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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1942
Page
4
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Logan Senior High School prepares a May 22 program with a stunt contest among the senior homerooms followed by vaudeville acts. Walter Kinney and Iris Lowery organize events, with honors students delivering a class will and poems before awards and the senior key presentation.
The Logan High School golf team heads to Athens for the Southeastern Ohio district championship at the Country Club course. The starting quartet is to be chosen from Ray Lohr Jimmy McGonagle Delmar Mowery Ralph Fickel and Bill Scott with the first three likely openers. After Friday’s tournament the squad returns to Logan and then makes another trip to Athens Saturday for a team match with Athens High School.
Logan New officers were elected for the Logan Business and Professional Women's Club at regular session. Dessie Hanna was reelected president. Officers named include Hester White vice president Margaret Hutchinson recording secretary Mrs Arthur Stevens corresponding secretary Emma Petty treasurer. The club voted five dollars to the Boy Scout sustaining fund. New officers to be installed at the next meeting. The committee in charge was Georgia Hansel Cora N Brown and Margaret Hutchinson. On May 6 Catherine Dolores Lee became the bride of Lt. Clark Wendell Miller at the Orlando Air Base Post Chapel.
Logan reports the Hocking County War Board held a Tuesday night meeting with Chairman Forest C. Wolfe presiding. Attending were James Rimmelspach county FSA advisor and James R. Smoot county extension agent as they transacted routine business.
Logan Jack Meyers was fined $10 and costs after pleading guilty to discharging a firearm on public property in Cedar Falls’s packing scenic district. The charge was brought by park ranger C. H. Reichley. Meyers arraigned before Magistrate Frank St. Clair.
Ralph McDonald sues Louise Anna McDonald alleging gross neglect of duty. The couple, married October 18 1941 at Columbus, have no children per the petition and reside at 47 E Fulton Street, Columbus.
Hazel F. Swyers files for divorce from E. Swyers in Columbus alleging gross neglect of duty and failure to provide. Couple married December 11, 1 at Union Furnace. no children. Also note in Logan Viola Riggs remains seriously ill at home on West Second Street after a stroke, under a physician’s care.
The county board and war board met Tuesday to review the farm labor situation. Earl Marshall of the WPA outlined ten tentative plans to ease shortages, noting WPA rolls have fallen to 340, about 20 percent of former levels, and wage rates will be set nominally by area to improve cooperation between farm owners and WPA workers. Board members present were I. V. Krinn, Claude Harsh, Russell Beery, Ralph Dresher, Fred Graham, Forest Wolfe, James Rimme lspach, and James Smoot.
NYA supervisor for the Zanesville area addressed Logan Senior High School boys about securing jobs in defense industries after graduation. He described a Carroll-based school teaching trades vital to defense needs and discussed plans for a similar program for girls. Several graduates showed interest in defense industry employment.
Logan report notes Pvt. Dick Tschappat stationed at Ft. Sill Okla spent last weekend with Pvt. William Lehman at Sheppard Field Wichita Falls Kansas. Phi Sigma Chi members include Charles Riggs also at Ft. Sill. The local chapter has 12 members serving in the armed forces.
Florence Stephenson of WNelson ville submitted to a tonsillectomy at Cherrington Hospital Wednesday. Mrs Helen Specht of Union Furnace had a minor operation at Cherrington Hospital Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Ralph Campbell of Murray City announce the birth of a daughter by Caesarean at Cherrington Hospital Wednesday morning.
A daughter named Cora Ellen Mount was born on Sunday May 10 to Mr and Mrs Edward Mount. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Fred Waugh and Mr and Mrs Samuel Mount. Mrs Vera Waugh and daughters Sandra and Ericka and Mrs Amanda Gustin visited Mrs Edward Mount on Tuesday.
Logan Forest C. Wolfe, chair man of the Hocking County War Board, traveled to Columbus on Wednesday to take part in a conference of county war board chairmen.
Mrs. William Rafferty of East Street was taken to Grant Hospital Columbus on Tuesday for observation and treatment ahead of a major surgical operation.
Logan High School senior class presents Janey's One-Track Mind a three act comedy Friday at 8 p m in the auditorium directed by Miss Bartelle Hamilton. Reserved seats available at Rischs Drug Store until 6 p m Friday. Cast includes Helen Haney Mary Alice Brown Tommy Brehm Roy Kelch Lee Riggs Mary Jeanne Walters Eva Jane Edson Fred Davis Ray Lohr Marguerite Riggs Jane Karshner Ed Kreider Ruth Richards Florence Gleason Mary Kathryn Adcock Kathryn Ford Joe Kellenbarger.
On Tuesday afternoon a lightning strike during a brief electrical storm destroyed two barns on the Roy Huffine farm near Gibisonville. The larger barn burned first, spreading to the second, with farm machinery and miscellaneous articles lost. Huffine had just quartered a team of horses and saved them despite the blaze. Damage was unestimated.
More than 400 persons attended as the city grade schools held their annual May Festival in the Logan High School auditorium. Miss Minnie Louise Bowen directed the program titled A Festival of America featuring patriotic skits pantomime and songs.
A two day child health conference opened Thursday in Murray City under the Hocking County health office direction of Dr. H. G. Southard. The event serves as a feeder for future county wide conferences and covers child problems ailments and care among other topics.
Judge Phil A. Henderson permits appeal in the Adrian Dodds Blosser case against Ward Township School Board. Defendant must post a $200 bond. School board counsel filed the notice Tuesday with Clerk Thelma Keyes.
The Logan Fire Department made its first run of the month to extinguish a minor blaze at 490 East Hunter Street the home of Mrs. Florence Fickel. Firemen reported $25 damage after a bundle of clothes touched a gas hot plate.
Logan Grange held a regular session in the grange hall with Miss Mary Blum presiding. The meeting explained and discussed Grange laws, followed by a social hour and refreshments.
Mrs Charles Richey of Columbus former Logan resident and owner of a Main Street gift shop is at St Anthony Hospital Columbus with a fractured hip after a fall at her home Monday. Athens County auditor Gibson was a Logan visitor and met with Auditor Kenneth R. Fitzgerald and county officials.
A winter night in polar regions remains a somber gray even when the sun sits far below the horizon, not truly black. The description notes that darkness is muted by lingering twilight and atmospheric light, shaping constant low-contrast skies.
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