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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1939
Page
10
Started Chicks 400 heavy breed cockerels available now with next hatching February 23. Save up to one dollar per hundred by placing a spring order before March 1. Write for Chick Journal and prices. Athens Chick Hatchery.
Miss Mabel McBride of Bidwell visited Rio Grande as weekend guest of Miss Margaret Jenkins. Scouts held a short ceremony during National Boy Scout Week services at Baptist and Methodist churches. Ohio University Gospel team to appear at Sunday morning service. Calvary Baptist to observe India Night March 1. Banked: various visits, meetings, and illness notes among local families and students.
New York stocks opened moderately active with Bethlehem Steel up 1. dark bonds steady. United States Steel gains, other steels firm, oils lag, coppers higher. Utilities, rails, aviation and some motors show small gains amid a broad advance. several industrials and chemicals show mixed moves.
Toledo prices show wheat No 1 red 7 14 4 and No 2 red 7 10 with mixed decimals. Corn No 2 yellow 48 49 and No 3 yellow 47 48. Eggs steady receipts 17 percent, white standards 19 percent, hennery whites 21 percent. Pittsburgh hogs steady to 10 cents higher, prices 8.60 to 8.85 for various weights. Cincinnati yars unevenly steady to lower, cattle steady to strong with steers around 7.50 to 8.75 and calves 250, bulls 7.35 to 7.50.
The report shows steady prices with eggs of extra grade clean 19 percent and lextra firsts 18, current receipts 17. Live poultry prices remain steady for hens heavy 5 and up 17 18, medium and pullets 19 20, leghorn heavy 16 17, and other varieties including ducks and muscovy. Capons breasty 74 and up 25 26, roosters and cocks quoted across several ranges.
Butter market holds steady with receipts at 696 108 gross lbs and various butter quality grades reported. Eggs market shows easy movement with receipts around 15 778 cases and a mix of graded firsts, extra firsts, checks and current receipts, plus dirties at 15 percent.
Outlets for domestic wools narrowed to a few buyers while active bidders took sizable lots at strong prices. Graded combing lengths sold 70 to 72 cents scoured. graded combing and blood bright fleeces sold 32 to 33 cents in grease. A few buyers with covered needs lowered bids.
Motorists who run out of gas must walk home as sale of gasoline and auto accessories within the metropolitan area is prohibited after 8 p.m. on five weekdays and after 2 p.m. on Saturdays and holidays.
Sunday School at 2 30 PM. Wesley Smith supervising. Several local residents attended events in Pisgah and at Mountville high school. Bus service was limited by bad roads causing missed local children. Hosts Burgie and Louise Carpenter hosted a birthday gathering for Ethel Southall and Verna Wemmer, with family and friends present. Busi ness visitors included J W Wemmer and family in Athens.
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