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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1941
Page
5
County officials announced a 3873.54 transfer from miscellaneous courthouse funds to salary accounts, ensuring pay for all deputies clerks and staff through December. Despite earlier shortages and cutbacks employees will get semi monthly checks this Saturday and funds for Christmas.
Warm weather dominated Athens as temperatures reached 56 at noon, the highest in two weeks. Wednesday's high matched 56 with a 24 degree low last night, the second coldest night this fall. The coldest night occurred Monday with a 16 degree reading.
A London invention uses a stethoscope like device to locate leaks in water pipes and identify water flow direction. Napoleon’s head was so sensitive that hats needed heavy padding and his valet wore new hats for days to fit him.
Ohio University junior Bill Rowland has been accepted for Naval Air Corps. After two years of college and Civilian Pilot Training, he will be enlisted as seaman second class and undergo preliminary flight training at a naval reserve station before advancing to aviation cadet and full flight training at Pensacola Jacksonville or Corpus Christi.
Dr. James P. Porter of Ohio University travels to New York City for the 20th anniversary meeting of The Psychological Corporation. The event honors founder James McKeen Cattell and features panels by notable psychologists including George H. Gallup Walter V. Bingham and Walter R. Miles. Ohio University students aided in early surveys.
The Woman's Society of Christian Service of the Methodist Church plans a rummage sale Friday at the New Marshfield Town House.
The text notes that eulachon fish are so oily they are used by Eskimos as candles by placing a wick in the fish. It highlights the fish as an excellent food source and includes a curious примимо cultural detail from Alaska.
Myrtle Bryant of Chillicothe Ohio credits TON JON with relief after years of constipation indigestion and nerve trouble. She reports regular bowels quiet nerves improved sleep and back and muscle pain relief. The TON JON Health Representative visits Quick's Drug Store Athens Ohio to explain the medicines.
Athens County USDA Defense Board chairman Frank Pugh urges farmers to inspect and repair farm machinery in the off season to conserve metals and labor for defense needs. He notes extending equipment life and buying parts keeps factories available for essential defense production and stresses ordering parts early.
The YWCA asks for contributions by December 8 to support its Christmas program. Activities include Poinsettia Days December 8 and 9, gifts for County Infirmary Carbondale Poston and Athens State Hospital, scrapbooks and stuffed animals for Children’s Hospital, clothing and books for Caney Creek mountain children, and a community Christmas program. The group teams with Ohio University Music Department to present The Messiah on December 14 in Memorial Auditorium.
Mrs Wayne Wingett of Lodi Township Athens County will enter a white butter cake at the three day state grange contest in Columbus starting Tuesday December 9. Counties across Ohio have held contests to select champions who advance to the state event.
Forecasts predict a day of exceptional opportunity driven by favorable planetary aspects. Those celebrating a birthday may gain a year of high chances in heart's desires across business finance culture politics and public service. A born child promises exceptional talents and versatility with high mental and physical capacity. AWARD CONTRACT: Washington War Department announces a 323380 dollar contract to Appliance Manufacturing Company Alliance Ohio for tripod mounts.
The Athens City County Health Department with the Nutrition for Defense Council offers nutrition classes and cooking demonstrations across Athens County led by Miss Jennie Nelson. The program includes talks on digestion mineral values budgeting and meat and milk analysis with sessions scheduled in Jacksonville Trimble Glouster Chauncey Stewart Coolville Buchtel Athens The Plains New Marshfield Carbon Dale Albany Amesville Nelsonville and Shade through December and January with advisory input from Ohio University and University Elementary School staff.
At Sheltering Arms Mr and Mrs John Nein Ath ens Route 4 are the parents of a daughter born this morning in Sheltering Arms Hospital. Martha Lou Baughman age 10 Albany admitted for emergency appendectomy Dona Jean Jenkins Mineral admitted for minor surgical operation Cathrine Darrows Stewart admitted this morning for medical treatment.
Virgil Gilkey a 26 year old furnace repair man from Athens Route 2 was arraigned before Mayor Cliff Cornell on a intoxication charge and fined five dollars plus costs after his Tuesday night arrest on West Washington Street by city police.
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