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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1938
Page
10
About 500 boys and girls are enrolled in 37 4-H Clubs in Hocking County with potential growth to around 540 before the officers advisers conference Saturday. The total mirrors 1937 figures though the county’s peak was 570 in 1936. Leadership shortages hinder club formation in several districts, delaying organization despite requests.
Police investigated two Logan robberies on Monday night. The Brooker Confectionery on W Hunter Street lost cigarettes after an attempt to force the safe. The Farmers Milling Co on W Main Street was entered via a basement window and about two dollars in change was taken.
Statistics disclosed Tuesday that 200 adults and children under the aid to dependent children would benefit by the physical examinations started that day by Health Commissioner W. B. Lacock. Examinations continue on Tuesday and Thursday during June until all eligible are examined, with Mrs. Dessie Hanna aiding the juvenile department. One day will be devoted to Murray City and another to Laurelville at a date to be announced later.
Pearl Mc Clelland heads the wheat insurance program for Hocking County. He said many farmers are considering the project and several applications have been received, but no policies have yet been written.
Logan Hocking County growers eye the World Poultry Congress in Cleveland next year as four Ohio tours unfold. A pre anniversary gathering heads to Wooster July 28 starting from Athens, with Mrs Robert Davis the county superintendent secretary taking two weeks vacation at Leesburg with her husband.
J. M. Conkle of Logan buys ginseng and yellow root this season, a rare in this region as demand sags with the Sino Japanese war. He notes the largest root he bought weighed a quarter of a pound before drying, while the county record holder, George McGrady of Laurel Township, dug an 11 ounce green root in 1935.
The Aerial Logan High School yearbook, 128 pages, distributed Tuesday by staff. Editor in chief Luther Heyde, business manager June Grooms, advertising manager Albert Leonard. Bound in imitation black Morocco leather with plastic binders. About 475 copies were distributed.
Logan High School student Frank Walsmith of West Main Street operates amateur station W8PHR. His radio program has reached many parts of the United States and Canada, earning cards from cities and villages across the continent.
Extension service completes survey of 18 Marion Township farms along Rush Creek Valley. In 1937 the farms flooded an average five times, some up to seven. Last year and this year many have flooded twice. Total crop area 855 acres.
Logan district sees Anthony Cook of Logan and Howard Brooker of Murray City file petitions for the Democrat nomination for county commissioner. Evans of Carbon Hill filed Tuesday as a Republican candidate for a second term.
Amos Brown of Union Furnace was taken to Columbus hospital Tuesday afternoon for an appendicitis operation. Mrs Minnie White and daughters Janet and Ruth have moved to the North Street residence recently acquired by Mrs White. A general remodeling program has been carried out since the purchase.
Northampton Massachusetts Miss Katherine E O Connor is the only woman register of deeds in Massachusetts She was named acting register until a successor to the late Charles H Chase is elected
LOGAN Final decision on whether Ilesboro High School will operate for another year is expected soon after a state education inspection by L. L. Louthian. He examined the school and the Washington Township to Union Furnace highway while Supt. J. W. Coleman accompanied him.
Inactive members and pledges gathered at Black Jack Camp for a hamburgery evening. After the picnic they returned to their rooms and gave Mrs. Amy Cheshire Price a miscellaneous shower in Logan.
Mrs Charles Smi th Mrs Wylie Thurness and Mrs Herbert Shriner were guest players at the D D Bridge Club meeting Monday night. Mrs Charles Notes tone hosted at her W Hunter St home. Mr and Mrs Charles Mack entertained with a birthday dinner Sunday for their son Joe. Coverage noted for several guests and family members. The Harrington Class met Monday at Miss Jessie McManigals home with plans for a Westminster Guild and Bible study on Jezebel led by Mrs John Krieg. Delta Theta Tau Sorority held Founders Day banquet planning and pledge awards. Visitors from Oneonta and Columbus areas visited and family trips noted through the day.
The Hocking County Election Board sent necessary blanks to sponsors in Benton Township to prepare a petition for a local option. Forms were ordered from Columbus after a lack of recent local option elections in the county. Additional enumeration shows four districts reporting pupil counts: Good Hope 222, Oroville 50, Murray City 340, Ward 506.
Miss Margaret Soliday travels to Cleveland to stay with Mr and Mrs Fred Kreyssig and family. She will attend the graduation of her nephew Robert Kreyssig who completes his high school work.
Miss Helen Rochester of W Front Street Logan walked with crutches Monday marking first departure from home in 11 weeks of illness. In Logan Lenda Pieterouwshaki sues Frank Pieterouwshaki for divorce on cruelty and neglect, married July 3 1930 with three children, seeking alimony and child custody.
A flag at the Post Office building top snagged as custodian Tom Rainer attempted to lower it. J F Rutgers climbed the pole to reach and release the flag drawing many spectators.
LOGAN The Men's Progressive Bible Class of the Fifth Avenue United Brethren Church Columbus will be guests at the United Brethren Bible School Sunday morning. A W Whetstone will lead the lesson with John E Ballard as president and Sherman T Lyke inviting all unaffiliated men to attend at 9 am. After the class, the group will tour the scenic district.
Broadwell U B Church schedules a children's day program for Sunday evening June 12 at 8 o clock. Broadwell baseball team wins two Sunday games here beating Sugar Creek 5 to 4 and Layman 17 to 9. Community notices list local visits and a quilting date change.
Murray City notices cover visits and family moments with residents from Columbus Athens The Plains Nelsonville and Logans. The High School Band Carnival is planned for Wednesday June 8 at 7 30 p m.
Lester Howard Coakley of Happy Hollow was before Judge E. L. Ewing and sentenced to 90 days in Hocking County Jail plus a $50 fine and costs for contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The eighteenth Harsh Funk Meldrim reunion set for Sunday June 12 at Mathias Grove near Rockbridge with officers listed.
Florence West of Logan was able to leave Cherington Hospital for home Monday evening after three weeks of treatment there.
Logan Bruce Price of Brooklyn arrives Monday to spend vacation with his mother Mrs Jennie Price and relatives. He studied at the Ernest Williams School of Music earning a scholarship for musical achievements while at Logan High School.
Mr and Mrs R H Wemer entertained family from Columbus including son in law daughter Marian Janet and son Harold with Aldine Wemer joining for a visit. I W Brown Akron returned home after time with Mrs R H Werner and others. Nellie Linscott Hooper Ridge visited E A Sayers parents. Rev D P Morris Gloucester preached at Concord Church with 31 attending. Virgil Border Millfield and Warren Border hosted relatives Friday. Marion Snyder welcomed a son Larry Ray.
Epworth League members led by Mrs. W D Miller attended the Chillicothe District League near Chillicothe Tuesday. Other items note funeral attendance, church services, visits to Toronto, Ohio University events, and M E Church activities with a civil engineering reunion at Athens Country Club and a Tolled pot luck Ladies Aid gathering. A Clown at Conneaut was jailed briefly for intoxicated performance.
The new feature Yellow Jack stars Robert Montgomery with Virginia Bruce and Lewis Stone as Major Walter Reed. director George Seitz places the story in a postwar Cuban army camp where a Medical commission seeks yellow fever answers. The cast includes Andy Devine Henry Hull Charles Coburn Buddy Ebsen Henry ONeill Janet Beecher and more. Montgomery inspires four soldiers to volunteer as human guinea pigs to aid the investigation.
Hooper Ridge Bible School recorded an attendance of 47 with C. B. Tigner as superintendent. A Sunday dinner at the Keirns home honored Columbus Grove visitors Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Keirns. Guests included many locals and regional residents from Amesville Broadwell and The Plains.
The massed choirs of Logan Churches gather at United Brethren Church at 7 30 p m Friday for the first joint rehearsal of music for the Sacred Concert to be presented at Logan High School Stadium Sunday evening in June. Members of cooperating choirs and any citizen who loves to sing are urged to attend.
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