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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Oct 04, 1944

Page

10

Japs Advance in South China Coastal Area

Allied air power concentrated on their only Southeast China air base while U S bombers struck Balikpapan in Borneo, destroying refineries and gasoline supplies. MacArthur hailed hits as crucial to crippling Japanese air and naval capacity amid ongoing coastal attacks and nightly Japanese bombardments.

South China Associated Press China U. S Pacific Borneo Balikpapen O Center Linchow Tokyo Domei Radio Jose P. Laurel Philippines MacArthur Balikpapan Japan Lath Air Force W. Donald E. Bone Garland Utah Zamboanga

Haydenville Pupils Set War Record in Milk Week Drive

Haydenville School eight grades held a two week contest to collect milk week pools. The eighth grade led with 28 bags amid a busy drive including paper drives fat collection and sale of Defense Stamps. Principal C A Woods praised students as refugees pour through town fleeing Japanese advances impacting supply lines and wartime mobilization.

Logan Haydenville C. A. Woods

Haydenville WSCS Meeting and Community Notices

Haydenville WSCS met at the home of Mrs. Frank Allen and Mrs. Harry Swant for devotions and a program on the study book We who are Americans. A short business meeting followed with lunch served by hostesses led by Mrs. Jennie Patton. Several local residents and relatives are listed in social visits and travel notes across Logan, Bremen, Attens, Longstreth, and North Baltimore.

Haydenville W.S.C Frank Allen Harry Swant Logan Jed Homer Carter John Hooper Jennie Patton T. E. Kinnison S. M. Hardgrove Arthur Todd Everett White Frank Crothers Chas. Patton Mgr Don Bateman Darton Wryskiver Harvey Angle Clarence Angle Angle Bremen A. J. Perry Attens R. E. Swaim Morris Vollmer Neil Geihart Logan Z Hopstetter Lewis Feeback Longstreth Walter’ Hopstetter Michigan R. St. Mills Sonia George Pollock Fort Benjamin Harrison Ind Harry Pollock Paul Gastin Norfolk John Gastin Freda Gastin James Hood Frank Evans Annie Spencer R.D Barney Evans California Witbur May G. R. May Ralph Hess Roger Jackson C. S. Matheny Neil Gearhhart J. W. Gearhart Baltimore Gearhart Mable Richards Pittsburgh Pomeroy Jacen Ginther Nelson Skiver Surcay Pfe David Skiver Skiver A. J. Skiver Nora Richard Pleo

Corning Social Notes From Corning Social Scene

Corning social notes report local church gatherings with hostesses Mrs Sue Rodgers Mrs Ann Wright and Miss Janet Mason plus officer election for Miss Mac Rodgers. Families visit relatives in Glouster Clay Bank Columbus and Mackinaw while others return from Wellston Camp Pickett and Canton birthday celebrations noted.

Anmas Cowley Rendville Louise Roberts Camp Pickett Hannah Rodgers Glouster Thomas Cowley Rensiville Mary Coulter Canton Clay Bank Hursday Rose Bobanish Congo Columbus Fred Root Alice Brown Stanley Brown Mackinaw Mich

Logan Social Notes Highlights Local Clubs and Gatherings

Logan society items report in Lawrence area notes. Members of the Ohler, Cross and Union Furnace circles meet. Embroidery and Junior Tourist clubs hold meetings with guests and readings. Local residents and families, including Hocking County officials and visiting relatives, appear in the weekend notes.

Hocking Registrants Announced in Logan

Logan County Selective Service lists September registrants for Hocking County including Forrest Bailey Spencer Clarence Franklin LaFollette Rt. 3 Logan Jack Ras Dane Rt. 1 Nelsonville Eugene Bush Gen Del Logan Alpha Edwin Turner Rt. 1 Logan Paul Huise Stump Rt. 2 Rockbridge William Frederick Stump Rt. 1 Rockbridge Richard Montgomery Dollison 87 North St Logan Clarence William Ford 666 N Market St Logan.

LOGAN Selective Service Hocking County Forrest Bailey Spencer Carcon” Hill Clarence Franklin LaFollette Jack Ras Dane Nelsonville Eugene Bush del. Logan Alpha Edwin Turner Paul Huise Stump Rockbridge William Frederick Stump Richard Montgomery Dollison North St Clarence William Ford Market St

Logan Soldier Killed in Southern France in WWII Battle

Mr. and Mrs. Earl Collison of Logan received a War Department telegram confirming their son Sgt. Robert Collison was killed in action on Sept. 12 in southern France. A 1940 Logan High School graduate, he enlisted March 1943, trained at Camp Robinson, and served with the Fifth Army Third Infantry Division, overseas for a year with drives in North Africa, Anzio and Rome. He earned the Silver Star and combat infantry badge. Surviving are his parents and sister.

Logan Earl Collison W. St War Department Robert Collison France Collison Camp Robinson Arkansas Fifth Army Africa Anzio Rome Italy Logan High School Keithe Schultz W. Hunter West St Ravenna Cone Mary Collison Ithe

Attends Meeting Held in Athens

Logan J. H. Schaad of the Farm Security Administration attended a Monday evening committee meeting in Athens at the District Office in the Masonic Temple. The session reviewed eligibility for rehabilitation loan applicants and progress on several Athens District cases. Attendees from Athens included John Sheridan Alion Hope Mildred Allen and Enid Swarner.

Coolville and Troy Notes

Local items from Coolville and Troy include a Texas Sad le Pals show at the Huntington radio station slated for Thursday night at 8. Picture shows move to 8:00 start on Friday with all other school events switching to Eastern Time. Several area families and service members are noted with visits, births, and illnesses surrounding Athens County.

Coolville Huntington Carthage-Troy Athens County Rufus Putnam Athens Pfc Floyd Sr. Matlack Beth Walden Cheryl Dawn Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital Parkersburg Matlack Maedill Field Tampa Tia Lou Bortz Grace Chap- van Orange Calif F. W. Chap-' Yak W. EB. Burgoen Frankfort Delphin Creeger Burgoon Joan Aiken Lawrence Hotter P. D. Sheets Waterford Andrew Wasson Zelpre E. My Daugherty Ira Rincade Jocal Co. R. Zirkle Mason City W. Va Lawrence Holter Fort Benjamin Harrison Ind Holter Estella Holter Racine

Albany Social and Personal Highlights

Albany notices list guests and travel from nearby towns including Worley Cline, Eva Woods of Dayton, Harley Cline and son John of Chillicothe, Chas Brooks of Zaleski, and Will Cline. Columbus worker Harold Ator spem gresn well t here. C B Bowers and Mrs. C F Junkerman visited C R Broun in Albany. Lasch family mourns Buckannon death of Laura Wickham. L D Agler family, Rev Harley Bolton of Columbus, and Bob Saunders of Athens joined F E Bolton for dinner. Margaret Donaldson of Washington DC spent a week with her parents A E Donaldson.

Albany Athens F. E. Bolton Margaret Donaldson S 1 Washington, D. C A. £. Donaldson

Logan High Students Hold Election

Logan High held student elections Friday for junior and senior high offices and council representatives. Senior officers included Bob Smith as president and Earl Blake as vice president with Bob King secretary and Fred Jacoby treasurer. Student Council at large included Calvin Pollock with Mary Mowery Carolyn Martin Norma Gleason on the council. Junior and sophomore posts list Beeman Mowery Roy Magie Bob Armstrong Ned Meyers Jack Robinette Marilyn Jacoby Nancy Young Tom Brown and other home room secretaries and representatives.

Bob Armstrong Dallas Heft Beeman Mowery Bill Stewart Woody Achauer Danny Robinette Home Room Shirley Blum Mary J. Francis Harold Haas Allen Smith Jack Robinette Marilyn Jacoby Nancy Young Ned Meyers Bob Warner Tom Brown Virginia Brown

Kiwanis Dinner Notes National Newspaper Week

Forty two members and guests gathered at the White House for Kiwanis to honor National Newspaper Week. William Clapp urged appreciation for the press as essential to American freedom. Cleon Tucker arranged entertainment featuring Mrs. Ray Miller. An auction of cartoon caricatures raised funds for the charity fund. Guests included Mrs. Ray Miller and others.

Jand Ray Miller Walter Prather Ley Riggs Cleon Tucker Stanley Miller Russell Montgomery Harold Wright Columbus Robert Rochester

Logan Police Report September Arrests Total Fifteen

Logan City police made 15 arrests in September. Chief Lewis Reynolds reported six intoxication cases, two for disorderly conduct, destruction of property and fighting, one each for driving with insufficient brakes, leaving the scene of an accident, and assault and battery.

Logan Lewis Reynolds

County Clerk reports motor vehicle and mortgage filings for September

LOGAN COUNTY Clerk of Courts Thelma Keres reports September records: used cars 134 filed, new cars 3 filed, mortgages filed 63. Mortgages cancelled, total receipts, amounts paid to county and state not specified in readable text.

Logan Hock'ng Thelma Keres

Wife of Soldier Secures Position

Mrs. Addison Frey Mary Louise Brian has been hired by the local ration board to fill the vacancy created by Miss Mary Alice Brown who will attend Ohio State University. Frey previously worked as a clerk in the office of County Auditor Kenneth Fitzgerald.

Logan Addison Frey Mary Louise Brian Mary Alice Brown Ohio State University

West School Parents Aid In Projects

Logan Librarian Evalan Fischer advised West End School teachers on organizing and cataloguing books supplied by the board of education and West PTA members. Principal Mary Connor and staff are completing a library on the first floor set to open soon. Mrs Lawrence Helber leads a PTA drive for new members as students respond to the War Savings Stamp campaign, September sales totaling 88 dollars and 70 cents.

Officers Installed at Logan Legion Post

Logan Logan Legion posts installed new officers led by H D Clappert, district 8 commander. George Carr becomes commander with Cleon Tucker as vice commander and Ward Chase as finance officer. Roger Friend adjutant, Charles McKinley sergeant at arms, Walter Haas historian, trustees Walter Huffman John McVey Henry Hoover. Post won Rossiter Williams Award for 1944 quota. 1945 quota set at 148. lunch served after installations.

Hocking Servicemen News From Local Families

Logan Mrs Theodore Johnson left Tuesday to visit son Robert V Johnson in Brunswick Georgia. Mrs Jake Fickle received a telegram stating brother Pfc John E Miller arrived from overseas in Charleston South Carolina and Miller has been in North Africa and Italy. Lester Dale Crothers of Haydenville, former Atari Plant employee, discharged at Fort Sheridan September 30. Robert Lee Edwards son of Frank Edwards Route 2 Rockbridge, discharged at Fort Sheridan September 29. Seaman Jimmie McGonagle on 21 day leave with Newark parents visited Main Street friends. Mrs Harold Ewart received word her husband, rescued after sinking of USS Perry, plans 30 day survivors leave on arrival in port.

Camille Messmore Robert Redd Neal Shaw Charlotte Redd Columbus Frances Smith Cleveland County Treasurer's Office Logan S. C. Smith Floyd Duffy Jess Fickle Hardy Ave Merlin Whitcraft Hocking County Foreign Service Lon Anders Springfield Lee Denny Louie Spencer Gary Sand Run Clarence Garner Larry Eva Kathryn Nellie Spencer Murray City Lancaster Sat Enoe Garner William Belva Young da Sue Youngs Phyllis Ann B. Thompson Glouster Dreatha Powell Frances Collins New Straitsvte Roy Camp Nisteanwilla Haydensvile Jimmie McGonagle John McGonagle Newark C. B Donahue Main St McGonagle Pacific Fleet Harold Ewart Lillian Malloy

Lady Recovers From Gas After Using ERB HELP

A woman reports her stomach once felt like a gas factory after meals causing bloating headaches and irregular bowel acts. She credits ERB HELP with relief as gas and pain vanish and meals now agree with her. Athens Pharmacy promotes the remedy at 7 N Court St. Adv.

Athens Pharmacy N. Court St Adv

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