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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1931
Page
10
A classified circulation notice from Logan and Hocking County carriers invites readers to contact Clinton Webb Stapf Correspondent for local news and society items. It lists contact details including phone 273 and reference to Cal DPD.
Logan schools report strong showing in the every pupil test by the State Department of Education. State medians were equalled or surpassed in 18 of 24 subjects. Logan saw top percentiles in multiple grades across English, arithmetic, history, geometry, algebra, Latin, general science, and more.
Logan January 12 Lamber up ply bowhre returned to first place in the City League Friday night with three straight wins for Logan transfers while the Jods Grocers dropped all three. The restaurants tied 229 pins in game two as a tiebreaker decided the gate. Columber led the winners with 32 and Beshara led the Grocers with 12 high for the week Edward Hamilton of the lumbermen had 679 across three games. Total lumbermen 2451 for the week. Rab ete replaced EStallsmith for the supply team.
Fragmentary text appears to reference a murder event in Te Beospits with garbled names and dates. No coherent facts or identifiable entities remain readable for a reliable summary.
Mr and Mrs Warren Clements announce the birth of a daughter at Cherrington Hospital weighing seven and a half pounds. Mrs Joseph Abraham and daughter Ann visit Logan from Jackson. The Cherringtons hosted visitors in the Capital City. Phil Tschappat and family visited Utica. Rev Thomes Kerr, injured in a car crash, left Cherrington Hospital for Athens to visit relatives. A E Faine of New Straitsville visited the city. Hocking County Taxpayers League met at the Courthouse. Harold Chambers, extension agent, has led farmers institutes at Leshbore and Rockbridge and helps plan the Courthouse institute next week.
The nautical looking Galli Caurci smiles in a Miami Beach Florida photo while resting before a concert tour up north. The noted opera singer is on vacation and appears at ease on and off stage as she prepares for performances.
Gerald W. Lanning, Republican candidate for prosecuting attorney, is named secretary of the Finance Committee of the State House of Representatives with duties starting immediately. JL Mooney, re-elected in Hocking County, becomes chairman of the Finance Committee. Mooney and wife left for Columbus to assume duties.
Mrs. Nellie Adams led a Thursday afternoon session as the Tourist Club discussed El Supremo. Current events were reviewed, and a one o'clock luncheon followed with members and guests including Mrs. C. F. Lewis and other local women. Mrs. Raymond Lanning joined the club.
Logan officials announced trial assignments and arraignments for January. Mrs Jennie May Pickett of Haydenville pleaded not guilty to concealing stolen property. Trials are scheduled for C L Carr F E Newman Raymond Kniece Clarence Leasure Harry Davis Oliver Bain ter Harley or Jen Clif Weaver, with dates in January.
The Loreal chapter of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union met at Mrs J C Des home on Friday with 24 members present. Mrs Josef Brashares led devotionals and Mrs Charles E Breton directed the program on Victory Day the nation’s prohibition birthday. Rev Dewey Whitwell Nashville spoke on the topic. Roll call cited clippings on the subject and January Committee served lunch.
Mrs. C. W. Scheide Jr hosted the Justamere Club at East Second Street with Mrs. Bert Bell presiding. The program titled Songs of the Ages featured Harriette Sprankel piano numbers Miss Mary Monks recitations and a musical piece with Mrs Paul Monks Miss Mary Maccor net and Miss Vaughn Bort Olson. Dinner followed at six with several helpers and guests Mrs. C V Sheppard and Mrs. Clayton Schelde attending.
Miss Josephine Starr, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Starr, becomes the first woman to obtain a hunting license in 1983. She enjoys field hunts with her father, a skilled hunter and trap shooter.
Polly Alexander of New Straitsville aged 69 died at Cherrington Hospital after admission for treatment. For years she served as matron of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the village. Her body was returned there Thursday evening for funeral services and burial.
Amica Club members enjoyed a Friday evening at Mrs. W. W. Hardy's West Front Street home. Three contests crowned winners Mrs. Harley Amerine, Mrs. Ann Shriner, and Mrs. Victoria Phelps. A social hour preceded a two course lunch served by the hostess with help from Mrs. Sam Smith.
The ad urges returning to basics for fast cold relief using Hill's Cascara Quinine. It promises to knock out a cold quickly, with two tablets to start, plenty of water, and box directions followed. If ineffective, money back, box costs only a few cents.
Mrs Fred Hull hosted a Thursday bridge gathering at Midland Place with three tables in play. Prizes went to Mrs Lawrence Adcock Mrs Dallas Kins er and Mrs Earl Solidayr. Lunch followed the session.
Knights of Pythias lodges in Hocking County plan to send delegations to the joint Knights of Pythias and Dokkies meeting in Athens on Wednesday evening. Additional lodges are expected to be represented.
At Logan High School on Wednesday the first assembly after holidays hosted Rev. Dewey Whitwell of Nashville as the evangelistic speaker. He chose Character Building as his topic for the United Brethren Church service.
Dr. Herbert L. Willett of Chicago University will speak on The Meaning of Religion in Modern Life at the Ohio University Religious Conference March 3 4 and 5. The event will explore religion’s relations to social and physical sciences with a 24 member committee led by Dean Irma E. Voigt.
Gov. George W. White names Lieut. Frank M. McKee of Columbus as state director of aeronautics, succeeding John M. Vorvs. The position carries a $2,600 annual salary.
Mrs. Julia Zenner Friday widow of Leopold Friday died at 4 PM Sunday at 32 North Congress Street from complications after a week's confinement. Funeral services set for Tuesday at 1 PM, with the cortege to Cincinnati for burial in Walnut Hills Jewish Cemetery.
Irma E. Voigt of Ohio University spoke to a Warren meeting of the A A U C W women Friday night. She was hosted at a 4 pm dinner by Ohio University alumni in Youngstown on Saturday. She later addressed the College Club, a group akin to the A A C W.
William S. Keagel, 31, manager of an A. & FP. Store in Youngstown, faced two armed men who entered at opening. After they purchased items, they drew revolvers but Keagel fired twice from under the counter, striking at least one robber before their guns could fire.
A garbled item reports John Kiernan sought a death date for a person named Stile Bla in Atlantic la. Twenty years ago Kiernan raised a tribute to himself, intended to reveal a death date, but he vanished on a trip to Florida and never returned.
The value of motor vehicle bodies and parts delivered in 1929 totaled 145540989 dollars, according to figures from the U S Census Bureau compiled from the Census of Manufacturers data.
Bell California reports local inventor Jesse D. Lendor presents Gemonsts 4 Helio-zyfo-copter airplete. The device blends glider and helicopter features with a Feltner rotor, combining aspects of rotorcraft and lift technologies.
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