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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1945
Page
16
Logan report by Dr. H G Southard Hocking County health commissioner urges germ free utensils in eateries to prevent disease and spread of colds scarlet fever mumps measles and sore throats. The May report lists activities in education sanitation communicable disease field nursing visits and medical administration with numerous inspections and tests.
Mr and Mrs Barton Hall of East Main Street receive word that their son Cpl Barton S Holt has landed in New York Sunday. He served with Headquarters Company First Army overseas since December 1943. A Logan High School 1941 honor student and editor of the Aerial, he is due to arrive in Logan this week.
Logan social page reports Racine Rochester to wed James F J O Connell in an open church ceremony June 23 at St Johns. Miss Rochester works in probate court. O Connell is with Home Packing Co in Terre Haute. Also notes Hartington Class gathering, Girl Scout camping plans, and various service members' leaves, arrivals, and honors from Logan area.
Logan speaker Charles W. Westerman will address the Townsend Club at the evening rally. Special music comes from the Welch Sisters of Lancaster and the old time Tiddlers. A pot luck supper will follow the program.
LOGAN Frank R. Larimer was named probation officer by Judge E L Ewing. He started Saturday, succeeding Mrs. Wayne Ball whose resignation took effect Friday. Larimer, a former Hocking County deputy sheriff, served three years before Navy service of one year and honorable discharge May 22, 1945.
Dr James Oscar Boyd of New York was the Logan Rotary Club dinner speaker Monday evening at the White House. His talk titled The Near East drew on sixteen years in the East. Clarence Heine arranged the event with guests O H Farrar Mount Gilead principal and Anthony Toerner hosting at his home.
The clerk of courts reports one new motor vehicle sale in Hocking County in May. Eighty six used car sales filed. Sixty nine mortgages and eighty six mortgages cancelled. Total recruits amounting to $138.00 with $93.90 paid to the county and $45.00 to the state.
Police chief Sol Ellin announced that dog owners who fail to keep their dogs on their premises will be arrested and arraigned. Despite the quarantine, many dogs remain at large. Three Logan residents are undergoing Pasteur treatment after rabid dog bites as the county wide dog quarantine continues.
Bond sales figures show Series Equata totaling 246750.00 with 101216.25 sold to date and 145533.78 remaining. The log notes bond totals for Logan wartime issue with near term uptake and outstanding balance.
Logan Post of the American Legion and the Auxiliary will hold a joint meeting Thursday at 6 30 pm. A pot luck dinner will be served and Rossiter Williams post commander of Onlo will speak. Clyde Huffines of West Logan was arraigned on assault and battery charges filed by his wife, Rebecca, with a guilty plea and a $10 fine plus costs.
Arraigned Sunday in Mayor Weltner's Logan court were Mrs Tom McCutchin and C F LaFollette, arrested by city police Saturday evening. Both were fined $3 and costs for intoxication and disorderly conduct respectively.
In 1935 officials of Pomeroy National Bank and county agricultural agents promoted broiler production to lift incomes. By 1941 broilers sold weekly matched yearly 5,000 annual output, with farmers earning profits and loans repaid. Bank support expanded herds, adding 1,000 beef cows and breeding stock through 1944, boosting farm prosperity.
Charles Hayden, a guard at Parkersburg Rig and Reel, faced a mayoral hearing after pleading guilty to intoxication and destruction of property. He was fined 94.50 dollars and returned to Meigs County Jail for inability to pay. Hayden had been jailed in Middleport after arrest by Chief Adams for intoxication, during which he set fires to mattresses and bedclothing, and damaged jail facilities.
The Minersville advisory council met Friday evening with Mr and Mrs Henry Whipple and nine families present. They unanimously backed slow time arrangements, discussed holiday impacts on local businesses in Pomeroy, and closed with a social hour featuring group singing and refreshments for numerous local families and residents.
Howard K. Ewing known as How ard the Trager purchased the Huber Building on the corner of Second and Mechanic Streets in Pomeroy from Mrs. Elizabeth Huber and Mrs. Mary Huber. The one story brick building sits between Kroger’s Super Market and Major Clover Farm Grocery. Four storerooms house Tewksbury Barber Shop Meier’s Shoe Repair Shop Watson’s Dry Cleaning and Press Shop and the Thrift Shop. No changes to building or tenants are planned as the purchase was an investment.
Gallipolis notes recount visits by Miss Florence Kerr dean of Women’s Clubs at a state convention in Oxford and Columbus and the election of Miss Ethel Maud Young as treasurer. The item lists local personal updates, including travels of W T Comer family, Clair Kimball’s trip, and various Gallipolis visitors and residents with mentions of places like Vinton Langsville Cheshire Patriot and the Davis Shuler Company.
Senate Finance Committee debated restoring allocations cut from a $391,499.96 biennial bill. Bryan P. Sandles urged a $240,819 appropriation to resume the State Fair if Army releases the grounds by year end. The money would revert if the fair is not held. Frank L. Raschig and Leonard J. Stern argued for a $224,470 biennial appropriation to fund a full water supply improvement plan.
Columbus Ohio att orney general Hugh S Jenkins ruled that merchants and operators of public places cannot obtain insurance to shield them from civil rights violation damages. The opinion to Walter Dressel state insurance superintendent says such policies would encourage willful violations of the civil rights statute and undermine penalties imposed by law.
Milton T. Start Jr., 17, died Sunday evening in Columbus after a motorcycle crash south of the city on Lockbourne Road caused a fractured skull. Son of Milton T. and Ruth Start, former Mercerville residents, his body was taken to Grandparents Ellsworth and Mrs Swain. Funeral at Mercerville Baptist Church Wednesday with Rev. Cremeens officiating. burial at Ridgelawn Cemetery.
Gallia County families receive word from the War Department that Staff Sgt. John Jeffers, long listed as missing, has been released to U.S. military control from a German prison and will be sent home when transport is available. His family also notes another son with Patton’s Third Army and a son in naval training.
Gallipolis report states Mrs Anna Gates White president of the Gallipolis Business and Professional Women's Club was taken to Mt Carmel Hospital Columbus after nasal hemorrhages following travel for the State Federation of Business and Professional Women meeting. Miss Ethel Young accompanied her to Columbus and visited Sunday night before leaving. White hoped to return home soon.
Bobby White Lewis Stiverson and Paul Smith left Monday for Knoxville Tennessee to be employed at the Afcoa plant of the Aluminium Company of America. The firm had advertised for help and preferred high school students. Mrs Virgil Benson of Rio Grande served as matron of honor at the wedding of Margarine Barker and Albert H Wardner in Columbus on Sunday May 20 at St John Evangelical Church. The Rev A E Klick read the marriage service.
Cleveland tied its coldest June 4 in 74 years as Milton W. Davis reported the temperature at midnight at 43 degrees and lingering near that level after dawn. Columbus also logged 43 and Newark 44, marking national records for the date.
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