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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1931
Page
8
In Memoriam memory of our beloved who departed this life Februa ry bequeathed to memory of loved ones who pass on from us. Rumer and Freda Meighen are remembered with affection and sorrow.
A historical financial record for Athens Township lists a balance forward January 1, 1930, receipts for the year, total expenditures, and a December 31, 1930 balance. Items include general property tax, gas tax, cemetery lots, interest, compensation, road maintenance, and poor relief totaling 28,606.14 with detailed line items and clerk Isaac Williams.
Margaret Sanger, famed birth control advocate, urged passage of a bill before a Senate committee. The measure, introduced by Senator Gillett of Massachusetts, would allow physicians to share birth control information with patients, citing death tolls of 41.5 million and 15 million in America.
Market notes show firm butter and mixed produce prices across Chicago Cleveland and Pittsburgh. Receipts include 281910 cases with various firsts seconds and extras. butter values list per pound and per dozen with ranges. poultry and fowl prices given for live and killed birds plus ducks geese and stags. potatoes priced by sack with Maine and Idaho varieties.
Market report shows receipts of 2,300 hogs with prices 8.00 to 8.40 and 130 to 200 pounds at 8.40 to 8.00, 220 to 260 pounds 7.54 to 7.86, 260 to 310 pounds 7.00 to 7.95. cattle receipts 850 with steers 7.60 to 8.60, beef 4.25 to 5.50, cows 2.30 to 3.50. total hog and cattle runs steady to higher or lower but overall steady.
Hogs 2600 held, prices steady to 10 cents higher for most. bulk around 5.50 to 8.50. Cattle 1200 with calves 250 slow, mostly steady. steers and yearlings seen around 8 to 9. Sheep 76 head offered, market steady. better lambs 9.50 to 9.75, common 6.50 to 8, fat ewes 2.50 to 3.50.
Chicago livestock market shows 55 hogs with 20 000 direct sales mainly at higher prices. Trade ranges include 146 208 dollars per hundredweight for heavy hogs and 140 160 pounds at 5.85 to 8. Reights and packing sows priced between 5.85 and 8. Prices vary by weight and quality across the day.
Wednesday evening February 18 at Athens Presbyterian Church the first mid week Lenten service will be held The minister Rev A Y Willcox will give a brief address Special musical selections will be presented at the service
Xenia Ohio February 10 Harold Hays superintendent reports 708 children in the home the largest in over two decades. The influx includes many orphans of World War veterans with five new entries weekly. The Home Committee seeks a 3 900 078 dollar appropriation from the State House for two years of cottages improvements and upkeep.
Cleveland police widen hunt for a suspect tied to a murder case as detectives reveal the release of key witness Mrs. Detty Gray. Authorities say the missing pot is linked to bootlegging and whisky running with local figures.
A group calling itself the Hox Car Battalion arrives in Washington seeking veteran relief. They plan a peaceful campaign to press for aid and may present their case to Congressman Ben Dill. They intend to travel back to Seattle after presenting their concerns.
Plains School to present an operetta Carrie Comes to College shaped by school musical organizations. Tuesday night features Mrs Hehoo as Carrie with Minnie Bobo in the second cast Wednesday. The chorus includes Gabriel, Doria Cowen, Christine Ron, Esther Mae Cochran, and many others under general director Mary Blayney with assistants Paul Young Irene Whitam Madeline Cadot Wise and Pauline Whitlach.
A Salvation Army campaign schedules prayer meetings and rallies. A deep prayer session ran late last Saturday night, with a Young People's Rally planned in Cincinnati next Saturday. Local posts held cottage meetings at residents on Front Street and Depot Street, with more sessions planned.
Matt Arms age of Tiltonsville has been named head of the state government office in Steubenville. The announcement came today from RT. A. Edmondson, director of the department of industrial relations.
State Representative W. T. Beerts of Bridgeport was injured today when an automobile carrying members of the Ohio House Finance Committee crashed into a concrete gun rail near Martins Ferry.
Tokia reports privy councillor Itaru Mage Sumuro and former justice minister died here on February 16. Official details are sparse. local authorities noted his passing without further comment.
Bellaire mourns F. Anderson 92 longtime Belmont County Bar’s oldest member he died at home yesterday his career included publishing The Belmont Savings & Co and service to Belmont County legal community
The Interstate Commerce Commission on February 16 prescribed drastic freight rates aimed at limiting shipments between Southern states and several Kansas Oklahoma and Texas points to Aetna Eastern destinations.
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