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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1935
Page
14
Eyewitness accounts describe rapid flood waters sweeping through Logan and Camp Wyandot Clear Creek trapping cars and stranding residents from Lancaster Columbus and Cleveland. Rescue boats ferried people off flooded bridges while state workers warned motorists and cleared debris.
Logan residents Mr and Mrs Ronald Gay, on a three month furlough from Buenos Aires, visited relatives Mr and Mrs C R Keyes on Friday en route to Buffalo New York. Gay spoke on South American customs and noted radios are rare there and U S imports would face about 800 dollars in tax duties.
The Rev. R. C. Babvion will preach his last sermon at First Presbyterian Church Sunday morning before summer vacation. He departs Tuesday for Coffin Ohio to visit his mother Mrs Ante Vabvion for a month.
Logan Harmon Thacher a truck driver from Delphos was arraigned before Magistrate Whitehart on a charge of intoxication after invading a Rockbridge potato patch with his vehicle Friday night. He pled guilty and was fined 25 dollars plus costs.
Logan society notes list dinners and social visits. Mr and Mrs James Barker hosted a group at the Blosser Restaurant and at their home. Visitors included Alfred Carpenter and wife, Harold Chambers, Clinton Webb, Warren Murphy, Homer Dull, and Miss Barsha Work, with travel to Athens and Canada and a camp incident at Wyandot Creek.
Iri Potts of Locust Grove Vinton County who had a first degree murder charge dismissed Friday by a McArthur court was seen in Logan Saturday with his parents Mr and Mrs Charlies Potts. They have been caring for his three children since his incarceration.
Logan sign policy aims to curb soliciting at the courthouse. Two warning signs are prepared for the first floor corridor, to be ready this week, per Sheriff Joe Farbearn.
Clyde Spellman an 11 year old of New Lexington was found by Logan police at the residence of Mr and Mrs Clyde Shepard in Furnace Street after leaving home two months earlier. The report notes his prior escape and return. Falls Township Trustees win state tax commission approval to move 1200 dollars from the general fund to the road fund.
Claude Riggs sustained a left knee wound after stepping on a metal latch at the Chakeres Theater improvement Friday evening. The injury required several stitches to close.
Logan B C Geiger of Union Furnace was placed in jail Saturday evening by Deputy Sheriffs Nellis Smith and Newton Spencer. A charge of intoxication has been filed against him in the court of Magistrate 8 B Whitehart.
Audrey Dyer who assisted in the care of a case at Union Furnace for two weeks will depart for Columbus to resume duties as a nurse. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Isaac Dyer of Union Furnace.
Logan Mary Sloan Sue Rochester and Charles Grinstead represented young people of the First Presbyterian Church at Wooster last week in a conference of youth and returned to their homes. The Rev. R C Babylon went to Wooster to bring them back.
Dr Joseph Luther of Columbus was re elected head of the Mission Behalf Committee of the United Lutheran Synod of Ohio at a business session yesterday.
News reports Ellis Mock of Haydenville aged 32 was killed in a railroad train accident near Meckerrig West Virginia on Saturday night. Sheriff Joe Fargeann was notified. Mock previously lived in Haydenville and leaves a wife two sons and two daughters. Sister in East Hunter Street noted. Sweazy family reacting from Me nh.
Logan Marion Township forms a new baseball team that built a diamond on the Simeon Blackston farm. A dedication game is planned Friday evening with the Carpenter Maytags leaders of the Senior League visiting for a contest. J. E. Brown manages the team and will pitch the first inning. A second game is scheduled for Saturday afternoon.
Logan reports Mrs. Wade Morgan on Third Street gave birth Saturday morning to twins weighing five and a half pounds each. The mother, 17, already has a 14 month old daughter.
Since his transfer to Steubenville on special assignment to preside in common pleas court, only one case heard by Judge Harley M. Whitcraft has reached a higher court. The court of appeals has affirmed his findings in the recent matter.
Miss Mary Donahue of Murray City and Miss Florence Lutz of the city left for Wittenberg College today to begin a course of training to participate in the general education school planned for Hocking County as part of the emergency school program. They will remain at Wittenberg until August 2.
Jo learns Bret Paul is at Crest Lake and fears old quarrels will flare as Tubby arrives with gossip. The room buzzes with talk of Marsh Babs Montgomery and a life guard job while Jo struggles to decide her path after a sailboat accident and strained love triangle.
Logan-Lewis Robinson, a longtime worker at the Hocking Valley Brick Plant, was stricken with paralysis at his Lincoln Avenue home Saturday and is reported in serious condition. His left side remains paralyzed.
Evelyn Myers, two and one half years old, daughter of Mr and Mrs W F Myers of this city, had a bead fasten in her ear Saturday evening. She was taken to Cherrington Hospital where an anaesthetic was required to remove the bead.
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Miller returned Saturday evening from a week in Wisconsin visiting the lake region around Fond du Lac and Sheboygan. Miller is relief director of Hocking County and will resume duties Wednesday. in his absence Frank Brown of the finance division has directed activities.
Carl Cantrell of Camp Zaleski was riding on the side of a car he flagged and was struck by another vehicle near Portsmouth. He sustained a fractured hip and bone fragment removal at Cherrington Hospital.
Logan residents attend a Sigma Phi Gamma dance at the Lancaster Country Club. Mrs. Anna Cole and son Jay visit relatives in Hillsboro. Mrs. Musser visits Lancaster to be near ill daughter Emma Blosser. Gilbert Mounts returns to Columbus after visiting with John Floyd family. Leviolet Redick from Wilmington visits her parents in Logan. Several local ties and travels are noted among Miss Georgiana Hutchinson, Harley Meyer, Chuck Wheatley, and others.
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