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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1931
Page
11
A collage of notices includes estate and probate items for Jennie Ewing and Annette Walker, a city comptroller claim, and bids for school coal contracts. The material also advertises hardware, coal, china, film processing, and furniture, listing Nelsonville and Buchtel shops and local phone numbers.
A compact catalog of vintage cars and coaches with model years and prices. Chevrolet, Ford, and others appear with 1928 to 1931 models such as sport coupe, coach, and Tudor body styles and wheel base notes.
Seeks and Reds Wyandottes advertised at 9.50 per hundred, Gleate priced at 12, Heavy une at 7.50, others at 7.50. One and two week old chicks available at 10 cents each and up.
The New York stock market fell in afternoon trading led by steel and railroad shares. Atchison dropped 84% to 188, New York Central fell to 2 or 3, and Southern Pacific to 76. Weakness followed a Dow Jones earnings estimate for 1831. Industrials retreated after brief highs, utilities mirrored the drop as German financial news offered little support.
Phillips Petroleum shuts all 50 producing wells in the Oklahoma City field for an indefinite period awaiting oil price recovery. Market notes also reference steel industry wage talks and Atchison traffic for the week, with Plymouth planning production expansion to meet orders.
Inter state Commerce Commission intervenes in railroads request for a 1 percent freight rate hike to safeguard credit. The commission's action follows reports of new expenditures and asset changes as rail interests seek stable financing through insurance and mutual savings banks.
Market notes show firmer butter prices in New York with receipts listed at 14 063 creamery extras 2440. Special market items feature near parity with white and brown dairy products and Pacific Coast iced goods noted among the offerings.
Hogs and calves show steady to nominal pricing with active hog trade and top beef prices around 89 for dealers. Sheep receipts 1380 with weights steady to mostly 600 lower. dairy and cattle sections reflect mixed movements and overall steady to softer trends in the market.
The list shows butter nearby prices and various poultry items with figures for eggs, chickens, ducks, and related products. It includes mentions of fresh killed hens and colored broilers with indicated cent pricing and weights.
The Boston wool market notes a large volume of business in six and finer quality western wools with Craden lines slower due to order believables. Combing wools fetch 48 51 cents scoured, with combing prices 54 68 cents secured, while original bag ter ritory and Texas fines sell readily at firm prices.
Market report lists fresh receipts including butter cream, eggs, and odds and ends. Beef, pork, and live poultry prices are shown for various weights and grades with small lots of guineas ducks and turkeys included.
Hog prices mixed with heavier lots near steady as weighups reach 160 to 230 pounds. Cattle steady with good cows and cutters improving, calves holding near steady with light declines. Sheep trade steady to strong with most buyers showing cautious demand and cross-weights around 64 dollars.
Byne Market firm receipts show 8 455 cases with various firsts and current totals noted. Fitten barks firm reports 10 024 receipts with extras and standard records listed in the abbreviated market summary.
Butter at 28 cents, extras 22 percent, market steady with firm tones. Poultry prices show heavy fowls 20 to 21 cents, leghorn fowls 13 to 16 cents, broilers 28 to 30 cents, ducks 12 to 18 cents, old cocks 12 cents, geese 10 to 13 cents. Virginia Cobblers potatoes bring best 7 dollars 50 cents per bushel, few at 2 dollars 70 cents.
Auction figures show uneven steady to lower tones across cattle hogs and sheep. Prices range with steers 170 to 360 pounds up to 8 1 4 dollars, larger cattle 4 60 to 8 75, sows 4 60 to 5 , beef cows 3 76 to 4 75, lambs and sheep active and mixed, better ewes and wethers around 8 50 to 9 0, buck and ram bids softer on late sales.
The Imperial Council of the North American Shrine chose San Francisco as the 1932 convention city by acclamation after Chicago failed to bid. The selection came as the annual meeting neared adjournment in San Francisco.
Services at 18 South Congress Street include Sunday Echood at 0:20 and Sunday Service at 16:48. Wednesday service at 7 oclock. Reading room open Thursday and Saturday from 9 to 1 o'clock. The Golden Text is John 6:96.
The Nelsonville Presbyterian Church holds morning and evening services with Rev. John Lloyd Evans speaking at both. The Ohio University band under W. Janssen will perform, including The Gloria, Coronation March, and Choral. Kathleen Jolly will solo cornet, and the choir will sing In Heavenly Love Abiding and Morning and Evening. The 7:18 pm lawn service closes the season until September.
Amenville Presbyterian Church will hold church school at 6 30 with Superintendent C O Gibson and morning worship at 10 30 with sermon The Church and the Objective. Quarterly Communion follows. No evening service. New England Presbyterian Church holds Sunday School at 9 30 with Superintendent Oliver Bryson and evening worship at 8 with sermon The Church. Andrew M Taylor is minister.
Nelsonville Methodist Church Sunday School class met Tuesday evening at Miss Elisabeth Linton's Jefferson Street home. Mrs. Bertha Barker assisted. Members answered roll call with Bible verses. Miss Bessie Deer presented a Solomon life paper. Twelve members and one guest attended with a social hour and refreshments.
The Pratt Street Wesleyan Mission in Athens led by Pastor RH. C. Kenney and class leader Neva Cross schedules Sunday School at 2 PM, Praise service at 3 PM, and Evangelistic service at 7 30 PM. Prayer meetings occur Tuesday and Friday evenings at 7 30 PM.
At Central Avenue M. E. Church Ward Radford pastor invites participation in Sunday School at 9 15 followed by sermon Then 6 30 Epworth League and 7 30 speakers from the Friends Church address World Peace Clark's Chapel holds Sunday School at 10 and preaching at 11 Factory Church also schedules a 10 o'clock Sunday School and 11 o'clock sermon
Adjutant Stone announces weekly Salvation Army gatherings with street meetings Saturday and Sunday. Schedule includes 8 p.m. Saturday street meeting 10:30 a.m. Sunday Holiness service 1:30 p.m. at State hospital 2:30 p.m. Sunday School 6 p.m. Young Peoples meeting 7 p.m. street meeting and 7:46 p.m. Salvation meeting with Adjutant Stone speaking.
The First Baptist Church of Middleport invites parishioners to a worship service themed Inventory led by Rev. F. C. Kreager at 9:15. Sunday School supervised by H. M. Cross. B Y P U groups meet at 6:30 evening worship at 7:30. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7:30.
The Mt Zion Baptist Church at Carpenter and Congress Street holds morning worship on the topic Sharing With Others. Rev. B. R. Smith is pastor. Evening worship at 7:30 features Be ware of Destruction That Cometh at Noonday. Sunday School topic is So ela) Service in the Early Church with Mrs Nellie Pettiford as superintendent and Mary Louise Pettiford as pianist.
The Met hist Protestant Church on Richland Avenue led by Rev J L Cartwright announces Sunday School at 9 30, J R Baker supervises at 10 30, Christ Endeavor at 4 26, preaching at 7 30. A prayer service is slated for Wednesday at 7 30.
A man named Fry, returning home intoxicated, kicked in a front door he believed was his. He discovered he was in another man's house after the resident, Thornton, woke him and asked where he was. Police filed a charge of intoxication.
Ohio University hosts a get-together for students to mingle during the summer term. Details on date location and activities are forthcoming.
Salvation Army workers aboard the Gospel Chariot will tour town Circle Hill and nearby areas Saturday afternoon from 1 30 to 5 00 announced Adjutant Bernard Stone. A cadet group will join for open air religious devotions and a discussion on What Must I Be Saved The evangelistic meet continues tonight at the Church of Christ with the theme The Change of Heart and a diagram for the talk. No service Saturday. Sunday afternoon session to discuss The Way with the Coming of Christ theme.
The U S Department of Commerce reports to Director Garey of Ohio Agriculture that Ohio had several thousand farms in 1930. The average farm size is about 82 acres.
Timetable notes show Rail Time departures for Northaound No. 3 and No. 4 arrivals at Athens with expected times 11:18 pm and 6:23 pm. Source text includes partial codes and garbled markings amid timetable entries.
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