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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1934
Page
10
Logan reports that starting mid November the CWA paid out 240000 in county payrolls and will approach 275000 before disbanding March 30. Payroll peaked Jan 18 at 24312.55 with 1425 workers. weekly totals fell to 6463.62 last week with 675 participants.
Four bridge tables entertained by Mrs. Dorothy Wardwell at Sugar Grove Inn with Gli Amici Club members in attendance. Mrs. Ford Hack led high guest score, club award went to Mrs. Harry Thomas, dinner at 6:30 prior to play. attendees included Mrs. C F Rauch Mrs Hack Mrs Roger Friend and Miss Elizabeth Rempel.
Sheriff Sol Ellinger collected 20072 for the sheriff's office share of costs in the Blanche Stone versus Charien Davis and others case, disclosed to the public on Saturday.
Council to study a planned lime soda softening plant after Logan approved PWA aid of 94000. Mayor Fitzgerald received a confirming letter from L A Boulay, state engineer. The plan aims to reduce the city water hardness, with decision at Tuesday night’s meeting uncertain due to changes since the original application.
Logan brand poultry, dairy, and horse feeds produced by J. M. Meldrim and son Hugh at South Mulberry Street have grown steadily since inception. The plant is state licensed with Lewis Graham managing the mixing department. William Barthiow and a part time worker complete the staff.
Logan records show $8 000 in delinquent water claims unpaid. Officials will consider wastefulness by water consumers before summer as daily per capita use reaches 130 gallons in summer.
Logan residents show interest in national opera broadcasts each Saturday. The group at the office includes Rev. R. C. Babylon Bruce Dishennett William Martin Charlies Floyd and Prosecutor C Wood Bowen watching the program.
Logan, Judge C A Peoples will preside over several cases next Friday as Judge Harley M Whitcraft is ineligible. Foremost is the Bush motion in the Logan Industrial Fund suit against William Bush, pledged contributor to the expansion fund. Also set for hearing are Hansel v Logan Publishing and Printing Co and Rice v Rice.
Logan Republicans plan to join the state wide gathering in Columbus next Thursday night. F M McKay urges a large Logan delegation. tickets must be reserved by Tuesday evening. Attendees likely include Mayor Kenneth R Fitzgerald and former Congressman Edwin D Ricketts. Carl Freedman announces birth of a son Charlies Victor with grandparents in Logan and Baltimore.
An editorial overview notes that gold prices have surged from 20.62 to 35.08 per ounce, prompting widespread mining efforts. It discusses gold’s purity, non ferrous nature, and historical movement of gold, including government assay practices and notable anecdotes of gold in New York, Baltimore, and California’s Forty-niners.
Logan Post sponsors a Sunday afternoon American Legion Minstrel for government hospital patients in Chillicothe. Funds raised cover costumes and equipment rentals. Members were driven to the event in private cars.
Edwin Schneider 11 son of Everett Schneider Nelsonville was treated Sunday at Cherring ton Hospital for a burn three weeks old on the right leg. Commissioner Tom Vancuren who had appendicitis surgery two weeks ago may return home soon. Don Lanning of Nelsonville R D 1 was admitted Saturday likely to undergo surgery for pleurisy.
Virgil W. Pope 36 former Ohio University athlete found dead in bed at his parents Wellston home Sunday afternoon. He played end on the varsity football squad under Coaches Gullum and Finsterwald and captained the wrestling team. Survived by widow Phyllis Bryson and three children, five brothers, six sisters, and Beta Theta Pi member. Coroner ruled death due to heart affliction. funeral plans not yet set.
Gallipolis boat owners plan talks with officials on hull repairs after the Packet Senator Cordill sank at Dam 14 in February. The vessel was sent to Marietta for repairs with an estimated thirty days of work. A boiler battery from the dismantled excursion Steamer New Orleans is being installed on the excursion Steamer Washington at Paducah. The Steamer D. W. Wisherd proceeded to Memphis with a steel tow, and the steamship I. Lamont Hughes resumed service after its January 100th anniversary voyage by Carnegie Steel.
London dispatch says Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford are in talks for a possible reconciliation after strained relations. The Sunday Express reports the two stars have held lengthy trans Atlantic telephone conversations, seen as the basis for reconciliation rumors amid Fairbanks' divorce case proceedings.
Earl W. Evans of Wichita, president of the American Bar Association, urged lawyers nationwide to expose and exterminate lawyer-criminals. Speaking at an Ohio State Bar Association regional meeting, he said such figures have damaged the profession and reduced public trust.
Madrid March 12. Newspaper and publishing house workers joined thousands on strike creating confusion and government anxiety. Rumors say Socialists may seek a revolutionary general strike. Government with extraordinary powers considers martial law and plans to reinforce civil guard and mobile police.
Ohio require all common carriers operating in or through the state to display Ohio license plates immediately. Registrar Glen M. Daily said enforcement will be statewide after a conference with Highway Director C. W. Merrell and Col. Lynn Black. Bus firms not in compliance have until March 26, 1934 to obtain proper registrations for all buses including emergency equipment.
Gallia County board of elections could not organize as a clerk appointment had not been announced by Secretary of State Myers. A new meeting is set for March 17 to elect a chairman with Democrats likely to secure the clerk post. Charlie Walter, Republican, is favored as next chairman amid ties between L. L. Cremeens Democrat and George N. Bolles Republican for clerk.
Gallipolis reports Huntington Burley Market will close Thursday and Maysville Burley Market will close its season Friday. W T Wells notes poor barley sales and delays in 1934 crop planting. Uprooted Gallia County tobacco shifted to Huntington. WV grower reductions projected. overall acreage down over 40 percent. Mary Halley re arrested for non payment liquor fine and buying second hand property from minors.
About ten Gallia County Republicans plan to travel to Columbus for the state meeting of the Republican Central Committee and the party this Thursday. Attending listed include H. M. Miller Charles Walters Gomer Jones Dr. T. J. Allison S. H. Eagle and Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Houck.
Mrs. F. L. Sibley is spending several days with Mr. and Mrs. C. Fred Edwards in Bpectorville.
The Ohio Bureau of Inspection approved Gallipolis new pumper after tests by D. C. Criswell. The fire department HQ will be modernized this week removing a hay loft to gain depth. Sheds at the City Building will be repaired and expanded. Hose length rises to 1700 feet total over 5000 feet. The pumper handles eight lines per hydrant and weighs about seven tons.
Kenneth Lawson of Gallipolis was arrested at Betty Roe’s home by Chief John Fraley and Sheriff Elmer Hatfield for assault with intent to kill on Fred Meinhart of Pomeroy. The March 5 attack fractured Meinhart’s skull. a manslaughter charge could follow if he dies. Meinhart is in critical condition. a warrant was sworn by Cora Meinhart.
Gallia County township trustees again deferred action on diverting the township gasoline tax to the Gallia County Relief Commission. No definite program was presented for use of funds at the meeting. Mrs. Ben Dunn of Richwood was dismissed from Holzer Hospital after an appendectomy and returned to her parents home.
Emmett Drummond was granted a divorce from Laura Drummond by Judge W R White on grounds of prass neglect of duty. They married July 2 1900. Custody of the three minor children awarded to Mr Drummond.
Deputy Sheriff Howard Gates bought the 70 acre Green Township farm from Midland Mutual Life Insurance Company after it was acquired at sheriff's sale from J. G. Greenleaf et al. The property lies in Green Township and was previously owned by Greenleaf.
Mrs Laura Johnston 165 pound policeman’s wife sues for divorce charging Lieut Jack Harmony a former University of Maryland boxing coach interfered with her health and natural course. Johnston says her husband left her after she gained weight. Harmony is noted for a 20 bout collegiate record.
Jackie Fields, once a welterweight champion, shifts from boxing to Hollywood as a technical director on a major movie. He leaves the ring behind to lend his expertise behind the scenes in cinema.
Two people drowned and three were rescued as thousands flocked to California beaches for relief from a heat wave. Joseph Loschiavo, 45, of San Francisco, was swept away while mussel hunting. William Willis, 22, drowned in Malibu Lake. Dry desert winds pushed Los Angeles to 90 degrees with San Francisco shattering March 11 records.
Nippon Dempo News Agency reports torpedo boat Tomozuru capsized near the Goto Islands off Sasebo with fears that the entire crew perished.
In Cincinnati plans call for a Taft Memorial to be built by contributions. The project would include an elementary school, a birthplace site on Mt. Audy, a statue, and support pledged by the National Teacher Association, the Bar Association, and the Mass. der group.
An aerial mapping survey of Ohio will be launched when weather permits. The first map will cover the Muskingum Watershed Conservation area spanning parts of three counties and about 10,280 square miles with 29 full sub areas.
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