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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1942
Page
10
Nearly new porcelain top with leaves and white oak breakfast set priced at 24.50. Walnut poster bed set with swinging mirror dresser 20.95. Birdseye Maple poster bed with vanity bench 20.50. Electric Hotpoint range complete fittings 69.50. Large stock of used coal oil and gasoline heaters and ranges. Contipied in N 1 Column.
Mr and Mrs Walter Howell of Gravel Hill hosted relatives Mrs E S Lurber and son Gene from West Virginia. Gene, a seven year Navy air force veteran, will attend a 16 week Chicago school to earn chief airplane mechanic rating. Doris and Mary Jean Bailey returned to Charleston to train as nurses at Kanawha Valley Hospital. Frances Pullin sang at Holzer Hospital nursing cap ceremonies. Elma Whiteside left for Akron defense work. Mrs Rothrock and Mrs Webster travel to Lima for a state W S C S conference with A J Kestle. Lucille Walburn Cox and husband visited his mother Estella Walburn. Alyce Ebersbach left Badger Co for General Chemical Defense Corp Pt Pleasant. Ebersbach attended Ohio University and returned for Home Coming with fiancé Pete Lalich. Barbara Stout hosted area high school girls visiting Athens for Ohio University Homecoming.
Rev. Pat B. Withrow Sr. will speak at the First Baptist Church in Pomeroy starting November 1 for eight days of evangelistic services twice daily at 2:30 PM and 7:30 PM. Withrow heads the Union Mission of Charleston and runs a large hospital.
New York stocks drifted lower at the open as traders priced in a cautious tone. Major industrials including General Motors General Electric and Goodyear showed fractional declines while Electric Power and Light and Anaconda Copper posted small gains. A legal notice follows detailing partition actions in Athens County Ohio.
Grain and Produce Cincinnati market reports steady egg pricing with various grades and weights. Government graded eggs and live poultry rates listed, with butter receipts at 52 20 per pound and carrots and cheese prices noted.
Middleport schools superintendent L. W. McComas reports 30 tons of scrap metal collected by local children in the recent drive. He notes the figure does not reflect all available metal and that schools could not find time for further collection.
The Vinton Rural High School senior class will host a Halloween carnival in the high school auditorium Thursday night October 29 doors open 7 30. Prizes for best dressed funniest and ugliest masks. Activities include a sophomore class Halloween play old time music concessions games popularity contest Miss Halloween crowning and a small admission charge.
A Middleport meeting at Heath Methodist Church approved merging local Boy Scout troops sponsored by Methodist and Presbyterian churches to form a single community troop. The plan heads to scout officials for a two week report. Richard Chambers led Methodist troops and Bill Grate led Presbyterian troops.
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