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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1939
Page
12
Logan officials say reduced revenues for 1939 due to loss of sales tax funds derail expansion of the city health program. Mayor Dallas Kinser notes cooperative action with schools is unlikely while funding shortfalls affect county and township welfare services.
The Rev. O L Barngrover aged 61 former United Brethren Church pastor in Logan died in Toronto Ontario after a yearlong illness. He served Logan from 1909 to 1916 before moving to Portsmouth and later Canada. He is survived by wife Nellie and daughter Hazel Barngrover an Otterbein College music instructor who had moved to Toronto for health reasons. Services and burial were to be held in Toronto.
Logan relative learns Thursday of the death in Chicago of Miss Ida Fickell a retired teacher who taught in Logan schools for many years. After retirement she moved to Chicago to live. Burial plans call for returning the body to Logan.
Miss Hortense Gibson reports Haydenville leads out-of-town circulation with 1112 items, followed by Murray City 1012 and others: Gore 575 Jobs 330 Gibisonville 101 Oroville 426 Rockbridge 401 and Enterprise 142. Jobs station to be discontinued for summer. Bert Hillard, Laurelville carrier, nears retirement within four years. Logan Kiwanis to attend Marietta Club meeting January 10 with Governor Pfaff to be installed.
Mrs Ray Darnell and her infant son departed Cherrington Hospital for their West Logan home on Thursday after a two week hospital stay.
Logan High School reports the month ending Dec 23 with Home Room 36R at 96.9 percent attendance. Room 32S posts 69.7 percent for no tardies or absences and 96.7 percent overall for its rating. The schoolwide average is 94.03 percent with some rooms as low as 39 percent and the lowest rating not below 89.3 percent.
Logan column notes George Bender and son Carl remain loyal to the Hocking Valley while a Greenfield shoe factory project will use National Fireproofing glazed speed tile in its construction.
Installation of officers was held with Walter A. Leonard in charge. Officers installed included John Byerly as chancellor commander J B Humphrey as vice chancellor Harry L Nill as keeper of records and seals John Bownes as master of finance Carl Byerly as prelate Samuel Wells as master at arms Herman Bratton as inside guard and Homer Carter as outside guard. Python Sisters joined for lunch. Knights from the local lodge then traveled to Laurelville for a meeting Thursday evening.
Trustee Ray Snider and Trustee Charles Fra sure worked together to butcher two hogs that dressed 400 pounds each. Earlier in the season Snider butchered another hog of nearly that weight.
Logan hosts a district junior baseball banquet later this year announced by Commander E L Eveland. Logan Crooksville and Oak Hill teams attend with other 1938 posts. Perry County and Amanda also field teams. The event aims to spark 1939 program interest with hopes for at least a dozen teams next summer.
The Methodist Church will administer the Lord's Supper at 10 30 Sunday with Rev C W Graham in charge and youth choir music. Evening worship at 7 led by Rev Graham on Taking Stock of Ourselves. Trinity Lutheran holds 7 p m service with Rev Elmer Bliss. St Matthew Lutheran elects officers at 10 Sunday with Rev Amos L Heyde. LeSboro preaching at 2 30 from now until spring, no evening services.
Local property owners in Logan remodel the McBroom kitchen on N High St with built in cupboards and redecorating planned. George W Christmann converts the west half of his North St double into a four room duplex with rear stair access to the second floor.
Social notes from Letart Falls cover visits among families from Massillon Wilmington Wellston and Parkersburg. Activities include New Year gatherings at Apple Grove church a watch night party and the formation of a children’s church with elected officers and teachers.
Logan contest at Columbus North features Earl Young of Chillicothe as referee. Bell twins, Bob Snyder, Harold Sauders and Roy Marshall slated to start. game follows Nelsonville opener in first league clash of the season with a 9 30 p m main bout and a 8 30 p m preliminary.
Logan Dick Johnson escaped injuries when his car struck the porch of Mike Dalton barber shop on W Hunter Street early Thursday. He is believed to have fallen asleep momentarily at the wheel.
The Rev. C. B. Cien Dennen leads revival at the Church of the Nazarene with the Marx Eskew Gospel Singers from Lancaster assisting.
Entertained by Mrs. Lawrence Hack at Market St. home were eight bridge players with high scores earned by Mrs. Hack and Clinton Webb. D. of A. Club gathering at Mrs. Verna Collison’s home drew 31 members with awards won by Mrs. Rebecca Stewart Mrs. Ruth Blum Mrs. Kirby Snyder and Mrs. Landis. Logan items note recent visits by local residents to Athens Barberton and Hackensack and upcoming Methodist Ladies Aid meeting.
Logan athletic officials have bought several of the new basketballs and plan to use them in the Saturday evening game for the first time.
Logan resident Harry Frazee Murray City died at University Hospital in Columbus on Wednesday. He served as foreman in charge of the state highway forces at Logan for several years and had worked as a store clerk before joining the highway department. He was a familiar figure in Logan.
Tony Cook, newly installed county commissioner, carries a small ivory rule once owned by James Hammond. The rule was sold by Becker Hardware of Logan, later owned by the late William H. White.
A private skating party is planned for next Wednesday evening at the Grotto rink. Eight teachers are invited as guests. The organizing committee consists of Ruth Thomas, Virginia Martin, Betty Alberry, and Dorothy Shivers. The group has 67 members and held its first annual skating party last winter.
A historic palace in Potsdam, Germany, the Hohenzollern, features 600 rooms served by only two bathrooms, highlighting stark space distribution and potential modernization debates for the famed residence.
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