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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Dec 30, 1940

Page

8

Wall Street mainly boosts industrials amid armament optimism

Industrial stocks lead gains on a broad market rise with sectors like U S Steel Bethlehem Youngstown Sheet Timken and General Motors advancing. Bonds steady as traders digest the President's address and expectations for prolonged defense spending.

New York No. 8S. Steel Bethlehem Youngstown Sheet General Motors Chrysler U. 58. Rubber Douglas Aircraft Sears Roebuck Pennsylvania Western Union Tim Detroit Wall Street

Cincinnati Livestock Prices Hit Varied Levels Across Classes

Hogs totaling 400 to 4,000 head in Cincinnati show steady demand with top hogs at 7.40 per 100 pounds for 180 to 250 lb animals. calves and cattle remain steady to active with specific price ranges for steers, heifers, cows, bulls, and lambs. Sheep total 400, lambs at 10.25 to 10.50 for top grades, middling and common lambs lower, ewes and wethers also listed.

Robert Turner Harrisonville Meigs County Ohio Oleva Cotterill

Market Livestock Prices Listing

Hogs 175 to 220 lbs six to seven dollars per hundred pounds heavies seven to seven thirty five. Fat sows five thirty to six. Pigs five sixty five head. Stock shoats six fifty to six seventy five. Cattle steers five fifty to ten ninety. Heifers four sixty to eight twenty. Fat cows five to seven fifty five. Remainder bulls five thirty to seven twenty five. Milk cows thirty eight to forty eight. Good steers ten to ten eighty nine. Veal calves tops thirteen dollars five five? seconds twelve fifty five to thirteen. No choice calves offered.

Historic Fire Equipment On Display In Pomeroy

In Pomeroy the century old steam driven fire pumper, no longer usable, is shown on Main Street as the Firemen's Ball draws near. The department, with two pumpers and a hose wagon, plans further equipment improvements and sponsors the annual ball at the Junior High Auditorium.

Pomeroy The Second Ward Main St Snot

Real estate transfers in Meigs County weekly update

Transfers show 21.5 acres moving from Mabel Van Cooney to Clark Van Cooney in Lebanon Township and from Clark and Hilda Van Cooney to Elmer A Reed. Other deeds include Buckeye Savings & Loan Lot 32 Middleport to Zerkle Trucking Co and multiple parcels in Dexter Salem Salisbury and Columbia townships shifting to various grantees.

Pomeroy Mabel van Cooney Lebanon Township Clark van Cooney Clark Hilda van Cooney Lebanon Elmer A. Reed Buckeye Savings & Loan Co Middleport Zerkle Trucking Co Nellie F. Morris Sallie Jordan Dexter Salem Township Edward and Vonnie Russell W. Henry Davis Lena F. Davis John C. Carr Scipio Township George, Ralph Flora M. Paul Willie W Jessie L. Carr Reed Mildred Jenkinson Salisbury Township Christine Agnes A. Grueser Katherine Hilberg Chester Della Carnahan Aura Ogdin Columbia Township Carl H F. C. Allen Dey Hysel Lenora M William Koehler Mary W. Keller Orange Township Robert V Niesel A. Weatherman

Minnie Steel Funeral Held in Letart Falls

Minnie Steel 43 of Letart Falls died Saturday at St Josephs Hospital Parkersburg after a month there. She leaves son Robert Lee Steel of Letart Falls father R L Finney of Dunbar sister Mrs Sam Keaton of Charleston. Funeral service 2 PM at Letart Methodist Church with burial in Letart Cemetery.

Pomeroy Minnie Steel Letart Falls St. Joseph's Hospital Parkersburg Robert Lee Steel R. L. Finney Dunbar W. Va Sam Keaton Charleston Letart Cemetery

Dinner superstition and a sailor’s fate

A fragment describes a superstition that at a dinner party a guest who rings a glass must place a finger on the rim to save a sailor from drowning. The text presents a curious belief linking dining ritual to seafaring peril.

Toledo Grain and Produce Prices Report from Wheat to Poultry

Grain and produce prices list for Toledo and Chicago markets. Wheat No 2 red 90. Wheat No 2 yellow 65 65. Corn No 2 yellow 65 60 4 No 3 60 4 No 4 60 62. Oats No 2 white 39 40. Butter receipts 761432 easy creamery 93 score 33 33 92 32 91 32 90 32 89 31 88 30 90 centralized carrots 20. Eggs extra firsts 27 seconds 24 nearby ungraded 26. Poultry prices for fowls and leghorns, springers, roosters, and other classes listed with various weights and price per pound.

Toledo Chicago

Butter unsettled and eggs market amid creameries and fowl data

Dairy entries show unsettled butter and creamery extras with tub standards and 100 case egg lots supplied by Cleveland under egg board terms including 57 lb and up candied yolks and 55 lb receipts. Poultry prices list heavy colored fowl 19 and other weights. live broilers 2 to 2½ lb and up 19 20. ducks 6 lb and up 16. Boston wool market notes a dull week with Christmas break, expectations of heavyweight demand later, quiet west, and steady mohair. quotations for domestic fleeces Delaine unwashed 43 44 and combing 44 46.

Cleveland Butter and Egg Board Boston Commercial Bulletin West Bulletin Ohio Pennsylvania Delaine

Case Dismissed in Shenang Springs Lease Suit

The case of Malcolm C. Roller and others versus Hollie Green and Theodore Ebersbach was dismissed on motion of the plaintiffs with costs paid and no record made. The dispute concerned a lease of a gasoline station and tourist camp on Route 7 at Shenang Springs.

Pomeroy Malcolm C. Roller Mark M. Roller Freda Mulholland W. F. Harless Hollie Green Theodore Ebersbach Shenang Springs

Scheduling of East and West Bound Trains and Air Arrangements

The notice lists train times for East Bound No 4 Diplomat Daily 1 56 am and No 44 Daily Except Sunday 11 06 am, No 13 Daily 12 51 pm, No 2 National Limited 9 42 pm, West Bound No 1 National Limited Daily 3 53 am, No 3 Diplomat Daily 5 am, No 43 Daily Except Sunday 3 36 pm, No 29 Daily Except Monday 4 15 pm, No 11 Daily 7 51 pm, No 30 Arrives Daily Except Sunday Soma bound 12 25 pm, No 37 Leaves Daily Except Sunday North bound 3 35 pm, New York Central South No 2 Daily Except Sunday 12 09 pm, No 4 Daily 6 38 pm, New York Central North No 3 Daily Except Sunday 11 06 am, No 9 Daily agg pm, plus Athens Airways Eastbound connections with TWA at Columbus at 11 30 am 1 40 pm 6 00 pm. It also mentions the tea plant growth habits and a legal notice warning about containers for apples and farm products with a date 12-16-40-40tw and a reference to Hio-Hil.

Diplomat National Limited NEW York Central South NEW York Central North Athens Airways Athens TWA Columbus

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