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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1936
Page
12
Elizabeth Smith daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry L Smith sustained injuries during a Junior High School outing at Willow Lake. She suffered a probable fracture after a bicycle mishap.
Logan council meets in special session to address an emergency in the water works department after a heat wave. Wells are aging and underperforming as demand rises. a proposal to drill another well is on the agenda. Consumers urged to conserve water now.
The LOGAN Carbon Hill Band performed Tuesday evening in new green and white uniforms under director Melvin Harbarger. Principal speaker L. W. Reese praised the group which formed less than a year ago. The school board plans to buy 20 more instruments next term to expand the band and admit Haydenville pupils seeking music study.
Blanket road improvement projects approved at Washington allocate 103000 for Perry Township and 76000 for Green Township, according to local office information.
Logan area notes show a Gibisonville School gathering planned for next Tuesday to form a boys 4-H Club with Glenn Wilson as adviser. Also planned is a girls reorganization under Mrs. Veronica Wray. Two clubs organized earlier under Harold Chambers with Vira Davis leading Haynes Club and Willing Workers Club reorganized at Miss Blanche Coakley home. The Plains softball team lost to Athens 4-3 in a well played match. more games sought by manager Rennie Harrison. Logan High Stenography II students all passed a shorthand test and earned certificates. There are 18 kinds of edible mushrooms.
A long listing of radio and musical program slots with acts like Rudy Vallee Alexander Gray Ring Croehy Heidt Orch and Amos ’n’ Andy among others. Includes times from 6:20 to beyond 1:30 with multiple orchestras and vocal groups across CBS WLW and other stations.
Grace Nunemaker Brown of Hocking County will finish eight years of medical studies at Ohio State University next month. A Logan High School graduate, she taught in Hocking County schools for three years and plans to enter general practice. She is wife of Ray Ss Brown and mother of 12 year old Ray Kent Brown.
Solution is seen after a meeting between Chief Lew Reynolds and Prosecutor Gerald W. Lanning. Police learned Wednesday evening that part of the loot from the Lehman filling station theft Monday night had been recovered and a person already under arrest was implicated.
Honor bridal pair Missa Charlotte Rochester Logan and Mr Thomas Mills Nelsonville will wed June 6 at St Pauls Episcopal Church. A party in Nelsonville Thursday honored them with Logan guests including Mrs Richard Barnett Mrs Lucille Wright Mrs Mayme Rochester Miss Ann Wellman and William Woodard. Other items note club meetings dinners and bridge scores with local residents and recent relocations and graduations.
Logan reports work is advancing on the WPA project at Carbon Hill to construct a playground for the village school. The site chosen was covered with a stack pile and this material is being removed to prepare the area.
Custody of two minor children in the Dawson divorce was changed Wednesday by Judge Harley M. Whitcraft who sustained the defendant's motion. The children are now placed in the custody of the Hocking County Children's Home Board.
Logan youths Reed Salsbury and Delbert Freeman were sentenced to Mansfield Reformatory after pleading guilty to grand larceny, while Ramon Smith received a three year probation following a prior guilty plea for the same charge tied to the D. Y. Milne store robbery. Smith, new before the court, will report to Newton Spencer during probation after 47 days confinement. Charles Everett Green, son of local residents, nearing OSU chemical engineering degree, has three job offers after graduation.
Mrs Kathryn Yontz Delap, a California resident, arrived in Logan on Wednesday to visit her parents Mr and Mrs C E Yontz. She left California by plane at 4:30 Tuesday and reached Columbus at 7:45 the next morning. Her father is receiving medical care at Cherrington Hospital and is reported to be recovering.
Approximately 125 people attended the Plains community dance held Wednesday night with music by The Plains Community String Band led by John Frazier. A follow up dance for those over 16 is planned next Wednesday at o clock under Bennie Harrison John Frazier and Russell Michaels. In Logan, Ewald Schmitter has been ill with lumbago but was able to rest at home for the first time in days.
The committee designated to mark graves with flags for Memorial Day will meet at Oak Grove Cemetery at 4 o clock Friday afternoon. Later the committee will move to the new cemetery.
Funeral services for 35 year old Mrs Christine Poling widow of Adam Poling will be at 2 p m Friday at Bethany United Brethren Church She died at her Webb Summit area home Tuesday She leaves children Mrs Les Ellinger Mrs Hattie Bright Mrs Jennie Fox Mrs Jevina Walker Mrs Clary Bright John and Winfield Wolfe brothers Jacob Isaac and John Wolfe and burial is Oak Grove Cemetery Rev W H Long to lead services The Poling family residing in Logan attended a district Odd Fellows meeting in New Lexington Monday night
A Chicago pharmacist who suffered earache head noises and deafness says he found relief through a European specialist. CURINE is praised by thousands of hard of hearing people for head noises earache ringing and buzzing. Relief is immediate and cost is a few cents daily with money back if dissatisfied.
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