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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1931
Page
5
Local column of classified ads and circulation notes lists contact for messenger services and society notices. Dr. Y Milne is named with a telephone line 272 for inquiries, with community readers urged to use the service.
An industrial outlook meeting in Logan drew 150 attendees at the Courthouse Auditorium. Leaders highlighted revived clay and oil activity, proposed a refinery, and discussed railroad impacts with plans for a follow up mass meeting and a 15 member canvassing committee.
Thomas Lynch Sr., 62, died Wednesday at his home in New Straitsville where he had lived 50 years. Funeral services will be 9 a.m. Saturday at the residence, with burial in Mt Calvary Cemetery. He leaves two sons Thomas Lynch Jr and Michael Lynch, three daughters Mrs Leo Fox Mrs Clarence Walters and Mrs William McNall, 19 grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
Harold Chambers extension agent says farmers may use farm relief loans to buy feed for hogs poultry and dairy cattle as an amendment to the previous announcement. This change broadens allowable loan purposes and affects planning for livestock operations.
Negotiations for reopening the Logan shoe factory neared completion as the Cincinnati Shoe Company is set to take over through the Logan Industrial Expansion Fund. The contract awaits signatures from two Columbus men and a local manager with years in shoe manufacturing. The plant would open after machinery installation and will produce a mid priced women’s shoe.
Logan city council in executive session heard John V Wise of the Ohio Fuel Gas Company discuss a proposed rate increase. No figures were given and no action was taken. The meeting outlined the necessity of a raise without specifying amounts.
Warrrns drivers to use lights during travel as Deputy Sheriff Joe Farebann announces a citywide campaign with arrests and prosecutions planned for noncompliance. Excuses not accepted. The report notes a traffic crackdown planned by authorities in Logan.
A German specialist endorses a prescription named Nurito said to relieve rheumatic pain including rheumatism sciatica and neuritis without narcotics. Operators claim it acts quickly and harmlessly, with refunds if ineffective. Sold in drug stores with a trial offer but readers warned about the questionable claim.
At the Logan Kiwanis Club meeting Dr. C. F. Rauch named a five member committee to organize the junior league for the coming season. S. Carlton Bright chairs with Carl Judy Sumner Martin Denzil Weistner and F. B. Burchfield as members. The group will set rules and plan games, with Hiwanis backing and plans to use the High School Athletic Field.
Louis M. Seidenfeld of Murray City visited Havana en route to the Panama Canal Zone. The Havana Post notes it was his first visit in eleven years and reports his amazement at the city’s progress over the last decade.
Members of the Sans Souci Club hosted a large Easter Tuesday evening at the Easterling Club house with Mrs. M. H. Cherrington as hostess. Bridge prizes went to Mrs. Rita Miller and Mrs. Harry Eastmann. guest honors included Mrs. Edward Jones, Mrs. John Lee, Mrs. Wiley Thurness, and Mrs. C. F. Rauch among a lengthy list of attendees.
The Junior Class under Miss Betty Martin presents The Family Upstairs at the New Straitsville High School Auditorium tonight at S o'clock. The drama depicts a typical New York City home with themes of marriage and wealth, promising an amusing and interesting plot.
Thomas Walsh was fined $1 and costs by Mayor E Bright after an arrest by Chief Lewis Reynolds. The charge followed an altercation on Main Street in Logan with Oscar Simonas.
The couple Harley Sherburn a 20 year old laborer of Union Furnace and Ruth Jones an 18 year old at home of Pattonville were married with the ceremony conducted by Rev. C B Arbell.
March 3 Barton A Mail service officer says daily loan applications from veterans total 52 in Logan County with about 17000 dollars already requested. Average loan about 340 dollars per man, with 500 potential applicants projected to seek loans in coming weeks and vouchers expected in 10 to 15 days.
Four bandits held up Mr and Mrs Arthur J Rohde and guests at their Miami home and escaped with 56000 in cash and jewelry. Police were unable to identify the assailants as they fled in a car parked behind the Rohde residence in an exclusive district.
County Agent T. H. Johnson warns farmers about dormant and delayed dormant spray programs for peaches and apples. Recommended mixtures include lime-sulphur and sulfur sprays, with additives like nicotine sulfate for rosy aphid control. thorough trunk and branch coverage essential to eradicating scale and mites.
The guide notes sprays give good control of roxy aphids when applied at the right time. Delayed dormant sprays may burn foliage after leaf tips appear. Oils should stay in the dormant period. sulfur sprays can be used in delayed dormant without leaf injury. Most oils clash with lime sulfur, but all mix with Bordeaux for peaches to control scale and tear curl. use a 2-83-50 Bordeaux mix.
Sister Maddalena Paula Lampe a teacher of arts at St Alovatua Academy near New Lexington filed her naturalization papers on Tuesday. Sister Magdala arrived in the county at Hoboken New York in June 1902 and was born in Mettingen Germany.
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