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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1940
Page
7
Logan mayors Kinser reviews 1938 39 administration in annual report to city council detailing department structure 62 members water fund balance 12000 new fire truck 912 affidavits traffic code adopted and plans for cemeteries parks and sewers plus proposed building code and WPA employment efforts and street projects in 1940.
Logan social notes list Sigma Phi Gamma and Delta Theta Tau sororities holding Monday meetings with officers presiding. The Gamma Province convention is set for February 10 and 11 in Cleveland with delegates and alternates named. A Delta Theta Tau initiation is planned next Monday, and a bridge club launches a new session while Win-or-Lose Club selects high scorers at a Monday gathering.
Mrs. Lawrence Adcock presided at the Ameri can Legion Auxiliary business meeting in the Legion Hall on Monday evening. Legislative topics were presented and tabled until the national legislative date under chairman Mrs. Ewald Schmitter. Cigarettes were sent to an ex service veteran in a hospital. Refreshment committee for the two week meeting includes Mrs. Roy Anthony Mrs. H D Arnold Miss Florence Bort Miss Ruth and Miss Hazel Armstrong.
Union Furnace PTA meets at the school Wednesday evening at 7 30 with Dr H M Boocks of Logan as guest speaker on Health. Music by Miss Burnella Goodwin and Miss Martha Smith, plus a student physical education demonstration by Mr Max Bunce.
Mr and Mrs Ralph Walker hosted the Co-educational Class of the United Brethren Church on N Spring St Monday evening with Mrs Lawrence Van Duren assisting. Miss Helen Clarke led a business session, and plans were made for a sleigh riding party at Miss Vivian Goss home this week.
Members of the Pastime Club gathered at the home of Mrs Charles Achauer Monday evening for a club session. The event featured social time and informal discussions among attendees.
The mayor emphasized a $3975.11 total collection and noted that all departments began 1940 with a balance and expect a balance to start 1941. Kinser urged cooperation with city organizations to attract new industries and improve farmer relations while stressing public servants serve the people.
Mrs. F Meade Bowen hosted the Euterpean Club at the Bowen home on N Walthut Street with President Mrs. Anthony Toerner presiding. Miss Katheryn Wright Mrs J G Cole Miss Iris Lowery and Mrs Allen Adams organized the program featuring Beethoven Fifth Symphony discussion and a two piano ensemble. A Brahms First Symphony segment followed with a duet by Mrs Adams and Miss Elizabeth Collison. A memorial service honored Mrs Janette Harrington co founder of the club. Refreshments were served.
Mrs Edward Pierson came back to her home near Logan on Monday after a month at the Hankisons Spring Street recuperating from injuries suffered in an automobile crash near Cambridge.
Logan reports Don Sauders sustained an injury to his left hand while operating a saw at Sun Glow plant on Tuesday evening. The thumb end was lacerated and he was treated at Cherrington Hospital.
Logan resident O. D. Johnson discovered a possum sheltering in his coal house Tuesday morning. He planned to return the animal to the country once the snow melts.
Services were held at 2 PM at the First Presbyterian Church for Mrs Janette Harrington who died Sunday night in Columbus. Additional services occurred in Columbus this morning. The Rev Baker assisted by Rev Cecil Harding Jones conducted the rites. Burial followed at Oak Grove Cemetery.
Edward Isle funeral services were held at 10 a.m. today at Roberts Funeral Home with Rev. E B White officiating. The body was transported to Elm Grove Cemetery near Findlay for burial.
City council members met Tuesday and found two new table lights on the presiding officer’s table and a gas heater installed in the council chamber.
Cantwell Cliffs ranger Kenneth Byers reports 1939 counts show Hocking County parks totaling 370 338 visitors, with Old Man's Cave and Rock House leading. July peaks, 39 states represented, Michigan tops out of state totals, foreign visitors include Canada China England and Japan.
Legion District Eight officers plan a 2 p.m. meeting January 14 at Robert Wyckoff Post rooms in McArthur. Merle A. Johnston is district commander with Amanda E. Eveland leading membership roll call. Reports will come from Eugene Schmidt Louis Seidenfeld O F Sharp and Charles Huber. other attendees include George Childs John DeMolet Harold Mayer and several more.
Mrs. Hayes Pritchard of Logan reports her brother Robert McAdoo Hay is overseas in France with a Canadian contingent. He landed in England two weeks ago and has since moved to Logan to make his home.
Logan deputies arrested E P Yoder of West Logan for attempting to defraud by driving away with two loads of coal valued at 24 50 from Nelsonville. Melvin Camp of Murray City was wanted in Perry County on a non support charge.
Logan deputy sheriff Nellis Smith plans to resume duties next Monday after over two months off for a major surgical operation. He has been visiting the courthouse at regular intervals in recent days.
Joan Bennett and Adolphe Menjou lead the cast in Hal Roach's comedy romance The Housekeeper's Daughter based on Donald Henderson Clarke novel. Newspaperman Menjou aids the sleuthing gang amid zany villains in a murder mystery set at the Randall town house.
The article surveys Ohio Senator Robert Taft as a leading GOP hopeful after a nationwide campaign tour. It notes Taft’s status as a party favorite and summarizes his recent swing through key states ahead of the fall election.
Logan reports there were no secret indictments by the grand jury. Arraignments set for tomorrow morning will bring in prisoners named in indictments, with Sheriff Joe Farbearn serving copies on those in jail or under bond.
Mrs. B. S. Miller reports her sister Mrs. Nelle Schwenke Crowell of Syracuse New York is in critical condition after surgery for carcinoma. Mrs. Miller has stayed at her sister's bedside for four weeks while Mr. Crowell also lies ill in a tubercular hospital.
A barn owned by A. R. Grendenning of Cola Valley in western Hocking County burned Sunday night. Fire cause and contents loss were not determined.
Logan Tuesday saw Robert Roche of the State Department of Education meet Auditor Kenneth R. Fitzgerald and Supt. Samuel H. Dillon in separate Logan offices during a business visit.
Logan city council met for the year’s first regular session with reports occupying most of the agenda. Confirmations were given for Virgie Belt to the health board and Al. E. Kirk to fill a vacancy. Loomis received a new two year term as service and safety director. A cemetery report showed receipts of 2205.28 and expenditures of 2341.86. A traffic ordinance amendment on right turn on red was tabled for safety committee review. An underground line permit for Ohio Bell was referred to committee for a next session report.
Logan firemen answered two calls on Tuesday and Monday. At 9:30 a.m. a welding torch ignited gasoline causing a truck fire at the W. H. Chevrolet garage with damages estimated at 100 dollars. Earlier at 8:30 p.m. a soot fire in a chimney caused minor damage at the Economy Market on Zanesville Avenue.
Charles S. Malone age 47 laborer of Zaleski Rt. 1 and Louise Gerricks age 37 at home Berlin Cross Roads secured a marriage license. Magistrate Frank St. Clair officiated.
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