Plans For Hocking County War Loan Drive Outlined
Approximately 300 volunteers gathered at the Ohio Power offices to hear plans for the fourth War Loan Drive in Hocking County. Weimer emphasized the essential, unglamorous work of volunteers and the drive’s goal to exceed the county city target of 389000 as Sgt Floyd Kennedy spoke on mine detector work and wartime caution. Elberfeld Young and Barton Hall outlined county wide canvassing, house to house efforts, and ward assignments for the upcoming drive.
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Logan
Ohio Power Company
East Main Street
Hocking County
Do. F
Doc) Weimer
Fourth War Loan
Central
Ohio
Weimer
Floyd Kennedy
U. S. Army Engineers
Tunisia
Kennedy
Fletcher General Hospital
Cambridge
Rl Elberfeld
Ocking County
Barton Hall
New Cruiser Replaces 1939 Ford in Logan Police
Logan Police Department placed a new cruiser in service over the weekend a 1942 Plymouth that replaces a 1939 Ford driven more than 100000 miles. The vehicle was bought on the open market under city council order after no bids were received from automobile dealers.
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Logan
Potter family hosts as John Potter Jr completes boat training
Jobs brief notes John Potter Jr finishes boat training at Great Lakes and takes a 12 day furlough with his parents Mr and Mrs John Potter. The Wetzel family from Columbus visited the Potters with Mr and Mrs Potter on Sunday afternoon.
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Jobs
John Potter Jr
Great Lakes
John Potter
Lawrence Wetzel
Charles
Jessie
Columbus
Carrie Wetzel
County Leaders Training Set Held Wednesday in Logan
Miss Helen Evans county home demonstration agent announced a county wide leaders training meeting for all project leaders and home council members. The session begins at 10 30 a m Wednesday in the Ohio Power Company offices on East Main Street. Alma Garvin nutrition specialist from Ohio State University will conduct demonstrations on Meat and Protein Dishes.
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Logan
Helen Evans
Ohio Power Company
Alma Garvin
Ohio State University
Smoot Announces Institute Week for Hocking County
Smoot reports the week of December 4-8 approved 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 of Ohio State University.
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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 representatives to attend all-day event
A notice urges at least two representatives to attend a meeting held throughout the day. It emphasizes broad participation and ongoing discussions across sessions.
Notice to Taxpayers Athens County 1968 Taxation Rates
Athens County Treasury issues 1968 property tax rates. John H. Preston lists county levies 3.20 mills for general county purposes and outlines payment options and filing reminders. Taxpayers are instructed to include last tax receipt and locate property correctly when mailing payments to the County Treasurer.
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Athens County
John H. Preston
County Home Fund
Children's Home Fund
Blind Fund
Judicial
Gore Social And Personal News Update
Gore social and personal notes list recovering veteran from Dayton hospital, visits by Bob Terrel and Betty Belle Ravenscroft of Springfield, Sicily health update for Worley Giffen, visits by Zerelda Owings Wavelean Echart Mina Howdyshell, and attendance of several relatives from Maxville Toledo Columbus Elyria and other areas at homes of Dunning Summers Yoder and Tucker families.
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Clemence Yoder
Columbus
Andrew Mollenkamp
Madaline
Avis
Rosalee Starr
Elyria
Frank Summers
Lucy Tucker
Jesse Tucker
Hold Escaped Inmate In Hocking County Jail
Logan Ohio reports an escaped patient from Athens State Hospital is held in Hocking County Jail awaiting hospital authorities. Deputies Frank Larimer and Jack Waldron captured the man near South Bloomingville over the weekend.
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Hold
Hocking County
Logan
Athens State Hospital
Frank Larimer
Jack Waldron
South Bloomingville
Former Resident Bert Stedman Dies in Belle Vernon
Logan reports the death of Bert Stedman aged 64 a former Sand Run resident who died at his Belle Vernon home Pa He was a long time Nelsonville resident and is survived by four sons one daughter two brothers and two sisters.
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Logan
Bert Stedman
Sand Run
Belle Vernon
Nelsonville
Bond Quotas Set for Three Hocking Districts
The Fourth War Loan Drive assigns quotas for Falls Green and Salt Creek districts in Logan. Falls War Bond Committee led by James R. Smoot aims for 35000 dollars with noted members. Green Township seeks 10000 dollars with Andrew Rheinscheid as chairman. Salt Creek targets 15000 dollars led by Nelson DeLong.
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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
Lappen Named Chief Of New OPA Food Section
Hubert D. Lappen, ex Hocking County prosecutor, was named chief of the new OPA food section in Columbus. The division created after abolishing the legal and investigation branch, with Willard D. Campbell heading personnel. Lappen, Laurelville High School graduate, Ohio University and Ohio State University Law School alum, served as Hocking County prosecutor 1937-41 and later joined 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
Ohio University
Ohio State University Law School
Legal and Investigation Department
Rites Planned for Mrs Orpha Bowlby at Logan
Funeral services for Mrs. Orpha Bowlby age 60 widow of Samuel Bowlby will be held at 2 p m Wednesday at Leonard Funeral Home near Logan. Burial in Webb Chapel Cemetery. She died Monday afternoon after a period of declining health. Survivors include seven sons Roy Melvin Virgil Earl Vernon Samuel Jr and Robert and two daughters Mrs Charles Hicks and Mrs Ethel McGrady.
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Logan
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
Thier
North Street
Robert Gano
Fort Custer
Michigan
Denzil Weltner
Charles Mathias
Rockbridge
Romulus
Raymond Lanning
Burlington
Walter Lackey
Roy Bowers
Anna Fox
Paul Hansel
Services Held for Columbus Attorney
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon for Charles S. Druggan, a prominent Columbus attorney who died Saturday at his home after a heart attack. Druggan, a noted trial lawyer, recently earned an ac quittal for Judy Taylor, a 23 year old soldier's wife charged with first degree manslaughter in the infant death.
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Logan
Charles S. Druggan
Columbus
Druggan
Judy Taylor
Southern Negroes Have Mule Training Knack
Capt G C Rush of a state prison farm says rural Southern Negroes can tame fractious mules. An unbroken mule thought untamable was given to five prisoners to calm. After steady talking the mule quieted in a quarter hour and by day five one man could plow with it.
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Columbia
G. C. Rush
Rush
Fiji Scout Discovers Jap Battery Aids Yanks
A Fiji scout guiding an American reconnaissance party in the Solomons spotted a water nearby tree cluster that concealed a Japanese mortar crew. Fire swept the hill as the crew hid among the trees and the Americans killed them as they fled up the slope.
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Suva
Fiji
Solomons
Logan Social Notes wedding and community notices
The Logan column reports marriages in New Lexington and South Bloomingville, with Cpl. Harry V. Mock wed to Bonnie Jean McCambridge and Pvt. Clyde Largent wed to Kathryn Glancy. Also noted are D.A.R. chapter events, birth of Mary Jean Ross, various furloughs, visits, and social club meetings including Thursday and Sew-So clubs.
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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
Vance Glancy
Orbiston
Kathryn
Clyde Largent
Thomas Largent
New Plymouth
South Bloomingville
Glen Johnson
Clarence Fuller
Everett Almon
Largent
Fort Benning
Georgia
Bernard Ross
Ruth Daugherty
Cherrington Hospital
Mary Jean
John Ross
Jackson
Alvey Daugherty
Columbus
Julia Stage
Nelsonville
Ross
Geneva
Neb
Edgar Walker
Ruth Ross
Davis Rites Held In Green Township
Funeral services were held Sunday at Eben Ezer Church Green Township for 83 year old Thomas Henry Davis a former Logan resident who died Thursday in Galena. Burial followed in the Davis family cemetery with Rev W H Marshall officiating. Music by a quartet Mrs Esther Wolfe Miss Margaret Jones and Mr and Mrs Walter Primmer. Pallbearers were grandsons Roy Lewis Walter Thomas Atlee Davis and Phillip Woodruff.
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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 Fay Hashman visited Osborn with Rev and Mrs John A Wilson and their son PFC Thomas A Wilson on furlough from Mississippi. Ruth Wadsworth Gary and Mrs Ruth Wadsworth joined the family two weeks. Ira Martin ill. Leonard P Wilson Navy brother of Emma sent word of time with cousin Corporal Harold Hartman in the Pacific. Hartman son of Ben and Mrs Ben Hartman Murray City. Ben Hartman and grandchildren returned from Dayton after three weeks with relatives.
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New Pittsburg
Emma Martin
Fay Hashman
Ira
Leonard P. Wilson
Navy
Harold Hartman
Pacific
Hartman
Ben Hartman
Murray City
Dayton
Plan Clinic For Sewing Machines In Mad Township
Logan County extension officials announce a sewing machine clinic at the Mad Township School building on January 21. James R. Smoot and Helen Evans will lead demonstrations to teach residents cleaning and adjusting sewing machines. All residents are invited to bring their machines for instruction and adjustments. Similar clinics are planned across other communities in the county.
Dave Thorne Re-Elected Board Head
Hocking County Board of Education president Dave Thorne was re-elected to another term at the annual reorganizational meeting in Logan. C. S. Matheny was named vice president, Supt. Dillon serves as clerk, with Homer Hedges and J. F. McGrady as members. Regular meetings will be at 7:30 p.m. on the first Friday of each month.
Dog License Sales Lag in Hocking County
Deputy Auditor Ralph Moorhead said sales of dog licenses in Hocking County lag behind 1943 totals with 1,200 tags needed by January 20 to match last year. After January 20 a one dollar penalty will be applied to all delinquent purchases. fees remain the same as prior years. Owners are urged to buy early to avoid a last minute rush.
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Logan
Ralph Moorhead
Hocking County
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