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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1939
Page
12
A dense classified page lists sections for business opportunities loans mortgages educational classes livestock sales and rental real estate including farms for rent houses for sale and investment property with public sales notices and ways to contact sellers, all in calendar style categories.
Columbus reports State Liquor Director Jacob B. Taylor says there is little the state can do to ease New Year Eve revelry as Sunday liquor closing rules vary by city. State law allows clubs to sell liquor from midnight Sunday to 2 30 a m Monday, while other licenses permit sale until 1 a m Monday.
Ethel S. Williams of Athens Route 5 asks about fall hatched poults. She reports a hen hatched 16 poults on November 1 and another hen setting on 20 eggs due to hatch December 18. She also notes a hen laid 110 eggs before the first setting.
Common Pleas Judge O F Rowland grants a divorce to Juanita Jones 18 of Glouster from Edwin Jones formerly of Hartleyville. The suit filed Oct 13 by her mother Mrs Ethe Withem says Juanita married in Greenaw Ky in 1938 the husband later jailed in Chillicothe for liquor law violations and at present inmate there. The court restores her maiden name Juanita Withem.
Stocks and bonds opened steady in dull trading. Widest movers were Norfolk Western down 2 to 203 and Johns Manville up 1 to 74. Bethlehem rose to 79½ with minor gains in Consolidated Edison Loew's Homestake Glenn Martin Standard of New Jersey and General Motors. Losses were small in International Nickel Boeing Delaware Hudson J C Penney and North American Aviation.
Major averages climb with gains led by Industrials and Utilities as Pennsylvanian, Allied Stores, Procter and Gamble, and General Motors advance. Rail and chemical shares show mixed moves while copper miners and steel makers rise, signaling broad investor confidence.
In medieval times libraries and churches fastened books to shelves with large chains to prevent theft, a custom noted in historical accounts. The practice reflects efforts to protect valuable works and maintain catalog integrity in clerical settings.
The American Red Cross extends relief to European war victims with medical supplies clothing and blankets for Polish refugees in Hungary and Romania hospital care for wounded in German-occluded Poland and a 100 bed hospital unit in France. It funds trust ships for shipwrecked Americans and runs 220000 garments and dressings with an information service and return cooperation with the State Department.
The notice outlines multiple time card numbers for the Diplomat Daily National Limited and other trains with arrivals and departures at various times. It also lists New York Central South and Northbound services, Chesapeake and Ohio connections, and Athens Airways routes to Columbus and Pittsburgh with connections nationwide. It notes charter air service for special trips to any airport city during daylight hours.
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