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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

May 24, 1933

Page

10

Act To Provide Educational and Religious Program for Foresters

Logan May 2 4 Some attention is to be paid the local contingent of the reforesting army in the way of educational recreational and religious activities. The Rev C M Lever Legionnaire will make a trip to the camp Thursday to discuss with the officers in charge these matters. Organizations and individuals will be asked to contribute their time and talent towards these activities. There are 211 enrolled men one regular army officer three reserve officers and four non commissioned officers from the regular army in camp. First two days of life there has been devoted largely to the work of setting up the camp and establishing routine. When actual reforesting work begins it will consist of many phases. Telephone lines will be constructed for communication between ranger stations fire brakes will be cut in forests Dead trees and underbrush will be removed from forest lands seedlings will be planted and trails and roads will be established throughout the parks area.

Logan C. M. Lever Legionnaire

Special services arranged for wards at County Home

Logan May 4 Special services for wards at the County Home are planned semi monthly under Rev W H Woodgeard chaplain. Recent visits included Mt Tabor M E Choir on June 3 and future services by Rev James T Yocum and Sugar Grove M E Choir on June 17 with Gibisonville M E Choir to hold a session.

James T. Yocum Sugar Grove M. E Woodgeard Gibisonville M. E

Local Junior Order to Nominate Officers Thursday

Logan residents are informed that the local Junior Order will hold a meeting on Thursday night to nominate new officers. Refreshments will be served during the business session.

Logan

Do Nothtings Too Busy To Take Jobs

A local business man offered a day of work to two men. One declined to work to meet trustees for a relief order and another was busy serving the unemployed committee and could not take the job.

Logan May

Inspectors Busy With Multiple Masonic Functions This Week

Local Masonic inspectors C. Wood Bowen Rolland Bright and Harry L. Smith are active across several lodges. Bright and Bowen attended a super excellent degree at Jackson Monday night while Smith inspected the Blue Lodge at McArthur. Bowen and Charles Klein Schmidt visited St. Clairsville Tuesday to inspect Council Masonry, with Bowen scheduled at Lancaster Thursday. Smith travels to Baltimore Wednesday and Thornville Friday for further inspections.

Logan C. Wood Bowen Rolland Bright Harry L. Smith Mr. Bright Mr. Bowen Jackson Mr. Smith McArthur Blue Lodge Charles Klein Schmidt St. Clairsville Lancaster Baltimore Thornville

Logan stores to close on Decoration Day

Announcement through the Chamber of Commerce states Logan retail stores will close on Decoration Day. Owners and clerks will participate in morning ceremonies.

Logan Chamber of Commerce

Examinations Set For Logan High Next Week

Logan High School exams are scheduled for next Monday and Wednesday. Fred Burchfield, the principal, states teachers and pupils from all city schools will take part in Memorial Day exercises on Tuesday.

Logan Logan High School Fred Burchfield

Two Divorce Suits Filed at Logan

Pauline Scott sues Warren Scott and Rosston Pyle for separation and alimony custody in two Logan divorce actions. The Scotts, married July 17, 1904 in Washington County, have six children with two minors. neglect is alleged. The other suit by Thelma Pyle cites alleged neglect since 1927 and a March 11, 1930 letter. she and Rosston Pyle, married December 1, 1928 in Nelsonville, have no children.

Pyle Nelsonville

McConnelsville Rotary Club Welcomes Logan Visitors

Logan visitors from the McConnelsville Rotary Club attended a meeting on Unselfish Service led by secretary C. B. Smith. A 25% delegation presented an operetta with performers Gerald Scott Richard Bell Frank Gray and accompanist Lucille Gaylord. The groups then played volleyball at the Junior High Gym.

Missionary C A Spriggs to Speak at Diamond Church

Local missionary C A Spriggs of the American Sunday School Union will deliver an address at Diamond Christian Church tonight at 8 o clock.

C. A. Spriggs American Sunday School Union Diamond Christian Church

Baccalaureate Service Set at Logan High School

Logan High School hosts baccalaureate services Sunday afternoon with ministers including Rev E B Townsend of Marietta. Invocation by Rev B C Peters, Benediction by Rev Elmer Bliss, solos by Morton Epstein, violin pieces The Prize Song and Ave Maria, orchestra under Miss Minnie L Bowen to perform processional and recessional.

McBroom Named to Complete Lyon Relief Commission Term

Logan May 24 John W McBroom of this city named by Judge Harley M Whitcraft to fill the unexpired term of Dr Claude Lyon on the Hocking County Soldiers Relief Commission Lyons resignation followed his appointment to the district examiners board Ewald Schmitter and James Allen are the other members

Lyon Logan John W. McBroom Harley M. Whitcraft Claude Lyon Hocking County Soldiers Relief Commission Ewald Schmitter James Allen

Chauncey Residents Donate Seed Potatoes to Flood Victims

Chauncey merchants and citizens contributed a ton of seed potatoes to aid 25 families whose gardens were inundated by recent flooding. Many potato patches and truck gardens were destroyed. about 21 families sought a second planting, funded by local donors.

Chauncey

Flour distribution planned for Chauncey Dover district

A government flour distribution is scheduled for Thursday at 1 PM in the Chauncey Dover area. Shortages in the current allotment were cited by Dover trustees. Distribution will originate from Chauncey Millfield Sugar Creek and Beaumont. The Plains event notes Hocking Local 8096 United Mine Workers meeting Thursday at 5 PM at The Plains school grounds with delegate reports from Shawnee and Murray City.

Chauncey Chauncey-Dover Dover Millfield Sugar Creek Beaumont the Plains

Weekend Socials Cross Counties in Ohio and West Virginia

Miss Esther Fiske of Gallipolis visited Beaumont with her father Charles Fiske. Eleanor Minister of Chauncey spent Sunday in Middleport with Frances Willock. Babe McAfee of Jacksonville and family joined Leslie Kittle in visiting. Blanche Russell of Athens visited Crescent Ridge parents. Pearley Wicks of Crescent Ridge visited Trimble. Emma Jo Potter of Albany stayed in Millfield with Allen and Mrs Boudinot. Mrs Cecil Annie of Crescent Ridge visited her mother. Mrs Lawrence Myers of Hooper Ridge and Albert Loper with son from Kenova WV spent weekend with Viola Hurley and Pearl Loper in Chauncey.

Esther Fiske Gallipolis Charles Fiske Beaumont Eleanor Minister Chauncey Middleport Frances Willock Babe McAfee Carl Phyllis Jacksonville Leslie Kittle Blanche Russell Athens Newton Russell Crescent Ridge Pearley Wicks Trimble Emma Jo Potter Albany Millfield Allen Boudinot Cecil Annie Lawrence Myers Hooper Ridge Albert Loper Kenova W. Va Viola Hurley Pearl Loper

Idle Poston Mine No. 6 Faces Indefinite Repairs

May 24 report says Poston Mine No. 6 in Millfield is idle for an indefinite period while inside repairs are completed.

Chauncey Poston Millfield

Chauncey Dinner Hosts Local Officers and Family

Deputy Sheriff Karl Gardner and Mrs Gardner hosted a Sunday dinner at their Chauncey home. Attending were Mr and Mrs Harley Mitchell and their children Janice and William, Miss Mary Myers and Edward Wallace of Columbus, Miss Wilma Ferrer, Miss Ruth Gardner, and Glenn Gardner.

Chauncey Karl Gardner

James McNeal Dies in Fort Wayne

Announcement of James McNeal aged 81 death at his daughter's home in Fort Wayne Indiana from influenza. He is survived by siblings and will be buried there. Born in Waterloo Township Athens County he left the district in 1884 and was remembered as a pioneer of the county.

James McNeal George Harvey Nye Chauncey Fort Wayne Ind Mr. McNeal Robert Hannah McNeal Waterloo Township Athens County

Coolville Troy Grange Programs and Church Events

Coolville Troy Grange hosted a mixed program Friday at the hall on Rock Street with County Deputy Merwin Mansfield giving a talk. Members attended M E Church services Sunday morning. The M E Church Ladies Aid bake sale is set for Saturday afternoon at 2 in the R J Wolf building. Guests included Everett Keller of Delaware Miss Bertha Keller and Mrs Norma Smith and Russell of Columbus visiting Mr and Mrs C E Keller at their Up River home with Rev Banse Snyder and Mrs Snyder's mother Mrs Clark of Tuppers Plains also guests.

Troy Grange Rock Street Merwin Mansfield The Grange M. E. Church Ladies Aid Society R. J. Wolf Everett Keller Delaware Bertha Keller Norma Smith Russell Columbus

Sleuth Behind Shoals Charge

Louis R. Gravis, chief investigator for the Department of the Interior, is charged with investigating private power companies for misusing equipment at the Muscle Shoals government project and depriving the government of revenue.

Louis R. Gravis Department of the Interior Muscle Shoals Government

Social Roundup From Rock Street Visits and Funerals

Mrs D C Davis hosts at Rock Street while Carolyn Lobdell visits from Delaware. Numerous relatives and friends attend Walter Smith funeral including Blanche Malone and Henry Warren. Families from Marietta Athens Bristol Clarksburg Parkersburg Carthage Long Bottom gather for church, visits, and notices. Davis family members travel to Marietta and Athens for business and health updates.

Carolyn Lobdell Delaware W. A. Bingman Blanche Malone Mabel Figgins Nelsonville Walter Smith Lenna Lentz Laura Columbus Lentz Fred Knowles Henry Warren Reedsville Mary Reeder Smith Glennis Daugherty Mary Schnafer Marietta Harold McBride Baby Athens E. M. Daugherty Emerson Stout Son Orange R. J. Runni Newton Billingslea Bristol W. Va Carson Davis Clarksburg W. V Samuel Davis Davis R. B. Lawrence Long Bottom E. McCall

Local residents and visitors share weekend visits

Haydenville and surrounding area members spent time with relatives in Laurelville and Zanesville. Ohio University student Jane Nutter visited her parents Rev G C Nutter. The Bible School commencement at the M E Church is Friday at 7 30 PM with invited parents.

J. C. Martin Laurelville Jane Nutter Ohio University G. C. Nutter Bible School M. E Elizabeth Longwell Alice Allen Helen Lightfoot Kate Maxine Todd Roy Crothers Arthur Todd Henderson Wolf Zanesville Leland Walters Columbus Mary McFadden Bert Horn Llesboro John Carpenter Millfield William Sisson James Hurley O. E. Oliver Jennie Patton Lancaster Thomas Fling Brady Waugh Harvey Angle White Cross Hospital Angie Ruth Mildred Walters Chester Beougher Union Furnace Charlies Pierce King’s Heralds

Funeral for Edward Clark in Carthage Presbyterian Church

May 24 funeral held at Carthage Presbyterian Church conducted by Rev. J. W. Barnes with many friends and relatives attending from Akron Glouster Athens Coolville and Long Bottom. Interment in church cemetery. Ina Coleman led music with a Guysville Stewart quartet.

Lottridge Edward Clark Carthage Presbyterian Church J. W. Barnes Canaanville Akron Glouster Athens Coolville Long Bottom Ina Coleman Guysville Stewart

Memorial Address at M E Church by Dr Hansen

Dr E A Hansen of Ohio University will deliver a memorial address at 7 45 Sunday night at the M E Church. Special music is prepared by the choir Mary Frances Gillogly who underwent an operation at Sheltering Arms.

E. A. Hansen Ohio University M. E Mary Frances Gillogly Sheltering Arms

Albany School Holds Class of 35 Before Opening Day

The Albany School year begins with a class of 35 students as Mr Po Mrs Jesse and Mrs Everett attend exercises led by Rabbi Tarsh. The list of names is read and the Hoisington entry is noted as pre omitted from the alias dance list. The Albany H Chub play Marshfield 4 H Club in their first home baseball game of the season at home Thursday evening.

Jesse Everett Bolton Tarsh Hoisington Pre Albany Marshfield

Clark Funeral Panty Leaves for Kentug

William Clark, a carpenter for years, leaves from Athens to Kentug for funeral rites at Southgate and Newport. Burial planned in Newport. he lived with his daughter and family at Tourist Camp in Southgate.

Clark Panty William Clark Big Law Ang R. Fury Athens Southgate Newport Ens

Marietta Court Witnesses Concrete Weapons Charge

Marietta May 424 common pleas court heard a case before Justice Millard Frost. Jesse Love, a ship constable, testified regarding the weapon charge.

Marietta Common Pleas Court Millard Frost Jesse Love

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