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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1934
Page
2
Logan reports Hocking County taxes for December 1934 and June 1935 will not be ready before February 3. Treasurer George C. Mengst awaits instructions on when the gas tax becomes effective and on rate levels. Once rates are fixed, books will be prepared for about 24,000 parcels of land listed in the county.
A joint Christmas party for American Legion and Auxiliary members and their children is set for tonight at the post rooms. New committee leaders were named including Public affairs Dr Claude Lyon and Youth Educational G Carr. The post approved $2 monthly for transporting children to the local nursery school and contributed $6 to the Veterans Hospital Christmas fund at Chillicothe. Several new roles were outlined with plans for a New Year’s Day joint party with the auxiliary and rehearsals for the minette will start after holidays.
R. S. M. will conduct rites in the Super Excellent Degree at Masonic Temple on New Year s Day. The ceremony begins in the afternoon and ends that night with a large attendance expected from surrounding councils. A rehearsal will be held tonight for team members. Logan Commandery Knight Templar will hold its Christmas observance at the Masonic Temple at 3 p m Sunday.
Virginia Overshiner Patterson Starke Seeger Gilbert Kahn Cogswell announces in New York that she will seek an annulment from Arthur Cogswell, her seventh husband, saying there is no use staying married to a man she lived with only a month last summer. She urges lovelorn girls to avoid marriage.
Citizens of Enterprise filed a complaint with the Public Utilities Commission arguing the utility should not deny service to a densely populated village. They object to charges on property owners for time and construction costs for extending service within a half mile access.
Commander George Weir says Logan Camp 719 will cooperate with patriotic groups on duties of interest. He urges proper marking of every soldier’s grave proper observation of national holidays correct saluting of the flag and pledging allegiance to national ideals. Reports of unmarked graves should be sent to secretary C. E. Pickrell.
Logan Marg aret Stoody daughter of Rev and Mrs Henry W Stoody has been informed of her appointment as a committee member at Ohio Wesleyan University. She is the granddaughter of Mr and Mrs John L Stoody of Lowan.
Henry Watson, accident victim, remains unconscious most of the time in Cherrington Hospital after a Sunday wreck. He briefly recognized his brother George Watson Tuesday night before relapsing. Funeral services were held at the West Front Street residence for Mrs. Watson with interment in Oak Grove Cemetery receiving vault.
Auditor W. 8. Yaw announces that a new sale tax license is required for retail vendors. The license costs $1 and applications must be filed by December 31. The first license went to Carl Judy, a local grocer, with applicants including D. H. Neighbergal, Mound Crossing, and Mrs. Charles Pleuk harp of South Bloomingville.
Logan C. B. Hatch special investigator for the State Department of Education visited Logan to assess and approve the heating system plans for Laurelville School Building. His duties include approving all plans for buildings and equipment amid school district consolidations in progress in Hocking County.
H B Priest and daughter Florence of New Straitsville Route 1 visited Logan on Monday. Priest recalls arriving in the county just before Christmas in 1878 as he nears his eighty third birthday.
Jean Butterfield and Fred Wardwell are named as cartoonists for the Blue and Gold Comet, the junior high school paper. The third issue for the year appeared Wednesday, an eight page edition filled with school information and many cartoons.
The Christmas assembly will be held at 2 15 p m Friday at Junior High School under the Dramatics Club directed by Miss Sarah Holmes Parents are invited The program will include group singing and a play.
Logan Harold Chambers, an extension agent, spent Monday and Tuesday in Cambridge for a district agents meeting. Plans for the coming year were discussed with J C Cutler and F B Utz, who lead the land utilization program in Salt Creek Valley of the Muskingum project, delivering principal talks.
Judge W. J. Jones sets January 3 for argument on motion for a new trial after seven workers from Lancaster and Columbus were convicted of assault with intent to maim at McArthur.
Logds report progress on the timber bridge under construction near South Bloomingville on Route 54. Capping for the piling is nearly completed and framing is to begin soon, with treated timber creosote delaying progress briefly.
Rosa County auditor Fred Schlegel who lost a tight third term on a recount visited Logan on Wednesday to meet local party leaders about a possible appointment.
Funeral services were held at Orange Christian Church for Mrs. J. B. Person with Rev. Holman officiating and Judge C. K. Peoples of Pomeroy assisting. Attendees from distance included families from Columbus Newark Huntington Athens and Akron among others. an auction followed at the Boger farm and many local residents attended dinners and visits at surrounding homes.
Baptist Church members in Carpenter will present a Christmas program on Sunday night December 28. The Senior Bible Class met in December at Mrs I M Swett's home with Mrs Mary McComas as devotional leader on The Birth of Christ. A Christmas program is planned at Mt Union Church on Sunday night December 23. Mrs Selah Weatherby will preach at 10 30 Sunday morning. The Golden Circle Class met in December with 20 members. refreshments were served by the committee. Mrs Alva Rawlings and son Denver visited Pomeroy Monday. Mr and Mrs Vinton Jewell were guests at the Wood-Caster Home Tuesday.
W C Fields appears in the new comedy It's a Gift opening today at the Majestic Theater with Kathleen Howard Jean Rouverol and Tom Bupp in supporting roles Baby Le Roy co stars as Fields and family chase a dream of owning an orange ranch the planned cross country trip ends with a sun baked acreage twist Julian Madison co stars opposite Jean Rouveral in a romantic subplot and Barbara Stanwyck headlines A Lost Lady at the Ohio Theater with Frank Morgan Ricardo Cortez and Phillip Reed in supporting roles
Team A captained by Jack Enghe defeated Team B by 5 to 2 to clinch the Rufus Putnam intramural soccer championship. The match ended a tie and featured players from fourth to sixth grades in a city league supported by Ohio University student teachers from the physical education department.
Lawrence Herman Six, age 31, a factory worker from Floodwood, son of Mr and Mrs Ellis Six, and Mary Margaret Howdyshell, age 20, at home from Logan, daughter of Mr and Mrs Eben Thomas Howdyshell, obtained a marriage license.
Scientists warn the practice may persist despite official bans as it remains deeply rooted in the culture of certain tribes across the region.
The new broad law requires regularly engaged vendors to pay a $1 tax for each sale. Exemptions exist for newspapers and some farmers. The tax commissioner estimates about 125,000 vendors in Ohio fall within the tax, with $11 fees per business to be collected by counties and funneled into the general fund.
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