Superintendent Outlines War Era School Problems
Nelsonville Superintendent D W Codding explained three major war time school problems before the Rotary Club. He urged returning to core citizenship, cutting wasteful duplication in pupil transport, and preventing wartime corruption of normal school functions while aiding in registrations, salvaging, stamps and bonds drives.
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Athens Messenger
Athens
Nelsonville
Ohio
D. W. Codding
Rotary Club
Codding
Brotherhood of Man
Attitude Shift Among Youth Cited By Educators
Educators warn that a new mindset among boys and girls is forming, one that could make life harder in the years ahead as this altered attitude takes root in schools and homes.
School Principal Injured in Fall at Home
NELSONVILLE Miss Lou ise Pearce principal of East School fell at her home 503 Poplar St. and fractured her left wrist with a severe sprain to the right. Wednesday evening Mrs. Harry Ball substituted for Miss Pearce at the East School.
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Poplar St
Louise Pearce
East School
Harry Ball
Miss Pearce
Longstreth Ladies Auxiliary Benefit Party Planned
The Monday Longstreth Ladies Auxiliary of the U M W of A plans a benefit at the school next Monday night at 7 30. Refreshments will be served. Each member should donate a prize and prizes will be collected Monday afternoon late.
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Longstreth Ladies Auxiliary
Civilian Defense Council Calls for Scrap Drive
The Salvage Campaign urged residents to donate old metal and rubber to aid the war effort. City trucks will collect Salvage Monday through Thursday next week, with proceeds supporting USO Army Navy Relief and Civilian Defense.
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Parker J. Sniffen
Nelsonville
City Hall
USO
Army
Navy
Win Boles
D. W. Codding
Bishopville Social Notes Sees Guests and Home Coming
Bishopville church members host visits from Adrian Nelson and Bryan Watkins Columbus and many relatives from Glouster Ferndale Zanesville and Chillicothe. An annual home coming is planned for Sunday September 27 at the Bishopville Church.
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Bishopville
J. M. Watkins
Adrian Nelson
Bryan Watkins
Columbus
Bob Kittle
Charles Kittle
Junction City
New Lexington
Gerald Brown
Carol
Crooksville
I. N. Price
Carl Welling
Taylor Ridge
Dwight
Jimmie
Charles Buchman
Navy seeks old keys for defense production
The Navy requests old keys to manufacture gun barrels. Businesses are asked to place containers in prominent spots for customers to deposit keys. A plan with Stanley Dew places a large container in front of his hotel. other sites will collect and empty containers periodically.
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Win Boles
Stanley Dew
Racine Methodist Church Sets Linoleum Purchase at Meeting
The Racine Methodist Church group met at Mrs. Pearl Martin’s home with president Mrs. Owen Watson presiding. They voted to buy linoleum for the parsonage kitchen and appointed Mrs. Walter McCarley to choose the pattern. A tax stamp count and social hour followed with refreshment hosts and visiting relatives from Akron, Columbus, East Lansing, and Charleston.
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Racine
Clark Jividen
Grace Jividen
Jake Gaul
George Simpson
Clara Laughlin
Hazel Cleland
Howard Miles
Ernest Wingett
Walter R. McCarley
Janet
Elmer Brown
Vina Gorslin
Lynn
J. B. French
Akron
German Troops Moving North Aimed at Murmansk
A Stockholm message to The London Daily Express said German troop trains were moving north through Norway and a new offensive was expected to be launched this fall against Murmansk, Russia's Arctic port of entry for United States and British munitions.
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London
Stockholm
London Daily Express
Norway
Murmansk
Russia
United States
Central PTA Plans Friday Meeting at Central Building
Nelsonville Central P T A will meet Friday after noon at 3 30 oclock in the Central Building. Attendance of all members is urged.
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Central Pta
Nelsonville
Central P.T.A
Nelsonville Church and class schedule updates
A home nursing class in Nelsonville set for Thursday September 24 is postponed to Thursday October 1 at Daugherty's Little House on Jefferson Street. Girls should bring watch bandages and a thermometer. The Pilgrim Holiness Church reunion at Luhrig is planned for Sunday September 27 with Rev. Ben Pugh of Chillicothe preaching at 2 pm and Rev. Charles Hook presiding at morning communion. Everyone is welcome.
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Nelsonville
Daugherty
Jefferson St
Pilgrim Holiness Church
Luhrig
Ben Pugh
Chillicothe
Charles Hook
Nelsonville Social Notes and War Zone News
Nelsonville social items note bridge club substitutes Mrs. R. R. Stalter and others with high scorers Mr. John Edington and Mrs. Gay Aumiller. Military updates shipmates Pvt Melvin Hopstetter and Pvt Robert Hopstetter on furloughs and Pacific warnings. Alonzo Figgins visits from Dayton. A 1940 US natural gasoline production total is cited at 2.3 billion gallons.
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Nelsonville
R. R. Stalter
Stacy Sharp
A. B. Johnson
Charles Poston
Cecil Shafer
John Edington
Gay Aumiller
Poston
Melvin Hopstetter
California
Z. F. Hopstetter
Nelsonville Rt. 1
Pacific War Zone
Robert Hopstetter
Fort Knox
Alonzo Figgins
Dayton
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