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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1932
Page
10
Logan city teachers have been offered contracts for the next school year with funding to determine salaries. The staff likely remains largely unchanged, with some substitutions among music and commercial-banking instructors. Coach John Longley is expected to return to lead athletics with a new gym enabling fuller basketball development.
About 306 Rotarians gathered in Logan on Monday night for an intercity meet with Lancaster and Nelsonville visitors. The event marked the founding anniversaries of the Logan Nelsonville clubs with Lancaster funding Logan’s Nelsonville tie. Speakers included Judge Brook Shell and Carl E. Griffey of Lancaster and Stanley Mechem of Nelsonville.
Logan readers learn M. P. Fox a Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad telegraph operator, well known to railroad men, was shot and seriously wounded during a holdup at Carey station Tuesday morning. He was taken to a hospital in Tiffin for treatment with doctors optimistic about recovery.
Logan June 22 Annual thank offering services at the Methodist Episcopal Church 17 30 Sunday evening will feature a sermon by Dr C M Coulter pastor of First M E church Athens. Women’s Foreign Missionary Society plans the event with a music program.
Logan reports coach John Longley will study for nine weeks at the University of Michigan to earn a physical education degree. He will take coaching courses under university leaders including football with Yost and Kipke, basketball with Cappon, and baseball with Fisher, aiming to return by August to assume duties as athletic director.
Logan June 22 A special program of music will be offered by the Presbyterian Choir Sunday evening under Mrs Marel Weymueller in the last service before summer vacation. The event features choir numbers quartets and requests. Dinner opens the evening then a guild meeting at First Presbyterian Church.
Bashan George Deem and son Wesley visited Pomeroy on Wednesday. H V Tucker lost two pigs Tuesday. Violet Babcock stayed with Lyda Mae Pearson Tuesday night. Mildred Frank and Marie Trussell visited Mrs Ruth Tucker Friday evening. Lyda Mare Pearson called on Violet Beneoog Friday. Minnie Orr visited her daughter E E Hayman at Rainbow Saturday and Sunday. Guy Singers and family spent Sunday with George Deem and family. Cletus Chapman and Carrie Gainor stayed with A H Bailey. Dana and Anna Hensiey were Saturday guests.
Portland couple Mr and Mrs John Lee and baby from Cleveland spent two weeks with his parents Mr and Mrs L J Lee. Mrs Milo Rhoades and son Russell of Spiller visited Mr and Mrs Fred Ritchie and son Eugene. Mr and Mrs Eber Ours visited Mr and Mrs L J Morehead and Belleville residents. Hubert Price of Parkersburg vacationing here with relatives. Miss Bernice Mills and friend from Gallipolis dined with Mrs Harlan Mills. A H Henderson and son Bobby of Parkersburg spent Thursday with relatives.
Zaleski Velinus James and Cleire James receive OSU commencement invitations from nephew Thomas A. James, a Cincinnati EE graduate. Various locals including Mrs Effie S Ward in Chillicothe and the Vanderfords near Red Diamond host guests. visits continue among Frazees, Vansys, and others across Creola to Columbus with several families hosting relatives and students from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.
June birthdays for Frances Giffin Freda Schoonover Lindy Joe Schoonover Chloe Fink and Pearl Little were celebrated at Mrs Addie Little s home with baskets. Attendees included relatives from Akron Fostoria Sycamore Albany and Syracuse for the gathering and funeral attendance of Ellsworth Snowden.
Athens council votes unanimously to pave all streets in Hudson Addition except Home Street. Old brick from East State Street will be used on a concrete base at 2.40 per front foot. streets will be 24 feet wide in a single contract to save costs. Some abutting owners protest the expense while supporters cite reduced dust and long neglected routes.
A special Senate committee in Columbus voted to pursue a graduated pay cut for state employees to save about 1.5 million dollars annually. The plan would also adjust salaries for elective county officers and other officials and staff and consider payroll reductions for universities and state institutions. Plans to economize highway maintenance funds and reduce overlapping agency costs were discussed.
Council adjourned to meet July 5. Discussion covered street improvements and brick salvaged from President Court Streets for use in paving projects on secondary city streets. Meeting notes indicate ongoing urban maintenance efforts.
Dr. W Wickenden of Case Institute argues parties lack policy and elections hinge on personalities. He suggests reorganizing government to represent industries over geography and urges engineers to assume greater public responsibility amid sessions on education electro chemistry and reliability in large electric systems.
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