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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1955
Page
3
Logan Hocking County Health Department endorses safe food at the fair with yellow and black service licenses for concessions. Licenses require inspection by a public health sanitarian and apply to traveling operators who must honor licenses from their starting county.
Ralph H. McGrew of Shawnee and George Frasure of Logan Route 4 admitted. Mrs. Scott Huffines admitted. Discharges include John Sherwood Logan and Mrs. David Shepherd Laurelville Route 1.
Max Leo Pitts 21 a truck driver from Nelsonville and Clara Mae Camp 18 of Carbon Hill filed for a marriage license in Hocking County Probate Court. Pitts is son of James W. Pitts of Nelsonville and Lowell A. Camp is from Carbon Hill.
Miss Anna Fox of Mound Street was discharged from St Anthony Hospital in Columbus and returned home yesterday by Logan ambulance after a weeklong admission for observation and treatment.
A 13 month old girl, Lynne Schreiner, died from electrocution after chewing an electric cord Sunday night in Canton. She was the daughter of Mr and Mrs Ralph Schreiner of North Canton.
The Weather Bureau reports the United States will not have normal temperatures or rainfall from mid September to mid October. It predicts cooler than normal in the northern third of the nation, near or above normal in other regions, with warmth in the Southwest. Precipitation likely above normal in the northern states and Southeast, subnormal elsewhere.
Mr and Mrs George Reed visit relatives in Akron. Mr and Mrs Lewis Osborn and family spend an evening with Mr and Mrs Orville Gar. Mr and Mrs Delbert Barber of Painesville visit Mr and Mrs Wilbert Barber and son Bobby. Mrs Donna Griffin and daughters visit Mrs Beulah Shultz and son Danny. Larry and Errol Griffin visit Bobby Godfrey. Dearst Sampson and Beverly Linthicum were married recently.
Logan Rotary Club at Blosser's restaurant heard Ed Sudnick Ohio University director of financial aid explain how scholarships loans and part time jobs assist students. He described a centralized office committees for each aid category and review of financial need grades personality and family background. About 30 percent of students benefited in 1954 55. Neal Baker son of Mr and Mrs Franklin Baker Logan High School 1955 graduate won a Rotary Scholarship to attend Ohio University this fall. Claude Chrisman chaired the dinner.
A mixed page of notices lists a Sept shower for Miss Barbara Chapman at Mrs. Mary Roberts, WSCS meetings hosted by Mrs. Cora Daugherty and Mrs. Estelle Baker, a wedding of Barbara Doak to Emmett Parr in Vienna, W Va, and family travel updates including S-gt Woessner heading to Elmendorf Alaska and James A. Parr stationed in France through Feb 1957.
LOGAN Jud Matheny announced the Hocking County Agricultural Society fair office will be open for the rest of the week in the LEMP at the Hocking County Courthouse. Hours are 1 to 4 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday. Entries must be received by 6 p.m. Saturday. An Air Reserve Flying Center display will feature a short wave radio transmitter and receiver at the fairgrounds for communication with relatives overseas. The recruiting division will present air reserve photographs and displays as a special attraction.
Funeral services for Celeste Eve Bray 80 of Union Furnace will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Union Furnace Evangelistic United Brethren Church where she was a charter member. She died Sunday at 3 40 p.m. at her home. Burial is in Oak Grove Cemetery Logan. Survivors include son Harry and daughter Mrs Harvey Nixon plus three grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Friends may call at Leonard funeral home until noon Wednesday then at the church. The services will be conducted by Rev. Robert Miller and Rev. Paul Sellers.
LOGAN The Logan Hocking men tioned two cases of whooping cough in the city today. The victims are two children in the same family. The onset of the disease occurred Sept. 11.
Logan Ohio dispatch reports A ter t Grice 42 of Columbus cited in Logan Mayor's Court for cutting a filling station to avoid a red light and excessive speeding. Also charged were Price with reckless operation posted $2, and Everett C Burcham of Logan Route 1 with reckless operation. Kenneth Spicer of New Straitsville faced a weekend reckless operation charge. hearing set for Monday evening.
The Nelsonville Home & Saving Association filed in Hocking County Common Pleas Court Monday a mortgage foreclosure suit seeking $361.16 plus interest from Andrew H Ballard and Gertrude L Ballard of Carbon Hill.
Series of land transfers in Hocking County including Melvin and Kath leen Meyer to Helen McBerry for two tracts in Good Hope Township and multiple other deeds in Logan Laurelville and Ward townships listing buyers and parcel sizes ranging from one to 114.40 acres. Occasional city lots noted in Logan and South Logan Addition.
Vernie Stahr was named master of the Grange at a recent meeting. Officers include GYennel Weaver overseer Dora Wilson lecturer Margaret Stahr steward Herbert Notestone steward Millie Morris chaplain Blanche Goldsberry treasurer Mary Stahr secretary Melvin Morris gate keeper Ruth Ann Weaver Ceres Patsy Crosby Pomona Betty Crosby Flora Betty Ricketts lady assistant steward Ben Bigham executive committee Alice Notestone home economics chair. Booster night planned. members to bring a pie and iced tea. Beth Mills elected vice president. program committee also named Marguerite Kellerman and Hal Saunders. Seventeen members attended.
The Hocking Garden Club gathered in the courthouse auditorium where the president announced a district meeting slated for Sept. 21 in Marietta. A Christmas workshop on Dec. 5 at 1 p.m. was planned with Irene Jackson leading, sponsored by the Logan Garden Club. Members re elected to office included Mrs. Joseph Phillips as president and Mrs. Karl Hartman as secretary treasurer.
Antioch Grange met with Oscar Blum as master in charge. Readings covered laws on church objectable comic books motor vehicle inspection and school legislation. Mrs. Floyd Riddlebarger named fair booth committee chair with aides. Grange representative to Hocking County Fair chosen. A sixth grade test and true or false quiz were given. refreshments served to 41 members. Election of officers set for next Grange meeting.
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