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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1956
Page
12
Logan school voters approve a 900000 bond issue to fund Central Elementary renovations junior high wing construction East and West elementary additions and building renovations. McLaughlin and Keil to prepare working drawings. 6 percent fees. bids expected in spring with construction to start after plans are complete.
Final plans are set for the Christmas lighting contest sponsored by the New Haven Garden Club. Prizes include a grand prize of 15 dollars and multiple second prizes from Mason County Bank Bend Rotary and others. The Bend Area contest runs from Kaylong to Graham Station with a Saturday entry deadline and phone registrations listed.
Logan City Girl Scouts and Brownies hosted a carling par event with Logan Society Scouts to raise funds for community care efforts. Local leaders attended as organizers and participants promoted service projects and troop engagement.
A detailed Christmas schedule lists services, programs, and choirs at multiple churches including Westminster House and First EUB Church. Highlights include candlelight services, children's programs, and cantatas led by pastors Dunkle Klingler and others with dates and times throughout December and early January.
Three residents on North Market Street won approval to annex their properties to Logan after a hearing with no objections. The filing by John E Hansel and Vyron included parcels at the north end of Market Street abutting city limits, subject to council action. The meeting also approved vacating streets and alleys in the Harlop addition north of the city along Route 75.
Rockbridge Bridgette Home Demonstration Club elected officers Bula Dacker president Virginia Nihi ser vice president Clara Mathias secretary treasurer Virginia Sihiser publicity chairman Jerty Mathias and Marguerite McGrady council members. Miss Ethel Jones led a discussion on furniture arrangement and program planning. Next meeting set for Jan 10 at the school with Mary write McGrady and Violet Houghton on refreshment duties. Wedding licenses listed Logan Roy E Deible and Judith Ann Marshall and Charles E Huffines and Barbara E McWard. Mrs He was moved from Lancaster-Fairfield Hospital to the Dicken Addition home after a four month stay.
SEW HAVEN The New Haven Mrs Manly Sibley hosted a Methodist Sunday School event with a Christmas program. John Morgan directed the program assisted by school members. The Children's Choir sang and a festive port was served to attendees including Mrs Lonnie Saford and others.
The Rev Billy Orr conducted Methodist Church services in Freeland Point in the absence of Rev Freeland. The piece lists visitors and local residents including Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Crabtree, Mr. and Mrs. K W Persin, Mrs. Ora Cal Robinson, Mrs Joe Elias, and Gordon Chevs, with notes on travel to Ohio and West Virginia and a Great Lakes training base.
Pt Pleasant church calendar lists Christmas programs across multiple congregations. Notable is New Haven Evangelical United Brethren hosting a children’s cantata The Promise That Came True with a full youth and adult choir performance at 7:30 p.m. led by John Hoffman.
Funeral services are set for Minnie A. Boecher 85 who died of a cerebral hemorrhage Wednesday at her Laurelville home. Born near Adelphi she was the widow of Lewis Boecher and daughter of Jacob and Mary Dumm Flaningam. Survived by Clyde Boecher Laurelville a grandson and a great grandchild and Earl Taningam Lancaster. Service 2:30 p.m. Saturday at residence Laurelville burial Green Summit Cemetery Adelphi Leonard Funeral Service.
Daniel Bailey, 81, retired farmer, died of a heart attack at 11 20 am Thursday at his home in West Logan. A native of Good Hope Township he lived there most of his life and was a member of St Matthew Lutheran Church Sugar Grove. He is survived by wife Sarah three sons Elmer Harvey and Gene three daughters Florence Brown Glas and Mabel Hambers. Friends may call at Heinlein funeral home with services at 2 pm Sunday the Rev Paul Klopfer of Sugar Grove officiating burial in Union Cemetery Good Hope Township.
Lee Perry 60 of Albany Ohio was fined 20 dollars plus costs after a two car crash on Route 2 near Flat Rock. He drove on the wrong side of a curve and head on collided with Robert Lee Cook 20 of Sweet Charlieate Virginia. Cook’s hitchhiker Ann Parker was treated for head and chest injuries and released. Damages were about 900 dollars. The sheriff’s department investigated.
May Dunlap of Charleston Road died at her home Wednesday after a long illness. She was born in Racine and spent most of her life in Mason County. Survivors include her husband James Dunlap a daughter Mrs. Lona Morgan six sons Floyd Robert Virgil Arthur Jewell Duo Japail two brothers Milton and Thomas Selby. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 3 p.m. at Eddy Chapel Methodist Church with burial in the church cemetery. Friends may call at Crow Funeral Home.
Congregations in Point Pleasant join at the Presbyterian Church for the fifth Sunday night service. The gathering begins at 7 30 p m with Rev Robert Ray leading devotion and Rev Roy McCoy delivering messages. The Point Pleasant Ministerial Association sponsors the event.
Eli E. Allen 67 of Lancaster died Thursday at home after a long illness. A native of Haydenville he worked for the Lancaster Lens Co. Survived by Catherine and a Parrish of Lancaster. John and Frank Allen of Logan were cousins. Rites at Frank E. Smith funeral home. Burial in Maple Grove Cemetery. Lane
State police report 42 drivers took the driver examination Thursday in Point Pleasant. Fourteen passed the written test and fifteen passed the oral exam. thirteen failed to pass. The article also outlines a four night week of prayer preceding a preaching mission organized by the Point Pleasant Ministerial Association with services in northern and southern city sections starting January 20.
A. Vansickle 81, longtime Beech community resident and retired farmer, died Wednesday at his daughter Shirley Waugh's home after a long illness. Born November 5, 1875 at Beech Hill, he was son of Samuel and Rebecca Vansickle and survived by three daughters, two sons, a sister, and three brothers. Funeral services set for Saturday at Pine Grove Church with burial there. calling hours at Crow Funeral Home.
Lora Whittington of Point Pleasant Route 2 died Wednesday at her home. She was born in Mason County November 1 1879, daughter of Hiram M. and Annie Pullin McDermitt. Survived by husband Robert, a daughter Margaret Meredith of Dayton Ohio, six sons Sidney William Harold Clarence at Point Pleasant Route 2 Lester and Robert at Columbus, and brother Odus McDermitt Route 2. Funeral arrangements pending Crow Funeral Home.
Douglas Rouse of Viand Street is called to Glade Springs Thursday by the death of his father Philip Rouse a retired carpenter who died Thursday morning in Norton Virginia Hospital. Funeral services are set for Saturday at Mercer Funeral Home Bluefield with burial to follow. The note mentions a group of coral islands about 400 miles southwest of Ceylon in the Indian Ocean.
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