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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1944
Page
7
Mrs Myrtle Hanlon suffered a fractured arm and other injuries Monday afternoon when she fell down the steps from the porch at the home of her sisters Miss Minnie and Stella Arthur. She received treatment at Holzer Hospital.
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Lafayette Post American Legion hosted a Tuesday night Mardi Gras style event in Gallipolis attracting about 3,500 people. Masqueraders followed the Gallia Academy High School band to the Public Square World War II Honor Roll as judges chose prize winners among many costumes including a Span ish girl and a witch.
Gallia County Farm Bureau directors announce their annual meeting will be Friday November 10 at the Methodist Church. Ohio Farm Bureau Federation President Perry Green is invited to speak. Edward Dickinson urges broad participation in voting on November 7.
Gallipolis residents learn from a Tuesday letter that Pfc Don Slagle, serving on a demolition squad in the Philippines, is hospitalized in the Southwest Pacific theater after being wounded. He regrets losing a Japanese officer’s sabre. Another son, Robert, serves at the Naval Aviation Technical Training Center in Memphis Tennessee.
Howard Sibley longtime Edwards Manufacturing Co. manager and Gallipolis native died Tuesday night in St. Anthony's Hospital Terre Haute Indiana after a coronary thrombosis. He is survived by his father sister Mrs C Fred Edwards Chesapeake and brother Robert in the Navy. Funeral services will be held in Terre Haute Friday and Sunday in Gallipolis with Masonic rites. burial at Mound Hill Cemetery.
Rural women met at Chester Grange Hall led by Mrs. G H Nolan. Cpl Edward N Humphrey promoted to Technician Fifth Grade in South Pacific. Ward Humphrey served as Staff Sergeant in the East, sending Egyptian and Indian handiwork. Mrs Mark Grueser and son visited her father John Goetz at Lincoln Hill. Amos Leonard and others attended Minersville Methodist quarterly conference. Seaman Eugene Collins and family visited Elmer Bailey's relatives. Mrs Fred Hoffman and sons Bob William and Mrs Ray Tully with Kenneth Ray visited Christine Grueser. Mrs J C Prickett, sister of O J Morrison, died in Charleston. Camden Prickett, former Morrison manager, was her son and frequent visitor.
Gallipolis report covers Riverside Study Club luncheon at Island View with Alaska study topics and Halloween themed English Club gathering at Mrs. S. L. Bossard’s home. Upcoming marriage notice for Betty Jean Wiseman to James Langdon announced for Simpson Methodist Church Rio Grande. Also reports on Karl Hatfield emergency leave, Mrs. Marshall Phillips’s move to Columbus, Lt. Com. John Lutz home leave, and Sgt Billy Betz’s extended POW furlough.
Street Commissioner Hoyt Jividen announced patching and paving on 21st Street and Lincoln Avenue north of 23rd Street would start soon. He said delayed by late availability of bituminous macadam, the materials are now on hand for the project.
Lambda Chi Omega members voted to contribute six dollars a month to aid the hot lunch program at Central Grade School. Principal Gretchen Kenny reports that pupils using the lunches gained considerable weight after the first month.
Mrs. Frank Covington, 56, of Bladen R. 1, was hospitalized after a shotgun blast struck her in the face arm and shoulder while a party of merrymakers collected corn on a cornfield during Halloween celebration. The injury is not considered serious as authorities investigate the shooting believed to involve a landowner trespassing during a Halloween party.
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