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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1935
Page
10
The Ohio Inspection Bureau asks Logan Mayor Kenneth R. Fitzgerald to elevate water storage for better fire protection. Repeatedly urged after each inspection, the bureau warns higher insurance rates loom if not implemented. The issue influenced plans for a new reservoir as PWA and WPA project.
Logan High basketball players resume practice at the auditorium at 2 pm daily through Friday. Coach Schroeder aims to ready the squad for the upcoming Columbus South High encounter.
Logan youths Paul Hartman and Dick Brandt joined a local retro celebration by riding a sleigh down Main Street in old time costumes. The event revived winter scene nostalgia as the sleigh bells rang along the street.
Logan district reports Camp Hocking personnel on furloughs for the holidays with half the group away and the rest returning to go home. Winter work includes logging hauling gravel and grubbing until Marc arrives to lead planting of thousands of seedlings near the scenic district next spring. Civilian staff also reduced as the camp adjusts to the furloughs.
Doctor H. M. Boocks responding to a rural call on Tick Ridge Starr Township became stuck in a heavy snow drift and damaged his car transmission. In Logan, Frank Poling was arrested Saturday evening by Patrolman Harry Thomas on a charge of intoxication and was to be arraigned before Mayor Kenneth R. Witzewerald.
Household goods of Mr and Mrs Harold Zeig were moved to Mansfield where they will reside Mrs Zeig left for that city while her husband stays two weeks before joining her Zeig was recently promoted to vice president of Sun Glow Company which is headquartered in Mansfield He has served as superintendent of the Logan plant for three years Mrs Blackston is recovering at home after concussion from a motor accident in this city and is improving steadily
Logan reports that morning services were cancelled due to the illness of Rev. R. C. Babylon who could not occupy the pulpit. His condition is described as a heavy cold.
Joe Frasch and parents visit. Coach and Mrs John Longley Ash Isa in Logan for holidays. Rev R C Babyson returns from Covington to Logan. Ruth Ann Boocks Vacationing in Logan with her father Dr H M Boocks. Mrs C W Boocks visiting relatives in Wheeling and Pittsburgh may tour Florida. Roger Friendje il of influenza at home. Ray Roberts in Columbus over Sunday. Reich Parks Nelsonville in Logan Saturday. Wilbur Oeffler Mt Pleasant Michigan visits father Bi Oeffler. Henry Dague spends weekend in Frederickstown with wife.
Logan resident Frank Marks, 39, died at home after an extended tuberculosis illness. He was brother to Harley Marks of Logan and another brother in Zanesville. Survived by parents, one brother and two sisters. Funeral at Heinlein Bros Chapel at 2 pm with Rev. John A. Toy officiating. Burial in Smith Chapel Cemetery.
Funeral rites for Mrs Mary Wright died at her home Saturday at 2 pm Tuesday service at the late residence on Market St. Rev W N Shank of the Methodist Episcopal Church will preside. Burial in Oak Grove Cemetery. Son Wayne Wright of Albuquerque NM plans to attend, arriving Logan tonight.
Logan K Lanning of Salem Hollow is held on $500 bond to answer a rape charge. He was arrested last week by Deputy Sheriffs Newton Spencer and Nellis Smith, arraigned before Magistrate 8. B. Whitehart and entered a plea of not guilty.
Funeral services for Da vid Later will be held at 2 o clock Tuesday afternoon at the United Brethren Church in Rockbridge with the Rev. J Love in charge. Burial will be made in Fairview Cemetery.
A Logan group of young men visited Hocking Valley Golf Course on Saturday to test a hill near the Number Two green for skiing. Kenneth Bridght, Ray Collison, Maurice Cole, Paul Jurgenamier, and Chuck Keller joined the outing and completed long glides with no injuries reported.
A hog escaped from a truck last week and was found Saturday. The recovered hog outweighed the lost one, prompting some adjustments. Otto Buntoff has returned to Columbus hospital after home recovery near Webb Summit following toe amputation surgery.
Winter conditions push Logan telephone and telegraph crews to perform extra work to keep communications functioning outside the city. Ongoing efforts focus on uninterrupted service despite the storm.
Mr and Mrs Arch Griffin of Mt Pleasant Hocking County receive a letter from son Vance in Los Angeles describing extreme heat that hindered work. He notes it being his first Christmas in California where he has lived about two months and mentions employment with the Underwriter Salvage Company.
The Logan Sun Glow plant will close at noon Tuesday and stay shut until Thursday for annual inventory. It has been one of Logan’s busiest factories in 1935 with expansion hopes for a strong year ahead. Police report a lodger request from Charlies Wilson Friday night, a traveler whose feet were frozen, wrapped in burlap. Britain buys about eighty percent of the world’s chilled and frozen beef.
Elizabeth Stoughton and Leslie M. Evans wed in Logan at the First United Brethren Church with a single ring ceremony. The bride, a 1928 Logan High School graduate, is secretary to Attorney Weinrich and acted as court stenographer. Evans, a Carbon Hill and Ohio University graduate, teaches and coaches at Union Furnace High School. The couple plans a home at 1108 Church St. Also wed were Dorothy Johnson and Richard Vore at St Matthew Lutheran Church with a ginger crepe dress bride and gold attire attendant. Johnson is a Logan High graduate. Vore works in McArthur. Various local residents hosted and attended dinners and social events following the weddings.
Slim Anthony, six foot eight, is nicknamed Slim at Camp Hocking where his biggest worry is finding trousers long enough, with staff issuing special orders from the quartermaster. A separate study by New York scientists notes that early middle-aged farmers are healthier than other men in the United States.
Logan residents Jacob and Isaac Wolfe are set to observe their eighty first birthday on New Year’s Day and are believed among the nation’s oldest twins. The brothers trace back to Pennsylvania and Germany and have worked as stone cutters brick masons and carpenters. Both are retired yet active and seen on Main St. with many family connections in Logan and nearby towns. Alfred Brown of Good Hope Township is seriously ill after a heart attack at the Rockbridge home of A F Risch.
Heavy snowfall slows county road travel in Hocking County with many township roads closed. Drift depths reach several feet in cut areas while county mechanic Carl Larimer clears the Gibisonville highway using a maintainer to restore access where travel remained difficult.
Harrisonville residents report Christmas and holiday gatherings with relatives in Lancaster Guysville Columbus Akron Cleveland and Albany. Local items note a new truck for Jack Warner a lost hearse and hog shipments to Chillicothe.
Conde Nast announces that starting with the March issue Vanity Fair will be merged into Vogue, consolidating both magazines under the same publisher. The move aims to streamline publication and leverage shared resources across titles.
Mrs Clyde Dupler of this city has been confined to her bed for two weeks due to a heart attack. The attending physician reports her condition as somewhat improved.
Mrs Curtis Wilson widow and mother of several children thanks the Elk lodge for a Christmas box of groceries. They live in Millfield after her husband Curtis Wilson died at Sand Ridge.
A watch night service is announced at Morristown Holiness Church for New Year’s Eve with preaching singing and instrumental music. Visiting ministers and church members will contribute to the program. Rev. Lester Stanley is the pastor. The public is invited.
Holiday visitors included Kathryn Paskievitch and Joseph O Karma from Detroit, along with Victor Paskievitch family and relatives. Illness report for Mrs Bycofski on Taylor Ridge and extended visit by Bennie Glinieski and his son Frank from Detroit. Christmas Day hosting also featured Grace Muszynski of Glouster with other Paskievitch and Rendervich family members.
CHAUNCEY practically all the mines in the district were in operation Monday. Twenty one were marked up for work at sites including No. 5 No. 9 No. 15 No. 24 No. 28 No. 69 No. 107 No. 255 No. 267 No. 219 Ohio No. 1 Chauncey No. 25 Poston No. 6 Hocking Carbondale Luhrig Kimberly Lick Run Coonville Black Diamond and Salem Hollow. CHAUNCEY Mr and Mrs Charles Leffler Sr Drake Sr entertained with a duck dinner Christmas Day. Guests included Hazel Leffler Ruth Leffler and Kenneth Lewis Columbus Mary Louise Baughman Chauncey Charles Leffler Jr and Dickey Leffler. CHAUNCEY Miss Wynona Bridgewater a student at Gods Bible School Cincinnati spent the Christmas vacation in Chauncey at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs Joe Bridgewater May Ave. She left Thursday for Cincinnati.
Chauncey news notes Mrs. Christine Brown will host a Monday night bridge gathering at her High Street home. Sunday visitors included Mr. and Mrs. Peter Rankin and family with Lawrence Olson and children from The Plains, and Elsie Rankin Mullen of Akron. The group plans to host guests through Tuesday night. Lane Olson and sons returned from Mansfield after accompanying relatives on Christmas vacation. Mrs. Floyd Ve reported convalescing at home. The death of Nancy Leffler in Dayton prompted Chauncey visitors Mr. and Mrs. Perry Leffler to travel here from Mill Street.
Chauncey y1 les Leffler of Chicago receives a fruit basket from his son George Leffler of Los Angeles California. The assortment includes prunes, figs, dates, citrus, pomegranates, cherries, and a large bottle with a false bottom that turns out to be a horn. Leffler has worked four years at the automobile plant and had visited his parents recently.
Mr and Mrs Lands of Chauncey entertain Christmas guests including Mr and Mrs George Van Meter of Plains and Mr and Mrs Eady Scott of Federal. Also visiting are Mr and Mrs Cox Jr and daughter Ry Athens and Kenneth Lands.
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