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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1943
Page
12
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An article details a survey of Hocking County schools aimed at ensuring employment for young farm workers. It notes involvement by officials and local families, mentions names such as Mrs. James and Ruth Wright, and references next steps in organizing work opportunities and potential reporting.
Surveys in Hocking County and Logan city schools assess farm labor for after school and summer work. Male students willing to work part time are listed in a county file at the Soa ha coe office. Classes will be taught by H D Saxton and B L Thompson with dates to be announced.
Logan records show 14 births and 9 deaths in April while the county totals list 23 births and 5 deaths outside Logan. The report names numerous local birth parents in Hocking County and Logan City, including Sparks Devore Mohler May McDaniel Bertram Morrison and dozens of others with several delayed registrations noted for Withem.
A large audience attended a county wide canning demonstration Friday at Gibsonville School led by Ruth Bennington county home demonstration agent. Superintendent Kenneth Christy and Mary Ruth Krinn assisted with planning and Jane King of the FSA noted more demonstrations are planned across the county.
Logan Frank Redfern of Laurelville, a well known Hocking County attorney, is retained to assist with the prosecution of Russell Wills of Jackson County. Wills is indicted for a shotgun murder with accomplice Charles Woods, who is described as the confessed man in the robbery murder. Redfern will assist Jackson County Prosecuting Attorney Benson Owens in the trial that began last week.
Logan Ohio Mrs James Dollison of Columbus is critically ill with pneumonia at Mt Carmel Hospital in Columbus. She was a former free visitor at Judge Oliver Wright home on E Main Street now occupied by the Bell family.
A fragmentary note recalls vast precolonial prairie towns inhabited by prairie dogs and a rough estimate that a beech tree once held about 80 quarts of water. The passage blends historical inference with curious measurements.
Logan notes describe a May 1943 Women’s Christian Temperance Union meeting at the Methodist Church with prayers, songs, and talks on family and youth. Other items cover club meetings, visiting families, and local soldiers on furlough, plus an appointment notice for Lillie J. Maynard’s estate and a Toronto derbies rule.
Mrs Clinton Webb hosts Tuesday Book Club at eight tonight with a review by Mrs Earl Eiberfeld on The Robe by Lloyd Douglas. Child Study Club meets Wednesday at 7 30 pm for spring party at the White House reservations with Mrs Arlie Brimner. CLASS MEETS FRIDAY Mrs Clarence Schempp presents Rosemary Taylors Chicken Every Sunday of My Life With Mothers Boarders at the Cosmopolitan Club home of Mrs Howard Kirk. Mrs D O Davis presided during business and the group...
Logan Ohio Mrs Ruth Bennington county home demonstration agent reports plans for the Hocking County 4 H club officers and advisors annual meeting at East School Building Saturday morning C C Lang assistant state 4 H club leader will discuss projects of clubs across the state tied to the war effort Other program plans will be announced later
Logan Hocking County farmers are urged to save every bit of hay for feed this coming season. County extension agent James R. Smoot says waste comes from cutting hay too late, reducing protein content and yield due to overmaturity.
Logan police report a quiet weekend with only routine calls and no arrests over the period. City and county officers stated Sunday night there were no major incidents.
In Logan a mother, Ruth Bloomfield, reports three letters and three postcards from eastern readers who heard a radio broadcast. The Berlin Germany message from Pvt Clyde Bloomfield airs nightly at 8 P M slow time and reaches listeners in New York City Johnstown Dearborn Ashland Charleston. Locals Ed Mundy and wife listen hoping for news on their son Charles reported as a POW.
Mrs Homer Johnson will host the Loyal Womens Class of the First Church of Christ at 1 30 p m Wednesday. Mrs Carl Shafer leads the program with Mrs L H Pender grass as devotional leader. Members are asked to contribute. all women of the church are invited.
Chauncey residents Chauncey Mr and Mrs Car roll Tippett and daughter Carolyn visited Parkersburg Saturday. Mr and Mrs Roy Totman of Chester Hill Ohio formerly of Millfield were entertained Sunday in the Mingus home in Millfield. Mrs Wilma Palmer Brickles Athens formerly of Chauncey underwent major surgery at Sheltering Arms Hospital last week and is recovering.
Funeral services were held for John Blackford age 43 of Sugar Creek who died after surgery at Sheltering Arms Hospital Athens. The service at Sugar Creek Church was conducted by Gilbert Courney and singers from Chauncey Church of Christ. Burial followed at State Street Cemetery Athens. He is survived by his children, his father, two brothers James of Sugar Creek and Marous of Dayton, and a sister Mrs George Robinson of Sugar Creek. He had lived in Sugar Creek for a year after returning from Dayton where he worked for several years.
Mr and Mrs Harry Moore of Lower Plains learn their son Melvin Moore has been promoted to Corporal. In a letter he mentions a Nile Valley trip by horse and buggy and a visit to a Kings Palace. Before enlisting he worked at Rauch Bakery in Athens.
Chauncey Marlowe Russell age 43 a miner and Millfield resident died at his home early Sunday after a brief throat illness. Funeral will be conducted Tuesday at 2 PM at Millfield Methodist Church with burial in Hystery. He was the son of Isa and the late Flora Russell and is survived by Lena his wife, one son Robert, father, one sister Mrs Hoisington, and brothers Ray Thomas Alva Bruce Russell and Clarence. Oscar B Adking seriously ill with influenza at home.
Members of The Plains Garden Club will be entertained in the home of Mrs. Thom as Marcinko, The Plains, Wednesday night May 19. The meeting is held this week instead of the last week due to high school activities. Members noted the change.
Mr and Mrs Mark Fiske announce the birth of their son Mark Stephen at home in Ravenna Ohio on Tuesday May 4 Grandparents are Charles Fiske Beaumont and Mrs Emma Rupe Sand Ridge
Armenian women spread jelly on cloth is dried and rolled into ruglike bundles for storage. The prepared strips are kept for future use.
Clerk Chauncey Hollis Stalder announced the Chauncey Dover Board of Education will hold its monthly meeting May 19 in the Superintendent of Schools office in Chauncey.
Mrs Maybelle Mingus will host Millfield Needle club at her Millfield home Wednesday night. The meeting was moved from Mrs Edith McDaniel’s house to the Mingus home.
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