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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1930
Page
14
Peter Kar batsos, a local inventor in Oak Park Illinois, works on a winged apparatus to achieve flight by birdlike flapping. The device features 16 foot wings covered in aluminum, flapped by levered motion from a novel motor and strapped to the body, with an expected weight near 50 pounds.
Logan High School hosts registration on Wednesday with teachers in the Senior Building from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. to assist students before the new year. Junior High welcomes only entering students from rural districts parochial schools and recent movers.
Official returns from the Eleventh Congressional District show a tight contest between L. G. Silbaugh and Harry Weaver of Lancaster for the Republican State Central Committee post. Weaver edged Silbaugh by eight votes though Silbaugh carried Fairfield, Ross, and Hocking Counties, and Weaver won Perry and Pickaway. Totals show narrow margins across counties with several garbled figures in the source.
The body of Jewls R. Inds 23 who died Tuesday in Huntington was taken to a local mortuary then to the home of his parents Mr and Mrs Frank Judy Sr East Second Street. Services are set for Friday at 6 oclock at St John s Catholic Church with burial in Oak Grove Cemetery.
Logan report from Cherrington Hospital shows three members of the Clyde Beverage family underwent tonsil removal procedures this week. Mera Pewerage, her daughter Rath, and her son Bobby were all recovering and improving after surgery.
Mr and Mrs Thomas Collinson host a family dinner and a motor tour to the Hocking Queaty Scemie Dtetrict. Mr Sherk, their guest, has been there ten Gar rett fer hte bourne in Qoment Chu horas. Prreedar. The evening included contributions from Br and Mrs Collins and Mr
Logan Aug 21 Commission ers inspect western district road projects progress noted on Big Pine seven mile link to Double Hollow area grading finished from Haynes to Puirresi near Bento Township. Mt Union Road in Perry Township to be improved over three miles with tar on Buchtel Carbon Hill Highway to finish by week end.
Miss Helen Savey and Miss Margaret Schrader hosted the Sister Susies Club with a 6 o'clock dinner at Moore's Restaurant Tuesday. Afterward they continued the social hour at Miss Savey's West Hunter Street home where Miss Elisabeth Dellison performed piano numbers and guests included Mrs. Rudolph Brown Columbus Miss Dellison and Miss Adelaide Pox.
Mr and Mrs Mike Mullen hosted a farewell gathering Tuesday for Mr and Mrs George Larimer who planned to move to Toledo. The event, at East Hunter Street, included a Wiener and marshmallow feast near Old Town with guests James P Davison and daughter Nancy Lee Columbus Julia Drumm and Lucy Richardson New Straitsville.
Helen Strain visited Orrville on Monday. A Pocahontas club pot luck supper was held Tuesday honoring members with birthdays this month, Neil Ross Lydia Holcomb and Helen Strain. Other locals visited relatives in Logan Shawnee and Corning. Jackie Johnson visits her aunt Sid Johnson.
Deputy Sheriff Joe Farbearn returned from Charleston with no governor approval to requisition Franklin Wolfe on a non support charge. After a hearing in Charleston, WV, the governor will not act now and will reconsider next month. This marks Farbearn’s second bid for Wolfe’s custody.
Logan officials vow to curb disturbances as custodian George Bolden begins campaign against sparrows. On Tuesday evening he felled 18 birds with a .22 caliber rifle, reshaping the courthouse area.
William M. Fogler, 33, farmer of Laurelville, and Ada M. Wynkoop, 27, at home in Laurelville, were united in marriage with the Rev. James R. Vields officiating. The couple are the children of Mr. and Mrs. Fogler and Mr. and Mrs. Wynkoop.
L W Reese of the State Department of Education presents weekly county spotlight talks on Ohio counties. Airs Friday at 8 15 p m over Station WEAO with historical background literary sites and educational growth details. Upcoming counties include Washington Knox Monroe Lucas Vinton Lawrence Erie Huron Meigs Trumbull Greene.
Logan Ohio August report from Hocking County surveyor Orla Wolfe notes thieves strip road building machinery in the Big Pine District during the night. He asks for a special deputy sheriff to guard the equipment due to ongoing thefts and disruption.
Sharpsburg hosts a surprise for Carlos Harris on his twenty fifth birthday at his Sharpsburg home. Attending are nearby families including Har rs Armstrongs Harriss Williams Arm strongs Smiths Kings and Tot mans with relatives from Bartlett Marietta Athens Amesville and Stewart.
In Circleville Ohio Henry Weimer a veteran candy maker complains that extreme heat prevents candy from hardening. He has operated his candy business since 1874 and says this is the worst candy making weather in 56 years.
Vera Wallace watched in horror as gangsters shot dead her sweetheart Danny Vallo racketeer as he left a cafe in a Chicago suburb. Wallace sat in Vallo's car a few feet away during the shooting and witnessed the deadly attack.
The weekly estimate of U S bituminous coal production from railroad loading data shows a total of 8 050 000 net tons for the week ended August 16 The Bureau of Mines reported 7 991 000 net tons for the week ended August 2 and 7 850 060 net tons for the week ended August 9
Columbus Aug 21 603 detours now affect the State Highway System the highest single total ever recorded in the state said Robert N Waid state highway director in announcing the count this afternoon.
The Liggett family held its first reunion at the Athens Fair grounds on Sunday August 17 in honor of Miss Barbara Liggett s eightieth birthday. A rocking chair was presented to her. The guest list included numerous Liggett relatives from Columbus New Lexington and nearby towns with Sally Hillis as the youngest attendee and Barbara Liggett as the oldest present. A noon picnic followed the reception.
A cure claim for Peterson's Ointment promises to banish eczema quickly with a first application easing itching. Virgie Hawkins of Wallace Virginia testifies her eczema on one arm vanished in two weeks after using Peterson's Ointment, advertised as healing minor pimples and blackheads too. All drugstores sell an 85 cent box.
Pr J S Leonhardt prescribes Hemroid claiming fast action on piles by internal medicine. It promises healing and improved strength in affected parts, addressing lower bowel congestion. Salves or cutting fail, according to the ad, and Quick's Cut Rate and druggists offer a money back guarantee if pile agony persists.
Plans were made to hold a reunion next year at the same place on the third Sunday in August.
Mrs. Edward Braden of Latrobe Pennsylvania, 73, preserves a pear given by her father in law when she was 18. The fruit, kept with cloves, shows little sign of aging after 55 years.
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