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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1935
Page
11
Greenville Pennsylvania deputy sheriff E B R Taylor rescued three men from Andover Ohio who clung to a capsized rowboat on Pymaturing Lake for five hours.
In Athens County Ohio the city council authorized a bond issue of 75000 to finance a new City Hall. The election is set for August 13 1935 with a maximum 20 year term and an estimated tax rate of 054 mills outside the ten millization. Polls will be open 630 AM to 630 PM EST. By order of the Athens County Board of Elections. Harry Kelley chairman and L Jordan clerk dated July 1985 with additional July dates listed.
A birthday party was held Wednesday evening July 17 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Riley Tippie in honor of their son’s twenty third birthday. Ice cream cake and lemonade were served. Music was provided by Emerson Dye Wilfred Tippie and John Sams. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Sama and son John Sams Mr. and Mrs. Darrel Cooley and family Mr. and Mrs. Riley Tippie Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Dye Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Gilkey Ross Wilbur Wilfred and Ruby Tippie Bush King Tat Davis Bill Alfred and Blanch Dye Mary Dye Anna Mae Douglas. A clergyman named Ernest Bies sing lives at Peters Landing Tenn.
The Straitsville area prepares for a Rebekah School of Instruction to be held August 26. Local residents and visitors are noted in a sequence of social notes including visits from Miss Vera Orndorf, Mr. and Mrs. Wade, and others. Multiple trips to Columbus Athens Newark and New Lexington are recorded along with lodge meetings and team practice.
Shade community notes list multiple visits and gatherings across local families in Lodi area. Names include Stella Leighty, Opal Stanley, Sylvia Ziggafoos, and many residents from Akron, Columbus, Athens, and nearby towns with several hosting at homes, clubs meeting, and a 4-H baseball game. One entry notes Fred Biech admitted to Sheltering Arms Hospital for blood poisoning treatment.
Mr Olive and family social mentions include Bridgeport visitors Henry Hupp and sister Laura Wood, Fred Young moving to Chester, Anna McClaren visiting Laura Hupp, Ray Pullins family visiting Bellville, and multiple gatherings of Hopkins Grim Young and related families from Paden City and Rockport with relatives here.
The New York market opened steady with mild profit taking as major issues such as Allied Chemical Union Pacific Case New York Central Pennsylvania Standards of New Jersey United States Steel Westinghouse and Commercial Solvents American Can Chrysler and General Motors posted varied moves. Investors watched Washingtons relief roll curtailment and job programs while Federal Reserve banking activity signaled earnings asset shifts. grain and produce prices in Toledo and Cincinnati showed modest movements with corn oats wheat and various poultry and livestock items listed at specific bid prices.
Rags nearby current receipts show 220 em tra firsts 267/26 with 29 cent white extrag. Poultry prices list fresh killed full dressed hens at 31, hog dressed at 27, live heavy hens at 19.
Receipts show 70 tubs of butter and 1 008 cases processed. Entries reference southern region, large and medium sizes, dated 207/20 with exchanges and geo trading noted.
The note details butter and creamery item prices with scores and percentages, extras and firsts, and notes a weak market for eggs and live poultry. It lists fowls, leghorn, broilers prices and a New Potatoes barrel price of 20 dollars and 25 cents.
Stock listings show hogs and cattle trading with varied prices and weights, including hogs 209 head with mixed direct sales and prices up to 9 dollars per hundredweight, cattle 300 head, calves and veal, and sheep offerings with bid activity. Local notes mention church class meeting, sunspot observations, and a bee-keeping impact article.
Daily and weekly train times for New York Central lines show arrivals departures and service designations with several trains listed under North and South divisions. The text references multiple train numbers such as 2 4 3 9 9 30 37 and services including National Limited diplomat and Shakespeare routes with exceptions on Sundays and specific times in the late morning to evening.
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