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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1936
Page
12
Registration reopened as the school term ends. Faculty members depart for home while Nera eee Syne to. A SPR it boat a ntd Se oa ae to Ninety Logan Pupils will attend band training during the vacation period.
About ninety students will take bend training this summer at Logan High School directed by Richard McCutchan. Registration closed late week and more enrollments may occur. Fifty are in the senior concert band and the rest in the junior band. Faculty members plan a summer exodus as schools close.
Workmen began pouring concrete Monday morning on the bleacher project at Chieftain Field. A crew has been managing excavations and constructing forms for the concrete work over several weeks.
Funeral rites will be held at the Union Furnace United Brethren Church at 2 p.m. Thursday for T. J. Clark, 78, who died at his Union Furnace home after an extended illness. He farmed and mined and was active until a few years ago. Surviving children include Mrs. O. H. Bryan, Mrs. J. W. Cehrs, Mrs. Alma Abram, Mrs. Marion Cyrus, Charlies and F. H. Clark, and A. A. Clark of Lakeview, Mich. Burial will be in Oak Grove Cemetery under Rev. A. P. Cohagan.
Hocking Grange will offer a memorial program for deceased members during a meeting at their hall on Friday evening.
Miss Marie Funk of Atlanta visits her parents Mr and Mrs C H Funk to attend Logan High commencement exercises where she is listed as a graduate. She plans to return home next week.
A parallel to the goose that lays golden eggs outlines the 1936 tax bill for corporate income. The author argues heavy taxation on undistributed earnings harms growth, equity, and employment, risking reduced dividends and slower surplus expansion across small and large firms.
Miss Florence MecCormick fell forty feet from a cliff at Old Man's Cave on Sunday afternoon. She suffered a concussion after landing in a shallow pool of water, was treated at Cherrington Hospital, and will recuperate at the home of Mr and Mrs O A Holaschuh in Logan.
Solomon Kline 74 former Hocking County infirmary director died Monday in Carroll. He was brother to Samuel Kline of Logan. Funeral services are at 1 30 Wednesday at the Carroll residence with burial in Forest Rose Cemetery at Lancaster.
City officials took another step Monday in conserving water until new supply arrives. Handbills were distributed citywide urging consumers to economize on water use.
William Griffith of Logan is charged with operating an automobile without the owner's consent. After arraignment before Magistrate S. B. Whitehart he was bound over to a grand jury on a not guilty plea with bond set at 800. He disclosed the wreck location on Route 75 near Logan. the car, owned by Edward Taylor of near Nelsonville, had been taken from the fairgrounds Saturday night and driven into a ditch with a Nelsonville girl present.
Logan parishioners learn Rev. C. M. Lever of St. Paul Episcopal Church departs for Sparta Wisconsin to serve a six month chaplain appointment in government service. Mrs. Lever and the family will remain in Logan during his assignment.
Felix J. Wider’s counsel filed a motion for a new trial on Monday following a jury verdict of burglary. The defense argues the court erred by overruling a prior motion for a continuance before last week’s trial. Judge Harley M. Whitcraft is expected to rule and sentence today.
Logan records show May new car sales totaling 56, with 5 trucks among them, beating April by two and following March’s 66. The three month total marks the strongest stretch since 1929.
Mr and Mrs Archie Bangert remodel a cottage at Buckeye Lake and have lived in Columbus for several months. They plan a trip to California soon.
Albert Gordon of Oklahoma City left Logan on Monday morning after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Walker. He also visited Mr. and Mrs. Alva Nix in Washington Township during the stay.
Zanesville grass specialist Kenneth Welton says good grass requires proper plant foods and lime, not just seed. He cites erosion stations in Corn Belt states showing native grasses reduce soil loss and improve moisture retention, with examples from the Muskingum County Studor farm where liming, fertilizing, and seeding to clover and alfalfa yielded over four tons per acre in five years.
Logan residents welcomed relatives over the weekend with visits to Toledo Greenwich Portsmouth Day ton and Coal Gate. Guests included Mr and Mrs D C Reynolds Mr and Mrs Paul R Hansel and son Bobby arriving from Portsmouth as well as Mr and Mrs P J Myers of Dayton and Mr and Mrs James Sanders and daughter Josephine visiting from Logan and Coal Gate. Virgil Spencer and three children from Walbridge joined Newton Spencer for a few days in Logan.
Logan junior teams began practice Monday at the fairground diamond for the upcoming season. Prospective entrants include United Brethren Methodists Catholics and Presbyterians. This marks the eighth season of junior baseball in the town.
Logan Rotary Club hosted Prof. E. A. Hansen of Ohio University as Youth Night speaker. He discussed democratic government benefits and the enduring American system. Ohio University Male Quartet performed.
Funeral services for Edwin E Barker a Falls Township farmer who died Monday will be held at the United Brethren Church at 10 o clock Thursday. Elder Kirp of the Newark Baptist Church will officiate Burial will be in Oak Grove cemetery This is the first death in the Barker family. Surviving family members include Emma Barker Edwin James and Charles Barker Logan Mrs Roy Beery Mrs J S Cherrington Gertrude and Lucy Barker Logan Mrs Elizabeth Wagner Columbus and Mrs Bernard McLain Carbon Hill
Mrs Elmer Risch from Rockbridge has shown improvement after being confined to her home by illness for two weeks.
Mr and Mrs George Dorris of Union Furnace announce the birth of a daughter born Saturday.
Logan reports Ferd Hack Auto Supply Co will relocate from W Hunter Street to the Price Building on East Main Street this week. The former Joe Brashares space on South Mulberry Street will be filled, ending 21 years at the old site due to the building’s sale.
Mrs Olive Fling 64 widow of Wilbur Fling died Friday in Toledo Burial was at Marion Monday She was mother of David Delmar Harold and Carroll Fling formerly of Hocking County now residents of Toledo
Mrs. A C Kelch of this city is called to St Louis Sunday by the serious illness of her brother Harley Adams. She was accompanied as far as Columbus by her husband.
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