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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1956
Page
16
Logan reports nearly 4400 children in junior and senior high enrollments as the county term opens. Skeleton first day schedules ease transition before full classes start Wednesday. Labor Day week brings several minor accidents in Logan with two injuries. multiple crashes noted on S High, Front, Second and Culver streets.
Logans Sater family and friends gathered at Wild Cat Hollow Park for the annual reunion. Officers elected for the coming year included Everett Sater as president Marilyn Sater as secretary treasurer and Mrs Steve Jones plus Marold and Robert Sater as entertainment. Members noted diverse attendees from Lancaster Circleville Cleveland Nelsonville and Columbus with plans for the September meeting hosted by Mrs Bill McClain and Mr Robert Redd.
Logan County deputies investigated a minor auto collision on Route 374 at 4 p.m. Saturday between Larry Nihiser, 19, and Clifford Kline, 64, both of Rockbridge, with both vehicles sustaining fender and body damage. Another report noted an accident at 3:30 p.m. Friday on Route 664 near Route 33, where Mel Monk, 18, of Logan lost control on wet pavement, skidded into a roadside ditch, and caused front end damage. A separate note mentions the Union Furnace Presbyterian Church class meeting at Mrs. Robert Redd’s home with Mrs. Rudolph Sutton presiding. Robert Fulton is mentioned as painting briefly.
Funeral services were held for Harry Woods, native of Logan and former surveyor for the Hocking Valley Railroad, who died Saturday after a freak accident. The suspect bullet theory was dismissed as no firearm discharge was found near the scene. Hartmann urged hunters to beware of high powered rifle bullets crossing roads and homes. Services were at Woodard funeral home with burial in Oak Grove Cemetery.
Dr and Mrs Ray mond Keairns of Logan Route 3 returned last weekend from a tour through New England and Montreal and Quebec in Canada. They were accompanied by Mrs Emerson Poston and Don Poston of Logan Route 3 and Miss Margaret Wolfe of Minneapolis Minn. One sixteenth of the area of New Hampshire is covered with
Funeral services were held today at Roberts funeral home for Zoe Marie Doolittle 60 of Carbondale wife of Roy M. Doolittle. She was found dead in her bed Friday night. Survived by husband son Melvin of Columbus brother Emmett Andrews of Athens sister Gladys Russell of Athens. Burial in Azbury Cemetery Starr Township.
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