St
Bert Pickett
R. D
Pomeroy, Ohin
A. A. Turner
Albany, Ohio
Margaret Bowers E
W. Edwards
Nelsonville, Ohio
Rio Grande, Ohio
Cline Gerlach Vinton, Ohio
J. M. Sanner
Vic. Donahey
Carl Crispin
Home Office
Columbus, Ohio
White 'N Sweet
Stanley’s Shoe Store
South Court St
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