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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1926
Page
12
Reports from Murray City indicate 600 miners will find work in nearby mines within days. Goose Run, Grlinger and Wolfe have already shut down, Sisson Coal to start Tuesday with 100 workers, and North Hocking and New York Coal No 36 prepare to reopen, each about 150 workers.
In Logan on October 18 no bids were received by Service Director Sherimen for lighting streets and public ways. Earlier, taxpaying plaintiff John M. Conkie won an injunction in Common Pleas against city officials over entering a street lighting contract. The Ohio Power Company contract expires about December 1, 1926. Local lodge officers and names are listed, and the lodge moved from the White Arcade to the McCarthy building previously vacated by the Knights of Pythias.
Jacob Allen of Logan received a lacerated left hand when a truck bolt fell on it at the Parsons avenue shows of the Hocking Valley railroad Thursday. One finger was broken and thirteen stitches were needed to close the wound. The report also notes a Logan Methodist church program with Rev J R Fields among speakers in Lancaster.
The Thimble and Art club held its opening meeting at Mrs. W. W. Keynes home on East Main street Wednesday evening. Sixteen members attended with two guests. After roll call a social evening followed. Out-of-town guests included Mrs. Hal Murphy of Athens and Mrs. Elmer Knapp of Cleveland.
Several workers from the local car shops have been assigned to Columbus for months after a cut in the local shop force. The move reduces local staffing while maintaining production levels.
Ruth Gertrude Geil age 29 died at Cherrington hospital after infection from a facial scratch. She was wife of Charles Geil of 582 North Woods Street and mother of three children. Funeral set for United Brethren church at 2 pm Monday conducted by Rev T C.
LAGAN Oct 16 an injury dating back seventeen years sent John Schull a Marion township farmer to a Columbus hospital Thursday. He suffered an arm injury that caused trouble for years though it had seemed healed until recently. He will likely be operated on for an infected bone in the arm.
Logan Council No. 2299 Knights of Columbus installed officers this week with District Deputy James Gallagher in charge. The new officers include Rev. James T. Nevin as chaplain, John E. Canty as grand knight, Joe Brown as deputy grand knight, Charles Christman as chancellor, Ehrischbaum as financial secretary John E. Lecrone as recording secretary.
The Christian Endeavor Society of the Presbyterian church held a weiner roast on Gibsonville road Thursday evening. Chaperoned by Rev GC Douglass and Mrs Harry Eastman, the group included Minnie Bowen Caroline Work Betty Eastman June Eberat Margaret Scakelford Amy Mutchmore Kathryn Johnson Betty Rochester Mertha Miller Jane Gompf Charles Thurneas Sam Bright Arthur Miller B Solon Ned Reynold and Tee Becker Reckbridge daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Kitchen Magistrate J B Biller officiated Logan personals note Mrs C G Bowen of North Market street confined at home with a severe attack of ten silitis improving.
A raven and Leah appear in a discussion of Genesis terms meaning origin or coming into being. The note notes origins and illustrates how terms are used in biblical context.
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