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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1940
Page
12
Logan Athens area announces a conservation laboratory course for teachers from June 13 to July 18 at Ross Hocking camp. Observations and lab work focus on conservation with six hours of undergraduate college credit. Expected enrollment ~135 from counties. contact Superintendent Samuel H. Dillon.
The Shade P T A will hold its annual bazaar Friday evening March 22 with hot dogs pop ice cream and homemade candy for sale. The event features a quilt prize and a play Here Comes Charley with cast members listed along with local guests and church group notes.
Logan with a law change on coroner qualifications Vance Brian the incumbent plans to run again He did not file in the primary but said he will seek write in support on the Democratic ticket Brian has served two terms as coroner.
Logan area unemployment compensation payments fell sharply in February from January values. Total payments reached 5 242 worth 45 517 29 dollars, a 129 percent drop in amount and 124 percent drop in payments. New claims totaled 277, down 37 percent from January, while 304 first beneficiaries rose 23 percent. Average weekly benefits were 9 64 dollars for total and 4 40 for partial. Job placements totaled 47, down 4 percent from January but up 42 percent from February 1939.
Plans for the Southeast Ohio District conference of the Ohio Congress of Parents and Teachers are completed for the Methodist Church in Logan. Notable speakers include Mrs. C Tracy LaCost and Mrs. W Verne Buchanan with district representatives presiding and a full program on Education for Happy Living.
CMTC blanks for Logan-C.M.T.C enrollments have been received by the county chairman and are distributed on request. Clinton Webb oversees enrollments. Eligibility requires ages 17 to 21 and fitness. Camping runs July 2–31 and August 2–31. Minimum weight 108 pounds and height 60 inches, with several named enrollees listed for camp work. Physicals by listed physicians in Laurelville Murray City and Logan.
Three surgeries were performed at Cherrington Hospital over the weekend. Nancy Beal of S High Street is in favorable condition after an appendicitis operation Sunday morning. Saturday night Lois Marshall and Mary Summell of Logan had similar operations and are recovering satisfactorily.
Logan listing of marriage licenses includes Robert E. Tomlinson 21 salesman Logan and Marianne Eckel 19 Columbus. Giant water lilies provide landing places for birds as they roam the huge six foot leaves and remove insects.
In Hocking County 105 candidates filed for committee posts on both parties with 59 Democrats and 46 Republicans. The lists name district by district, including many incumbents and open seats across Logan, Benton, Falls, Green, Laurel, Marion, Perry, Salt Creek, Starr, and Murray City, with several withdrawals noted. Democrats designate delegates to the state convention Magdaline Judy and others. alternates Cleo Haley and others.
Members of the Saturday Club met at Miss Alice Genevieve Poston's home near Logan for a Saturday afternoon gathering. Mrs. Carlos Gaffin led the business, and a paper on Japan's Silent Millions was read before a two course buffet supper hosted by Miss Minnie Moore and Mrs. W. B. Lacock.
Local logan players posted solid results at the duplicate contract tournament in Columbus. Mrs. Paul Sanderson and Mrs. J R Hankison led the Logan group with 273 1 2 points while Fred Burchfield and Dayton Schultheiss placed second, and Mrs. Dallas Kinser with Mrs. W D Bassett finished third in overall standings. The tournament high reached 373 1 2 points.
East End Needle Club met Saturday evening at Maple Street home of Mrs Samuel H Bright. Dinner at 7 30 featured contests and games with winners Mrs Paul Fox Mrs Amos Ellinger and Mrs Russell Poling. Mystery sisters exchanged gifts. Next meeting set for two weeks at Mrs Foxs home.
Bernard Factor and sister Hilda of Lancaster visited Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Geiger in N Spring Street. Frank Harden and Mrs. Buellaby visited in Columbus. Hazel Barbee from Toledo schools visits her ill father L A Barbee. James Higgins and daughter Kathleen of Akron visited C B Dona hue and A J Curl. June Grooms from this city spends Easter break at Easton with friends, then Philadelphia and New York. Jack Buntz and Curtis of Newark spent weekend in Logan with local families.
The First Presbyterian Church schedules its annual congregational meeting at the church on the evening of March 28 with a family supper planned. Norway hosts over 20,000 silver fox farms, producing the bulk of such pelts in Europe.
Harrisonville social column records the March Friendship Circle meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Lee with ten members. Several visits and family gatherings are noted, plus Lodge activity and a Logan car sales report for March.
Logan Post American Legion has finalized plans to observe the organization birthday on Tuesday evening. A committee prepared the program and will preside at the event.
The Rev. Cecil Harding Jones announces Holy Week services at First Presbyterian Church. Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. includes communion preparation with the Deanville Choir. Good Friday 12:30 to 3:00 p.m. at the Methodist Church with Presbyterain Choir. A cantata 7:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian Church followed by benevolence offerings. Easter sunrise at 6:00 a.m. sponsored by the Junior Choir and Easter worship at 10:30 a.m.
Mrs Ruth Bloom of Logan has been confined to her home for more than a week due to illness.
Mrs. Emily Levy has moved three times within Salt Lake City, but her mail keeps arriving at the same street number 453. She has lived at 453 Fourth East Street, then 453 Blair Avenue, and now 453 East South Temple Street.
Logan Wayne Whitcraft of this city received a letter from Thomas McCaw head of the aid for aged department of Ohio directing him to report for duty at the local office Saturday. He will serve as investigator earning 110 dollars monthly, provisional until civil service examination.
Harold Higgins of Columbus will lecture on lighting at the Logan Camera Club meeting at 7 30 Thursday evening in the American Legion Hall. Higgins had four pictures accepted in the seventh international salon in New York, bringing his salon acceptances to 15 since January.
Logan and Hocking County Pioneer Group members traveled to Athens for a district meeting. The delegation included Mr and Mrs Paul Bennington and many Hocking County residents such as Marjorie Hartman Pauline Shaffer Margaret McBroom Margaret Stone Mary Piper Ruth Rheinscheid Thelma Mowery Mary Blum Georgia Primmer Ralph Masure Carl Griffith Charles Rauber and others.
Jim North of Ward Township travels to Columbus tonight to compete in the state golden gloves in the heavy weight division after winning the district. Local promoter Herman Sheline accompanied him to Columbus and has received a shield and a golden glove for North. The awards will be presented Monday.
Logan W. E. Evans of Carbon Hill, a former county commissioner, was admitted to a Columbus hospital Friday for treatment after a fall in his store caused a head injury. Hospital reports say the condition stems from a sinus infection.
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