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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1944
Page
19
Fragmentary OCR lists an ad with rewards and contact hints. Mentions lost items, vehicles including Ford DeSoto Dodge and Hudson, plus delivery and service cues. Provides vague addresses and requests proper mailing details.
Logan April 3 rally will feature James Garfield Stewart mayor of Cincinnati and Paul M Herbert lieutenant governor of Ohio as GOP gubernatorial candidates. The event by Hocking County Women’s GOP Club aims to ease transportation issues with joint appearances and includes a membership contest prizes at Bell Hall meeting March 22.
Red Cross benefit dances planned in Logan for Friday and Saturday night in Bell Hall. Proceeds go to the Red Cross war fund with R B Perkins in charge. Junior dance Friday and adult dance Saturday feature records and a floor show, plus pingpong and cards. Tickets available at Logan merchants.
Miss Helen Evans county home demonstration agent and several lecturers including Mrs Porter Heinlein Mrs Clayton Sater and Mrs Clarence Skinner attended a lecturers short call opening Tuesday night in Columbus under the sponsorship of the Ohio State Grange Association and the Agriculture Extension Service. The course will run through Friday.
Etta Mae Struble is granted a divorce from Wil ford Struble by Judge Phil A. Henderson on grounds of gross neglect of duty. The plaintiff retains furnishings, and the defendant must pay a fixed child support amount until further court order.
Announcement of the marriage of Miss Lucille Anne Sutter of Columbus to Lt. James H. Wood of Atlanta read at Capitol View Baptist Church in Atlanta on February 28. The couple resides in Washington DC where Wood is stationed. Also notes a Logan Squaw Club meeting, a son honored on furlough from army duty, and a Win-or-Lose Contract Club gathering with members listed.
Mrs. Gus Kessler recovers after Monday operation at Grant Hospital. Mrs. W E Faught of Jackson visits family in Columbus. Donald Spang on furlough from Camp MacKall North Carolina with his parents. Corporal Charles Emrick on ten day furlough from Nashville Tennessee with Virgil Emrick family. Mrs. John Parks admitted for surgery at Cherrington Hospital. Sergeant Harrison Litherland on 15 day furlough with wife in Logan. Litherland stationed at Camp Hahn California. Billie Helber admitted for medical treatment at Cherrington Hospital.
Funeral services for William E. Yoder of Columbus husband of Clemence Mollenkamp and former Gore resident who died Monday at Grant Hospital will be Thursday at 2 30 p m from Columbus funeral home with burial in Union Cemetery He was a street car operator for many years and a native of Union County Survivors include his wife a daughter Janita Jane and three brothers
Pvt and Mrs Merlin Rose announce the birth of their daughter on March 20. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs S W Arn iold and Mrs Clyde Rose.
Mr and Mrs Pearl Duffy of Union Furnace celebrate their gold wedding anniversary with an open house from 2 to 5 PM Sunday at their home. Daughters Mrs Harry Hammon of Logan and Mrs Leverett Laine of Lancaster assist with greeting guests. they have three grandchildren. The couple are lifelong Union Furnace residents well known across the county.
Logan residents Mr and Mrs Archie Barnes are among contributors to the Servicemen's Breakfast Fund. The Barnes family has four nephews in the services. Contributions are accepted at the local Selective Service headquarters or at the Victory Center on West Main Street.
Mrs Arlie Brimner of Logan named head of the women s division of the Hocking County Salvage Committee at the state organization meeting in Lancaster on March 29.
John Lawrence Hutchinson and Earnest Wesley Weede of Haydenville have passed their pre induction physicals and been tentatively accepted for service with the U S Navy according to the Hocking County Selective Service Board on Tuesday.
Clarence Fealty loan supervisor for the Emergency Crop and Feed Loan Corp. will be at the county extension office from 9 30 to 10 30 a m March 28 to interview loan applicants, per county extension agent James R Smoot.
Police responded to a minor collision in an alley behind the Chevrolet Garage on Second Street. Meek of Nelsonville and taxi driver Cal Harrison were involved. no injuries were reported.
Logan Elks officers were elected at a Monday night meeting on East Main Street. Frank Brown, Logan postmaster, was chosen exalted ruler. Other officers include Paul Bennington as esteemed leading knight S H Primmer as loyal knight James G Cole as lecturing knight Roger Friend as secretary Leach Henry Larimer as trustee John Kleinschmidt as ryler Frank Brown named delegate to the Grand Lodge L A Riggs as alternate. Installation set for the first regular meeting in April. Tom Price named life member.
Middleport reports the death of Private Carl Edward Roush in action Tuesday February 15 in Italy with the U S Fifth Army. Born 1922, he enlisted 1942, trained at Camp Wheeler and shipped overseas 1943. He left behind parents Earl and Dora with two brothers also serving in the armed forces.
Middleport civic leader H. E. Cook announces the Ladies Public Rest Room project is established and will open Friday morning. Located in the former Gay Livingston studio room in the Citizens National Bank Building, Second Street, it is provided by the Bank with water lights and gas donated by Meigs Water Company Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric and Ohio Fuel Gas. Furnishings are loaned by Howard Ewing of the Middleport Trading Post and the facility will operate daily from morning until 10 p m.
Judge Edgar Ervin grants the divorce to Verlie D Bowen from John M Bowen. Personal property and real estate in her name are restored to the plaintiff. Grounds cited are gross neglect and extreme cruelty.
A message from relatives confirms the death of Mrs. Phil King at Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati. Mrs. King, born Caroline Houck, was sister of Mrs. J. Grubble of Pomeroy and George Houck of Hemlock Grove.
Carlisle Tucker of City, Pa., has volunteered for a pre-induction physical exam with Moby County Selective Service Board and will be included in a future contingent.
Mr and Mrs Raymond Thomas of Long Bottom announce the marriage of their daughter Juanita to Willia L Will of Pomeroy R D The ceremony occurred at Reverend D H Sharp Greenfield Ohio on February 10 1944 with Mrs D H Sharp and Miss Ruth Sharp as witnesses The couple left for a brief northern honeymoon and reside with Will s mother temporarily Juanita continues work at Elberfeld s Store in Pomeroy where she has been employed two years. The bride and groom plan to reside locally.
The Central PTA met at the schoolhouse in Pomeroy on Monday evening. Third and Fourth Grades performed programs with songs and a play titled Little Mumbo and the Lion. Mrs Helen Nease and Miss Margaret Ella Hysell taught the classes. Supt W A Smith screened the film Pop Rings the Bell. The group voted and donated $10 to the Waw Fund of the American Red Cross.
Middleport Band Boosters voted to give 25 to the Red Cross after a PTA meeting Monday night. Mrs. George as president named Mrs. Owen, Mrs. Roscoe Wise, and Edgar Allensworth to a nominating committee to report in April. Band director Mr. Stopp announced plans for in uniform band photos and the spring concert on April 16.
William Lowe of Midd elport was elected president of the Meigs County Fish and Game Association at a recent meeting. The annual banquet was postponed. a brief business session elected Jacob Hartenbach as vice president and Norman Kloes as secretary treasurer. The outgoing president Arthur Skinner will enter military service in a few weeks. Willard Ashworth remains secretary treasurer and now works in Akron.
Pvt Billie Marie Hawley daughter of Mr and Mrs W M Hawley Third St left Saturday for New Mexico after a fifteen day fur lough with her parents She describes New Mexico as a land of enchantment and serving as Air WAC at Kirtland Field Albuquerque states that Army life with its clean morale strict routine and restrictions makes it more interesting educational and picturesque.
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