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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1939
Page
16
Logan campaign committee reports a second meeting at chamber of commerce as the ornamental gateway fund eyes a $2500 goal. The project will be sold to the lowest bidder with specs by King, Mooney and Wright. Funds are deposited in Farmers and Merchants Bank. signers are Carpenter, Risch, and Elstein. A cleanup drive starts today to reach unreached residents.
Thousands visit the Logan Hocking Parks area for Memorial Day with Governor John W. Bricker and his family touring Old Man's Cave. He plans to visit other scenic spots before returning to Columbus.
Logan county health department workers continue sorting and tabulating one cent tuberculosis tax stamps gathered from local stores receptacles. Since starting last Thursday, 24 000 stamps have been strung as efforts grow to redeem them for the tuberculosis hospitalization fund. larger denomination stamps arrive and require increasing handling.
Logan Freisner Avenue improvements started Wednesday by a WPA crew per Service Director R R Loomis. Part of the city’s blanket WPA project, three blocks of the street will be upgraded.
Melvyn Douglas plays a determined reporter tracking murderers and ransom criminals in Tell No Tales at the Athena. Louise Platt co stars with Gene Lockhart and a large cast under Leslie Fenton, delivering dramatic, suspenseful sequences and a nerve shattering finale.
Mrs. C. L. Adcock of E. Hunter Street located her wedding ring last week while gardening at the rear of her home. The ring had been hidden for about twenty years, was cleaned and polished, and the inscription remains legible.
Logan Bliss of this city left Tuesday for Wellston to join the Carlton Brooks Orchestra. He will spend the summer with the group at Clear Lake, Indiana, in a summer engagement.
Beginning June 5 through June 23 the Logan Daily Vacation Bible School attracts large enrollment. Mrs. Mary Bierily of Lewisburg will supervise. Held at First Methodist Episcopal Church with cooperation from Presbyterians United Brethren and Church of the Nazarene. Open to kindergarten to junior high students for Bible study dramatizations nature hikes picnics games storytelling crafts and daily programs. Enrollments via Rev Cecil Harding Jones.
Logan County board of education will meet Friday night to consider authorizing an interim signer while Supt. J W Coleman is ill. A petition seeking the Washington district’s return to its premerger status with Starr is expected, with 90 percent of district patrons said to sign. The board may also act on Perry township residents petition to restore grade school control to the local district, not the high school status.
A series of social notices from Logan reports gatherings and travel. Families including Millard Campbell Arnold Meldrim Stoody Stone, Achauer Matheny Salts visited Zanesville Buckeye Lake on Tuesday. Hortense Gibson returns from Boston and New York. Steward family guests and Ardeth Steward’s Columbus trip. Donald Arnold visits relatives in Nelsonville and Gladwin Michigan.
Nominations were made at Pocahontas Lodge during their regular meeting on Monday evening. Named were Mrs. Virginia Bray prophetess Mrs. Grace Landis Pocahontas Mrs. Rebecca Stewart Wenonah Mrs. Kate Conkle Powhatan Mrs. Bray trustee Mary Hiles district school delegate Mrs. Steward alternate. Team practice for Reconstruction of the Flag set for next Monday evening.
In Hocking County, 25 marriage licenses were issued during May 1939, likely the month’s peak for the year. The previous high was 29, suggesting May may again set the annual record.
Affidavits against Ellsworth Jones were filed by John Sterling in the mayor's court after an alleged assault on Pete Kuhn. Jones faces assault and battery and intoxication charges. Arrest occurred Wednesday, arraignment set for Thursday. Joe Carpenter of Green Township was fined ten dollars and costs after pleading guilty to reckless driving before Mayor Kinser.
A New Straitsville delegation will meet at the M E Church at 5 30 Friday evening to attend a county youth meeting at Junction City A church softball game versus Shawnee is at 5 30 this evening at Martin Field A fellowship potluck will be held Tuesday June 6 at five with Rev Grable and Rendville Baptist singers
Under a new 24 hour shift system Fire Chief Roy Stallsmith and Assistant Chief Gerald McLaughlin alternate duty. The pair began last week and will cover 24 hours on then 124 off. Mrs Frank Campbell of West Logan had major surgery at Cherrington Hospital Wednesday morning.
State lab confirms a dog killed near Sams Creek is rabid. Perry and Salt Creek Townships and Laurelville are under quarantine until August 15. County dog warden Howard Brooks will survey the area for stray dogs later this week. It is unclear if other animals were bitten.
Vacation Bible School begins Monday June 5 at 9 a m at Haydenville Church with daily sessions then moving to the school building. Miss Esther Picciotti of Cleveland returns to supervise. A second session starts June 5 from 2 to 4 pm at Buchtel School. Rev L S Norris and Rev Lineberger launch these first two of four vacation schools on this charge.
Logan car dealers increased sales in May with 32 new units sold to Hocking Countians and seven outside the county. The May figure stands next to March sales for the new year.
Herbert Brokaw sues Margaret Brokaw in a common pleas court action filed Wednesday on neglect as grounds for divorce. The couple, married July 1 1938, have one child and the defendant left home on April 22 1939. In Logan, Alva Glenn of Marion Township was sentenced to Mansfield Reformatory by Judge E L Ewing for an attempted holdup, and taken there Wednesday morning.
Logan four local youths Charles Keller Bill Hansel Ralph Evans and Harry Mount fished from Saturday to Tuesday in Indian River and Houghton Lake Michigan. They caught between 100 and 150 pounds of fish with 60 pounds taken home. The largest fish was an 11 pound trout hooked by Keller.
Judge Phil Henderson dismissed the petition in the guardianship case involving Jennie L Brown and others after counsel presented a purported will of the late Willoughby Huggins. The document proposed a ten year trust with James A Brown named as trustee.
The Hocking County Bar Association met for a final regular gathering before fall at the Sportsman. A dinner was served and no business session was conducted.
Mrs. Ben Casto is back on Bowen Street from St Anthony's Hospital Columbus after a two month stay. Her condition is reported as improved. Mrs C E Kline of Columbus had May 22 operation at St Francis Hospital and is recovering. She is daughter of Mr and Mrs R B Hansel of this city. A bullet can be photographed in flight by new high speed photographic methods.
A timetable fragment lists multiple trains in both directions from Baltimore and Ohio, Chesapeake and Ohio, and New York Central. It includes Diplomat, National Limited, and other service numbers with varied daily or Sunday schedules and arrival or departure times.
An eight week summer night school free of tuition is offered by the Adult Education program under WPA auspices. Courses include bookkeeping typing art French and Latin with beginner and advanced classes. Enrollment for Thursday and Friday evenings June 1 and 2 from 6 to 8 at Logan High School. For information contact Mr Weller or Mrs William Sayre at the high school evenings.
Logan and Mrs Wayne Whitcraft announce the birth of a daughter at St. Ann's Hospital Columbus on Tuesday. Grandparents are Mrs Florence Whicraft and Mr and Mrs D C Moffett of this city.
Logan farmers and local merchants will hold a dinner meeting in this city on June 7 sponsored by the AAA. Elmer Kruse chairman of the state committee in charge of the AAA will be the principal speaker. The purpose is to acquaint business men with the operation of the farm program.
James White aged 79 formerly of this city died at his Wyandotte Michigan home on Monday He left this city years ago where he worked as a railroad employee He leaves a wife two sons Arthur Cleveland and Charles of Ecrpse Michigan and four grandchildren Funeral services are at the residence this afternoon with burial in Wyandotte Information from Trinway says John Lohr barber formerly of this city is improving after weeks of physician care He is the son of Mr and Mrs J W Lohr of this city.
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