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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1942
Page
7
Chauncey Dover schools restart penny milk program in Millfield with milk from Redtown dairyman D M Sawyer. Supt Wayne Matthews hopes Chauncey schools join next week pending milk supplier contact. Bus drivers’ schedules completed and buses running on time to transport students.
Haydenville notes report a farewell dinner for Lloyd Matheny heading to Birmingham to work as a Natco plant foreman. The column lists local residents visiting, family trips, PTA plans, school enrollment of about 200, and winners of the Natco Industrial Gardens Contest with prizes to be awarded.
Chauncey mourns as the Millfield Church of Christ hosts the double funeral for Mr. and Mrs. John Bescoe, local tragedy principals. Rev. Gilbert Courtney conducts the service with piano and hymns, burial at Hilltop cemetery, and the Bescoe family survives two daughters and four sons.
Arthur J. Smith and Chauncey Smith report their son Jack Smith has enlisted in the Army Air Corps and is stationed at Camp Croft in South Carolina.
Chauncey residents visit Detroit relatives with extended family ties in River Rouge. Arthur Henderson leaves for Camp Harrison after a May Avenue dinner honoring his enlistment. A Forest Rose Rebekah Lodge meeting is scheduled with August and September birthdays observed. Joe Welch announces birth of Ruth Ann in Miami. Martha Bible Class to meet in Millfield with needed quarterly reading. The feather cloak of King Kamehameha valued at a million dollars.
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