This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 39 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1961
Page
8
Lee Logan Laurel Run Friendly Neighbor Club held its annual Christmas dinner and gift exchange at Mrs. Juanita Wolfe home. New members Bet ty Lou Ingram and Betty Brandon joined. a fruit basket project for seniors was reported and upcoming meeting set for January 11.
GLOUSTER Glouster Post 72 will field a team in the Boy Scouts of America and National Rifle Association Postal rifle match held in Athens for the Hock Hocking District. Targets go to the NRA in Washington. Awards at National Regional and Council levels. Last year 435 teams 3002 individuals. Springfield Ohio took national honors.
Mrs Irma Powers and Mrs Barton S Hall joined 11 other members at Hocking Salon No 365s Christmas meeting at the Burnelle home in Glouster. A buffet dinner preceded the business session as Yule tide decor brightened the scene. Ruth Morrison reported on the Pouvoir in Columbus and a donation was approved for the National Jewish Tuberculosis Hospital in Denver. A Christmas gift will be sent to a child patient at Southeast Ohio Tuberculosis Hospital in Nelsonville. Secret pals were revealed during a gift exchange. Frances Kelly attended as a guest. The January meeting will be in Logan.
Troop 72 and Post 72 held a Christmas party in Glouster on Monday. Present from Troop 72 were Keith Trace Pat Dew Wayne Faires Tommy Sayers Pete Moore Floyd Triplett David Sprott William P arham III Larry Grubbs James Moore Johnny Sayers Dale Spencer James Williams and Paul Moore. From the Post were Leroy Grubbs Lewis Grubbs Denny Cunningham Richard Moore Gregg Morris Mike Keith and Arthur Wilson.
Trimble Methodist Church sponsors a new Boy Scout Troop 74. First meeting held Wednesday with scout executive William Teeders and Leroy Grubbs from Explorer Post 72 showing fire by friction and Indian craftwork. Charter members include Jerry Koons Larry Koons Lloyd Wyatt Gregg Winners and Craig Dunkle. Paul Koons is scoutmaster Roger Hooper assistant. Committee: John Helser Wilbur Johnson Charles Jarvis Harold Rainey institutional representative. Weekly meetings set for 7 p.m. in church basement. open to all area boys 11 and older.
Mr and Mrs Neal Dillon hosted the Route 6648 Christmas gathering for the Upper Room Sunday School Class of First Methodist Church. James Stilwell received a class gift from president James Inboden. Don Russell presented a color film of a Hawaiian luau from a prior social.
A dense listing of evening programs shows a variety of shows from Detectives and Bell Hour to Here and Now and several film titles. Notable features include The Queen of Craven Point with Lola Albright and Bell Telephone Hour's A Trip To Christmas conducted by Donald Vorhees.
A scrambled 1960s style TV guide lists programs by time and title including news weather sports and entertainment slots such as Jack Paar Detectives News Frank McGee Movie Walt Disney Benanza and NFL themed items with various start times scattered across the day.
A partial TV guide fragment shows 11:10 business 11:15 weather 11:20 almanac 8:30 Flintstones 11:23 movie listings. The text includes a garbled address 200-77 Sunset Str and mentions Everglades. No clear program details or names beyond generic show titles.
A jagged listing outlines an evening slate with news at 7:00 and 11:00, weather segments, and a string of film and TV titles such as Rawhide Perry Mason Sky King Bonanza and Gunfight Gunemoke. The fragment hints at station CBS News and various time slots across late afternoon to night.
A jumble of broadcast times lists programs and stations with shows like Lassie Dennis Joey Christie Channel 13 and Channel 18. The text reads as a partial TV guide schedule with film news newsreels weather and sports blocks scattered across hours. It includes many program titles and channel numbers without complete days or dates.
Channel listings show 7 30 p m previews of international shows with Christmas at the Paris Circus taped at Cirque d Hiv Paris hosted by Don Ameche and an 8 30 p m segment featuring Robert Taylor’s De.
LOGAN The Youth Choir of the First EUB Church will present its annual Christmas cantata The Song of the Holy Night at 7 p.m. Sunday in the church sanctuary. Solo parts will be sung by Mickey Brandon Vicki Connie and Kathy Orndoff Ann Price Esther Hedges Linda Bailey and others under director Spurgeon Metzler with accompanist Roy Mosure.
Program guide listing films and times across channels including Channel 4 Channel 6 Channel 8 Channel 10 Channel 13 Channel 3 for Friday and Sunday. Notable titles include The Search Part II Follow the Fleet Little Women The Last Outpost O Henrys Full House Miracle on 34th Street Gullivers Travels and more with afternoon and late night slots.
Hocking County Red Cross calls for donors as blood reserves may fall below a 75 pint per visit quota set by the Columbus Regional Center. A Logan bloodmobile stop is planned for Tuesday January 2 through January 18 at First Presbyterian Church from 10 am to 4 pm.
Syracuse and surrounding areas feature visits among families and friends. Mr and Mrs Carl Russell of Little Hocking visit A O Lee. Frankie Mumaw stays in Gallipolis. Barney Merritt returns to Wheeling after visiting Roy and Ada Winebrenner. Winebrenners and Merritts host. Birth announced for James Leslie Patterson.
Raymond Marvin Canode of McArthur sues Sheriff Harold Steele and Deputy Homer Haburn for 100000 over alleged eye injuries from a May 1960 arrest. Patricia Webb seeks divorce from Paul Webb with a temporary restraining order. Cottrill cases Nickell vs Cottrill and Napper vs Cottrill are dismissed. Perry vs Waldron cross petition dismissed for lack of prosecution. Estate of Ethel Smith seeks consent to transfer decedent's property tied to local banks.
Logan churches publish a December schedule listing Sunday school and worship times for St Matthew Lutheran First EUB Church and Church of the Nazarene. Events include cantatas youth choirs adult Bible hour vesper services prayer meetings and special youth programs from Jan 1 to 9.
Members of the Women’s Association of First United Presbyterian Church gathered at Westminster House for December’s quarterly session. Mrs. Anthony J. Toerner opened with prayer, devotions were by Mrs. Paul Monks, and readings included Isaiah and Luke. The service closed with Henry Van Dyke’s Keeping Christmas and carols.
The Tuesday Sewing Club held its annual Christmas gift exchange and party after a dinner at Blosser's Restaurant. Members listed include Mrs. Lawrence Webb Mrs. Charles Davie Mrs. Roswell Perkins Mrs. Edmund Lange and others. Gifts were handed out by Santa Claus and the group later met at Mrs. Meyer’s Mingo Terrace home. The next regular meeting is set for January at Mrs. Lange’s Route 75S.
Logan police investigated a crash at 8 25 a m at Main and Mulberry streets involving Mildred Hartman 39 and Dale Maybee 40 both of Logan. Maybee turning left struck Hartman s car causing moderate damage and he was cited for improper left turn.
Santa Claus will greet children Saturday at 6 p m beside the Community Christmas tree. The Glouster Police and Firemen, with local merchants, sponsor the visit and candy for school children from Glouster Hollister Jacksonville and Trimble.
Antone D Falletti 49 Evanston Ind forfeited a 19 dollar bond after failing to appear for arraignment in County Court. The offense occurred December 19 on Route 33 southeast of Logan.
Arrangements are set for the funeral of Mrs. Arminda Minnie Strawn who died unexpectedly at her New Straitsville home. She was born in McCunesville, daughter of Phillip and Elizabeth Warner, and formerly lived in Logan and Maxville. Survived by husband Peter Strawn, son William of Newark, one grandchild, and siblings Dora Spencer, Blanche Johnson, and Etta Thompson. Funeral 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Leonard funeral home. Rev. Joe Walburn officiating. Burial New Lexington Cemetery.
Ewington reports a parade of visitors including Lenny Calvin West Lafayette and George Janny Flatwoods Kentucky as well as Edmunson kin from Morgan Center and Williamson West Virginia. Local residents attend PTA Christmas program at Salem Center school with each grade performing.
Logan defendant Edith Slack was granted a divorce from Charles E Slack in Common Pleas Court on a cross petition alleging extreme cruelty. Edith to have custody of five minor children with Slack ordered to pay 45 dollars weekly support. Married July 21 1951 in Richmond Indiana.
The Gleuster Churches Ringgold Free Methodist announces Sunday School at 2 pm and preaching at 3 pm led by Pastor Katie Robbins. A Thursday night prayer meeting is also scheduled.
Terry A. Goss 21 a truck driver of Logan Route 4 wed Mary Jean Harsh 20 a nurse of Logan Route 3. Charles T. Riddiebarger 33 a shoe worker of Logan Route 1 wed Linda Kay Lehman 18 at home Haydenville.
The Golden Circle Class of the Rutland Church of Christ met for a Christmas potluck dinner at the church basement at 6 30 p m. Gifts were exchanged under a decorated tree. The group voted to buy a storm door for the parsonage and to donate 10 to the Rutland Volunteer Fire Department to aid Christmas baskets for the needy.
A stream of visitors to families in the Wolf Pen area includes the Murphys Johnsons Slack Wise Johnsons and Hollys with relatives from Syracuse West Columbia Pomeroy and Columbus. The Live Wire Class at Zion Church of Christ held a business meeting with a $7.95 treasury and planned a church addition.
Mrs. Robert Bishop hosted the Columbia Home Demonstration group with a social hour and gift exchange among members including Mrs. Dale Dye and Lisa Dye, Mrs. Carl Greenlees and Billa Rhoades, Mrs. James Gaston with Joan and David Hess, Mrs. Clay Jordan and Barbara, plus several other members and the hostess Sandy. Seth Huntley of Vinton spoke at Carpenter Baptist Church on Sunday and a Christmas program is planned for Saturday night December 23. Jerry Stansbury of Columbus and Chester Price visited over the weekend with their parents.
Donald L Durkin 22 a draftsman of Columbus and Linda L Tripp 19 a beautician of Columbus announce marriage to Robert D Meese 31 of Hamden U S Army and Marcella M Faulkner 31 of Hamden Vester Walker Jr 29 of Longsville Route 1 a laborer and Molina J Walker 24 of McArthur announce remarriage.
Santa Claus will visit the Jacksonville Eagles Hall Saturday at 7 pm to give out treats to children.
The VFW will treat children Saturday at 6 p.m. at the hall in Jacksonville.
Students in Logan and Hocking County start their Christmas break with classes dismissed through Tuesday January 2. Many workplaces close Sunday and Monday, with police on short shifts to maximize family time. The community distributes food baskets and gifts through the Logan Jaycees Kiwanis Newsies and other groups, aided by Fire Department staff and the Hocking Honor Camp, to ensure no family is left unreached.
Logan County commissioners set aside duties to plan a pre Christmas visit to seven Hocking County residents at Athens County Home. Gifts from groups and individuals will accompany the delegation. The board approved routine bills and an animal claim of 40 dollars for two sheep killed by dogs and various reallocations from funds to cover expenses.
The First Baptist Church will hold its Christmas program at the close of morning service Sunday. After the program, Christmas treats will be served to all attendees. Program committee members are Mrs Ethel Riley chairwoman Mrs Mary Lee Williams Mrs Gladys Viney and Miss Lelia Booker.
Federal bankruptcy referee Byron Pope granted relief in U S District Court allowing a Chattanooga firm to treat 400000 hungry baby chicks as perishable assets. A temporary trustee was appointed to feed them under the proceedings.
The Jackson ville Eagles host a dance this Saturday from 9 p.m. to midnight featuring Demchak and his orchestra providing music for attendees.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.