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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1934
Page
9
The German church crisis escalated as Ludwig Mueller seeks to subjugate Protestantism under a dictatorship. Prussian police fled clergy homes opposing the bishop’s rule after Mueller was summoned to confer with President Von Mindenware on peace.
The Athens Grangers schedule their next meeting at the fairgrounds hall for Thursday evening January 18. After the business session the McKnight Orchestra will provide music and the play Interviewing the Servant Girls will be performed by Mirees Alice and Ellen Swannon Mire Lucie Manter Mee Arthur Walsh Mre Jot Hope Mrs Everett Russ and Mrs Charence Mansfield. Refreshments will be served by the Athens Grange women during the social hour.
New York stocks bonds and commodities surged as markets priced in a pending message from the president on monetary policy. Major issues climbed with Du Pont, General Motors, Westinghouse and others advancing while mining oils rails and utilities posted gains.
Capt John Craig, longtime Toledo shipbuilder and banker, died Sunday at home. A civic leader for 44 years, he outfitted vessels for Civil War and World War I efforts. He earned the title dean of lake shipbuilders and served as a dollar-a-year assistant in the wartime wooder ship department.
Herbert Hoover Jr resigned as chief engineer of Western Air Express in 1900 to spare his father embarrassment during air mail contract awards. He told a Senate committee he requested leave of absence instead, while recovering from tuberculosis in a North Carolina mountain resort and has since returned to work at a salary of 400 dollars per month.
Ohio welfare institutions reported a rise of 786 inmates in 1855 per state welfare director John McSweeney. The total prison population grew by 426 that year while nine facilities showed declines. statewide capacity stood at 20 506 with current population at a stated level.
BERLIN reports a truce in the Evangelical Church conflict over Nazification kept many Protestant pastors quiet over the weekend but several clergymen spoke openly against the Nazi faction.
In Los Angeles on January 15 the state began its case to convict Serge and David Mdivani on grand theft charges. They allegedly stole 20 747 dollars from the Pacific Shore Oil Company they formed four years earlier.
Important business is announced for the meeting of the Athens baak Welton League subject to be held Tuesday evening at 7 o clock. The members will meet in the City Hall.
Akron observers report a 2 percent dividend totaling about 6.5 million dollars will be paid to depositors of the reorganized First Central Trust Co. after final plan approval by the Cleveland office of the Construction Finance Corporation. A conference led to the institution joining the Federal Reserve System.
Wynnnet Crown of Miami with Fina Cur ford Butter of New Orleans and Eugene McCauliffe of New York defeated Francisco X Shields of New York and Ricardo Moralee of Cuba in the final, taking the title after a 2 6 7 4 6 3 6 0 comeback victory.
Notice is hereby given that Hel H. Now land of Athens Ohio has been appointed Executor of the estate of Will Mays deceased in Athens County. Dated this 130 day of January 8. M. Johnson, Probate Judge of said County.
Lexington car men continue picketing the car barns as negotiations with the Kentucky Traction and Terminal Company stall. Officials remained at an impasse with unions seeking a resolution to the ongoing interurban and bus transportation shutdown.
Rail time card lists departures and arrivals for Athens with No 3 No 8 No 4 and other trains. Northbound No 3 departs Athens 14 25 p m except Sunday. Southbound No 3 11 20 p m daily except Sunday. CHESAPEAKE AND 610 Hocking Valley trains to and from Athens with specific times. Baltimore and Ohio No 1 nets Limited 4 45 am to 10 30 am and No 43 daily except Sunday 5 01 pm 7 43 pm.
The team led by Oswald Jacoby was set to meet Lester Bachner Lee Langdon Walter Malowan and Sidney Rusinow in the final round of the Contract Bridge National Championship match in New York on January 15.
Frank M. Work, once a steelworker rising to a prominent steel industry role, died here yesterday of a heart attack. In Cleveland a young mother perished in a blaze that trapped her and two small children, both already overcome by smoke in a two story apartment house.
Unclear entry lists butter packing stock items including no 3 te no 3 fe butteriatite and Eyes-Steady cases with entries described as entra nce seconds 200 neary ungraded in Cincinnati trade notes
An erratic note on live poultry pricing and counts mentions unsettled figures such as 19 and 20e, with references to young gobders and other unclear terms, indicating data distortion or transcription errors in the market record.
Receipt figures show current prices and standards for butter poultry and dressed meats in the Southern Ohio West Virginia and Kentucky region. Fresh killed and greased turkeys hogs and various fowl present mixed rates with market unsettled for butter and steady to higher for some items.
Market notes show weaker Poultry demand with colored fowl variations and price mentions for white and light birds. Entries include springers, rock, and ducks with weights and fractional prices. geese and roosters listed among assorted poultry categories.
Hog and cattle receipts reported with first and direct markets for 1000 head of hogs including 2170 head direct. prices listed for varied weights from 40 to 260 pounds with several per hundred weight figures. Calves, cows, bulls, sheep receipts noted with mixed declines and steady fat cattle offers.
Feed lot receipts show hogs and cattle varying with Hesitation in steers and bulls. calves steady and sheep steady with fat lambs trending up. Bond listings include Liberty Bonds and Treasury issues with last prices and changes reflected for several series.
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