Republican Herald 1943-07-01

              The Republican Herald
WAVERLY, OHIO, THURSDAY, JULY  1, 1943.
NUMBER 'Hi
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BIBLE SCHOOL
GIVESJPROG^AM
At Methodist Church
In Waverly Tomorrow Evening.
Certificates   Will   Br Given
To AW Children Attending
Sessions Regularly
CONCLUDES VISIT HERE
Otto 2. Snyder,  son of Mrs.
Alice Snyder of
Piketon recently
concluded   visit
at  his homc in
Piketon.    Hc Is!
stationed     now;
at   Newport
News. Va.    Before Joining thc
Armed    Forces.
2 WEEKS PERIOD   ^ »t . dsu ^Z*™P_I
COMES TO CLOSE g£$$^u A. *fiSX
In the  Armed Forces.
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PAUL GIVEN LEETH
Paul Given Leeth. 41, a
blacksmith at Staunton for 21
years, died at hia home at
Staunton Monday at 6:40 p. m.
Death   followed an operation 5
Thc annual  program  of  thc
Daily Vacation Bible School will
be held on Friday evening at 8 I weeks ago.
o'clock in the Methodist church. |    Bo*" hi Pike county, the son
All parents and friends are in-'-- Jesse  and Elizabeth Hopper
vited to attend the program in j Leeth,. bc   resided   in Chllllco-
whlch each of tbe departments I the for several years  as a boy
will have a part.     Certificates,'ttnd moving to Staunton at thc
wlt-slM? awarded to children who n**<- of 10. -
• have attended thc sessions regu-l "Surviving aro his wife, Mrs,
larlyi.  Following  the program, Maude Crone Leeth, two child-'
projects and    handcraft    wosir'ThTt,   Robert, '0, and Rosemary,
completed during thc two week  7-   nt home; 2 brothers. Gerald
period will be on display. :Of Washington, D. C, and Cpl. I
The   annual    picnic    of   the -v«« of thc U. S. Army and 2
school was  h.*ld this afternoon  **istcra, Mrs. Andrew Rclchcrt of
with a special program of rcc-  Frankfort    and    Mrs.    Gilbert I
rcation and  games. j Crown of Chillicothe.
The school tills year has been j Funeral services werc enn-1
sponsored by the cooperation of; ducted from the Staunton Mcth- ]
the Methodist, Presbyterian, °dixt church today at 2:30 p.
United Brethren and Bible "■• with burial following ln thc
Christian Churches of Wavcrly. Washington C. H. cemetery un-
It has been under thc direction^ d<T the direction of the Hook
of Mis. Jean R. Stoll, senior in Funeral Home.
lhe  Hartford Seminary School  -V	
of Relfgoiiu Education at Hart- BEAVER  FARMFR
ford.. Conn.    The kindergarten ^£,-7*      AK1V,JK*K   .
department was    directed     by .KICKED BY HORSE '
Miss Garnet Ertel and assisted
Philip Bapst, Father of  15,
Suffers Severe  Injuries
Friday Afternoon.
by    Miss   Maxine  Mercer   and
MUs Mary Jo  Martin, the primary department by Mrs. Marguerite Tomastik assisted by thc
Misses Margcnc Mercer, Jo Ann
Weiss, Angelyn Miller and Nancy Cool.      Miss Stoll has   had   -J_SL  e\JZ'       „       ^T >
charge of the Junior department. fn3Whr^1Pm,f,a™";,,Wh,° nrcSidc,i
and Rev. Paul J.  Ertclha, dl* 2_*£SL "__£ n0r,h   °   B<iavcr'
rtftrd     ihn    i„n|n,    i-n-^_.#.   on Route 333,  was seriously in-
wk                                handcrafl>rcd  about two o'clock Friday.1
 y         .' afternoon, when hc was kicked i
DEATH OF JOHN STEWART  ■£V  youn*   horsc'  J**  horscj
t -     t   c*.        -.   -. ,     h*'<1 a sorc '00t  and Bapst was!
John J. Stewart,,74,   a rctir-1 treating    the  Injury  when   the i
td stcelworkcr   died ot 7:05 p.;animal     kicked    him,    several!
m. Monday at his home In Wa.;„mM.      „c ._,Iore<t   a brokcn ;
S      nx. VU «'*_*•   by  ra. NM teg. a cut on thc forehead!
brother. Charles W. Stewart, of ; _nd inlurlc_ about     Uie    chest '■
in0/;,,!"-1 fouJ «^™.  ""• riid shoulders.
Nella, Lillich.     Mrs.  Katherine J     „- WM ^^ ,,._- nld _    Dr
Lc-g&nd Miss Alice Stewart of. w. L. McCalcb of   Bc_vcr nnd
,aXl  y/„nd »^- P«rt J««""!w-u moved   to   the Portsmouth I
of Charleston.  West Va.  Funcr-iUcncra*   h      i(_,   ,n  the  Davls.
al services wcre hald   this af-; Hammersteln ambulance.
ternoon  at  two o clock at   the;     Bapst ,, ^ ,_.,„.. of f|ft
Wavcrly Bible Christian church , ch|,drcn. all living. He has two.!"
with    Rcv.   Emest Claytor   ,ln
rharge and   burial was made at
the  Waverly  Evergreen
tcry, under tho direction of thc
IN ACTIVE SERVICE
Seaman Second Class Jas.
Riley, Is in active service, He
enlisted in thc
Navy   last  Sep*
NEWS IN COURT
|HOUSEaRCLES
Suits For Damages of
$647.54 Are Settled
Out Of Court
FLORANCERADER
IS  REAPPOINTED
Member. He ls a
json of Mr. and
Mrs. Oscar Ril-
ley ot Piketon.
'Before enlisting
i In the Navy hc
j was employed
[at thc Federal Glass Company
i In Columbus.
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GETS BIRTHDAY CARD      L
-  {Aa    Member    of     Soldier's
Mrs. Joseph A.   Gehres. who' Relief Commission In Pikc
T.?t,£_:_-Ibrn,cd h<>r c,*hty- Fo«- •* Year Period,
ninth  birthday  anniversary at ________
her home in Wavcrly. Is in re- a   ____, __-,-»,-    ■*,, «-,.,_  .,
ce.pt of a happy birthday teller 'OhV^S. o^ ^An"
££ A„„,rr?^•,drdaUlfi,,Cr>M "'*, k,n4 v^wrencc Adklns. for
I'S^and mS   /_,!„ pU,r1r ° con«<-m«". was filed in common
Mr   and Mra. Loyd F.   Gchres. plea, -__-, on Tu0__ay..    The
Mil. Cenhrl\ •_«_-, ,1 ,.    !dCf,rndanl l> char*«"  *'lh ™
o    ,k Cuthr<?sl?,_0cat?d at lhc ,wi1-'t ot a   -°-r« order to pay
SfJi"^1/, "r$ 0l attOrn0y '«■* *■"-' AdWrafta
(Amltyvllte. Long Island. New reprc-cntcd by Attorney W. T.
York, where she is a Councilor rie^-,
at one of the Fresh Air Camps  _
;*Pon-»mJby the,Thc New York) Two suits for money in thc
;lforaId*-lribunc. amount of 3047.34. which were
, The camps are for underprlv* file,! j„ common plea* court bv
•ilcgrd girls from thc age* of 9 Bill Beekman. of Elm Grove.
'       L_!a_____v "      ;0ira'nst Ihe Williamson Lumber
EXAMINED FOR NAVY ST^m, °f fK,Ulb,,ck'    °h£
- ~. ..   „..   i wcrp, settled  out  of  court   bv
George. Stoll, Pikcton teacher  the attorneys tytl   Monday- with
and Insurance agent,  left Tj-es-, ,hc   plaintiff-receiving  the  en-
Jay for Cincinnati to b<- e-ram-■ t.re amount  which  he sought.
j lord  for   enlistment   in  the U. , Beekman
•S.  Navy.  Mr.   Stoll, who Is a
was represented
Attorney W. T. Reed.
college graduate and   recently
irompletcd a course in cheml-1 The roappolotment of Flo*
cal warfare at Purdue Unlvcr- ance Rader as Jmomber of the
fity. at Lafayette. Indiana, is Soldier's Relief Commission for
reek ng a commission as Lt. Jr. _ 3 vo-r pe-,^, w-s announced
Grade  ln the U. S. havy. |,uesday    by   Common     Pleas
less   ruts. rcTr, *-r-r    iJu(,Ke Earl D' PaTker      °-hcr
3D  IVIILI-O   1 _l l_sl_ 1     imemtiers of thc commission arc
Harvey Hanlon and Walter Mill-
SURFACE TREAD
This ls the Fourth of July; anniversary of the fulfillment
of this nation's independence* This nation, dedicated from
its first cry of life, to liberty! It is impossible for us to
observo that date, this year, without realizing bow we
once again are embattled in tho same came—now on a global icale that all the men. women and children o! the
world might henceforth also livo free to worship and speak
as thsy see fit—tree from fear—free from want. We who
work and fight under the stars and stripes havo by our
side, under their own bravo banners, those other United
Naticns wllh whom we proclaim! "United We Are Strong;
United. We Will Win." And as the Fourth of July signals the independence of those United States, may some
future date signal the independence of mankind everywhere, freed from the despotic tyranny of the enemy.
Stat* Routes 141 and 335 To I     Winston C.   Farmer, of Day-
Be   Improved  With   Now     !?£.   hMA,"wI ___*,£ 'T™"1
r picas    court    seeking    divorce
*     Treatment. \trom his wife, Wai/fla***"*. Farm-
  jer. of Oklahoma Cfty. Hc charg-
New bituminous surface *-* urns* ne-rlect of duty nnd
treatment for 18.16 miles of petitions for custody of the two
(State Route 130. the Portsmouth minor children. Hc Li reprf-
;Minford-Jack-.on road and _1.6_ .'"•""**»ted by Attorney G. W. Rlt-
; miles of State  Route 335.   the  tenour_jjf Pikcton.
.SciotovHIe-Minford-Bcaver - O-! 	
!mega road, arc Included In a; Assistant Prosecuting Attor-
' letting for which bids will be nc>" M* •'• Cofer on Tuesday.
opened hy thc state highway dc- announced the appointment of
l..__, . —   ...... __. M__ Virginia  Armbruster _ as
HOSPITAL  PATIENT
Frank  Dillahtint     of Bcav
Gregg Funeral Homc.
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| >ets of   twins  and   onc   set of
; triplets.      He has two sons in
ccme-j-he Armed Forces of  the  Unit-Route 3. was  taken   to  Port*-
ed States. j mouth   Monday  in  thc    Davis-
 V         ! Hammersteln  ' ambulance    for
SUFFERS   BAD  ACCIDENT
jiartment on July 20.
,' Six projects are to be let as! ••'•• stenographer for a period
I one contract with the total dlt*-.01 7 months, beginning June I,
itancc involved 56..15 miles and nrid ending January 1. 1044.
j the estimated cost $50,880 The Ml**** Armbruster is Uvjdaugh-
iwork Is to be completed by 6c-  'cr   ot Mr' and Mr'*-  rtank T*
tol>er 13. I "• Armbruster  of Wavcrly.     %
Tlie   139   lmprov-»mcnt   Is  to ■    __^ 	
'cover   11.56 miles In   Franklin, i    The divorce case of Woodber
! Hamilton and Jefferson twps In. K"UW    v**-    -I"*"    Knlsley.
LT. COLBURN HERE
Lt. Richard F. Colbum of Ncw
Of^the route    335    Improve-
DEATH OF RALPH EGBERT  !mcdlcal   treatment. He was  i^'n-rw  l^S .Vr^Ort' C-l"  "'^   ,44°   """ "" '" Mad'*'
turned   to  his  homc  **
HOME
Pfc. James
Gandler  Air
[Jackson county and 0.60 miles In  «•'•* <hsmi.«cd    -y  Judge- Ear J
Word   was received  hcre on'Madl«on twp.. Scioto countv.      Sl.1^, °n, J ,f^ay __.   ,,,c
Tuesday that Alfred Lon Ever-1     of the route    335    Imni-ove-  cost of  the P,aIn,".f*  who  «**-•
it,  formerly  of  Waverlv.   and  ^l4 «   miles are _f_S~itiSeeT^ * ^^ W' T"
--'•son and Harrison twos., of  Sci- ' .,
the same was seriously Injured while on „*_   C0lmtv anc! 7 22  m„c. mi V
maneuvers   In    California    and Mnr,on twp,   Pikc  county |    ^W"_*1? 0F f°fD,      _
,:hat. as n result of thc  injury.;     -he other projects are on Rt I     The   Piketon     school    lunch
,U wns necessary   to amputate ;75i  (he ironton-Oak Hill   roadir0Om   '» ln n,!td ot tood to be
thc o foot. Mr. Everitt was former* ant- *~-    -4]    -j,,, ironton-Galll-'cann<**-*  and  anyone having  a
' * aasoeiatcd with  the Waverly | j*,,-. road   *^th    ln    Lawrence 1 -rurP-u*  *>'   '«x>d to sell or do-
county. jnate to the  school, please con-
ON VISIT
Carson, of
Base at Atlanta.
Ralph Egbert, Stockdale far- day
Mexico arrived ln Waverly on , mer. died at six thirty o'clock
Saturday to spend a few hours Friday morning at the Unlvcr-
wlth his grandfather and other ,ity hospital.. Columbus, where
•ellatlves. He is the son of Mr. he had been a patient for 3
and Mrs. Frank Colburn of Co- weeks.  He  is survived  by his I Georgia, la for for visit with SUte Bank
lumbus.   former    residents     of | wife. Mrs. Marjorie Brown Eg-; his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Jas.;        V	
Wayeriy. Dick graduated  fromjbert,   one son. Lcroy,   his par-jearson. of Pikcton. RETURNS TO CAMP
the bombardier school  at Tuc-j etits. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Eg-  v  Private Paul Gregg returned
son.  Arlrona. ln February   ****--1 hert.   of Minford; onc brother.    VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL    Sunday  to  Camp Hood. Texas. ■ white Yhe" 1*0ut iliTk* li'Yor i Cooper, Mra. George Leist Jr
expects  to bc  sent Into foreign (Billie.   and  two    sisters.     Miss      The  Vacation    Bible    School  .u'ter spending a 15 day furlough 14 70 m|„ Mrs.  Charles  Williamson.  Mra.
Egbcrt|wjn close on Friday  and will with   his wife.   Mra. Margaret;  ' _
The route 75 Improvement Is ,,act t*1* following neighborhood
for 12.17 miles In Decatur. E-i,**adc,~: Mrs. Pearl Crabtree.
llzabeth and Washington   twps. |M*~- w- J- Beoddy. Mra. Frank
service in the near future.   He j Lorctta and Miss Norma
has been in   thc service for 16: at home. Funeral services were j present a varied   program   and  '.regg and his parents, Mr. and
months   and this   was his first; held  from  the Stockdale Meth-, display    of    products   of
II.  Brown,   Miss Lenore Vallery.   Mra.   Mina McNelly, and
Zelma    Schilling.      Mi.-s
DISCHAflCCD
the  Mra. George   A. Gregg. This Is !     Robert Givens of ncar Waver- Mrs.    .
leave of absence for home, mak-; oaist   cnurcn on s-unday atter- school   on Friday  evening at 8  5'rivate Gregg's first visit here *v.   wa-   recently     granted    an'Virginia Justice is secretary of
ing  the trip by plane. He  left  noon at two thirty o'clock with  _ clock In   the Waverly  Metho-    Ince his Induction into thc army -^norable discharge from the U I *hc group.
the Columbus   Airport Sunday j Revs. John Kemper  and   Edgar dir*-*church. Parents and friend*  « months ago. Private Gregg is:»-   Army on account of physical'         V	
"arc cordially invited to attend    -onncctcd with a tank destroyer ;iisab[litv   „0 ,. now looatocl at'        AN HONOR  STUDENT
i">72 Kelton Ave., Columbus. The year book of the Ablng-
evcnlng to return to hcadquar
(era  In Ncw Mexico
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DEATH  OF  INFANT
Raymond Englls Yoakum. 2
months old son of Mr. and
Mra. Milton Yoakum of Beaver
Route 1, died at the residence
Tuesday morning at two thirty
o'clock. Surviving are the parents, two sisters, Betty Jean
ond Elizabeth, and two brothers, John and Marshall! Funeral services were held at
Boumevlllc Wednesday afternoon at two thirty o'olock with
the Rev. Glendon Mills ln
charge and burial was made at
the Bournevllle cemetery under direction of the Davia-Ham-
mcratein Co., of Beaver.
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MOVED BACK HOME •
Mrs. Bert Scott, of Waverly
Route 3, who has been a patient
at the Portsmouth General hospital for ten drys, was moved to
her homc on Monday afternoon
in thc A. H. Boyer ambulance
irom Waverly.
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TAKEN TO HO .JMTAL.
Mrs. Emerson Ball of Pikc-:
ton is a patient at tbe Chillicothe hospital. She was t_ken to
the hospital on Tuesday evening
Jn thc A. II. Boyer ambulance.
Dean in charge and burial was
made at the Stockdale cemetery
inder   thc   direction of  Davis*
Hammersteln Co.,  of Beaver.
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DEATH OF JAMES CLINE
James Cline. 80,   retired far- j
mer. died at six o'clock Friday j;
morning   at    Uie  .Smith    Rest'
Home in Waverly. Hc ls survlv-
•_ by one nelct* and several nephews.     Funeral services were
held  from  the   Gregg  Funeral
Home on Sunday afternoon at
three o'clock with the Rev. Paul
Ertel.  pastor   pi the Waverly
Methodist church,    In    charge,
and burial  was made   at    thc
Waverly   cemetery.
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LEASE   BUILDING
Sheriff and Mrs. R. E. Mercer
have leased the building formerly occupied by the Jones Drug
Store and are planning to open
a confectionery in that location.
Mra. Sheldon, the owner. Is
having the building remodeled
and redecorated.
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HOTEL PROPRIETOR    IS ILL
Ftorvnce   Rader,   genial proprietor of the Emmitt Hotel, ruf-
fdred the*  intense heat and  a  .
heart attack at the bote! on last ;'
Monday evening. He Is confIn-'
ed to his room but ls Improving
"THE SPIRIT OF JEFFERSON"
(BY WINN FARMER)
1  V mt*tg
VISITED  AT JASPER
Sgt. Charles DeWi-y, who has Miss  Mary Jane
From the* tcmb at Munilcello,
May his spit it incarnate.
Span thc years which have departed,
Since hc helped to build our statc.
May It place that Ma„na Charter
In plain view of all to see,
Whisper words of gentle warning,
Lest we lose our liberty.
May It warn that they intended.
They, the authors of our right.
That the power be Invested,
Not in one. but tri-partlte.
And that power, not invested.
In this systTji, tri-partite.
Ou-*bt and should be delegated,
To the people, „ as thcir right
Only by thlsvliallowed precept.
May we keep our liberty,
And safeguard tbe rights. Inherent.
Of a people, proud and free.
May his spirit keep us watchful,
Lest ambitions searing hand,
Blight the roots of freedom's mandate,
And bring chaos to our land.
been slagioncd at New
iCWy, visited his parents, Mr. ; hres, who was a member of the
and Mrs. J. Floyd Dewey, of '-M3 c-raduati-u. class of the
Jasper, this week. He was en- -chool. XILss Gehres was an hon-
jtoute from New York City to or student and won the first
West  Palm Beach, Fla. .'honor award   for her essay on
 V  "Old   English and  Scotch Ball-
HOSPITAL PATIENT ads." MUs Gehrcs is a grand-
Mrs. Anna Ingalls, wife of daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. Jos-
Clyde Ingnlls, of near Waver- j eph A. Gehres of Waverly, and
ly, is a patient at Portsmouth her father, Loyd F. Gehres. was
General hospital. She was tak-f former owner and editor of Thc
emmeaeeee»ae»—*t.*mm*mteaeme*****eaee***»a»e*es».eaeeme»*eee»**e>
\ ton  Friends School   at Jenkin-
j town.  Pa., contains a picture of
Gehres,  dau-
York, tghti-r of Mr. and Mra. L. F. Ge-
en to the hospital Thursday evening in the A. II. Boyer am-
b'.i!_nce.
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FIRST SHIPMENT OF
8YNTHETIC TIKES
Republican Herald, Waverly.
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♦ OUR VICTORY BOOTH    ♦
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The "Future Americans"
girls sewing group of the 4-H
club will be ln charge of the
victory booth this Saturday, July 3rd. from one o'clock In the
afternoon   until ten o'clock   in
Clarence Vallery, local tire
dealer, received the first shipment of synthetic tires in Pike
county. These tires are classed
as grade 1 tires and under the
many rigid tests they have been I the evening. They are expecting
put tinder by the army and the I big things from you, so have
rubber manufacturers. they j your dimes and dollars ready to
show qualities superior to thc j purchase War Savings Bonds
live rubber used in thc past.: and Stamps on this date- Let's
Come in .and look at these new Jeel-ebrate the Fourth of July by
synthetic' tire*-. They are the re-, purchaing the limlL Buy a
suits of long and hard rcsea.rch. scare of freedom.