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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1944
Page
34
Carpenter Columbia Grange will meet Friday evening October 27. All are invited to attend. Prizes will be awarded for the prettiest ugliest and most comical costumes for couples or single. Third and fourth degrees will be conferred with supper of bean soup crackers and coffee.
Middleport High School hosts Wellston High in a league game at Middleport Stadium Thursday night October 26 at eight o’clock. Yellow Jackets seek a win after three straight losses as coach Bachtel rotates freshmen Fisher and Kircher in the forward wall. Hackett out ill, Ebersbach ankle kept under treatment, Walters and Neil to split halfback duties if needed. game moved to Thursday due to Southeastern Ohio teachers meet in Athens on Friday.
Annie E. Hoopis age 90 died recently. Funeral services set for Friday at 3 p.m. at Racine Baptist Church with Rev. T. T. Shelton officiating. Survived by daughter Vera M. Beegie and numerous nieces and nephews. Interment Greenwood Cemetery.
Funeral services for Patrick M. King who died Sunday in Louisville Ky will be held Thursday at L D King residence Syracuse with interment in Syracuse Hill Cemetery Friends may call at the residence Mrs Michael hostess Chauncey Marie Michael will host The Plains Garden Club meeting at her home tonight at 7 30 for the monthly gathering
Funeral services for Mrs. Carrie Beckler Roberts Letart will be held Thursday at 2 30 p m at the Crow home with interment in Letart Cemetery She is survived by two sons Harry B Roberts of Cincinnati and W N Roberts of Birmingham Ala a sister Mrs Mary Chapman of Baltimore Md a brother W A Beckler of Sarasota Fla and a daughter Mrs W O Crow aged 85 who died at the Crow home
The Coolville Community Farmer's Institute held its first meeting Monday evening at the high school, featuring Miss Mildred Anderson of Ohio State University on rural health. Remaining sessions are scheduled for November 13 and December 4 with musical interludes. a Friday film is planned for Oct. 27. War Stamp sales at the school totaled 33.55, with Mr. Bibbee's room contributing 8.75, and numerous social visits followed among local residents and families from nearby towns.
Laurel Cliff notes show local school children contributing 5.18 dollars to the National War Fund. Community notices report extensive social visits among residents from Laurel Cliff through Columbus and Akron, plus Holland landing news from MIddleport and Morristown cottage prayer plans. The piece ends with a feature on a famed New York bartender known for classic cocktails including Angel's Kiss Maiden's Prayer and Corpse Reviver.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Oliver of Chauncey received a letter from their son Seaman Harry Oliver who is in Trinidad and hospitalised with malaria. He reports his condition improved after four weeks in hospital. In the same hospital he met Seaman Sammy Lahugh Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Lahugh, who was there for a tonsil operation and dental work. Harry has been in the service two years.
CHAUNCEY The Trimble Church of Christ will hold the first Church Night of the year on Thursday at 7 30 in the form of a McGuffey Night. Geraldine Martin and Dorothy Mulpas will lead music. Mrs Gertrude Rainey will give devotions. L B Gooding and Zoe Herrold will head the McGuffey readings. Decorations by Pearl Christman and Maxine Heiser. Families to bring pumpkin pies and doughnuts for their own family. Coffee provided. The Fern Johnson Progressive Class will serve as social committee.
A Sunday gathering at the Robinson farm on Sugar Creek celebrated Corporal Fred W. Hunter on furlough from Fort Myers Virginia with a two course chicken dinner. Guests included James and Mrs Robinson Hollis Tippie Carolyn Kay Chauncey Richard Evener Milton Cooksey Jay Cooksey and others from Sugar Creek Chauncey and Fort Myers.
Straitsville society notes detail residents visiting relatives in Lancaster Barberton Columbus and Philo Ohio. People include Velma Jones Laura Lang Helen Strain and the Keeler family with hospital visiting Reese Ward and a newborn daughter for the Jewetts. Marine Pfc Vauniella Campbell returns to camp after a home visit.
George Adkins and children from Lancaster visited their parents Mr and Mrs Andrew McKinney and Mrs Josie Adkins over the weekend. Various relatives from Lancaster Springfield Wonderland Chauncey Millfield Trimble and Columbus spent the weekend with Chauncey and Wonderland families including the Gillespie and Schoonover households and Millfield visitors.
A weekend missionary service at Morristown Holiness Church features Josia F. Bennewitz, a returned Jamaica missionary, as guest speaker. Services run Friday to Sunday nights with special music and open invitation to the public. Mrs. Mary Slisher Dowler of Chauncey reports her husband Pfc. Kossuth C. Dowler has arrived in England.
An old advertisement claims poor digestion causes headaches and irritability and promises quick relief by increasing a digestive juice flow. It urges taking Carter's Little Liver Pills after Nature's process and touts availability at drugstores for 10 and 25 cents.
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