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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1942
Page
10
Ad fragment mentions sale and event details but is severely garbled leaving few readable facts about a caseload or venue and no clear entities or outcomes. The readable bits hint at a sale or ad notice with unspecified participants and dates.
Sheriff Duffy and deputies arrested two drivers after weekend crashes near Logan. Clarence Cox, 39, of Rockbridge Route 1, fined 100 dollars and costs after pleading guilty to drunken driving for a crash on Route 180 near Harden farm. Arthur W. Hankison of Nelsonville Route 2 drove through a guard rail on U S Route 33 north of Haydenville, left the scene but was later arrested. another man in Hankison’s car escaped unharmed.
Logan opens scrap drive with curb pickups of metals rubber burlap and rags gathered from homes in the First Ward A WPA rural collection is under way with county supervision The second and subsequent ward pickups follow on successive days Eugene Bailey 18 Logan is jailed on petty larceny charges for stealing a pig and selling it for 9 60 Sheriff Duffy investigated the case Members of the Logan Odd Fellows and Rebekahs held their annual picnic at Rach elmacher Park on Sunday
Albany social column lists residents hosting guests and relocating. Names include Mrs. Robert Gatch and daughter Mabel Mae Colum bus. John French from Pitearui. Miss Betty Latta of Hopwood. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Tewksberry. the McConkeys moving to Athens. Gillogly and Jones households visiting. Shaver and Radcliffe families hosting and traveling. Rev. H. M. Rabin from Chicago visiting relatives in Albany. and several other local exchanges among Albany R D Day ton Athens and Dayton residents.
Members of the Rife family plan a reunion on September 7 at Old Kgger Church. The piece notes there are about 6,000,000 rural free delivery mail boxes in use nationwide.
Dundas notes list visits from Monmouth Illinois to Pleasent Depue. Ohio visitors include Sidney and Wellston. Michigan and local towns like Hamden Londonderry New Marshfield McArthur Creole and McArthur residents host or visit kin and friends across the region.
Saturday licenses go to William E Stumbo 21 of Oak Hill and Helen L LaFollette 21 of Nelsonville at home. Also Robert A Becker 41 of Piqua salesman and Edith R Brown 46 of Rockbridge medical technologist were issued licenses.
Logan Chief of Police Lew Reynolds recovered the stolen car of Bob Gano son in law of Mayor W Denzil Weltner Friday afternoon after a wild chase through city streets. He later nabbed Mose Graham 17 who was loitering while Ferguson fled on a freight train.
The home coming at the church Sunday drew a large crowd. Visitors included Rev Otto Miller and family from Chillicothe, Noel Lanning and family, Mel Ward, and others from New Floodwood. Local residents and relatives from Dixie Logan and Zanesville were noted, with several marriages and relocations mentioned.
Akron resident George Beal visits parents as Earl Beal prepares for Army duty. Gladwin Michigan visitors of Dawley family. Brooks Shoe worker returns to duty. Leamon operated at Logan hospital. Carbon Hill resident visits Beals. Blake and Howdyshell families visit Shultz and Spencer households. Spencer family guests greet Mary Margaret in Barberton. Helen Ann Mays to Union Furnace for a few days. All 25 members of St Athanasius chapel Burlington North Carolina are deaf mutes.
The Hocking County board of elections filed petitions requesting a local option election on liquor from voters in Starr Township across three precincts. A recount for Democrat central committeeman in Murray precinct showed no change, with John Toth winning by three votes over William Koon. Commissioners sought bids for 50 tons of coal for county use and for sale of juk at the August 28 meeting.
Expense records filed with Clerk Frank Harden show total primary spending of 512 in Hocking County. Top spender L P Mooney won the Republican nomination for General Assembly with 139 55 while Brashars totaled 62 04. Democratic unopposed John Ayers spent 39 60. Other candidates include Commissioner Anthony Cook 45 25 Eli Oeffler 10 08 James L Martin 27 Andrew Rheinscheld 47 50 and Clerk of Courts William B.
Sayer (R) winner with $48.01, C. Emmett Blosser (R) $31.30, Thelma Keyes (D) unopposed at $19.88. Auditor Kenneth Fitzgerald (R) $26.95, Sherman T. Lyke (D) $15.50. Neither candidate faced opposition.
Eighteen Logan and Hocking County residents formerly at Ohio State University summer school have returned home for a short vacation before the fall term starts September 29. Names include Lawrence W. Adcock, Tom Brehm, Eldon Carr, Alice Frasch, James Guthrie, Jerry Hammon, Virginia Heinie, Barton Hall Jr, Rev. Stanley W. Wiant, Rena Wiant, Ray Woodgeard, Frank Wright, John Bowers, Dan DeLong, Wallace Lappen, Charles W. Kreachbaum, and George F. Kreachbaum.
Logan judge signs entry in Home Owners Loan Corp vs William Kellenbarger et al ordering Sheriff Floyd Duffy to deliver deed to the purchaser. Taxes are satisfied and mortgage satisfaction to be entered. Sheriff Duffy must pay $39.69 court costs and deliver $540.31 to the plaintiff.
Chief Lew Reynolds announces all members of the emergency police force will gather Monday evening in the former American Legion hall after the regular meeting for a banquet.
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