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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1947
Page
2
Hocking County plans mark the debt free courthouse with bells, sirens, and street dancing after an open house. A program includes a male chorus and speeches, followed by burning of the mortgage. committee members include Rhein scheid Murray Duffy Smith Smoot and others.
Murray City and surrounding towns report weekend visits and social calls. Families from Crooksville Nelsonville Columbus Willoughby and Chauncey are listed visiting relatives and staying with friends, including exchanges at Cleveland and Hocking Valley Hospital in Logan.
Seventeen members attended the Bible Boosters meeting on Tuesday evening. Nancy White served as accompanist for group singing and Annette Davis performed a piano solo. The devotional topic was Faith.
Mayor W D Weltner appoints a city recreation board under a Sept 23 ordinance. Claude Chrisman is chairman for one year. other members include William S Miller, Miss Wilhelmine Deissele, Francis Myers, Claude Hammon. The panel meets to draft plans tied to a half mill levy in November.
Funeral services for Charles F. Bieber of Zanesville will be held at 2 30 p m Friday at the Hearing Bryan Delong funeral home. Bieber active in Masonic circles and a longtime member of United Commercial Travelers. Survived by wife Margaret a son Charles in Washington D C and two sisters.
Local notes include social visits across Syracuse with Mrs. Irving Karr Sr staying with Dr and Mrs W A Adams and Mrs Martha Echols in Parkersburg. Birth announced for Samuel Gibbs Jr and multiple travelings and weekend visits among area residents and families.
Community notes list Mrs J W Speer conducting services on Tuesday and a vote to raise Sunday School participation. Other items cover local visits, family weekends in Columbus and Plummer Landing, school entry, funerals, illness, and birthday gatherings among Kyger residents.
Bidwell area entries show Mr and Mrs Hal Shoemaker hosting Gloria and others while H D Robinson visits from Kentucky and works in the region. Visitors include N K Saunders from Lockland Ohio and Grover Saunders family, Harland Frederick of Columbus, and Nan Savage of Porter.
After dinner at Blosser's Restaurant the Business and Professional Women's Club met in the clubrooms Tuesday night. Miss Cornelia Chambers of Dallas described her World War II Wave experiences and displayed photographs from her Navy career.
Logan-Hocking County annual beef cattle dinner has been postponed from October 23 to October 24. The banquet begins at 6 30 p m at the Izaak Walton clubhouse. Committee members are William Hahn Mason Hollaway F O Wolfe Harry Blume and Grant Harden. Reservations may be made at the county extension office.
The WSCS of Drakes Methodist Church met at Mrs. Emmett Weaver’s home with a luncheon for Edna Dunlap Corning Golden Drake and others. Weekend visitors included Marsha Essex of Columbus and relatives in Newark and Logan. several local residents were noted visiting Columbus and nearby towns.
Mrs. Bert Markey left at the weekend for Cleveland to join her husband who has employment there. She quit her Navy Yard job. Mr. Markey, a 1944 justice of the peace, had been ill and went to Cleveland months ago for surgery. health said to be improved. They resided on Liberty Street.
Logan divorce filings in common pleas court name Andrew J. Coakley as plaintiff against Florence Jennie Coakley. The petition cites gross neglect of duty and extreme cruelty and seeks an equitable division of marital property.
Emma Alice Woltz 41 wife of Boyd Woltz died Tuesday night at People's Hospital Mansfield after a week long illness. She lived in Logan many years before moving to Mansfield and is survived by husband mother sisters and brothers in Mansfield and Logan. Funeral arrangements are with Roberts funeral home.
Final arrangements for a Friday train excursion to Middleport were set by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The Logan Chief plays the Pomeroy Panthers. the train departs Logan at 6 p.m. Friday with chaprons and student cars. Refreshments will be sold on the train. Don Taylor resigned as post chaplain, and Elmer Ledford was appointed to fill the role. Two Lancaster VFW visitors attended.
Charles Schempp of Logan admitted for medical reasons. Bertha Bensonhaver of Logan discharged. Eldridge Hanning and wife of Nelsonville welcome a son at the hospital.
Clara Anderson filed in common pleas court for temporary support for her minor children and expense money from Tom Anderson. Judge Harley Meyer granted the request on Wednesday.
Marietta paints are distributed by Bardin Bros. Co. of Athens Pomeroy Cement Block Co. of Pomeroy and Plymale Wagner Co. of Gallipolis.
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