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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1933
Page
11
Local.pet notices call for using a Test And Found ad service to locate owners. Flyers and ads speed reunions by matching strays with families, reducing shelter stays and effort for finder and owner alike.
Rev John K Chaney Bloomdale president of the Farm Debt Protective Association sails to Washington with a first hand report on farm mortgage burdens in Wood County. He seeks a plan to refinance debts by spreading payments over a long period at a low interest rate.
A three night community institute will be hosted at the Athens Grange Hall with programs starting at 7 o clock each night. Tonight features the home talent play The Gay Pretenders cast from Athens Grange members. Thursday includes talk on grass mixtures and pasture improvements by C Hartman of the Southeastern Ohio Test Farm Carpenter. Friday spotlights pupils from Rock Bifile Jackville and Factory schools under teachers’ direction.
President E B Bryan of Ohio University will speak at New Straitsville High School commencement on May 3 at 8 pm. Baccalaureate is April 30 at 7 30 pm at the Methodist Church with Rev Harble delivering the address. Ceremony details include a long list of graduates led by Ernest Backus and others.
Rotarians of Southern Ohio plan to attend a district conference in Columbus as Fred H. Johnson of Zanesville, an Ohio University graduate and former Nelsonville resident, serves as governor after being elected at last spring’s Cincinnati conference.
KF D Forsyth Bank of Athens cashier speaks at Ohio University Commerce Club urging a new banking deal. He endorses distinct bank types, tighter supervision, and trade area branch banking with federal reserve control for commercial banking to reduce public confusion.
The first all-women's gathering at Ohio University called the Women's League Oyo takes place tonight at 5:30 in the Women's Gymnasium. Prep Follies, a style show, a girls' band, and campus talent join the program with a small admission fee. A buffet luncheon will be served free while sorority boarding clubs close to allow attendance.
In Athens Ohio the Burdette family endures two misfortunes on Tuesday. Mrs. Pangratz, daughter of Mr and Mrs L W Burdette, dies in Akron after a long illness. At 2 pm Mrs Burdette suffers a paralytic stroke and remains in critical condition today. Pangratz leaves husband a son a daughter two sisters Miss Ruth Burdette Athens County clerk of courts and Mrs Lulu Summerville Detroit and a brother Farley Burdette Athens. Funeral services set for Friday in Akron with burial at Catholic Cemetery Saturday at 10 am. Dowler Funeral Home seeking callers Saturday morning.
Ohio bus and truck operators face certificate forfeiture if they fail to maintain adequate insurance at all times. The Public Utilities Commission warns that license cancellations of insurers in Ohio require operators to file alternative coverage promptly after loss of a supplier.
The New York market summary lists Dun & Bradstreet 30 basic commodities with current, week, month, and year comparisons and notable shifts in items like sugar, oils, iron and steel, and producing goods. The report names multiple firms and indices including Atlantic Refining, Bethlehem Steel, Phillips Petroleum, General Electric, United Biscuit, and Woolworth, with varied percentage changes across categories.
Baltimore produce reports show nearterm pricing on fresh items with 12 percent and 15 cent variations. Notes mention butter creaminess, score 220 2c, 90 score standards 210 23c, and firsts Bi-score with renovations and packing stock indexes.
Butter prices show No 2 at 14 cents and No 3 at 2 cents per pound with butterfat delivered 18 cents. Eggs rise with higher cases. extra firsts 12 and a half cents, seconds 1 cent. Duck eggs quoted at 10 cents and goose eggs at 25 cents.
Judge F W Crow named administrator de bonis non with will annexed for the Wyatt Plantz estate in Pomeroy. The change follows the resignation of C G Gillilan banker as administrator, a move sought by estate beneficiaries including the village of Pomeroy.
The White House sent to the Senate the nomination of Nellie Taylor Ross of Wyoming for director of the Mint. Ross, former Wyoming governor, supported President Roosevelt. Robert J. Grant will leave the Mint to head Shanghai's Central Mint in China.
Three Athens residents arraigned before Mayor R.8 Wood on intoxication charges. Midge Lockhart and Harvey McDonald each fined ten dollars plus costs, while Jack King was sued and costs.
Springfield April 26 The Illinois Senate passed a measure to appoint a state ratification convention for prohibition repeal set for July 10 in Springfield. In Athens County, Jennie Virgene Sealock seeks divorce and custody of two minor children in a case against Glenn Sealock alleging neglect of duty.
Market brief lists Butter Market unsettled with extras 254 and standards 26c. Eggs Market shows extras 12e and current receipts 12. Poultry market barely steady with heavy fowl 13 114c and leghorn fowl 11W 12c. Geese, ducks, turkeys and heavy broilers prices included. Potatoes from Ohio New York Pennsylvania with sacks and graded varieties 50q60c targets.
Receipts included hogs at 5900 with price ranges from 4.00 to 3.90 per cwt for various weights and ages, cattle with 500 receipts and 800 calves, veal and fat cattle prices noted, sheep receipts at 1000 with steady to strong demand for better grades, lambs scarce with few old crop lambs offered.
April 5 market totals show hog receipts 353 with weights 150 to 250 pounds and prices ranging from 3.85 to 9.65 per hundredweight for various categories. fat sows and boars listed. Cattle receipts 120 with steers at 2.50 to 4.90 and fat cows 1.90 to 3.58, bulls 2.60 to 3.80, milk cows 15.25. Veal calves receipts 41 with tops at 64.80 and middling prices 3.50 to 4.50. Lambs and sheep receipts 193 with top lambs at 4. ewes and lambs 6.20 to 7.20, wethers 2.50 to 3.00, old sheep down to 2.00.
Hogs receipts around 1500 with lower market. weights 160 to 240 lbs at 4.25 to 6.35, 280 lbs at 404.20, pigs 3.25 to 3.60, sows 47 to 73.25. Cattle receipts 10 with market unchanged. yearlings 4.85 to 5.58, good heifers 4.50 to 5.00, cows 2.50 to 3.25. Calves 150, market slow. top 5.80, better dealers 4.5 to 5. Best lambs 4.50 to 5.80, choice up to 6.75.
Toledo grain close lists Wheat No 2 red 17 78c and No 1 red ic premium, Corn No 2 yellow 42 43, oats No white 28 29c, Rye No 2 53 54, Barley No 2 40 41 with track prices 28.0 rate. Produce includes butter 26c, eggs extras 11 4c, hay Timothy per cwt.
Wool prices in the Boston market show a continued uptrend from late last week with scoured basis up to 80 cents on 64 5 and finer wools and twelve month Texas wools. Wool trade members are encouraged by goods market responses and new orders.
A compact ledger of Liberty Bonds and Treasury securities with prices and yields. Entries include Lib 34s 47 and 101, Lib 44s 67 101.31, Treas 4s 36 102.20, Treas 3s 43 100.16, and other dated issues such as 54 and 49, reflecting market quotes and terms.
Train departures from Athens include No 3 at 11 38 am and No 9 at 5 44 pm southbound No 2 at 31 20 am and No 4 at 6 24 pm daily except Sunday Chesapake and Ohio Northbound No 27 6 30 pm daily except Sunday Southbound No 30 11 08 pm daily except Sunday Baltimore and Ohio Westbound No 1 National Limited 46 dollars Eastbound No 44 1 25 am 12 23 pm 3 41 pm daily except Sunday
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