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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Nov 30, 1934

Page

12

Engagement Announced At Nelsonville-Mills Bridge Party

Mrs William Mills hosted a Tuesday bridge party in Nelsonville honoring her daughter Miss Thelma Mills with five tables. Envelopes at place cards announced Thelma Mills engagement to Sydney Minault of Davidson North Carolina. The wedding is planned for the Christmas holiday season and the couple will reside in Davidson after the ceremony.

Nelsonville William Mills Thelma Sydney Minault Davidson N. C Sesson Parney Kerr Maxine Dyer Columbus Charlotte Rochester Logan Frank R. Bonifield Carmichael Frank Smith Corwin Cookson Audrey Ailes Miles Nelsonville High School Ohio State University Minault Davidson College

Beautifying of Bank Nears Completion in Nelsonville

Nelsonville project led by the Woman's Community Club under Mayor 8 G Holland is nearly finished. More than 100 barberry shrubs are planted along the berm from Washington to Franklin Street, with honeysuckle on the bank and a few shrubs left at Washington and Jefferson intersections. Mrs Vita Whitmore, chairwoman, thanks all contributors and invites more donations to cover the bill.

Nelsonville 8. G. Holland Woman's Community Club Washington Franklin Street Washington and Jefferson Street Vita Whitmore

Obituary: Benjamin Ray Mond Hanson III

Nelsonville notices report Benjamin Ray Mond Hanson III 38 of Dayton died Saturday evening. Survived by parents Louise Lairson and B R Hanson with grandparents Benjamin Hanson Sr Tron Mountain Minn and Albert Lairson Jackson Mich. He formerly resided in this city.

Nelsonville Benjamin Raymond Hanson III B. R. Hanson Louise Lairson Northwood Avenue Dayton Benjamin Hanson Tron Mountain Minn Albert Lairson Jackson, Mich Hanson

Harden pleads guilty to intoxicated driving in Nelsonville

Estel Harden of Hich Street pleaded guilty at arraignment before Mayor 8 G Holland for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. He was fined 100 dollars plus costs, and his license was suspended for six months after a collision with a parked car owned by Thomas Lax on Poplar Street. Four intoxication arraignments resulted in guilty pleas. John Hitchings and Thomas Turzki were fined five dollars plus costs, Harve Anders and James Naughton ten dollars plus costs.

Nelsonville Estel Harden Hich Street G. Holland Harden Thomas Lax Poplar Street John Hitchings This City Thomas Turzki Modoc Harve Anders James Naughton

Nelsonville Epworth League Attends Athens Rally and Booth Festival

Fifteen Epworth League members from Nelsonville gathered at their church to collect fruit vegetables canned goods and jellies then traveled to Jacksonville for the Athens County Rally and Booth Festival. Gifts will be distributed to White Cross Hospital Columbus and the Children's Home Worthington. Five more members join tonight for the evening program.

Nelsonville Epworth League of the Methodist Church Jacksonville Athens County White Cross Hospital Columbus Worthington

Nelsonville Club Meeting Tonight Led by Mrs Stout

The Cosmopolitan Club of Nelsonville plans a 7 30 p m gathering led by Mrs Co L Stout. Members are advised to attend and discuss upcoming events and community service plans.

Nelsonville - Cosmopolitan Club

Nelsonville to Sell 1935 Car Tags Saturday

Automobile license tags for 1935 will be ready for sale Saturday December 1 at the office of Deputy Registrar Donald H Shafer in Shafer's News Stand Public Square. Tags with yellow figures on a dark blue background may be used after December 10 and must be used after December 31.

Nelsonville Donald H. Shafer Shafer Public Square

Local Social Roundup of Visits and Guests

Nelsonville residents report weekends of travel and hosting. Mrs. Maria Powell and son Leonard visit Lancaster. Misses Stowe, Harrop host Irene McDowell in St Clairsville. Jo Barnecut at Ohio Wesleyan for Thanksgiving. Johnsons and daughter Margaret visit Zanesville. Frank Smith guests of George and family in Columbus. Emma Artis and family from Akron visit Shafer and Slater households. Will Burnell attends Columbus trip with family. Dr. Lowell Burnell recovers from two week illness.

William Mills Lake Charles Maria Powell Leonard Edith Owen Fisk Lancaster Marie Stowe Catherine Harrop St. Clairsville Irene McDowell Jo Barnecut Ohio Wesleyan University Delaware George Johnson Margaret Zanesville Fred Johnson Frank Smith George K. Smith Columbus Emma Artis Akron Donald Shafer C. C. Slater W. W. Poston Ella Burnell Lee Burnell Will Burnell Lowell Burnell

Four Congregations Unite for Service in Nelsonville

All four Nelsonville congregations joined for their annual Thanksgiving service held at the Methodist Church. The Christian Church choir provided music, Walter Morrison offered the invocation, W. L. Hudson read the Proclamation, and Rev. D. C. Shearer delivered the sermon. Rev. H. A. Rothrock presided as host pastor.

Nelsonville Methodist Church Walter Morrison The Christian Church W. L. Hudson Presbyterian Church D. C. Shearer H. A. Rothrock

Mrs Ida Shannon Dies at 77 in Nelsonville

Mrs Ida Shannon 77 widow of Levi Shannon died at home on the Nelsonville Carbon Hill Road. Funeral services are Sunday at 2 PM at the Carbon Hill Christian Church with burial in Carbon Hill Cemetery. Survived by six sons Frank and James in Detroit Charles Theodore Bert of Willoughby and Oliver of Nelsonville Route 4.

Nelsonville Ida Shannon Levi Shannon Carbon Hill Carbon Hill Christian Church Frank James Detroit Charles Theodore Bert Willoughby Oliver

Nelsonville Schools Set Thanksgiving Break

Nelsonville City Schools take a week off for Thanksgiving. Classes dismissed at 3:45 p m Wednesday will resume Monday morning. Teachers living far away have returned to their homes for the holiday.

Nelsonville

Hyperion Club Meeting Set for Saturday at Hyde Home

Nelsonville notice states the Hyperion Club will meet Saturday afternoon at 2 oclock at the home of Mrs. J M Hyde.

Nelsonville Hyperion Club J. M. Hyde

Stocks Mixed As Markets Open On Irregular Note

Wall Street shows uneven trading with utilities soft and tobacco shares firm. Lorillard hits a yearly high while several industrials hold near unchanged. Downgrades are seen in American Telephone and Consolidated Gas as Fed housing stimulus looms and GM projects a 60 percent rise in export units for 1934.

New York S. Steel General Motors U. S. Smelting Pennsylvania Texas Gulf Case National Distillers Radio Preferred Reynolds Tobacco Liggett & Myers B American Tobacco American Telepone Consolidated Gas Public Service of New Jersey Johns Manville Eastman Kodak Wall Street Dun & Bradstreet James D. Mooney General Motors Export Co Europe

Eyes Market Receipts Report Quiet Trade Activity

Market notes show dull demand with nearby receipts at 30 to 33 cents for hennery whites large size 360 price lists. Medium sizes 32 to 33 cents and pullets 26 to 30 cents. Butter receipts 322 tubs and eggs 651 cases recorded.

Butter and Egg Sales Report From Creamery Specials

Butter figures show 8 803 firm creamery specials at 93 score with 29 630 extras 92 20 percent and firsts 90091 at 27 percent. Egg lines list 1 225 steady with grade levels 20 26 24 25 21 22 and note no egg sales.

Toledo Grain Prices On Track In 24 Percent Basis

Toledo market report lists grain on track with 24 percent rate basis. Wheat No 2 red 97 to 97 percent, No 1 red 96 to 98 percent. Corn No 2 yellow 92 to 92, No 3 yellow 90 to 92. Oats No 2 white 55 to 87, No 1 white 56 to 57 percent. Grain in store transit billing shows wheat 4s 5 above track, corn 4 4 above, oats 3 3 1/2 above. Hay and produce unchanged.

Toledo

Butter and eggs prices in local market listings

Butter weak and creamery extras sold in tubs at 33 cents per pound with Sle and 35 to 37 cents per pound prints. Eggs steady with fresh extras at 33 cents a dozen and pullets at 22 cents, current receipts 35 cents.

Market Prices for Eggs Potatoes Butter and Poultry

Readable market listing shows eggs with firsts and seconds priced by weight, potatoes in 100 lb bags with varieties and regional pricing, butter at creamery stock levels with fat content, and poultry prices for colored and leghorn broilers, fryers, roasting chickens, and old roosters across weight grades in cents per pound. Strong entities include Michigan round whites Maine Green Mountains Colorado McClures New York Idaho Russet Burbanks and various price points.

Michigan Maine Green Mountains Colorado McClures New York Idaho Burbanks

Livestock Market Prices and Treasury Report Highlights

The report lists hogs, cattle, calves, and sheep prices with steady to mixed movement across weight ranges and lot sizes. It also summarizes Treasury figures for November including receipts of 5.84 million and expenditures of 14.71 million, leaving a balance of 1.56 billion.

U. 8 Treasury Washington The

Christmas Seal Radio Broadcast to Air Coast to Coast

The National Tuberculosis Association organizes a coast to coast Christmas Seal broadcast on Sunday December 2 from 10 to 10 30 p m to mark the 50th anniversary of the sanatorium movement. Dr Francis B Trudeau son of the late Dr Edward Livingston Trudeau will speak presenting the Christmas Seal message for 2000 affiliated tuberculosis associations nationwide.

United States National Tuberculosis Association Francis B. Trudeau Edward Livingston Trudeau

CCC Building Crew Paychecks Arrive at Peach Ridge Camp

The CCC Camp on Peach Ridge hires local laborers carpenters and truck owners via the Athens branch of the National Reemployment Service. Payroll of 2556.85 for the first two weeks of November is disbursed at camp headquarters by Lieutenant Benedum. The Emergency Conservation Work covers camp construction expenses.

CCC Peach Ridge Athens National Re-employment Service Benedum

Funeral Services for Mrs John A Stanley Held at Canaanville

Funeral services for 67 year old Mrs. John A Stanley who died at her home in Canaanville on Saturday November 24 were conducted Thursday at the residence. She was buried in Pattonsville Jackson County Ohio.

Canaanville John A. Stanley Pattonsville Jackson County Ohio

Fire Chief Arthur Seyferlich Dies after Refusing Amputation

Chicago figure Fire Commissioner Arthur Seyferlich dies after he refused to permit amputation of an infected leg saying a one legged fireman is no fireman at all.

Chicago Arthur Seyferlich

Appellate Division Reserves Ruling on Van derbilt Custody Case

The New York Appellate Division reserved decision on Mrs. Gloria Morgan Van derbilt to compel Supreme Court Justice John F. Carew to rule on her habeas corpus petition seeking custody of her 10 year old heiress daughter Gloria.

New York Appellate Division Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt Supreme Court John F. Carew

Reporter Tags Along With City Homicide Squad

A Thanksgiving hush hides a city homicide scoop as a reporter accompanies Special Officer Owen Fin sterwald and Traffic Officer Carmen Church. They chase a “Baby Face” Nelson tip, witness a cat corpse at East State Street and Marietta Avenue, and end with a dead car removal recorded by the blotter.

Owen Finsterwald Carmen Church East State Street Nelson East State Marietta Avenue City Dump State Street

Riffs Sale Of Real Estate In Athens County Ohio

Public auction in Athens County Ohio Troy Township section 16 proceeds from sale of 30 acres at the Coolville Fairgrounds. Sheriff Charles Stratton announces sale with terms cash in hand on December 8 1934 at 1 30 PM. Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Gordon B Gray notes no appraisal and tax costs due.

Tme Athens County D. Gorham County Ohio Union Fair Company Athens Troytown Troy Township Car Yagala Yagala W. H. Robinson Coolville Fairgrounds Charles Stratton Gordon B Gray

Sealed bids for coal funding Nelsonville plant

City of Nelsonville Ohio seeks sealed bids for black Run-of-mine coal delivered to the Boiler Room of the Water Works and Electric Light Plant. Bids due December 21, 1934 with a $500 bond or certified check. Bid must include full names and guarantee contract execution. William Barrows director signs notice.

William Barrows Public Service

Bees Prefer Nectar From Dry Blossoms, Say Entomologists

United States Department of Agriculture entomologists report bees avoid blossoms with rain or dew and prefer nectar from dry blooms, indicating weather conditions influence foraging behavior.

Department of Agriculture

Athens County Sheriff Sale Notice for Easement Property

Public sale of a land easement in Athens County described as a highway easement to the State of Ohio figure appraised at 2500 dollars. The sale terms are cash on day of sale and conducted by Sheriff Charles Str4 with attorney M. D. Hughes. The listing includes parcels owned by Earl T Dailey and wife and locations in Medhast Athens on North side No.31 with chain measurements and directional bearings.

Athens Pomeroy Pike State of Ohio Earl T. Daile Dailey Xcel Office The of Highways and Public Wlumbus Medhast Couy M. D. Hughes

Notice of Filing for Transfer of Township Trust Case

Notice filed September 19 in Athens County Court of Common Pleas Case No 15008 seeks transfer from the Ro to the GENERAL FUND. Hearing set for December 8 11-30-1¢. Names Pierce R P A and J W Doug referenced. text also mentions new fingerprint methods for race and color.

Board of Township Trust Township Coymon Pleas of Athens Co Pierce CE R. P J. W. Doug

Health Sunday Proclaimed in Athens by City Leader

Athens Ohio proclaims Health Sunday as December 2 1984 observing Tuberculosis prevention progress. Mayor Len B McCune urges citizen support for Tuberculosis Christmas Seals Health Bonds and continued fight against TB based on notices dated November 30 1934.

C. C. Cornell Athens Len B. McCune National Tuberculosis Association Ohio Public Health Association Athens County Tuberculosis Association City of Ohio

Market Summary of U. S. Bonds and Wool Prices

U S government securities quotes show yields and maturities across 3s 4s and 4m e issues with recent calls and price levels. Boston wool markets report broader demand though mid week holiday disrupted trade with price firmer for combing wools and several regional fleece descriptions and ranges.

Boston Ohio Penorylvania Michigan New York

Federal Land Bank Bond Details and Local Surgery Notice

Federal Land Bank bid rates show different due dates and percent values with several entries listed. In Columbus, Nelsonville, Selby Smith, 14, underwent surgery at St Francis Hospital for complications after an earlier appendicitis operation. his mother and grandfather accompanied him. The report also notes a marriage in western Tibet involving Waa Ladek and mentions two younger brothers becoming secondary husbands to his wife.

Nelsonville Selby Smith Flossie Smith Madison Street St. Francis Hospital Columbus Alfred Richardson Waa Ladek Tibet

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