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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1941
Page
16
Logan business and professional men report progress in a campaign to raise funds for a proposed industrial plant. A committee says pledges were sufficient to energize workers and options on sites have been secured. Twenty teams of two men continue canvassing donors to attract a nationally known company to locate here.
Enterprise Church marks its 14th anniversary with a home-coming observance. The Rev C M Bowman of the Southeast Ohio Conference will be guest speaker and lead morning and afternoon services. Myron W Clark pastor assists. An evening missionary play The Soldiers of the Cross will be presented by Ruth Ansel and the WMA. The Otterbein Guild Girls perform The Guild Commitment at the evening service.
Logan A announces a rules interpretation gathering at West Grade School at 7 30 p m Thursday night November 27. Thomas Vernin of Chillicothe will assist in the program. Open to Perry and Hocking Counties coaches players officials and others interested in learning the basketball rules.
Hocking County's next contingent of 12 men will breakfast with the Logan Lodge of Eagles in Columbus before departure. Mass examinations are expected to resume soon to exclude obviously unfit men from the final Columbus entrance exam for military service.
Pomona Grange met in Rockbridge to elect officers led by new master Mary Blum succeeding J F E Allen who served two years. Other officers include Elmer Risch Margaret McBroom Ralph Mosure Neil Beery Ada Bigham Lucy Ellinger Paul Shaw Merle Primmer Frank Powers Ozilla Skinner Violet Reeves Thelma Mowrey Dan Rheinscheid. Installation set for Jan 14 at Miller Chapel Grange Hall with a social hour afterward.
The Union Thanksgiving Service will be held at the First Presbyterian Church at 7 30 Wednesday November 19 with Rev Stanley W Wiant delivering the sermon and Rev C B Clendenen in charge. United Brethren Choir will sing and the gathering is open to all city residents.
The Rev. Warren Bright Jr son of Mr and Mrs Warren Bright will be heard at 9 30 oclock next Monday and Tuesday over the Marion radio station He is slated for the pastorate at Larue and will address listeners from the city location
Mrs. James Brown reviews This Above All by Eric Knight at Junior Tourist Book Club. New member welcomed, activities planned, and members in Columbus aiding ill relative. Barbara Hull celebrates 13th birthday with party and theater outing. Bridge club awards high scores at Pierce residence.
Stage final scrimmage at Chieftain Field on Wednesday evening to prep for Friday’s Lancaster game. No injuries reported. Coach Bender plans to start his regular lineup with Casto, Conrad, Kelch, Wright, Graham, Davis, Goss, Johnston, Hummel, Stimson, and Hummel, plus McGonagle, Brehm, and Bauman seeing heavy action. The Chieftain Band and local fans will travel to Lancaster.
Rev Cecil Harding Jones spoke before the Logan Business and Professional Women's Club on Thinking Out Loud in Time of War. Reports from Miss Mary Lemon and Mrs Dessie Hanna highlighted district and Tri State meetings. A Red Cross first aid class and defense chairs were planned with a spring Delta Kappa Gamma joint meeting. The group lunched at Pritchard s closing with Christmas gift exchange.
Dr Harry Eastman is reported somewhat improved at Cherrington Hospital after a fall a week ago. An X ray revealed head injuries and a rib fracture. He recalls stumbling and tumbling down stairs and can give only a limited account of the accident.
Margaret Floyd of Los Angeles widow of Tecumseh Floyd visited Logan on Wednesday after moving from Laurelville to California. She reconnected with William F. Rizer, a retired railroad man and former pupil from her western county teaching days 56 years ago.
Two State Patrol cases went before Mayor Dallas Kinser on Wednesday after arrests on U S Route 33. Stacy R Beougher of Rockbridge faced overload truck charge with a $10 fine plus costs. Robert A Johnson of Rockbridge charged with insufficient brakes and fined $5 plus costs.
Logan Judson Shriner of North Street returned to work on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Wednesday after a four month layoff due to illness. Shriner is a railroader with 36 years of service.
Logan police announce candy punchboards and similar devices are gambling devices and barred in the city. Police Chief Lew Reynolds says some misinformed people think display of punchboards is not gambling and warns arrests will follow their use.
Funeral services were held this afternoon at the Church of the Nazarene for Lafayette Pratt who would have been 87 on Tuesday. The Reverends W E Appleman and C B Clendenen officiated. He leaves his wife Mary Pratt and several children including a son Otis in this city. Burial followed at Oak Grove Cemetery. In New Strattsville a Friday prayer meeting at 7 30 pm at Raymond Hoy home, Clyde Goss of Logan Nazarene Church leading.
For three months Rev. C. B. Clenden en, pastor of the Nazarene Church, has received three anonymous envelopes with $5 $10 and $6 and a note saying For the Church. No names signed.
A new 60-foot steel flag staff in two sections has been delivered to be erected on the post office lawn to replace the existing wooden staff.
Eugene Sedgwick and the Melodears headline the first of four Kiwanis entertainments at Logan High School auditorium presented by Collins Festival Company. Proceeds benefit the underprivileged children campaign. G A A girls run ticket sales at Cases Pharmacy. tickets selling rapidly.
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