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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1935
Page
9
Workers cleared the right of way and began grading for a bridge over Clear Creek on Route 31 in Hocking County. About 49 laborers were at the site as concrete piers were poured, part of an improvement to realign the highway and provide detours via nearby roads.
A stray dog killed a person in Bloomingville and prompted a health department quarantine affecting Benton and nearby townships. The report notes dogs were tested for rabies after the incident and that no other people were bitten.
The polygraph or lie detector is gaining prominence as a tool in criminal cases from Hauptmann rumors to Wisconsin assault trials. The apparatus records breathing and blood pressure to produce a commissionable chart, and jurors have weighed its evidence in convicting suspects.
Logan Business and Professional Women's Club met Tuesday night with Marguerite J. McCullum speaking on The Part Women Can Play in the National Housing Administration. The club named a housing committee and welcomed new member Janet White.
Kenton police in Logan faced a dilemma after arresting Lester Pearson race horse owner. With Pearson returning to answer an indictment, officers sought guidance from Kenton officials on the fate of two horses quartered at the local fairgrounds.
Logan C of C members faced a Wednesday night voting deadline on nominees for officers. The annual election will occur during the business meeting at the American Legion Hall next Tuesday night, with canvassing of returns and ballots soon prepared. A dinner meeting is set for April 30 with Frederick A. Miller of the H. C. Godman Company as speaker.
Reports from Logan and surrounding areas list births and marriages including John Marshall Buntz 21 a shoe factory worker son of John G Buntz and Helen May Cole 2 clerk Logan with Rev W H Himes officiating Allen Casto 71 farmer Logan and Rachel Turner 43 at home and John William Blake 23 miner Sand Run marrying Rena Evelyn Hill 19 at home Greendale daughter of Walter Hill Maris trate S Bo Whitehart officiated News from Mr Pleasant Michigan notes birth of a son Sunday to Mr and Mrs Jeff Soles bury The Solesbury marriage file mentions Marjorie Bell prior to marriage and lists great grandparents Mr and Mrs Harry Bell Mr and Mrs C H Bel and Mr and Mrs T R Walburn of Lo San as present.
Water line extensions completed by the service department reach Oak Grove Cemetery from North Spring Street. A total of 900 feet of two inch mains and 800 feet of one inch line were laid with 12 distribution openings in the cemetery for convenient lot owner access.
Band Mothers Circle plans to serve dinner during a massed band festival in the city on April 26. Preparations feed 800 high school students from the Southeastern Ohio District who will participate in the event.
Mrs C Logan and Mrs C Clark along with Mrs HM Bell and Mrs Nellie Allen Adams of Logan traveled to Cleveland for a federated music clubs convention and paused in Columbus Tuesday night for the Russian Choir concert. Others at the concert included Mr and Mrs Harold Chambers and Miss Minnie Moore. Preliminary Knights of Pythias district meeting plans were made in Logan for May 16 after the Adelphi conferring the second degree with reps from several lodges.
Hugh Baumgardner will speak at a meeting in South Bloomingville at 7 30 Tuesday night. The session at the high school building will outline the purposes of the Ross Hocking Farm Purchase Unit.
Logan Arthur Robinson aged 60 of Lancaster was found dead on the porch of his Cola Valley summer cottage Tuesday afternoon by Mr and Mrs George Yantes. Coroner Vance Brian and Sheriff Joe Farhearn conducted an investigation and ruled heart attack as the likely cause. He had apparently been dead for hours before discovery. The body was removed to Lancaster.
A delegation of 30 Lancaster American Legion members will travel to Logan next Tuesday night to initiate 15 to 20 members into the Logan Post. After the business meeting a meal will be served.
Francis W Poulson Ohio Democratic chairman refused to discuss yesterday's meeting with Postmaster General Farley. The talks were seen as an attempt to ease tensions between federal and state administrations.
Rolland J. Schaar of Athens who heads the national forest program in this district met in Logan to arrange an office there with weekly half day visits. Application blanks were placed at the chamber of commerce for landowners to propose government land sales under the Ohio National Forestry plan.
Miss Beassie Shaffer of Nelsonville was admitted to Cherrington Hospital for appendicitis and is listed in favorable condition. William Taylor of Murray City shows improvement after injuries from a Route 31 project fall near Rockbridge. Mrs W Meldrim near Logan underwent a major operation, and Mrs John Wooten and infant son are mentioned.
Charles Bowman of Columbus will be the guest singer at the First Presbyterian Church Sunday morning. He will present songs including Fulfillment and Open the Gates of the Temple. Bowman has appeared at the church before and was a student of the late Cec Fanning.
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