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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1929
Page
14
Clinton Webb is the Logan Cor respondent for the Athens Messenger. Call Telephone Your News at 6024 for tips or submissions.
A Murray City group traveled to the capital to request highway department aid for Fork Creek improvements. Officials pledged cooperation and special attention to a new bridge within village limits. Delegation included County Commissioners, Mayor, school board member, Citizens Committee rep, churches rep, and county engineers.
Logan March 29 Christine Davis 69 wife of Sam Davis died at her Union Furnace home at 2 30 am Thursday from influenza complications. She leaves a husband a son two daughters a sister G W Clark of Logan and an aunt William Barth of this city. Rev Wissinger of New Philadelphia will conduct funeral services at Union Furnace Presbyterian Church at 1 o clock Saturday and burial will follow in New Kitsville Cemetery.
Logan March 29 Sheriff W Lloyd reports Thelma Bernard 16 of Corning kidnapped from home by two men in a rolet coupe. Mother witnessed the abduction and says she was powerless to help. Thelma is sister of Mr and Mrs John Bernard, long-time Corning residents with ties to Mar City and local mines.
Fifty members attended the Logan Commandery Knights Templar annual inspection in Logan with Lowell Smith as inspecting officer. The work was exemplified in the Temple degree and visiting brothers from Lancaster and Newton joined the session, followed by a lodge dinner at the Masonic Hall. Sheriff W R Featheroff received a letter from a patient at the State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Lima reporting progress and interest in the facility.
Logan churches mark Easter with communion baptismal rites and cantatas. Bishop A R Clippinger will preach at United Brethren as the church anniversary is observed. Morning and evening services feature The Resurrection Song cantata by the Methodist choir.
Five Ohio University debaters argued over the motion that trial by jury should be abolished. Kenneth Coulter presided as Glenn Cole and E. L. Parker argued for the affirmative while Carl Slack and Leonard Henniger defended the jury system.
Logan report notes Andrew and Henry Rheinscheid drawn for next month’s petit jury in Common Pleas Court. Andrew is a Green Township farmer and Henry lives on a Washington Township farm. The tale recalls a prior jury including J P Miller and his father.
Logan March 29 eight veteran fiddlers competed for honors at a social evening in the Pythian Building assembly room with more than 200 members and families attending. Contestants were W. W. Harden E. B. Harden Harry Waltz Wilber Woods John Meiser Charles Potts Joe Lane and George Roberts. Awards were given to each participant and the event closed with a group number. Clog dancing and square dancing followed with refreshments provided by Noah Robey Harry Shaw and Melvin Harbarger.
March 29. George Notestone of South Perry is held in the Hocking County Jail awaiting arraignment after being arrested at his cabin by Deputy Sheriff L P Hammond and State Inspectors H H Lines and J C Yates. Officers found him working at a still and a loaded .28 caliber revolver in his pocket. A loaded rifle was found as well.
Police reported a 15 gallon still located on the premises with no top or coils for a larger still and about 100 gallons of mash recovered. The prisoner Notestone was guarded closely after arrest due to a history of escapes and a hip wound from a prior capture. Prosecutor Henderson said a third offense charge would be pursued and a magistrate would arraign him Friday.
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