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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1931
Page
7
A. M. Ellinger will speak on Citizenship at a Union Furnace Parent-Teacher meeting in the gym at 7:30 p m. The program opens with Christmas Carols and devotions. A piano duet will be performed by Miss Emily Zhang and Miss Betty Conner.
Donations of toys for a Logan Christmas Eve party at the American Legion Club Rooms are under way led by Sigma Phi Gamma Delta Theta U sororities and the Business and Professional Women's Club. The effort aims to serve 50 or more Logan children and requests toy donations by December 12 for repair and redecorating. Cash gifts are sought to support dinner, a Christmas tree, stockings, and clothing items to accompany the gifts.
Floyd Stewart and Clyde Stewart of Sams Creek were found guilty by a common pleas jury of manufacturing intoxicating liquor. Huston also faced trial and was convicted. Mrs Stewart faces trial for menacing threats against Deputy Sheriff Farbearn during the liquor search at the parental home.
Local classified ads and circulation notices requested via telephone and staff correspondence. Contact D Milne at phone 272 for Messenger circulation matters and society items.
Logan Post of the American Legion held a round table meeting to discuss charity efforts for needy ex service men. Funds are needed for emergency work. two families aided and temporary work secured for three others. Membership rose to 111 with aim for 150. hall donated for a joint Christmas Eve charity party.
Logan council set Fire Chief Walter Nixon’s salary at 1500 dollars a year after a contract was approved. An assistant will be provided during his absence. Health department subsidy funds move to second reading but require a two thirds vote to suspend rules, delaying final action. Dr Lacock continues duties without salary. mayor reports 42.50 in November collections. Coal-bid advertisement authorized for six months.
A hunting dog found 54 year old Charles H Fyffe dead along a Tar Hollow creek in Colerain Township near Chillicothe. Coroner E C Robbins ruled probable death by exposure after examining the body. Fyffe had been missing since Monday from his Hocking County home.
Logan December report says Ewing Grange hosts the third winter program with speaker J. O. Hamilton County deputy and a lineup including violin solo S H Dillon vocal solo Margaret Hamilton monologue by Mrs Artie Brimner vocal solo Carl Hansel quartet Huggins Harden Dillon Hansel one act play directed by Mrs Jesse Kitchen piano solo Mrs Harold Chambers and vocal violin duet by Mrs R B Hansel and Mr Dillon.
Logan Poat sponsors screening of Woodrow Wilson Memorial Film at Ruble Theater Friday afternoon and night and Saturday night. The Legion aims to raise funds for needy former servicemen under committee head Melrose Harbaugh. A committee led by G. E. Carr C. Wood Bowen and Frank Judy Jr arranged the showing, with Legionnaires staffing the theater.
Logan December broad payroll report shows 370 men on the county highway payroll for the last two weeks at county engineer Orla Wolfe’s office. It is the largest two week employment in recent months with laborers paid forty cents per hour under a staggered system to maximize jobs.
Painful piles promised relief with Dr J S Leonhardt HEMROID internal medicine that stops itching bleeding and protrusion. Salves and cutting fail says Quick's Cut Rate Drug Store presenting HEMROID Tablets with money back guarantee.
Mrs. Jo Culbertson and her husband Ely Culbertson drew national attention in a New York City contract bridge event. Clark Williams, alumni secretary, states she never attended Ohio University and was misidentified with Mrs. Carl T. Robertson of Cleveland, a noted bidder. Robertson, born Josephine Wuebben, ran a university stint here as Jo Wuebben and graduated in 1971. She later joined winning mixed and women’s teams at national championships in Philadelphia.
Battery E of the 134th Field Artillery trains in mounted operation at Athena Armory in rain night drills. Ten cannoneers learn mounting dismounting from caissons and the piece with each man assigned a precise duty for rapid firing of the French 7 field guns. The gunner directs fire while man one loads and man two fires, with others stationed on limber and caisson.
The article describes a three-group battery detail: instrument squad sets up equipment for angle measurements using an aiming circle, commanders telescope, and range finder. scouts maintain communications between units during movement and prior to deployment. recon duties are included.
The passage explains cannon crew roles at the caisson and the battery. It lists number three as fuses, number four as passing shells to the firing squad, number five placing shells on the fuse setter, and an extra cannoneer recruited as needed. The Battery Commander's Detail in the Armory basement studies instrument use and calculations.
The Valley Public Service Company files with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio an application to substitute two 22-passenger cars for two 15-passenger cars and two 22-passenger cars for two 18-passenger cars on Certificate No between Columbus and Pomeroy. Interested parties may obtain more information from the PUC in Columbus, Ohio.
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