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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1935
Page
14
Santa will arrive at Worthington Park igloo Saturday at 3 PM to greet Logan children. Scouts will organize crowd control as a large turnout is expected and Santa remains in Logan through Christmas.
Eighth graders lead the school with 20 percent honor roll membership for the second six weeks, followed by ninth graders at 16.5 percent and seventh graders at 15 percent. The list names many students from ninth, eighth, and seventh grades who earned the distinction.
Sheriff Joe Farbearn plans a second term amid rumors and an arrest in Lancaster of EB T Pool on request of Farbearn. Pool will be returned to Logan for arraignment on a paternity charge. Fred Burchfield, senior high principal, is confined at home with classroom tasks overseen by Harley Meyer. City Hall holds Christmas decorations with Mayor Fitzgerald aiding. John Lift preserves old documents once owned by Reuben Hilesen, including early sheriff commissions from 184 and 1546 issued by governors Seabury Ford and Mordicai Bartiew.
Honor bride elect Elizabeth Stoughton hosted by Manon and Florence Powers with a pink and white shower at Warner Avenue. Eastern Star officers were installed by Venus Chapter with Katherine Kummer of Millersport in charge. Logan updates note local visits, school choir broadcast plans, and a heart attack afflicting James Burris.
Mrs Lisa Parnova Shaw, noted as Portia in court, testifies her husband Hollis Shaw deserves a divorce. She mentions Ellsworth Ford as her confessed lover and says Ford could not join Bermuda trip due to his wife being there with a gun.
The Probate Court of Athens County Ohio suspends hearings for publication and exceptions until January 6 1936 at 9 o clock A M for multiple estates including Noss Yeomans Fleming Graham Mahnken Cline Pugh Wood Jones Woolf Burnfield and others. Interested parties may file written exceptions by January 1 1935. hearings will continue until disposed of.
Logan Hocking County now has 1,701 farms up from 1,426 in 1930. Land value fell from 5,301,951 to 3,815,289, and average per form dropped from 3,718 to 2,130 while per acre value slipped from 20.54 to 18.41. The county totals 79,304 crop acres, with cattle rising to 10,213 and cows to 5,081. hogs fell to 6,000. Wheat and corn yields rose from 1929 to 1934.
Miss Irene Helreiger remained unconscious after injuries Sunday evening and died Thursday at Cherrington Hospital. Doctors reported X rays showed no skull fracture.
Judgment by default entered by Judge Harley M. Whitcraft in the Bricker versus Jarvis case. Charles Jarvis failed to answer or plead, resulting in a decree for 480.60 in favor of the Industrial Commission. The petition states three men were employed under contract from Oct 19, 1933 to Apr 19, 1934.
Remains cheerful Mrs Etha Clark wife of Nathan Clark of W Front Street will mark her sixtieth birthday on Saturday. Though she has used a wheel chair for many years she has kept her cheerfulness and earned a wide circle of friends who will send congratulations.
Logan Mayor Kenneth R. Fitzgerald calls a special session to select a city depository before year end and to reconsider transferring 200 from material to labor in the gasoline fund. If denied, Service Department labor may end, risking WPA project suspensions affecting about 150 men.
Relatives in Logan learned of John Rauch death in Columbus. He once ran a local shoe business and left Logan about 40 years ago. He is survived by his wife two sons and a daughter. Mr and Mrs Holl will attend the funeral.
Deputy Newton Spencer Probation Officer Alfred Campbell and Emmett Vanfossen left Thursday for Muskogee Oklahoma to return Helen Vansor sen and Anna Craig who were apprehended there last week.
Logan chief Lew Reynolds and Phil Henderson joined federal officers Friday in Columbus for a trip to Fort Leavenworth. Eleven federal prisoners from Columbus are being moved to the institution, all identified as narcotics law violators.
Deputy Marshal Stanley Sparnon visits Logan to see relatives. Wyandotte Michigan residents Tom and Mrs Crutcher visit Joe Wood relatives. Irma Powers travels to Columbus after death of uncle John Rauch. Carl Bucksieb and wife visit J R Elder in Columbus. Betty Hall in Logan battles eye infection but stays in school.
A fragmented legal notice references an attorney and a date around January 12 or 13. The readable text hints at court or filing actions without full details. The sparse data leave key names, places, and outcomes unclear.
Probate records show filings such as appraisements and inventories for multiple estates including Cash War Alice D Ida ness Edward George Samuel Wy and Bairum's Gr. with debts and schedules on file. The court schedules a hearing in December 1935 with interested parties invited to appear 12-13-20tw.
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