Victory War Loan Drive Begins in Athens County
The Athens County Victory War Loan starts with a 5:30 p.m. dinner at the Ohio University Student Grill, chaired by Fred Sanders who will name township chairmen and community leaders. The Women's Marine Band will perform at Memorial Auditorium on Nov 2 at 8 p.m., a seven-stop Ohio tour highlighting the campaign with 46 musicians trained at Camp Lejeune. The band members have redirected pay into Victory Loan, continuing their service as musicians prior to enlistment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens County Victory War Loan
Ohio University
Fred Sanders
Victory Vex
Womens Marine Band
Memorial Auditorium
America
Camp Lejeune
N. C
Maine
California
Washington
Admiral Nimitz
Ohio
Victory Band
Mullins Couple Announce Birth of Son Joseph Scott
Mr and Mrs Clyde Mullins announce the birth of their son Joseph Scott on October 21 Dolores Scott is the mother Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Ben M Chauncey and Mr and Mrs F E Scott of 44 Second Street Great grandmother is Mrs Nora Fletcher and great great grandmother is Mrs Mollie Meade Both families reside in New Boston Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde Mullins
Dolores Scott
Joseph Scott
Nts
Ben M . Chauncey
F. E. Scott
Second St
Nora Fletcher
Mollie Meade
New Boston
Ohio
County Drive For War Fund Reaches 7500 Total
Donations in the Athens County War Fund drive total 7500 as leaders report after a Berry Hotel meeting. Volunteers from city and county groups plan further clean up activities and will convene Friday at the Berry to report progress. H T Rainey of Trimble announced unions will donate two dollars per member to support USC activities and postwar relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens County
Berry
H. T. Rainey
Trimble
USC
Regional Garden Clubs Meet at The Plains
Regional meeting of the Association of Garden Clubs in Ohio counties including Morgan Washington Vinton Meigs Gallia and Athens will be held Wednesday Nov 7 1030 a m to 3 p m in The Plains School auditorium with The Plains Garden Club hosting Prof Victor Reis of Ohio State University as guest speaker Mrs L R Storey Huntington W Va will present a demonstration on Making Artistic Christmas Decorations All Garden Club members in the listed counties urged to attend bringing a basket lunch Coffee provided.
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Rernea Chas
Ohio
Morgan
Washington
Vinton
Meigs
Gallia
Athens
Plains School
Plains Garden Club
Victor Reis
Ohio State University
L. R. Storey
Huntington
W. Va
All
Our Men in Service Brave Families Across the Area
Local families report promotions, overseas service, and arrivals of relatives in the armed forces. Cpl. John B. Davis earns sergeant as Sgt. Davis, a Guadalcanal veteran, remains in Norfolk with 1st Marine Division. Siblings Thomas B. Davis with the 5th Air Force overseas, Price E. Davis in Pacific, and T-4 James S. Blazer in the Philippines send letters home. Soldiers from Athens, Logan, Gallipolis, Pomeroy and surrounding towns are listed with units, campaigns, medals, and status.
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Benson Davis
Stewart
Cpl
John B. Davis
Sgt. Davis
Guadalcanal
Southwest Pacific
1St Marine Division
Norfolk, Va
Pearl Harbor
Pfc
Thomas B. Davis
5Th Air Force
Davis
Pacific
Ie Shima
Price E. Davis
Normandy
Bur
Tokyo Bay
Markets Rise Amid Broad Stock Gains in Midday Trade
In New York markets, overall direction was upward despite some losers. Trading slowed after a fast opening, but advances led in steels, motors, rubbers and rails, with utilities lifting midweek.
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New York
Livestock Prices From Cincinnati and Athens Markets
Cincinnati and Athens livestock quotes show hogs steady to higher with sows and feeder pigs around 14.15 to 14.20 and mostly steady cattle trade. Cincinnati cattle and calves offered with mixed yearlings and beef cows. steers and heifers mainly 11 to 18 dollars. Sheep volumes modest with pool lambs and ewes noted. Athens lists cattle by class with good steers up to 16.20 and hogs at 14.75 for 180 to 400 pounds, sheep lambs priced from 6.85 to 15.50 and others in between.
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Cincinnati
Athens
Grain and Produce Market And Eggs Prices From Several Cities
Grain and produce prices for Pittsburgh Cleveland and Cincinnati show egg grades AA and A extra large and large ranges with large and medium sizes. Potatoes priced per cwt with varied consumer graded and standard offerings included amid government graded cartons and dirties notes.
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Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Fittshurgh
iParaders Prizes Won In Athens Halloween Parade
About 300 children led by the Athens High School Band paraded through Court and Mill streets to the high school athletic field for costume judging. Prizes went to Dick Neal as a robot, F W Weber Jr as Bambi, Virginia Ashton as a hobo, and Lois Perry in Dutch dress.
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Athens
Kiwanis Club
Court St
Down Mill St
Dick Neal
F. W. Weber, Jr
Bambi
Illness Fatal To Mrs White Dies At 69 In Amesville
Mrs Mary P White 69 widow of John P White died at her Amesville home after a long illness. She was born to Isaac and Harriett Linscott Winner and spent most of her life in southeastern Ohio. Survived by daughter Lavinia L White Massillon son Leonard L White North Canton sister Mrs Charles Bingman Junction City five grandchildren. Services 2 p.m. Saturday Mt Hermon United Brethren Church with Rev I N Burns worth officiating burial in church cemetery. Friends may call at the home until services.
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Mary P. White
John P. White
Amesville
Isaac and
Harriett Linscott Winner
Southeastern Ohio
Mt. Carmel
Mt. Hermon United Brethren Church
I. N. Burnswath
Church Cemetery
Vets Center to Open Soon in Athens Ohio
A new veterans center will open in Athens after November 10 to assist men under Public Law 16. Currently, veterans must travel to Columbus for vocational tests or information. Harold First will direct the center, assisted by Professor Gaige B. Patlgeh of Ohio University, to conduct tests and provide information to discharged men in southeastern Ohio.
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Athens
Columbus
Harold First
Dayton Veterans
Floyd Bolin VFW Post Meets at Armory Friday
Floyd Bolin Post No. 3477 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will meet in the Armory club rooms at 7:30 p m Friday. Commander C J Ailstock urges attendance to discuss important business. Veterans who served outside the United States during wartime are eligible and welcome. Refreshments will follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd Bolin
VFW
Armory
Veterans of Foreign Wars
C. J. Ailstock
United States
Ailstock
Aspirin Ad Promises Comprehensive Relief
An old tobacco era style ad touts St Joseph Aspirin as finality strength and speed for simple headaches and pain. It urges buying the 100 tablet bottle for 85 cents, claiming great value and nearly three doses per penny, urging readers to always ask for St Joseph Aspirin.
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St. Joseph
October Weather Tracked With 81 Degree Peak
October yielded a high of 81 degrees on day one and a low of 76 on Oct 28, with total rainfall at 1.23 inches. Yesterday's high reached 72 and the night low dropped to 39, reported weather observer Mrs. C. N. France.
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C. N. France
Oswego Woman Fined for Disorderly Conduct
Gertrude Nessling aged 48 of Oswego was fined 10 dollars and costs after arraignment before Mayor Franz Woodworth on a disorderly conduct charge. Police arrested her at a local hotel where she entered a room occupied by two others against their wishes. Inspection of Trimble Grange postponed from Nov 3 to Nov 17 at the request of organizers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gertrude Nessling
Oswego
Franz Woodworth
Hunt Resumed For Ex-Convict In Athens County
Ex convict Thomas Davis also known as Thomas Conn is sought for the fatal shooting of a Perry County deputy sheriff. A bloodhound that aided the search disappeared delaying the hunt until it was recovered near Millfield. Davis had resurfaced Tuesday prompting a posse to reassemble and pursue the trail.
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Thomas Davis
Athens County
Davis
Thomas Conn
Perry County
Clair Butts
Millfield
Driver Is Fined After Auto Crash in Athens Area
William J. Davis of Athens age 39 was arraigned before Judge O F Rowland on a charge of driving under the influence after his car struck a guard rail north of Shade on Route 33 early Wednesday. He pled guilty and was fined 100 dollars plus costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William J. Davis
Athens
Shade
O. F. Rowland
Community Names in Local Social Notes
Oct 31 lists include Mrs. Henry Frank of Carbondale Mr. Lester Rayburn of Parkersburg West Virginia Miss May Dwelley of Harrisonville Miss Helen Cline of Albany and Mrs. Fred Carsey of Athens in a brief social snippet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Frank
Carbondale
Lester Rayburn
Parkersburg
W. Va
May Dwelley
Harrisonville
Helen Cline
Albany
Fred Carsey
Athens
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Wittard
Athens Pharmacy
Gallaher Drug Store
McKee Drug Store
Twunen DE
Banch
Texas
TSS Ene
Toren
Charles Lonas
Stimson Ave
Bernard L. Lonas
France
H. B. Noble
The
McBee Co
Chicago
National Association of Manufacturers
James S. Blazer
J. P. Blazer
Maple St
Blazer
Philippines
Manila
Athens High School
American Peres Co
Wellston
Hillsiboro
Francis C. McHarg
Thos. McHarg
Lucasville Route 2
McHarg
168Th Regiment
Sgt
Dale
Baughman
Lee Baughman
71St
Third Army
Panama
Germany
Austria
Leonard D. Gilbraith
Tokyo
Gilbraith
Richard Gilbraith
Camp Swift
Ray Little
Cheshire Route 2
Goldie V. Little
Pa Pleasant City
Little
Fort Knox
Glenn A. Ball
Camp Atterbury
Ind
Edward S. Lewis
Oak Hill
David E. Williams
Thomas M. Alban
Steve Bendervich
William C. Mack
Hunter St
Logan
Lemuel W. Pidcock
the Plains
James C. Chariton
Corning
Francis Call
Kenneth R. Sealey
Vine St
Gallipolis
Hubert L. Fulton
Denver E. Call
Herbert E. Gilkey
W. Union St
Leonard L. Bass
Syracuse
Kenneth D. Jenkins
W. Main St
Pomeroy
Joseph D. Miller
Harley E. Corbin
Zareski
John Heffken
James A. Taylor
Morris P. Neutzling
Bernard Livingston
Fourth St. Logan
George D. Hunter
Harry ©. Bollinger
Brownell Ave
Middleport
Bidwell
Lloyd R. Wagner
Hot Springs
Ark
Walter R. Ervin
Great Lakes
Dewey E. Dailey
Mill St
Dwight E. Stewart
E. Front St
Albert M. Banik
Murray City
Donald L. Simonton
Nelsonville
Charles L. Faulkner
E. Main St. Pomeroy
Clarence W. White
Robert L. Hooper
Wolfe St
Neal E. Wise
Max J. Huston
Hamden
Levert W. Voris
West St
CCM
Franklin G. McCarley
McArthur
Richard I Darby
New Straitsville
Willard Adams
FY. Leonard Wood
Pfe
Jack V. Keney
Sharpsburg
Camp Livingston
Elias W. Dunfee
Bainbridge
Darrew B. Roebuck
Richland
Patterson Field
R. H. Llewellyn
New Marshfield
Emmett
Cookville
Indiantown Gap
Woodrow P. Campbell
Peacock Ave
John R. Smith
John O. Cr
Ernest Cottrill
Walter J. Smith
Clifford H. Dowler
John E. Call
W. Franklin St
Leroy N. Eichinger
Robert Cochran
Chauncey
Robert ©. Bailey
Racine
Robert L. Duncan
Glouster
Robert L. Guisinger
Weldon H.mcclellan
Jacksonville
Paul E. Metcalf
Guysville
Ira ©. Chapman
Fifth Ave
Bernard R. Matheny
Second St. Athens
Lawrence F. Huntley
Robert E. Rose
Martin L. Viars
William L. Hart
Roy F. Garner
Gerald E. McAilee
Cutler
Charles F. Coon
Alfred E. Blake
Theodore Radcliffe
Cheshire
Bernard J. Sullivan
Frank J. Shay
Columbus St
Edward J. Banik
Willard E. Newlin
Burtis Nettles
William J. van
Robert E. Mingus
Nuys
Alfred Savage
Donald G. Smith
Donald L. Hillyard
W. Front St
Franklin E. Fisk
Robert E. Mincus
Donald B. Thomas
Walter D. Rowland
Chesterhill
Willam
Sordem
Long Bottom
Donald A. Gabriel
W. State St
iParaders
Col. & So
Ohio Electric
Cit
Roy E. Hawk & Co
Vets’ Center
John Leviner
N. McKinley Ave
St. Anthony's Hospital
Gerald
Red) Alexander
Okinawa
A. Alexander
Glauster
South Court Street
Robert Hollingsworth
Mgr
Second Aventis
Oman
Trimble Grange
Hunt
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Anne Clark
N. Congress St
Roseberry Hickman
Bethel
Heey
Avheroiney
Wrisley
Old Sout
Vitamie
Wen Wummon
Easant Odor
Will
Tipuma
Dergen
Jergen
Ay Zanegeat
Gang
M. A. PO
M. A
Upjohn'’s CO
Putnam and Diamond Dyes
Nicks
Grove
D. T
RED Cross
Sloan's Liniment
Dewitt's Liniment Nurses Brand
Liniment
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