New Council Set as Stanely Baker Studies Posts
Logan council terms prepare for a new leadership with Stanley W. Baker as president pro tempore and plans for committee assignments. Finance post viewed as key as J. D. Tipton remains the lone holdover. Organization likely Jan 11 with Mayor Kinser outlining policy to secure department cooperation.
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LOGAN
Stanley W. Baker
Fred Carpenter
Kenneth Fitzgerald
James L. Martin
Dallas Kinser
Carpenter
Harold W. Larimer
Baker
Kinser
R. R. Loomis
Magistrate Stephenson Remains in Serious Condition
Magistrate C. T. Stephenson remains in grave condition at Cherrington Hospital after an operation more than two weeks ago.
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C. T. Stephenson
Cherrington Hospital
Eskimo Spitz Returns Home After Two Week Absence
Mr and Mrs C D Note stone and daughter Maxine awoke Saturday to find their Eskimo Spitz dog back home. The dog had vanished from a rear yard line two weeks earlier and is believed stolen and later released by an unknown person.
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Logan
Former County Commissioner Dies at Home
Isaac Vancuren 71 died at his Third Street home after an extended illness due to apoplexy. He served two terms as Hocking County commissioner and leaves wife Estella and nine children. He was a Methodist Episcopal and Odd Fellows member. funeral services were held at the Methodist Episcopal Church with burial in Oak Grove Mausoleum.
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Logan
Hocking County
Isaac Vancuren
Vancuren
Estella Vancuren
Harry
Cleveland
Atharea Haynes
Lancaster
Mark
Charles
C. W. Zeigler
Edwin Barker
Grace Adcock
Mildred Shaw
Henry Vancuren
William Vancuren
Haynes
Funeral Rites Held For Charles Redd
Funeral services were held at the United Brethren Church for Charles Redd formerly of Hocking County who died in an Detroit auto crash. The body arrived in Logan and burial followed at Oak Grove Cemetery with Eagles members aiding. He leaves a wife and daughter Inez. brothers Harold Robert Hubert Clifford Virgil and sisters Mrs. Henry Derr and Mrs. Artie Stone.
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Logan
United Brethren Church
John A. Toy
Charles Redd
Hocking County
Detroit
Lucy Redd
W. Second St
Inez
Harold Redd
Athens
Robert
Webb Summit
Hubert
Lancaster
Clifford
Logan Police Arrests in 1937 Record Drunkenness Dominates
Logan police reported 273 arrests during 1937 with drunkenness and disorderly conduct topping the offenses. 175 people were arrested for that charge, 27 were charged with driving under the influence, 18 with reckless driving, and other docket items included gambling, leaving the scene of an accident, petty larceny, resisting an officer, assault and battery, auto theft, armed robbery, grand larceny, and rape.
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Logan
Teachers move as Marion Centralized School staffing shifts
Miss Helen Rush resigns to take a position at Haydenville. Miss Kathryn Wright moves from Union Furnace to Logan. Miss Ber Nice Salts from Haydenville goes to Union Furnace and Miss Rush fills her seat. Miss Velma Skinner from Nickle Plate in Falls District fills the Marion vacancy.
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Logan
Helen Rush
Marion
Haydenville
Kathryn Wright
Union Furnace
Waveline Groves
Bernice Salts
Rush
Velma Skinner
Nickle Plate
Falls District
Eckhart Family Vacation Ends in Mt Pleasant Return
Mr and Mrs Floyd Eckhart and their Mt Pleasant Michigan family returned home Saturday after a two week vacation with relatives at Gore and Logan. Mr Eckhart works in the oil field at Mt Pleasant and spoke of good prospects for continued work there.
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Logan
Floyd Eckhart
Mt. Pleasant
Mich
Gore and
Eckhart
County School Board Sets Jan 7 Meeting and Jan 15 Organizational Session
Final meeting of the old Hocking County board is slated for January 7 with the organizational session on January 15. After next Friday’s meeting Lawrence Hedges and O. H. Bryan retire, to be replaced by Homer Hedges and William Sayre. President David Thorne is expected to be retained for another year, with C. S. Matheny likely continuing as vice president. Office personnel contracts for J W Coleman superintendent and other officials, including Mrs. Robert Davis, remain unchanged.
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Logan
C. S. Matheny
Haydenville
J. W. Coleman
George L. Wright
Carl C. Poling
Robert Davis
Logan Social Notes New Year Gatherings Reported
Mr. and Mrs. George Gribble and family and Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Lortz hosted a New Year dinner. Co visitors David and John Moore returned to Columbus. Fortnightly Club held a New Year party at Mr. and Mrs. Toerner’s home with a 6:30 turkey dinner and bridge.
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Rudy Lortz
David
John Moore
George S. Moore
South Logan
Columbus
Kenneth Bowers
Cantwell Cliffs
Norman Peck
Abbie Collins
Mildred Collins
Floyd Copeland
Hamden
Buellaby
Logan
Anthony Toerner
S.S. Mulberry St
Bridge
Amica Club Hosts Friday Watch Party at Schultz Home
Amica Club members gathered Friday at Mrs. Cora Schultz home for an 8 p m watch party with 13 of 15 members present. Mary Edna and Dale Schultz helped serve lunch during the games and contests. Mr. and Mrs. F P Martin hosted a dinner and watch party at their Glenview Heights home Friday evening with guests Miss Mary Krieg W Krieg and Miss Lucy Krieg plus Mrs Harriette Gibson Weymueller and other relatives and friends.
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Cora Schultz
Mary Edna
Dale Schultz
F. P. Martin
Glenview Heights
Mary Krieg
Buffalo
W. I. Krieg
Lucy Krieg
Logan
Harriette Gibson Weymueller
Glouster
William Mack
Pat Eberst
Dale Ruble
Local students return to college after holidays in Athens
Among locals spending holidays with parents, several returned to Ohio University in Athens for reopening. Robert Ralston Victor Nixon Joe Stoughton Ralph Webb Edmund Monks Mary Monks and Luella Brown are back, while Dolores Lee left for Western College as classes resume tomorrow.
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Athens
Ohio University
Robert Ralston
Victor Nixon
Joe Stoughton
Ralph Webb
Edmund Monks
Mary Monks
Luella Brown
Dolores Lee
John Lee
Western College
Mrs West is Ill in Logan
Mrs. Martha J. West of North High Street is seriously ill. She resides with her daughter and son in law Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Hansel.
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West
Logan
Martha J. West
N. High St
R. B. Hansel
Mrs Earl Keck Recovers From Arm Fracture After Ice Fall
Mrs Earl Keck of Laurel Township is recovering from a fracture in the right arm above the wrist suffered when she slipped on ice near her home two weeks ago.
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Logan
Earl Keck
Laurel Township
Logan Nelsonville Open League Schedule Friday
Logan opens league play with a Friday home game for the Chieftain basketball squad. Nelsonville visits Logan in the opener as the athletic department returns to a full schedule this week.
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Logan
Chieftain
Nelsonville
New Year Accidents Light. Few Arrests Reported
Logan reports a quiet New Year period with only a few minor accidents under investigation. By Sunday night no arrests in Hocking County and only two in the city since the new year began.
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Logan
Hocking County
Logan Gun Club Opens Year with Large Crowd at Fairground
Sunday’s opening shoot drew a large Logan crowd at the Fairground traps. Delegations joined from Hebron and Fairfield County led by Sheriff William Bellhorn. Young Jack Farbeann, 12, son of Sheriff Joe Farbeann, won two matches scoring nine of ten.
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Hebron
William Bellhorn
Fairfield County
Jack Farbeann
Joe Farbeann
Logan Council Masonic Degree Presented Saturday Night
New Lexington Council Masonry held a special meeting Saturday evening presenting the Super Excellent Degree. Logan Council was represented along with several guests from surrounding cities. W. D. Braddock of the local council was among four candidates to receive the degree. Rolland Bright Pearl Watkins and Charles Kleinschmidt accompanied Mr Braddock to the neighboring city.
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Logan
New Lexington
Logan Council
W. D. Braddock
Rolland Bright
Pearl Watkins
Charles Kleinschmidt
Mr. Braddock
City Hall Opens Police Arrest Records Card System
With the new year a record file is opened at City Hall for the police department to store data on all arrests. The new cards will contain valuable information about each arrest and related details for the department.
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Logan
City Hall
Chauncey Personalities and New Year Visits
Chauncey residents report New Year's Day gatherings as Mr and Mrs George Williamson entertain Mrs Isabel Bradfield and her son. Dr C N Sanders hosts Friday dinner in Millfield. Mayor W D Hines of Chauncey and family visit uncle Andrew McNally in Zanesville after his stroke.
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Chauncey
George Williamson
Food drop saves 20 wild ducks on Dundas marsh
In Hamilton Ontario Ern est Taylor a local airport instructor flew over Dundas marsh and scattered 50 pounds of wheat releasing 20 starving wild ducks stranded on the ice.
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Hamilton
Water Exists as Gas Depends on Temperature
Water appears liquid or solid at typical conditions but becomes invisible as gas when heated. The state of water shifts with temperature, showing liquid and solid forms familiar to most people.
Simone Simon Shines In Love And Hisses At Athena
Simone Simon stars in the Twentieth Century Fox musical Love and Hisses at the Athena Theater with glamorous gowns and a notable operatic aria, Bell Song from Lakme. Sidney Lanfield directs as Walter Winchell and Ben Bernie headline a cast including Bert Lahr and Joan Davis.
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Gallia Man Warns of Strangers After $25 Lost
Will L. Gilmore reports an attempted robbery near Eureka by two women and a man in a sand colored Nebraska car. They asked directions, one posed as a physician and examined his wrist then fled after taking $25 from his wallet. He found the purse later, empty with a rubber band. Police alerted nearby towns. no arrests.
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Naaman Canaday Falls After Fall In Gallipolis
Naaman R. Canaday 84 oldest active Gallia County merchant fell Saturday evening en route from his grocery on First Avenue to his adjoining home at Sycamore Street. He suffered a fracture of the right thigh and was taken to Holzer Hospital for surgical care. in business at the same location for over 60 years.
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Naaman R. Canaday
Gallia County
First Avenue
Sycamore St
Holzer Hospital
Canaday
Fire Call Finds Burned Home From Last January Flood
Gallia county firefighters responded to Eagle Gordon's Pine Street residence Sunday morning but found the blaze extinguished on arrival. The Gordon home sits where the current structure stands, rebuilt after the record flood last January.
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Eagle Gordon
Pine St
Gordon
City Commission to Organize Tonight in Gallipolis
Members of the Gallipolis City Commission Dr L Cc Bean I E Myers and C C Ingels will meet tonight at the Municipal Building to organize the new session.
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Gallipolis City
Dr. L. Cc, Bean
I. E. Myers
C. C., Ingels
Flood Relief Worker Completes Gallia County Tour
Miss Helen Basinger from Lima leaves Gallia County after assisting flood victims. She worked with County Nurse Margaret Jones and used Jones's office desk space. Flood relief cases have now been closed.
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Helen Basinger
Lima
Basinger
Gallia County
State Health Department
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Halliday Takes Office as Gallipolis Municipal Judge
Municipal Judge John Halliday was sworn in Saturday by predecessor A. J. Stormont. Stormont presented a bouquet and offered best wishes as Halliday began his term.
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Gallipolis
John Halliday
A. J. Stormont
Stormont
Mrs Gilbert Staten Leaves Hospital After Appendicitis Operation
Mrs. Gilbert Staten of Union Furnace was discharged from Columbus hospital Sunday after an appendicitis operation and taken to her home. Outcome noted as favorable with recovery underway.
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Logan
Gilbert Staten
Union Furnace
Columbus
Aged Gallia Resident Dies After Prolonged Illness
Edward M. McCormick 71 died at his Gallipolis home after a long illness dating to the 1918 influenza epidemic. He long directed the horse drawn and later motorized street car line to Kananga, then ran the first motor bus line Gallipolis to Jackson. Survived by wife Margaret Bing McCormick and several siblings. Funeral Monday at Entsminger Mortuary, burial in Mound Hill Cemetery.
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E. G. Waddell
Green Township
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Roscoe Fox
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Bert McCormick
Athens
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Somerset
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Edward McCormick
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W. Scott Westerman
Mound Hill Cemetery
Caldwell Named County Chairman of Paraylisis Campaign
Gallia County leaders announce Elmer E. Caldwell a member of the Democratic County Executive Committee and Deputy Automobile Registrar is named county chairman of the infantile paralysis drive. He will appoint assistants soon and plan a Roosevelt birthday fund raiser in the county.
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Elmer E. Caldwell
Gallia County
Democratic County Executive Committee
Roosevelt
Gallia Schools Reopen After Holiday Period
All city and rural schools in Gallia resumed operations Monday after a week off. Attendance reached a high average, officials reported, with city and county attendance officials credited for the boost.
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Gallipolis
E. E. Higgins
H. Bion Bradbury
Family to Remain in Gallipolis as Bailor Leads College Campaign
Ford Bailor and family will stay in Gallipolis for several months while he serves as superintendent of the Marks and Lundy financial campaign for Rio Grande College. Bailor will travel to Philadelphia for duties, but his wife and son will remain and the son plans to graduate high school in June.
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Marks & Lundy Financial
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Bailor
Philadelphia
Stolen purse money report turns up at bank
A $1900 missing from Mrs Anna Kohner at Lewis Kraus restaurant on Court Street was found as a bank deposit in the name of one of three suspects Bert Loucks Kraus and Ted Hal ley. Sheriff Hatfield and Deputy Russell investigated and found the report groundless but inquiries continued as townsfolk called in.
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Anna Kohner
Lewis Kraus
Court St
Huntington
Kraus
Bert Loucks
Ted Halley
E. E. Hatfield
Dale Russell
Sheriff's Office
Morris Funeral held for seven year old Billy Morris
Funeral services were held Sunday in Porter M. E. Church for William Paul Morris seven year old son of Mr and Mrs Cloyd Morris who died Friday night after a week's illness. He is survived by a brother Jerry Lee Morris and his parents and grandparents Mr and Mrs Walter Pitchford and Mr and Mrs D A Morris.
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Sersvices
Porter M. E
William Paul
Billy) Morris
Cloyd Morris
Jerry Lee Morris
Walter Pitchford
D. A. Morris
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