HOW ABOUT JIMMY DURANTE? – One question asked was could we tell them a good story about the courthouse?… There are so many to tell we offered a choice – the big vote steal of 1936, the election night murder in the lobby, or the hanging of a prisoner taken from the jail by a mob at midnight and hung in a tree in the courtyard in 1882…
We are always glad to tell what we know about education in the old hometown…The fact that the Ironton post office was established on January 14, 1850, the first newspaper was printed on August 1, 1850, and the first school started by public subscriptions less than six months after the post office was established speaks highly of the desire for learning and the advancement of education from “Head Start” to the present branch of Ohio University at Ironton High School…
The public school enrollment this month is 3,445, which with the parochial schools, represents about 4,000 of the city’s 16,000 population attending school…Among historical bits about education is that the first president of Ohio State University, George W. Rightmeyer, was born at Superior and Brown hall at that university was named in honor of Prof. Brown, an Irontonian.
TODAY’S SALUTE is to veteran leader John H. Heffner, re-elected commander of Lawrence County Barracks No. 1750 Veterans of World War I, U.S.A. for the fifth time…It is difficult to find a more sincere booster for the boys who wore the uniform in 1917-18 than Mr. Heffner…John and I entered the service the same day and left the city on the same train…John was a member of the old Frank J. Goldcamp Post American Legion until outsiders got control and froze the WWI veterans out.
Commander Heffner, accepting a draft of a fifth term, should have his name engraved in the Veterans’ roll call of all time as the best friends World War I veterans ever had, second only to the late Dr. George G. Hunter, who in our opinion was the greatest…Doctor George was a charter member of the old Legion post and a state officer in the Ohio chapter…The doctor never accepted a dime for professional services from a WWI veteran in all his life…Others took the credit, but it was Dr. George Hunter who was responsible for 99 percent of the war pensions that came to Lawrence County…
Lawrence Barracks is one organization that has never applied for a liquor permit or a club room…It has never asked for public support in a fundraising campaign…That helps heap honors on the record of Commander Heffner.
Written by Charles Collettt
Huntington Newspaper – no date given
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