Cooley Wounded in Action in France
Sgt. Robert E. Cooley age 21 son of Mr and Mrs Clarence Cooley Athens Route 4 FER wounded seriously in action in France on Sept 20 War Department informed his parents He served with a tank battalion in service since Jan 4 1943 went overseas Feb 1 He was Athens High School graduate 1940 worked at Lawhead Press before service Brother Sgt Bernard Cooley recently home on furlough in Hawaiian Islands believed now returning there EG and EATERS Egg consumption note included with regional data
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Robert E. Cooley
Clarence Cooley
Athens
France
War Department
Sergeant Cooley
al Tank Battalion
Athens High School
Lawhead Press
Bernard Cooley
Hawaiian Islands
Hubert A. Deem
Fort Benning
Deem
William Deem
Rutland
Fort Hayes
Fort Knox
Fort Custer
Mich
Aleutian Islands
United States
15th ASF in Italy 50 combat missions by Sgt James Smith
James H. Smith son of Glenna St. Clair Shade Ohio and J O Smith Hemlock Grove Ohio flew 50 combat missions in Nazi Europe as B-24 armorer gunner. He earned Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters, Good Conduct ribbon, European African Middle Eastern ribbon with campaign star. He recalls Sterr Austria bombing mission amid heavy fighters and flak. Former Shade High student and farmer, he joined in 1942 and earned wings in 1943 at Laredo Texas.
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ASF
Italy
James H. Smith
Glenna St. Clair
Shade
Ohio
J. O. Smith
Hemlock Grove
Nazi Europe
Austria
Germany
France
Balkan
Smith
Sterr
Shade High School
Laredo
Tex
OU Trains Workers for Aid for Aged Program
Ohio University sociology department ran an in service training project for the Division of Aid for the Aged. Fifteen students local workers and district supervisors from ten southeastern Ohio counties gained case work skills. Fall brings renewed training with an advanced course and an elementary course starting October 7. Mrs Loretta Cusick will teach the courses with registration today and Saturday.
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Department of Sociology
Ohio University
Division of Aid For
Ohio
Division of Aid For the Aged
Ellis Hall
Loretta Cusick
Shafer Rites To Be Sunday
Edward E. Shafer, longtime merchant and former dairy farmer, will be honored at funeral services Sunday at 3 p.m. at his home 106 Myers Street, conducted by Rev. Wm. M. George. He dies after a life in Nelsonville and Athens with Stedman Wholesale Grocery and family ties to Clinton D. Shafer. The service will precede interment at Greenlawn mausoleum. friends may visit the home.
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Page One
Coe Hollow
Clinton D. Shafer
Nelsonville
Stedman Wholesale
Athens
C. D. Shafer
Ed Shafer
Masonic Fraternity
Lydia Warehime Shafer
Hazel Katzenbach
John Edward Katzenbach
Clinton D
Donald H
Cecil F. Shafer
Don F. Shafer
Columbus
Westminster Week End Activities Announced
Westminster Foundation opens a weekend of events with a 7 30 p m church meeting on Friday, a Saturday 1 p m Fellowship Retreat to plan the semester, a Sunday 5 p m Fellowship Supper, Vespers at 6 p m with Dr Houf and Miss Caryl Brown, and Phi Chi Delta pledging new members at 7 30 a m Sunday with breakfast at the Women’s Faculty Club before church.
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Westminister Foundation
Houf
Caryl
Vinton Brothers Reunite Overseas After Months Apart
Spt. Max Hartsook of the Signal Corps located his younger brother Homer in the Seabees. The brothers had been separated by only 30 miles for some time. Max served twenty months in the Army while Homer joined the Navy last March.
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Vinton Brothers
Vinton
Max Hartsook
Signal Corps
Homer
Seabees
Max
Army
Navy
Davis Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in U. S. Marine Corps
Virgil Max Davis of Athens County rises to lieutenant colonel at age 27, among the youngest from the area to reach this rank. A 1937 Ohio University graduate, he served in San Diego and Pearl Harbor, saw action in New Zealand and Bougainville, participated in the Guam invasion, and is now stationed in Washington D C with his wife Margaret Pancake Davis.
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Virgil E. Davis
Woodard Ave
Tessy Son
Virgil Max Davis
USMCR
Athens County
Davis
Ohio University
Marines
San Diego
Calif
Hawaiian Islands
Pearl Harbor
United States
Margaret Pancake
Ironton
States
New Zealand
Solomon Islands
Bougainville
Guam
Washington, D
Churches To Have Classes Each Monday
Athens churches sponsor six week courses under the International Council of Religious Education. Lectures include The Old Testament and The New Testament with speakers Hout Shoemaker Kellers MacNaughton Ward Maffett Lachs Anderson Kenney. Credit given on completion. Prof. Vermillion chairs the committee.
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Athens
International Council of Religious Education
Tthe Union Printery
H. T. Hout
F. Shoemaker
Harold Kellers
Douglas
Mary Shaulis Funeral at Marshfield
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Shaulis age 33 who died at her son Everett Smith Clinton will be held Saturday afternoon at two o'clock in the Hoodlet Funeral Home New Marshfield conducted by Rev Myron McDonald of the New Marshfield Methodist Church. Burial will be in Marshfield Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home any time.
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Mary Shaulis
Everett Smith
Clinton
Hoodlet
New Marshfield
Myron McDonald
Plan Church Social at First Methodist October 13
An old fashioned church social will be held in the basement of the First Methodist Church next Friday evening at 7 30 o clock. Everyone in the church family is invited. The Local Church Activities Committee sponsors the event.
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First Methodist
Nathan Sutton Dies At Home In Stewart
Nathan A Sutton aged 62 died at his Stewart home after a 10 month illness. Survived by wife Elsie, daughters Sylvia Zimmerman and Clara Bowers, son Rollie, brother Mark Sutton, sister Jane George. Funeral Sunday 2 PM at Haga Ridge Church. burial in adjoining cemetery. Friends may call Dowler and Ferguson Home Saturday evening and Stewart residence Sunday 12:30 to 1:30 PM.
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Nathan A. Sutton
Stewart
Athens’ County
Sutton
Elsie Sutton
Sylvia Zimmerman
Clara Bowers
Coolville
Rollie
Mark Sutton
Chauncey
Jane George
Thornville
Haga Ridge
Dowler and Ferguson
Local War Casualty Ends Life of Pfc Charles Brown
Mrs Orley Vore of Jacksonville learns her son Private First Class Charles Brown was killed in action in France on August 25. Born in Jacksonville he would have turned 21 in October after 23 months service. He had been wounded in the Sicily campaign on July 11, 1943 and treated at Ashford General Hospital. He returned to duty and was sent overseas again in April. He leaves his mother two sisters Phyllis Cheuvrant and Beatrice Bernard, stepfather Orley Vore, a half sister Jo Ann Vore and half brother Orley Vore Jr, plus his grandmother Mrs Charles Cox of Gloucester. His father, a WWI veteran, died in 1923.
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Orley Vore
Jacksonville
Pfc
Charles Brown
France
Priate
Brown
Sicily
Ashford General Hospital
W. Va
Phyllis Brown Cheuvrant
Adena
Beatrice Brown Bernard
Hopedale
Jo Ann Vore
Charles Cox
Glouster
Rodney Power Memorial Service Set In Athens Church
Memorial services for Private Rodney Power age 44 tail gunner Jerrill Thomas Keith Henry and others will be held Sunday October 8 at 2 p.m. in the First Christian Church. Private Power was the son of Mr and Mrs John Power 207 West Union Street. Fourteen messenger carriers in Athens appear on this week's Honor Roll for perfect service records with weeks noted for each.
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Athens
Ronald Ridenour
Billy Driscoll
Bob Nida
Sonny Westfall
Tom Dowler
Paul Vercoe
Pvt
Roda Ae Ae Pah Soa Aney D. Power
Jerrill Thomas
Keith Henry
G. Roper Gilkey
And
Lynn
Thetford
Ient Central Pacific Area
First Christian Church
Power
John Power
Union St
Five Qualify To Serve in Armed Forces
Five area men from nine County Selective Service Board No 4 passed pre induction physicals at Fort Hayes on Monday. Named as qualified for general military service are Freddie Ivel Berjmach Glouster Paul Edward Meade Glouster Kenneth Eugene Russell Chauncey Charles Abraham 120 W Union St Athens and Homer Davis Jr Columbus.
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Selective Service Board No. 4
Fort Hayes
Freddie Ivel Berjmach
Glouster
Paul Edward Meade
Kenneth Eugene Russell
Chauncey
Charles Abraham
Union St
Athens
Homer Davis
Columbus
Flower Sale by Disabled Veterans Delayed and Rescheduled
Con rath Bean Chapter of Disabled American Veterans had planned a forget-me-nots sale last Saturday but postponed it due to bad weather. C. A. Parker, chairman, announced it would be held tomorrow with Athens High School girls selling. Mayor Franz Woodworth urged local support as proceeds aid hospitalized veterans and cover service-related needs. Flowers are crafted by disabled veterans in Chillicothe and Dayton hospitals to fund essentials not supplied by facilities.
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Forget -Me - Nots
Conrath Bean
Disabled: American Veterans
C. A. Parker
Franz Woodworth
Athens High School
Parker
Chillicothe
Dayton
Edna Way Invited to Show Work in Exhibit
Ten distinguished Ohio artists are invited to display at PAFA 42nd Annual Water Color and Print Exhibition in Philadelphia in collaboration with the Philadelphia Water Color Club. Edna Way of Athens is among the invited Ohio artists.
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Edna Way
Ohio
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Philadelphia
The
Academy
Philadelphia Water Color Club
Athens
Yankee Doodle Origin Traced to Dutch Harvest Tune
Research traces Yankee Doodle to a Dutch harvest song, suggesting the famed anthem borrowed its melody from a traditional 18th century Dutch tune. The finding notes cultural exchange in colonial era musical motifs and hints at broader cross Atlantic influences.
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Canada
aCe Hneath
Carpenter Howe. Co
Mary Jackson
Holland
Jackson
Floyd Schreider
Columbia Ave
Richard M. Hoisington
O. L. Hoisington
United States Army
George F. Beveridge
Camp Lejune
New River
N. C
George W. Beveridge
Beveridge
Cherry Point
T. S
J. P. Atkinson
Headquarters
Ates
Westminster
E. McCammon
Mgr
Berry Hotel Bldg
Marshfield
Denert
Londonderry
Paramount
Cross Bros
W. Union St
Nathan Sutton
Rodney Power
St. Joseph
Beaco
F. J. Beasley CO
the Mutual Home and Savings Association
Washington St
City Hall
Athens, O
Vidor
Brian Donlevy
Ann Richards
Walter Abel
John Qualen
Horace McNally
Herbert Dalmas
William Ludwig
King Vidor
Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer
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