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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1945
Page
4
Hocking County Fair Board announced a Bangs disease testing rule for all cattle over six months and bulls to be tested before listing for exhibit. Junior cattle will be tested at the exhibit. Hogs will be immunized upon entry by a state approved veterinarian.
Members of the Logan Riding and Driving Club travel to Athens to ride in the Athens Horse Show. The club now has 12 horses at the Logan Fair Grounds, including a newly bought grey gelding Eagle owned by Mrs Georcana Hutchison Todd. Activities intensify as the Horking County Fair approaches with a club horse show scheduled.
Mrs. Carrie Mowery hosted a steak dinner for relatives and friends honoring Pvt. Delmar Red Mowery at her home. Guests included Miss Catherine Fox Eugene Mowery Judson Poling of Columbus and others. Pvt. Mowery reported back to Scott Field. Also noted were honorable discharges for Pfc. Frank W. Lanning and Sgt. Herbert Marvin Lackey, with Lackey later wounded in Belgium after earning the Bronze Star.
Logan hosts a Child Study Club hamburger fry at the Brier Mowery Cabin on Bremen Road Tuesday night with Mrs. Mowery and members including Mrs. Buniz Brinner Mohler Summers Bowness Larimer Garvarick Hinerman Coakley and Heft. Larimer to host September event at Warner Ave home.
Logan friends report the death of Marvin Dutton a former local resident killed in a Sunday automobile accident near his home in St. Marys West Virginia. Dutton a transport driver for the Quaker State Oil Refining Company lived with his family in the Sweaty apartment on East Hunter Street for two and a half years. He is survived by his wife and six children who now live in St. Marys West Virginia where he had moved a year ago.
Logan briefs report a homecoming planned for Sunday Aug 26 at New Pittsburgh church with Rev James Siders of Lancaster to speak in the afternoon. Other items note visits and guests in Logan and surrounding areas, several travel-and-family updates, and local incidents including a finger injury at Logan Clay Products.
Logan Judge Phil A. Henderson granted a divorce to Ethel McGrady from James McGrady on grounds of gross neglect and cruelty. Custody of their 11 year old miner, Viola McGrady, given to the mother. Defendant ordered to pay 30 weekly for support. Ten were married November 26 in Levan.
A man was arrested Tuesday night by patrolman Marty Spyder and Wilbur Stout for attempting to enter a home on Warner Ave. He appeared in Mayor's court Wednesday morning, was fined 25 pounds, and jailed for nonpayment. He claimed to be from Gallia County.
Mr and Mrs Walter Huffman host Sunday evening dinner honoring their son Set John Huffman visiting from a 21 day furiearch at a station in Northern Canada. Attending were Set and Mrs Albert Elick, Mrs Margaret Smith, Mrs James Huttman, and Mary Smith.
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