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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1943
Page
16
A garbled OCR block mentions names and ages, residents, and possible public notices. It hints at a Kern family item and a local gathering, plus a line about a sports feature titled The Fat Man and a raft battles segment. The readable entities include family names like Roche and Foster and references to week-end events.
Local council approves the addition of Romen Street to LU transit corridors. The measure clears zoning and funding steps with expected completion in the current fiscal year. City officials say the extension will ease traffic and improve access for residents.
Logan James R Smoot county extension agent announces the annual Women s Camp July 24 and 25 at Camp Ross Hocking with the Men s Camp July 71 to August 1 All camps except the 4 H program are shortened to two days due to wartime travel restrictions and food shortages Camp sessions will feature swimming boating handicraft lectures and group activities with final plans to be announced soon.
LOGAN The Hocking County Board of Revision with County Auditor Kenneth R. Fitzgerald Treasurer R N White and Stanley Baker president of the board of commissioners this week continued their property appraisals in the city and county on which evaluation complaints have been made. They also continued checking appraisals on new properties built since the last semi annual meeting of the board.
A Logan social page details Martha Elberfeld turning six with a party hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Earl Elberfeld and lists friends in attendance. It also notes Fort Lewis duty assignments for Logan natives including Private William Connor and others, plus campus visits, local gatherings, and several family dinners and guests across nearby towns.
Funeral services for Ida Schoonover 81 longtime Chauncey resident were held Sunday at the First Church of Christ Chauncey. Rev. Gilbert Courtney led the service with a singing quartet Isabelle Courtney Margaret Kern Helen Courtney and Charles S Bradfield performing. Burial followed in Nye Cemetery Chauncey by Warren Funeral Service. She was the daughter of Jonathan and Mary Cross and with husband Thomas D Schoonover ran a Chauncey grocery for 31 years. She leaves a husband three Chauncey sisters Kate Cunningham Nelle Leffler and Jennie Smith and many nephews and nieces.
Lieutenant Bridgewater, seriously injured in an airplane crash at Camp Mackall North Carolina seven weeks ago, was released for a leave to visit his parents Mr and Mrs Erle Bridgewater in Chauncey. He was accompanied by his wife Virginia and they will also visit her mother Mrs Viola Sanders in Athens.
Ralph Chauncey Stalder formerly ill at home is moved to Mercy Hospital Columbus Sunday morning for possible surgery. He is accompanied by Mr and Mrs Mila Stalder and Erle Bridgewater.
Miss Phy lis Nixon, daughter of Mr and Mrs B O Nixon, sends a Boston newspaper feature on WAVES life. Nixon, stationed with the auxiliary at the Victoria Hotel in Boston with 550 trainees, previously served at Hunter College New York and is a Logan High School graduate. A photograph shows a typing class including Nixon.
Logan Knights of Pythias will install new officers at a regular meeting in the lodge rooms Wednesday night. George Stallsmith will be installed as chancellor commander and B A Rheinscheld as vice chancellor.
Logan reports the Harrington Class of the First Presbyterian Church will meet July 12 at the Church instead of July 7. Members are asked to note the change.
Mr and Mrs Clifford Banfield of Chauncey hosted a farewell gathering for their son Clifford Jr who has enlisted in the U S Navy and departed Monday for training at Goat Lake Ill The evening featured games and music with refreshments served Several Chauncey residents and relatives attended including Bessie Tope Eloise Tucker Wilma Merritt Shirley Ryan and many Banfields The Sunday dinner list included Kath leen and Gladys Phillips Glennis Phillips and Elmer Phillips family members from Elyria Ohio were also present
Luther Cruikshank and Mr and Mrs DeWitt Walker spent Sunday in Summit Station returning with Mrs Cruikshank who has been visiting relatives. Ruth Cruikshank of Columbus visited her parents and infant nephew Thomas Larry. Floride Grinstead and daughter Betty of Columbus visited Chauncey with Mr and Mrs John Shafer. The Shafer home hosted Ralph Syx of Newark and family, Harold Brown of Baker Settlement and relatives Walter Wharton and Walter Jr plus Elmer Bingman and Guy Brookins. Roy Cunningham, home from Camp Gruber Oklahoma, returned with wife Mabel Cunningham and daughter Donna Jean to Chauncey.
Chauncey resident Chauncey Cruikshank in the Air Corps is home on a 14 day furlough to visit family and his wife Betty and newborn son Thomas Larry at Summit Station Ohio. He was stationed at Seymour Johnson Field North Carolina and transferred to Eglin Field Florida. There he met Richard Swart formerly of Chauncey and son of Mr and Mrs Harry Swart. Esther Class church meeting postponed to Friday July 16 at Grace Stalder’s home. Coolville hosts a birthday for Ruth Cripen Sunday July 11 after Bethany Ridge Church services. Mrs Clarence Sanders of Millfield will host Mulueid Needle Club Wednesday night.
CELINA The farm hand Louis Vernon Hand age around 19 held in jail after admitting to killing six year old Richard Stober over a dispute about farm work. Body found behind a straw bale in a barn near the Stober home. Hand said the boy teased him about not greasing equipment and he killed him with a hammer. He is on probation from federal court in Toledo for auto theft and earlier at Lancaster Boys Industrial School for car stealing.
Senator Bridges urged renewed investigation by Military Affairs Committee into exchanges amid war cabinet brawling. Senator Jones defended associates and denied Vice President Wallace's claims that RFC delayed BEW purchases of beryllium cobalt corundum tantalum zirconium and quartz crystal. Perkins of BEW accused Jones of a smokescreen.
Regular monthly Chauncey City Council session set for 7 PM in the Mayor’s office at the City Building. A Monday holiday caused the meeting to be moved to tonight.
Staff Sergeant Charles O. Starcher of Logan, 21, Air Corps, is reported missing in action in North Africa since January 15. He has been awarded the Air Medal with one Oak Leaf Cluster, and the decorations will be sent to his parents in his absence from Headquarters, Army Air Forces, Washington.
All Logan stores offices and business places were closed Monday in observance of the Fourth of July holiday. Court House offices and federal and state offices were closed. A heat rise drew many residents to the municipal pool, with attendance up. Large crowds of out of town visitors were at Hocking Parks over the weekend.
County extension agent James R. Smoot notes logan county farmers must file applications by the last date. Workers are white, single, experienced and contracted to operate in Ohio from July 15 to September for Alabama farm labor brought into the state.
Mrs Mary Bushong age 4 was struck by an automobile driven by Vernon Hurley age 16 near her home on State Route 75 and remains in serious condition at the hospital. A witness said she walked into the path of the vehicle after alighting from a bus prior to the incident.
Logan Balch pleaded guilty to a toy assault and battery charge and was fined 25 shillings plus costs after arraignment before Mayor W Denzil Weiner. He was arrested on the same day on a charge brought by Ma Neta Lemon.
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