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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1942
Page
5
Fred Sanders announces a city wide housing survey within ten days to catalog all homes for potential use in housing evacuees during air raids. Wardens will collect names addresses phones and housing details including room counts occupancy and vacant houses for emergency planning.
Competitive exams for promotion of female federal clerks and typists to junior stenographer posts in Washington D C will be held at the Athens Post Office on Thursday Sept 17. J L C Kelley of the Athens Civil Service board announced. Tests begin at 8 o clock in the evening. Minimum age 18 by February 1943. no maximum age. Washington positions pay 1440 per year with chances for advancement to better posts and secretaryships.
Ath ens County members invited to Shade Methodist Church Sunday evening September 13 for the Go to Church program. Rev Earl Cowen serves as grange master guiding the event.
Navy Recruiting officers at the Athens office announce five day furloughs for a specified number of recruits from each station between enlistment and training. The Recruit-Get-Recruit plan aims to maximize effectiveness and uniform methods. Leave length and numbers may change over time at the inspector’s discretion.
Descendants of Henry and Annie Hunter Rorick held their annual reunion at the home of Floyd Wilkes on Athens Route 2. Attendees from multiple families gathered for a picnic, dinner, supper, and recreation, with afternoon guests from Athens and nearby towns.
The first Ames Bern F H A meeting at Ames Bern High School elected Mary Smith as president Jo Jago as vice president Virginia Glazier as secretary Wanda Smith as treasurer Jean Tryon as historian and Opal Myers as news reporter Mary Smith and Betty Inman were named representatives to the district convention at Coolville High School on Sept 12.
Excellent results were obtained by Ross Wright and D R Dodd on their field inspection trip in Athens County. They found corn yields increasing from 20 to 50 bushels per acre due to lime fertilizer and soil moisture conservation on Ray Kasler’s farm. alfalfa ready for the fourth cutting on Ernest Smith’s land. Fred Dorr’s 14 hybrid corn varieties all showed leaf blight with white corn best. new alfalfa varieties A-136 and Mercer County Variegated tested. on Frank Pugh’s Albany area farm pasture yield four times higher after April 1938 treatment with 400 pounds per acre of 20 percent super phosphate.
Ohio University adds an obstacle course to its physical welfare program. The 750 yard course from the animal house to the river bank includes 26 obstacles and runs aimed at building endurance and fitness for all students as part of a new four year physical welfare requirement.
Annual Jackson family reunion held Sunday at Andrew and Mary Jackson home in Chauncey. Basket dinner at noon. Oldest attendee Mrs. Dana Schoonover. youngest Russell Tippett, son of Carroll and Dana Tippett. Next year set for Galion Labor Day weekend.
Common Pleas Judge C F Rowland ordered Edwin B Foraker to appear Monday Sept 14 at 10 am to answer contempt charges for failing to pay $7.50 weekly child support during his divorce case with Bicknell Foraker. He was also ordered to pay $60 costs of the action.
At Sheltering Arms Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gould of 234 W. Washington St. greet a son born Thursday night at Sheltering Arms Hospital. Flor ence Lash of 21 College St. admitted for major surgery. Harold Burch of 76 May Ave. admitted Thursday night for medical treatment. The infant son of Sgt. and Mrs. J. M. Kratzer of 56 S. Shannon Ave. admitted Thursday night for medical treatment and will be transferred today to University Hospital in Columbus.
Corning public school enrollment shows a slight decline from prior years while first grade enrollment rises. New staff named for 1942 43 include Superintendent P G Gannett and high school principal Carl Penrod along with several teachers and substitute workers. A Methodist Class 13 supper and Red Cross First Aid class plans are reported, plus changes in local postmaster Virgil Davis and Henry Stallings operation at St Francis hospital.
Harold H. Locke returns to Camp Clairborne Louisiana after a 10 day furlough visiting his parents Mr and Mrs J Henry Locke Chauncey. Other visitors over the weekend include Mr and Mrs Kenneth C Wilks Miss Gleneta Locke Columbus Mrs Margaret Bescoe and children Detroit and John Bescoe Millfield.
Pallbearers Chauncey Mullins Edward Blackford Michael Cur ran Joseph Cline Evan Morgan and Alva McGranor led the funeral service for Horton Southerton 96 at Chauncey M E Church Rev Gilbert Courtney conducted the service with Charles Bradfield and Hazel LaHugh singing Burial followed at Nye Cemetery near his wife Debbie who died in 1917. Announce services Rev Ray Pid cock New Marshfield will preach Sunday night at 8 in Morristown Holiness Church.
The Navy announced that two Yugoslav merchant vessels were attacked by enemy submarines in the Indian Ocean in early June and that survivors have landed at a U S east coast port. C D Hutchins named chief of school bus section in ODT. About 210 000 passenger cars remain available for rationing through February 1943. Quebec produced 332 927 fine ounces of gold in first four months of 1940.
Chauncey area residents are noted visiting relatives and attending events from Chauncey to Toledo and Detroit. Guests include Mr and Mrs Mila C Stalder and Clifford Stalder. Chauncey natives visit in Washington.
Preaching in Greens Run Chauncey and Trimble schedules list Rev. Gilbert Courtney delivering sermons at Greens Run 9:30 a.m. Chauncey 10:30 and Trimble 7:30 p.m. Glaze Thompson conducts Taylor Ridge 9:30 and Millfield 10:30. Lords Supper and Church School at the usual hour.
A miscellaneous shower was held for Mr and Mrs Richard Pierce at the home of Mrs Theisen in Millfield. Guests present and those unable to attend sent many beautiful and useful gifts. Refreshments followed the social evening.
Pvt. Glennis V Karns of the Parachute Infantry, stationed at Fort Benning Georgia, is on furlough to visit his father Charlie Karns and brother Dwight Karns and his grandmother Mrs. Hattie Karnis in Chauncey following maneuvers in Alabama.
A 1935 sedan driven by Perry G. Coe 68 of Albany Route 1 collided on Stewart St with a Stack's Grocery truck driven by Maynard E. White 18 of New Marshfield. No injuries, both fenders damaged. Earlier, a 1940 coupe driven by Mrs. William Cline 56 of Albany stalled at Court and Union St, then struck a 1940 coach driven by Julius J. Landau 34 of Columbus. no injuries, fender and bumper damaged. Cline’s car then backed into the fender of a 1937 coach driven by Almer C. Allen 52 of Beverly.
Mrs. Mattie Turner Hammond of Columbia South Carolina dies morning as reported by Mrs. Edward Banks in Athens. Survives husband Mancel Hammond of Columbia, daughter Mrs. Max Cone of Boston, brothers Ernest Turner of Columbia and Fred Turner of Athens, sisters Mrs. Edward Banks of Athens and M A DeKort wintering at the Banks home. Funeral arrangements not yet completed.
Shay transferred from Co C 36th Battalion Camp Croft South Carolina to Fort Hamilton New York after completing training at Camp Croft in Nelsonville Ohio.
The day remains warm as Mercury hits 74 at noon in Athens. Yesterday’s high was 85 and the low was 60 with rainfall totaling .23 inches in the last 24 hours.
Mrs. Nettie Love Littrell of Lancaster formerly Chauncey reports her son Pvt. Alva E. Dixon has landed on foreign soil. He has served about a year. Morristown services: weekly cottage prayer meeting of the Morristown Holiness Church Friday at 8 p.m. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Napoleon Bulloch Bailey Run.
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