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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1943
Page
10
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A Logan County survey signals potential teaching shortages for the coming school year. Superintendent S. H. Dillion says county staffing is not severely reduced yet, but vacancies may appear as the term opens. City schools expect vacancies at the next board meeting due to recent marriages and resignations.
Logan farmers in Hocking County lacking soybeans can plant buckwheat as an emergency crop says James R. Smoot county extension agent. A one day crop of the hardy variety will replace beans and aid the county food production program. Inquiries should go to the county extension office by mail or in person as interest grows.
All farmers and potato growers in the county are invited to attend a meeting Monday night at the Court House. Earl Tussing, extension potato specialist from Ohio State University, will discuss the care, storage and marketing of potatoes.
Logan resident Technical Corporal Fred A. Murray, a former attorney, is stationed with the U S Army at Shenango Pennsylvania. He spent the weekend visiting his wife and family here. Murray is engaged in classification work at the Pennsylvania military post.
Logan resident Betty Moriarty has taken a clerical post in the Ohio Society for Crippled Children in Columbus. She started her duties last week in the office, marking a new chapter in her employment.
Mrs. Leverett Voris of Logan is reported improving at Grant Hospital after undergoing an emergency appendectomy Saturday afternoon.
Birthday anniversary for Mrs. Minnie Koons announced with a surprise card shower invitation for Chauncey and Massillon area relatives. Also, Ladies Aid quilting at the Methodist Church all day Wednesday. Legal notice details include affidavit for service by publication in Ohio and a missing address for defendants.
Local notes record furloughs and letters from Corning area families. Charles Kintz returns to camp Pittsburg California while Rodney Fitch and Stephen Benedict work in New York Central and Corning Public Schools respectively. Local graduates undergo army screening at New Lexington and Fort Hayes. blood donors from several towns participate. Births birthdays and employment changes are noted along with a church honor roll dedication and social events.
Funeral services for John Fulton 80 a Bailey Run native who spent life in Athens County were held Saturday at 2 p.m. in Chauncey First Church of Christ with Rev. Gilbert Courtney officiating. Burial followed in Nye Cemetery. Survivors include two sons Guy and Ray and two daughters Inez Burdette and Carol Wyatt. a son William was killed earlier. Fulton died after a fall from a tree days earlier.
Members of the Albany Methodist Sunday School Sunbeams and Winners class with teacher Miss Lucille Wingett picnicked at Miss Ronda Russell's home on Friday. After dinner they played croquet and baseball and sang together. Present were Anita Knowlton Ann Stock Joanne Elliott Marjory Miller Jean Van Dyke Bobby Tewksbury Teddy Tewksbury Dewayne White Ralph Bratton Charles Wingett Marion Hoover Howard Macfarlan Jimmie Milligan Albert Milligan and the hostess.
Mrs Jessie Fiske and daughter Frances and Chauncey family relocate to Akron for work. Mr and Mrs Isaac Palmer hosted relatives including Mrs Palmer s mother and a sister and brother. Mrs Charles Parish and daughter Carol and Dan Mates of Springfield visited Chauncey. Myrtle Tippie and grandchildren Mary Ella Mae Tip pie and Jessie Johnson and daughters Madeline and Betty from Chauncey dined with Mr and Mrs Crate Morrison in Murray City. Mrs E S Koons of Athens attended the funeral of her cousin John Fulton in Chauncey.
Coonville Local Union 270 held a regular meeting on Friday June 25 electing officers and committee members. John Harkless was chosen president with Everett Bryan secretary and Harry Dickerson treasurer. Committees include Burial George Carter Ellis Ackinson Louis Davis Hospital G R McAfee Lew Hutchinson John Malone House Floyd Walters Garrett Ogg Auditing Oscar Bollinger Floyd Walters Lew Hutchinson Check Weightman Safety Everett Bryan Morris Dupler John Malone and Janitor John Giffon.
Chauncey Pvt Lewis Palmer stationed at Baytown Texas arrived on a 10 day furlough to visit his parents Mr and Mrs Isaac J Palmer of Mill Street Chauncey. He also called on his wife in Cleveland and his sister Mrs Maude Kaufman and was accompanied home by his wife and sister Betty Lou Palmer.
A party was hosted by Betty Lou Palmer at Mill Street with Janet Nicolson Garnet Hartley Shirley Schoonover and Ruth Tepe in attendance. The next gathering will be Wednesday at Shirley Schoonover's home.
Logan residents, adults and children, sought relief from near 100 degree heat at the municipal pool. Officials reported the largest attendance of the season during the current heat wave as Sunday proved the hottest day of the year with highs near 99 to 100 degrees. Weather forecasts offered little immediate relief.
Mrs. Frank Johnston 64, native of Hocking County, died Sunday at her Maxville home after ill health. Funeral 10:30 a.m. Wednesday Harmony A B Church with Rev. H O Davis officiating. Burial in Harmony Cemetery. Survivors: husband Frank. two sons Willis Bremen and Rowe New Straits ville Rural Route. daughter Mrs Clifford Redd Logan. two brothers Amos Huber near Maxville and Simeon Huber Delphos. one sister Mrs George Focht Junction City.
Pvt. Harvey A. Chalfan of Indian Gap Pa. is on an eight day furlough visiting his mother Mrs Lydia M Chalfan and his brothers and sister in Chauncey. He and Mrs Chalfan and Mr and Mrs Pearl Chalfan and family spent Thursday visiting relatives in Vinton County.
Mrs. Mabel Warren of Haydenville pleaded guilty to shoplifting in Logan. She was fined $25 and costs after arraignment before Mayor W Denzil Weltner for allegedly taking merchandise valued at 13 from Elberfeld's department store. Police chief Lewis Reynolds arrested her Saturday afternoon.
Logan County board members will hold a regular meeting Monday night at the Court House headquarters. Registrants will be classified, reclassified and interviewed during the session, a spokesman said.
Logan Sergeant Herbert E. Engle, a former Hocking County youth, receives a medal at Camp Maxey Texas for expert machine gun firing. He previously earned a rifle marksmanship medal according to information received here.
Funeral services for Mrs. Willie May Bush, 73, will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Logan area home of her daughter Mrs. Edgar Hillyer. Rev. Stanley W. Wiant will officiate with burial in Green Lawn Cemetery, Nelsonville, by Heinlein Funeral Service. Survived by husband, son Howard of Murray City, three brothers, and four sisters.
Cpl. Robert Helber has returned to his post at Camp Butner North Carolina after a seven day furlough with his parents Mr and Mrs William Helber near Logan.
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