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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Apr 28, 1939

Page

9

Campaign to fund ornamental gateways for U S Route 33

A new committee plans a $2500 campaign to fund ornamental gateways on U S Route 33. The effort will begin Monday the 15th after the Boy and Girl Scout campaigns. The group will canvass in divisions with members including Mayor Dallas Kinser and many local business, professional, and organizational leaders.

U. S Athens Caster Glouster Clarence Er Laurelville Circleville Rt D. Lappen Reynolds R. R. Loomis Employes Harry Eastman al A. Cole Forest E. Weinrich Car Brashares James R. J W. B. Lacock W. H.ey L. K. Showal

Junior Choir of Plymouth Performs at Presbyterian Manor

Plymouth community notes show the Junior Choir entertained at the Presbyterian manse with music and refreshments. Several local families and teachers are listed, including Miss Jane Liken of Athens visiting the Heinlins. revival services featured many choir members and a county contest highlighted Frantz in second place.

Scouts Distribute Tax Stamp Boxes in Logan

Logan Boy Scouts in Troop 153 sponsored by Logan Lodge of Elks distribute tax stamp boxes to local businesses. Boxes serve as receptacles for cancelled sales tax stamps, reflecting a community effort directed by the troop.

LOGAN Boy Scouts Logan Lodge of Elks

Logan Brief Social Notes

Logan clubs and residents gathered for diverse social events. The E Z Bridge Club hosted at Mrs Homer Gabriels home with substitutes, awards to Mrs Gabriel and Mrs Robert Lee White, and plans for a county WCTU institute at the Methodist Church with Miss Bess Kuntz assisting.

E. Z. Bridge Club Homer Gabriel Edward Kemper Byron Wolfe, Jr Gabriel Robert Lee White County Institute Methodist Church Women’s Christian Temperance Union

Logan Board Calls Special Meeting on Attendance Complaints

A special meeting of the bounty board of education is set for tonight to address attendance complaints in rural areas. The issues involve pupils assigned to Logan schools who have not regularly attended during the current school year.

Logan Bounty Board of Education

Quarantine Lifts for Local Smallpox Victim

Logan county reports John Lonbarger recovered from smallpox and released from quarantine. Only remaining quarantine is at Howard Craft in Murray City as another victim. No new cases reported. County Engineer Ernst L. Schaal notes Rush Creek Road landslide work delayed a few days.

Logan John Lonbarger Jobs Howard Craft Murray City Ernest L. Schaal Rush Creek

Logan Aerie Eagles Nominate Officers for Next Week Election

Logan Logan Aerie of Eagles held its regular nominations on Thursday evening for officers. Elections will take place at the meeting next week with officers to be installed in June.

Logan Logan Aerie of Eagles

Baseball Starts Log An Early Season Practice

Youngsters practice baseball as the local team prepares for the season. A game is scheduled at Union Furnace next Monday evening.

LOGAN Union Furnace

Logan Church Services Are Announced

Multiple Logan area churches announce Sunday services with diverse sermons. Preachers include Rev C B Clendenen at Nazarene with topics The Radiant Certainty and Driven From the Presence of God. Rev John Lloyd Evans at First Presbyterian. Rev Cecil Harding Jones in an exchange pulpit. and others at Methodist, United Brethren, Lutheran, Pilgrim Holiness, and Enterprise churches with times from 9 to 10:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Choirs and guest speakers are listed along with a centennial service at Lancaster High School auditorium.

C. W. Graham Methodist Church Masonic Fraternity Graham United Choir Allen-Adams Amos L. Heyde St. Matthew Lutheran Church Ilesboro Trinity Lutheran Church Elmer Bliss Lancaster High School Walter A. Myer West Logan Pilgrim

Six enroll in CMTC Logan camp in Hocking County

Six enrollments have been recorded for CMTC camps this year from Hocking County. The quota is eight. Those enrolled include Tom William Nash Kenneth Elias Oeffler Robert David Snyder Francis Eugene Ervin Harry D. Struble Logan and Victor Allen Carpenter Carbon Hill. GO TO LAURELVILLE LOGAN-Several Knights of Pythias of this city went to Laurelville Thursday evening to attend a meeting of that lodge.

Logan CMTC Hocking County Tom William Nash Kenneth Elias Oeffler Robert David Snyder Francis Eugene Ervin Harry D. Struble Victor Allen Carpenter Carbon Hill Laurelville Knights of Pythias

Start of Drainage Work On Route 33 at Enterprise

Work began this week in Enterprise to install drainage along U S Route 33. The project marks the start of road improvement efforts in the area.

Logan Enterprise U. S. Route 33

Minersville Class Meets and Community News

Minersville note page reports a Wednesday evening class gathering with refreshments by Mrs. Dana Brown Mrs Theodore Grueser Mrs Charles Withrow and Mrs Nora Roush Pearl Phillips ill Rev John Brown of Chester to conduct Methodist services Sunday evening Velma Grueser returned from Columbus and visited daughter Mrs Jack McDaniel Miss Margaret Thomas hosted a young women’s club Mrs Walter Houdashelt underwent major surgery at Holzer Hospital Gallipolis with two blood transfusions satisfactory recovery Miss Evans of Bashan helps at Houdashelt home Chester Roush a Ohio University student visited parents Robert Brown of Pomeroy spent time with grandparents Dana Brown family influenza illness widespread in area Elmer Grueser and family from Millersburg visited parents Will Thomas family hosted John Roush and sons of Carmel Mrs Otis Childs and Betty Jean of Jacksonville Fla visited sister in law Mrs Norman McCallum Childs family mourns death of her father Mr Rhodes Emma Grindley and Laura Hayman visited Amanda Baxter 93 who remains in good health at Flora

Minersville Dana Brown Theodore Grueser Charles Withrow Nora Roush Pearl Phillips George Roush New Haven John Brown Chester Velma Grueser Columbus Jack McDaniel Margaret Thomas Walter Houdashelt Holzer Hospital Gallipolis Miss Evans Bashan Chester Roush Athens Ohio University Robert Brown Pomeroy Mary Grueser Laura Harry Keiser Hayes Roush Earl Hartenbach Elmer Grueser Millersburg Mary Huber Elizabeth ‘McCallum John Roush Carmel Will Thomas Otis Childs Betty Jean Jacksonville Fla Norman McCallum Childs Pt. Pleasant Rhodes Emma Grindley Laura Hayman Amanda Baxter Flora Baxter

Rural Schools to Close Across County This Week

Logan Rural schools Webb Summit Nickel Plate Falls District wrap the year this week with final days at Enterprise on Thursday and Marion District central school and Calico Ridge on Saturday. Remaining county schools stay on nine month terms and will dismiss after mid May.

Logan Webb Summit Nickel Plate Falls District Enterprise Marion District Calico Ridge

Former Logan Man Dies at Hospital

Logan Allen Spence aged 50 of Columbus died at Veterans Hospital in Dayton on Wednesday evening. A World War veteran he served overseas and was briefly a chauffeur for General John J. Pershing. He leaves his wife and son Allen Jr. and brothers Jack Jr. and William Spence and Mrs. Wylie Rhoades. The body was sent to Columbus for funeral arrangements.

Logan Allen Spence Columbus Veterans Hospital Dayton Jack Spence, Sr John J. Pershing Allen, Jr Jack Jr William Spence Wylie Rhoades

Copperhead Killed in Marion Township by Local Star

The first copperhead of the season was killed Sunday in Marion Township by Herb Jones, a Logan High School football star.

Marion Township Herb Jones Logan

Logan Senior Class Play Is Rehearsed

Logan High School prepares its senior class play Parents and Pigtails to be staged May 4 in the auditorium under Miss Bartelle Hamilton. Cast includes Dale Engle Virginia Fitzgerald Shirley Mooney Jeanne Scheibell Ralph Nash Le Evans Juanita Root Robert Wilson Betty Jane Riggs Fern Iles Elizabeth Smith Clinton Mahler Bill Walsh. Committees Publicity Eloise Humphrey Billie Bryan Jack Smith. Stage crew Joe Mack Earl Thompson Robert Hugle Carl Clendenen. Get State Post Logan Carl Beery named bee inspector for Hocking County by John Brown.

Logan Logan High School Bartelle Hamilton Dale Engle Virginia Fitzgerald Shirley Mooney Jeanne Scheibell Ralph Nash le Evans Juanita Root Robert Wilson Betty Jane ‘Riggs Fern Iles Elizabeth Smith Clinton Mahler Bill Walsh Ida Bell van Atta Sara Jane ‘Goss Marjorie Richards Pauline Heine Wilma Bratton James Kelch Bill Wolfe Retha Lour Esther Marks Edna Richards Phyllis Leonard Alice Carpenter Bernhard McGraner Veronica Voris Eloise Humphrey Billie Bryan Jack Smith Joe Mack Earl Thompson Robert Hugle Carl Clendenen Mary Elizabeth Wolfe Eleanor Brown Mary Ann Moorehead Magdaline Weiland Bernard McGraner

Former Logan Man Mack Butt Dies in Maxville

Logan L M Mack Butt 72 died at his Maxville home Thursday. A shoe cobbler and bat maker, he once lived in Logan and sold bats in the district. Survived by wife Laura and five children John Zanesville George Chicago Gould Mowery Logan Edith Sheppard L R Parker Columbus, and sister Lorena Owens Columbus. Funeral arrangements incomplete.

Logan L. M Mack” Butt Maxville Laura Butt John Zanesville George Chicago Gould Mowery Edith Sheppard L. R. Parker Columbus Lorena Owens

Plans Purebred Herd Expansion in Good Hope Township

Logan Paul Shaw, a Good Hope Township farmer, now has six registered Guernsey cattle. This week he acquired a sire at a Mt. Vernon stock sale and expresses interest in sheep raising.

Logan Paul Shaw Good Hope Township Guernsey Mt. Vernon

Pioneer Youth group plans May meeting at Millers Chapel

Logan area youth group schedules a May 2 gathering likely at Millers Chapel Grange Hall. Committee in charge of arrangements includes James Guthrie Dorothy Hartman and Walter Stone.

Logan — Pioneer Millers Chapel Grange Hall James Guthrie Dorothy Hartman Walter Stone

Court Hears Contested Divorce Custody Case

Judge Phil Henderson heard evidence in a contested divorce involving Violet and Raymond Darnell. Custody of one minor child was disputed while another child’s custody was left to the father without contest. The court took the matter under advisement.

Logan Phil Henderson Violet Darnell Raymond Darnell

Also Mentioned on This Page

Orden Willaders Unior Choir New Plymouth Stent Nior Treadley Elizabeth Heinlein Jane Liken Andrs Stanley Miller Orchardill McKibben Hill Bloomingville Elsen Earle Heinlein Ladies Aid M. E. Church M. E Hamden Frances Hardesty Hazel Eileen Loomis Catharine Ralph Cherry Dale Mildred Glen Clyde Harris Nina Smith Frances Ann Junior Fuller Emily and Dwyer Frantz Mary Hixenbaugh Eugene Albert Dysert Raymond Sigler Chloe Fuller Cecil Weed Will Cherry Stewart Edith Scott Janet Harold Stimel Marion Dwyer Frantz Frantz Emily Frantz S. W. Hardesty Wilner Hardesty Groves Barbara Warthman Willie Warthman Olan Riley Warthman Lafe Warthman Minnie Warthman Edwin F. O. Stout Lola Worthman Sam Elsen Rice Chillicothe Asbury Church McArthur Eileen Bobby Loomis Frances Ann Fuller Glen Clyde Stanley Harris Harry Harris Scouts Spears Carl Frenier Mary Brown Fanny Spears Logan Business and Professional Club Mary Lemon Precious Correll Florence Bort Margaret Lutz Clara Stone Emma Petty Hortense Gibson Cora N. Brown Lutz Lawrence Gom Young Lutheran Society of the Trinity Church John Buntz Kermit Bliss Rudolph Rempel, Jr Dick Buntz Ruth Bliss Clarabelle Bizzie Rempel Buntz Jane Cox Sheldon Cox Bus Harry Taylor, Jr Lawrence Gompf Judy Shirley Buntz Buzzie Rempel Entertain Club Fred Carpenter Six Suit Contract Club South Logan W. D. Bassett Fred Burchfield Logan Garden Club Chillicothe Club Harry J. Stevenson John Allen Emma Wellman Ann Wellman John E. Krieg Thimble and Art Club M. H. Cherrington Emma McClain William White C. S. Clark Clark McClain G. W. Graham Will Leyshon Carlton Bright Victoria Swett George Goulding Phillip Valencie Hollywood Carl Beery Honor Rev. Beck M. E. Beck Canton Eastern Ohio Synod of the Elizabeth Forwick Oman Dunit Roman Cleanser Nseo Servefare Fatiify Ohio Vern Robinett Haydenville Saniflush Lee Grahams del Haven Libby Sunkist Haven Cos Iny Rererue Felber Kraft’s Velveeta Del Great Lakes Larsen Caldwell Zoe van Log Crisco
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