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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Mar 04, 1931

Page

12

Farmers Guests Of Fox Hunters Meet At Logan

Land owners leased to the Hocking County Fox Hunters Association hosted a 75 attendee meeting. Deputy C C Higgins of the Conservation Department outlined wildlife preservation goals and reducing game law violations while fostering fair hunter-owner relations. Leonard Bell described leasing a large tract east of Logan, with farmers informed and cooperators protecting game. others spoke on farm cooperation. A lunch followed as honorary memberships were awarded to property owners. A free forest fox chase is planned March 14 at Robey farm Green Township with dogs cast at 5:30 AM, no fee or prizes.

Logan Hocking County Fox Hunters Association Cc. C. Higgins Conservation Department Higgins Leonard Bell Association Fidward Hockman Frank Adcock John Delble Foster Bobo Virgil Wright James Monks Haydenville Walter Mason Clarence Brooks Henry Derr William Bowlby Fred Mowery Pearl Appileman Perry Inboden Roy Wolfe Arthur Reddick Robey Farm Green Township

Nutrition class to hold achievement meeting at Courthouse

March 10 at 10 o'clock the Nutrition Class will meet in Courthouse Auditorium. Miss Minnie Price will give the principal address with Miss Alma Garvin in attendance. A summer project will be announced and all last year’s participants are invited for a picnic dinner and afternoon program.

Wright Suffering From Influenza At East Hunter Street

Logan reports S W Wright senior is at his East Hunter Street home recovering from influenza with complications after an illness.

Logan S. W. Wrightsei East Hunter Street

Young Men urged to apply early for training camp

Logan March 4 Indications are that Hocking County youths seeking the Citizens Military Training Camp must file applications early. The county quota is eight, and applications must be received this month. Ohio is rapidly filling its quota after the campaign opened March 1, with Harry Krumiauf aiding county chairman Clinton Webb.

Logan Citizens Military Hocking County Clinton Webb Ohio Harry Krumiauf

Hocking County Board Opposes State Textbook Unit

The Hocking County Board of Education in Logan on March 4 opposed the Sting and Lauer Bills that would make Ohio the state unit for textbook adoption. They favored a bill making the county the adoption unit to reduce book variety and confusion when students transfer between districts.

Logan County Board of Education General Assembly Sting Lauer Ohio

Logan High Debate Teams at Rotary Club

On March 4 Logan High School debated at the Rotary Club with coach Kenneth Coulter. The affirmation team included Margaret Ringhiser William Bowen and Ralph Arnold while the negative team featured Kathleen McGonagle Loren Peters and Charles Pettit debating the motion that chain stores are detrimental to U S public interests.

Logan Logan High School Kenneth Coulter Rotary Club United States Margaret Ringhiser William Bowen Ralph Arnold Kathleen McGonagle Loren Peters Charles Pettit

Trial over stock sale dispute opens in Common Pleas Court

Judge Joseph W. Adkins of Circleville presides as Minnie Ingram sues Homer G. Hansen in a long standing Common Pleas case. The suit seeks money from a Dollings Company stock sale years ago as jurors are seated for the evidence.

Scarlet Fever Eases In Hocking County Health Officials Say

Health officials reported no new scarlet fever cases in Hocking County for ten days and Logan is free from the disease for months. Three quarantine cases remain in rural areas Gibisonville and Oroville have fewer infections. One diphtheria case recovered with quarantine lifted. Influenza deaths exceed five in recent weeks. Dr Morton W Bland urges bed rest and quick physician contact when symptoms appear.

Logan Hocking County Gibisonville Oroville Murray City Morton W. Bland

Harrington Presbyterian Sunday School elects officers

In Logan on March 4 Mrs. Clayton Scheide Jr was chosen president of the Harrington Class at a business session held at Mrs. Seth Sloan’s home on South Walnut Street. New officers include Mrs Alfred Campbell vice president Miss Violet Brehm secretary and Miss Ruth Heft treasurer.

New Era Oil to shoot new Campbell Tract well

Logan report says the New Era Oil and Gas Company will shoot a newly completed Campbell tract well in Green Township. The well showed oil and gas with potential output of eight to ten barrels daily on previously untested territory.

New Era Company Campbell Tract Logan Campbell Green Township New Era Oil and Gas Company

Brown Couple Welcome Daughter in Logan

Mr and Mrs Alva Brown announce the birth of a daughter at their Wood Street home Tuesday morning. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs A M Brown of this city and John Mooney of Nelsonville. Father works for Walker T Dickerson Shoe Company in Columbus.

Logan Alva Brown Wood Street A. M. Brown This City John Mooney Nelsonville Walker T. Dickerson Shoe Company Columbus

Rotarians Accept Athens Invite for Inter-City Meeting

Logan Rotarians have accepted an invitation from the Athens club to attend an inter-city meeting set for March 24. The announcement came on Tuesday.

Logan Logan Rotarians Athens Club

Franklin Girls Lose to Logan Transfers in City League Meet

Franklin Girls fall to Logan Transfers 2569 to 2449 in a City League bowling match. Helen Columber led the Franklin squad with 537 pins and a 218-pin second game, the high single game of the evening for the girls, as Franklin posted season high three-game scores.

Logan Franklin Girls Helen Columber Franklin

Legion Auxiliary to Stage March 23 Program in Logan

The Auxiliary to the Logan Post of the American Legion plans a special program on March 23 with invitations to units in Nelsonville and Lancaster. March is music month and the Glee Club will provide special music directed by Mrs. M. F. Weymueller.

Logan American Legion Nelsonville Lancaster Glee Club M. F. Weymueller

Gamertsfelder speaks before local pastors in Athens County

Professor W. B. Gamertsfelder told the Athens County Ministerial Association that today’s philosophy is more favorable to religion and theology. He outlined four modern thought currents mysticism naturalism idealism and pragmatism and warned that naturalism and realism threaten religious belief.

W. 8. Gamertafelder Athens County Plato Gamertsfelder

Ohio University Vested Choir to Make Campus Debut

Forty two trained singers make their campus debut Sunday night at 8 in the Alumni Memorial Auditorium. Under Prof. C C Robinson the choir was chosen by November trials open to all students. Stage lighting is by Harold Evans and Vincent Jukes. Mrs C C Robinson plays accompaniments.

Athens Ohio University Alumni Memorial C. C. Robinson Jackson Robinson New York Harold Evans Vincent Jukes Bach Palmegren Theinberger Mac Faren Brahms Tschaikowski Gounod Jesu Grieg Beethoven

Ministers Back Sterilization Bill in Ohio Legislature

The meeting supported the Sterilization Bill before the Ohio Legislature with ministers and church congregations backing it. The secretary was authorized to contact the local representative and senator to acknowledge approval. Mrs. O C Bird outlined the Athens County Welfare Association operations and urged ministers to register needy cases as the association plans for Passion Week activities with the Athens Presbyterian Church.

Ohio O. C. Bird Athens County Welfare Association Athens Presbyterian Church

Harvard Lottery Mimics Racketeering In Literature Class

Harvard University students in Professor Irving Babbitt's comparative literature course are playing a daily lottery. Tickets priced at 10 cents are sold to numbers 1 through 100, with two students counting the authors mentioned in lecture. The holder matching the number of named authors wins the pool.

Cambridge Mass U.P Harvard University Harvard Crimson Irving Babbitt Babbitt

Local farmer wins award in pig contest

Fred Dorr of Canaan Township earned a gold medal for a one ton pork litter of eight pigs at Farmers Week on the Ohio State University campus in early February. In 1930, 63 farmers across 29 Ohio counties joined the Ton-litter Club. 54 were new. The club ends in 1931 with a shift to a pork production project measuring herd records rather than individual litters. eligibility requires each sow herd litter to average 1,400 pounds.

Fred Dorr Canaan Ohio State University Dorr Ohio T. H. Johnson Johnson

Judge Worstell Speaks on U S Jurisprudence at Athens Rotary

Judge L. G. Worstell addressed the Athens Rotary Club at Hotel Berry on a vocational talk about the American system of jurisprudence. He explained how issues are adjudicated by judges, noting mandamus, receivership, injunction, and divorce as common judge alone cases. Dr C L Jones announced an inter-city meeting on March 24 with eight Rotary clubs invited and a feature address by Frank J Pauley of Middletown.

L. G. Worstell Athens Rotary Club Hotel Berry C. L. Jones Athens Club Frank J. Pauley Middletown

Mrs. Roxanna Brooks to be feted on 85th birthday

Mrs. Roxanna Brooks of a rural route near Zaleski will turn 85 on March 10. Friends plan a postcard shower to celebrate the occasion. She has been crippled and bedridden for 17 years and is well known across Vinton County.

This Fails to Knock Your Cold in a Few Hours Hill’s Cascara

An advertising claim promises to relieve cold symptoms with Hill’s Cascara Quinine. It guarantees satisfaction or a refund if the cold remains, urging two tablets plus on box directions and plenty of water. The copy touts a single focused formula to knock colds quickly and costs only a few cents at drug stores.

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Logan and Hocking County Messenger D. Y. Milne Esary, T Ghazia Swanson Ed Soutding Artets Picture Hocking County School Board Forensic Squad High School Joseph W. Adkins Circleville Clayton Scheide, Jr Majestic Joseph MM. Schenck American Legion Auxiliary Nelsonville, Lancaster Amos Parrish the Zenner Co Memorial Auditorium Harvard Canaan Township Ton-Litter Club Columbia the Lion The London Judge Worstell Mrs. Brooks WZ Ee Re Saree Ae Cetize Logan, Ohio Zenner Co Barbara Istanwyck Tioamerkel California Jack Tar Makers
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