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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1939
Page
8
New York prices firmed slightly at the opening as dull dealings continued. Steel issues dipped while Chrysler erased most gains. American Telephone rose 1 percent to 199, utilities fared better, Douglas Aircraft edged up while other aviations trended down.
A dense list of stocks and percentages shows varied performance across rail lines industrials oils steels motors and mines. Notable names include New York Central Pacific Penna Allied Stores U S Steel General Motors Bethlehem Steel and Kennecott with mixed fractional gains and losses across sectors.
Market notes from Cincinnati and Pittsburgh show steady egg prices and varied grain prices. Livestock prices include hogs 170 to 250 lbs at 7.10, cattle steady to higher, calves 9.5 to 10.5, sheep 9.5 to 10, and hogs across 6.95 to 7.20 in Ohio Valley auctions with midweek shifts in sows and fat cattle.
Butter and eggs markets show mixed receipts with Butter-Weaker and Eggs-Firm notes. Current receipts across Kentucky Southern Ohio Northern Ohio and white standards with various percentages. Poultry items list heavy hens Leg horn hens roosters stags broilers turkeys ducks geese along with dressed hens and live poultry prices. Eggs settlements include unsettled grades extra grade clean standards and firsts with percentage figures. Live poultry and potatoes unchanged.
Members of the Ohio University Radio Club visited multiple Columbus stations on an inspection trip. They toured Ohio State University Radio Club quarters, observed the Cyclotron project in the EE department, heard the WOSU transmitter go on air, met J. B. Grogan at the state highway net, and viewed WBNS with new facsimile receiving gear. Prof. Darrell B. Green accompanied the group.
Mr and Mrs C H Monks and Miss Hazel Monks entertained Sunday with guests including Mr and Mrs Charles Simms of Columbus Thomas and Leo Boyd of Attica and Miss Bernice Ashcraft of Pennell Hill Ohio in attendance.
To Present Musical CARBON HILL An Old Fashioned Charm a musical comedy in two acts will be presented by the Ward Rural High School Friday April 28 at 8 oclock Cast includes Dorothy Lucas Max Stacy Betty Briley Tom Joyce Kathryn Horn Waldo Lehman Sue Mills and Jack Jewell Choruses and dances will add harmony and color to the performance.
A regular meeting of Local No. 146 United Shoe Workers of America is set for tonight April 24 at 7 30 in Red Men's Hall. All members are urged to attend.
Washington reports Roosevelt may reshuffle the cabinet with focus on the war and navy departments. Secretary Swanson is ill and eyed as a successor while War Secretary Woodring is not expected to vacate soon. In Nelsonville, a Junior Order benefit party is set for Tuesday night at 8 with April tickets requested.
Bernarr Macfadden's fifth annual bunion derby will travel about a month, not two weeks. Participants leave Philadelphia on Friday June 2 and are due in Dansville 14 days later. Colonial clergy noise shy in Boston as cannon fire on Thanksgiving Day 1709 provoked protests, records show.
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