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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1935
Page
7
Logan director Carl Schroe town chosen to replace John Longley as coach at Wittenberg College. Fealty Club of Ohio plans scenic outing with bird study and geology tour. families welcome, picnic dinner, assemble at Hollow. Weather could move events indoors.
Logan Kessler age 75 formerly of this city died in Ashtabula County after retirement. He leaves behind wife Miss Emma and children Louise and others. Service plans show arrangements at the mortuary with burial at St Church conducted by Rev Lucius Gillion. Earlier this week, commodities were received and a separate note mentions 2,584 comforters and 1,700 canned roasts.
A county wide playground program is planned to follow the winter emergency school work. C F Cooper who supervised the school program says adults and children will be included and the Athens County summer program will be used locally. Adult Educational councils are being elected in each community to assist in the playground program.
Olive Brown and her mother moved to Marietta. their Sand Rock farm to be occupied by Carl Ritzman and wife from Columbus. Numerous local visits and illness notes follow including McDaniel family relocation, church society meeting, and Mother's Day service at Wilson Chapel. Logan notes G. E. Carr and daughter Lois Ann returning from Columbus hospital and recovering.
Logan Post of the American Legion convened to map Memorial Day observance with Commander B V Wright naming Frank Walters W W Martin and C Wood Bowen to join city groups in a joint program. The post also authorized financing for Junior and Senior League baseball, with committee members John E Krieg G B Carr Ewald Schmitter C C Achauer and Clinton Webb to carry out the plan.
Logan Girl Scouts of Troop Two hold a cookie day on May 18 under Sigma Phi Gamma Sorority leadership. They will solicit cookie orders to raise funds for sending the entire troop to a summer camp.
State Relief Headquarters announced funding for FERA work projects in Gallia County to assist crop loan applications in Gallipolis with 140 dollars. In Hocking County 750 dollars goes to Logan for cemetery work at Oak Grove using about 2000 cubic yards of excess dirt from Logan High School grading and spreading it in nearby areas.
The April report shows Logan deaths outpacing births by 9 to 5 while rural districts record 21 births and 10 deaths. For most of the year deaths exceeded births in Logan with two-month exception. Logan births include sons to Ralph E Goos Ferdinand J Elder and Lawrence Griffith. Girls were born to Carl Freedman and Samuel F Bai.
Logan reporter notes Fred Alvis leaving Irington Hospital after an accident left him with partial vision in the left eye and some sight in the right eye. he remains under physician care. James Neeley, a cancer victim, returned from a Columbus rest home to Logan and is now in Lancaster custody with plans to relocate him to Columbus for care.
Harry Evans of this city departed Tuesday for Lima to spend a few days with his mother Mrs Lena Evans who has been ill for several months and is said to be suffering from tuberculosis and confined to her bed.
Heavy rains fail to raise Willow Lake level. basin floor seal suspected broken after excavations. Local developers remain hopeful the basin will fill, expecting the site to become a lake as water enters from streams and springs.
Logan High School will present its annual three act comedy The Brat at 8 15 Friday night in the senior high auditorium. The cast includes Ardeth Steward Gladys Bart Robert Cole Dick Brown Billy Case Margaret Brooker Thelma Stump Lillian Kemper Nancy Lever Virginia Smith and Ray Schwenke. Reservations open at Risch Pharmacy at 6 p m Thursday.
On request of the United States Marshal for this district Sheriff Joe Farbearn took Clem Swalbaugh of Salt Creek Township into custody Tuesday. He is held to await conveyance to Columbus on a charge of liquor law violation.
Hocking County deputies arrested four men on Greendale Road while guarding a tractor to curb gasoline theft from county road tractors. Cliff Mason Green Township Charles Woods Laurel Run Austin Allen Ervin France Nelsonville faces theft charges. France also charged with improper lights. Fines set at 10 dollars plus costs.
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