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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1942
Page
4
Logan reports Selective Service will induct the largest Hocking County quota from October calls. 1-A registrants will be exhausted first and married men without dependents may be drafted next. County claims about 800 local service members now, surpassing WWI totals.
State auditors LOGAN Lara Pelley of Mingo Junction and Lucille Hertzer of Bucyrus arrived in Logan to start a three week plus audit of Hocking County and Logan City School records. They will set temporary headquarters in the former Hocking County Selective Service office on the courthouse first floor.
Marc Lohr Jr former Logan High School captain sparked the Eastern Kentucky State Teachers College eleven in a 13-0 victory over Tennessee Polytechnic. Lohr played over half the game at tackle. Kentucky Teachers faces Akron University Zippers in the Rubber Bowl on Oct 9, marking its first Ohio game in three years.
Logan Walter Huls of Rockbridge has been named superintendent for the current year by the Rockbridge School Board. He will succeed Jack Jones, now a chief petty officer in the U S Navy. Huls is a Aurora College graduate and Ohio University alum, teaching at Grand Valley Colo Schools on leave. He plans to teach commercial subjects and science at Rockbridge and is married with one daughter.
Mrs. J R Pierce hosted Wednesday evening for the Wednesday Contract Club. Guests included Mrs. Hankison Roberts Baker Brown White Frasure and Kemper with Mrs. Pierce. Delta Theta Tau met in sorority rooms with committees reporting and plans for winter meetings. Initiation practice is set for next Wednesday. Mrs Han sel hosted the D B Club dinner with guests Mrs Engle and Mrs Blum.
The Tuesday Bridge Club met at Mrs. D A Rannalls home for a covered dish dinner and bridge. High scores were earned by Mrs William Leyshon and Mrs Rannalls while substitutes included Mrs Arron Will Mc Arthur and Mrs Harry Stevenson. Also attending were Mrs E M Martin Mrs E O Pettit Mrs Evelyn Underwood Miss Wilhelmine Deissle Anna Emma and Mayme Wellman and Emma Floyd. Separately Western and Southern Life Insurance representatives hosted a dinner at the White House with Mr and Mrs Harry Atkins Athens Mr and Mrs Bert Tolliver Shawnee Mr and Mrs Max Wolfe Mr and Mrs El mer Siddle Nelsonville Mr and Mrs Ralph Swartz Mr and Mrs R M Brown Miss Mary Collison and Mr Hugh Hooper all of Logan.
Mr and Mrs Richard Sparnow depart with Mrs Jean Weltner for San Antonio Texas where he will join Ft Sam Houston. They wed at St Matthew Lutheran Church Sunday. Visitors from Toledo Walbridge and Mansfield arrive in Logan for family events. J W Rodman dies after accidental squirrel hunting near his home. Sparrows once unknown in Australia are now pests with eggs priced in some districts.
The article notes the Union of South Africa spans an area equal to the combined lands of Arizona California Nevada and New Mexico, giving a sense of its vast size.
Logan officials say plans to run the Hocking County basketball league for 1942-43 are nearly abandoned due to imminent gasoline rationing. Transportation by private cars is to be replaced by bus use, but bus operation may be restricted by tire quotas. Officials fear games could be canceled if rationing takes effect soon.
Miss Annalea Woltz of Logan daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry L Woltz is the first local girl to apply for enrollment in the WAVES women’s naval reserve. A Logan High School 1940 graduate she has worked as a clerk in a five and dime store since graduation.
Logan James Smoot reports Ohio 94 hybrid corn grew exceptionally well as ensilage on Wayne Whitcraft's farm, operated by Leo Ward. The corn stood 10 feet tall with three stalks per hill, over four acres filling two silos with 105 tons capacity. Whitcraft's yield greatly surpassed 20 tons per acre, and three cutters, four pickers, and four wagons worked 10 hours to fill the silos.
Logan sues for 200 damages alleging water overflow from a ditch and sewer near his property. Plaintiff names Harvey Conkle and trustees Frances Stump Andrew White Lloyd Whistler of Perry Township as defendants.
Logan church announces Sunday services led by Rev. T. Mitchell. Sunday School at 9:15 a.m., morning worship at 10:30, youth and children's meetings 6:30 to 7:15 p.m., evangelistic service at 7:30 p.m. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7:30.
Logan Charles Howard Mathias Jr Rockbridge Route 1 and Joseph Nicholas Campbell Logan Route 2 enlisted in the U S Army Air Corps at Patterson Field Dayton per Hocking County Selective Service Board information.
Transfers recorded at the county recorder list multiple plots in Logan Ward Perry Falls and Washington Townships. Transactions include six acres to Edward and Naomi Stufflebean and various lot and acreage transfers among named individuals and companies within Logan and surrounding townships.
Logan reports progress at Cher rington Hospital where William Lewis from Buchtel, Lawrence Wright from Lancaster, Richard Jones from Shawnee, and two others are recovering under care after significant operations performed by hospital physicians.
Orlandeth Lehman of Gore Route 1 presents a large bouquet of prize winning dahlias to the county superintendent. Lehman, famed for his dahlia cultivation, has won many prizes at state flower shows and received a special trophy for a new flower type.
Logan Hocking County AAA officials announced a farm machinery rationing board has been formed. Paul Shaw, county AAA chairman, is chairman of the board with William H. Mowery and Irvin Krinn as members and Andrew Rheinscheld Forest Keck as alternates. Applications for machinery under categories A and B were issued to local implement dealers. a third group covers garden tools not requiring permits.
Logan report on a Thursday meeting at the Ambrose Hotel Building where FSA chief James Rimelspach led five represented families seeking loans on chattels such as farm machinery livestock fertilizer and household equipment. Next meeting set for two weeks. inquiries to the FSA office.
Mr and Mrs Norman Vorhees announce the birth of a son on Thursday night in Gibisonville celebration follows the event with family and friends in the community.
Harry Shaw, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Shaw, graduated Thursday from the Cleveland School of Embalming after a year as a student. Attending the exercises with his parents were Mrs. Eber Mowery and Mrs. Paul Cruise.
George St. Clair Lefler of Haydenville was fined five dollars and costs after pleading guilty to assault and battery before Magistrate Frank St. Clair. The arrest affidavit was filed by Lee Crane of Haydenville. Upon payment he was released from custody.
Reverend Myron Clark, pastor of Enterprise and Pleasant Hill United Brethren in Logan, will assume the pastorate of Columbus Avenue and Bowlesville United Brethren Churches in Springfield this Sunday. He and his wife and daughter Roseann will move to Clark County within a week, with supply pastors filling local pulpit until vacancies are filled. Also noted, H M Hay of State Selective Service inspected the local office on Thursday.
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