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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1936
Page
10
A fragmented OCR page shows classified sections for merchandise and offers. Items include groceries and household goods, jewelry and machinery, radios and repairs, wearables, and specials. Rental notices list rooms for rent, apartments, garages, cottages, and land or houses for sale or rent.
Professor Work discussed three possible outcomes in Ethiopia involving Italy Britain and France. He warned of global involvement including America if Ethiopia is destroyed or division occurs, and noted his book Ethiopia n Pawn In European Democracy and work on a Haile Selassie biography.
Mr and Mrs H W Humphrey attended a meeting of The Ohio Commercial Teachers Association in Columbus. The High School staff met to plan the yearbook. Home Ec club officers elected Helen Coon president Katie Warner vice president Vernadene Bricker secretary Dorothy Thompson treasurer Pauline Potts historian. Latin Club officers chosen Katherine Grove president Rosalie Shafer vice president Margaret Kail secretary Ila Shafer treasurer. Mrs Renis Gibsons brother and friends visited from Columbus. Mrs Frank Williams and daughter Lelia Rose spent a day with Plains relatives. Louise Jane Diver returns to English Literature class after illness.
Oberlin College students plan a quadrennial mock Republican convention on May 8 and 9 with Atty. Gen. John W. Bricker as chairman. The event, dating to 1860, has featured many prominent Republicans and past student picks, including a 1932 Democratic convention.
Athens Municipal Airport offers Airtaxi service from sunrise to sunset with through airline tickets and connections to T W A and A A airlines at nearest main airports. Schedule shows West departures early and afternoon times including a 12:39 pm and 4:20 pm and North 8:08 am and 2 pm.
New York stock traders study Mor genthau remarks on March April financing. Treasury will borrow about 1 billion for refunding with 0.5 to 1 billion in new money. Early railroad revenue estimates for January total about 299 million, strongest in five years.
The page lists New York stock quotations for numerous companies including Alaska Juneau and Bethlehem Steel with percentages and notes on share values. It also notes total sales and price ranges for wool at Boston, detailing French combing and territory wools with scoured price ranges around 90 to 93 cents.
Silver Ridge notes illness and visits among locals. Names include George Pearman Donna Gaul Ossie Harper and others. mentions travels, church attendance and wood cutting. A Columbus line reports dynamite blasts clearing ice on the Scioto River and Alexander H. Martin seeking Republican petitions for congressman at large.
Public auction on a 310 acre Shaw heirs farm near Logen Hocking County Ohio on State Highway 928 with D B Harsh administrator and Irvin Shaw auctioneer. Also public sale on Charlie Davis farm four miles north of Stewart featuring horses cows and cattle with Fred Laughlin auctioneer.
Grain in store and in transit note wheat above track quotas corn oats and hay pricing with first to third cut timothy clover alfalfa values. New wheat straw sold at 4 per unit. Butter steady. Poultry and turkey prices listed for various weights and grades.
The report lists butter and creamery extras in tubs at 39 cents with standards 39, fegs weak and extra firsts 24, current receipts 23. Live poultry quieter with heavy hens at 5 percent discount and up 23, mediums hens 24.
The raw OCR shows assorted market terms for poultry types and butter with prices and receipts. It notes heavy hens leghorns broilers and young turkeys with varying prices and unsettled receipts. Butter and eggs are listed with case counts and steadier prices.
Livestock prices show hogs 18 to 25 cents lower with 650 head including 30 directs. Cattle totals around 300 with steers at 9.60, heifers 8, bulk cows 495 to 500, calves 127 to 125. Vealers 12.50. Sheep 200 and slow, better lambs 199 to 10.40.
Hog prices show 16 percent drop for 225 lb animals and top bids around 10.65 per cwt with other weights steady. Cattle calves and sows cited with varied figures. sheep and lambs noted weak trends and limited higher lots, overall slow Monday activity with dealers steady to weak.
The report covers livestock receipts for February with light demand across cattle veal hogs and sheep. A sheriff’s sale notice in Athens County lists Oliver O Kinsey as receiver for the Coolville National Bank offering 40 acres in section 8 township 5 range 12 with sale set for March 30 1936 at 1 30 PM and appraised value not specified.
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