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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1940
Page
12
Centenni al session notes and a list of names from a page header and obituaries. Ed Ward and others are mentioned with a service at 2 pm. The text references a Gallif season and a nearly 93 year old woman with daughters living near Cro.
Fragmentary report mentions Methodist event in Gallipolis with names Roy, Mrs, and relatives visiting. Individuals noted include Clara, Wilbur, Clarence, Troy, and Mr. Painter. Mentions trips, a painter, and a day of sorrow or illness.
Logan City Board of Health met at City Hall with new member Mrs. Claude Hammon. Dr H M Boocks reported on pre school examinations showing the healthiest cohort in five years. Mayor Dallas Kinser read a prior inspection report and board planned to implement some recommendations.
Arrangements for a Townsend picnic at Rock Stall farm Sunday August 4 are complete. The speaking program includes Rev. C Arnell Jones Mr. Vernon and Attorney William A Lentz Crooksville with others to appear. Music will be provided and a motion picture of the fifth Townsend National convention will be shown that evening.
Leaves Hospital LOGAN-Noel North Falls Township left Cherrington Hospital for home Monday after several weeks of treatment for a foot injury when his ankle fractured in a circular saw accident. Rolland Pierce Nelsonville had a tonsil removal operation on Tuesday. Mrs Lenora Brown Lancaster is recovering from gunshot wounds suffered at the home of St Clair Leffler near Haydenville.
O'Neil Mowery of Logan went to Columbus to enroll at the Red Birds Baseball School at the stadium. The 18 year old outfielder has played for the Logan Mingos and in junior and senior leagues here for several years as the son of Mr and Mrs Gould Mowery.
Logan Grade School band presents a Worthington Park concert at 8 PM directed by James Horwell. Band Mothers and Band Boosters Club members will provide refreshments. This marks the group's second park concert in recent weeks.
Logan Charles D. Lehman of Haydenville had a hernia operation at Cherrington Hospital this morning. Charles Pennington of Columbus was admitted Monday evening but returned home the next day after treatment.
Rev H N Snider led a Sunday night service prompting resentments from Cheshire Methodist members. Gospel Four Quartet of Ilipolis and local families sang. Mrs A W Pullins and daughter visited Pt Pleasant relatives and stayed with Mr and Mrs Fred Root.
A fire originating in a chimney of the Lawhead home in Minersville damaged the kitchen and part of the house last Thursday morning. Neighbors with a bucket brigade kept the flames from the Pom eroy Fire Department arrival. Mrs. Lawhead is 83 and lives alone. Mrs. George Daniels sustained serious injuries after a fall on her porch steps. She required five stitches and was taken to Holzer Hospital with her daughter Ruth. The article also lists local residents visiting, illness, and social events.
Funeral services were held at 2 p m today at Woodard Funeral Home for Benna Vista Johnson 7 who died Monday at Athens State Hospital after long illness Rev Stanley W Wiant led the service and burial was at Olive Branch Cemetery She was aunt of Mrs Charles Meldrim Miss Clara Stone and Charles Stone of Logan and sister of Mrs Ellsworth Foltz Columbus
Mr and Mrs W H Hoon visited relatives in Columbus and Indianapolis where they attended services at Cable Tabernacle. Mrs Jane Radcliff of Albany visited J M McDonald family. Cora Householder of Jacksonville stayed with Milhoans, and Gloucester visits continued with the McDonalds. Doris Milhoan and family kept in touch with Don Withem. Dwight Smith and children visited Carl Welling in Taylor Ridge. The Mohave Desert once was a large freshwater lake.
Hocking County farmers plan to attend the two day Camp Ross Hocking program featuring addresses and recreation. Enrollees include Joe L. Archer Harold Alter N C Bowers Merrill Bailor Mason Campbell J A Cook Paul Collison Edward Foltz Alva L Hankison Paul Harsh Frank Krinn Harold Nihiser Jacob Nihiser Ebert McBroom Frank Peairs Edson Shaw Paul Shaw Pearl Starner Elwood Stiverson and D B Rheinscheid.
Carl T. Sterr of Columbus, a four passenger Stimson monoplane pilot, landed at Hocking County Fairgrounds Tuesday afternoon when his engine misfired on the homeward leg from Athens. Det. George Ryder and Sterr’s family returned to Columbus by bus, then the flyer continued after about an hour. Sterr, 45, has seven years of piloting with 450 flight hours and is the city’s only flying postman.
Local notes report Mr and Mrs Charles Bungard hosting dinner guests Sunday including Rev and Mrs Carl M Sweazy and family from Los Angeles They are on a three week revival and return to California Monday Also Misses Eurera and Geneva Snider of Columbus visited over the weekend with their parents and Mr and Mrs Fred Burchfield plan a ten day vacation. Lester Cecil Logan injured in a motorcycle crash is recovering at home from Lancaster Hospital.
A. F. Risch and his grandson Billy saw a deer on the Risch property near Rockbridge about 3 PM Tuesday. The animal later sheltered in a corn field, with additional sightings by others the same day. Last week Mrs. Tom Anderson reported a deer near her home on Logan Route 4.
Legion team members left Logan at 7 this morning by auto for Canton to face the Cincinnati District winners in the state play afternoon. A win yields a spot against District Three winners in Louisville on Thursday. Players listed include John Buchanan and Tommy Brehm with escorts Albert Leonard and Dr. Walter E. Brehm.
Hundreds attend funeral at the Methodist Church for Gerald W. Lanning local attorney who died suddenly in Columbus last Saturday The Rev Stanley W Wiant preached the sermon and a large floral tribute accompanied by a Logan Post American Legion military escort. Burial followed in Oak Grove Cemetery.
A Columbus youth fell 40 feet from a cliff in Conkle's Hollow late Tuesday afternoon. He sustained scratches and bruises and was taken to Cherrington Hospital after a group camping nearby reported the accident. He walked upon Logan arrival and returned home that evening with his parents.
A religious concert by the exiled Russian Vaseely A. Pet ler family will be held Sunday August 4 at the Lancaster Methodist Camp Grounds. Twelve children will lead all three services.
Funeral services were held in Dickey Church this afternoon for Charles Thompson aged 48 who died at his home Monday. He is survived by his wife and their four children.
Mrs. George Daniels of Pomeroy is reported to be in satisfactory condition at Holzer Hospital after breaking both wrists in a fall from a porch.
Gallipolis hosts the season’s opening bean dinner this Saturday at Vin ton. Organizers invite residents to attend and support community fundraising.
Funeral services for William H. Worman of Charleston were conducted at the Worman homestead in Springfield Township with Rev. W S Westerman presiding. Active pallbearers included Harry Rye Mills John N Mills Judge W R White Cassius Kerr Homer Kerr and Ross Kerr. Flower bearers were Oliver J White Charles T Robinson Ed L Mills and Willard Grover. Interment followed at Mound Hill Cemetery.
Gallipolis pool management announces season tickets will be reduced to half price starting tomorrow. The move aims to attract more families and steady attendance through the summer.
Observers along the Ohio River watched a self propelled grain barge move under its own power on a voyage from Pittsburgh toward the Great Lakes. The all steel 300 by 53 foot craft with a 12 foot hold will carry grain coal or ore and is the first of its kind seen on the river.
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