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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1940
Page
10
Classifieds list sections and rates for Sunday edition including help wanted sales, business chances education livestock and miscellaneous items. It outlines categories such as female and male help wanted jobs and other advert headings with page numbers and entry codes.
Millicons Auto Wrecking in Nelsonville advertises paying the highest prices for wrecked and junk cars and scrap metal, inviting owners to bring in their vehicles.
Garden Social notes describe the Sunshine Sewing Circle meeting at Martha Coens home with members Flora Meighen Susan Wingett Osie Boyd Maggie Buck Velma Barnhill Catherine Slusher Glennie St. Clair Florence King Mary Perry Eva Mohler and visitors Mildred Coen Margaret Cunningham A potluck dinner and a sixth birthday cake for Carol Coen are noted Next meeting scheduled at Caniel Slushers on Jan 8 Neighbors report death of Mrs Jane Webb long time church member Mildred Edith Coen home for Christmas Maxine Tomson of Columbus visits with her parents C L Goldsberry and Mr Tomson was in town for Christmas
The moon and sun pull on Earth causing tides with the moon producing stronger effects due to its closer distance. Pythons show more developed hind limbs than certain lizard species.
Prices opened roughly steady as investors digest a Edison Electric Institute report showing a new weekly high in power output and a 1.7 percent rise in kilowatt hours to 2.91 billion. Auto sales surged with November retail car and truck volume hitting a record 994,520 passenger cars and 57,348 commercials, up 30 and 25 percent from a year ago.
Hogs 6 725 active steady on 275 lb down and sows heavier butchers 15 off top 7.35 on 180 250 lb. cattle 600 calves 400 active strong light receipts, steers and heifers 7.50 8.50, few 10, cows 6.50 7.00, stockers 30 50 per head, veal prime 12.10. Salable hogs 400 steady 150 180 lb 7.20, 180 220 7.25, 220 250 7.25, 250 290 6.75 7.10. Salable cattle 25 calves 50. Sheep 200 steady. Chillicothe report totals receipts 2,284 head. Hogs 1,395 head, fats 20 under Cin prices. Prices by weight: 180 250 lb 6.40 6.50, 160 180 6.30, 300 350 5.90 6.05, 250 300 6.20, 140 160 5.50 5.80, 100 140 4.75 5.50. sows 4.75 5.25, bulls 2 3.4. Cattle 421 head good steers 9 10.50, good heifers 8.0 9.5, plainer 7.50 8.50, fat cows 5.50 6.50, veal tops 12.75 12.80, lambs top 10.80 10.10, weights 6 9.55.
Grain and produce prices listed include Wheat No 2 red 88 88% and Corn No 2 yellow 62 63 with other yellow grades 60 61% 4. Oats No 2 white 38 39. Butter receipts 930777 weak. creamery 93 score 324% 33% 92 32%. Bee receipts 5756 steady. eggs bases include extra firsts 27 seconds 24 nearby ungraded 26. Poultry and fowl prices shown. geese 15 17, ducks 15 17, hens 19 21, leghorns 12 15, roosters 12, butter and egg pricing details remain largely unchanged.
Unsettled butter and creamery extras in tubs 36 percent and 35 percent standards. Eggs unsettled with prices in 100 case lots, extras 57 pounds and up, candled light yolks clear 25 percent. Current receipts 55 pounds and up 23, mediums 23. Live poultry active with heavy colored fowl 17, medium 13 14, leghorn 10 12, small springers 15 16, rock springers and up 20, broilers 19 20, young ducks 6 pounds 15, small ducks 11 12, turkeys young hens 21 22, young toms 15 18, old roosters 10 12, stags 12.
Prime Minister Eamon De Valera stated Ireland wants to purchase weapons from the United States to aid in upholding Ireland's neutrality during the current tensions. He spoke last night, outlining the country's security aims and the rationale for sourcing arms abroad.
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