Rededication Ceremony Honors Flag at Kimberly Mine
Nelsonville hosts a Sunday rededication ceremony sponsored by Kimberly Local Union No. 3905, United Mine Workers, as a 60 foot steel flagpole is raised at Kimberly Mine. The Nelsonville High School Band plays America while local officials veterans groups and the community attend.
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Nelsonville
Kimberly
United Mine Workers of America
Kimberly Mine
Nelsonville High School
America
Kimberly Local
United Mine Workers Organization
American Legion and
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Yand
Boy Scouts
Charles Wolfe
B. A. Awe
Pilgrim Holiness Church
American Legion
M. L. Hubbard
E. A. Cottingham
Hocking Valley Co
W. M. George
M. E. Church
United States
Thomas Price
United Mine Workers
Atlantic Ocean
Bowling center opens prize play in Red Crown Open Carnival
Nelsonville proprietor George Wolf announces Wolf Bowling Center bowlers qualify for the $50,000 Red Crown Open Play Ten Pin Carnival beginning October 12. Event allows men women and youth to compete with beginners and stars. scores sent to Chicago for entry classification. A second note lists Bricker Republican Club in Buchtel Opera House October 9 at 7 PM.
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Nelsonville
George Wolf
Wolf Bowling Center
Wolf
Carnival Secretary
Chicago
Wilkesville Social Notes Recap of local gatherings and updates
Wilkesville community notes detail American Legion Auxiliary meeting at Mrs. Irene Jacksons home with plans to install new officers. Methodist Ladies Aid held a business meeting and wiener roast at the church. Numerous visits and family events are listed including Dora Longs trip to Athens and Sandra Sue Kecks arrival, plus local social visits, church events, a restaurant move, and infantile paralysis closing local schools.
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J. R. Morton
Athens
B. S. Wells
Clifford Keck
Newark
Keck
Sandra Sue
Frank Nunemaker
Nunemaker
Worth Harder
Basil
Harry Peters
Emma. Harder
Forrest Davis
L. C. Calvin
J. A. Wood
Cincinnati
Woods
Phettaplace
Carl Harder
Grace McCormick
Hollis McMillan
Benefit Party Planned at Buchtel Opera House
A benefit party will be held at the Buchtel Opera House on Wednesday October 9 sponsored by St. Patrick s Church. Committee in charge includes Mrs Max Krotche Miss Margaret Calvert and Miss Stella Krotche.
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Buchtel
Buchtel Opera House
St. Patrick’s Church
Max Krotche
Margaret Calvert
Stella Krotche
Nelsonville Women Celebrate National Week with Social Events
Nelsonville Business and Professional Women’s Club marks National Business Women’s Week with a 7:30 p.m. bridge party at Mrs. Lillian Butts home and co hostesses Helen Jackson Treva Shaw Blanche Moorehead. They will host Rotary Club dinner Oct 8 at the Catholic Parish house with speakers Dr. H. T. Phillips and John P. Kelso. Several local residents and guests visited or stayed with families over the weekend including Floyd Sneff Claude Gheer Ed Mills and others. Walter Linscott confined to home with illness showing slight improvement.
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Nelsonville
Business and Professional Women's Club
Lillian Butts
Fort Street
Helen Jackson
Treva Shaw
Blanche Moorehead
Rotary Club
H. T. Phillips
Athens
John P. Kelso
Frank Betts, Sr
Walbridge
Roy Washburn
Wooster
Ed Mills
Zanesville
C. H. Newton
Wheeler Newton
Charleston
Frank Poston
Glen Oliver
Columbus
Young People Choir Plans Midweek Rehearsal
The Young People's Choir of the Methodist Church will assemble for rehearsal Wednesday at 7 pm in the church. Jack Pritchard Jr. serves as director for the new organization.
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Methodist Church
Jack Pritchard, Jr
Hyper ion Club Holds First Fall Meeting at Home
The Hyper ion Club convened Saturday afternoon at Mrs. Oral Daugherty's home with new president Mrs. John V. Wood presiding. A world affairs round table was led by Mrs. Cecil Shafer, Mrs. Stanley Dew, and Mrs. Daugherty. seventeen members answered roll call.
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Hyperion Club
Oral Daugherty
John V. Wood
Readers Digest
Cecil Shafer
Stanley Dew
Joe B. Davis
Pierre van Paassen
Evans Family Reunion and Local Church Group Meetings
Sunday October event lists Ed C. Evans family gathering at Elizabeth Street with members from Royal Oak Washington D C and Columbus. A Christian Church Business Girls Class held its October meeting at Mrs. Margaret Howe’s home on Scott Street with Thelma Starkey elected president and officers named. A potluck supper followed for 16 attendees. Paul Shearer hosted siblings of Miles Howe and their families with a birthday honor noted.
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Ed C. Evans
Elizabeth St
Donald Evans
Royal Oak
Mich
Joseph E. Evans
Washington
D. H
Charles E. Evans
Bobby
Mary K
Joan
Perry Davis
Catharine Evans
Paul L. Evans
Columbus
William Dean
Gary
Harry A. Evans
The
Christian Church
Margaret Howe
Scott St
Wilma Tolliver
Thelma Starkey
Edna Backus
Pearl Hartley
Freda Zeiber
Gladys Perrigo
Edith Cox
Paul Shearer
Miles Howe
Meetings at Nelsonville High School Auditorium
Meetings arranged with unanimous cooperation of the School Board. Directed by H. Max Good and Wings of Prayer staff from WHKC program heard at 6 45 each morning.
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Nelsonville
Nelsonville High School
H. Max Good
Workers of Wings of Prayer
WHKC
Miss Kisor Honored in State Designing Contest
Miss Sylvia Kisor of Nelsonville, a Nelsonville High School graduate and former cosmetologist, studied at the Franklin Institute in Rochester, N. Y. She received honorable mention in a statewide designing contest held October 5 in Columbus. Her cadet blue crepe dress featured blue fox fur trim.
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Nelsonville
Sylvia Nisor
Nelsonville High School
Franklin Institute
Rochester
N. Y
Columbus
Kisor
Shell-Mex House Windows Doors and Pipes Details
The Shell-Mex House in London features 14 percent windows 365 steel doors and over 20 miles of hot and cold water pipes. Elevators in the building can convey 10 000 people per hour.
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London
Herbert Herbert to Speak Tonight at Legion Building
Nelsonville reports a misprint in the bulletin for a Republican meeting. Attorney General Thomas Herbert of Ohio will speak tonight at 7 30 at the Legion Building. He will discuss national and state issues and introduce district and county candidates.
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Nelsonville
Thomas Herbert
Ohio
Legion Building
Herbert
Atty. Gen
Benefit party planned in Nelsonville hall
Junior Order will hold a benefit gathering in the 1.0.C.F. Hall on Tuesday night October 8 at 8 o clock. Proceeds go to assist local charitable efforts and community welfare.
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Nelsonville
C.F. Hall
Ambition and caution in a broad astrology note and legal notice
An astrology piece foresees advancement and prosperity through effort while warning of possible resistance from authorities. A birthday omen suggests progress for the year. The legal notice names Elizabeth Wend and others in Oklahoma Michigan and unknown residences, plus heirs of Lewis Wend, seeking court approval to sell Nelsonville property to pay debts. The estate of Lewis Wend is represented by George Wend with attorney R. W. Finsterwald, deadline October 2, 1940.
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Elizabeth Wend
Oklahoma
William Wend, Jr
Michigan
Lansing
Fred Wend Jr
Stanley Wend
Mary Wend Reeves
Nellie Wend Long
Bernice Wend Schoonover
Lewis Wend
George Wend
Athens County
State of Ohio
Nelsonville
County of
Athens
State of
Ohio
Columbus and Hocking Coal and Iron Company
County Recorder's
Evan F. Spray
George Went
R. W. Finsterwald
Officers of State Lodge Visit in City
State officers of the Degree of Pocahontas visited Nelsonville last week from Wednesday to Sunday to attend district school events in Murray City and Coalton. The party included Great Pocahontas Gertrude Summel and other officers from Columbus Uhrichsville Cambridge Cleveland New Straitsville Louisville and Columbus.
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Nelsonville
Degree of Pocahontas
Hazel Coon
Murray City
Coalton
Gertrude Summel
Pocahontas
Canton
Folsom Spemshorn
Wenonah
Columbus
Ella M. Browning
Uhrichsville
Rebecca Kimball
Cambridge
Rhea Horner
Doanville Community Garden Canned Food for WPA Kitchens
Edith Keplar Hardy proposed a village garden for WPA kitchens in Doanville. The Dorcas Society funded, Miss Bertha Nixon donated land, and Fred Thompson led the effort with helpers. By mid June produce fed WPA kitchens, with 40 bushels of potatoes stored and 815 quarts canned including carrots green beans tomatoes greens pickles beets and corn.
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Doanville
Edith Keplar Hardy
W.P.A
Dorcas Society of
Deanville
Bertha Nixon
Fred Thompson
Floodwood
Residence Changes In City Announced
Nelsonville notices list several moving households. Carlos Ogg moved into the Love Addition on Friday. Leo White and family moved into the Butt residence on Fort Street on Saturday. J H McKiddie, who bought the Leo White home, will relocate soon from the Poston farm to the newly purchased residence.
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Nelsonville
Carlos Ogg
Love Addition
Leo White
Butt
Fort St
J. H. McKiddie
Poston Farm
First U S naval radio station at Navesink
The first U S naval radio station stood at Navesink New Jersey, built in 1903, marking an early milestone in American wireless communication.
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U. S. Naval
Navesink
N. J
Ownership statement for The Athens Messenger October 1 1940
The Athens Messenger publishes daily except weekends from Athens Ohio. Publisher Gordon K Bush editor Charles H Harris business manager Gordon K Bush. Owner The Messenger Publishing Company estate of PF W Bush Gordon K Bush trustee Georgia H Bush Margaret Allen Athens Ohio. No bondholders owning 1 percent+ reported. Average copies 14157 daily 14804 Sunday. Notary Mary E F Radcliffe dated October 4 1940.
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Gordon K. Bush
Athens
Ohio
Chas. H. Harris
the Messenger Pubishing Company, (Inc
PF. W. Bush
Athena
Georgia H. Bush
Margaret Allen
Rdon K. Bush
Sore Pekuance
Mary EF. Radcliffe
Hunterdon Flag Raising Draws Large Local Crowd
About 500 people attended a Mine 267 flag raising in Hunterdon Saturday afternoon. Local 202 and George M. Jones Coal Co sponsored. a 60 foot pole and a 7 by 12 flag were provided. Various bands performed and speakers praised patriotism, religious liberty, and labor’s role in American life.
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Glouster
Hunterdon
Local 202
George M. Jones Coal Co
Coal Company
Murray City
John Gail
J. A. Thompson
Glouster Methodist Church
E. E. LeFever
Thomas Price
U.M.W. of A
O. F. Rowland
Glouster High School
Frank McCann Post
American Legion
C. F. Danford
Congress
Howard Elliot
Charles Clayberger
Dale Harris
David Cook
Ernest Williams
Glouster Council Acts on Milk Ordinance and Streets
Glouster officials passed several resolutions at a Friday meeting. Plans to improve E Spring Street were approved along with the County Board of Health Milk Ordinance for Glouster. Dr B B Backley attended. A tile order was approved for city work and requests for larger drain tiles were discussed.
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Glouster
E. Spring St
County Board of Health
B. B. Backley
Walter Yount
W. H. Stahl
Emmett Rogers
Oakdale
Athens Bank
Good Scores Roll By Women Bowlers
GLOUSTER Ladies Bowling League began on Oct. 3 with Press Publishing Co. defeating Gamwell's Clover Farm in straight games. Katherine Shumway led with a 140 single and 355 series for the win. Drury Drugs beat Easley and Bulloch two of three as Maxine Johnston posted a 1182 and 482, with Lucille Carter second at 166 and 403. Drury Drugs also posted a league high total of 1838.
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Glouster — Ladies Bowling League
Press Publishing Co
Gamwell
Clover Farm
Katherine Shumway
Drury Drugs
Easley
Bulloch
Maxine Johnston
Lucille Carter
Reception for New Minister at Jacksonville Church
At the Jacksonville Methodist Church Ladies Aid Society meeting on Tuesday at 7 pm a reception will honor Rev. C. E. Palmer and his wife, the church’s new minister.
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Glouster
Ladies Aid Society
Jacksonville Methodist Church
C. E. Palmer
Edward Evans Pleads Guilty on Intoxication Charge
Edward Evans pleaded guilty on arraignment in the mayoral court of Mayor Cr Dew. He was fined five dollars plus costs after the Sunday hearing.
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Nelsonville
Edward Evans
Cr. Dew
Community honors helpers for band music and service
The committee thanks Miss Dorothy Lindaman of Glouster and Wayne Quires of Murray City for band music and the American Legion for its part in the service. The committee on arrangements also praises those who helped make the affair a success.
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Dorothy Lindaman
Glouster
Wayne Quires
Murray City
American Legion
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