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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1944
Page
3
Columbia Grange will meet Friday evening October 27. Prizes will be awarded for the prettiest, ugliest, and most comical costumes for couples or singles. Third and fourth degrees will be conferred with a supper of bean soup crackers and coffee. All members are invited.
MIDDLEPORT The Wellston High School and Middleport High School football teams meet in a league clash at Middleport Stadium Thursday night October 26 at eight o'clock. The Yellow Jackets seek to rebound after three straight losses as coach Bachtel uses sophomores Fisher and Kircher to bolster the forward wall amid illness and ankle injuries to Hackett and Ebersbach. The game moved to Thursday due to teachers meeting in Athens on Friday October 27.
Funeral services for Annie E. Hoopis age 90 who died Tuesday will be held Friday at 3 p m at Racine Baptist Church with Rev T T Shelton conducting. She was active in the Baptist Church and survived by daughter Vera M Beegle and numerous nieces and nephews. Interment in Greenwood Cemetery. Chester Garden Club met at Mrs Oscar Bauer home and voted to give 33 to the USO. Members read papers on roses and garden topics with awards announced for rose specimens and arrangements. Hostess Mrs George E Mors served refreshments to eight members and three visitors.
Funeral services for Patrick M King who died Sunday in Louisville Kentucky will be held Thursday at the residence of L D Dode King in Syracuse with interment at Syracuse Hill Cemetery Friends may call at the residence Marie Michael will host The Plains Garden Club meeting tonight at 730 at her home in The Plains
Funeral services for Mrs. Carrie Bechler Roberts of Letart will be Thursday at 2 30 PM at the Crow home with interment at Letart Cemetery. She leaves sons Harry B. Roberts Cincinnati and W N Roberts Birmingham Ala a sister Mrs Mary Chapman Baltimore and a brother W A Bechler Sarasota Fla Her daughter Mrs W O Crow died at home aged 85
The Coolville Community Farmer's Institute opened Monday at 8:00 p.m. in the high school auditorium with Miss Mildred Anderson from Ohio State University discussing Rural Health. Upcoming meetings are set for November 13 and December 4, with music by local school groups and a Friday picture show on October 27. War Stamp sales at Coolville school totaled $33.55, led by Mr. Bibbee's room with $8.75.
Laurel Cliff notes show Laurel children donating 95.18 to the National War Fund. Several residents are guests at relatives homes across Ohio including Mrs. Josie Turner with daughter in Metz West Virginia and Mrs. Ernest Carpenter in Bidwell. Holland bound service news mentions Cpl William Brickles landed safely in Holland. Morristown Holiness Church holds Thursday cottage prayer meeting at Bailey Run. A New York bartender at Rosers Chop House earns nickname The Only William and cocktails Angel's Kiss Maire n's Prayer Corpse Reviver.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Oliver of Chauncey received a letter from their son Seaman Harry Oliver who is hospitalised in Trinidad with malaria. He reports his condition improved after four weeks in the hospital. There he met Seaman Sammy Lahugh Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Lahugh, also from Chauncey, who was in for a tonsillectomy and dental work. Harry has been in service two years and has not been home for several months.
Trimble Church of Christ hosts the first Church Night of the year dubbed McGuffey Night at 7 50 p m Thursday. Geraldine Martin and Dorothy Mulpas lead music while Mrs Gertrude Rainey gives devotions. L BR Gooding and Mrs Zoe Herto will oversee the program featuring readings from McGuffey Readers. Decorations by Pearl Christman and Maxine Heisers classes match Halloween. The Hach family is asked to bring pumpkin pies and doughnuts for their household. Coffee will be served. Progressive Class Fern Johnson teacher handles social committee.
A Sunday dinner at Sugar Creek farm honored Corporal Fred W. Hunter on furlough from Fort Myers Virginia and celebrated the fourth birthday of Carolyn Kay Tippie Chauncey. Attending were Walter Hartley and family Hollis Tippie Carolyn Kay Chauncey Richard Evener Marjorie Pete Milton Cooksey Jay Cooksey James Hunter and the Robinsons among others.
Straitsville notes describe Mrs Velma Jones and Mrs Laure Lang shopping in Logan. Helen Strain stayed with her Lancaster parents. Blankenship family visitors in Columbus and a Columbus hospital patient. Navy man Bob Denny on leave with Denny parents. Local illness updates and a birth announcement for a daughter to the Jewell family. Veiled references to Campbell returning from the ILS Marines.
Chauncey area residents hosted and visited over the weekend with relatives across Lancaster Springfield Columbus and Trimble. Guests included George Adkins and family from Lancaster. Dosie Adkins and Lewis Adkins from Lancaster. Dannie Mae Adkins from Springfield. Grover Gillespie and family in Chauncey. visits by Luther Cruikshank and Sharon Ann. Doris Eisenaugle in Wonderland. Mahlon Lanning and Clifford Keon families in Chauncey. Willie Blevins and Angell Ridge visitors. Lee Schoonover in Chauncey. Charles Tewksbury formerly of Chauncey now in Nelsonville. and several Millfield and Trimble callers.
Chapel plans a week end missionary service led by Josia F. Bennewitz, a returned Jamaica missionary, with Blues speaker. Services Friday Saturday Sunday at 7 pm, with special music each night. Public invited. Reach England. Chauncey Dower advised husband Pfc Kossuth C. Dowler arrived in England.
Health quiz questions suggest poor digestion and headaches from undigested food. The ad asserts Nature produces two pints of digestive juice daily and that Carter's Little Liver Pills quickly increase digestion, with results in about 30 minutes. It promotes buying at drugstores for 10 and 25 cents.
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