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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1928
Page
12
Logan October first issue of the Blue and Gold Comet junior high school paper appears with four pages of news and editorials under editor Joyce Fields. It reports a straw vote showing 290 for Hoover and 74 for Smith and notes there is no advertising revenue.
The Haydenville Parent-Teachers Association met at the high school auditorium with 35 members. H H Sands reported on the Athens state convention and J W Coleman spoke about the inter high schools lyceum course for the county this winter. Refreshments followed.
Organizing meeting in Logan reports a 200 member Smith Robison Club with J W Gabriel as chairman, Samuel Walker as vice chairman, and Henry T Leach as secretary. Next meeting set for the opera house picture show next Wednesday evening with a potential speaker to be announced.
Mrs Minta Green and daughter Evelyn and Miss Ann Bond visited Lancaster Friday evening accompanying the author of the 18th Amendment.
In September Athens County recorded 68 births and 40 deaths. Athens city had 15 births and 1 death. Alexander and Ames townships had none. Trimble Township had 16 births and 5 deaths. Communicable diseases included whooping cough, typhoid fever, infantile paralysis, and syphilis. Named births list several parents and addresses. deaths include Mary Bajazik, William Deland, Elvin Friend Bruce, Winifred, and George Logan among others.
Hocking County schools schedule winter lyceum programs from January 3 to March 21 with each school hosting weekly events under a trained instructor. Pairings include Haydenville Union Furnace and others. final performances on March 21 at each home.
Miners in Iowa approved a $5.80 minimum wage scale by a close vote of 3,635 in favor to 1,641 against. The ballot, taken Tuesday, covered slightly more than half of the state’s nearly 6,000 miners, auditors reported from Albia.
Marietta October 13 The J C Dinsmoor estate sold its oil and gas leases and leasehold properties in Morgan and Washington counties to W F Glass of Newark and associates. Buck Run leases excluded. The sale covers about 75 leases with 560 wells 7 compressors 100 miles of pipeline and related assets. Glass takes possession immediately.
The note states the solution to today’s Letter Golf puzzle is a chain from harm to held including hard herd held and hhelp. The sequence shows letter shifts and final word relations as an example of the word puzzle.
Cincinnati reports former high commissioner of baseball Garry Hermann spent a satisfactory night after hospitalization. He had been in ill health for nearly two years and was considered critical before the hospital transfer in October.
A White House report describes President Calvin Coolidge speaking by radio and telephone with King Alfonso XIII of Spain from the U S Chamber of Commerce Building in Washington. The exchange followed a morning session with the Spanish monarch. Curtis to rest
Deputy Wayne Wingett arrested Elmer Staley Floodwood on liquor charges. Staley pled guilty at Justice of the Peace court of Carl H Porter, fined 20 dollars plus costs. Bobo Long Run pleaded not guilty to assault. bound over to Athens County Grand Jury under 200 dollar bond. James Bobo also pleaded not guilty to assault. placed under 200 bond. Con stable Kenneth Ailstock arrested both men.
Oct. 13 Logan reports rising requests for absent voters supplies at the Hocking Election Board. Supplies are being sent to Ohio and other states as applications arrive. Only four distant residents have voted so far, suggesting a new high absentee turnout this year.
Logan October hearing set for Rush on a charge of selling beer to Bremen youths. Judge Harley Whitcraft to hear October 28. Rush posted 500 bond after entering a not guilty plea. Earlier arrest stemmed from a conspiracy case in Columbus, then dropped, with later possession charges and a fine in Hocking County. Rush resides in Marion Township.
Columbus October 1. Attorney General Turner ruled the State Board of Agriculture lacks authority to set indemnity at 86 for owners of pure bred cattle condemned as tuberculosis and slaughtered and to cap indemnity at 50 for condemned grade cattle. The opinion to Governor Donahey came amid protests from cattle owners in Northern Ohio over tubercular slaughter under state laws.
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