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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1938
Page
12
Hog prices ranged 7 95 top for 160 to 180 pounds, with lighter and heavier weights showing varied discounts. Cattle and calves traded slowly with a week’s decline in some grades, while hogs and sows showed steady to firm action. Market notes include butter eggs and milk product prices and diverse direct and carload sales data.
Restricted demand for wool on the Boston market favored fine grades with scarce offerings in original bags selling at 66 to 68 cents scoured for good French comb lengths. Medium to short French combing lengths fetched 61 to 63 cents, while bulk clothing wools moved 61 to 63 cents. Twelve month Texas wools traded around 67 to 72 cents scoured.
East Side Elementary School prepares for Christmas with students decorating rooms and making secret gifts for parents. Third and sixth graders enjoy a half holiday for perfect attendance. The Happy Stitchers Sewing Club meets at Beverly Davis’s home. Second grade completes a book exhibit sharing favorite reads.
Miss Effie White of Northup, a teacher, was seriously ill with pneumonia and received lung drainage at Holzer Hospital on Thursday. Her condition is reported improved.
The First Methodist Church Martzolff class hosts a homecoming Sunday morning on December 4 with Mrs. L G Bean as teacher guiding the service.
The Lutheran Students Association plans a Candlelight Christmas service this Sunday at 5 p.m. The event will be held at the YWCA rooms, announced today.
Market report lists grain. Wheat No. 1 red 64.13, No. 2 red 63.76. Corn No. 2 yellow 48.04, No. 3 yellow 46.44. Pittsburgh prices cover butter, eggs, poultry, and various meats with multiple grade figures. industrials and steels sections show varied stocks and percentages from major firms including Amoco, Allied, Curtiss Wright, Procter and Gamble, U.S. Steel, and Nickel.
Market listings show steady eggs with various firsts and seconds, butter prices for No 1 and No 2, and creamery butter. Live poultry prices vary by fowl type with multiple weight classes and breed notes, indicating mixed demand and a weak market for hens and leghorns.
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