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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1951
Page
10
Dial 22542 advertises Athens Ohio chemical supplier W E Dicken at 297 W Union St for termite control products. Also notes Glaxoplastic Gay Gleaming coating improves linoleum wear with no waxing required from Uhiman's.
Logan area petitions on file for fall elections include village and town offices, school board seats, and other local posts to be decided November 6. Petitions may be filed with the county board until 6:30 p.m. August 8. Current terms expiring include Logan school board members Earl Elberfeld and Claude Chrisman, with vacancies and candidate fields developing as independent contenders enter.
Hannah Bell Liff 75 of 523 Hunter St died Sunday at 10 30 am in Mount St Marys Hospital Nelsonville where she had been a patient two weeks. Widow of Elmer Liff killed in 1923 she was a Logan native and Logan EUB Church member. Survived by two sons Fred Logan and Bernard Columbus two daughters Alberta Fisher Anderson Ind and Margaret Hartman Columbus sister Matilda Wallett Logan 11 grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Friends may call at Leonard Funeral Home. Funeral at 2 pm Wednesday at Logan EUB Church Rev A N Grueser in charge. Burial in Oak Grove Cemetery.
A birthday gathering in New Straitsville honored Mrs. Kieffer with cream cake sandwiches and pie. Guests included Willard Kieffer, Andy Campbell, Harry Dante, Ford Kieffer, Jett Snyder, Charles Lowery, Bert Hise, Harvey Spencer, Myrtle Mitchle, and Marget Duffard among others.
LOGAN May or Roger Friend fined four persons in City Court over the weekend. City police arrested Bernard Kuhn, 27, and Robert Hopkins, 22, Route 1, on fighting and disorderly conduct charges. Kuhn was fined 25 dollars and costs, Hopkins 35 and costs. Lucius Gramer, 19, Rockbridge Route 1, fined 10 dollars and costs for reckless driving. State highway patrol arrested Bradley H. Powell, 29, Colum for reckless driving on Route 33. Mayor Friend fined Powell 20 dollars and costs.
Logan The Hocking County Health Board re employed H G Southard as health commissioner for July 1 1951 to June 30 1952. The board met in June to set the appointment. Southard has also been re employed as health commissioner in Van Wert and Vinton counties. He has served as Hocking County health commissioner since January.
The notice lists births for Mr. and Mrs. John Cox with a daughter and Mr. and Mrs. John Patrick Walsh with a son. It also records admissions including Ralph Cooper from Radcliff, Mrs Irene Daubenmier and Edward Linn from Logan, William Shifflet from Ewington, and Edwin Griffin from Logan for surgery or medical care. A budget hearing notice from the Board of Education and parole hearing updates are included.
Charles Edward Scholl 81 died unexpectedly Sunday evening at 8 05 in the Elks Clubroom on East Main Street. He was a life member and lodge tiler, son of William and Mary Scholl, native of Hocking County. Survived by two sons Carl and David of Cleveland two daughters Mary Funk of Lancaster and Ruth Evers of Dearborn Mich two brothers William and Albert of Lancaster three sisters Ella Graffis and Viola Beery of Lancaster and Dora Larimer of Mount Pleasant Mich. Friends may call at Leonard funeral home where services will be held Wednesday at 10 am in Oak Grove Cemetery.
John Franklin Liff of 775 East Franklin Street died at 1 49 am in Hocking Valley Hospital after a heart attack. Retired from the Hocking Valley and C&O railroads as a car carpenter, he is survived by wife Sarah. Friends may call Tuesday afternoon at home. Funeral services at Logan EUB Church at 2 00 pm Thursday. Burial in Oak Grove Cemetery by Leonard Funeral Service.
Logan June report from the Hocking County Relief Administration shows aid in 55 cases involving 147 persons. Family cases numbered 27, singles 25, and three for medical and hospital care, with June encumbrance at 2027.63, including 638.55 for medical and hospital care.
A Logan group from the Presbyterian Church attended Camp Indianola near Lancaster last week. The junior high age campers included Charlotte Whitcraft Judy Blum Sandra Spalsbury Patty Steele David Carr Burdette Greenman Dan Lappen Willis Dicken and Gary Fitzgerald.
Katheryn McQuaide was granted a divorce from Earl E. McQuaide on grounds of extreme cruelty. The plaintiff was awarded custody of the children.
Gerald Stump in the U S Army stationed in Frankfurt Germany arrived home Tuesday to spend a 30 day furlough with his family. The case of Ralph Lenz, plaintiff, v Ernest Foltz, defendant, was continued off the docket.
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