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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1943
Page
10
Logan FSA announces funds available to help low income farm families boost production for the war effort. Loans support livestock, crops, or machinery. supervision assists with crop rotation, erosion control, and canning goals. A three farmer county committee reviews applicants. Office at 39 Parkview, Logan.
Logan resident E G Snyder learns of the death of his brother George Eldoris Snyder in an airplane crash in California. George was training to be a U S Army Air Corps pilot. Details were not contained in the telegram.
Chauncey Church of God Missionary Society held its July meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Marshall in Millfield. Rev. John Bailey was guest speaker and closing prayer was by Mrs. Virgie Fennell. Refreshments followed with several members attending.
Millfield notes report the July business and social gathering of the Country Club will be held next Wednesday at the Concord farm home of Mrs. Maud Kasler with an all day schedule and a noon potluck. Birthdays for the month will be celebrated.
Chauncey born Sunday July 18 to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Smith formerly of Chauncey at Black lick Route 1. The twins Fannie Marie and Mildred Louise died shortly after birth. Bodies kept at Doris Eisenaugle home before burial at Nye cemetery Chauncey. Survived by parents two brothers a sister and grandparents.
Funeral services for Aaron McClellan 69 of Jacksonville were held Saturday at 2 p.m. in Greens Run Church of Christ with Rev. Gilbert Courtney and Chauncey singers directing. Burial followed in Maplewood Cemetery by C. F. Wallace. He was never married and is survived by sister Mrs. Stacey Hanning of Lathrop and brothers Thomas of Buchtel and Luddlow of Jacksonville. The body was taken to the home of his niece Mrs. McCray at Greens Run.
Chauncey Mrs William Snedden of Murray City formerly of Millfield visits Mrs Jessie Fulton and Mrs Elizabeth Robinet in Millfield. Pvt Albert Fulton returns to Camp Rucker Alabama after furlough at his parents home in Millfield. Chauncey visits at the home of her son Herbert Coulson in Zanesville. Ralph Brown Jr and Gilbert Courtney Jr visit Chauncey in Columbus.
Pvt Clarence Staley stationed at Fort Riley Kansas on furlough visits his father and parents in law Elmer Staley and Mr and Mrs Thomas Oliver and other Chauncey relatives. He is accompanied by his wife Elsie employed at Junction City near Fort Riley. Mr and Mrs Howard Pennell of Chauncey host a dinner Friday at May Ave home for Mr and Mrs Clarence Staley. Chauncey weekly quilting of the Ladies Aid Society of the Chauncey Methodist Church will be all day Wednesday at the church.
Mr and Mrs Virgil Slay announce the birth of a son at their residence in Millfield. The child adds another member to the Slay family, with details recorded in the community notice.
Logan notes report the engagement of Roberta Ruth Green of Omaha Nebraska to Glenn Charles Harrington of Coffeyville Kansas. Roberta is a senior at Omaha University past Pi Omega Pi president and on student councils. Glenn will graduate from Creighton College of Dentistry in December and is a member of Xi Psi Phi.
Logan burial announcement for Mrs Etta Lenore Hummel 60 wife of A R Hummel grocer died at home 751 East Front Street native of Vinton County resident of Logan four years survivors include husband mother four sons two daughters three sisters and four brothers last rites at St Matthew Lutheran Church burial Oak Grove Cemetery funeral cortege leaves Leonard Funeral Home at 11 am Tuesday casket not opened at church note added about presidential salary semi monthly
Charles Donnelly of the Ohio Department of Taxation will be at the Court House Tuesday and Saturday this week to aid Hocking County vendors with their January 1 to June 30 1943 sales tax returns. Returns must be filed by July 31 or a 1 dollar daily penalty applies for each day of delinquency.
James Andrew Byers 74 bachelor died Saturday afternoon at Will Mowery’s home in Washington Township from a heart attack while helping in the hay field. Native of the township he worked for Mowery twenty years before semi retirement. Survived by brother Charles Byers and four sisters with parents and three sisters preceding him. Funeral Tuesday two o’clock Heinlein Funeral Home with Rev S W Wiant officiating. Burial Scotts Creek Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
Logan registrants inducted into the U.S. Army on June 23 are listed with their training assignments. Richard E. Carpenter, Geiger, Paul E. Stevens, Lawrence J. Hanssey, Mathias, and Virgil W. Dilson go to the 131st Anti Aircraft Gun Battalion at Fort Bliss. Robert F. Inson and Lloyd Laurelville join the Medical Department at General Hospital Fort Harrison. Thomas W. Groom and F. W. Lanning go to Infantry RTC Fort McAll, both of Logan. Dld K. Stephenson, Logan, heads to 737th Engineer Heavy Company at Camp Claiborne, La. Estimated 1942 cotton production is 67,000 bales versus 28,683,000 in 1940.
The War Food Administration plans to urge farmers to market hogs weighing 30 to 40 pounds less, targeting about 220 pounds instead of 250 to 260. This shift could divert several hundred million bushels of corn to other livestock as feed demand falls.
Logan arraigned before May or W D Weltner on a driving while under the influence charge. Troy Davis of St Louisville Route 2 paid a $100 fine and costs after pleading guilty and faces jail if unable to pay. Arrested Saturday night by Patrolmen Raferty and Zanner.
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