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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1943
Page
14
Wet weather blamed for poor 1943 wheat output in Hocking County with yields from nine to 22 bushels per acre. Rust and scab ruin most grain while threshing proceeds slowly. Some farmers abandon grain for hay as prolonged rains lower quality and returns. James R. Smoot states hay quality is down from normal.
Logan area couple Mr. and Mrs. J A Primmer report a letter from their son Pvt Wilbur Primmer stating he is well and awaiting return home from a German prison camp. He was captured February 17 in North Africa after serving in a heavy artillery unit and was previously listed as missing in action. Inducted October 1941, he had remarried and is father to a one year old son.
Logan Kiwanis Club members viewed a color Logan Florida film shown at their Tuesday meeting in the White House. James Smoot operated the projector and Lew Riggs acted as narrator. The St Petersburg Kiwanis Club supplied the film depicting city scenes and club activities, a work in steady use across Kiwanis chapters nationwide.
Logan reports 224 pints donated over two days of the Hocking County Blood Donors Campaign, short of the 230 pint target. Committee cites many ineligible donors and missed appointments due to health and other reasons. Red Cross Mobile unit operated at Logan Junior High School with medical staff on site.
Clifford Courter 22 Logan A 8 Army and Geneva F Green 18 Columbus assisted coal buyer obtained marriage license from Probate Court on Wednesday with details of parties and ages.
Logan County report shows "Jumbos" at 51 cents per dozen with prices nearing a seasonal peak. Milly Smoot notes continued strong production across the district while price ceilings remain unfixed and a gradual rise is expected into fall.
Announcement of the engagement between Miss Juanita Root and Lt. William E. Wallace with details on roots education and service. Social items include Von Bora Society picnic plans at St. Matthew Lutheran Church and a farewell party for Corporals Harold and Kenneth Crawford. Grange picnic scheduled for July 25 and notes on visitors and troops with Camp Breckinridge update.
The Hocking County Farm Wage Board met at the Court House with James R. Smoot presiding. A hearing is planned for Friday August 6 at 8 p m to fix pay for foreign interstate and intrastate farm workers recruited into the county, covering corn cutting and related tasks. Members include Arthur Griffith Porter Heinlein Paul Shaw and Russell Beery.
Logan Ross Wright, the Athens County extension agent, is chosen to replace Larry Best as director for the annual 4-H club camp sessions opening Monday at Camp Ross-Hocking and running through Saturday. James R. Smoot of Hocking County serves as general camp manager this year.
At Cherrington Hospital Logan Miss Virginia Jean Eaton Logan underwent a ton silectomy Wednesday. Mrs Betty Klinebriel Nelson ville was admitted Wednesday for treatment. George Gordon Creola was admitted the previous day for observation. Marcella Hite daughter of Mrs Virgil Hite was dismissed after treatment for a diabetic condition. Daisy Pearsall Irma Pearsall Mr and Mrs James Pearsall of Rockbridge are spending this week at Buckeye Lake. Mr and Mrs Donald Jaynes and son Stanley of Akron visited recently with Mr and Mrs San Wells. Mrs George Burberry has as her guest her sister Mrs Wilda Haines of Indianapolis Indiana.
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