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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1938
Page
8
Nearly 200 players and visitors crowded the Hocking Valley Country Club Sunday. Club officials called it one of the largest attendances of the season, filling the afternoon and evening with activity.
Logan football practice will be tougher this week at Chieftain Field under Coach Tom Bender as he hones the squad for the opening game September 16. Expect more conditioning, field blocking, charging, and formation drills with new equipment planned by Wednesday evening. Backfield candidates include Joe Thomas Bill Shaw Joe Karshner with others like Bill Bryan Harold Saulers Wayne Todd Roy Marshall Earl Bell and Merl Bell to compete. Sherman Dicken Winona reports a 40 inch copperhead killed near his home, one of the district’s largest in years.
Dr and Mrs Harry Eastman of this city observed six wild rabbits playing in a Sugar Grove cemetery while driving along the highway last week.
Logan Benton Township voters will be the first in Hocking County to decide a local option on liquor since the 18th Amendment was repealed. A petition with 125 signatures was filed with election board clerk Carl Brandt requesting the November ballot. The only village in the area is South Bloomingville with two Class C and D permits. Local agitation on liquor sales has grown over recent months.
Falls Township patrons circulate a petition to transfer Scotts Creek School District for school purposes. If 75 percent sign, the county board will be asked to approve the move. This follows Graham district’s recent transfer to Logan district.
Mr. C. W. Brinkley of Logan is improving two weeks after an operation at Dayton Government Hospital for appendicitis and hernia. He expects to return to Logan by Labor Day. Brinkley serves as district manager of the Maccabees.
George Shaw Logan praised his week end golf after a birdie on the 329 yard No 7 at Hocking Valley Course. His first shot slipped behind trees but his second shot sailed over them and into the cup.
Clarence Dickerson, 12, son of Mr and Mrs Sherman Dickerson of Winona, suffered a fracture of the right arm at the elbow last week after a fall. He had attended a Logan circus recently and, while in a barn at home trying to imitate trapeze acts, fell and broke his arm.
Murray City High School has undergone summer renovations. The home economics area received new lighting, the interior was redecorated, a full set of Ohio Reading Circle books was added, and the manual arts department became a general shop. Joseph J. Stone will supervise for his second term this fall.
Logan residents observed a rare night blooming cactus at Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Whittmore on W Second St Friday evening. The plant is among several owned by Logan families. A similar cactus bloomed weeks ago at Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lyke on Zanesville Ave.
Relatives gathered at Ash Cave Sunday for the Webb family annual reunion. Attendees arrived from Hocking, Athens, Vinton and Perry Counties, Columbus, Springfield, and other central Ohio cities. The day featured the traditional large dinner.
Logan Harvey Mohler of near this city shot a horned owl Saturday that measured 54 inches from tip to tip of wings.
After morning worship a congregational meeting at First Presbyterian Church, Logan, accepted the resignation of Rev. R. C. Babylon who has been on leave for six months due to ill health. Acting pastor Rev. Albert B. Buchanan will depart after next Sunday to enroll in an eastern seminary. A call for a new pastor is expected within weeks.
Arrangements are completed for the annual home coming at Longstreth this Sunday September 4. The committee has arranged base ball games and outdoor contests and a basket dinner will feature the occasion. It is expected the gathering will be attended by several hundred people.
Logan notes wiring work by Albert Blick of Logan City for the Gore school building to be completed by the September 6 opening. Teachers for the coming term are C. D. Brown, Miriam Rinkhiser and Faith Krinn. Logan Boy Scouts to serve as ushers at Ohio State football games this fall, including Michigan and Southern California games.
Preparations are under way for Rev C W Graham of the Methodist Episcopal Church to attend the Ohio Annual Conference sessions September 7 to 12 at Broad St M E Church in Columbus. An invitation to return to the local pastorate for a second year was extended by the official board. Also attending from the area are Rev W A Cooper Gibisonville and Rev O L Lineberger Haydenville.
Logan Goldie Dupler sues for divorce from James G Dupler citing his confinement in Ohio Penitentiary. Married October 12 1916 at Logan they have eight children aged 8 to 22. Case notes defendant’s 1935 October term penitentiary sentence and requests custody of minor children along with decree.
Logan reports that the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tiffin McNeal of near Laurelville was struck Saturday night by a car driven by J. McNichols of Salt Creek Township in Laurelville. She suffered cuts and bruises but no serious injuries after officials concluded the child ran in front of the vehicle and released the driver.
Logan Hobart Tisdale was arrested Saturday night by Sheriff Joe Farbearn with Sheriff Radcliffe and Pickaway County deputies. He was wanted in Circleville to answer inquiries concerning chicken thefts.
Logan residents report numerous visits and guests from Lancaster Thornville Marietta Columbus and Nelsonville. Miss Catharine Stoughton returns to work. Violet Stover visits Mabel Mack. families from Crump Mich and Ramona Okla visited Logan households. travel to Cincinnati for a baseball game and a Griggs Dam regatta are noted. many extended stays with Logan residents mark a busy social week.
In Gallia County Gallipolis Elmer E Blazer a native Gallipolitan and Marion County newspaper publisher was named treasurer of the county central committee and member of the executive committee He is brother of Wilson Blazer superintendent of the local children s home and husband of May Enos a native of the city
Gallia County Women's Temperance Union plans a special meeting at the Baptist Educational Building to decide whether to seek a referendum on liquor and beer at the November 8 election or schedule a later vote. Signatures will be checked tonight. if November is chosen, petitions must be filed by Saturday. Rev George Sagen, a prohibitionist Baptist pastor, returns from vacation to lead anti liquor efforts with church support. Campaign funding relies on voluntary church donations and individual gifts. House to house canvassing and public arguments are planned ahead of the vote.
Mr and Mrs John Strough former WPA engineer transferred from Cambridge Ohio to Gallipolis and are occupying the Deardorff apartments on State Street.
Dr. Charles FE Holzer head of a local hospital and Dr. W H Matuska staff physician flew to Halstead Kansas on Sunday to meet Dr Arthur E Hertzler professor of surgery at the University of Kansas. They plan to visit hospitals in St Louis and Indianapolis on return. Holzer earned the nickname flying surgeon by making numerous air trips and was Ohio’s first to own a hospital plane large enough for a cot a patient and a nurse.
Naomi Lodge Knights of Pythias members families and friends plan annual picnic at Chickamauga Park Thursday. Max Finberg chairman says program includes music addresses and games with prizes for the latter. Neighboring lodges will be invited and large attendance is expected.
Funeral services Sunday afternoon for the late Mrs. Charles Hudlin at the home of her grandson, Gus Frye, were largely attended by former friends and relatives. Services were by Rev. Locke White of Montgomery, W. Va., Presbyterian pastor, where Mrs. Hudlin was a parishioner. Interment was made in Mound Hill Cemetery by pallbearers A. K. Merriman, Cosby Meadows, Kenneth Frazier, W. P. Kling, Gallipolis, H. M. Williams, Canton, Albert McCullough, Springfield.
Clyde Sheets, 25, was arrested near Mercerville for causing a disturbance at the home of Roy Boster, the step-father of Sheets' estranged wife, during the past weekend.
Gallipolis social section notes a miscellaneous bridal shower for Mrs. Herman Smith Jr with 25 guests and ice cream and cake. dinner hosts were Mr. and Mrs. C W Eads with a large guest list. birth announced for the RoachKeefer family’s third son. local outings and visits reported. sheriff’s sale in a partition suit sold Swain property for 3777.78. imminent bid for Kerr residence at 10:30 tomorrow.
For two years hog stealing has been common at the Ohio Hospital for Epileptics. Dr G G Kincon says the state lost at least 60 hogs. Alvin Lawson of East Gallipolis pleaded guilty and received two years probation. His brother Kenneth pleaded not guilty and was released on bond. Lawson must pay costs and donate 100 to the state treasury as partial payment for hogs stolen.
Gallia County Clarence Stevens, a 6 foot 2 former Kentuckian, is held to the grand jury on a charge brought by his wife and mother of a child that he beat her with a flashlight. The Stevens family lives at Flag Springs in Walnut Township. Mrs Stevens appeared before Justice Fred Milliser Saturday and issued a warrant citing assault with intent to kill. Stevens is jailed in default of a $500 bond.
Seventy Rio Grande High School students from Gallipolis attended the Junior State Fair opening in Columbus Saturday. Forty boys under Harry Anderson and 30 girls under Mrs Mae Smeltzer traveled by two buses run by Steven Jenkins and Charles Bonecutter. Grace M E Church School Board to meet Wednesday for annual officer election and Sunday School room repairs near completion.
Mrs Ralph Freeman of Gallipolis Ferry plans a kindergarten class opening on September 12 at the home of Mr and Mrs J G Epling on First Avenue. She is the daughter of John Canterbury former Mason County rural schools superintendent in West Virginia.
Friends say John V. Ralston, 24, of Morgan Township is probably the youngest Republican central committeeman ever chosen in Gallia County.
Mrs. Blanche Davidson, sole daughter, has been appointed executor of the will of the late John R. Deckard of Huntington Township, guiding the estate administration and settlement.
Complete contract for Gallipolis and WPA painting work across all central school buildings finished, according to Superintendent E. E. Higgins.
A widely published notice of the death of Mrs. Adda Wilcox widow of Dr. W H Wilcox former Vinton resident proved erroneous A phone call from relatives showed she was alive and well The report stemmed from a sister of Mrs Wilcox who had died in Pennsylvania and was interred in Columbus
Gallia County jail holds Archie Williams on a $500 bond for stealing and cashing an $18 age pension check made out to Martha Peck. Williams was identified by First National Bank cashier Clyde Ingels after cashing the check. portions were recovered. At the hearing before Acting Municipal Judge A J Stormont he pleaded not guilty.
Work began today on a brick building at the entrance to the high school athletic field to serve as a ticket booth and concessions. The field has been enlarged reconditioned and newly fenced and is in excellent condition for football practice at the opening of school September 12.
Homer W. Walter president of the Gallipolis Chamber of Commerce greeted Miss Marjorie Sayre of Graham Station queen of the Mason County Virginia Potato Festival during a weekend visit to Gallipolis.
Funeral services were conducted at the family home on Vinton Avenue by Rev W S Westerman for Lewis A Wiseman age 80 who died Friday from a heart attack He was born near Waterloo Lawrence County and moved to Gallipolis in 1917 to work at the Ohio Hospital for Epileptics He is survived by a son Dr Orlyn Wiseman Jeffersonville Ohio daughters Mrs Edwin Davis Oak Hill Mrs Reuben Phillips Northup Anna Wiseman local school teacher a brother Thomas Wiseman Arabia sisters Mrs Sarepta Griffith Coal Grove Ruth and Minta Wiseman at the old home near Waterloo Interment was at Calvary Cemetery Rio Grande He was a member of Grace Methodist Church and Centerville Masonic Lodge
Gallipolis Granville Ford of Dayton has been named principal of the Lincoln School colored by the Gallipolis Board of Education. Ford succeeds Bruce McGoodwin, who held the post for nearly a decade and moves to Paul Lawrence Dunbar High School in Dayton, a 1400 pupil institution. Rice hulls are used in artificial silk production.
Murray City High School will restart football this fall after a one year lapse, announced by superintendent Joseph J. Stone. Lawrence Lewis directs the squad as practice begins with the opening of school and September games are set with October dates to fill.
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