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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1944
Page
1
Exhibit entries run 9 to 10 a.m. with removal after 10 p.m. Exhibitors provide containers and enter at their own risk. Public may submit up to five exhibits, one per class, with sections covering displays from books to grandmothers time, arrangements, and specimens. All produce must be home grown. featured notes mention Henry Clive paintings in a Sunday insert.
The post office will accept Christmas packages for overseas personnel from September 15 to October 15. Packages must weigh no more than five pounds and measure within 36 inches for combined length width and girth. Each soldier may mail one package per week without CO approval. Do it now.
Supt Eastman purchased his residence property from Robert Buchanan in Massillon. Lieut McAfee stationed in California welcomed a son born at Massillon City Hospital. A festival Saturday night drew a large crowd and Methodist ladies raised 150 dollars for the event. John Hoblick of Wooster bought the Richard Moser property on Schultz Ave and will move before school opens. Dalton Merchants split a double header with Amish Wonders of Berlin at home. won 24 to 2 and lost 8 to 4. Edward Simpson Jr. born July 12 to Mr and Mrs Edward Hazel of Zanesville. grandparents are Mrs Cordelia Hazel and Dan Buchwalter. Gideons program at U P church featured Ira Baker of Wooster and singer Earl Gray. Ira Berg outlined Gideons work and plans. offering topped 40 dollars.
War Department notices reach J E Killen and Mrs Ray Fribley of R D 2 Ohio. Richard G Killen 18 is killed in action in France leaving a family of 12 with four sons and two daughters in military service. Pfc Fribley killed in France July 16 after service since January 1941 and North African and Sicilian campaigns. Surviving wife Velma, one son Dale, parents, two sisters and a brother. Ella Congdon of Zanesville works at the station during absence.
Blue Star Notes announces a meeting on Monday August 21 and the return of coin box placements in stores early in September to gather donations for Christmas cheer for service members. Overseas boxes must be mailed Sept 15 to Oct 15 under postal rules. Send proper addresses to Mrs Carl Dague immediately. Thanks go to donors of materials and labor for new wings on the honor roll. generosity inspires continued service.
Air Cadet Wm Marable Jr and other service members report furloughs and overseas duty from Florida to the Aleutians and France. Families from Texas and Oklahoma join local gatherings as postwar notes mix with school and church schedules. Dalton events include films, garden show plans, and a baseball victory over Barberton with notable performances.
Vernon Hofstetter and Patty Gano visit relatives in Michigan and Ohio. Julia Prance spends two weeks with an aunt in McDonald Pennsylvania. Russell Denbrook Celia Ann visit Apple Creek. Gladys Poorman spends a week with her parents. Mrs. Richard Myers visits at Fort McClellan Alabama. Basil Wolgamott visits Akron relatives. Frank Dunning visits his sister in Gray Bull Wyoming. Willard Hauenstein and families guest appearances in Ohio. Marilyn Scott stays with Beverly Lintern in North Lawrence. Dwight E Wertz attends funeral in Canton. J C McAdams returns from Cleveland. Marline Lawrence family visits Julia Brown. Merriman and Nussbaum families visit Chicago. George Berg and Darrell host at Willowdale Lake.
Monday meeting featured Lt. Gordon Longworth and Robert Worley of Massillon. A remembrance was presented to Ed Gonter on his birthday, as Vern Hoobler led a quiz from the Rotary textbook.
Mrs. Nettie Welty Bowers eighty widow of Henry Bowers died Tuesday at her daughter’s home in Canfield after four weeks illness. She is survived by daughters Mrs. S. G. Patton and Mrs. Laura Spindler, a son Raymond Bowers, and five grandchildren. Funeral Thursday at 2 p.m. at Arnold Lynch Funeral Home Massillon with burial in Massillon Cemetery.
The Dalton fire department was called to Moffitt Heights Friday afternoon to tackle a grass fire.
Official Department of Agriculture thermometer reports 8 am to 8 am temperatures from Wednesday to Tuesday with highs near 99 and lows around 64 to 72. The week saw about 1 inch of rain and 41 days this year with 90 degrees or higher.
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