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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Dec 15, 1939

Page

14

Rev Thomas Powers Dies After Brief Illness

Rev Thomas A Powers age 80 died after a brief illness in Steubenville. He served St John parish in Logan for ten years and helped construct the church and rectory. He led St Peters in Steubenville for 35 years and also pastored in Columbus. He was a Holy Cross College Worcester graduate who played on the school’s first football team. Funeral mass set for 10 o clock Saturday at St Peters Church.

Logan Steubenville Thomas A. Powers Powers St. John Parish St. Peters Church Columbus Holy Cross College Worcester Mass St. Peter's Church

Hartley Boy Born to Corning Parents at Cherrington

Mr and Mrs Oscar Hartley of Corning welcomed a son at Cherrington Hospital on Thursday.

Logan Oscar Hartley Corning Cherrington Hospital

Tuberculosis Education Films Shown in Hocking County Schools

Public health nurse Miss Bertha Madlener oversees tuberculosis awareness films shown in Hocking County high schools. Laurelville hosted the latest screening as part of a countywide anti tuberculosis campaign by the health department.

Logan Hocking County Bertha Madlener Laurelville Health Department

Grange Confers Degrees on 18 Candidates at Logan Chapel

Logan Miller Chapel Grange held a regular meeting conferring the third and fourth degrees on 18 candidates. A large number of members witnessed the ceremony and a lunch followed the degree work.

Logan—Miller Chapel Grange

Harbarger recalls heavy snow four years ago on birthday

Melvin Harbarger recalls a heavy snowstorm that hit the area four years prior. He notes it began on December 15, which is also his birthday.

Logan Melvin Harbarger

Crop land to pasture urged by extension agent Smoot

Logan report from James R. Smoot, extension agent, urges Hocking County farmers to convert depleted cropland to pasture, apply lime and fertilizer, practice soil testing and strip cropping on slopes, and deploy gully control. He advocates pasture over grain feeding, beef over dairying, better sanitation for dairymen, purebred sires, hog vaccination, and keeping farm accounts to improve per acre yields and daily cash return.

Logan James R. Smoot Hocking County Smoot

McBride Leads Final Logan High Court Appearance

Logan High senior Bob McBride faces Marietta tonight for the Chief tain basketball team in his last appearance as a Logan athlete. He departs for Columbus Monday to join 21 other central Ohio football players bound for St. Petersburg Florida for a Kumquat game on Christmas night.

Logan Bob McBride Marietta McBride Columbus Ohio St. Petersburg Fla Florida Logan High School

Brothers Vie Yearly To Grow Record Hogs In Nebraska

Logan C. E. Bensonhaver of Ewing and William Benson haver of Pleasant Valley are brothers and farmers who raise hogs for family meat. This year both dressed 302 pounds, while C. E. Bensonhaver reported hogs weighing 290 pounds at completion.

Logan C. E. Bensonhaver Ewing William Bensonhaver Pleasant Valley C. E

Kinser Keeps 1914 Logan High Team Photo

A photo of the 1914 Logan High School basketball team was found and given to Mayor Dallas Kinser. The image lists players Bill Rudolph Claude Hammon Harry Bell Mr Pleasant Mich Harry Newman and Herb Rogers. Kinser notes he played multiple sports and recalls an injury from a game against Rogers’s team.

Logan Dallas Kinser City Hall Bill Rudolph Claude Hammon Harry Bell Herb Rogers Main St Lancaster Kinser Rogers

J D Wells to Speak at Wisconsin Joint Hearing

James D. Wells chamber of commerce manager plans to attend the Madison Wisconsin joint congressional hearing on forestry and land use next week. He will depart Saturday and speak for the southern Ohio area.

Logan James D. Wells Chamber of Commerce Madison Wis Wells Forestry Department Ohio

Organizing Church Basketball League Set for Monday

A second meeting to organize a church basketball league will be held at 7 30 o clock Monday evening at the Methodist Church.

Logan Methodist

Logan Dicken Suffering Dual Thumb Infection From Corn Husking

Logan Amos Dicken of Starr Township suffers infection in both thumbs after poison developed from cuts while husking corn. Further Logan News on page 12.

Logan Amos Dicken Starr _Township

Logan Social Notes and Club Gatherings

Local clubs meet at homes around Logan with substitute players, visits, and high scores noted. Elizabeth Rempel to host Jan. 3. groups include Merry Makers, Jolly Twelve Embroidery, and Firemen’s toy drive, plus social rounds in Carbon Hill and Logan.

Edward Kemper Lucille Wright E. Z. Bridge Club Wheeler Dew Walnut St Harry Eastman Logan Byron Wolfe Athens Elizabeth Rempel Clifford Hawk Jolly Twelve Embroidery Club Carbon Hill Pearl Leamon Charles Green Carl Seannon Henry Kammerling Ben Bailey John Dawley Woodrow Devol Matheny John Blosser Dora Webb Frank Hawk Seaman

Sunday Will Mark Golden Anniversary

Logan paper notes Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Van Atta near Maxville celebrate 50 years since their Dec 14 1889 marriage. He is 79, she younger, with six children, eleven grandchildren and two great grandchildren. They home on land with three generations in Perry County and invite friends to open house after a family dinner.

Logan Joshua van Atta Maxville van Atta Perry County Northwest Territory Bryant O. van Atta New Straitsville Rt. 1 William M. van Atta Columbus Henry R. Mohler Brazil Ind Lester Stuart Ralph Brady Bremen Roy G. van Atta American Legion Auxiliary Century of Progress Chicago

Logan Church Services Announced for Sunday

Multiple churches announce Sunday schedules. Holy Communion at Logan Methodist at 10 30 with Rev Stanley W Wiant in charge and a Wesley Foundation social hour at 5 followed by devotionals at 6. Evening sermon by Rev E Winston Jones at 7. Other churches list morning sermons and choirs including Christmas cantata at 7 30 at United Brethren. Additional services at First Presbyterian Trinity Lutheran St Matthew and St John Laurel Township with various preachers and programs.

United Brethren Church First Presbyterian Church Cecil Harding Jones Trinity Lutheran Church Elmer Bliss WHKC W. A. Maire Amos L. Heyde St. Matthew Lutheran Church

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