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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1933
Page
11
A public hearing is set for July 20 at 1 PM to consider the tentative Ames Township budget for 1934. The meeting will be held at the Clerk's residence.
A crowded legal notices page lists appointments probate actions and guardianships in Athens County Ohio. Carl F Gainer appointed executor of J N Gainer estate with district clerkdated 1933. Various accounts and final reports filed for multiple estates with hearings set for August 7 1933 and July 22 1933 deadlines.
Fragments show Gallipolis ads with phone contact and payment option. Baseball box score snippets mention Detroit players Gehringer, Owen, and Johnson with in-game substitutions and errors by Hayworth.
Johnny Vergonz and Heinie Manush power nine inning action as the Giants and Senators deliver key hits. Odel Hale adds an eighth inning homer for the Indians, with a mate aboard fueling the rally.
Rail time card lists Athens departures for No 3 at 11 28 am No 9 at 7 44 pm No 2 at 11 20 am No 4 at 6 24 pm Daily except Sunday Chesapeak and Ohio Northbound No 87 5 30 pm daily except Sunday Southbound No 80 11 02 am Baltimore and Ohio Westbound No 1 National Limited 4 45 am No 43 5 0 pm Eastbound No 44 9 54 am Daily except Sunday
A marriage license was issued in probate court on July 4 to Archie Pierce 28 a Rutland miner and Virginia Cameron 21 of Rutland. Rev McCumber named minister to officiate the ceremony.
New York markets rebound from an initial dip as alcohol repeal headlines lift rail and industrial shares. Chemicals gain while oils ease. General Electric leads a broad advance with several major issues up two to six points amid a busy session on the Stock Exchange and Curb Market.
The project will run outside the city parallel to the Chesapeake & Ohio tracks, using the abandoned street car line for part of the route. Seven curves will remain, to be long and flat. 17 new culverts and a half mile of storm sewer will be built. Traffic stays open by working half the width at a time and laying concrete bases before brick.
Pomeroy reports a unified adult and child service beginning at 9 30 during Sunday worship led by Rev Kenneth J Reed with the sermon Jesus Our Meditator Mid week service set for 7 30 Wednesday. Barbara Anne Scholl 6 seriously injured her knee yesterday after a tricycle mishap near Monkey Run will miss weeks of activity
Grain prices for wheat corn oats and rye shown as No 2 prices plus No 1 red premiums and various grades with percentages and cash quotes. Also lists cash prices for clover and alsike seed, butter eggs hay and timothy forage prices and monthly or annual quotation markers.
Listings detail multiple produce items from Baltimore and Cincinnati markets with prices and varieties. Includes live poultry such as white leghorns ducks and muscovy noted with varied pricing, plus packing stock references and assorted weights.
The report lists prices and receipts for dairy items such as butter and eggs, noting score percentages and extra charges. Regional figures cover Southern Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky current receipts, with figures like 89 and 88 scores and various cents amounts for extras and firsts.
Butter Market steady with extras about 28 percent. Eggs 12 percent receipts. firsts 18 cents. poultry prices firm with heavy fowl 19 to 14 cents. leghorn fowls 10 to 14 cents. heavy broilers 16 to 19 cents. ducks 7 to 10 cents. Virginia potatoes in slave barrels at 8 dollars. No 1 cobblers 55 to 40 dollars.
Receipts reach 8,537 cases with mixed quality grades. Extra firsts quoted at 14 14 cents, firsts at 13 194 cents, current receipts at 11 12 cents, dirties 10s.
A list of assorted farm goods with prices from Ohio New Jersey California Virginia and Ohio again. Items include beans cabbage lettuce onions potatoes and tomatoes with varying units such as baskets crates sacks and numbers like No 1 bbl and 100-lb sacks.
Cattle receipts 90 steady market. Hogs receipts 2000 lower with prime heavies 65 at 1508.98 and heavy workers 805.25, light workers 4.2594.50, pigs 99.8004 at 115. Sheep and lambs receipts 1000 market lower with lambs 7.50 to 8. Medium weight 4.50 to 7.25. Ewes and lambs mixed, calves receipts 150 market higher with dealers good 6500 to 7007, medium 545.50, heavy and thin 9.4.
Mer man Theisen, head of the Miners Scale Committee, says a color line blocks work at Black Diamond Mine in Lathrop. About 125 workers kept four days weekly. 50 local colored men were refused jobs while white applicants from nearby towns were hired. Theisen notes former miners and union members face discrimination, plans to press operators with state leaders absent. Nine more truck mine owners signed union pacts, about 20 in the district, with further talks at Carbon Hill.
A compact financial notice presents the annual statement of Mutual Home and Savings Association detailing assets, liabilities, income, and expenses for period ending. Officials note compliance with regulatory filing requirements and standard accounting practices.
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