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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1936
Page
14
Logan Lawman Sheriff Joe Farbearn returned Columbus resident Logan-Lawrence Wollett to Logan on Thursday on a non-support charge. Wollett
Logan safeguards its water supply with chlorinators to be installed in reserve wells before the new well enters service. Director Loomis, with Solicitor Meyer, met State Health Department officials in Columbus to push needed legislation and secure temporary equipment. Laying of a 12 inch main from the new well is complete, with flood protection rocks atop the riverbed pipe. The 12 inch line has served as Logan’s main artery, while a 10 inch auxiliary line was added years ago.
Logan Roberts was engaged Thursday in trimming the hedge along Kachelmacher Park. Grass in the park shows the lack of rain.
District deputy Logan Willis Lehman visited Carbon Hill Thursday evening to install officers for the Odd Fellows Lodge. He previously went to Shawnee Wednesday evening with C. B. Hull and O. A. Holzschuh for a similar installation mission.
Harry Weakley cited for contempt over failure to pay temporary alimony of 50 dollars to Ethel Weakley. Ordered to appear before Judge Wilbur M. McKenzie next Thursday.
WPA records show 925 people employed in Hocking County on 35 projects. Projects span the county with road work in rural districts as the principal effort.
In Logan the Rev. John A. Toy returns from vacation to lead morning and evening services at United Brethren Church with the sermon mirrored as Mirrors or Windows. The Rev. W. N. Shank speaks at the Methodist Episcopal morning service on Whither My Influence.
Dr. C F Rauch departs Sunday for New York City to join the American Osteopaths Association convention. He will speak Thursday on treating athletic injuries and will be joined by Mrs Rauch and their two sons in Cleveland the following week for the Great Lakes Exposition and a brief Canada fishing trip before returning home.
Members of the Tritsch family accompanied the body of J. E. Tritsch of Columbus to this city Wednesday afternoon for burial in Oak Grove Cemetery. Mrs. Tritsch plans to move to Miami Florida to stay with her son Glendon and establish a home there.
Hocking County jury commission will draw a special venire of sixteen names on Thursday under Judge Wilbur M. McKenzie of Ross County. The veniremen will select the jury to hear the appeal of John W. Meyer Howard A. Meyer and Emma W. Meyer against State Highway Director John J. Jaster over compensation for a right of way in Good Hope Township along Route 31. McKenzie transmitted the compensation money to the highway department and set August 6 as the trial date.
A special officer enforcing a no sprinkling rule in Logan found a resident unaware of the order when he visited a home where a hose was used on the lawn. The woman said she had not heard of the rule as the family does not take a newspaper.
Logan reports nine births and five deaths in June, the first month in many where births exceed deaths. In Hocking County district, sixteen births and twelve deaths were recorded. Logan births include sons to Walter R. Gray Theodore W. Tom Rolland J. Schorr Clarence W. Skinner Grant Ervin Homer Floyd and daughters to Albert Kermiller Forest M. Glenn Lowell C. Rizer. A half ton sturgeon was caught in the North Sea in 1934.
Logan society items note Mrs. Allen Adams and guests heading to Lakeside for a week with Mrs. Carrie Durr and a Sunday piano program at Central Auditorium. Other notes cover Priscila Club needlework, Ladies' Aid meeting, Daughters of American drill club, and Senior Choir at Summerland Beach. Also mentions visiting Oleda Ainsley in Cincinnati, Ned Myers in Logan, and Helen Belt in Columbus. A starch-based mucilage for postage stamps is noted.
A heavy rain swept Coonville on Wednesday as a severe windstorm struck the Edgar residence. Lightning tore through the home destroying a radio and damaging the exterior. no one was hurt. Mrs. Edgar remains frail from a prior fall. The Coonville Mine has operated sparingly this week and a nearby reservoir serves as a popular bathing pool for locals.
Treasurer George C. Hengst announced Logan will collect taxes for the remainder of July without penalty and said details on when the penalty will be invoked would be announced later. Mrs. Harry Thomas returned home from a Columbus hospital after a major operation two weeks ago and is recovering satisfactorily.
Funeral services for Mrs. Wallace McClelland of Laurelville who died Tuesday are being held in that village this afternoon. She formerly was Miss Anna Rizer of this city and was a cousin of C. D. Notestone. In Logan the infant son of Mr and Mrs Edward Six of Haydenville died Wednesday and burial followed at Haydenville Cemetery the next day.
A court postpones the custody hearing in the Leroy Conkle case after Mrs Dorothy Conkle Summers failed to appear. Judge Wilbur M McKenzie ordered a court entry sent by registered mail to her Miami Florida address. The matter is rescheduled for next Thursday.
A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Connell of West Logan on Wednesday. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Hubert West of West Street on Tuesday. The note mentions that only a few Stradivari violins exist today and their owners are typically well known.
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