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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1931
Page
11
A catalog style list of classified headings covering autos, services, employment, financial, real estate and live stock categories with numbers and section titles. It resembles a newspaper directory for marketplace ads and notices.
Alexander Legge, chairman, rejected claims that the Federal Farm Board supports corporate farming as a solution. He said the board has explicitly avoided that issue and noted critics including John Simpson of the Farmers National Union and H A Thutler of the Grain Dealers National Association.
Ohio University Playshop stages Holiday under Harold Franas with Linda Seta played by Tsobel Cunningham and Julia Ned Seton roles by Helen Hedden and Howard Blaine. Joseph Colvin as Johnny Case joins a lavish set inside the Seton home with elaborate costumes and frequent changes.
Nine people found employment through the Athens Salvation Army Employment Bureau in the week ending Sunday. Adjutant Bernard Stone notes twenty applied for work, with many women seeking part time housework. Firms needing steady or part time help should telephone the bureau.
Columbus, Jan. 27. Bids for the first state highway contracts of 1923 will open Feb. 24, State Highway Director O. W. Merrell announced. Projects total about $2,000,000 with awards expected as soon as possible in 1923. $3,000,000 of $7,000,000 federal aid must be spent by Sept. 1.
Thirty one practice teachers from Ohio University College of Education study at Athens High School. Miss Bertha Albert from Chicago will teach English at Athens Junior High, replacing Mrs. Gertrude Emmert who resigned to The Plains School. She begins work next Monday.
Asseta and balance figures appear for the school district with liabilities at 7 58271 and total liabilities 7 58271. Tax levy for 1929 rates listed as 21.00 mills for Athena Township and 22.00 mills for Waterloo Township. Address Athens R. dated January 27, 1931, Clerk EDGAR WILSON certifies the report as correct.
The State of Ohio Athens County Common Pleas Court case 14663 orders an alias sale of real estate. Walter M Bean and Katie B Bean defendants, to be auctioned February 14 1931 at 1 PM at the Athens County Courthouse. Property: Wolfe Street Athens Ohio Lot No 94 Wolfe's Addition appraised 4500 cash. Sheriff Wayne Wingett overseeing. attorney Wollenwider Ohio.
Surgeon General Hugh Cummings testified to the House Appropriations Committee that widespread distress demands relief. He linked South drought to child malnutrition and rising pellagra and typhoid, and admitted uncertainty over the $25,000,000 Red Cross request and the Senate add on medical relief funds.
Major Claude F. Bates of Cincinnati, divisional commander, will lead Athens Salvation Army services on Sunday February 1. Schedule lists 10:30 holiness service 2:30 Sunday School 6:00 Young People meeting and 7:00 Salvation meeting.
George bi Swindell, 24, Jacksonville and Audrey Talbert, 21, Jacksonville are listed in a brief notice with sparse details. The fragment suggests a record entry or notice referencing two residents and their ages. Further context is unavailable in the text.
William Conrad aged 64 of Chauncey was arrested Monday by Deputy Sheriff George Rasp and confined to the Athens County Jail pending hearing on a charge of non support.
Capt Frank M. Hawks and his wife departed North Branch on a one stop flight to Fort Worth Texas to join Will Rogers for a drought relief tour across the southwest aimed at aiding drought sufferers.
Berlin adopts bicycle football using fixed wheel machines and a standard association ball. The game mirrors trick rider equipment on stage with straightforward play.
A 1930 analysis shows seven of the eight top hitters in the National League were left handed. The trend highlights the advantage of lefty bats in that season.
Boston officers seek promotion via civil service test with 1,160 of 2,400 applicants taking the sergeant examination. The large turnout highlights widespread ambition within the force.
Sixth grade at Central School studied Richard E. Byrd and his work in history and geography. English classes wrote tribute letters, with Virginia Gillette’s letter selected to be mailed through the National Education Association to Admiral Byrd in Washington, D. C.
Equipment for visual education aids classes at Central School. Sixth Grade health classes viewed scenes from Pasteur Trudeau and Reed using the Je lineascope. Fourth to Sixth grade geography classes watched a two reel film on wild animals of Africa.
The Athens Council of Religious Education will meet in the Wesley Foundation rooms at the Athens M. F. Church Thursday night at o'clock. Miss Margaret Sisson will speak.
A thorough search was conducted in Columbus today for four year old John Inskeep son of William A. Inskeep Jr who vanished Tuesday while playing with two neighbor children in the area.
The Women's League at Ohio University will survey female students in spring to determine the average cost of education at the state’s oldest university. Questionnaires will be handed out in sorority houses dormitories and private homes to produce a general report.
Market recap shows steady butter trade with creamery quotes and stock numbers 920 2 14 410. Grading details list butter fat 99 and Exqs-lower with case breakdowns including extra first 19s firatea 17 percent seconds 16 percent and nearby ungraded at 17 percent.
Market reports show firmer conditions with steady tone as receipts increase. Extra firsts move to 18 percent with ordinary and second grades priced between 14 and 18. extras up to 28. firsts around 35 to 38 and seconds 24 to 34.
Baltimore market notes dated January 27 show prices for various produce and poultry. Fego nearby receipts 20 21 cents, butter creamery extras 92 score, live poultry chick tenders 26 28 cents, turkeys 37 28 cents, guineas and ducks listed with weights and prices. Maryland Pennsylvania rolls 20 265 cents. Prices reflect fresh receipts and standard grades.
The report lists butter and poultry prices with per pound and per dozen figures, noting firsts and extras. It also covers ducks geese and fowls with varied rates, and potatoes from Maine Green Mt and Idaho Russet with per sack pricing.
Hog receipts near 600 with steady prices across weights from 120 to 249 pounds and higher grade sows around 6.6 to 6.8. Cattle receipts near 10 with steady market. cows 2.5 to 4.25 and medium bulls 5.15 to 9.51. Calves receipts 25 and steady. sheep receipts 360 with heavy lambs around 9.75 and yearlings about 7.5 to 8.0, market strength noted for various grades.
Butter market firm at New York with receipts 17 673. Creamery extras 29 and special market 2944 30. Eggs market quotes include nearby white fancy 26 and state whites 21 14 24 with fresh firsts 20. Pacific coasts 22 25. White westerner unquoted and nearby browns 21 2 25.
Butter-nearby tubs 92 score and 29'4 standard 0, 89 score aes avere 26 percent. Feys nearby firsts and second hand 22'4 22 percent, extra firsts and new cases. Nearby hennery whites 24 4 34 percent. Poultry live hens 15-22, colored springers 15-22, old roosters 12, dyc of fring geese 15-20, fresh killed.
Toledo market report shows Wheat No 23 red 83-84, Corn No 2 yellow 69-70, Oats No 2 white 33-36, Rye No 2 64.5, Clover prices for domestic prime old and new, eggs country run 18-21, Timothy hay at 1.60 per cwt.
Cattle and calves steady to uneven with odd lots lower grade. vealers firm around 10.50 to 11.50. Hogs mostly 8.00 to 8.25 per hundredweight. light weights and sows around 8.00 to 8.25. Lambs rise to 9.00 to 9.50 with heavier weights up to 6.50. fat ewes bring 2.00 to 3.00.
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