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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1942
Page
14
Logan church leaders set a goal to have half the city in church next Sunday morning, seeking more than 3000 attendees. Clergy welcomed about 2000 worshippers this Easter. churches prepare cantatas special music sermons and baptisms.
Paul Bell faced a Logan court after being charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence. He pled guilty, receiving a $100 fine plus costs, a 60 day county jail sentence, and a two year driving suspension. Bell was previously detained on a similar charge.
Eleven students from Logan High and five from Murray City High took the senior scholarship examination at Logan High under supervision by Harley Ellinger. Papers go to Columbus for grading. Logan entrants were Tom Brehm Virginia Butterfield Mary Jean Walters Paul Stimson Jerry Hammen Lester Ringhiser Sylvia Jane Eichel Helen Haas Hunter Burt Neal Dillon Mary Alice Brown Lester Imboden. Murray City delegates were Robert H. Dugan Imogene Storer George R. Reynolds Ardella Martin Betty June Spencer.
Logan Chieftains may add games beyond the Southeast Ohio Round Robin. Dayton Roosevelt and Columbus North have written athletic officials about next season’s games. Roosevelt offered a February return to Logan if desired.
Logan report notes Dr. R D MacNitt of Wilmington College will demonstrate a lie detector at the Kiwanis Club dinner meeting at six tonight at the White House. Plans include entertaining local high school seniors on April 28.
In common pleas court Judge Logan dismissed the damage suit filed by Clarence S. Matheny as administrator of Fanny Sparks estate against Charles Lehman of Haydenville. The action sought $15,000 following Mrs. Sparks death in an automobile accident filed months earlier.
Logan High School will not play spring baseball as the Athletic Board announced. Spring football training has not occurred recently. Coach Kaye Blosser plans a strong tennis squad with Jimmy McGonagle Ray Lohr and additions Delmar Mowery Tom Campbell and others. A tennis team may enter the district tournament aided by new facilities.
Logan High School Players Guild will turn over a fifty dollar check to the breakfast fund. The net proceeds from three one act plays at the auditorium Friday night totaled sixty one dollars and twenty one cents after incidentals. The gift supports breakfasts for Hocking county inductees heading to Ft Hayes.
Mrs Otto Buntoff of Gore Route 1 returned Friday from a Columbus hospital where she underwent a spinal operation. She has not walked for months but can now take a few steps with crutches. Mr and Mrs Lewis Skinner and Miss Pauline Acker left Sunday for Wichita Falls Texas to visit Donald Skinner in the ground aviation service.
Two carloads of Carbon Hill High School girls attended exams for federal service stenographers at the BUC office in Logan. Hocking County Selective Service board members worked late Monday with many interviews conducted.
Sheriff Floyd Duffy reports Tuesday that A J Jack Waldr on will begin new duties Wednesday morning as the newest deputy, augmenting the Logan County sheriff staff.
Logan reports all men sent to Fort Hayes last week were accepted for service and assigned to training. Many were previously classified 1B and sent to fill quotas. All 1B men reexamined and reclassified as future contingents anticipated as calls go out.
Edward Eberst has been placed in charge of the Minute Men group for Logan and Hocking County. He seeks to enroll all men with high powered rifles for emergency defense, regardless of calibers. Already some have signed up. others are asked to contact Eberst soon.
Funeral services were conducted at South Perry Church for Earl Bright, slain Friday afternoon in Perry Township, with burial at South Perry Cemetery. Jasper Pyles, who died by suicide after Bright’s murder, was buried Monday afternoon.
Straitsville residents share family visits weddings and club events from March 31. Local honors go to county contest honorees as students prepare for the state competition. Community church Holy Week services and Easter cantata are planned with Sunrise service and Communion.
Logan L K Showalter of Mound Street began a new porch project on the west side of his home. Work started Monday morning with local laborers and supplies arriving on site.
Logan Charles Pickett writes to his father Arthur Pickett of this city. The letter was penned in Aruba on March 20.
Mrs Eber Mowery of Market Street has a hobby of collecting salt and pepper shakers and now owns 100 pieces in her collection. She enjoys arranging them by size and design.
Friends report Charles Shaffer has entered service in the Panama Canal Zone, reflecting his assignment in the strategic Atlantic region.
Logan Chieftains schedule the round robin for the coming year listing dates and venues across Jackson Gallipolis Wellston Pomeroy Athens Middleport Nelsonville and Jackson again. Logan Carl B Clendenen, son of Rev and Mrs Carl B Clendenen, visited Logan with his parents. he studies theology at Olivet Nazarene College.
The Rev. C. W. Graham, superintendent of Good Will Industries of Columbus, spoke to the Logan Rotary Club at the White House. He noted the program repairs discarded items by handicapped workers and urged members to call Good Will Industries instead of discarding usable articles. Rev. Stanley W. Wiant attended as a guest.
Mrs. Lucy Keynes, who died at Grant Hospital in Columbus, will have Monday visitation at 2:30 p.m. at the family residence. The funeral service led by the Rev. Cecil Harding Jones will be held Wednesday with burial in Oak Grove Cemetery mausoleum.
James R. Schultz of Henrietta Avenue and Clarence Greene of Logan Route 4 appeared at the selective service office Saturday to volunteer for immediate service Schultz had registered only recently.
Harley Ellinger, science instructor at Low High School, displays a home made gas mask. It was crafted by Il} Schmitter using a rubber tube two fruit jar lids a tin can and a few chemicals.
Harry Shaw of this city is constructing a new residence near Columbus for John Wetherill.
A list of passenger trains with numbers and daily or weekly schedules. Entries include Chesapeake and Ohio and New York Central lines with arrivals and departures, south and north bound services, and notes on Sundays and Mondays.
Logan license bureau warns that the deadline for purchasing 1942 tags ends this evening. The office closes at 5 30 and reopens at 6 30. About 2 200 licenses had been issued by Monday evening.
Logan hospital reports five fractured ribs for James Boyer from the Starr crash. Lillian Claypool is in fair condition with facial lacerations. Samuel Strawn in Falls Township shows slight improvement after admission for observation. Addie Kennard of Dundas received a second blood transfusion. condition improved.
Logan Rev J W Steen of Junction City opened a Holy Week series at the Church of the Nazarene Monday. Services start 7 30 p m with special music and sermons nightly. Lancaster Orchestra performs Friday. Local residents attended social events in Lancaster and nearby.
Robert Fawcett state examiner completed inspection of town ship officers records in Hocking County and departed the city Saturday.
In the 1942 Chauncey class tournament the freshman boys and sophomore girls claimed championships. The sophomore girls defeated the junior team 18 to 10 with Blainer, Russell and Legg starring. Freshmen beat seniors 44 to 12 and then juniors 15 to 9 to seal the titles.
Chauncey figures including Mrs J Edgar Estes and Lois Estes with Sammy Estes spent the weekend in Huntington West Virginia. Mrs John Rushell of Millersport joined them and returned with Mrs M S Abbott of Huntington who is visiting the Estes home. Anita Sisson accompanied by Mrs William Sisson travels to Washington to visit Lorena Mae Sisson at Burroughs Co. burial events included the funeral of County Sheriff Charles Bayless in Nelsonville and burial services for Frank Dennis at Greenlawn attended by Rev Gilbert Courtney.
Condition of Mrs. Riley Keeton in The Plains following a paralytic stroke several days earlier is reported as much improved.
Chauncey hosts a farewell party for Woodrow Lester who departs soon for U S Army induction. A 10 o clock chicken dinner feeds 35 guests with gifts, music, and refreshments following social time. Attendees include local residents from Chauncey, Bailey Run, and surrounding families.
Beginning April 1 the Chauncey curfew bell will ring at 9 p m instead of eight. Marshal Alva Karns announced the change.
Chauncey Miss Olive Brookins Millfield entertained a group of friends at dinner Sunday. Covered for Miss Helen Howard Mrs Nellie Brookins and daughter Thelma Jean Chauncey Mrs Vira Shafer The Plains Rev Glaze Thompson Columbus and Mrs Mae Wade Millfield.
Chauncey Virgil Wilson left Millfield after a brief visit with his mother Mrs Curtis Wilson and family to rejoin the Torpedo Squadron aboard the U S S Ranger in New York City.
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