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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1942
Page
18
The motion for a new trial was overruled and the plaintiff awarded $500 plus interest from September 1 in the Court of Common Pleas. Judge Phil A. Henderson filed the entry Wednesday. Jury returned a verdict in favor of Mazel L. Sheets in a money action against Marvin Dicken.
Logan and Hocking County leaders pressed to boost metal collection for wartime needs. War Production Board official Robert O Weible urged residents to retrieve scrap from farms attics and basements, aiming to 900 tons from July to January. Local officials cited 200 tons already sold and 101 tons of rubber gathered, with township trustees asked to locate rural deposits and mobilize neighbors.
Superintendent S. H. Dillon addressed school problems facing administrators this year at Rockbridge PTA’s first fall and winter meeting held Tuesday night at the school. The group planned a Red Cross nutrition project and named a committee to contact the Hocking County Red Cross Chapter for details, with Mrs. Beryl Tucker as chair.
Anna Dowler seeks higher child support from Leslie Dowler in a divorce action. The plaintiff asks the court to modify a prior order to raise payments above the existing $5 weekly amount, citing the defendant's full-time employment. The application was filed Wednesday in the Court of Common Pleas.
Kenneth Sheets, 29, remains in unchanged condition after a hunting accident near Lesboro Tuesday evening. A former Logan High School football and basketball player, Sheets was wounded by 48 shotgun pellets.
Logan aerie of Eagles will hold a regular meeting at their Route 33 home south of Logan. Charles A. Roberts, Springfield, deputy grand worthy president, F O E, will be main speaker. Several candidates will be initiated with the Athens degree team in charge.
In Logan, a ver dict entry in the Eddie Vallette versus Phillip R. Cassley action notes the jury found issues for the defendant on July 7, 1942 in the Court of Common Pleas. The plaintiff sought damages from an automobile accident in Hocking.
James W. Hannum of Long Bottom was graduated from Officer Candidate School at Fort Sill Oklahoma and commissioned a second lieutenant in the Field Artillery.
Syracuse Social Notes lists visits from Mr. and Mrs. Grant Wiley and Clyde from Albany to spend time with the Ducks in Syracuse. Meigs County W C T U convention attendance in Middleport is noted. Family gatherings include the Henderson reunion at Burlingham Church with fifty four members and a chicken dinner.
Mrs. Pat Canty of Logan was admitted Wednesday for observation and treatment at Cherrington Hospital. Mrs. Teresa Snider of Gore underwent a major operation Wednesday with physicians rating her condition as satisfactory. Mrs. Jennie Coakley of Logan had a minor surgery Wednesday morning. Lawrence Wright of Nelsonville underwent an appendectomy at Cherrington Hospital Wednesday.
Logan Dale Engle son of Mrs Winifred Engle Logan has enlisted in the U S Army Enlisted Reserve Corps at Ohio University announced by the Hocking County Selective Service Board Engle a senior majoring in dramatic arts recently worked with Theater in the Dale in New Milford Conn He returns from an apprenticeship with a professional little theater group at the campus theater program.
Cora Campbell administrators estate of Homer Campbell sues Huntington Cincinnati Truck Lines for 10000 damages in Common Pleas court alleging a driver, John Browning, operated at unsafe speed on State Route 216 near Murray City, striking Homer Campbell as he walked along the road. The decedent was almost 19 at the time.
Funeral services for William Smith age 70 a retired laborer will be held Saturday at 2 p m at the Union Furnace United Brethren Church. Burial will follow in Greenlawn Cemetery Nelsonville by Woodard Funeral Service. Survivors include his widow Gertrude and several children with three sons in military service.
Two cases in the Court of Common Pleas were dismissed without record by Judge Phil A. Henderson. The defendants were James J. Mohler and Rodney Steele, with dismissal upon payment of costs.
Ohio University College of Applied Science will start two free training programs in Logan. Mechanical Drawing and Industrial Organization and Scientific Management begin Thursday at 7:30 with twelve enrollees already. Enroll at 40 N. Market Street or at Room 22 High School, before 5 p.m. Thursday.
Logan Briefs notes various local visits and travel plans. Robert Bryan visited Kingport Tennessee, Ruth Rhein scheid of Cleveland stays with her parents near Logan, and James A. Green with Henry Abernethy plan an extended trip through Ohio Indiana Illinois. John L. Stoody remains seriously ill after a heart attack. Claimed clam raiser J C Carrol of Seattle sues for eight thousand eleven dollars over steamship damage.
Logan Russell Keyes Gatun Canal Zone becomes first to file for an absentee ballot with Hocking County Elections Board officials. He is brother of Thelma Keyes Logan a Democratic incumbent seeking election as clerk of courts on November 3.
James Madison Poling 82 retired farmer died Wednesday at his son in law and daughter’s home near Maxville Perry County Funeral services set for Friday at 10 30 am at the Friendship Church with interment in the adjacent cemetery Survived by widow Amanda Poling two sons Earl Lancaster and Elwood Farmington Ill the daughter Mrs Howdyshell two brothers Edward Poling Junction City Isaac Poling New Lexington and a sister Mrs Harley Bell Glouster
Mr and Mrs David Shull of Logan announce the birth of a daughter at Cherrington Hospital on Wednesday.
The second new automobile sold in Hocking County this month was bought Wednesday by D. R. Frampton and Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from W. & H. Chevrolet Sales Company of Logan. Miss Mildred Blum, deputy clerk of courts, confirmed the county certificate of title details.
War bond sales in series KE at the Farmers and Merchants Bank totaled 6281 dollars and 25 cents for the period ending September 15. Kenneth R. Fitzgerald, county chairman of war bond sales, reported the figures.
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