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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1942
Page
8
Public sales notice advertises ideal private unfurnished rooms and 4 room apartments with private baths and garage. June 1 occupancy for furnished and unfurnished units. Listings cite BE J. Person and contact numbers 25581 20302 and 26962.
4 room house with bath newly decorated for adults. Rent reasonable. Dial 26424, 109 Morris Ave Pine Place 3 Nice Vocation 5 room house all modern conveniences. Rent very reasonable. Dial 20831.
For sale at public auction to the highest bid is household furniture including an electric refrigerator electric washer two double beds gas stove kitchen table chairs lamps desks dressers couches rugs and mirrors. Sale starts promptly at 1 PM Monday June 1 at 1 Pearl Street Athens Ohio.
Irregular gains seen in Santa Fe General Motors Westinghouse Goodyear and Chesapeake & Ohio while U S Rubber North American Chrysler and Texas Co fell. Dun and Bradstreet reports a 3 to 5 percent drop in dollar volume of national retail sales this week, with price ceilings dampening new business and inventory constraints prompting retailers to rethink stock plans and open to buy policies.
Noon prices for major stocks show declines and gains across industries. Notable figures include American Rolling Mills around 9 percent, American Smelting and Refining at 36 percent, and United Airlines, U S Rubber, and U S Steel among others. The list reflects diverse movement across manufacturing, aviation, chemicals, and consumer goods sectors.
Grain prices for wheat corn oats and soybeans are listed, alongside egg and poultry rates. Regional notes cover eggs butter and poultry markets in Cleveland and Columbus with quotes on government graded eggs and current receipts.
Livestock sales show hogs generally 25 cents higher with top at 14.50 for 180 to 275 pounds. Cattle and calves steady to active with varied prices. beef cows 9 to 10, bulls 10 to 11, vealers weak. Sheep weak with top 15.50 for choice springers. Salable hogs 400 and sheep 200 head inching steady.
Commencement exercises were held in Chauncey High School Auditorium for 63 eighth grade students who will enter high school. Supt. C. D. McClanahan led the ceremony and awarded certificates. Citizenship medals were given to Ralph Brown Jr and Mary Nelle Fahl with E. S. Haller delivering the address.
Chauncey area residents report family movements and military service updates. Earl Thompson of The Plains visits his mother in law Mrs. Mary Meinhart while daughter Betty Thompson recently graduated and left for Cleveland. Sons Virgil and Stanley serve in the U S Army. Earl Jr. is in the Navy.
The Church of Christ parish lists Sunday services with Rev. Gilbert Courtney preaching at Taylor Ridge 10 30 a mTrimble 9 30 a m and Chauncey 7 30 p m Glaze Thompson at Greens Run 9 30 a m Millfield 10 30 and Trimble 7 30 Church School in all churches at the usual hour Communion of the Lord's Supper to follow.
National convention of Hoboes of America opens in Massillon with about 50 key men expected. Leader Jeff Davis says thousands of members are aiding Uncle Sam in the war while the organization claims 1,015,000 knights of the road.
Mrs Bertha Sanders hosted the Chauncey Mrs Bertha Sanders bridge club with guest Mrs Mabel Sayre. Elizabeth Patton won high, Margaret Simpkins second, Georgia Nagle low and travel. Refreshments served. Next meeting in two weeks with Mrs Helen Sanders. Members present included several Nagle and Sanders family members.
Rev Frank Noel of The Plains Church of the Nazarene lists Sunday events including Sunday School at 9 30 led by Mrs Carrie Channell Sermon at 10 45 by Rev Noel on Gods Lamp Post Preaching at 7 30 with the sermon Seek Ye the Lost and a 7 pm Young peoples meeting led by Mrs Florence Noel Also noted is the improved condition of Mrs Robert Hixson of Chauncey hospitalized at Sheltering Arms Athens and visits by her sister and niece Mrs Ella England and Mrs Ruth Bridgewater.
The Jacksonville Methodist Charge led by pastor Charles E. Palmer lists Sunday 9:00 a.m. worship with sermon, 9:30 a.m. church school, 6:30 p.m. young people service, and Thursday 7:30 p.m. prayer. Trimble Millfield Plains Chauncey churches follow 9:30 or 10:15 schedules with evening prayers. The closing conference year notes leave for Ohio Annual Conference in Springfield. lay speakers will fill pulpit on Sunday June 7.
Public sale set for Monday June 1 at 1 PM on a farm four miles south of Coolville between Coolville and Guysville. sale lists 25 dairy cows. Also notice appoints Gordon Gray of Athens as administrator of William Parker estate. creditors must file within four months. Includes Athens Highway Department bid notice for bituminous surface treatment T-31 on 7.26 miles of roads. bid requires five percent certified check. County commissioners to accept sealed bids by June 8 1942.
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