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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1939
Page
10
A list of categorized services and notices including business chances insurance cleaning laundry moving storage painting tailoring and sewing categories plus educational livestock for sale building materials household goods and real estate room for rent apartments and related classifieds items. The compilation captures varied local offerings and job or service categories for readers seeking vendors, opportunities, or rentals.
Grain and Produce eggs market steady with extra firsts at 23 and seconds 18 while nearby ungraded 22. Butter prices No 1 26 No 2 24 creamery 31432. Live poultry prices list fowls 5 and over 15 4 and over 14 3 and over 10 roosters colored 9 leghorn roosters 7 broilers and fryers white rocks plymouth rocks 1% and roasting chickens 4.4nd over. Receipts show butter 488 319 lbs market firmer with 93 score 30 30% 92 score 29 91 score 29. Eggs receipts 9 414 cases market firm fresh graded firsts 19 extra firsts 20% current receipts 1749 dirties 14% checks 13% Refg extras 15% standards 15% dirties 14%.
Glouster residents share Yuletide meals and gifts in multiple gatherings. Notable mentions include the NT Club Christmas dinner, families traveling to Columbus for holidays, and carding routes of relatives visiting from Athens Crooksville Detroit and Jackson.
Market indexes edged up with advances in Bethlehem Steel, Pennsylvania Railroad, Phillips Petroleum and several consumer names. Notable gains appeared in Montgomery Ward, Chrysler, New York Central, Sears Roebuck, American Airlines, Columbia Gas and Electric, and Westinghouse. Industrials feature Am Can, General Electric, International Business Machines, Procter and Gamble, and Allied firms while several rail and steel stocks also rose.
Community Christmas programs closed schools for the Christmas vacation. Miss Virginia Starkey directed the Bidwell school tree and carol program with pupils from all grades and the high school. The M E Church hosted a Christmas program, and the Ladies Aid Society met at the Moore home with officers elected and a mystery sister drawing.
Livestock prices show hogs generally down about 15 cents from Wednesday with sows steady while cattle and calves remain active. Top hogs at 6.25 for good 160 to 200 pounds. cattle see higher bids on light yearlings and heavy heifers, with fat cows and bulls firm to higher. calves steady to higher with good to choice offered around 12 to 13 dollars.
Light receipts and strong demand pushed cattle and hog prices higher. Cattle ranged $8.30 to $9.20 for various weights, calves sold up to $10.35, hogs mainly $6.40 to $6.70 with sows $4.50 to $5.55. Wool markets were slower with limited bids while combing and bright fleece quot ed modestly. Financials from Athens County Agricultural Society show total receipts of $8,943.39 and year end balance $416.43 with expenditures around $11,? and officers’ reports.
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