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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1927
Page
10
Logan March 29 An official of the Hocking Valley car shops announced a thirty five man reduction for March 31 from the present workforce of about seventy. Prospects for better work are not bright this fall, and many idle workers have left the city to seek employment elsewhere.
Landslides along improved highways in Hocking county worry county commissioners. The worst slide near David Reynolds' residence prompted workers to dig a rock trench and build a new foundation with a retaining wall. Slides on the New Straitsville, Laurelville, and Nelsonville roads plus township roads in Greentownship are reported.
Simeon Nihiser of near Hesboro paid taxes for 21 years on town lots that never formed a town. He asked the county commissioners to return the farm plots to farm property and a resolution was passed. The land was once part of the Henry Howe farm with eighty years of history and a proposed village named Point Pleasant that never materialized.
Logan Beta Eta chapter took the attendance cup for the largest delegation at the Beta Phi Sigma state conference in Zanesville. Ralph Schrader of Logan was named secretary treasurer of the Eta district. Attendees from Logan included Phil Henderson Harold Crawford Elwyn Crawford Ralph Schrader Fred Juergensmeier Clarence Struble Robert Keck Claude Bright Ralph Kleinschmidt Owen Yaw Chan Kessler Carl Woltz Ralph Bell Charles Riggs Walter Potts Wilbur Potts Russell Keyes Charles Eberst Warren Johnson Henry Adcock.
Two additional suits were filed in Logan common pleas court by creditors of Edward Heffy whose West Main street property was sold at sheriff sale. Carl C. Hott seeks $959.70 for labor at Heffy restaurant from July 14 1924 to February 13 1927. The C D Shafer Company also filed a suit.
The petition seeks a judgment for $871 37 plus interest from June 36 1926 on merchandise sold by the C D Shafer company for which payment has not been received.
Trial in common pleas court began with Judge Harley M. Whitcraft presiding. Alonzo Unger and others sue Eli Daugherty and associates over timber sawing rights, alleging contract breach and seeking damages after moving his mill to another tract. Jury list includes Wilbur Seesholtz John W. Wolfe Mrs Esther Bay and others.
Logan report states Toni Pascquill of Athens was stopped on the Logan Lancaster road Sunday for speeding better than forty five miles an hour. He pleaded guilty before Mayor J P Rochester and was fined five dollars plus costs.
Edward W. Turner was chosen by Logan Methodist Episcopal Church congregants to represent the church at the lay conference in Delaware next September. The decision followed a village vote conducted by the congregation.
Logan March 29. William Brian of this city traveling south on the Nelsonville pike Sunday afternoon went into a roadside ditch near the Wright filling station. He escaped uninjured after following a line of cars when one vehicle turned into the station driveway and he swerved to avoid a crash.
Mr and Mrs Fred Allen and daughter Florence of Indianapolis visited Logan at end of week to see Comrade James Allen and other relatives. Allen long based in Indianapolis as manager of a major baking firm. He earlier worked as a Logan clerk then moved to Columbus to buy a bakery with a partner. The Columbus bakery later sold to New York capitalists.
Logan report states Harry Jewell of Green Township was unable to post a $500 bond on a nonsupport of a child charge and was returned to the county jail after arraignment before Judge Har.
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Jewell was taken into custody on a capias issued Saturday by Newton Spencer, clerk of courts.
The ceremony united Albert Francis Woolever a 25 year old farmer of Gibisonville and Emma Woolever and Pearl Chilcote with Floyd C. Hemsworth 21 an Greendale engineer and Francion D. Bail 17 at home in Greendal. Magistrate P P Miller and the Rev Mr Corwin officiated respectively.
An advertisement urges mothers to rub Musterole on throats and chests to prevent or relieve cough related illnesses and croup. It promotes Musterole for adults and children with a milder children’s version and lists numerous conditions it claims to ease or prevent.
The world champion Cardinals erased an early four run lead by the Yankees and grabbed a 5 to 4 victory in St. Petersburg Florida. The win featured a late ninth inning push to overcome the New York rivals in a tense matchup.
Giants outfielder Ross Young shows improvement after the final blood transfusion last Saturday. He is now receiving visitors at the San Antonio hospital.
The reader lists ten quiz questions with concise answers. It includes details about elevators near rudders, the Wright brothers, Ty Cobb, Denmark, Minnesota, Louisa May Alcott, Louisiana, Jonathan, John Wilkes Booth, and Ford's Theatre in Washington.
The excerpt shows characters Winnie and Billy discussing a late meeting of women employees and a boss, with snide remarks about after hours sessions. The scene hints at workplace tension and an upcoming gathering referenced by a character.
An advertisement touts Tysmol as quick relief for nerve pains anywhere in the body without narcotics. It claims absorption through the skin and soothing healing effects on diseased nerves, offering $1 price and availability at McKee Drug Co.
Dr Edwards Olive Tablets provide a calomel free laxative made from natural plant ingredients with olive oil. They promise gentle, non gripping bowel and liver activity and claim to cure dark mouth breath tiredness headache and constipation with one or two tablets at bedtime. Available in 1c 3c 60c sizes.
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