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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1936
Page
13
National Red Cross headquarters urges rapid funding to meet Hocking County’s $600 flood relief quota. Logan Chapter has sent $300 and will add $100, as clubs and lodges join in, with 118000 families aided across 13 states and more funds needed for disaster operations in tornado and flood areas.
Meetings on the soil conservation program resulted in selected community representatives for the districts. Falls and Falls were named to committee I. V. Risch Samuel Blum and Carl Gruner. Green Township chose Frank Adcock. Other districts will name reps later that week. County committee will be chaired by the local community committee chairs. The setup mirrors the Triple A program.
City water customers who qualify for a 15 percent discount must pay their current bills before April 15. Officials warn a last minute rush is likely this week as payments come in steadily. The water office will stay open Saturday all day to assist with collection.
Logan officials questioned three additional youths Tuesday to clarify aspects of the Milne store robbery. The trio testified and were connected to the case indirectly by statements, but no charges were filed and they were not detained.
Logan Daniel Blankenship son of Mr and Mrs E Blankenship of New Staitsville Rt is home on furlough from the Marine Corps after nearly one year. He recently returned to Quantico Base and describes maneuvers in early year. He left Quantico January 6 for Norfolk and sailed to Culebra then San Juan St Thomas and Mardi Gras at New Orleans.
Miss Hazel Barbee of Toledo spends the Easter vacation with her father L A Barbee on North Street. Mrs Dorothy Smith of Cincinnati arrives to visit her parents Dr and Mrs A K Smith. Harley Deffenbaugh of Tarlton is a Logan business visitor. Clarence Fealty of New Lexington visits Logan for the federal seed loan agency. Attorney Harley Meyer leaves for Reedsburg Wisconsin to spend Easter with his mother Mrs Ida Meyer.
James Bob King will open a lumber yard in Logan within days. He has leased the E Front Street building of the former Lumber Supply Co and will run the local office, while Ezra Wintermuth leads the rebuilt yard at New Straitsville following a recent fire. Supplies have been ordered.
M. D Unkle, now Mansfield chief of police, directed a murder investigation in the city. He is a former Logan resident who joined Toledo police years ago and rose to the detective bureau before being loaned to Mansfield during the city’s police reorganization at the start of the year.
Visitation notes include Mrs. M. H. Cherrington in Havana, Cuba registered at Hotel Pasage with Mrs L. M. Yocum and Mrs. F. Wing, expected home today while Mrs. Cherrington winters in Miami. Detroit trip for Easter hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Evans and Mrs. Della Bishop features Fred Hull and party. Local church class meeting hosted by the Co Educational Sunday School Class with the Salts family, Hockman, Wrights, Durr, and Toy in attendance. Easter vesper services and cantata Life Everlasting planned by First Presbyterian Church.
Logan city board of health met Tuesday night with Dr H M Boocks in attendance. The panel ordered cleaning of two unsightly city spots and notified owners to act. It warned that failure to comply with cleanup orders will lead to prosecutions.
Logan reports Robert Price, son of Mrs. Jennie Price, was riding on Second Street near Walnut Street when he fell and lost consciousness. He was taken to Cherrington Hospital where X rays showed no fracture but concussion was diagnosed. He returned home to recover for a week. His brother Richard has been improving after a week in care.
Allan Keller a former United Press reporter who filed stories from Trenton during the Hauptmann execution witnessed the Flemington trial and helped cover the case investigation. He visits Logan relatives and lives in New York City. Ernest Carroll of Perry Township was fined five dollars plus costs for failing to send his children to school after pleading guilty.
Logan officials expect North Street widening as a WPA project in front of the central school group. The street committee will study widening by two feet on the north side to allow a new retaining wall and a concrete sidewalk. Schools plan narrower sidewalks on their side to fit the project. Authorities hope property owner consent will permit a two foot widening on the south side.
Mrs Mark Linton of Gore remains in serious condition at Cherrington Hospital after an operation weeks ago. Mrs Richard Cremean and baby daughter were dismissed from the hospital Wednesday. Florence Rheinscheid left the hospital Wednesday. Mrs Eli Adams and Mr Pleasant were admitted for treatment Wednesday. Roy Curl, son of Mr and Mrs A J Curl in Logan, has influenza and is confined at home, improving but to be confined several more days.
Mr and Mrs Mack Cox welcomed a son and a daughter shortly before midnight Wednesday on Henrietta Ave The boy weighed four pounds and the girl two pounds The attending physician reports mother and babies are doing splendidly
Logan Young Democrats Club meets this evening under Bruce Wright as president. The session aims to finalize the bylaws and constitution report and select two members for the district executive committee. The prior district meeting named officers from four counties and created a ten member executive panel, leaving Hocking County with two seats.
Sheriff Joe Farbearn visited Logan on Wednesday seeking information related to the robbery of the Eagles Lodge two men are being held in connection with the case. Local liquor stores will close all day Friday manager Frank Judy said the previous night closing time was 11 p m.
Logan schools close this afternoon for a faster vacation and won t reopen until Tuesday morning announced by Supt. G E Carr. Rural schools observe without vacation. Hi V Club of Logan High School hosted Rev John A Toy of United Brethren Church as assembly speaker for Holy Week observance.
Logan Union services will be held at 2 o clock tomorrow afternoon at the First Presbyterian Church. Rev W N Shank of the Methodist Church will be the speaker. Congregations of the United Presbyterian, Methodist and Presbyterian Churches will unite in these services and others are invited to join.
Rev M Lever announces special Good Friday services at Logan St Pauls Episcopal Church from noon to 1 30 pm with a rule of silence and meditation, continuing till 3 pm. Local extension service notes forms for federal seed loans available through Harold Chambers for applicants unable to obtain money elsewhere.
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