School District Issues in Hocking County Await State Ruling
Logan Ohio August 11 1939 county board of education met to decide on Starr Washington merger dissolution or Laurelville Washington proposals. They await an attorney general opinion and will ask Prosecutor Lappen to seek guidance from the AG on key questions.
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Athens Messenger
Athens
Hocking County
Logan
County Board of Education
Starr-Washington
South Perry
Laurelville-Washington
Hubert D. Lappen
Street Work Is Resumed on Logan Main Street
Logan Main Street improvement restarts under State Highway Department and WPA. Crews began at Hunter Street lifting and cleaning old brick, replacing damaged sections. The project will extend to Gallagher Avenue, then finish from Orchard to Depot Street on the east end.
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Logan—Main St
State Highway Department
WPA
Hunter St
Gallagher Ave
Orchard
Depot St
Logan Social Notes and Local Marriages Report
Mrs. Rudolph Brandt hosts Among Ourselves Club lunch at the White House with program by Miss Ida Steinman and a contest won by Mrs. Gooding. Birth announced for Larry Lee son of Mr. and Mrs. George Geiger. Laurelville visit by Nora's Past Chiefs Club. several local members attend. Mt. Pleasant visit planned. Noah Y Wagner to wed Thelma Josephine Coakley after license granted.
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Rudolph Brandt
Among
White House
Roy Crawford
Ida Steinman
Gooding
L. O. Bort
R. B. Hansel
Harry Stevenson
Charles Wharton
A. T. Spears
Paul Collison
Son
Howard Spring
George Geiger
E. Main Sr
Larry Lee
Brent Geiger
Charles Salts
Union Furnace
L. W. Calvin
Hamden
Laurelville
Nora
Chiefs Club
Laurelville Club
George Featheroff
Roy Stallsmith
James Rutgers
Fanny Spears
Lewis Reynolds
Thomas Phillips
Fred Stracke
Nora Kreider
John Bownes
Sam Bright
Charles Bright
Amos Ellinger
Edward Miller
Charles Mack
Rugg Hansel
Augusta Bright
Jess Gabriel
Joe White
Noah Y. Wagner
Lancaster
John Wagner
Thelma Josephine Coakley
West Logan
Carl Coakley
Buntz Family to Visit Michigan Relative Saturday
Mrs. John Buntz and her children Shirley Dick and Judy plan a Saturday trip to Battle Creek Michigan to visit Mrs Buntz's father P A McCarty. Mr Buntz will join later for the visit.
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John Buntz
Shirley
Judy
Simiele Move and Birth Announcement
Dr and Mrs V A Simiele moved from Hunter Street to the Wetherill property on Midland Place on Wednesday. Mr and Mrs Harley St Clair Webb Summit announce the birth of a daughter at Cherrington Hospital on Thursday. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Frank St Clair Webb Summit and Mr and Mrs Raymond Nixon New Straits ville. Sylvester Brown Maxville is a great grandparent.
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Hunter St
Wetherill
Midland Place
Harley St. Clair
Webb Summit
Cherrington Hospital
Frank St. Clair
Raymond Nixon
New Straitsville
Sylvester Brown
Maxville
Logan Man To Face Charges in Court
Logan Grant Erwin of this city will be arraigned before Mayor Dallas Kinser this evening on multiple charges. He was arrested Thursday evening by Chief Lew Reynolds after a motor vehicle stop. Investigators say he used license plates from another car and resisted arrest. Charges include driving while intoxicated and resisting an officer.
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Logan
Grant Erwin
Dallas Kinser
Lew Reynolds
Logan Relatives Gather for Reunion at Rockview Park
Mr and Mrs Oren Kelley of Oklahoma City and Frank Briley of Oxford Kansas visit C S Briley and family and other relatives at Carbon Hill. Briley has been in Kansas for 23 years and returns after six years. Klein Schmidt family to meet August 27 at Rockview Park near Rockbridge.
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Harold Crawford
Mt. Pleasant
Mich
Richard Moorehead
Olean
N. Y
Logan
Anthony Toerner
Blanche Oorehead
Nelsonville
Byron Moorehead
Oren Kelley
Oklahoma City
Frank Briley
Oxford
Kan
C. S
Park Logan
Kleinschmidt
Rockview Park
Rockbridge
Farmer James Stimmell Ill in Maxville Area
Information from Maxville reports farmer James Stimmell ill. He is a well known figure in the local farming community and area.
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Logan
Maxville
James Stimmell
Mr. Stimmell Isone
Juniors Win Here Thursday In Five Inning Legion Game
Logan American Legion Juniors defeated Union Furnace 9 to 3 in five innings. Mark Wylie pitched for Logan with three new players in the lineup. Eleven strikeouts highlighted defensing with twelve outs by strikeout and Logan benefited from walks and timely hits.
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Logan
American Legion
Union Furnace
Mark Wylie
Vanatta
Hoskins
Wylie
Brehm
Yarber
Ohio Coal Picnic-is To Occupy Park
Logan residents are told not to plan picnics at Kachelmacher Park Tuesday evening when the Ohio Coal Foundation meeting is to be held. Mayor Dallas Kinser says all tables and equipment will be used for a picnic supper as the city cooperates in a gathering aimed at supporting neighboring mining districts and their welfare.
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Ohio Coal
Logan
Kachelmacher Park
Ohio Coal Foundation
Dallas Kinser
Kinser
Steward Withdraws Council Candidacy
Oscar Steward of Columbus filed a withdrawal as a Republican candidate for council at large at the election board in Logan. He recently moved to Columbus and cannot seek re election. The vacancy will be referred to the Republican Executive Committee to select a replacement.
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Logan
Oscar Steward
Columbus
Election Board
Council At
Republican Executive Committee
Beekeeping Hobby Turns Earning Venture in Logan
Fred Hugh a Logan grocery clerk, living in the Dicken Addition, plans to harvest 1200 to 1400 sections of honey from his prospects. He maintains one colony expected to yield about 110 sections at its current production rate.
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LOGAN
Fred Hugh
Logan Grocery
Dicken Addition
Mowery Family Reunion Set For Sunday in Marion Township
Logan Sunday is chosen as the date for the seventh annual Mowery family reunion to be held at the country home of Eber Mowery in Marion Township.
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Logan
Mowery
Eber Mowery
Marion Township
First Football Practice Set For Monday
Logan High School announces a 4 o’clock Monday practice to begin August 21 under Coach Thomas Bender. Uniforms on day one. large squad urged to report. Captain Bob McBride leads as field captain. many players balanced between baseball and football this summer.
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LOGAN
Logan High School
Thomas Bender
Bender
Bob McBride
Joe Karshner
Logan Band Concert Features Soloists From Two Towns
Logan High School Band will host guest soloists Miss Ruth Cooperider of Thornville and David Hite of New Straitsville this Saturday afternoon. Cooperider will perform Willow Echoes and sing God Bless America, while Hite will play a clarinet solo.
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Logan
Ruth Cooperider
Thornville
David Hite
New Straitsville
Logan High School
James Horwell
Cooperider
Willow Echoes
Irving Berlin
Hite
Chieftain Field
Worthington Park
2430 Dogs Registered In County This Year
Logan county records show 2430 dogs registered so far this year. The figure trails the 1938 total by a small margin.
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Logan
Hocking County
Hocking County Wood Used in Paper Mill
In Logan and Chillicothe a paper mill buys timber from Hocking County. Western county farmers, including B. L. Anderson of Gibisonville, deliver cord wood in winter. Poplars willows aspen and other soft woods supply the mill’s pulp needs.
Logan Team Faces Clover Farm At Fairgrounds Sunday
The American Legion Senior team meets Clover Farm of Columbus at the fairgrounds Sunday at 2:30. Albert Leonard will pitch with Joe Thomas as catcher. Infielders Brandt Webb Karshner and outfielders Smith Mowery Speilman are set for the lineup.
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Logan
American Legion
Clover Farm of
Columbus
Fairgrounds
Albert Leonard
Joe Thomas
Brandt
Webb
Karshner
Smith
Mowery
Speilman
Hand-shaped potato found by digger in Green Township
Raymie Nutter unearthed a potato tuber in Green Township resembling a crippled hand and carried it to the city for display this week.
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Logan
Green Township
Raymie Nutter
Penal Reforms Planned for Canada Prisons
Ottawa reports gradual penal reform tied to a new administrative commission. Three commissioners and three assistants will lead, with two penitentiary experts and one technical specialist. Vocational training for inmates aims to ease employment after release and deter crime. Guards will receive special training modeled on the British system.
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Ottawa
Ont
U.P
Administrative Commission
London architect G Grey Wornum arrives in New York
All is quiet despite floods droughts and wars as G Grey Wornum, London architect-decorator, known for British calm, is pictured arriving in New York aboard the Queen Mary amid global turmoil.
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China
Spain
Ethiopia
Czechoslovakia
Danzig
G. Grey Wornum
London
New York
Brileys to Meet Logan at Ash Cave Gathering
Briley family members and friends are invited to a family gathering at Ash Cave next Sunday.
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Logan
Briley
Ash Cave
Sunday church schedules in Logan area announced
Logan churches release Sunday programs with sermons by Rev C W Graham at Methodist Church and brief August worships. First Presbyterian will hear Six Qualifications of an Educated Man by Rev Cecil Harding Jones with a Presbyterian Quartet. Enterprise United Brethren offers Knowing and Doing at 10 am and a campfire Christian Endeavor at 8 pm on church lawn. Prayer meetings noted at Clint Patton home on Route 664 near Old Man's Cave at 7:30 pm.
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Cecil Harding Jones
Mussi
T. C. Gregory
Enterprise United Brethren Church
Christian Endeavor
Gregory
Bethany Church
Clint Patton
Old Man’s Cave
William Maffin
Angler Lands 212 Pound Bass at Rockbridge Basin
Logan Bob Gano of this city landed a 2.12 pound smallmouth bass at Rockbridge Basin on Wednesday evening. The 15 inch fish, one of the basin's best catches recently, was caught while baiting with a live minnow.
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Logan
Bob Gano
Rockbridge Basin
Gano
Huge Carp Tied From Hocking River
Logan resident Edgar Wilson, 15, caught a 32 inch carp weighing 16 pounds from the Hocking River Thursday morning. He fished with his brother Junior and visitor Richard Sheets from Columbus using live minnows south of Mulberry Street bridge.
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Logan
Hocking River
Edgar Wilson
Nelson Wilson
Junior
Richard Sheets
Columbus
Mulberry St
Start of Shelterhouse Construction at North Orchard Playground
Logan begins a new shelterhouse project at the North Orchard Street playground. Supervisor Pascal Tignor says the 24 by 16 foot structure will provide a rainy season refuge for local children. The Kiwanis Club sponsored and funded the playground’s ground last year and continues its sponsorship.
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Logan
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