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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1934
Page
10
Logan Aug 14 A new record for the week ending Aug 11 at the Logan plant of the H C Godman Company with 14 472 pairs of shoes packed and shipped. The record is the largest weekly total in the local plant's history and payroll is above 200 with 216 as the latest figure released.
Benton Township Board of Education discussed adding a brick extension to the South Bloomingville school to handle more students from a one room school. The plan requires increasing funds beyond state education department allocations to cover the improvement.
Camp Hocking athletic officials plan a fall football program with R C Proctor in charge and enough equipment to field an eleven. Games will be arranged with camp teams in Ohio and some district high schools as part of the season.
Logan August 16 set for charity program at Hocking County fairgrounds to benefit Ben Neeley who will be sent to a cancer hospital. Commissioners and the county surveyor cooperate in arrangements. Horse racing and other events plus music and entertainment. At 5 30 PM a baseball game features Mintage versus Senior League players. Tom Vancuren is treasurer and Orla Wolfe secretary.
Logan reports school consolidation in Hocking County will raise bus drivers needed for the coming term. About 40 buses are required to transport children to multiple school centers. Drivers undergo physical exams by Dr. W B Lacock, with certificates due Friday. State Highway Patrol will inspect equipment at the fairgrounds.
Demonstration teams from Hocking County vie for trips to the Ohio State Fair at courthouse eliminations next Saturday. Winners in both boys and girls divisions advance, with a style show and health contests also scheduled.
The Hocking County parks district welcomes numerous Boy Scout units during the summer. Troops travel from cities at various distances to camp in the area, reflecting strong demand for local outdoor programs.
Miss Ruth Ties of Logan has been accepted as a student nurse at Grant Hospital and will enter the institution shortly after Labor Day. Miss Les is a graduate of Logan High School Class of 1983.
A string of visits and family events across Ohio includes Robert Evans and family in Marysville, the Lyons and Walker households in Columbus, several visits to Diamond and Haydenville, and the Aug 6 birth of Darrel Fredrick Powell. Twin births announced for Lehman and Nutter families accompany local social news.
Civil service commissioners were informed by Service Director Roy Loomis that John Lehman was chosen from the eligibility list for extra work as engineer at the waterworks plant. Simultaneously George D Juergenameier was designated to receive extra patrol man duties.
Relatives report Ira Green remains in critical condition at the Veterans Hospital in Dayton. Mrs. Green had to travel home over the weekend and has returned to Nin bedside Monde.
Prompt invites readers to order the New Map of Europe for fast answers to questions about world cities countries and time zones. It notes Austria Vienna Rome Cologne and other cities under evolving postwar borders and promises timely insight into Atlantic news. Send ten cents in coin with coupon.
The writer encloses ten cents in coin for a copy of the new Map of Europe. They provide name and address details: street city state, with note of Washington D. C. as part of the address.
Amesville 4 H Harmony Makers Club met at the Grange Hall with 34 members present. Members planned tuning the high school piano for community service and practiced for a county fair music program. Next meeting at the High School Auditorium on August 17 at 2 PM to submit music notebooks.
Theodore Williams, 14 year old son of Mr and Mrs Charles Williams of Spring Street, suffered a broken nose Monday night when a bat slipped from a player and struck him between the eyes at the local athletic field during a softball game.
Charles Kempton Franklin Kempton and Buck Kempton of Jacksonville were fined five dollars and costs in Justice William Ellis court after guilty pleas to intoxicated disturbance. Constable G H Love made arrests and the men were released after arranging payment.
Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Bossack and Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt Dupler of Columbus were guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Bryson. Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Whaley and two children Ellen and Donnie, Miss Hazel Kalt and Ted Bessey returned to Detroit Monday, ending a visit at Trimble with Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Gooding.
Joe Palmer the Texas desperado held in Paducah says in a lengthy interview he attended Clyde Barrow’s funeral while scores of officers stood nearby.
Two Sam B. Dill Circus employees were killed and two more severely injured when a circus truck wrecked four miles east of Kingsport Tennessee.
Glouster on August 14 reports a joint picnic for sixty people including American Legion and Legion Auxiliary members and families at Big Bottom Park. Attendees enjoyed a noon dinner, an evening picnic supper, boating and swimming as the Muskingum River day outing wrapped up with return cars around 7 PM. Troy resident E F Skinner among six injured in a collision southwest of Troy Saturday with severe head injuries and two fractured ribs. Skinner formerly managed F R Beasley interests before Murphy Motor Co takeover.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Worden and daughter Misa Gracia of Maplewood are on an extended motor tour of the west. They will visit friends in Kansas then proceed to the Pacific Coast. On return they will pass Chicago for the World's Fair before coming home late in the month.
Mrs. Alex Rosa recovered after a tumor operation at St Francis Hospital following three weeks of illness. Her condition is satisfactory and she will return for a goiter operation. Several friends and relatives joined her Sunday evening after the hospital return.
Mrs Owen Meredith of this city is in serious condition at Grant Hospital Columbus after a major operation. She was taken to the hospital last Wednesday but the procedure was performed Monday noon. Mr Meredith and the children are with her at the hospital.
Howard North of Amesville fractured bones in his left foot when it was caught in a compressor at the Hatfield mine north of Burr Oak on Sunday afternoon.
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