Phillips Urges Complete Community Chest by Thursday
The Athens Messenger reports a Community Chest total of 8811.78 with solicitors mobilized to reach non contacted firms and individuals. Frank Phillips orders finishing by Thursday as 100 percent firms and donors contributing 25 or more dollars are listed with names, while Elks Lodge events feature Ray Mitchell praising patriotism and awarding a 25 year diamond pin to William Watkins.
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Jn NS Messeger
Athens
Ohio
Athenhillips
Chest Headquarters
Chest
Frank Phillips
The
McBee Co
W. B. Drake
Ohio Fuel Gas Co
Silvus
Grace Steininger
Carl A. Frey
Athens Lumber Co
Elks Lodge
Adda A. Phillips
Harry Townsend
F. R. Beasley
F. R. Beasley—Hotel
Berry
United States
Ray Mitchell
Newark
Ohio South-Central District
Vhgeily Wer
Eit Cunstaluial
Athens Lodge
William W. Watkins
Mr. Watkins
Elks
H. C. Dorman
Paul W. Carpenter
Richard D.D. Kircher
Lodge
Nelsonville
Local Recruit Naslund Enlists in Navy Reserve
Burton Allen Naslund 21 of 66 West State Street has enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve. He graduated high school on the West Coast and attended Ohio University in 1940 41. Recruited on Navy Day he is stationed at Great Lakes Illinois for seven weeks while training.
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Burton Allen Naslund
W. State St
United States Naval Reserve
Athens
Naslund
Ohio University
Great Lakes
Coldest Weather of the Season Hits Athens
The season's coldest weather hit Athens last night with temperatures at 25 degrees, beating the prior low of 31 degrees from Thursday. Yesterday's high reached 68 degrees, and by noon today the temperature climbed to 47 degrees, eight degrees above Tuesday's 39.
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Athens
Weather Bureau
Will Wear Uniform If He Can Get It
Joseph B. Grogan Athens new chief of police will wear a police uniform if he can get it. Grogan has told several uniform makers and has learned that at least five weeks will pass before an order can be filled as companies rush to meet army orders.
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Joseph B. Grogan
Athens
Grogan
Fire at Pearl Croz home on Moore Street causes wall damage
A gas stove was disconnected without shutting off the gas at the meter, sparking a fire at 12 15 this afternoon at Pearl Croz's residence 28 Moore Street. Fire Marshal Harry Dalton reports $5 damage to a kitchen wall.
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Pearl Croz
Moore St
Harry Dalton
Man Pleads Guilty to Speeding. Fined $5
Gerald E. Cooner aged 25 of Ath ens Route 1 was fined five dollars and costs by Mayor Cliff Cornell after pleading guilty to speeding. He was arrested by city police on West Union Street Monday night.
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Gerald E. Cooner
Athens
Cliff Cornell
W. Union St
Gentle nudge for a sluggish liver with Olive Tablets
An advertisement promotes Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a vegetable remedy for constipation and sluggish liver bile. It claims to stimulate bile flow aiding digestion of fatty foods and elimination and urges readers to buy a box today with prices listed 15¢ 80¢ 60¢ at all drugstores.
Young People To Give Party At Chester
Halloween party and dance to be hosted by the Chester Grange young people at the lodge hall on Saturday evening November 1 with music by the Melodiers of Great Bend.
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Chester
Lodge Hall
Chester Grange
Melodiers
Great Bend
Chester High School
Cap
Andy
Flip
William Wilson
New York
B. N. Knight
George McCullough
Mechanicsburg
McCullough
Ream
Batavia
Cc. E. Calvert
Marvel Moore
Moore
Parkersburg
G. L. Michael
Samuel
Martha Flo Parker
Douglas Hale
Robinson
Delaware
Flora Davidson
Dale
Dorothy
Harrisonville
Janey Wood
Syracuse
J. S. Bailey
Earnest Brown
J. S. Frank
Darrell Cleland
Columbus
Hannah Cleland
B. K. Smith
Lucille Smith
Dora Heaton
Mutual
Donald Myers
Long Bottom
Mary Virginia Mora
Elma Smith
Lina Pigott
Carl Kautz
Rex Bailey
Jennie Osborne
Infant Dies Sunday in Columbus Hospital
Infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Delmar Niggemeyer of Guysville Route Two died at Children's Hospital Columbus Sunday. The baby was buried Tuesday in St Johns Cemetery.
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Charlotte Kay Niggemeyer
Delmar Niggemeyer
Guysville
Route Two
Children's Hospital
Columbus
St. John's Cemetery
Raymond Cole Pleads Guilty to Intoxication Charge
Raymond Cole, 35 of Coolville, pleaded guilty to intoxication in arraignment before Mayor Cliff Cornell. He was fined $25 plus costs and jailed for failure to pay the fine.
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Raymond Cole
Coolville
Cliff Cornell
Vagrancy Plea Leads to Fine in Fairmont Restaurant Arrest
Howard Murray aged 45 of Fairmont West Virginia pleaded guilty to vagrancy after arraignment before noon. He was fined ten dollars plus costs after police arrested him Tuesday morning in a Court Street restaurant.
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Howard Murray
Fairmont
W. Va
Cliff Cornell
Court St
Isaac McHarg Dies at Home in Athens County
Isaac N McHarg 72 died at his home Athens Route 1 New Marshfield Road after a six-month illness. He worked 30 years as a blacksmith at Luhrig and Chauncey mines. He was a Union Methodist Church member and Knights of Pythias. Survived by wife Margaret three daughters six stepchildren two brothers and two sisters. Funeral Friday at two in the home with burial in W Union Street Cemetery. Friends may call after Thursday noon.
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Isaac N. McHarg
Athens
New Marshfield Road
Mr. McHarg
Athens County
County
Luhrig Mine
Chauncey Mine
Union Methodist Church
Knights of Pythias
Margaret McHarg
Clinton Oxley
Albany
Ralph Patterson
Barberton
Earl Roberts
Washington, D. C
Francis Colley
A. C. Gorsuch
McArthur
Charles King
Columbus
B. R. Angle
Leslie Williams
Glouster
Joseph Walburn
F. M
James McHarg
the Plains
George Gabriel, Jr
Elizabeth Barber
Nelsonville
W. Union St
O. U. Graduate Wins Air Cadet Scholarship
Peter B. Seel Jr., 26, of 26 S Congress St, Oklahoma City, received an Army Aviation Cadet Scholarship at the Oklahoma Air College. The Ohio University 1936 graduate earned the award from Fifth Corps Area officials in Columbus, with 178 Ohioans among 404 winners. He will report to Ft Hayes in Columbus then return to Oklahoma City by November 8, after a mortician career in Middletown.
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Peter B. Seel, Jr
S. Congress St
Oklahoma Air College
Oklahoma City
Oklo
Seel
Patterson Field
Dayton
Ohio University
Columbus
Fifth Corps Area
Leel
Ft. Hayes
Middletown
Liquor Store to Close Early in Athens
Harry Kelley, manager of the state liquor store in Athens, announced the store will close at 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday October 31 and November 1, following a request from Ohio University.
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Harry Kelley
Athens
Ohio University
Local medical notices list patients and an estate appointment
Sheltering Arms Hospital patient Harold McBride underwent major surgery this morning. Ohio University student Michael Egan had an emergency appendectomy Tuesday evening. Charles Bond of McArthur sustained a fractured leg and other injuries from a fallen tree yesterday. Harold McBride was moved to Parkersburg Hospital Tuesday night for further treatment. Several relatives were discharged. Foster B. Cornwell of Athens named executor of Lewis V. Dyson's estate, with creditors to file claims within four months. probate judge Francis D. White notes the order dated October 20, 1941.
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Harold McBride
Maplewood South
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Michael Egan
Ohio University
Snyder
N. Y
Charles Bond
McArthur
Maplewood Drive
Parkersburg Hospital
Mac Morrison
Clarence Morrison
Riverside Drive
Catherine Singer
Glouster
Buelah LeFever
Charles White
Athens
Foster B. Cornwell
Ohio
Lewis V. Dyson
Athens County
Francis D. White
Said County
Honor Roll Announced for Athens High School
The Athens Senior High School today announced the honor roll for the first six weeks. Sophomores, juniors, and seniors listed include Raymond Dunfee, Jim Farley, Martha Caskey, Joanne Leben, John Finsterwald, and many others achieving AB averages.
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Athens Senior High School
Raymond Dunfee
Jim Farley
William Hammerle
John Hyre
Vernon McKibben
Donna Ayers
Pat Connor
Jean Don Janvanta Vanne
Maxine Bethel
Frances Nobie
Martha Caskey
Johanna Daugherty
Ann Dilley
Rachel Hoffman
Anna Mae Keever
Kathleen Lavelle
Mary Parestides
Veda Shoemaker
Jenny Sue Rousey
Lois Dixon
Jo Ann Murphy
Wanda Quest
Lenora Reeder
Claudine Steppe
Martha Smith
John Ator
Charlies Stack
Homer Gall
Julian McQuiston
Ted Miller
John Reed
Edward Wilsey
John Finsterwald
Kenneth French
Dick Hoisington
Harry Peckham
Edgar Albaugh
Mrs Sanders Funeral to Be Held in Dexter
Funeral services for Mrs Rosa V Sanders age 73 who died suddenly at her home 16 Oak Street will be held Thursday at two o'clock in the Dexter Church conducted by Rev Dr John W Danford pastor of the first Methodist Church in Athens Burial will be in Dexter Friends may call at Dowler and Ferguson Funeral Home Mrs Sanders was born in Iowa and came to Ohio at age 10 She was postmistress at Dexter Meigs County for 17 years and had lived in Athens the last 22 years She was a member of the Christian Church in Iowa She leaves her husband R L Sanders and two daughters Mrs Doris Whitwell and Mrs Eileen Robinson both of Cleveland
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Rosa V. Sanders
Oak St
Dexter Church
John W. Danford
First Methodist
Athens
Dexter
Dowler and Ferguson
Sanders
Iowa
Meigs County
The
Christian Church
R. L. Sanders
Doris Whitwell
Eileen Robinson
Cleveland
Auto Crash Injures Passenger in Coolville Route 50 Mishap
Willie White 24 of Tuppers Plains drives into the rear of a parked car owned by A Z Penrose 55 of Coolville on Route 50 Tuesday night. Harold Ralston 30 of Tuppers Plains, riding with White, suffers facial lacerations and is treated by a Coolville doctor. White pleads guilty to unsafe operation before Justice FE Fairchild at Coolville, fined $5 and costs.
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Willie White
Tuppers Plains
A. Z. Penrose
Coolville
State Patrol
Harold Ralston
White
Justice of Peace I
Fairchild
Fire damages Athens Implement Co during welding operation
Fire damage occurred at Athens Implement Co on Carpenter Street when heat from welding ignited a small amount of gasoline and oil. Fire Marshal Harry Dalton reported the incident on Wednesday morning.
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Athens Implement Co
Carpenter St
Harry Dalton
Veterans of Company H Hold 24th Reunion in Pomeroy
Veterans of Company H an0th Infantry are scheduled to reunite at the American Legion Hall in Pomeroy on Tuesday November 11 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Cards were mailed to 150 former members. those not receiving notice should mail their name and correct address to H. H. Sands, Logan, Ohio.
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An0th Infantry
American Legion Hall
Pomeroy
H. H. Sands
Logan
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