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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1942
Page
2
Nelsonville trustees were named by contributing members at Little House Sunday afternoon. They will meet at the Methodist Church Wednesday at 8 30 for organization and officer elections as plans for next year’s Community Chest are laid. Elected for three year terms were Roy Tomlinson Rev W M George Kenneth Orwiler Mrs Gertrude Sniffen D W Cadding and Miss Verna Hand.
Nelsonville garden club members met at 116 Fayette St for a dinner and business session led by president J. M. Hyde. Program topics included narcissis and roses, with reviews of the national president’s administration. They discussed a rummage sale set for Friday and Saturday and an early spring clean-up, plus attendance at the county garden clubs meeting in Athens on November 11.
Mrs J T Wolf and her young daughter join Mr Wolf in Hillsboro today as he takes charge of offices after a transfer from this city by the Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co.
The Murray City Degree of Pocahontas invites the public to a masquerade party next Thursday at 7 30 in the K of P Hall. Entertainment lunch and games are planned for attendees.
Nelsonville residents join the Community Garden Club for a large rummage sale in the former Beatie rooms on Hocking Street. It opens 10 a m Friday and runs through Saturday night, with Thursday afternoon donation drop off and pickup calls for clothing donations.
Sixteen members and one guest from the Retta Howe Sunday School class of the Methodist Church gathered for their October meeting in Athens. Hostess Rose Vaughn, with assistants Bessie Stephenson Sylvia Matheny and Pearl Williams, led devotions and the business session. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Mender and Mrs. Circle, and a Halloween themed late lunch followed.
Local Eagles sponsor a Navy Day program tonight at 8 in the lodge room on W. Washington Street. Lieut. Harold M. Walker, transport pilot with the Aircraft Delivery Unit in Columbus, will be the principal speaker. City officials and civic groups will attend. public invited.
The class will meet Tuesday at 7 PM in the high school gym. Starting next week sessions move to Monday evenings for eight total meetings and aim to be finished before Christmas. Enrollment remains open at Tuesday's meeting.
In the City League Barbers Service took two of three from Brooks Shoes. Bill Watkins led scoring with 212 and 564 series. Tonight the Warren Undertakers face Wilson Bros at 8. Also listed are individual scores for Barbers Service Cooper Frederick Watkins Wollchebee and Brooks Shoes Whyte Shafer Wilson Pairan and others with total pins shown. A separate legal notice from the Ohio Department of Industrial Relations advertises Mine Examine Board examinations for foremen and fire bosses in Glouster on November 12 1942
Mr and Mrs Cecil Bowersock Haydenville entertained Sunday with a chicken dinner and late afternoon lunch. Guests included Bill Ball and two children Joan and Dickie of Buchtel John Rife Ora Patton Pauline Rebecca William Leo Anderson two children Joyce Lee Eddie Daniel Hill and host son Donald. Music and games followed with Mr Hill and Mr Rife leading singing.
Fred J. Entsminger of Gallipolis and Mrs Ethel Saxton Brown of Middleport wed Sunday at the Presbyterian manse in Middleport. They then returned to the Entsminger home in Gallipolis where he will reside after years as a local funeral director. Mrs Brown is widow of Dr Worley Brown, late Middleport railroad conductor.
Mr and Mrs W H Schwartz hosted Morfield Council for an October meeting with large attendance. Discussions covered gas rationing and fire prevention with many participants. Halloween refreshments were served. Guests included Mr and Mrs Paul Grover and Clara June, Mr and Mrs Pat Bradley and Mrs Oscar Rodgers. Miss Adelaide Johnson and Anthony Waldemaier wed at Grace Methodist Church with Rev W Scott Westerman officiating. Waldemaier, an engineer at West Virginia Ordnance Works Point Pleasant, attends Circleville connections. A WSCS fellowship dinner and church activities follow at Grace Methodist Church with moving pictures by Dr N H Foster and a music and devotions program.
Mrs Langley Plymale and daughter Gary return home after visiting Mrs Plymales mother in law. Capt Langley Plymale, surgeon, moves from Westover Field to Camp Parkeley and stops home briefly. Mrs C E Richards and two children return from Cincinnati with Dr Richards visiting end of week. Mrs Joseph Boyd Baker of Bethlehem attends funeral of her step father Judge White. Edith Henry and daughter Mary Jo hosted dinner. Jack Switzer visits from Columbus with his parents. Mrs John Reese and Mrs Elaine Reese visit Lancaster relatives and join Ed ward Keeler in Columbus. Julia Baker and Kathryn Mayes guest in Akron this week.
Kerosene rationing for all citizens in the Buchtel York Schools District will be carried out at district schools on Wednesday and Thursday October 28 and 29. The process will be supervised by teachers and residents in Buchtel and nearby areas may call at the Mayor's Office from 4 to 9 p.m. on those days for assistance.
Nelsonville resident Jesse Brooks suffered a cut and bruised right thumb and a scalp wound after being caught in a slate and coal fall at the White Mine on Route 56. He was brought to a local physician for treatment.
A meeting of Hocking Valley truck miners and truckers will be held at Nelsonville City Hall tonight at 7 30 oclock.
Fort Knox Ky resident Roy W. Smith returned there Sunday evening after a short furlough spent with his parents Mr and Mrs J D Smith in Nelsonville.
Kerosene and fuel oil rationing registration activities will be held at the high school on Thursday Friday and Saturday replacing Washington Auditorium. Dealer registrations were completed today at the county rationing board headquarters and will close Wednesday.
Funeral services were held this afternoon at Entsminger Funeral Home for Mrs. Herbert M. Ingels 74 a native of Gallia County who died a week ago at her home in La Grande Oregon Interment followed in Clay Chapel Cemetery
Carl Ward, age 62, died Sunday at his home in Vin ton and interment was Monday at his native home in River, Ky. He is survived by his wife and their two daughters.
Mrs. Margaret Jones, resident with her sister Mrs. Jennie Vogelsong on Fourth Ave, sustained a broken arm and bruises after a fall on the Grace Methodist Church stairs in Gallipolis.
Raymond D. Hoy will speak on Navy Day during the Rotary Club dinner meeting tonight in Gallipolis. The program highlights naval service and local observances.
POINT PLEASANT ministers alliance met at Christ Church study for further planning of a leadership training school to be held here November 2 through 7. The Rev. W. G. Stearns, new pastor of Hartford Methodist Church, was welcomed as a member.
The Rev. James Fisher of Arbuckle served as supply pastor on the Henderson Circuit and preached at Henderson Methodist Church Sunday evening.
Marriage licenses issued Saturday to Georgie Leroy McDade and Dorothy May Parsons, and Scott Empey Brown and Lucille Ferrell.
The Kiwanis Rotary drive in Point Pleasant collected several thousand pounds of scrap on Sunday, forming a large pile at Fourth Street Park. A new route-based plan will use farm-home pickups on the next three Sundays with more volunteers and additional trucks promised. Items include two iron safes donated by Mrs. R. L. Burks and George Sprenger.
Mrs Emma Burnside Mrs O B Harper and Mrs Earl H Arnett spent Sunday in Huntington. Miss Vera Fadeley hosts the Woman's Society of Christian Service at Trinity Church Wednesday. Concord Ladies Aid meets at Henderson with Mrs M Chapman and Pioneer Farm Woman's Club in Henderson meets tonight. James Hall spent Sunday in Columbus.
First Lieutenant Carol Shanks of the U S Engineer Corps has been advanced to captain. She has served as executive assistant to the Area Engineer at the West Virginia Ordnance Works and shared much of the plant's construction responsibility. In Huntington a daughter Nancy was born about three weeks ago.
Ballot commissioners Ernest Hesson Wilbur Baxter and ex officio Chairman Vernon Jones prepared the general election ballots yesterday for delivery to election commissioners who will call for them at the weekend.
Equipment and materials continue to be shipped from the navy yard but demolition of the plant buildings had not begun by Monday. No cause for the delay is known publicly, with Navy officials declining to comment.
Dr. John A. Shinn, a local dentist in Point Pleasant, has been commissioned as a First Lieutenant in the Army Medical Corps. He is not yet ordered to report for duty.
Henderson resident Mrs. R L Burks contributed an old safe to the county scrap pile. It was opened at her request and found to contain a small package of aspirin tablets and a box of salve. The mechanism had stuck after years of floods. John Glass supplied a burning outfit to open it.
Walter Johnson of Johnson Construction Co said 350 shelters for war workers in North Point Pleasant are under roof and 350 more shelters on the ordnance works reservation have begun. Completion is delayed by WPB material priority for water mains and service lines. shelters will be ready within days after these materials arrive.
Richard Detweler of Degraff Ohio was instantly killed Saturday at the Gustav Hirsch Co ordnance works in Point Pleasant while working as a linesman atop a pole as current passed through his body. His hands and right shoulder burned. Means of resuscitation failed. He was 30 and survived by his wife Geraldine and two children. His parents Mr and Mrs Thomas Detweler of Bellefontaine were notified and the father and wife arrived in the evening.
Baritone Philip Parker will perform at the Junior High School Gymnasium instead of the auditorium. The program starts at 8 15 this evening.
John Glass head of the trade school announced a new women's welding class starting this evening at 7 30. The course runs Tue Thu Sat 7 30 to 10 30 for about 22 weeks and aims to place employed women in welding. Applicants may apply directly to the school. A prior class is progressing with thirteen graduates since Oct 1 and 123 persons are enrolled in all classes. Scrap metal donations from Marietta Manufacturing Co supply about ten tons monthly.
Jones and Wharton take title to the remaining one third of the Country Club acreage where they plan 58 new homes. They previously bought two thirds of the property for 100 homes under construction, with many nearing completion.
Mrs. W. E. Biffle of Route 2 was discharged after surgery at Point Clinic on Monday. The clinic reports the birth of a daughter weighing 8½ pounds to Mr. and Mrs. Sterlie Greenlee of Robinson district.
Mrs Raymond Musgrave was discharged from Holzer Hospital to her home in Point Pleasant after a brief illness. She is reported much improved.
In Point Pleasant the new bus terminal has faced several weeks delay due to material shortages for the steam heating system. A boiler was installed Monday afternoon and is being tested as the terminal awaits immediate occupancy.
POINT PLEASANT The builders Jones and Wharton expect about 158 homes on the Country Club land ready for occupancy soon after water mains and service pipes are installed.
Production is expected to restart today at the West Virginia Malleable Iron Co in Point Pleasant after a fire heavily damaged one plant building earlier this month. The incident prompted inspections and efforts to secure the structure while operations plan to resume normal output.
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