Plans For Hocking County War Loan Drive Outlined
Logan hosts a Fourth War Loan Drive rally with about 300 volunteers at Ohio Power Co. East Main St. to launch the $389,000 county goal. Speaker Sgt. Floyd Kennedy describes mine detector work, while Weimer urges aggressive community support and more house-to-house canvassing led by Barton Hall and the county finance committee.
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Logan
Ohio Power Company
East Main Street
Hocking County
Dc. F
Doc) Weimer
Fourth War Loan
Central
Ohio
Weimer
Floyd Kennedy
U. S. Army Engineers
Tunisia
Earl Elberfeld
Hocking
New Cruiser Replaces 1939 Ford in Logan Police
Logan police place a 1942 Plymouth in use over the weekend to replace the aging 1939 Ford that had logged more than 100000 miles. The city council ordered the purchase after no bids were received from automobile dealers on the open market.
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Logan
Potter son completes boat training at Great Lakes
John Potter Jr. finished his boat training at Great Lakes and is spending a 12 day furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Potter. They are joined by Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Wetzel and children, Charles and Jessie, of Columbus, and Mrs. Carrie Wetzel who visited Sunday with the Potters.
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Jobs
John Potter Jr
Great Lakes
John Potter
Lawrence Wetzel
Charles
Jessie
Columbus
Carrie Wetzel
Bernard Ross
Ruth Daugherty
Cherrington Hospital
Logan
Mary Jean
John Ross
Jackson
Alvey Daugherty
Julia Stage
Nelsonville
Ross
Geneva
Neb
Edgar Walker
Ruth Ross
County Leaders Training Meeting Planned in Logan
County home demonstration agent Miss Helen Evans announced a county wide leaders training meeting for all project leaders and home council members to be held Wednesday at 10 30 a m in the Ohio Power Company offices on East Main Street. Nutrition specialist Miss Alma Garvin of Ohio State University will conduct demonstrations on Meat and Protein Dishes. All county townships are invited.
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Logan
Helen Evans
Ohio Power Company
East Main Street
Alma Garvin
Ohio State University
Smoot Announces Institute Week
Smoot reports December 4 to 8 set for the annual Hocking County Farm Institutes. Speakers William L. Manahan of Defiance and Mrs. Henry Ebert of Columbus were approved by J. P. Schmidt, OSU Rural Sociology professor and Farmers Institutes supervisor, after selection at the planning meeting.
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Logan
James R. Smoot
Hocking County
William L. Manahan
Defiance
Henry Ebert
Columbus
J. P. Schmidt
Farmers’ Institutes
Ohio State University
Meeting urged for multiple representatives all day
A notice urges having at least two representatives attend the meeting to be held throughout the day.
Notice to Taxpayers Rates of Taxation in Athens County
Athens County Treasurer J H Preston announces 1943 tax rates with a county levy of 3.20 mills for general county purposes and local levies listed below. Unpaid taxes accrue a 10 percent penalty. taxes may be paid at the treasurer's office or by mail with district and self addressed envelope.
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Athens County
J. John H. Preston
Ohio
General County
County Home Fund
Children’s Home Fund
A. J. C. Pond
Judicial Feed
Gore Social And Personal Highlights At Local Notices
Gore social notes report rapid recovery of Giffen after Veterans Hospital operation. Springfield visitors include Bob Terrel and Betty Ravencroft. Betty to stay. Worley Giffen learns son in Sicily is in good health. Owings and Echart visit ill Mina Howdyshell. Nearby Bagent family visits Dunning and Ed Bagent. Slaine returns to Toledo after flu illness. Yoder of Columbus visits Mollenkamp family. Summers grandchildren Madaline Avis Rosalee Starr visit. Tucker family visits with Jesse Tucker.
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Clemence Yoder
Columbus
Andrew Mollenkamp
Madaline
Avis
Rosalee Starr
Elyria
Frank Summers
Lucy Tucker
Jesse Tucker
Escaped Inmate Held in Hocking County Jail
Logan residents report an escaped Athens State Hospital inmate was captured by Deputy Sheriffs Frank Larimer and Jack Waldron near South Bloomingville and is held at Hocking County Jail awaiting hospital authorities. The inmate will be returned to the institution upon arrival of officials.
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Logan
Athens State Hospital
Hocking County
Frank Larimer
Jack Waldron
South Bloomingville
Former Resident Dies At Pennsylvania Home
Logan reports the death of Bert Stedman aged 64 at his Belle Vernon Pennsylvania home He formerly lived in Sand Run and Nelsonville He is survived by four sons one daughter two brothers and two sisters.
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Logan
Bert Stedman
Sand Run
Belle Vernon
Nelsonville
Set Bond Quotas for 3 Districts
War Finance Committee names quota figures for three Hocking County districts in the Fourth War Loan Drive. Falls War Bond Committee led by James R. Smoot aims for 35000 with listed members. Green Township seeks 10000 under Andrew Rheinscheid chair. Salt Creek targets 15000 with Nelson DeLong as chairman and a team of eight others.
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Logan
Hocking County
War Finance Committee
Falls War Bond Committee
James R. Smoot
Claude Harsh
Sam Gordon
Ralph Swartz
Fred Hugh
Leonard Weaver
Irvin Krinn
Everett McBroom
Kerwood Martin
Sam Risch
Will Hansel
Green Township
Andrew Rheinscheid
Murray Phillips
Mason Holloway
Samuel C. Chute
James Tucker
Ralph Drescher
Jacob Gleason
Joseph Mihlbauer
Leslie Linton
Seber Lehman
George Bond
Salt Creek
Nelson DeLong
Francis A. Davis
Pearl Fetheroll
William Vancurren
Homer Strous
Luther Smith
Jay Karshner
Mahlon Stump
Millard Black
Logan native named chief of new OPA food section
Hubert D. Lappen, former Hocking County prosecutor, was named chief of a new OPA food section in Columbus as the district office reorganizes four sections. Willard D. Campbell heads section personnel. Lappen, Laurelville High School graduate, Ohio University and Ohio State University Law School alum, served as Hocking County prosecutor 1937 to 1941 before joining the OPA staff in Logan.
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Logan
District Office of Price Administration
Columbus
Hubert D. Lappen
Hocking County
OPA
Lappen
Willard D. Campbell
Laurelville High School
Ohio University
Ohio State University Law School
Legal and Investigation Department
Hold Rites For Mrs. Orpha Bowlby
Funeral services for 60 year old Mrs. Orpha Bowlby wife of Samuel Bowlby will be at 2 p m Wednesday at Leonard Funeral Home. She died Monday at her Logan area home and burial will be in Webb Chapel Cemetery. Survivors include seven sons Roy Melvin Virgil Earl Gore Vernon Samuel Jr Robert and two daughters Mrs Charles Hicks and Mrs Ethel McGrady.
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Leonard Funeral
Orpha Bowlby
Samuel Bowlby
Webb Chapel
Roy
Melvin
Virgil
Lancaster
Earl
Gore
Vernon
Columbus
Samuel, Jr
Hagerstown
Robert
Charles Hicks
Ethel McGrady
Groveport
James Bond
West Front Street
Ernest D. Edgar
Charles C. Bond
Ralph Henry
Earl N. Campbell
Mabel Campbell
Nelsonville
Robert Hutchison
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Indiana
Washington Bowers, Jr
Washington Bowers
Lillian Brown
Mickey
A. M. Sater
Rolland Bright
United Rubber Workers’ Union
Theer
North Street
Robert Gano
Fort Custer
Michigan
W. Denzil Weltner
Charles Mathias
Rockbridge
Romulus
Raymond Lanning
Burlington
Walter Lackey
Roy Bowers
Anna Fox
Paul Hansel
Services Held for Columbus Attorney Druggan
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon for Charles S. Druggan a prominent Columbus attorney who died Saturday at his home following a heart attack. Druggan a widely known trial lawyer gained local prominence in his last court appearance two months ago when he won an acquittal for Judy Taylor a 23 year old soldier's wife charged with first degree manslaughter in connection with the death of her newborn infant.
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Logan
Charles S. Druggan
Columbus
Druggan
Judy Taylor
Southern Negroes Have Mule-Training Knack
Col. G. C. Rush at a state prison farm says rural Southern Negroes can tame stubborn mules. An unbroken mule feared to be untamable was handed to five prisoners for a last-resort effort. They spoke steadily to the panicked animal for about 15 minutes until it settled. By the fifth day a single prisoner plowed with the mule.
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Columbia
S. C
G. C. Rush
Rush
Fiji Scout Locates Hidden Jap Battery For Yanks
A Fijian scout guiding an American reconnaissance unit in the Solomons spotted a cluster of trees where a Japanese mortar crew hid. Fire opened, the crew moved uphill, and the Americans shot them as they fled. The scout noted the unusual tree by the waterline.
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Fiji
P—A_ Fiji
Solomons
Logan Social Notes Burgeoning Weddings And Local Visits
Announcements report Bonnie Jean McCambridge and Corporal Harry V. Mock wed in New Lexington on November 19 with ceremony by Rev. Calvin Nichols. Guests attend a buffet at the McCambridges’ home before the couple’s plans to Camp White Oregon later. Additional notices cover Logan area engagements births furloughs and club gatherings including D A R activities and local visits.
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Logan
New Lexington
Bonnie Jean McCambridge
Clarence E. McCambridge
Harry V. Mock
Edward Mock
Calvin Nichols
Harold Saffell
Charles Donnelly
Cpl
Mack
Bobby Strawn
Davis Rites Held In Green Township
Funeral services were held Sunday at Eben Ezer Church Green Township for Thomas Henry Davis 83 longtime Logan resident who died Thursday in Galena Burial followed in the Davis family cemetery Rev W H Marshall officiated music by a quartet including Mrs Esther Wolfe Miss Margaret Jones and Mr and Mrs Walter Primmer Pallbearers were Roy Lewis Walter Thomas Atlee Davis and Phillip Woodruff all grandsons
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LOGAN
Ebenezer Church
Green Township
Thomas Henry Davis
Galena
Davis
W. H. Marshall
Esther Wolfe
Margaret Jones
Walter Primmer
Roy Lewis
Walter Thomas
Atlee Davis
Phillip Woodruff
New Pittsburg Briefs
Mrs Emma Martin and Fay Hashman spent the weekend with Rev and Mrs John A Wilson in Osborn. Pfc Thomas A Wilson home on furlough from Mississippi, accompanied by Mrs John Wilson and others. Ruth Wadsworth and son Gary visiting. Ira Martin ill. Leonard P Wilson Navy brother of Emma, visited Corporal Harold Hartman in the Pacific. Hartman is son of Mr and Mrs Ben Hartman Murray City. Ben Hartman and grandchildren returned after three weeks in Dayton.
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New Pittsburg
Emma Martin
Fay Hashman
Plan Clinic For Sewing Machines In Logan Township
Logan Hocking tension officials announced a sewing machine clinic to be held Monday January 21 at the township school building. James P. Ol County extension agent and Helen Evans county home demonstration agent will direct demonstrations teaching residents cleaning and adjusting sewing machines. County agents Smoot and Miss F Vans recently returned from a three day training school. All residents are invited to bring machines for cleaning and adjustments and similar clinics are planned in other communities throughout the county.
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Logan— Hocking
Iig
James P. Ol
Helen Evans
County Home
Demen
Smoot
Tge
Zanesvilly
Thorne Re-Elected Hocking Board President
Dave Thorne was reelected president of the Hocking County Board of Education at the annual organization meeting presided by County Superintendent SH Dillon. C S Matheny of Haydenville was named vice president and Supt Dillon will serve as clerk. Other members named were Home Hedges and J F McGrary. Regular meetings set for 7 30 p m on the first Friday of each month.
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Logan
Dave Thorne
Hocking
Dog License Sales Lag In 1943 County Totals
Logan Deputy Auditor Moorhead reports dog license sales in Hocking County are far behind the 1943 total with 1,200 tags needed by January 20 to match last year. After January 2 a one dollar penalty applies to delinquent buyers and fees remain the same as prior years. Owners urged to buy early to avoid rush.
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Logan
Moorhead
Hocking County
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