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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1940
Page
12
Logan began decorating for the holidays with trees mounted on boulevard lighting standards and ribbons added to business district trees. Multicolored lights will outline intersections. Last year the decorations were praised as the most attractive in years. The committee plans further enhancements this year.
Marion township farmer Lowell Irick who was the first in the county to grow hybrid corn for seed raised eight acres this season. He also teaches in the South Perry school during winter, while the Logan Chamber of Commerce sponsors this holiday decoration effort with evergreen and lights across business displays.
Logan events list multiple church services across denominations. Key figures include Bishop Henry W. Hobson visiting St Paul Episcopal Church at 4 PM and Robert Cook preaching at 7:30 AM. Universal Bible Sunday observed at Methodist Church with Junior Choir. Elders Wiant and White preach specials, evangelism time, and youth rally at Enterprise United Brethren Church.
Reports from Hocking County inspections by State Highway Patrolmen place most buses in classes A or B. One district, Salt Creek, has a C and will be replaced in 1941. Owners with A-class buses include the Marion Board of Education, Stanley Huston, Falls, and Lloyd Armstrong of Laurelville.
Logan. Denzil Weltner, visiting from this city, met Virgil Engle at a banquet table. Engle is the brother of L. B. Engle, a former Logan postal clerk. Weltner and Engle had studied together as youths but did not recognize each other until introduced.
Two marriage licenses were issued by Judge E L Ewing to James Emenlyn North 23 coal miner Sand Run son of Mr and Mrs Charles North and Lawanda Jessie Kern 21 at home Logan Rt 3 daughter of Mr and Mrs Earl Kern. Magistrate Frank St Clair performed the ceremony. Robert Henry Edwards 24 stock clerk Columbus son of Mr and Mrs Frank Edwards and Violet Juanita Berg 22 clerk Logan daughter of Mr and Mrs Arthur Berg.
Funeral arrangements for Christopher J. Juergensmeier are changed to Sunday at 2 p.m. at his residence due to arrival of his daughter Mrs. E J Lindley from Centralia Washington. The Rev. Stanley W Wiant will officiate. Burial follows in Oak Grove Cemetery.
Local potter Logan William King has been in Cherrington Hospital for two weeks after surgery. He is improving steadily and will soon return home.
Logan notes record a Delta Theta Tau Sorority meeting with active members pledges at chapter rooms 6:30 Wednesday. Betty Hall and Joan Wright elected delegate and alternate to the province convention January 25 26 in Springfield. Christmas charity drive planned with items collected December 18 and a date change for the party to December 15 at the White House.
Mrs. William Bell hosted Comet Club on Warner Ave with needlework and a birthday cake for Mrs. John Guess. Prize awarded to Mrs. Raymond St Clair. Other attendees included Mrs. Rohrer Guess and St Clair plus Mrs. Ruff and plans for a Christmas grab bag. Six Suit Contract Club dined at Blosser’s then bridged at the Burchfield home with guests Kirk and Bowen. Jolly Twelve Embroidery Club met at Mrs. Bailey’s Carbon Hill for lunch and games. Christmas party planned at Mrs. Leaman’s.
Logan residents Joseph B. Matheny and Ray V. Edwards became the latest volunteers, bringing the county total to 26. The Selective Service Board met to classify registrants, interviewing nine and reviewing 59 questionnaires, with 20 receiving 1A ratings and many deferments due to dependents.
At a Wednesday night meeting with 40 in attendance the Workmen's Mutual Burial Association reelected Charles Mohler as president. Harold Westenbarger became vice president and a full slate of officers and directors was named, including Earl Columber, Virginia Belt, Charles Smith, Charles Geil, Archie Barnes, Harold Klinger, John Donley, Edward Blick. An examining committee of Frank Lanning, Charles Mason and Claude Angel served as observers. An oyster supper followed the business session.
Walter Gene Culbertson of this city was jailed on a non support charge by Deputy Sheriff Nellis Smith. He pled not guilty at arraignment before Magistrate S. B. Whitehart and was held on $800 bond.
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