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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1930
Page
11
Personal notices place the Christopher Welfe Reunion at Rising Park Lancaster for a three day event starting August 31. Other items list Wolfe Thurston Ohio selling a 1930 roadster and various car models with down payments and prices, plus dry cleaning and heating services.
IBRD cover notes 25 good used cars available for sale. Vehicles include roadsters and various makes, with emphasis on quality and reliability. Interested buyers should contact the listing for details and pricing terms.
Sheriff announces sale of four parcels in Athens County Ohio by partition action. Parcels include 211.20 acres in Township 10 and 94.50 acres, plus two other described tracts in Athens and York Townships with appraisals from 500.00 to 7,480.00. Sale to be cash day of sale August 12, 1950 under William Williams sheriff.
Hazel F Varner of Fairview West Virginia is served in a probate case filed July 1 1980 in the Court of Common Pleas Athens County Ohio Case 4598. Fred E Varner executor of Jacob L Varner seeks guidance on will interpretation and executor duties against Cora E Varner French Hazel Varner and Dorothy Varner Carsey with a September 27 1250 answer deadline.
Notice reports Harley Leffler a prisoner at Ohio State Reformatory recommended by the Superintendent and Chaplain for clemency parole. Hearing set on or after September 1930 with Chief Clerk R O Simikins listed.
The Athens Messenger and Herald Printing Company sues Willett R. Sweeny and F E Sweeny doing business as F Y B E Sweeny and Son in Athens County Ohio. Justice of the Peace C H Porter issued an attachment order August 21 1920 for 108 21. Athens Ohio August 26 1980.
Columbus August 27. There will be no wet plank in the state platform this fall nor will the national prohibition issue be mentioned. Robert J Bulkley Cleveland began his campaign on repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment but will not press the issue. The Democratic State Central Committee met, re elected Earl Hanefeld Ottawa as chairman, named Mrs Peabody Magruder vice chairman and re elected Charles N Gheer Dayton secretary and W A Julian Cincinnati treasurer. The Executive Committee chairman Henry C Brunner Mansfield secretary Marie McCurry Columbus and treasurer Robert Hayes Columbus were re elected.
Hanford MacNider flew from Bolling Field at 10 a.m. to Ottawa to assume his duties as Minister to Canada becoming the first American diplomat to reach a foreign post by airplane. Captain Ira Baker, flying with a broken ankle from a parachute jump last week, piloted the plane and Mrs. MacNider accompanied her husband.
Air planes from the national government base at Tsinanfu bombed Peiping at 11 a m today. The attack targeted the capital during a tense period as authorities reported blasts and smoke rising over important districts.
A mother with two healthy children and a tall, clean-cut father and son meet the Governor in his chambers. The group, wearing blue denim shirts, exchange names and receive a gubernatorial handshake, then discuss learning the governor’s stance before returning home.
The Ohio Republican State Central Committee narrowly endorsed Mrs Wilma Sinclair Lee Van of Steubenville as national committeewoman, replacing the late Mrs Hugh Clark. The vote reflected intra party tensions with Gov Cooper’s allies opposing the nomination and Edward D P Schorr chosen as state party chairman. Endorsement came after a divisive meeting that saw other leadership posts filled, including Miss Gertrude Jones as vice chairwoman and Col William H Duffy re-elected secretary-treasurer.
U S Department of Agriculture notes Wool market steady in Boston as weekly receipts drop for August. Year to date receipts run about 908 million pounds, down from 240 million for the entire previous year, with August activity largely seasonal.
The report catalogs assorted produce and poultry items with prices and quantities. It notes butter, tuba, nearby stock, 02 score, extras 402, standards 40c, 89 score Be, and various cases. Poultry includes ducks geese and turkeys with multipliers and old stock remarks.
In Cleveland produce notes Walter lists assorted poultry and potato pricing. Extras include fowls at 24 cents, medium Bic at 2597400, horn the iic, and heavy broilers at 2597400 with leghorn broilers 26e23e. Ducks, old cocks 4G 160, geese 206. Potatoes show no quotes.
Hogs 750 head, steady to down 15 cents. prices 160 to 210 per head. Sows strong at 8.25, cattle 92.50 to 47, calves 100 steady to 60 cents. vealers 211 to 250, good value. Sheep 1,000 fat lambs steady to 25 cents lower. better grades around 10.50, medium down to 7.50, aged wethers 4.60.
Chicago market reports firm receipts for Egs and Butter. Receipts show 10 808 cases with extra rate 27 cents and 360 for frata. Rutter's market lists 11 561 tubs with 38 cent extras and 18 38 for extra firsts. Fiesta 86037 and seconds 33 35 cents. standards 30 1/2 cents.
Hog receipts 2 200 held over 400. light to medium weights steady to weak. Sows 25 cents lower. best butchers 11 50 to 11 60. Cattle steady to strong. steers and heifers 66 00 to 68 50 with some better grades, cows 4 60 to 7 00. Vealers up 50 cents. good to choice 11 00 to 12 50. Sheep 1 600 lambs weak to lower. fat ewes 2 50.
Butter steady in tablets and creamery grades with No 1 to No 3 pricing. Eggs steady with oxion firsts and seconds priced, nearby ungraded at two cents per dozen, reflecting market stability in Cincinnati.
New York stock market rose fractions to over two points after early irregularity. Amusements and foods led gains while U S Steel and other industrials stayed firm. Fox Film A rose to 47 up 3 points after a June 28 balance sheet showed higher assets and asset to liability ratio improved. Loews rose over two points, with fractional gains by General Theaters Peuple ment Warner Brothers Pictures and Radio Keith Orpheum.
Fragmentary record lists Feresspes by Vereoe and Co of Columbus along with Allegheny Corporation and Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe lines. Includes Ballimioré and Ohio reference and a Chesapeake and Ohio connection. Details are unclear due to damaged OCR.
Betty Jane Foster, 19, kidnapped by farmhand Claude Dillner, was returned unharmed to her home near Lawrenceville after authorities were alerted. They were found at Elkhorn, Wisconsin, where summer tourists sighted them camping. Dillner cited love for the child as motive.
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