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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1939
Page
10
An index list shows categories for announcements vehicles and services including taxi transfers auctions memorials flowers funeral services monuments and cemetery personals places to go societies and lodges lost and found automotive business services educational livestock and sale rental real estate public sales and related classifieds entries plus a public sale heading.
Salt Lake City report by Frank Beckwith details petroglyphs showing two warriors returning from a raiding party with a human head. Beckwith, after 25 years of study, argues Utah rock pictures preserve evidence of a Pueblo connected head hunting tribe, dated 600 to 1,200 years ago, as part of the Utah State Historical Society three volume project.
Local notes list residents visiting relatives and friends across Ohio and West Virginia. Names include Anna Harrison, Dorothy Donley, Edris, Columbus trips, Buckeye Lake vacations, and several weekend gatherings.
League leaders list top batters with N Ys Dimaggio Phil Arnovich Red Sox Foxx and Mize showing high averages and runs batted in. Home run tallies note Mize 17 Grosmbects 16 and others with Sox, Tigers, Cardinals. A stray safety statistic about airline safety from 1930 to 1938 appears.
Regular trading saw stocks move higher while bonds remained firm. Chrysler opened at 69% and rose to 70% as General Motors fluctuated near its prior close. Major advances marked American Telephone Du Pont General Tire Sears Roebuck and others with some declines in United Aircraft Amecan Can and Loews.
The Toledo grain list shows Wheat No 1 red 68 and No 2 red 67, Corn No 2 yellow 48 and No 3 yellow 474, and Oats No 2 white 32. In Pittsburgh Butter and Eggs steady to weak with various scores and standards, poultry prices for hens and broilers listed, and eggs at extra firsts and seconds. Chicago figures show butter receipts and egg market firming, while Cincinnati reports hogs, cattle, and calves with price ranges and trend notes.
Cattle steady to slightly lower with choice steers 10.50, good 8.25 to 10, heifers 6 to 9.25, cows 5.75 to 7, canners 4.50 to 5, bulls 7.50 to 8. Cattle totals include 750 head. Hogs steady to slow with 160 to 180 lb at 7.75 to 7.85, 180 to 220 at 7.75, 220 to 250 at 7.25 to 7.75, 250 to 290 at 6.50 to 7.25, roughs 5 to 5.50, small pigs 7 to 7.50. Sheep steady to strong with lambs 9.50 to 11, good 9, common 7 to 8, ewes 3 to 3.25, wethers 4 to 4.25. Calves strong with good to choice 10.50 to 11, medium 9 to 9.50, culls 4 to 7.50.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Antle hosted relatives for a Monday supper at Trimble Heights with guests from Dansville New York Cuyahoga Falls Glouster Jacksonville Westerville Akron Columbus and Athens. Local relatives attended the funeral of Mrs Victor Davies and mourners included her husband and children.
Receipts total 928 with hogs at 125 to 240 pounds bidding 6.00 to 7.70 per cwt and cattle at 141 head averaging 5.30 to 8.80 per cwt. Veal calves reach tops around 10.50, lambs 9.65 high, and mild variations appear across fat cows, canners, bulls, and sows. Multiple other weight classes shown with quoted ranges.
An itemized listing details unsettled butter and eggs with grades and receipts, slow live poultry with weight ranges for hens and leghorns, broilers and heavy birds, roosters and cocks, ducks including muscovy, and diverse potato prices by region. A note anticipates standardization of airplane parts affecting engines and fuel specifications globally.
A Justice of the Peace in Athens County Ohio issued an attachment order on June 30 1939 in the case of Homer Stotts plaintiff versus Harry Buck defendant for thirty dollars and fifty cents plus interest. The attachment was noted in Alpena Ohio on July 10 1939.
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