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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1944
Page
12
Logan reports total Fourth War Loan sales in Hocking County reached 412686.45 dollars, surpassing the 339000 dollar goal. Series E bonds lag at 140448.25 of 179000, prompting a final appeal for about 40000 more from small buyers and encouragement to volunteers to finish strong.
In Logan the Girl Scout Council opens a February program led by Miss Olive Clapton from Cleveland. Activities include regional introductions, a guessing game, regroups by pan tomime or song, and leadership training sessions on February 9 14 and 17 at 7 30 p m in the Hull building Girl Scout rooms.
Mr J H Dunlap returns to work this week at the Rolet garage after recovering from a major operation last November.
Logan health report for January 1944 notes extensive activity from educational outreach to laboratory work. It highlights Logan lacking a milk code while Athens and Fairfield counties use the U S Standard Milk Code and urges adoption to guarantee safe milk for the public.
City Council approves advertising for gas bids for the year from March 1 1944 to March 1 1945. Meeting noted all members attended. reports show $62.35 collected by the mayor for fines and costs. Post war planning discussed.
Viola Quinn Hunter, formerly of Logan and long based in Springfield, died Jan. 29. Survived by husband William Hunter and brother Charles of Cleveland. sister Clara and parents preceded her. The Quinns once lived at 71 S. High in Logan. Hunter ran a Springfield millinery shop for years, retiring shortly before death.
Logan Charles Donley the sales tax examiner will be in the Court House Friday February 11 to help vendors file semi annual tax reports. He will return February 18 and February 29 the latter being final filing date.
Pvt. and Mrs. Lester Evans welcome a boy and a girl weighing six pounds each. The mother and twins stay with her parents Mr. and Mrs. James Boyd of Greendale while the father serves. Previously the father worked for the Express Company in Wells ton as an agent.
Major and Mrs Charles Dugan announce the birth of a son at a Zanesville hospital. He is their second child with Mary Dugan of Murray City as grandmother. Major Dugan who was in Pearl Harbor during the attack has seen overseas duty and is now a patient at Fletcher General Hospital in Cambridge after malaria illness.
Seaman Donald White, son of Mr and Mrs Reno White of Nelsonville Ohio, is spending a 15 day furlough with his parents before returning to his naval training station at Great Lakes Illinois. He will become a pharmacist mates hospital apprentice and is a 1943 Union Furnace High School graduate.
Logan reports a Tuesday fire at Frank Bush's Lincoln Avenue residence caused by an overheated stove. Damage is estimated at $10. a small extinguisher contained the blaze.
Eagles Aeries 2168 will hold a patriotic meeting with their regular session on Thursday February 10. A chicken supper will accompany the event and a guest speaker from a distance has been invited.
Logan County Treasurer White announces the office will stay open all day Saturday February 12 to accommodate rural residents since taxes continue to pour in. The move coincides with Lincoln's Birthday, a legal holiday, and aims to ease inconvenience from weekend closings.
Dr Charles Hoffhine an ENT specialist died Tuesday in Columbus from coronary thrombosis. He practiced on State Street and was married to Maude McManigal with three children Lt John McManigal Hoffhine in Sicily Richard of Columbus and Mary Anne an athletic instructor in Chicago. Funeral plans are set.
St John’s Catholic School Hall hosted the third in a series of informal dances organized by the Ladies Auxiliary to the Knights of St John. Parish youths danced 15 minutes square then 15 minutes round to fiddling and juke box records, with chaperones and sandwiches provided. Adults welcome. next event Feb 19 marks Lent approach.
Logan City Bowling Association met Tuesday night at Lloyd's Recreation Palace to elect officers Earl Roberts as president and Shane Appleman as secretary-treasurer. The group aims to standardize Lloyd's alleys for league games to be recognized by the American Bowling Congress. Dick Frasure shows a season high 267.
A one week revival led by Rev and Mrs D V Snyder of Carlton drew a large crowd at McCune ville near Murray City for the closing service. They will begin a new revival at Carbon Hill Methodist Church near Nelsonville on Feb 14 at 7 PM nightly through Feb 20 with services each evening.
John William Martin of Logan R D 4 has volunteered for acceptance in the next contingent of final induction. He is described as a pre Pearl Harbor father and joins others awaiting call to service.
Mrs. Henry Adcock hosted the Junior Tourist Book Club at her Warner Avenue home with Mrs. Clyde Jones as an inactive member. Marion Allen led a review of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith and a discussion followed. Thirteen Delphian Society guests enjoyed a 4 o’clock tea with Mrs. Walter Rochester. A Hill neighborhood ladies group organized a sewing and knitting club at Mrs. Karl Schmitter’s home. Donald E. White S2c returned from Great Lakes on a 15 day furlough hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Reno White and family. Tuesday Contract Bridge Club met at Mrs. Clarence Schempp’s with two new members. A 95th birthday open house honored Mrs. Laura McCormick with many guests and a poem she composed. Harrington Sunday School Class met for a 6:30 pot luck supper at the Presbyterian church and elected new capsule friends and officers. Plans for the next meeting are underway.
Mr and Mrs Henry Scott of Bowen Street announce the birth of an eight pound twelve ounce girl born Tuesday afternoon at their home.
Advertisement explains liver bile supports digestion and promotes feeling better. Claims Carter's Little Liver Pills increase bile flow to aid digestion naturally after meals and improve comfort, available at drugstores.
Harry Butcher age 58 a coal hoisting engineer at the New York Central Railroad shops in Hobson died suddenly of a heart attack at 9 p m last night at work. He is survived by a daughter Mrs Don Strauss and two sons Ira and John Fred Butcher with others including a brother and sister. Funeral plans will be announced later by Rawlings Coats.
Meigs County election officials report many office seekers circulating petitions. The filing deadline for petitions is March 10, with the county election date set for May 9. The election board office at the Masonic Temple will be open each evening and all day Saturday for petition filings, with Miss Leona Story supervising.
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