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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1933
Page
10
Logan reported its heaviest Christmas shopping in years as Main Street merchants shared brisk patronage. Toy counters were busy while essential goods also moved quickly as late buyers rushed through the city. About 1,350 CWA workers received pay vouchers totaling 22,412.53 for Hocking County, up from the prior week.
Logan December 26 Approximately persons attended the New Plymouth Grange meeting Thursday night for a Christmas program featuring a play. Participants included Olive Jane Cremean Edith Lanner Mary Nell Sanner Maynard Simpson Harden Cremean James Winters and Louise Holdren. Members brought charity articles to fill baskets and presents were exchanged.
Logan resident Orville Sweazy aged 11, son of Mr and Mrs Crum Sweazy of East Hunter Street, fell ill with scarlet fever last week. The Sweazy family was quarantined just prior to Christmas.
Logan reports Eugenia Weinrich little daughter of Attorney and Mrs Forest Weinrich is recovering from pneumonia. She had been ill since Saturday and was noted slightly better Monday evening.
Joseph J. Canty of Louisville Ky spent from Saturday to Tuesday with his parents Mr and Mrs John F E Canty in Logan. He recently left for Louisville to join the legal department of the federal land bank there.
Logan records a death from Kilbourne with funeral services at the Presbyterian Church in New Plymouth. Mrs Hughes, who died at a daughter's home Saturday, had lived in New Plymouth until three years ago. The service followed a quiet family burial plan.
Logan reports a weekend and Christmas visit round, with relatives from Columbus Olean and Wheeling in town to stay with local families. Mrs. Chute was hospitalized in Cherrington for treatment Friday night. Several area residents and assorted kin from Sandusky Toledo Dayton Athens Nelsonville join others for holiday visits with local hosts.
Grand and petit jurors named for January term with grand jurors led by R N White and Laura ville members and 15 petit jurors including Frank Webb and Julia Matheny among others. petit jury to report January 8 and grand jury January 22. illness prevented E N Turner from attending.
Figures from Hocking County rural schools cover 1928-29 to 1932-33 showing declining teacher salaries from 342,886 in 1925-26 to 230,996 in 1932-33. Receipts peaked at 420,819 in 1928-29, with 24,047 in the last term. Bus driver payments rose as one-room schools closed and buses increased. totals ranged from 12,266 to 27,800 between 1928-29 and 1931-32, then 14,427 in 1931-32 and 20,350 in 1932-33.
The Logan Christmas party at the American Legion rooms brought joy to 150 children. Santa distributed toys, and each child received candy fruit nuts and a popcorn ball under a lit tree. Gifts were donated by the Business and Professional Women's Club Sigma Phi Gamma and Delta Theta Tau sororities with Boy Scouts and Legion aides assisting.
Reported to replace Homer Cummings as Attorney General Martin Conboy newly appointed U S Attorney for the New York District is poised for a Roosevelt Cabinet post. Cummings reportedly plans to accept the governorship of the Philippines rather than remain as AG.
Miss Letha Elizabeth Trimmer daughter of A G Trimmer Logan married Walter E Emrick son of Mr and Mrs Joseph W Emrick Fairmont W Va in a 11 o clock Saturday night ceremony at the Methodist Episcopal Church Reverend W N Shank officiated Attendants were Miss Jeanne Edwards and Miss Ruth Wheeler Logan and Frank Swartz and George Weaver Lancaster A wedding supper followed at Blosser's Restaurant Monday a wedding dinner was hosted at the home of Mr and Mrs S A Heston Lancaster The couple will reside in Lancaster
During the Christmas vacation Logan High School halts basketball activities and will resume after January 8. From then on the regular league schedule will run with the first games set for January 12.
The Ohio Farm Bureau trustees meeting in Columbus approved a plan to have the federal government lease farm lands and provide CWA workers with the owner as supervisor. The resolution urges government action to raise farm prices and allow farmers to be employed under the CWA with wages equal to other CWA workers.
Two CWA work crews in Athens have 70 men on College Street and 40 on Congress Street paving projects. Foremen D G Sams and R A Dalton oversee crews with timekeeper William Curry and E E Van Dyke. Weather aided progress. brick work delayed on College Street due to removed trees.
Ohio safety officials report November industrial activity in Athens County with 96 claims, including 2 fatalities and a permanent disability. Total time lost 13,313 days with 44 medical cases and 35 injuries lasting over seven days.
Weekly hospital notes list admissions including Mrs Jane Eaton Athens medical and several Millfield accident cases. Dismissals include Mrs Vera Wright Athens Route 3 and James Vaughn Glouster accident. Convalescents include Mrs George Phetteplace Wilkesville and John Metzger Athens.
J P In gels vice president of the First National Bank and former Gallia County probate judge remains critically ill at his Gallipolis home after several days of serious condition.
Gallipolis observed Christmas quietly with church programs and a shared Messiah cantata by Grace M. E. Church and other services. A new junior choir appeared at First Baptist, and the Epileptics Hospital held a special Christmas for patients. Shipments of candy sacks reached 275 city children, with surplus sent to the Mission. A Wheeler matinee drew 980 kids, police reports showed no arrests, and no medical emergencies were recorded over the holiday period.
Gallipolis reports state and local officers joined by Mason and West Virginia police to hunt the Bowman Brothers who escaped Lima State Hospital. They patrolled County roads and the Silver Bridge after noon, posting at State Routes 7 and 11 to locate the fugitives and their accomplices.
Ohio River notes report only two boats moving past Gallipolis on Sunday and Christmas. The Steamer Reliance carried six empty gasoline barges from Huntington to Pittsburgh to be refilled after a 600,000 gallon delivery to Huntington. The Steamer Henry C Yeiser hauled six empty coal barges from Cincinnati for the Kanawha River as the river falls to about 17 feet.
Gallipolis merchants credit CWA checks for holiday sales that beat last year and postal receipts to match 1932. W L Trouth reports Thursday's business as the peak single day of the week with many merchants saying sales met or exceeded expectations. One store notes a 25 percent rise in two weeks before Christmas compared with the prior year.
Mr and Mrs Howard Sibley of Terra Haute Indiana spend Saturday to Wednesday in the Charles Eilker and F L Sibley homes. Mr and Mrs C Fred Edwards of Huntington were Christmas Day guests in the latter home. Mr and Mrs M F Montgomery visited Sunday with Mrs A C Cavendish at Montgomery.
The Zanesville Co-Eds girls basketball team, playing by men's rules, faces the Church of Christ team at Glouster high gym tonight. They won 20 of 28 games last season against mixed competition and regularly enter men's tournaments in East Liverpool and Salem. This first game of its kind in Glouster is expected to draw strong interest.
The marriage of Miss Maxine Vaughn and William Johnston Jr was solemnized Saturday night at 8 o clock at the M E Church with Rev O P Smith officiating. The bride wore black satin trimmed with silver beads and carried white tea roses and chrysanthemums. After congratulations the couple left for a short wedding trip and will reside at 34 Fairlawn Avenue.
About 170 people attend the M E Church Christmas program after Sunday School and children receive candy. A large audience gathers for the Church of Christ Christmas program, with gifts collected for the Christian home. The program is well received.
Pupils and teachers of the Monroe Building enjoyed a Christmas party organized by the Parent-Teacher Association. Children sang carols and played games as gifts were exchanged. Each pupil received a candy bag and an apple from the association.
Wilkesville High School Home Economics Club hosted the annual Kiddies Party for 40 first graders with games, storytelling, Santa, and wafers. The grade rooms staged a Christmas program at the high school auditorium featuring the chorus and students named Opal Shifflet and others. Coalton defeated Wilkesville 14 to 1 in a subsequent reserves game, with a tight first half before Coalton pulled ahead in the third quarter.
Robert Gordon Switz of East Orange New Jersey, an aviator, is held in Paris with his wife and eight others on spy charges. French authorities say valuable documents were seized, marking a major exposure in the case.
Marriage licenses issued by Judge J B Clark on Saturday to Harold Vremeen aged 31 of Crown City and Adele Shaw Johnson 24 of Braden, William Porter 22 of Gallipolis and Harriett Glenn 23 of Vinton, and William Theviner 26 of Theviner with Cora Felisure 25 of Adamsville.
Lee Shifflet of East Gallipolis was wanted in Pt. Pleasant on an indictment for breaking and entering and chicken stealing. He was located and arrested in Michigan by Sheriff G R Douglas of Mason County on Saturday.
Local families host relatives from Athens and Columbus during Christmas week. Miss Leona Howard plans a Cincinnati visit. Frances Taylor and Leona Dillon spend time with parents in this city. Ohio University and Ohio State students enjoy holiday vacations with family in Glouster and nearby towns.
Bobbie Joe Hogue seven year old son of Mr and Mrs Harry Hogue died Friday night about 10 at his grandparents home Mr and Mrs Peter Nutter Greens Run. Short services were held at the grave Saturday afternoon at 1 30 conducted by Rev G B Courtney Chauncey. Burial was in Glouster Cemetery.
Andrew Whittington of Trimble was taken to Grant Hospital in Columbus by local ambulance late Saturday night for a broken jaw and other injuries believed to result from a fight in Trimble.
Funeral services for James Williams 24, a coal miner killed in a Madrid Indiana mine on December 16 were conducted at the First Baptist Church on Republic Avenue. Williams, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Williams, arrived from the west shortly before the service.
Coalton outplayed Wilkesville Regulars by defending pressure and veteran experience. Final score Coalton 34 Wilkesville 20. Wilkesville Reserves failed to match Coalton's pace and skill. In other notes, Lyle Rathburn remains ill at Sheltering Arms Hospital Athens.
Street improvements progress in Glouster with brick relaying from the Republic Avenue crossing east to Main Street and west to High Street. Work completed under the direction of Clarence Gatchel, city commissioner, with similar fill work done earlier near Public Avenue.
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