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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1941
Page
10
Readable fragments list categories for sale and rent including livestock dogs cats horses cattle poultry and supplies farming goods feed and fertilizers and building materials. Also shows sections for restaurants jewelry machinery tools apparel and real estate rentals and boards within a historic classifieds page.
Market data from Chicago and Cleveland Butter and Egg boards shows steady grain and poultry prices with weak eggs and steady butter. Also included is a formal notice of a Rome Canaan School District refunding notes bid inviting sealed bids by July 30 1941 and detailing terms and conditions.
Hogs 175 to 220 lbs 10.60 10.90, heavies 10.20 10.60, lights 9.75 10.00, fat sows 8.40 8.50, pigs 2.10 5. Stock shoats 8.40 10.90. Cattle steers 6.50 7.10, heifers 6.60 9.80, fat cows 5.50 7.40, canners 4.00 5.25, bulls 6.50 7.35, milk cows 42 75. Stock cows calf by side 54.50 90.50, choice calves 12.90, tops 83 calves 12.45, real calves tops 12.45, seconds 11.20 12.25, medium 10.11, common and heavies 7.75 11.20. Lambs tops 11.25, seconds 10.10 10.25, light weights 8.30 8.50.
In a Panama Canal Zone letter Mrs Russell Keyes describes housing and food conditions. She notes fruit similar to home but dislikes papaya, bananas cost 40 cents a stalk, and the climate is hot and humid. Residents use a heated dry closet to combat moisture.
Mrs. Rhea Pettit Ban gert moved her law office from the second floor of the Rochester building to the James Block Monday. She is the first to take an office in the newly remodelled James Block where ten office units have been completed in recent weeks. REGRET STOUT DEATH LOGAN-County Commissioners and county highway officials here heard with regret of the death of O. B. Stout Middleport who died at a Chillicothe hospital. He had been coming to this city for many years as a salesman for road equipment.
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