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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1936
Page
12
Logan city council undertook no final action on the appropriation ordinance or the gas rate measure at Tuesday’s meeting. A special session is set for Friday at 7 p.m. to push final passage, with funds already approved to cover city operations through Saturday.
The Murray City girls basketball team extended a three and a half year spotless run in the Hocking County League by defeating Carlton Hill 37 to W in a tournament game. Four of the six starters earned all county honors, with two on the first team and two on the second. Mike Martin led the squad with 24 points in the Carbon Hill matchup and tallied 215 league points of the team’s 452 for the season, while opponents were limited to 363 points.
City council discusses a proposed gas rate in a step up structure as Mayor Fitzgerald favors a lower compromise rate. Utilities engineers report 1328 customers use 5000 cubic feet or less monthly versus 458 above that level with brackets by consumption and a total of 1328 for smaller users.
Richard McCutchan, director, reports a newly formed Logan school beginner band with 65 members drawn from East West Central and Junior High. Rehearsals occur each Thursday as four buildings’ classes combine. Aims include uniforms and public appearances next year and feeder role to the high school band as graduations deplete it.
Logan reports Harry Sweazy of this city will be an end man in the upcoming American Legion minstrel. At a Masonic banquet he played a standard harmonica a tiny four note harp with a string and an accordion. He also sang and danced.
Girls Will Direct Logan Assembly program at Senior High Friday and lead Girl Reserves. They met Monday to arrange the plan. Instead of the assembly at Junior High Friday the regular club meetings will be held.
Rev Amos L Heyde spoke on International Relations during the Logan Rotary Club gathering. The group noted Rotary International's anniversary on Feb 23 and Logan Club’s 1920 founding on March 1. B A Hall proposed a Rachelmacher Park band shell. will go to directors.
Charlie Coakley 66 died at 2 15 a m Tuesday after a long diabetes illness. He lived on Webb Summit farm before moving to Logan about 15 years ago. A brick plant burner for many years, he leaves his wife nine children from a prior marriage and Susie his daughter. Funeral at Church of the Nazarene Thursday at 2 00 p m with Rev Miranda Casto and Rev F H Landgrahe. burial in Smith Chapel Cemetery. Body at 348 Gallagher Ave home of George Davis where friends may call.
Henry Jacoby Logan walked along Main Street for the first time in six weeks seeking to avoid icy sidewalks as he recovers from illness.
Logan Junior Bloomfield, son of Mrs. Ruth Bloomfield, is ill with pneumonia and has asthma complicating his condition. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Cooke of Malta visit Logan for a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Wolfe, their daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Ralph stayed with Robert Ralph in Columbus over the weekend. Mrs. Dorothy Waugh Summers of Columbus was in Logan Monday.
Logan reports ice blocks floating downstream as warmer days melt heavy snow. In Columbus Alfred Humphrey, former enforcement chief, told Director J Miller that fines totaling 55070 were issued for liquor law violations in the first three weeks of February. The Maori love charm hel uki is carved from nephrite.
The Carpenter area reports resignation of Columbia High School teacher Lowell Chase due to unqualified subject duties. Replacement Pickett from near Darwin hired to teach vacant typing classes. Several local residents sent or received hospital treatment for operations. Funeral for Kyle Radcliff noted. Community visits, family travels, and social gatherings described with Washington Birthday place cards and local hosting.
Logan notes cover club hostesses at Mrs. G E Carr home and substitutions at the Dumb Dora Bridge Club. The Four Square Sunday School class changes meeting hour at the Methodist Church. Winifred Rathburn and Jack Dougherty wed in Hamilton and plan a farm near Logan. Genevieve Humphrey and Chester Dunkle wed at the parsonage. A book review on North to the Orient by Anne Lindbergh, by Mrs Clinton Webb, with a lunch. Sorority Sigma Phi Gamma meets in their room with awards won. American Legion Auxiliary discusses Americanism and National Defense with vocal numbers and talks on the Columbus conference plus new member Mrs Lawrence Evans.
Logan Leo Uridil, former Ohio State star, will officiate Saturday’s all city basketball finale between Lan caster St. Marys and the Chieftains. It will be Uridil’s first appearance as an official in this city.
Kiwanis Club at Hotel Gordon Tues noon accepted five new membership applications, joining four from last week for a total of nine in the drive. Attendance prize funds go to the underprivileged child fund. Glouster librarian Mrs. Fred Brown reports 125 books and 20 magazines now available at her home library, with hours 1 to 7 p.m. Tue Sat.
Glouster Mary Frances Carpenter Ruth Dunnett and Anna Louise Logue hosted the Standard Bearers Monday evening at the Carpenter home Grace Batterson led the worship service Pauline Judson Pauline Nelson Betty Ruth Carpenter Laverne Lamborn Elizabeth Anna Munden Ruth Dunnett reported on Ancient Bridges and Evangelical Schools Seventeen attendees and two visitors enjoyed refreshments during the social hour including Margaret Dun lavey Betty Cunningham Pauline Judson Blanche Andrews Ruth Dunnett Dorothy Mae Rogers Elizabeth Bailey Ruth Kinney Jane Cunningham Boydie Pride Mary E Anderson Elizabeth Anna Munden Laverne Lamborn Betty Ruth Carpenter Pauline Nelson Helen Kirk Bride Miss Grace Batterson Mary Frances Carpenter and Anna Louise Logue
Glouster Temple No. 560 Pythian Sisters will install officers at its regular Thursday night meeting in the K P hall. After the ceremony a potluck meal will be served.
The Pilgrim Holiness Church in Murray City announces a Friday night sermon by district superintendent Rev. L R Roberts. Pastor Rev. Charles Wach enschwanz confirms the service details.
Instructions urge spring removal of the furnace smoke pipe for cleaning to prevent rust. Before fall start it should be reassembled after inspection for holes or cracks, with special attention to weak spots on the underside to avoid failures.
The Loyal Daughters Class of the Church of Christ met at Mrs. Bess Henshaw’s home in Glouster with assisting hostess Mrs. Esta Harper. Vice president Lena Smith led the gathering, opening with America, scripture from First Corinthians read by Maude Williams, and prayers.
A class of 14 new members was initiated by Mohawk Aerie No. 1034 of the Fraternal Order of Eagles in Jacksonville. Mayor William Weatherald, former Ohio Eagles state president, spoke, with William Hardenreich of Zanesville Aerie attending. A pep talk preceded a chili supper for about 100 members.
Receipts from the Caldwell-Glouster High basketball game totaled 77.05, the largest sum taken in a high school game here for several years. Expenses of the game were 15.
GLOUSTER D M Sawyer of the Sawyer Dairy Farm south of Jacksonville purchases a second new truck to aid milk delivery service in the valley.
The GOLUSTER Glouster Unit No 8 of the Unemployed League will gather at the school building Thursday evening at 7 30 for a musical program and an invitation to all.
Cenfer on Land Use Logan Guy Dowdy of Columbus meets Harold Chambers and J R Smoot in Logan for a land use program conference. Local extension workers recently studied Hocking County soils and will present findings. Logan Post members Holl Ewald Schmitter and Russell James attended a Somerset meeting where Holl spoke.
Logan reports Mrs Rose Krschbaum of FE Hunter Street has been confined at home for weeks due to illness and is now steadily improving.
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