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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1931
Page
9
Local correspondent Clinton Webs calls for readers to send obituaries notices and society items to the newsroom at 6024 informing he will appreciate this service for Logan and Hocking County communities.
Classified notices and circulation related text refer to The Messenger including contact detail Phone 272.
Logan, Feb. 12. City Council voted unanimously not to call a special election to issue bonds for a water softener and East End sewer project due to lack of funds estimated at 800. The council will ask the State Highway Department to repair State Route No. 7 through the city to ease traffic and improve convenience.
Miss Felkner of the Nurses Division of the State Department of Health met with Dr. Morton W. Bland health commissioner in Logan on February 12 to discuss relief work. The focus was prenatal and infant cases in the drought area and potential search and cooperation with local groups.
Firemen answered their fifth alarm since February 1 at 7:15 pm Wednesday for a chimney fire at Miss Maria Parsons residence on West Main Street. Soot ignited. no property loss reported per Fire Chief Walter Nixon.
Logan Feb 12 An action for divorce has been brought by Mack L Gum against Launch Gum in Common Pleas Court here citing wilful absence The couple wed in Richwood West Virginia January 9 1925 and moved to Hocking County September 15 1925 The defendant left the home October 13 1925 They have no children Also included are details of Sans Souci Club card party hosted by Miss Mary Louise Bowen with Mrs Osman Burk winning high score and Miss Sarah Rockhold guest of honor.
Republican Executive Committee to meet Saturday to endorse a postmaster candidate. A. K. Hull leads endorsements sent to Senator Simeon Fess. Ed L. Ewing seeks appointment. M. D. Higgins also a contender. Miss Ide Steinman served eight years and did not seek renewal. Party leaders watch developments closely.
Judy Grocers, City League leaders, won three games against Pre Ford Gas Tuesday but totaled 2,619 pins. Beshare led scorers with 569, Foreman totaled 525, in the late-season makeups with Judy Grocers 915 and Pre Ferd Gas 743.
If you have any reason to suspect even a touch of flu, call your doctor at once. Seek prompt medical advice for possible influenza or related illness.
In Logan on February 12 Judge Hare Ley M Whitcraft heard arguments to dissolve a temporary restraining order against the Good Hope Tower Board of Education regarding closing the Weitner and Beougher Schools. The board says the moves follow a state education order to consolidate for state aid, while patrons oppose the closures. Hospital notes report local patients including William Taylor undergoing appendectomy with favorable recovery, and several others improving at Cherrington Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Laird hosted a Sunday gathering in Adelphi honoring Mary Carter, mother of Mrs. Laird, as she celebrated her ninety-second birthday with a noon three course dinner.
Mrs Carter celebrated her birthday with an intimate family gathering including Winl iain Carter of New Plymouth and other relatives from Starr Logan and Pittsburgh. Son Matt Carter of Nelsonville was absent due to the deaths of Mrs Carter’s sister and her nephew in a Sugar Grove Road accident Thursday night.
Logan 12-Plane has organized a benefit party next Tuesday evening in the Knights of Pythias Assembly room. Mrs. C A Richey announces games including bridge euchre and five hundred starting at 1 90 p m. Tickets will be sold for a nominal sum and proceeds go to the Low an Relief Association.
Logan officials announced that inspections of the Chapter and Council Masonic bodies at Nelsonville will be held on February 18. C. Wood Bowen will oversee the Council inspection and Rolland Bright the Chapter. Both are local Masonic members and district inspectors.
Arch Rodman was arrested in Lancaster by Fairfield County officers on request of local authorities for giving a worthless check. He was taken to Ohio City by Deputy Sheriff Joe Farbear and jailed awaiting arraignment.
On Tuesday in the BL & yards of Parkersburg a group of more than twenty men raided a gondola and stole almost a carload of coal. In other news Mrs. Richard, wife of a local barber, gave birth to twins yesterday, bringing the family to six children.
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