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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1944
Page
3
Meigs County Republicans announced an error in the vote count at the Election Board. Clyde Millhone leads Vern Lee Archer by 182 votes instead of 62 as initially announced, as Republicans regroup after losses for state and national candidates.
Meigs County votes extend to 7040 for Dewey and 399 for Roosevelt with 6376 for Mayor Stewart, 3087 for Emusehe. Project for Schools fundraising brings in 322 dollars as efforts target air purification and lamp installations in Pomeroy schools. Local clubs, businesses, and the Sugar Run area back the initiative while athletic plans highlight the Blue Devils and Panthers in upcoming matches against Athens and Middleport.
Meigs community response to blood donation drive by Red Crows at West of the Medical Depart tor y Army and Navy. About 6 million pints saved. plasma details unclear. Battle for life urged between ages 18 to 60. Event on Wednesday Nov 1 1280 at Athens First Church. Contact Mrs. Firanor Yesher, Midaleport or Red Crowe fee, Pomeroy.
Pomeroy social notes recount events from Magnolia temple meetings to a Christmas party planned at Mrs Campbell's home. Youth Fellowship elected officers Dorothy Conk, Frankie Wipp, and Patty Watson. The column also covers Pomeroy personals, travel to Charleston, family visits, a funeral notice for C. F. Blakes, and a Meigs County war casualty report.
Meigs County’s Ohio War Commission report lists three local casualties in the past week. Theodore Richard Scott born February 3, 1913, of Sugar Grove, son of Karl and Minnie Enzie Scott, served in the Air Corps and is reported killed in the Mediterranean area. The other notices note a missing action for Hayman and Chapter Bell, with Bell born September 18, 1928, from Racine, joining December 1, 1942, in Cahumbus, Ohio.
A long standing Armistice Day observance will be carried on with a program Friday evening at 6 40 at Legh Hall. Mrs Phil Edwards leads the banquet and Mrs Wi Stier plans a cam which follows the observance. The Toon Auxiliary met to discuss business including a National War Fund contribution of 25 and 5 108 to be allocated to war relief efforts.
Middle Port Masonic Lodge No. 363 held a seventeenth session Tuesday evening with four candidates raised to the degree of Master Mason. Officers were elected: Fret F. Russell, W.M.. George Baker, W.E.. Edward Teoksbury, JW. Harold, treasurer. P.W. Meinhom, secretary. James Hawley, SD. Larry Noll, I.D. Two reinstatement applications were approved and four candidates were referred to investigation. An oyster supper was served by the Evangeline Club. Next Tuesday a candidate will receive the F.C. degree.
Ohin Farm Bureau director Harry Culbreth will guest at the Farm Bureau meeting at 74 p m at Rocksprings Grange Hall. A pot luck supper opens the event with members bringing a covered dish. The program includes features from Advisory Councils in District No 3 and a recreation program from Farm Bureau Youth Councils later in the evening.
Death of Fila Ruk age 84 announced from the Mae Sonie Home in Parkersburg. Buried in Charleston. Sister of Mrs. Mary Williams, she long resided with Mrs. Williams on 8 Third Ave. A stray note mentions an estimated temperature of the center of the universe exceeding 1809 000 degrees Fahrenheit.
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