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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1960
Page
14
Logan Ohio reports the Stephen Thomas and Sarah Thomas descendants gathered at Rising Park Lancaster on Sunday July 24 for the family’s first planned reunion. The assembly included many living children and numerous relatives from several towns and states.
Friends celebrated Mrs. Frank Blasius at her new Market Street apartment with a covered dish supper and gifts. Attendees included Mrs. Sterling Anderson and others, plus her visiting son John.
Funeral services were held for James O. Pearsall 54 of Rockbridge at 2 p.m. in the Heinlein funeral home after brain surgery at Lancaster-Fairfield Hospital. He was a foreman at Ray o Way Carbon Co. Surviving are his wife Catherine a son Gene Pearsall a step-daughter June Jackson and a step-son Edson Moore, plus three sisters. Burial followed in Fairview Cemetery.
Logan Route 2 youth Larry Gabriel heard Harry Deible call for help at his home early Thursday. He summoned the fire department and inhalator aid was provided by firemen. Deible was admitted to Hocking Valley Hospital with illness not disclosed.
The Logan High School band will present its annual concert for patients at the Chillicothe Veterans Administration Hospital on Sunday on the hospital grounds. Sponsored by the Hocking County Red Cross Chapter, transportation and other expenses are funded by the Band Boosters. Members depart Logan at 5 15 p.m. and return about 11 p.m. according to director Armand Houk.
The notice records the Logan-Robert L. McCune and Nancy K. Carr marriage license filing alongside a separate civil action in Athens County Court of Common Pleas. It lists defendants and demands that they answer by September 3, 1960, or face judgment, and describes a separate loan licensing filing with a long list of regional officers and addresses.
Logan-Hocking County commissioners voted to advertise for bids on 37 029 gallons of bituminous material and 1 234 28 tons of aggregate to seal coat over 15 plus miles of county roads including Carbon Hill Longstreth Hawk Gore Starr and Middlefork roads. Bids due noon Sept 16 with project to be finished this year. Also renewed welfare quarters insurance and approved county bills of 435 71 from general fund and 6 282 64 from auto gas fund.
Portland residents Mr. and Mrs. Fred Reiber and daughters traveled from Toledo to visit Mr. and Mrs. Earl Wells. Alice Adams of Coolville visited her mother Mrs. Earl Jewett. Roy Gillilian and children from Chester stopped by Mrs. Gillilian's parents, C. E. Johnson and wife. Darrell Perry of Parkersburg and spouse visited Mrs. Perry's parents, Hyatt and wife. Rodney Coffman of Clinton and wife announced the birth of a son with Hyatt Parsons and spouse as grandparents.
Logan entries show the Hocking County Common Pleas Court dismissed with prejudice a case brought by James C. Rush against James A. Colburn. The action sought $1832.67 on a February 11 1955 promissory note and foreclosure of a mortgage on the property.
Violet Brooks of 220 East St. returns home Thursday from University Hospital Columbus where she had been a patient since July 29.
A lighthearted wrap of the 1960 party conventions notes a singing campaign ditty for Nixon and Pat, seating antics by Rep. James Fulton, Rockefeller's misnamed introduction of Nixon, and rapid praise for Gov. Mark Hatfield. It cites NAACP views, sit-ins at Norfolk lunch counters, and May 1960 birth and marriage rate trends.
Mrs Katie Michel Snyder 64 died Thursday morning in Hocking Valley Hospital after a stay since last Saturday. Native of Sistersville West Virginia she lived near Logan over 50 years. Survived by husband Charles P Snyder son Lorn Michel four grandchildren. Services Monday 10 am at Heinlein funeral home with Rev Edward Winter Columbus officiating. Burial in Oak Grove Cemetery.
Chesterhill residents Elza Michener and family traveled from Climbing Hills Iowa with relatives including Edgar Michener for a weekend visit. Vera Mendenhall hosted 50 guests for Sunday dinner and supper allowing extended family to meet. Local ties include Dr. Harry Hook and others from Newark to Toledo attending Alan McGrew funeral. Opal Crum of Columbus to preach at Nazarene church on August 7.
Aug schedule lists Honey Fork Farm Council picnic and meeting at Rachelmacher Park at 7 p.m. Round and square dance at Antioch Grange from 8:30 to 12. J. A Shaw and Rodman reunions at Izaak Walton clubhouse and Rachelmacher Park with basket dinners. Sigma Phi Gamma meeting at Glenview Party House with reservations by Aug 5. Queen Vashti Rebekah Lodge and Oddfellows picnic at Rachelmacher Park. Aug 8 Ewing Grange inspection and Sigma Phi Gamma initiation at Glenview Party House with dinner reservations by Aug 5.
Logan reports Mrs Lawrence Reeves and her infant son were driven by ambulance from Mount St. Mary Hospital Nelsonville to their home at 666 Motherwell Ave on Thursday.
Mrs Gale Monk was honored at a Logan stork shower hosted by Misses Jean Frazier and Judy Whuffines. Contests offered entertainment with prize winners honoring the guest of honor. Joy Webb won the door prize amid a gathering including Mrs Dan Mathey, Mrs Fauna Mathey, and other guests.
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