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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1944
Page
12
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In Logan High gym the second round of the Class B tourney sent McArthur to edge Oak Hill 32 31 while Racine beat Ames Bern 34 25 and Murray City toppled Mercerville 51 17 advancing to quarterfinals. Cox led McArthur with 16 points as Slagle and Miller paced Oak Hill and Racine kept a late lead after a strong start.
Logan City officers reported an unusually quiet weekend with no arrests or investigations and no accidents. In an earlier game Racine edged A B down the stretch before a late surge by Circle and Kiesling helped the winners. Murray City crushed Mercerville as Snyder led Tigers with 14 and Wilson added 11.
West Columbia notes record Carl Knopp family moving to Mason City Kaylong R D. and Jack Coleman visiting Middleport. Harold Young now Messenger paper carrier. Jess Stewart death brings Viola Foreman Nannie Johnson home. George Frances and Marie in Point Pleasant for business. Otto Miller family welcome a son at Mason Clinic Feb 28. Pvt Walter Carpenter travels to camp after visiting wife. John Leitweler and Burris family visit Linden. Ted Riley visits Lenard Jos34 Burris. Byron Fry released from Holzer Hospital to Kaylong RD. Mrs Helen Tillis attends funeral of Jess Stewart. Lucy Riley Claudia Milller and Aunt Fannie Hudson visit Mason Clinic.
Paul A Schrader announced a formal reopening for Court No 139 Order of the Maccabees at 7 30 p m Monday in lodge rooms on West Main Street. Regular business will be discussed. Nora Cable named director and Mrs Mary Purdum district deputy. Schrader is field representative of Fairfield and Hocking Counties.
Knights of St John will host a social on Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the parish school hall. Proceeds go to the Red Cross drive. Members invite attendance and community support.
Saturday Club at the White House on March 4 heard Miss Minnie Moore present a paper on synthetic rubber tracing its history from natural rubber to modern developments. The meeting included a roll call review, a $10 Red Cross donation, and a two course lunch for twenty members and guests.
Logan Floyd D Kitchen has been inducted into the service and assigned to Fort Sill Oklahoma, according to information received by friends and relatives here.
Chauncey regular monthly city council meeting scheduled for tonight at 7 in the mayor's office of the City building. Members listed include Joseph Cline president Walter Kovaleski Arthur J. Smith William Leffler John Smart and Frank Ferrer.
Mrs Ed Mundy hosted Pleasant Hill Ladies Aid with vice president Mrs Mabel Connors in charge of the business session and Zella Mundy leading a program of songs and Bible questions. Ruth Poling, Pearl Wolfe, Katherine Mundy and Zella contributed music. Thirteen members and several guests enjoyed lunch. Next meeting slated for April 6 at Mrs Ralph De Logan. Separate notes: Mrs Jack Spencer hosted a dinner and misc shower at Dorothy Roberts home. Attendees included Clara Graham Eileen Rutherford Dorothy Roberts Ruth Riggs Eunice Spencer and Mrs John Eberst Jr with gift from Margaret Rechenwald who could not attend.
Mrs. Harley Amerine hosted Amica Club members and guests at Front Street home Friday night with refreshments served by Ms Jean Amerine and Mrs Nancy Newton. Next meeting set for Friday April 7 hosted by Mrs Fred Stracke. Presbyterian Women plan church meeting Wednesday at 7 30 p m with Fourth Ward hostesses and officer elections to follow. J C Penney manager B O Nixon attends a Cincinnati convention. Cpl Herschel Anderson on furlough from Camp Barkeley Texas visits family. Jacob Fox on furlough from U S Army in Pampa, Texas. Mrs John Lambert returns to Columbus after surgery at White Cross Hospital and is reported in favorable condition.
Broadwell residents attended the funeral of Will Williams in Junction City. Local trips included visits to Marietta and Huntington for army exams. Christian Endeavor met with Miss Mary Frances Parsons leading, Rev. Guy White preaching. Visitors and guests came from Athens Amesville Nelsonville and Columbus to Broadwell homes.
George W. Belton 83 died when struck by a northbound New York Central passenger train on a railroad trestle near the James Mullins farm north of Chauncey. Funeral services are set for Tuesday at 2 PM in Morristown Holiness Church. Burial in Hilltop Cemetery Millfield. Belton, who lived near the Freeport Mine, is survived by his wife Ella, six stepchildren and four grandchildren.
Rev Gilbert Courtney of the Church of Christ at Chauncey conducted funeral services Sunday afternoon for Mrs Sarah Davis age 87 who died Thursday Burial was in Green lawn Cemetery Mrs Davis is survived by four children Silas at home Mrs Ris ley Athens and Mrs Etta Schoon over and Joseph Davis of Chaun ce y She also leaves several grandchildren and great grandchildren
Mrs William Jan sen of Jacksonville suffered a broken left arm in a fall Saturday night near her home. X ray taken at the office of Dr C N Sanders where the fracture was reduced.
Mr and Mrs D O Davis have purchased the home of Mr and Mrs Charles Eberst at the north end of Wood Street. Eberst is a former Logan Junior High School faculty member now employed at Anchor Hocking Glass Corp Lancaster. The Davises sold their East Second Street home to O H Bryan Union Furnace. Mr Davis serves as superintendent of the Union Furnace schools.
Logan Hocking welfare workers led by Probate Judge E L Ewing will attend an all day probation conference at Ohio University in Athens on Wednesday. The featured speaker will be Mrs Lucia Bing from the State Department of Public Welfare, speaking on Juvenile Court Work with Delinquent Children in Southeastern Ohio from the Angle of Community Relations.
Logan Hocking County Commissioners named Floyd Stiff of Murray City to the county planning commission replacing Charles Seidenfield, also of Murray City, who resigned. Committees for the commission, named last week, have been announced.
Chauncey residents including Mr. and Mrs. Jack McCafferty and children and Mr. and Mrs. Willie Zeigler attended a basketball tournament in Logan. Updates report Mrs. Christine Brown recovering at home after Sheltering Arms Hospital surgery, Mae Wade Fallon visiting Millfield, and the Hartleys plans to move to Glouster. residents Mrs. Edna Branham and Mrs. Ethel Scott visiting Detroit families.
CHAUNCEY March meeting of the Friendship Class will be Wednesday night at the Rice Thomas home. Mrs. Margery Bennett, class president, will conduct the meeting. A business session will precede a social hour with refreshments. All class members are urged to attend.
James Kisor Jr son of James and Glenna Kisor of Millfield was hurt Friday after a fall from a horse at his grandparents farm in Sand Ridge. He required two stitches for a forehead wound and eight stitches for a left arm elbow area.
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