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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1945
Page
20
Rehearsals for the Logan schools operetta Riding Pool proceed with cast drawn from East West and Central Elementary Schools. Miss Jean Ann Prather will accompany the production to be staged at Senior High School at 8 p.m. Friday May 4 with a 2 15 matinee for grade children and junior high students. Synthetic sapphires are noted for their role in war precision instruments.
Logan Donald Weller, a medical discharge veteran of combat duty in the Mediterranean, will address the Sunday evening service at 7:30 on the topic What Sees a Christian Soldier Through. The Reverend Swengel delivers the morning sermon titled Stir Up the Gift Within You. The Women’s Choir performs I Will Lift Mine Eyes by W. Marsler.
Sixty-one Hocking County registrants left by bus for Fort Hayes Columbus to take Army physical examinations. Ten registrants slated for this call were transferred to other boards. Leaders were Lester Edward St. Clair and Lester Wayne Grove. Those who pass will be called later for induction.
Logan report states Jesse Frasure president of the Hocking Hills Country Club says course conditioning is progressing rapidly and will be ready for the opening Sunday April 15. He notes membership fees are due payable to Newell Growms, membership chairman.
Logan area case details an answer filed in an 1944 suit by McClain against Wilbert Turner and Starr Washington District Board of Education over a school building in Washington Township. The board sold the building in 1943 and Turner contends ownership. McClain cites abandonment of the school in 1929 or 1930 and seeks entry or removal rights.
Members and guests of the Utopia Christian Endeavor of the United Brethren Church gathered at Grotto Grounds on Tuesday evening for a roller skating party. Attendees included Shirley Hutchison, Wilma Frazier, Dale Schultz, Janet Sweazy, Wilbur Lanning, Esther Lanner, and many others, with organizers led by Rev. and Mrs. Grueter and Mr. and Mrs. Hutchison.
Franklin Dale Cherry, 19, Navy, son of Wade and Cherry of New Plymouth, and Mary Belle McGlothlin, 19, shoe worker, daughter of Harry and McGlothlin of Union Furnace, were issued a marriage license here Thursday.
Logan Probate Judge E L Ewing opened the Probation Association meeting at the Cambrian Hotel in Jackson with Judge E C Motter presiding. Dr C H Creed spoke on government committee recommendations on mental hygiene. Attendees included Mrs Dessie Hanna and Mrs Cora Brown and Mrs Wayne Ball. Next meeting set for May 9 in Jackson.
Logan reports increased interest in the Union Furnace carnival to be held tonight. Proceeds go to erect an honor roll for Starr Washington Townships service men. A feature is a one act comedy The Country School starred by faculty and staff including Mrs Mabel Murray Supt D O Davis P C Campbell Mrs Marion Abell Miss Mary Anne Moorehead Ralph Walker Harry McVey Helen Washburn Jay Nimon Ruth Raine and Floyd Riggs directed by Miss Ruth Beckier.
Logan area churches present a full Sunday schedule with Morning Worship, Sunday School, choirs, and youth programs. First United Brethren Church features 9 am Sunday School, 10:15 am worship with a talent sermon, Junior and Senior Choirs, and Christian Endeavor at 10:15. Pilgrim Holiness lists 9:30 am Sunday School and 10:30 am worship with 6:20 pm youth services and 7:30 pm evening service led by Pastor Appleman. St Pauls Episcopal offers Holy Communion at 9 am and sermon by Rev Norman Thurston of Lancaster. Church of the Nazarene reports 9:15 am Sunday School, 10:30 am preaching, NYPS and Junior Services 6:30 pm, 7:30 pm evangelistic services nightly with C B Winland preaching.
Middleport residents mourn Mrs. Emil Martz who died unexpectedly Wednesday in a Columbus hospital. Funeral services are planned for Saturday afternoon. She is survived by husband, daughter JoWanda, her parents, sister Mrs. Fred Tucker, brother Roger Coats, and two brothers Fred Coats of Muncie and Robert Coats of Middleport.
Edith Ellison hosted a Wednesday social at her East Main Street home with two special guests. Birthdays for Naomi Goulding and Russell Berlin noted. many members and guests attended followed by refreshments served by the hostess.
Local notes from Middleport describe a reunion of former Middleport High School friends including Charles Bus Scines and Kili Hubbard visiting in Hawaii during Easter. Papers list Mr and Mrs John Scines and Harold Hubbard as family links with furlough details and church attendance at First Baptist. Discharge notice also mentions Charles Orin Baum from Logan returning from Camp Pickett on April 7
The Rev. J Cs Davis of Columbus will conduct Sunday services at Naomi Baptist Church. Sunday School starts at 9 30 a m, morning worship at 11 00, preaching service and Communion in the afternoon. The Baptist Young People's Union meets at 6 00 p m.
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