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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1937
Page
12
Logan council paused a gas rate ordinance for a second reading awaiting clearer sentiment. Mayor Fitzgerald noted many inquiries and potential amendments to Section 9 to allow the city to gain if a rate below 44.56 cents is deemed fair by the commission.
The September Logan Garden Club meets in the Probate Court room with Rev. A L Heyde presiding. Plans include a Fall Festival booth at Fickle's garage and arrangements by Hack Kreig and Wellman. Delta Theta Tau plans Founders Day events and a picture show to fund a Ky school project. Visitors include Misses Powers Weltner Sparnow Rohrer Smith Rush. Women's Union set quarterly church meeting, with Miss McManigal aided by Mrs. Smith. Congressman Claypool attended W S Yaw funeral. Mrs Barton visiting.
Colum bus resident Jewell Frost was brought to Logan for arraignment on reckless driving. Police say he rammed Fred E Hulls parked car on Main Street last Friday, fled the scene, and later had his license number obtained. Mayor Kenneth Fitzgerald fined him $25 and costs and sentenced him to five days in jail, suspended.
Logan James Keller of Logan was readmitted to Cherrington Hospital for an infected left foot injury suffered months ago at the Sun Glow plant. Marie Warehime of Nelsonville and Rev H E Warner of Amesville were admitted for minor operation and influenza treatment respectively. Mrs Donald Fiske and baby daughter left for home in Nelsonville after hospital stay. Mrs Gus Shirley of Logan returned home after weeks of treatment. William Williams of near Logan was taken to a Columbus hospital for treatment after a prior six week stay.
Ted Congreve of this city is able to be on the street after confinement to his East Second Street home for several weeks due to a stroke. He is somewhat recovered.
Judge Phil Henderson ordered a modification in the Anna Cole versus Perry J. Cole case. Custody of the minor was changed to the mother. The defendant may visit the child at his Toledo home during the summer months.
More than 100 members attended the Antioch Grange meeting at Enterprise school Monday. Ewing Grange degree team conferred work in the third and fourth degrees with 13 in the class. A basket lunch followed the session. The Antioch team will visit Hocking Grange Friday to exemplify the third degree.
New electric wiring is being installed at the C. and O. roundhouse in Logan. Work has continued for several days as crews upgrade the facility.
Logan hosted a training session for resident engineers and assistants from nine counties in District 10. Morning lectures at Engineer B. W. Wrights office covered soil and embankment compaction, followed by a visit to the Rockbridge improvement on Route 31 for practical tests led by R. R. Litehiser Kenneth Woods and Carl Shepard.
Harry Dennis Mansfield has taken over the lease of Vern Black at Grotto Gardens and will run the skating rink. Skating will be offered nightly and on Saturday and Sunday afternoons under the new management.
S Ruble, a local race horse owner, brings pacers and trotters to Mt. Gilead this week for the county fair finals. Next week the string moves to Coshocton followed by Lancaster. Last week he won one race and finished second in another at Smithfield.
A Logan report details work along the relocated Route 31 near Enterprise including tree and underbrush clearing, construction of a box culvert, and moving three residences as the route eliminates curves and hills. A Buck Run bridge, an 8 by 10 foot culvert, and a new channel change proceed under Loomis contract. Local 37th Division Association members plan a Tuesday meeting to elect officers after the American Legion installation.
James H. Barker, Logan, manager, starts apple picking at Martzolf Orchard near Maxville. About 1500 bushels gathered and stored in the new storage building on W Hunter St. Several thousand bushels expected from the orchard.
Logan B A Holl attended a Blue and Gray Trail Association meeting in Columbus where officials discussed an advertising program to attract tourists to the new federal route. The route will receive a number at the National Highway Association meeting in Boston and will take effect after the new maps are issued early next year.
Mrs Minnie Amstead of Rio Grande spent weekend with Mrs Ida Jacobs. Ernie Ward and family visited Mr and Mrs J E Harrison in Gallipolis. Ida Jacobs with Donald Love spent Saturday in Gallipolis. Hal Shoemaker and daughter Gloria from Bidwell visited Elmer Sherritt. Verna George and son Everett Gene stayed with the McMullens. Jessie Holcomb visited Cline Holcomb in Radcliff Tuesday night. R D McCumber and sons were in Columbus Sunday.
A Weatherford Oklahoma note reports the Arapaho community on Deer Creek spurns telephones and uses mirrors to flash the sun’s rays for transmitting messages within the tribe.
In the month since the Moscow-Volga canal opened to traffic, 189000 passengers and 121000 tons of freight were transported along it.
Hearings were held before U S Commissioner Claypool in Chillicothe for R J Smith and Peter Brazzle arrested in Logan on Sept 18 for Dyer Act violations. Smith bound over to federal court on $5 000 bond Brazzle to be released to Michigan authorities where he has more than a year remaining in a penal term. Latest charges dropped. Sheriff Joe Farbearn Chief Lew Reynolds and A F Evans attended the hearings Patrolman Hugh Little on duty while others were away.
Nazarene Young People will hold a zone rally Friday at 7:30 p.m. in Hamden with Rev. C B Clendenen of Logan in charge. Principal speaker is Mrs. C C Bush of Sciotoville, a pastor, who will also lead music. Mr Bush will attend as accordionist. The district covers 15 churches from Logan to Gallipolis and a large attendance is expected.
Eugene Carlin assistant attorney general filed a denial in the Harble versus Industrial Commission of Ohio case. The defense seeks dismissal of Harble's suit seeking a share of state compensation for injuries from a county road job four years ago.
Eddie Lemon reported to police that his automobile was stolen Tuesday from a parking area near the Gode man shoe plant.
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