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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1943
Page
10
Chauncey residents learn that Pfc. Lewis Adkins has been in a Hawaii hospital for a year and is ill with a kidney ailment since June. His parents Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Adkins request prayers as he awaits return to the States for treatment.
Logan Rotary Club held a stag picnic Monday night at the Hocking Hills Country Club with the full club roster and guests present. Dr Hubert Hyde of Nelsonville spoke and R. B. Perkins organized golf horseshoes ping pong and motion pictures after a chicken dinner.
Logan Miss Lucille Miller resigns after 13 years with Cherrington Hospital nursing staff, stepping down as supervisor of the drug dispensary to become a nurse at the Curtiss Wright plant in Columbus. She will start her new duties immediately and has served as superintendent of nurses in the past.
Russell Keyes of Logan enlisted in the U S Navy in Panama where he has worked for years as a steward on the Panama Railroad. He will enter as chief petty officer after graduating from Logan High School and Lewis Hotel Training School in Washington DC. He is brother of Thelma Keyes Hocking County clerk of courts.
Logan W E Burt now based in Camp Breckinridge Kentucky has moved from civilian advisor in the automotive department to the accounting department at Curtiss-Wright Corp in Columbus. He has begun his new duties.
Announcement of Maaeline Katherine Lattert and William Robert Cable marriage in Columbus with Navy service details. Social items include bread baking contest at Miller Chapel Grange, Embroidery Club gathering, and multiple hometown visits and travels involving Logan residents and relatives.
The county clerk of courts, Thelma Keyes, sues the first hunting and trapping license for 1943 44 to Eugene Lehman of Nelsonville Route 1. The license rules were updated this year with changes and an active duty military exemption requiring only evidence of service.
Funeral services were held at 1 30 p m at Jackson Methodist Church for Margaret A Miller 74 former Jackson county recorder and sister of Arthur Miller Logan who died Sunday at a sister s home in Columbus Burial will be in Jackson Miller daughter of the late Judge and Mrs Hillborn Co Miller and operated a county insurance agency and was active in politics and elected county recorder
Local hospital notes list patients undergoing surgeries and admissions at Cherrington and White Cross Hospitals including Hazel Krieg Ada Fogler Billie Ann Bartoe and others. Several births announced with parental details and grandparents named. Clayton Hoskins reported for 15 months of Naval Air Corps schooling.
The notice lists multiple trains for Baltimore and Ohio and Chesapeake and Ohio lines with daily and Sunday variations. It includes times for east and westbound routes, handles Diplomat and National Limited services, and notes arrivals and departures at key points.
Pvt. James Brooks a 21 year old Logan native and parachute battalion member has been reported seriously wounded in action in the North African theater. He has been in the theater since May after training at Fort Benning and is believed wounded in Sicily during the Allied invasion. Brooks previously worked for the Ohio Power Company and hauled mail for the Logan post office.
Last rites were held today at 2 p m at St Matthew Lutheran Church for Mrs Arminda Schaal 82 widow of George Schaal who died Saturday night at the home of a son in law and daughter Rev Amos L Heyde officiated with interment in Oak Grove Cemetery She had lived in Hocking County many years formerly Locust Grove near Orland Survivors include five children one brother and two half brothers
John Henry Miller of Logan is in serious condition at St. Marys Hospital Huntington after a tire truck from Logan Clay Products overturned in the road. He suffered a compound leg fracture and possible internal injuries. His father in law Mr Evans was not in the vehicle. His wife Daisy Evans visited him in hospital.
Logan Boocks storekeeper third class in the U S Navy and son of Dr H M Boocks has been sent to Chelsea Naval Hospital Maryland for observation and possible operation He was stricken with pneumonia and complications in April and his condition has not responded to treatment since then He enlisted September 10 1942 and has been on active sea duty since February of last year.
The defendant in the action of Perfection Bedspring Company and the Boston Insurance Company against C. C. Chute Logan has filed an answer in the Court of Common Pleas records. The suit stems from an automobile truck accident in Indiana on March 2, 1942.
Paul McKinney of the Air Corps, once at Atlantic City, is transferred to Baton Rouge. His parents acknowledge the move after his recent appendectomy. Mrs Minnie Stalder Chauncey and family return from Athens and Cincinnati visit with Harold Barker in St Louis. Pfc Lester Showalter of Fort Leonard Wood and wife Hazel visit Chauncey relatives in Wellston Chauncey.
Chauncey Cecil Perry of Chauncey Mine No. 25 New York Coal Co. was injured Monday afternoon when a loading machine boom jumped the track. He suffered a compound fracture of the left leg below the knee and was taken to the hospital by Stout's ambulance.
Mrs. Thomas Lowery of Chauncey was admitted to Holzer Hospital Gallipolis Sunday for treatment and possible surgery. Her condition has been critical for several days with daughter Mrs. Margaret Ward and husband accompanying her. Also with Mrs Lowery were daughter Mrs. Elizabeth Rumfield and son Rev. Kelly Lowery pastor in Logan West Virginia.
Irene Jackson of Chauncey spent weekends in Columbus with sister Mrs Lucille Butterworth. Harold Sherlock and Betty Jr of Parkersburg visited Chauncey with Mrs Sherlocks parents Floyd and Cora Stanley. Aubrey Mitchell and Norman returned to Bridgeport after visiting Mrs Mitchells parents John and Flora Marshall. John Civille Jr in Akron and Dan Civille in Dayton returned to Chauncey after visiting their parents. Pauline and Nellie Agin vacationing with relatives in Columbus.
Rev J W Steen of Junction City will preach four consecutive nights at 7 30 p m in The Plains Church of the Nazarene Thursday through Sunday with services each evening.
Mr and Mrs Carl Conrad and son Jerry join Chauncey residents Minnie Falmer and Marinda Cruikshank at Mt. Vernon for the annual Seventh Day Adventist Camp meeting. Local members John Davidson and family, Aurelia Mutchler, Howard Stout and others also attended this week.
Mr. and Mrs. John Moore have returned to Columbus from a vacation with Mrs. Moore’s parents Mr. and Mrs. Newton Russell and her brother Elmer's family. They also visited her brother William and sister Mrs. Jesse Carsey and families on New Marshfield Road. Mrs. Moore works as an inspector at Curtiss-Wright Corp.
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