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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1928
Page
12
George L. Wright was named president and Frank Adcock secretary of a nineteen member farmers organization. The group plans activities this year and notes loans are obtained through the federal land bank in Louisville.
No. 57 Pythian Sisters held their annual installation on Tuesday night with Mrs. Mary hk Spears as installing officer assisted by Laura Martin grand senior and Carrie Gabriel grand manager. Those installed include Carol Mount past chief Lucy Ellinger M E C Hattie Bright EK 8 Ruth Leonard KE 1 Dora Mack mane ager Mattie Allen M Rh of C Mary Spears M of I Lizzie Philips protector Dora Harden guard Turn to page Two.
Logan January 12 Outlook for 1928 bright at the Greendale Brick plant says an official. 1927 was the previous peak year and 250 000 dollar order for smooth type face brick goes to Milwaukee for the General and Emergency hospital project. Plant employs 166 workers plus executives.
Logan January 12 officers were tracking moonshiners in a nearby mine when burglars entered the Harve Sayre store at Orbiston and stole groceries. A second batch was found stacked on the counter ready for removal. Ray Roush brought bloodhounds who reportedly gave clues toward arrests.
Clyde Lama and Harold Hinton of Laurelville were arrested after the theft of a car owned by Rev. Hupp, a Presbyterian minister. They were jailed in Laurelville, brought to Logan, and indicted by the grand jury as witnesses arrived for testimony.
Logan January term grand jury finished two day session indicting fifteen of nineteen cases. Twenty seven witnesses testified as several auto thefts from Laurelville were added. Indictments include James Brannigan and Warren Hill for fraud, Carl Graham for hunting violations, Henry Miller and Andy Powell for larceny, Franklin Stump for abandoning a child, Harold Hinton and Clyde Lama for motor vehicle theft. Sheriff Lloyd reports two additional arrests for liquor law violation and rape involving Leonard Johnson and Theodore Nutter.
An eighty gallon still five barrels of mash twelve gallons of whisky and other contraband were removed from a mine at Orbiston by State Officers H A Lines St Yates Albert Yates and Deputy Sheriffs Joe Farbearn and L F Hammond. Officers awaited the operator for hours but he did not appear.
Miss Jessie McManigal hosted the Governor Worthington chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution for its regular January gathering. Mrs. John Wellman presented a paper on England’s tyranny in America while display of Gilbert Stuart’s George Washington portrait and a Lincoln portrait highlighted the event.
Logan January 12 The Hocking county National Farm Loan Association held a meeting at the farm bureau where Wright was named president and the group discussed local agricultural credit needs.
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