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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1936
Page
12
Logan officials report Service Director R R Loomis began an inspection of the waterworks after a system change. Daily pumpage from the new electric well has averaged 775000 to 1125000 gallons, most from the new well while old wells run briefly to maintain them.
Ohio Fuel Gas Co. is taking leases on large areas in Benton Salt Creek and Laurel Townships. Fifty one leases were filed with Recorder Carl C. Sparn for record. The leases cover 4357 acres, part of a broader set of filings after earlier actions on about 4000 acres with release agreements on roughly 1900 more.
Logan Thursday saw Judge Wilbur McKenzie of Chillicothe hear common pleas matters. Defenbaugh and Sons won $371 against W B Zeigler for failure to answer. Title quieted in the Margaret Coe Wingett vs Elsworth Coe partition suit. McBroom vs Singer defense motion upheld in appeal from magistrate’s court. Judge to return next Friday for additional matters.
LOGAN Knights and Ladies of the Maccabees plan a social gathering at Mr. and Mrs. W. LD Delong 1010 Third St Tuesday evening with entertainment and a sandwich potluck for the ladies. Knights drilling session is asked for Monday evening at the hall. Keih Shultz is recovering from a deep laceration on the left hand from a meat saw accident earlier in the week.
Logan social rounds list club meetings picnics and visits. Hostesses include Mrs Edward Kemper Mrs Frank Weiland and Mrs Floyd Duffy at Cantwell Cliffs while guests Barbara Ann Flannagan from Huntington and Mrs Walter Nixon attend. Other notes cover sewing clubs showers reunions and travels of local families.
Earl Mitchell of Newark was arraigned before Magistrate 8 B Whitehart on July 27 after a reckless driving accident. He pleaded not guilty and posted 500 bond for grand jury appearance. The Nelsonville item notes ER Dennis of Star Township taken to Mercy Hospital Columbus with leg injury.
Ethel Weakley files cont empt charge against Harry Weakley for failure to comply with a custody support order. Judge McKenzie had ordered $7 weekly child support and $50 temporary alimony two weeks earlier. The complaint states $64 in arrears plus two weeks of unpaid child support. the case is set for 9 AM on August 14.
Treasurer George C. Hengst announces the Logan County tax books will close on August 25 and be turned over to Auditor W. B. Yaw for the annual settlement. A penalty will be applied to taxes unpaid by that date.
Catherine Mowery age 80 wife of John Mowery of Washington Township died at home at 10 50 pm Wednesday after an extended illness She was mother to John Mrs Grant Wharf Fred Mrs Earl Franz and Miss Ethel Mowery New Plymouth James Lancaster Mrs George Cherry Orland and Mrs Fred Parker Cincinnati Services will be held at the home Sunday at 2 pm with Rev W A Cooper in charge Burial will be in New Plymouth Cemetery
Logan churches announce morning sermons on Moses Fleeing for His Life at the Methodist Episcopal Church and Substitutes at 7 30 p m. Rev Amos L Heyde preaches at St Matthew Lutheran Church at ten o clock and at Llesboro at eight. First Presbyterian holds Sunday School at nine with Harry L Smith directing. no public worship.
Members of the Hengst Keller and Marks families are invited to the annual reunion at Rock House on Sunday August 16. The gathering represents one of the largest family groups in Hocking County.
Callander Ontario reports the Di onne quintuplets begin their second starring motion picture here around August 16. The quintuplets will be paid roughly fifty thousand dollars per hour of filming.
Athens County Ohio sheriff announces public auction of 40 acre Southeast quarter of Northeast quarter section 24 town 7 range 12 with an old road right of way. Property appraised at 75000 must sell for at least 50000. cash terms. Sale August 10 1936 at 1 30 PM at courthouse door Ath ens. Sheriff Charles Stratton and attorney John W Bolin listed.
Wesley Wonn, aged 85 in Logan, remembers carrying water at Sugar Grove quarries during the Hocking Valley main line construction and working as a trackman when the roadbed through Rempel was built.
Report notes rock delivered to the scene on flat topped canal boats. Stone from the Sugar Grove quarries supplied the bridge abutments along the mainline between this city and Columbus.
Logan Emery Whitmore Davis charges wife Martha Lee Davis with cruelty in a divorce action. He says she struck and bruised him on several occasions. They married in November 1928, have no children, and have lived apart since June 12, 1936. Mrs. Davis resides in Kentucky.
Stella Poling files for divorce from James Poling in common pleas court alleging desertion after their Newport Kentucky wedding on July 11. She states he abandoned her at the Hotel Dennison in Cincinnati July 12 and left without support or return transportation, alleging continuous intoxication. She seeks a decree and restoration to the name Stella Orem.
Leroy Conkle’s new house at the corner of Front and South High Streets is nearing completion. This week tile roofing is being laid and interior work will follow once exterior finishes are done.
Funeral services are being conducted this afternoon at Smith Chapel M. E. Church for Helen Mae Palmer 14 months old daughter of Mr and Mrs August Palmer of Green Township who died Wednesday night. Besides her parents she leaves a sister and a grandparent Mrs John Smart of Haydenville. Burial was in Smith Chapel Cemetery. The groundhog and the woodchuck are the same animal with the former name used in the eastern states.
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