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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1931
Page
11
A listing of newspaper classified sections including Automobiles For Sale Auto Trucks For Sale Auto Accessories and related services. Also notes for garages for hire repair stations moving trucking storage painting and other business service categories.
Local Nelsonville car dealers and repairers list used cars including a 1926 Ford coupe for 75 dollars and a 1927 Chevrolet sedan for 150 dollars. Businesses offer welding and repairing, spouting, cleaning services, poultry market, beds and clothing, hardware, and real estate for rent.
The Athens Presbyterian and First Methodist churches host a day of sermons studies and services. Miss Ruby Hankey speaks on the value of a human life. Rev. Whicox discusses the Place of God. Choir music includes Te Deum. Union service features Who Killed Parker Wright.
Market notes list fresh eggs at 17.418 cents per dozen with Butter-Creamery extras at 92 score and various scores for firsts seconds and renovated goods. Live poultry prices shown for chickens, leghorns, roosters, guinea fowl, ducks, and turkeys with weights and per pound rates.
Produce list shows butter eggs and poultry no quotes. Potatoes from Maine Green Mountain range 2.35 to 2.40 with rare 2.50 per 120 lb sack. Idaho russet and others priced 25 per 100 lb sack, bakers 225 to 250 per 100 lb sack.
Potatoes on track 165 arrivals 90 shipments 851 market barely steady Wisconsin sacked round whites 136 140 Idaho russets 160 170 Colorado McClures branded mostly 105 Butter eggs poultry and cheese closed for holiday Nearby butter tubs 02 score extras 28 standards 27 89 score 26 88 score 25 Eyes nearby current receipts 16 freed extra firsts 17 Nearby hennery whites ex tras 18 19 browns extras 17 18 Poultry live hens 18 21 colored springers 24 26 old roosters 13 Stags 17 ducks geese 15 16 Fresh killed bons Toledo Feb 12 Wheat No 2 red 82 83 Corn No 2 yellow 71 72 Dale No 2 gaits 37 38 over domestic prime old 14 50 prime Pra 15 00 prime choice new 15 36 prime choice old 14 40 Feb 16 00 March 15 15 Alsike cash 13 90 March 14 00 Butter fancy creamery 27 8 a 30 Eggs country run 17 Hay timothy 1.60
Hogs 2000 numbers show slow trade with most hogs 160 to 220 pounds mostly 825 average on 210 pounds down slightly for heavier weights. Sows steady and lighter weights uneven. 140 to 200 pounds mostly 775. Cattle calves slow to steady with lower grade steers and heifers 650 to 750. beef cows 425 to 5. Sheep 100 head lambs strong to better grades with heavy weights around 950. common and medium sheep steady 650 to 750. fat ewes 250 to 350.
Cattle receipts 25 with markets nominal. Calves 75 strong toward higher bids, choice dealers $11.50-12.00, medium to good $8.00-10.50. Hogs receipts 1,000, market 10 lower, feeder pigs and sows down to $6.25. Lambs 1,000 receipts. lambs steady to 10 cents higher, under 85 lbs $9.50-9.85, 82.5 to 92.5 dollars for larger grades, aged wethers up to $6.00.
Rehearsals are underway for The Plains High School operetta Carrie Comes to College. Two casts of about fifty students perform Tuesday and Wednesday under Mary Blayney platina critic teacher as general director with Paul Young Irene Witham Madeline Cadet assisting and Rosemary Wise directing rhythm and Pauline Whitlater handling publicity.
Huntington mission notes artificial waves from dam operations cannot remove algae and fish deaths. Major Fret W. Herman, US district engineer, says only strong current from heavy rains will wash away the algae and end the menace, following a Kentucky fish and game commission inquiry.
Violent earth shocks struck the Hawkes Bay region of North Island New Zealand today. Several towns were virtually destroyed and about 200 lives were lost in the quake. Napier communications were re-established later, and officials reported the latest shocks were powerful but caused little additional damage to the city.
Ward Radford pastors a full day at Central Avenue M F p church with Sunday School at 10 15 a m preaching at 6 00 p m Epworth League at 7 00 p m special class to join Cull membership. Garpenters and Conus Streets Bibie Record lists services at Zeon Baptist Church with 10 44 worship and sermon topic Gods Store House of Blessings 730 Making Religion Attractive. Guysville Stewart Churches list Stewart Church Linton Matton preaching 10 30 and Sunday School 9 30 plus New England Church 2 20 p m and 1 30 p m Sunday School Canaanville Church 7 30 p m Evangelistic services nightly except Monday. Albany M E Parish Rev B B Dean with Albany Sunday School 10 15 and preaching 7 30 p m. Alexander Presbyterian Athens Albany Road Sunday School at 10 00 a m. Amesville Presbyterian Andrew M Taylor minister Sunday School 10 30 a m Morning worship 10 30 a m topic value for money. New Page and Presbyarian also led by Taylor with 10 30 a m preaching. PRED Methodist Church Sunday School 9 30 a m and services 10 a m. Town Free Methodist revival ongoing with services 10 a m 2 p m 7 19 p m.
Amos Heyde and Jacob Keilor lead Logan Lutheran services with sermons on The Fovlishness of Preataing and In the Wilderness With His Life Problem. Nazareth Church reports strong revival turnout with daily themes and a Sunday School at 9 16 am and evening services at 7 16 pm.
Gore United announces J. W. Plummer to preach at 10 30 a m with Sabbath School at 9 30 a m and evening service at 7 00 p m at Bethany Shrine Church.
Local church notices list service times and leaders for McArthur M E Zion McArthur Presbyterian Christ Hamden M B E Zaleski M E Zaleski Sylvester’s Cura Church New Plymouth Presbyterian with pastors Wissing er and others. Worship times include 9 30 and 10 30 services and evening gatherings.
The Pomeroy churches listed Bible School sessions and Evangelistic events with attendance notes. First Baptist Church details junior, intermediate and senior programs, evening service, and prayer meetings. Church leaders announce guest speakers and special music, with meeting times and locations to be confirmed next Sunday and in future papers.
The article lists schedules for Vieréabyteterian and PEACE EVANGELICAL A PRESB TERIAN CHance churches. It notes Sunday School at 9 a m and 10 30 a m services, youth and midweek programs, and upcoming meetings and classes led by ministers Theophil Mehl and others with details on sermon themes and church activities for February and Lent.
The listings detail morning and evening worships at several churches including Chas K Grammer Church with Bible School and communion, Methodist Episcopal with service and junior orchestra, Pilgrim Lutheran with evangelistic services, First Presbyterian with Sunday School and choir, plus midweek clubs and Endeavor groups. Rees, Shafer, Janssen and other leaders are noted.
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