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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1932
Page
14
Logan, March 25. Postmaster A. E. Hull announced that after April 2 the Logan post office will close on Saturday afternoons due to a congressional limit of four work hours for postal employees on Saturdays without extra pay. No change to mail delivery or dispatch. incoming mail will go to boxes. no window service Saturdays.
Binfer Dailey and William Myers of Groveport pleaded guilty to driving with fictitious license plates before Mayor Elias Bright. They were fined $25 and costs each after arrest during questioning when nearly two hundred pounds of copper wire were found in their possession.
Logan March 25 Funeral services were conducted at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Creager for their son Fred C. Creager 29 who died after several weeks of toxic jaundice. The Rev B C Peters preached the sermon and burial followed at Oak Grove Cemetery.
Logan March 25 Thomas J Nihizer 61 was found dead on a cot by family members Tuesday forenoon while under medical care for weeks He lived with daughter and son in law William Spence of Jennison Avenue He leaves a brother Millard Nihizer and two sisters The Junior Order of United American Mechanics member Funeral services were held Friday at Harden Company chapel Rev B C Peters officiating Burial in Oak Grove Cemetery
Nominations for Logan High School popularity contest announced with candidates for best looking girl and boy, school spirit, athletes, and wit. Noms include Violet Erwin, Jeanne Edwards, Jack Baker, John Kleinschmidt, Harley Gooding, and others among several categories.
Mrs. M. P. Thurness, former matron of the Hocking County Children's Home, sustained a fractured collar bone after a fall while performing household duties at logan on March 25.
Deputy Sheriff William Bellhorn questioned five men held in Logan regarding a string of chicken thefts in western Hocking County. He said statements helped solve four earlier robberies in Fairfield County and noted the group cut a telephone line to disable an alarm during one theft.
Legion Artists take four of six from Shoe Factory Rollers in a two game set. The first game saw Legion Artists win decisively as Shoe Factory Rollers struggled to score. The second game remained tight with early leads traded before Legion Artists clinched the victory.
Easter day events at Logan Church include cantatas and sermons to handle large crowds. The anniversary of the new United Brethren church building adds significance with Rev. C. L. Yochum delivering the address. The day features multiple services, cantatas, sunrise worship, baptisms, and royal organ and piano music by named musicians.
Divine services will be held at Trinity Lutheran Church at 7 oclock with Holy Communion and a sermon by the Rev Elmer Bliss. Joyce Fields will play the piano during the service.
C Wood Bowen and Rolland Bright of Logan traveled to McConnellville Thursday evening on official Masonry business. They visited the Chapter and Council bodies, noting it was not the annual inspection trip.
Lucille Mc Daniels of Union Furnace was sent to the Girls' Industrial School at Delaware by Judge A. M. Ellinger after a disobedience and school attendance hearing. Probation officers transported her to the institution the same day.
Logan March 25. Hi Y Club at Logan High School lists speakers for Passion Week services on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings Rev. B C Peters and C Wood Bowen will lead the services respectively.
At Haydenville March 25 Sunday School starts 9 15 with worship at 7 00 evening. Rev Calvin B Hanes of Athens will preach. A special song service is planned and prayer meeting arranged for Sunday afternoon after Sunday School. Meetings continue each night next week at 7 50.
In Canaanville on March 25 the South Canaan Baptist Church plans an Easter pageant Sunday night. Bible School starts at 9 30 in the morning, followed by worship at 10 30.
Amesville Presbyterian Church sets a special Easter morning program with Miss Glazier in charge of music. The New England Presbyterian Church also hosts an Easter morning program led by Mr. Oliver Bryson.
The drama The Terrible Meek by Charles Rann Kennedy will be presented by the Radio Guild on Good Friday after noon March 25 at 4 15 o clock over the NBC WJZ network.
The Easter service at Alexander Presbyterian Church Athens Albany Road begins at 11 Sunday morning. Mrs. Maud Vorhes directs the choir and Rev. Howard E. Warner speaks on The Certainty of Immortality. Bible School opens at 10 under Ralph Ladd.
Thirty Ohio University alumni and former Athenians gathered at the Poliyanna tea room in Los Angeles for the annual meeting and basket of the Ohio University Alumni Association of Southern California. Lena Patterson named president and Fred Pickering elected secretary. remarks recalled Athens and campus scenes with many attendees listed.
A Glendale gathering hosted by Mr. and Mrs. James Wisda featured attendees from Santa Ana Columbus Huntington Park and Alhambra. Alonzo Hatch of Los Angeles attended as a guest and sang several vocal solos.
Athens residents along East State Street will gain 76 new copper water service lines from the main on East State Street to homes facing the widened 1.2 mile stretch. City service director John Collins says copper pipes offer longer life than existing galvanized iron and will reduce the need for repairs every five to ten years. The lines already serve portions of South Court Street Union Street College Street and President Street near the new South Bridge approach.
Mr and Mrs Homer Troyer and their son Asa hosted a Wednesday evening old fashioned square dance at the Center Stake home for 29 guests.
An advertisement urges readers to use Dr Caldwell's syrup pepsin to stay vigorous at fifty. It claims the herbal stimulant boosts organs, relieves bilious spells, and eases constipation without becoming habit forming. A spoonful nightly is suggested and druggists stock the preparation.
Columbus reports indicate a lighter lamb crop this spring with 3 to 5 percent decline in early reports from western states. Demand in dressed meat markets is cautious due to carryover stock. feed shortages may limit lamb development. Steer market is firm with multiple grades steady or up. hog market ends week 10 to 6 cents per hundredweight lower amid higher Chicago receipts.
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