Logan readies for Ohio Fox Hunters meeting crowds
A Logan drive aims to raise at least 800 for the Ohio State Fox Hunters Association meeting in Logan the week of Oct 29 to Nov 4. City and county groups project 10 000 visitors and 1 000 fox hunters, with 350 pledged now and 450 more needed for decorations advertising prizes housing and incidentals.
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Logan
Ohio Fox Hunters Association
National Fox Hunters Association
Logan Chamber of Commerce
Hocking County Fox Hunters Association
Ohio State Fox Hunters Association
Arthur Gasser
Fred Gribble
Ed C. Paul
Dave Milne
Clarence Blosser
Fred Carpenter
Kenneth R. Fitzgerald
Paul Hartman
L. P. Mooney
Roy Loomis
Mel Harbaugh
Don Castell
William Woodard
W. D. Braddock
Art Green
Jesse Frasure
Ralph Staley
Virgil W. Martin
R. S. Rochester
Boyd V. Wright
William Miller
Carlos A. Gaffin
Housing Committee
Logan Day by Day: Giant Watermelon Report
Robert Irick of Marion Township picked a 39% pound watermelon weighing 52 inches in lengthwise circumference. He notes the patch has other giants on the Irick farm, according to Ed Staff.
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Logan
Robert Irick
Lowell Irick
Marion Township
Irick
Bob
First 1940 Auto Bought in Hocking County by Frank Ricketts
County title office records show Frank Ricketts of Logan purchased the first 1940 model automobile in Hocking County. Miss Mildred Blum reports three new automobiles have been sold so far this month.
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Hocking County
Frank Ricketts
Logan
Mildred Blum
Sunflower Bear at Rock House Honors Camp Forester
A 9 foot sunflower bear with 12 blooms stands at Ranger L. T. Worley's Rock House. Mrs Worley, in charge of horticultural details at the ranger station, calls it the Howard Peck variety to honor forester Howard Peck who planted sunflowers feeding birds.
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L. T. Worley
Rock House
Coal Mine Output Rises Slowly in Fourth District
The Monthly Business Review of the Fourth Federal Reserve District notes gradual expansion of operations at fourth district coal mines from May reopening. July production reached 11,553,000 tons, up 30 percent from July 1938, but still below first quarter levels.
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Monthly Business Review
Fourth Federal Reserve District
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Fourth District
PLAN TEST RUN FOR NEW PUMPER IN LOGAN
Logan will preview the new fire truck and pumper Thursday at Rachelmacher Park under Fire Chief Roy Stallsmith and Assistant Chief Gerald McLaughlin. City officials will observe as the Hanley Engineering Co furnished equipment from Prospect, Ohio. The Logan chassis from Ogg and Beasley cost about 2500 dollars and the pumper can discharge nearly 600 gallons per minute with a booster tank and extensive gear including 1500 feet of hose.
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Logan
Rachelmacher Park
Roy Stallsmith
Gerald McLaughlin
Prospect
Hanley Engineering Company
Ogg and Beasley Company
British Lift Ban on China Coast Shipping
The British navy lifted the ban on British ship movements along the China coast after deeming no German raiders sighted. British passenger and cargo vessels may depart Shanghai for northward routes and to Hong Kong. Shipping had been halted for three days.
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Shanghai
China
Hongkong
Smuts Forms New Cabinet in Capetown
Smuts forms a new cabinet in Capetown and pledges cooperation with Britain while breaking off diplomatic relations with Germany.
Thursday's Just Ordinary Day Now
The text notes the end of Thursday half-holidays and clerks returning to regular downtown store hours with noon closing arrangements taking effect this Thursday.
John E. Sherck longtime Senecca County school head dies
John E. Sherck aged 69 died yesterday after retiring a month ago from 25 years as Sene ca County school superintendent. His tenure spanned two decades of district leadership and educational advancements.
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Tiffin
John E. Sherck
Seneca County
Roosevelt outlines steps to strengthen U S defense
President Roosevelt announces actions to boost peacetime Navy strength to full levels, recommission World War II destroyers, recruit crews, and tighten defenses against propaganda and espionage. He delays calling a special session to amend the neutrality act while monitoring its operation.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
United States
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Winona Voters to Cast Ballots in Logan for First Time
Carl F. Brandt says nearly a dozen Winona Gore precinct voters have been transferred to Falls I in Logan. They will vote at the Elks building the regular Falls I polling place, marking Winona’s first voting session in Logan.
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Carl F. Brandt
Hocking County
Bank Bandit Bride Seized After Detroit Holdup
Police say George F. Larson confessed a National Bank of Detroit raid that yielded 2700 dollars. His bride of four months, Cecily Sellars, 25, daughter of Prof Roy W. Sellars, was seized with him. money and a Chicago bank bag were found in their hotel luggage. Larson, a 32 year old former Ohio convict, faces further questioning on other robberies. The vial he carried contained harmless lotion.
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Detroit
Edward Graff
George F. Larson
Ohio
National Bank of Detroit
Larson
Cecily
Roy W. Sellars
University of Michigan
Graff
Chicago
Larsen
C. H. Haberkorn
Attendance at Logan pool declines from 1938
Manager Tom Bender reported 1939 pool attendance fell about 6,000 short of 1938 when the Logan municipal pool opened. Records show 29,800 used the pool last summer. Water was drained Monday evening and equipment stored until next season. Labor Day drew a large Logan kiddie crowd before school opened.
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Tom Bender
Logan Municipal
Fund shortage bars probe of Pike County jury
A shortage of funds threatened to halt a special grand jury probe into alleged voting fraud in Pike County. With 27 witnesses to be questioned, only $133 remained in the fund for jurors and travel, about $52 a day for 15 jurors at $3 daily plus travel. No other funds were available for transfer.
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Cool
Jacob A. Rapp
Wheat gains reflect throttled Chicago market
Wheat futures soared to the daily limit for the fourth straight session as sellers stayed away in Chicago. Logan reports Keynes Milling Company raising its price 20 cents to 85 cents since Europe unrest began, with September wheat at 86 3 8 cents and December at 86 7 8.
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Chicago
Logan
Keynes Milling Company
Europe
Logan Resident Joins British Ambulance Corps For War Duty
Logan resident Dr Elizabeth Dobbs sails from New York on the Manhattan Saturday to enlist in His Majesty s army ambulance units in England She will join St Johns St Andrews or the Red Cross amid family ties in Britain and a fear of being drafted without voluntary consent.
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Logan
British Ambulance Corps
England
Elizabeth Dobbs
States
Manhattan
New York
Dobbs
St. John’s
St. Andrew’s
Red Cross
Frank Dobbs
London
China
His Majesty’s Army
Allies Push Toward Warsaw As German Forces Close In
Allied reporting notes German troops near Warsaw as Krakow falls to the invaders. German announcements claim Kielce captured and prisoners taken while British and French fronts report raids and warnings across Europe. Polish civilians flee toward safety as the siege tightens around the capital.
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Poland
Krakow
Germany
Josef Pilsudski
Britain
Warsaw
Winston Churchill
The
Admiralty
Athenia
Brazil
Hamburg
Mid- Atlantic
France
Kielce
Louis P. Lochner
Denied rape charge in justice court
Kenneth Sater of Green Township pleaded not guilty to rape with consent and was bound over to the grand jury on $800 bond after arraignment before Magistrate Whitehart. The affidavit was filed by Charles Hopkins for his minor daughter. Sater was later arrested at his home Tuesday night by Deputy Sheriff Nellis Smith.
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Kenneth Sater
Green Township
B. Whitehart
Sater
Charles Hopkins
Nellis Smith
Civil Service Bill Blocked in Ohio by Referendum Petitions
Democratic officials halted Bricker administration's civil service act in Columbus. Petitions with about 150000 names were filed with the secretary of State and stopped the measure from taking effect at midnight. Chairman Arthur L. Limbach hailed the delay as Ohioans gain a chance to vote on a fair civil service law. The bill: add a third civil service commissioner and let department heads dismiss provisional workers.
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Columbus. O
Bricker
Democratic
Arthur L. Limbach
Ohio
General Assembly
Civil Service Commission
State Department
KIWANIANS NAME DISTRICT DELEGATES
Howard Rolsten Raymond Lanning and Ed Davis were elected delegates to the Ohio district Kiwanis convention to be held in Cleveland in October. William Martin Fred Carpenter and Wilbur Lanning were named delegates. Plans for the Logan Kiwanis Club nation in the Pall Sept 22 28 at Logan High School were discussed.
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Howard Rolsten
Raymond Lanning
Ed Davis
Ohio
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