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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1933
Page
10
Logan March 16. Farmers and Merchants Bank resumes operations after the national banking holiday. Deposits grow, new accounts total 35000, and officials plan to cooperate to prevent hoarding under Treasury Secretary Woodin's guidance. Business mood lifts with returning gold deposits.
During the Rockbridge flood Tuesday a rabbit became stranded on a small island in a rushing torrent. State highway employees watched as gravel was tossed toward the animal and a rescuer swam to shore with the rabbit safe.
Robbers gained entrance by boring holes in a wooden door and fled with meats groceries tobacco and clothing from the Johnson store in Murray City. Sheriff Sol Ellinger and Deputy Stanley Sparnow investigated on Wednesday morning following the Tuesday night burglary.
Logan reports the Pocahontas Lodge degree team will present New Wives for Old at 7 30 Monday night at their hall. The program includes the playlet and a drill with several special numbers.
Visitors report a surging torrent of water during heavy rains at Old Man's Cave in the gorge. Ranger A F Petchley notes little property damage in the state park, though some roads were washed out at spots.
Logan March 16 Seniors top the honor roll with 20.8 percent for the last six weeks period. Sophomores 17.2 percent and Juniors 12.8 percent. Names listed include seniors Jack Baker and Elizabeth Brooker. juniors Mildred Blake and Glen Brown. sophomores Margaret Brooker and Gladys Bort.
A heavy hail storm swept the north part of Hocking County around 5 pm Tuesday with thunder. In Rockbridge the Brehm family, observing a flood, was caught. hailstones dented the automobile top and damaged slate roofs and windows. The same storm later hit McConnelville, described as containing the largest hailstones ever seen.
LOGAN March 16 officials announced tax filing relief extending deadlines. Taxes would be accepted until March 2 without penalty. final day had been set for March 15. Banks reopened that morning prompting a further extension.
Logan reports a delay in personal property taxation listings in Hocking County due to banking holidays. Auditor W. S. Yaw notes listings should resume promptly with reopening of financial institutions. Penalty will be added after March 31 for late filers. no time extension possible without legislative action. Officials hope for a swift vetting to avoid a last minute rush.
Logan report: Fred C Shively appointed administrator of the Herbert Dalton estate by Judge BE L. Ewing on Tuesday following a family request. Dalton was an accident victim.
Logan reports a white robin observed in Green Township near Smith Chapel. George L. Wright recalls seeing the bird in the same district last year and notes the latest sighting occurred last Sunday in Hocking County.
Logan officials inspected flood damaged bridges and roads after heavy rains Monday and Tuesday. A 65 foot iron bridge over Monday Creek was carried 700 feet from its abutments, with debris in a field, and another nearby bridge was damaged. Reconstruction began Wednesday and may resume Monday as drainage and berms were repaired. Relatives in Logan were informed of Edward Rechenwalds death in Charleston, West Virginia on Tuesday evening.
Washington dispatch notes the big brewers agree to battle racketeering efforts to the finish. It mentions a man linked to Peter and Charles Redhenwald of the city, described as a retired mail carrier and former Hocking County resident.
William Lewis of West Logan appeared before Mayor Elias Bright on a charge of malicious destruction of property. He pled not guilty and bond was set at 500 dollars, which he could not furnish. The damage was to property owned by James Bebout of the city.
Gallipolis reports 2.2 inches of rain in 48 hours. Raccoon Creek floods State Routes 141 and 160, a State highway truck works Cadmus, and a bridge on Clay Lick Road is washed out. Ohio River at 40 feet backs water into Chickamauga Creek bottoms. crest 47 feet at Dam 26, Chambersburg, expected Friday.
A fleet of derrick boats and barges broke from the Marietta plant at East Point Pleasant and drifted down the Ohio until the U S Steamer Iroquois could not land them below Clipper Mill due to heavy drift. The flood waters hinder navigation for coal tows as vessels pass toward Cincinnati and Pittsburgh.
Gallipolis on March 16 reports Judge J. S. Clark appoints Effie Wood administratrix of the John L. Wood estate with Harry R. Wood furnishing $1,000 surety. Also on March 16 James Roberts bought from Pearl Taylor lot 14 in Kapauga.
Raymond Jones a Gallipolis postal clerk spilled about 2200 dollars on State Street near Second Avenue while carrying bank funds from the First National Bank. Coins totaling 500 to 600 and over 1600 in bills were scattered but no loss was reported as bystanders paid little heed.
Gallipolis March 16. Frank Haskins and Vernon Kuhn juniors at Gallina Academy High School and reserve Blue Devil football team members swam in the murky Ohio River backwater yesterday. They entered at noon on a mutual date in water backed up in Chickamauga Creek behind the high school.
Funeral services for James P. Carter near Patriot are set for Friday at 2 p.m. at his home with burial in Mound Hill Cemetery. A farmer, he was the son of former Gal lia County probate judge Robert Carter and leaves his widow Belle Jenkins Carter, three sons Earl Virgil Cecil and three daughters Amos Carter Jessie Bintz and Verda Braun.
Brewers vow no mercy to bootleggers and home brewers once beer is legalized. They push for a malt syrup tax and plan to finance heavy distribution networks, aging beer five weeks, to meet demand as legitimate brewing resumes.
John Snowdon and Verne Duarte, 23 and 24, flew a borrowed plane in Monterey California causing a wild chase from the airport to the bay. The improvised pilots struggled with controls missing their target and ended with a swim ashore a mile from shore as police greeted them.
Town ship maps showing Gal lia County farm lands and owners were requested from County Surveyor C E Fife by David C Warner executive secretary of the State Water Conservation Board. The board will compile locations for projects aiding employment and fitting the national flood control recolonization and source control plan.
John McNealey spent Wednesday in Cincinnati. A daughter was born Tuesday, March 14, to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Clark of Fourth Avenue. Mrs. C I Ecker has returned from a visit with her daughter, Mrs. Vernon Hine of Akron. Leo Carter spent Tuesday and Wednesday in Ironton for industrial claims adjustments.
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