Taxi License Proposal Leads Logan Council Action
Licensing taxis with a $25 fee and $5000 liability protection was proposed in an ordinance intro duced at council Tuesday. The plan requires front seat passenger limits and monthly police inspections and was sent back to committee for minor changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan
Dallas Kinser
Kinser
Counefl
Indiana
Church St
Charles Ellison
Jacob Bowersock
D. C. Moffett
Parker S. Sniffen
Lloyd Gompf
R. R. Loomis
1733 Automobiles Licensed in County
A total of 1733 automobiles were licensed Tuesday at the local deputy registrar’s office with three days left before the April 1 deadline. Cars must display the new 1939 tags, state registrar C. W. Wallace said.
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Logan
C. W. Wallace
Smallpox Case Prompts Mild Alarm in Murray City
A Murray City resident contracted smallpox while in Meigs County, but Health Commissioner W B Lacock said the risk is limited as many Ward Township residents were vaccinated this year and during the prior campaign.
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Logan
County Health Department
Murray City
Meigs County
W. B. Lacock
Ward Township
Jacksonville Church Classes and Local Society Events
Faithful Class of the M. E. Church to meet at Mrs. A. J. Wallace home Thursday evening. Christian Endeavor of the United Brethren Church will hold a soup sale Thursday March 30. Bake sale planned for Saturday April 1 at Davis Grocery. Numerous residents from Athens Columbus Crooksville and Dayton appear in weekend visits and illness notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacksonville
M. E. Church
A. J. Wallace
Christian Endeavor
United Brethren Church
Davis
Della Irwin
Athens
A. R. Woodgerd
Bill McFarland
White Cross Hospital
Columbus
David Kinder
R. J. Pinnick
Crooksville
J. L. Altman
B. B. Buckley
D. T. Ryan
Julia Tracy
Cecilia Lautersweiler
Joseph
Della Johnson
Eastern Star
Gil Dawson
Billy
Anna Scchmidt
Charles Guinther
John Cox
Pearl Anderson
Dayton
Licensed To Marry Logan Couples In Tuesday Ceremonies
Three marriage licenses issued in Logan district include Rochester Irwin and Myrtle Cave both of South Perry with John Melvan Jones and Rena Pauline Atkinson. Harry William Johnson and Agnes Pauline Kessler of Bremen. Rev C W Graham spoke on Get a Hobby and Live to the Hocking Schoolmasters' Club. The first American almanac was published in 1630 by William Pierce of Cambridge Massachusetts.
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Logan
Rochester Irwin
Versailles
South Perry
Myrtle Cave
John Melvan Jones
Columbus
Richard Jones
Rena Pauline Atkinson
Glouster
Harry William Johnson
Bremen
Luther D. Johnson
Agnes Pauline Kessler
C. W. Graham
Hocking Schoolmasters’ Club
William Pierce
Cambridge
Mass
Birthday Celebrations Make Logan Family News
Mr and Mrs Ted Congrove enjoyed a birthday dinner with 30 relatives and friends. Congrove turned 65 on Friday and Mrs Congreve marks her 57th birthday today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ted Congrove
Mr. Congrove
Congreve
Legion Auxiliary meeting notes and social club details
Mrs. Walter Huffman led the Ameri can Legion Auxiliary meeting at Legion Hall on Monday. Upcoming events include a April 24 hosting of Lancaster Auxiliary and a Spring conference on May 9 at Oak Hill. Gifts to Hocking veterans at Dayton hospital were reported, and two social hour contests produced wins for Mrs. Rowley and Mrs. Anthony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Hufman
American Legion Auxiliary
Legion Hall
Lancaster Auxiliary
Bertha Oberle
Harry Thomas
Florence Bort
Joe Rowley
Roy Anthony
Barton Hall
Huffman
Oak Hill
Hocking Veterans
Veterans Hospital
Dayton
Rowley
Anthony
Frank Walters
Clete Scholl
Sophia Judy
Albert Seabright
Foster Bobo
James Waldron
Winifred Engle
Juries To Be Drawn For April Session
Logan county officials announced that April term juries will be drawn April 8. Judge Phil Henderson said the grand jury would report later in April. No grand jury was called for the January term due to few cases, which will be investigated next month.
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LOGAN
County Grand Jury Commission
Phil Henderson
Ross Funeral Held Sunday At Straitsville
Military funeral services were held Sunday for James Ross Jr. 45 a World War veteran and lifelong New Straitsville resident who died Thursday evening. He served 13 months in France and belonged to Million Post American Legion. Surviving are his parents four sisters and two brothers. Rev W M Rompel led services.
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New Straitsville
James Ross, Jr
France
Million Post
American Legion
James Ross
Blanche
Burgess
Gore
Ella Sawyer
Zanesville
Anna Stubbs
Clara Fletcher
George
John
W. M. Rompel
Richard Donley
John Lawson
Bob Corbett
Columbus
Raymond Hoy
John Jacob
John Alexander
Lucy
Margaret
Lena Blankenship
John Shuttleworth
Thomas Frazure
Rubrey Begland
Campbell, Ky
Hugh Begland
Frank Wallace
Harold Hall
Wesley Kemper
Chester Grandy
Chicago
Joseph Grandy
William Devol
Dotty
Gertrude Strain
Carbon Hill
Edward Lawson
Charles Lawson
Robert Leever
Waverly
Edward
Fred Blankenship
Levi Palmer
Steve Blankenship
Oroville
Annie Lanning
Margaret Edwards
H. B. Blankenship
Donald Lawson
John Newman
Charles White
East Fultenham
Harriett Webb
Cress
John Jacob Hoy
David Hite
Dotty Devol
Alice Wade
M. E. Church
Shawnee
Dan Daugherty
Clarence Gillespie
Pastors Enter Hospital and Prepare Sermons
Logan notes report Rev. Charles M. Bowman underwent an operation and is in a Portsmouth hospital. He formerly served the United Brethren Church at Rockbridge. Rev. W. E. Campbell of Laurelville had an appendicitis operation at Cherrington Hospital. Rev. C. W. Graham of Logan Methodist Church will deliver a Lenten sermon in Columbus Livingston Ave. Methodist Church next Wednesday evening. Mrs. Bella Hyson is ill at home on Warner Ave. after a gallstone attack Monday. she resides with Mr. and Mrs. Bell Miller.
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Euterpean Club
Wilbur Lanning
Main St
R. R. Lanning
Rex Johnson
Iris Lowery
Allen Adams
Howard Kirk
George Clayton Shaw
Scheherazade
Rimsky- Korsakov
Victrola
Alfred Carpenter
the Lark
Glinka
C. S. Clark
India
Shaw
Walkure
Wagner-Bendel
F. Meade Bowen
Wagner
Anthony Toerner
Ohio Federation of Music Clubs
Columbus
Adams
C. S. Clarke
Toerner
Charles Bell
Earl Landis
Odis
Owen
Monte
Willard Landis
Pearl
Stewart
Glen Duffet
Floyd
Bobby
Athens
Logan
C. W. Graham
Logan Methodist Church
Livingston Ave. Methodist Church
Tuberculosis Deaths Listed for Fact Study
Logan officials list 176 tuberculosis deaths in Hocking County since 1918 for a health department study. The data will inform a survey, contact checks, and an upcoming clinic with an X ray team arriving next week to set up equipment.
Langsville News Notes Recap of Weekend Visits
Local notes report numerous weekend visits among Langsville residents and relatives. Families from Columbus Rutland Danville and South Salem shared gatherings while residents celebrated a twenty fifth wedding anniversary and welcomed a new baby boy born March 24 at home.
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Langsville
Clyde McKnight
Columbus
M. S. Phelps
Alpha Barry
Ronald Bails
Carpenter
Kenneth
Ferry
Gerald Arbaugh
Stanley Sheline
B. M. Taylor
Clair Taylor
Earl Tawney
Gallipolis
Elza Brown
Warren Wilcox
J. C. Philips
Rutland
Marjorie Swick
Joe Swick
Danville
A. L. Smith
Okely Smith
Addie Thomas
Carroll Pickens
T. M. Pickens
Bernice Ledlie
Holzer Hospital
J. T. Ledlie
Dale Miller
William Musser, Jr
Musser
Arthur Spires
Dale Wright
Woman Injures Hand in Electric Wringer
Mrs Charles Clayberger suffered a painful injury Tuesday morning when she caught her right hand in an electric wringer. No bones were broken but the hand is badly bruised to the wrist.
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Glouster
Charles Clayberger
Logan Emerick Injured After Vehicle Collision at School
Logan Rob ert Emerick son of Herbert Emerick was injured Tuesday morning when he walked into the moving car driven by Wayne Ball at the school grounds.
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Logan
Robert Emerick
Herbert Emerick
Dicken
Wayne Ball
Rail Time Card and Airplane Service Schedules
A timetable lists East and West bound trains on the Baltimore and Ohio Chesapeake and Ohio and New York Central lines with multiple numbered services and daily exceptions. It also notes Athens Municipal Airport airtaxi service with through airline tickets and specific departure times from Athens in all directions.
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Chesapeake & Ohio
NEW York Central South
NEW York Central
Athens Municipal Airport
Airtax
A. Airlines
Athens West
East
North
New Car Sales in Hocking Reach Record Volumes
Logan records show the largest day's business since the title office opened with fees of 39.60 dollars. March totals indicate 37 new cars sold to county residents and 12 to non residents, the strongest month since 1937. December 1938 had the previous high with 34 cars sold.
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Logan
D. W. Feather
Hocking County
Hocking
Laurel Grange hosts quarterly birthday supper and honors members
Point Rock reports Laurel Grange held its quarterly birthday supper with ice cream and cake. Grover Stout received First and Second Degrees while Emerson Bigony earned Third and Fourth Degrees. Charter members Mrs. Lute Vale and Mrs. Ellen Martin, over sixty four years in the order, attended. Other local notices include illness, visits, and family updates across Union Ridge to Wellston and Dexter.
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Point Rock
Laurel Grange
Grover Stout
Emerson Bigony
Lute Vale
Ellen Martin
J. R. Ogdin
Lewis McLaughlin
Sandra
Hiram Harkens
Union Ridge
Chamberlain, McArthur
Silby Harvey
Betty
New Marshfield
W. M. Morris
Elizabeth Stout
Dexter
I. L. Wood
Huston Bound Over To Grand Jury On Fraudulent Check Charge
Leman Huston pleaded not guilty to issuing a fraudulent check. Magistrate S B Whitehart bound him over to the grand jury on a $500 bond after a check for 16 dollars given to Ray Har per of South Bloomingville allegedly drawn by Ronald Fletcher.
Quarry work more dangerous than mining in England mortality
Mortality records indicate quarry work shows higher danger levels than mining in England, highlighting greater fatality risk for quarry workers. The data contrasts two industries, suggesting safety gaps and need for stricter oversight.
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England
Robert Morgan Named Golf Pro at Logan Club
Logan Hocking Valley Country Club hires 24 year old Robert Red Morgan as golf pro for the season. He comes from Groveport Club after three years as Pat Stanton's assistant and will also run the club house. The board led by president Wilbur Lanning approved the appointment as course improvements exceed 700 dollars this spring with No. 6 tee lengthened and No. 2 green worked on while shrubs and trees are planted and a new fairway mower is purchased.
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Logan—Hocking Valley Country Club
Robert “Red” Morgan
Pat Stanton
Groveport
Wilbur Lanning
Morgan
Logan
William G. Martin
Club House
Owned Land But Did Not Know About It
Carl Engle of Good Hope Township owned a one half acre tract and inadvertently bought an adjacent strip at a recent forfeited land sale. He later learned the property had already been acquired by him in 1934 but not transferred, leaving taxes unpaid. The transfer will now be recorded.
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Logan
Carl Engle
Enterprise
Good Hope Township
Auditor's Office
Girls To Conduct the Junior High Assembly
The Logan Girls Physical Education department will run the Junior High assembly this week on Thursday afternoon instead of Friday. Several members plan to travel to Portsmouth Friday and Saturday. Friday features soloists and ensemble groups while Saturday sends the Logan High Band and the Girls and Boys Glee Clubs to district contests led by music directors James Horwell and Miss Minnie Louise Bowen.
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Logan—Girls
Portsmouth
Logan High
James Horwell
Minnie Louise Bowen
Logan Students to Take Tests Over Three Days
Logan pupils will take tests at the Logan schools next week from Tuesday April 4 to Thursday April 6. Similar exams are planned for pupils in rural schools.
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LOGAN
Easter Services Planned at First Presbyterian Church
Easter Communion will be celebrated on Holy Thursday April 6 at 7 30 p m with a pre service music program by the church choir directed by Harriet Weymueller and Evelyn Underwood at the organ The program includes Prophecy of Resurrection He Was Despised In the Garden There Were Three Crosses There Is a Green Hill Blessed J Calvary and For God So Loved the World.
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Gounod
Dvorak
Rodney
Adams
Canning Demonstration Set For April 4 At School
Mrs Gladys M Ayres extension specialist will conduct a canning demonstration on April 4 at 2 PM in the home economics department of the senior high school. Arrangements are by the local aid for dependent children division with participation by the relief department extension service and old age pension division. Public invitation extended with possible attendance by Mrs Marion H Schoenthal from the state office.
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The
Relief Department
Extension Service
Old Age Pension Division
Will Give Tests LOGAN Sometime in July
Dr. W. B. Lacock and W. F. Smith county sanitary engineer will spend two weeks in a military training camp. Both captains in the reserve corps serve in medical and infantry units. They are expected to be assigned to the same camp for summer field service.
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LOGAN
W. B. Lacock
W. F. Smith
Reserve Corps
Dr. Lacock
Serice
Mr. Smith
Infantry
Medical Corps
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Ohio
Dayton Schultheiss
George T. Miller
Massillon
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Mgr
City Loan and Guaranty Co
N. Court St
Bridge Club
Charles Achauer
Poplar St
Mars
Judson Shriner
Clinton Webb
Lawrence Hack
James Barker
Jess Frasure
H. J. Unverzagt
Stanley Baker
Cr. W. Graham
Arlie Brimner
Virginia Corwin
Robert Fitzgerald
John Eberst, Jr
Frank F. Hughes
Samuel Breese
Helen Funk
Gerald Lanning
Graham
Carrie Durr
Charles Meldrim
Edward Franzen
Ruth Stone
E. Howard Peters
Cherrington Hospital
Wayne Hall
Laurelville
Robert N. White
Fred E. Hull
Magnetic Springs
Edgar Paul
Charles Smith
A. O. Kelich
D. D. Bridge Club
Charles Notestone
Fred Burchfield
Rudolph Hankison
Hankison
Women's Home Missionary Society of Methodist Church
Tom Connors
Faith of Our Fathers
Circleville
Gladys Clutton
Herman Studer
Ross
Straitsville
Baltimore & Ohio
Diplomat
National
National Limited
Nora Wortman
Basil
Ellen Harvey
Francis Knapp
Wellston
G. A. Radekin
D. W. Morris
Earl Starkey
Columbia Township
Pomeroy
Harley Picket
H. B. Picket
Darwin
W. R. Holcomb
John Bable
Worth Harder
Dallas
Harry Peters
Ardis Cummings
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Perry Wood
Chauncey
Emmett Harvey
Myrta Bable
Bert
John A. Jacobs
Athens, Ohio
Robert Morgan
Country Club
Innew York
Parkerspura
Parkersburg
Bath
Fair Grounds
New York
N.B.C
Radio City
H. D. Price
West Virginia
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