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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1961
Page
7
The Logan A basket dinner at Rachelmacher Park gathered members of the Jerry and Jane Thompson family for its annual reunion. Officers named include Lawrence Thompson as president Nellie Linton as vice president and Dottie Tucker as secretary treasurer.
Logan police cited Charles Mettler for intoxication and resisting arrest in March 1959. He and Dewey Pickett were jailed for non payment of old fines after arraignment. Pickett was fined 15 dollars and costs for reckless operation on E Front St. Also cited for reckless operation were Robert Lehman and William Henry, each fined 15 dollars and costs. John C. Craig received 10 dollars and costs for failure to stop within an assured clear distance.
Judge and Mrs Harley Meyer and son Fritz returned from a week with relatives in Reedsburg Wisconsin There they attended the Reedsburg High School alumni reunion marking the 40th anniversary of the class Mayer and his classmates In a class of 54 twenty seven were present Thirteen graduates began as kindergartners and completed all grades Heine the Meyers elder son returned from Ohio State University for the summer months with his family.
Miss Bonnie Wright has enrolled in the LaSalle summer school at Niagara Falls New York and will spend the summer with her maternal grandparents Thomas and Mrs MacDonald. She traveled there with her parents Arthur and Mrs Wright and her brother Thomas who remained for visits with the MacDonalds and Mr Wright's parents.
LOGAN The Falls Gore 4-H Club met at the Gore school with Sharon Green leading the pledge. All members attended and enjoyed refreshments served by Linda Angle and Brenda Proctor.
Mr and Mrs Paul Hansel and daughter Ann of Phoenix Arizona former Logan residents visit with Mrs Kittie Hansel on East Main Street and Mrs Lydia Brown Logan Route 4 along with other relatives and friends. Mr and Mrs George Blosser and four children return to their North Warner Avenue home after an eight day vacation at Miami Beach.
More than 250 members and guests attended the mother-daughter banquet of the Women's Society of World Service at the Logan EUB Church. Mrs. Fred Hugh gave welcoming remarks and opened with invocation. A "Toast to Mother" by Miss Sharon Good led to a "Toast to Daughter" by Mrs. Fred Good. Mrs. Stanley Dunkle directed group singing. A WSWS play titled Memories featured many participants including Mrs. John Liff and Tammy Sue Liff, Mrs. Glendon Shriner and daughter, and numerous others listed by name.
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Hoffman of Murray City Ohio announce the birth of a son on May 24 at Mount St. Marys Hospital. They name him Gregory Gene. Grandparents are Kenneth Hoffman of Murray City and Larry Lanning of Chicago Illinois. Great grandparents include Effie Bateman, Lawrence Lanning of Murray City and Charley Hoffman of Nelsonville.
Carl M. Newman, of Buchtel, has been promoted to specialist four in Germany where he serves as a medical aidman with the 79th Artillery. He entered the Army in September 1959, completed basic at Fort Knox and arrived overseas last August. He is 18 and attended Buchtel York High School.
Hocking County health nurses Mrs. Marie Dupler and Mrs. Margaret Sheets head a three day workshop on Family Centered Nursing Care at Lake Hope. The session opened today and will conclude Thursday.
Logan locals note the Natchettes 4-H Club held its third meeting at Dianne Wade’s home with thirteen members answering roll call by making a third. They worked on their outdoor cookery project and planned to meet next with Mary Ann Stover.
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