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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1949
Page
6
Noon Friday Post announces 11 oclock service on Public Square and a 2 30 street parade. The Veterans of Foreign Wars sponsor its annual Military Ball tonight at the Elks Home.
Nelsonville Teachers Association elected officers for the year led by Helen Washburn as president and Esthel Kinneer as vice president. The group also announced numerous committees for Citizenship, Credit Unions, International Relations, Professional Ethics, and more with many members named from East, Central, and high schools. The president will attend the DEA NEA Zone School in Zanesville with others planning to join.
Arrangements for an Italian spaghetti dinner at the Legion Home in Nelsonville were announced. Dinner runs noon to 2 pm, resumes after the Armistice Day parade until 5 pm. Only 200 tickets, nearly sold, with tickets honored at the door. Open house all day and veterans invited to use the post home as headquarters. Legionnaires urged to report in uniform for a 2:30 pm parade.
Small tools valued at about 100 dollars were stolen from the vocational training department in the Junior high school building here early Wednesday. Police were told departments stayed open late Tuesday night for American Education Week activities. Items stolen include four tap and die sets valued at 65 dollars and three micrometers from a toolbox belonging to Eugene Harkins head of the vocational department.
Mrs. Oscar Harris ill cared for at daughter Ruth Quinn's home in Zanesville. Mr Harris visited. Lucretia Cummings enters WSCS at home Oct 19. Fred Arnold Enid Goddard host Young Adult masquerade at Grange Hall Oct 25 with 32 members and a guest. Attendees include Roger Graham Henry Carother, Fred Arnold. Funeral services for Sylvia Rowland at Dale UB Church attended by local residents. Dayton Goddard Jr of Marietta visited Poling home. H D Arnold of Logan spent day with Rose Arnold. Francis Burfield of Canton visited his mother Ella Burfield. Dallas McCune left for Canton for Timken Roller Bearing Co. Elsie Glover cared for at Sam Wilcoxen home. Hazel Arnold.
James E Rathburn 56 a Flint Michigan resident and former Nelsonville figure died Tuesday in a Flint Hospital after a heart attack He was born in Nelsonville and visited here in August He leaves a wife Edith Rathburn a daughter Margaret Norman two sons Ross and Gerald a grandson Richard a step mother Ella Wallace Rathburn and two sisters Funeral services are set for Friday in Flint.
Navy figures show 727 major vessels pulled from active duty and placed in reserve. As of today 395 cleared from the Atlantic Fleet and 332 from the Pacific Fleet, leaving fewer than half the 271 active major fighting ships that existed last July 1.
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