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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1937
Page
6
Logan Post enrolls 67 members of its 120 quota, matching a statewide 58.8 percent of quota. District 8 shows 1,259 of 2,300, while Nelsonville reaches quota with 60 members. Hocking County posts total 135 members, 63 percent of 214.
Christmas Eve services fill Logan with choir performances, cantatas, and sermons. First Presbyterian hosts 11 pm communion with the senior choir and Walter Prather singing Gesu Bambino. Methodist Episcopal, United Brethren, St Johns, St Matthew, and Trinity churches all schedule morning and evening services and featured musical offerings.
Conservation department received a consignment of 15 crates of rabbits in Logan on Thursday. Deputy Game Protector Edward Eberst said the Missouri origin animals were disease tested and will be released on closed hunting territory with more consignments planned after the season closes January 1.
Lutheran Church holds an 8 a m service led by Rev Elmer Bliss and 7 p m Sunday divine service. Methodist Episcopal Church offers a Sunday evening program with a lengthy choral and solo lineup led by Mrs C E Clark Mrs R R Lanning and Kenneth Bright among others.
WPA assignments add 49 men to projects in Hocking County raising total WPA workers to well over 800. Edward C. Collins reports rising demand for employment as requests continue. Frank Brown notes about 50 more people were moved to relief rolls due to recent industry shutdowns.
Patrolman halted a fight on E Front St and arrested Harry Shaffer of Parkersburg and Frank Dicken of Athens. They were part of a truck crew temporarily stopping in the city. Charges of fighting were filed at arraignment before Mayor Kenneth Fitzgerald. Pleas of guilty carried fines of five dollars and costs.
The Rev. W A Cooper a Methodist clergyman will open a series of evangelistic meetings at South Perry on Monday evening. He has conducted revival efforts in the Benton Township area in recent weeks.
Logan automobile dealers gathered for a dinner at the White House to hear R. F. Williams of Columbus discuss a licensing law intended to remove bootleggers and bar part time sellers by requiring a business location. Don Feather explained the certificate of title law, noting titles are not needed until sale or trade unless mortgaged, and that the new rules will raise county revenue but add workload, with title processing estimated at 12 to 15 minutes and handled through the clerk of courts office.
Relatives from out of town begin arriving in Logan to spend Christmas with local families. Among expected guests are the Huffman and Stokes families of Logan and Athens, the Larimer family from Mt. Pleasant Michigan, and Mrs. Cooperrider from Thornville. Others plan visits to Columbus and Olean New York as a district extension conference in Chillicothe concludes.
Mrs. Ernest Miller hosts the Chummy Chat Club with contest winners Mrs. Chester Appleman and Mrs. Edward Leach. Christmas parties are reported for the Wednesday Sewing, Priscilla, and Social Circle clubs with hostesses and guests listed. A mid holiday dance is announced by the Masonic Social Club at the Masonic Temple on December 28 with Wien's Swing Band. Mrs. Will White and Mr. Ernest Krebs visit, and Natasha Viotovich attends Antioch College. A marriage announcement from Victoria Phelps notes Jayne Victoria Krebs to Dr. Norman W. Runge in Iowa City, with plans to live in Ft. Dodge. Fishing note closes the item.
Jane Withers appears with the Hartmans in the Twentieth Century Fox comedy 45 Fathers at the Athena Theater Saturday. Also features Thomas Beck and Louise Henry as guardians attempt to civilize her while Hartmans and Profs Cohen and Givot teach voice and dance in a lively, zippy film full of humor.
Logan Chieftains suffered a 42 to 26 defeat to Columbus North after a close first three quarters. The half stood 17 15, and 24 20 after three, with North pulling away in the fourth. Coach Tommy Bender planned more practice through the holidays as Nelsonville visit on Jan 7 looms.
Mary A. Logan Hansley was granted a divorce from Frank Hansley in common pleas court on Thursday afternoon by Judge Phil Henderson for cruelty. The couple had married on March 23, 1935, and Mary A. Hansley resumed the name Mary A. Frasure.
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