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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1939
Page
12
The six week Leadership Training School in Logan closed Tuesday evening after enrolling 162 with an average attendance of 141. The International Board of Christian Education will credit 110 students in two courses. Regular classes were held on Tuesday with a young people consecration meeting.
Logan area report notes Worley Merritt visiting his influenza patient mother at Cherrington Hospital, while his mother recovers from a December crash. Herbert Smith receives a blood transfusion. Robert Matheny remains seriously ill from pneumonia after an auto crash. Dismissals include Mrs. Willard Leffler, Frank Hawk, and Mrs. Joseph Trevoto after recent operations.
Logan County band rehearsals began Sunday at Murray City and will meet every two weeks until May 5 when the instrumental music festival is held at Union Furnace. The next session is April 2 at Carbon Hill. Directors are James Horwell Melvin Harbarger and Harold Aspenwall.
Relatives of Joe L. Archer of Laurelville report improvement at a government hospital in Chicago. He wrote a card to his young daughters this week and hopes to return home soon.
Logan notes include a Wednesday trip by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad to Logan and nearby Hocking Valley points. The Lodi Township Ohio annual financial report covers the fiscal year ending Dec 31 1938 with receipts total 4558.85 and payments of 5412.56. debt listed at 981.00. Social items recount Book Club meeting, Just Us Girls, Amicas play contests, stork shower, and Logan person als with moves to Athens Barberton and Zaleski.
Logan records show the first meeting of LOGAN-Common Pleas in Hocking County on March 20 1818 at Thomas Pullen’s home on W Main St presided by William Wilson with judges Biddle and Pullen. Royal Converse named clerk. Abraham Bitcher naturalized. Thomas Ewing first prosecuting attorney. Dutton Lane recorder. Rev Benjamin Webb licensed to wed. Grand jury listed with Aaron Young as foreman and others.
Ohio University male quartet under Dr. Clarence Robinson will join the Hocking County Vocal Music Festival in Rockbridge on April 13. Miss Janet White the county music supervisor said the quartet accepted the invitation on Wednesday. Joseph A. Leeder of Ohio State University will direct the choruses.
Logan reports joint Lenten home prayer services to be held Friday hosted by five denominations led by Rev C W Graham. Homes listed include 691 Church St 548 Henrietta Ave 286 N Market St 368 N Orchard St 131 W Second St 377 N Walnut St 198 S Mulberry St 305 E Second St and 505 E Hunter St with various leaders noted. Mrs Russell Dupler of Enterprise is ill with acute indigestion.
Oak Grove residents recall January February and March birthdays with a Green and White St Patrick celebration at York Grange Hall. A 26 member degree team led by Captain Katherine Warehime performed first and second degree work for 26 candidates.
A barefoot boy in a moral tale is dressed by his mother for Sunday School and Easter. Afterward he wears his stiff clothes while going fishing, learning to prefer his own new clothes.
Carbon Hill community reports births with Gerald and Pauline Kimble announcing twins born March 19 to the Wilkinson family. Local visits include Mr and Mrs Edward Smith returning from Lancaster and others visiting relatives in Nelsonville Zanesville and New Philadelphia. Ward Rural High School students excel in music and prepare for a April 6 play.
Logan Ohio University Home Economics Club heard Ruth Stone of Logan discuss Home Demonstration Work in Hocking County. Also noted: proper popping of high grade popcorn can increase volume at least twentyfold.
Auditor Kenneth Fitzgerald reported that 422 parcels were advertised with 275 tracts redeemed and 147 redeemed, generating total receipts of 2 737 01. Advertising and costs totaled 481 30 and 150 00 respectively, leaving 2 255 71 for the county and subdivisions.
Logan The Operetta The Belle of Bagdad will be staged in Logan High Auditorium this evening. Scenery designed by Miss Lucille Sutter art teacher and built by Art Club members will provide an Oriental background. Aided by Bill Wolfe Bob Snyder Wanda Lee Williams Dorothy Jean Shriner Jean Scheibell Jean Butterfield Mollie Martin Rosemary Thomas Frances Stone Ray Van Atta Bernard McGraner Jack Smith Billy Kimble Joe Matheny Dale Engle Bud Fox Willard Seckman.
Rapid WPA progress on Mulberry Street as the square between Hunter and Main is lifted and new brick pavers are laid. Repaving began at the north end and will extend to the C and O Railroad, improving the thoroughfare.
West Logan health officials announce two families removed from scarlet fever quarantine. Only diphtheria quarantine remains in Good Hope Township. Dr. W B Lacock notes scattered whooping cough and chickenpox cases districtwide.
Arrangements are being made for a Junior High Band concert in June under James Horwell. He said the grade school band would offer a concert in May. Horwell is preparing the grade band for the Memorial Day parade.
Miss Sue Gallagher died Friday in Minneapolis. Burial was held Wednesday at Oak Grove Cemetery. She was daughter of the late Sheriff John Gallagher and had ties to the McBride and Dicken families in Logan.
Two babies were born at Cherrington Hospital on Wednesday morning. Mr and Mrs Bert Munthe of Nelsonville are the parents of a son and Mr and Mrs Harold Dixon of Nelsonville are the parents of a daughter.
Logan News reports Cyrus Rochester underwent an operation at a Columbus hospital on Wednesday and is recovering. He has been in Columbus since Saturday for preparation. Fairfield County hosts a Hocking Farm Women achievement meeting attended by Ruth Stone and several local members. An old science note notes a starfish learns without a brain.
Logan High School Band will take part in the district contest at Portsmouth late next week. Friday features soloists and ensembles, Saturday includes the band and Boys Glee Club. James Horwell will direct. Band Boosters Club to elect officers at a prior meeting announced by president Dallas Kinser.
LISTOWEL Ontario doctors report Betty Lud wig born November 30 weighed one pound thirteen ounces and has grown to two pounds while housed in an incubator and a super heated room. In another note 78 year old Adolph Schaad refused to withdraw twelve hundred dollars to prove himself substantial and walked away with the teller.
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