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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1934
Page
9
A promotional note from The Messenger highlights the classified service as tailored for readers and offers money saving benefits across listings and marketplace features. It positions the paper as a personal resource for ads and local notices.
In Pomeroy on February 28 marriage licenses were issued to Samuel Long and Goldin Singer, Guy E. Summerfield and Jean Louise Frank, John Stanley and Bertha Coleman, Everett Cross and Ellen Miller, and Raymond Might and Cora Robertson. The report notes several residents traveling for trips and community events including church services and club meetings.
Standards by which applicants for Proc tor and Gamble Co will be judged come from tests to be given to seniors and graduate students of Ohio University by the Department of Psychology Thursday at 3 PM in Cutler Hall. All seniors and graduate students are invited. Those unable to take the test at 3 PM may report at 4 PM in Room 103 Ewing Hall.
Marietta Ohio reported 14 degrees below zero the coldest weather in the United States for the day. The frigid conditions were noted across the city along the Ohio River as residents faced subfreezing temperatures.
Charles Fultz of Stewart Route 1 Athens County Ohio seeks full discharge from all debts provable under bankruptcy law. Court orders hearing for April 13 1934 in Columbus and directs notice by Athens Messenger to known creditors. Clerk to mail copies of petition and order to creditors at their residences.
The Federal Government rejects forcing relief and outlines work programs for unemployed in industrial areas. Work limited to six months and aimed at those able to contribute. Professional groups will be given opportunities, with states aided by federal relief finance.
Judge Johnson allocates pension funds to 389 mothers of 106 children under a state program. Each mother can receive 15.18 dollars on average, with a typical range from 10 to 25 dollars, distributed monthly on the first of March and September under supervision of Judge Johnson, probation officer George Gibbs, and sociology assistant Myrtle Horlacher with university students assisting in budgeting.
On opening cards in New York Newark and Kansas City results show a mix of pins, throws and draws. Szabo and Savoldi secured wins, while Columbo Halperin Zeller and Dusek posted varied outcomes alongside several draws among notable wrestlers from Hungary Italy New York Ohio and Texas.
Members of Sereno Lodge No. 479 will meet Thursday at 1 pm at the Temple to attend the funeral of the late John W. Gilbert.
Miss Elizabeth Cornell, an artist’s model, sues Lucian E. Williams, a Chicago clubman and former Davis Cup star, for $50,000 damages. She claims he beat her severely at a cocktail party in his apartment and that his backhand has deteriorated.
In Cincinnati a crowded street car with Motor man William Hampton faced a runaway sledder Ford Selg, age seven, gliding ahead on a sled on icy College Street Hill. The car could not stop. the boy vanished under the car, then reemerged unharmed as Hampton braked and the sled passed behind the front trucks.
The first compensation payments for injured CWA workers were sent to Athens. Twenty eight injured employees share 335.56 from the compensation fund. Government beef shipments, 2000 packages, were distributed to county relief offices for grocery stores serving relief families. Mine sealing work continues in seven Athens District counties. Meigs and Vinton counties expect activity to resume soon after cold delays.
The Foreign Office said it received word from the Kwantung Army in Manchoukuo that Soviet soldiers fired on a Japanese airplane on Feb. 12 and Feb. 23. It added that no action has yet been decided regarding the incident.
GALLIPOLIS Feb 25 The Marietta Manufacturing Company Pt Pleasant won a contract from the U S engineers Kansas City for two dredges costing 1016500 to be used on the Missouri River Rivera This is the plant s third federal contract in a year and will convert all part time workers to full time and add work for 200 more men when shop work begins The firm is also building three Coast Guard cutters valued about 750000
New York trading centers showed small advances amid expectations for changes to a proposed securities regulation bill. Commodities were firmer with cotton and wheat edging up. bonds rose as speculators favored industrials and rail shares. Butter and eggs markets varied across Cleveland and Chicago produce desks with price shifts and receipts noted.
Dun and Bradstreet weekly weighted index of 30 basic commodities for the United Press shows today 108.13, yesterday 108.12, week 1086.43, month 104.68, and year 68.94 with the 1934 high of 100.16 on February 17 and a 1934 low of 101.06 on January 3.
Long OCR fragment lists companies and percentages across industries including paints, tobacco, steel, motors, fuels, and chemicals. It reads like a stock table summary naming Am. Home Products Armour Kroger Westinghouse and others with percentages indicating price or change, followed by machinery and coal mine references and assorted industrials.
Five members of the Athens chapter join Game Protector B F Swartz in distributing ten bushels of corn and wheat to feed birds starving under heavy snow. The league approved cooperation with the game protector at their meeting last night using funds from last year’s hunting license sales.
Market notes indicate steady or higher tendencies in weights from 130 to 250 pounds with varied receipts. Prices list several categories including cattle, calves, sows, and sheep with mixed figures such as 5.40 for certain weights and 102 to 809.23 for sheep related lots.
A rough OCR listing shows prices for grains including wheat corn rye oats and seeds with percentages and cash values. It also notes March 8 and dairy items such as butter and timothy hay with unit prices and miscellaneous figures.
Hog receipts totaled 000 with 608 direct entries and 700 openings. prices trended down to 4.90 for 160 to 260 lb hogs as 950 to 200 lb lots sold 25 to 36 cents lower at 4.70. Cattle receipts 840 with steady monthly trend. bulk steers and heifers offered around 4.50 to 5.99, lightweights at 3.75. Sheep receipts 100 steady with better grades scarce. lambs quoted from 49 to 78.50 with throws around 3.49
Fragmented OCR notes list liberty bonds and treasury securities with dates and prices. Entries mention Lib and Treas items across years including 1940s and 1950s figures. The scattered data resemble a ledger of bond classifications with coupon rates and numeric identifiers.
The Ohio Liquor Control Board issued five points clarifying when a bar is considered a bar or a table. If liquor is drawn from a bar and placed on the bar it remains a bar. If drawn from a distant spigot and carried to the bar the bar becomes a table. A counter with stools is a table if liquor is drawn from elsewhere. If drinks are drawn from spigots at the same counter the counter is not a table.
NEW MARSHFIELD Nine candidates will receive the First and Second Degrees when Summit Grange meets here Saturday night at 7 30. It will be a regular meeting and refreshments will be served by the social committee.
In Lexington Kentucky on February 27 a new all time low for the city was recorded with the temperature falling to 5 degrees below zero. The prior record stood at 5 above in 1885.
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