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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1939
Page
19
City streets glow with red and green lights along Main Street as decorations reach a festive peak. Bands from New Straitsville Murray City Union Furnace Rockbridge Logan High School and Carbon Hill join Santa Claus who arrives in the new fire truck guided by the Logan Cycle Club.
Logan Sophomores top the Senior High honor roll for the second six weeks led by 21.05 percent, followed by Seniors 20.63 and Juniors 14.4. The list includes many named students from Sophomores and Juniors with additional senior names and a paragraph on a church elder visit to an ill member.
Attendance for Oct 30 to Nov 22 shows Room 22 leading with 95.60 percent, Room 31 at 95.31, Room 32S at 94.72, and schoolwide rate 93.67 percent. Room 22 also tops in nonabence and tardy avoidance at 62.79 percent, followed by Room 31 at 61.53 and Room 21 at 57.14 percent.
Lenora Montgomery files for divorce from Homer Montgomery in Logan citing cruelty after a 1904 marriage. The couple has no children and Lenora seeks to restore her maiden name Lenora Larabee.
Seventy to eighty Logan youths will attend a Columbus Eagle Bank of Scouts ceremony at Memorial Hall Sunday where 81 boys will be honored. Congressman John M. Vorys will speak as Governor John W. Bricker, former court of honor chair, offers greetings. Eldon Carr Harold Brimner Charles Rauch and Jonas Morris will receive advancement recognition along with four Eagle ranks. Harley Meyer notes the event replaces the regular quarterly court of honor.
Logan Post American Legion increased its membership again, totaling 109 as of Wednesday per Adjutant Melrose Harbaugh. Six members remain to reach the quota, while Murray City Post also nears its target and all three Hocking County posts would then be over the top.
Page 18 of the Logan paper features brief social notes and local updates. Items cover community events, engagements, visits, and small-town happenings with names and places tied to the Logan area.
December meeting of the Women’s Union of the First Presbyterian Church was a family night service at the church. About 150 attended the potluck dinner and program led by Miss Jessie McManigal. Mite boxes totaled $33.24. Rev. Cecil Harding Jones urged church cooperation in school and youth work and spoke on mutual growth for church and preacher.
Six year old Jimmy Logan son of Mr and Mrs Wayne Car nal was bumped by an automobile at noon during a West Grade School intermission. He was not injured. The driver brought him into the school and asked about his condition before leaving the scene.
The Gibisonville Farmers Institute will meet at the Community Hall on Monday evening and Tuesday with speakers Mrs. Maxwell Cardington and A. B. Graham Columbus. Supt. Samuel H. Dillon will lecture as music by the high school group and Gibisonville quartet. Solos by H. M. Potts and Rev. H. C. Elliott.
Logan-Eph Ainsley of Long Street shows improvement after an attack of lumbago that kept him indoors during the week.
Adults in Logan are invited to enroll in bookkeeping and typing through the WPA Adult Education program at Logan High School. Roy M. Weller will conduct sessions 6 to 8 pm Friday December 8. Tuition is free and courses accommodate beginners to advanced students.
Logan reports the Chieftain basketball squad will practice hard after losing to Bremen in the season opener. The coach emphasizes floor work and target practice to improve accuracy. The next game is December 15 against Marietta before the league schedule resumes after the holidays.
Logan Lodge of Elks will hold annual memorial services at their rooms at 3 oclock Sunday afternoon December 10. Prosecutor Hubert D Lappen has been asked to deliver the main address. Special music will be provided under J D Sanderson. Families of departed members invited and the meeting open to the public.
Lee Thompson of New Straitsville was injured Tuesday evening when a mine machine injured his right ankle and broke a toe on his left foot. He was taken to Cherrington Hospital that night for treatment.
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