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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1939
Page
13
Logan reports the Hocking County commissioners approved a WPA district office agreement with Zanesville to buy $7,300 worth of road building machinery. L. C. Gibson said the equipment will boost sponsorship on WPA projects if put to work on current units. Delivered items include a tractor with angle dozer a leaning wheel grader and a five yard scraper on site.
Logan Harley Hart, clerk of Salt Creek Township Board of Education, prepared to file the district's annual budget. Salt Creek remains notable for many one room schools, held back by remoteness and transportation issues. An earlier plan to close at least two schools was offset by increased tax revenue.
The American Legion Tournament game with Jackson scheduled for Thursday afternoon was postponed to Friday due to wet grounds. In Logan, a small backyard pool is under construction by Marion Allen at N Walnut St, to be stocked with several fish species.
Fred Rad cliff, tax representative, reports retail vendors are slow to report sales taxes. He has spent Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday in the county election board rooms helping vendors prepare returns. Next week will end his current outreach. dealers are urged to file promptly.
Norma Jean Gabriel faces a divorce petition filed by Logan Paul W Gabriel on neglect grounds. The couple stopped living together July 15, 1938. They were married June 22, 1934.
The Star Garden Club met at Mrs. Sylva Amos home for July with twenty one members present and two new names added to the roll bringing total to twenty seven. Officers re elected. A weekend camp was planned at Ross Hocking and the August meeting set for Mrs. Iva Weaver. Ice cream and cake served.
Mrs Wayne Huston of Murray City visits her father Ed Pummel. Mrs Darlene Horn injured in a fall at home Tuesday. Sheldon Clary and daughter return to Detroit after a week with George Beal. George Shultz visits his brother Muriel Shultz in Barberton. Walter Mayes returns from visiting Annie Tom. Garnet James greendale visits Ed Pummel home. George Clemens of MacConnelsville visits Ley Wolfe.
Logan Miss Margaret McBroom leads Hocking Grangers in a Miller Chapel Grange meeting with the theme Friendship. Bonnie Beery Walter North and a group perform poems and a playlet. Music includes a flute solo by Walter Stone and songs by Boyd Blum. Next meeting features Marion Grange. Grangers of Hocking County plan exchange programs.
Mrs W J Law rence and daughter Bertha hosted a colorful Star Class party at their Syracuse home with garden flower arrangements and games. Loyal Helper Class held a wiener roast in the church basement. Guests included many local families and noted visits from Cleveland and Columbus.
Rural mail carrier R H Thomas and wife with son Woodrow left for Columbus to visit relatives. Nephew Junior Hayman returns to Columbus with them. Zed Thomas covers mail during the absence. Elizabeth Hayes and Mr and Mrs J L Grover visit local relatives. Betty Herwick and Dora Albright spend days at their homes and visit Lake Zaleski. Henry McKibben's daughter Helen returns from OSU Columbus. Kline Jenkins and son Kay return from Portsmouth visit.
Work continues on a new fire pumper being built at Handley Engineering in Prospect for Logan. Testing is expected by the end of this week or early next week.
Logan teachers have been named for the Salt Creek district one room schools for the next school year. Mazie Swackhamer Pine Cottage Eloise Kuhn West Pike Golda Paxton Smith Charles Lively Sams Creek Nelle Westfall Blue Creek Bertha Lama Bethel Pine David Kuhn East Pike.
Logan judge voids the Common Pleas Court judgment as it applies to Raleigh Sinnot in Industrial Commission case over injury to Thomas Ellis while employed by Hickory Ridge Coal Co. Judge Phil Henderson approved the entry on Thursday.
Treasurer Robert N. White announced taxes would be accepted until August 1 or until books are turned over to the county auditor. July 20 was the final date set by county commissioners on the extension.
Logan report: Robert Tignor 12, son of Mr and Mrs Joe Tignor, Zanesville Ave, fractured both bones in his right arm near the wrist during a Wednesday softball game at Rachelmacher Park while sliding into base. He received medical aid then returned home. Beetles Do Harm: cucumber beetles threaten John Blum’s crop near Enterprise. James R Smoot extension agent consulted.
Mrs Mose O'Hare of Green Township is said to be seriously ill at her home, with health concerns noted by local residents and families.
Logan churches plan a morning union service at 10 30 with Methodist pastor Rev C W Graham preaching the sermon joint services will rotate pulpits during vacation Mrs Allen Adams leads the Methodist choir Epworth League meets at 6 30 with no evening service at the church Presbyterian young people meetings suspended Rev E B White will preach at United Brethren Church at 10 and 7 30 Dr Elmer Bliss leads Trinity Lutheran services at 7 30 Rev T C Gregory preaches at Enterprise United Brethren at 10 Rev Amos L Heyde speaks at St Matthew Lutheran at 10 and at Ilesboro at 8 in the evening.
Edward Logan son of Mr and Mrs Charles Wallace fractured left wrist after a fall Thursday morning. He was taken to Cherrington Hospital for treatment. Calvin Smith of near Nelsonville is recovering satisfactorily after a recent surgical operation. Mayor and Mrs Dallas Kinser and family return from a week at Buckeye Lake and Mayor Kinser will deal with a few cases upon his return.
Logan officials learned from L C Gibson district director on Thursday that WPA would not fund the one and a half inch blacktop treatment planned for Middlefork Road. Officials questioned whether the road surface would hold up under such treatment.
Police Chief Lewis Reynolds filed a charge of indecent exposure against Chester Paul Wilson who was taken into custody early Thursday. Wilson will be held for arraignment upon Mayor Dallas Kinser's return to the city.
Mrs Otto Evans, who is building a filling station on Route 664, has just returned from a visit to Shepherd, Michigan. She expects the station to be completed shortly.
Foster Bobo and Tommy Kleinschmidt found an unusually large black widow on Thursday while transporting rock. The specimen was bottled and later displayed at the police headquarters for viewing.
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