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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1932
Page
9
The public notices section lists recurring time references and categorized items across political announcements cord of thanks in memoriam monuments personals religious and social events societies and lodges lost and found with automotive sales accessories repairs wanted business services cleaning heating roofing insurance and employment listings.
Federal agents and state police target a Communist agent named George Rowland alleged to plan a nationwide run on major banks. Documents show letters from Chicago and Cleveland urging bank panic to accelerate a revolution, with references to First National and Union Trust among others.
City of Athens Ohio adopts ordinance approving major street work on May Avenue and Rumwood Place with grading drainage curbing paving and concrete bases. Plans specifications costs assessments bonds and installments outlined with dates and approvals by Council July 5 1932 and mayoral endorsement.
The plans specifications and profiles of the proposed project on file in the Director of Public Service office are approved. The section notes the engineer and now on file and mentions the cost of said improvements.
The Willing Workers Club of Tuppers Plains led by instructor Mrs. Selah McLane will host an ice cream social at Cony Nook Park Thursday evening. Local residents visited, stayed with relatives, and attended several Sunday gatherings and funerals in the area.
Battery EB of the 34th Field Artillery Ohio National Guard conducted the regular weekly drill at the fairgrounds. The final drill of the year is scheduled for August 2 with follow up drills at the Armory on the next two Tuesdays before departing for camp August 2.
Cheshire Mr. Bowen vocational agriculture instructor and his bride Miss Ocean Price of Philadelphia return from a three week honeymoon in Ohio and Pennsylvania. They will make their home in Cheshire as friends extend best wishes. Numerous local visits and social gatherings are noted among residents and relatives through the week.
Elden Mahaffey of Athens pleaded guilty to an intoxicating charge when arraigned before Mayor Robert Wood yesterday. He was fined $5 and costs after being arrested last Sunday morning by Athens police.
New York stocks largely stayed near the prior close as heavy profit taking and a flood of selling pressed prices. Some lower priced petroleum shares saw selective buying while Biadehaser Corporation declared a $2 a share quarterly dividend lifting the preferred and keeping steel and common nearly steady.
A surprise party was given Friday evening, July 22, at the country home near Athens of Mr. and Mrs. John M. La Hugh in honor of Mr. La Hugh's birthday anniversary. The event featured card games and music by the G. W. Darien orchestra with the Johnson orchestra of Chauncey. Attendees included numerous Chauncey residents along with friends from Oakdale, Nelsonville, McDougal, Athens, and surrounding areas.
Foster Pyre of Nelsonville pleaded not guilty before Magistrate C H Porter on disposing of mortgaged property and was bound over to the Common Pleas Court on a $400 bond. Allen Hull of Mineral was acquitted of furnishing liquor Tuesday morning by Magistrate Porter.
In Athens County Probate Court Judge S. M. Johnson presided Monday. Ollie Hunkerford was committed to the Ohio Institution for the Feeble Fatute. A prior inventory for the deceased Catherine Mulligan was approved after the hearing.
Fresh receipts show diverse poultry items with prices for leghorn fowls heavy fowls and duck stock. Market notes indicate standard prices for bolter creamery and cage markets with firm activity and current receipia details.
A fragmented OCR record lists butter prices and poultry rates across Ohio West Virginia and Kentucky markets. Entries mention tuba anere extracter standards and various broiler and rooster categories with mixed digits and notes on receipts and fees.
Fragmentary OCR text describes butter packing stock with percentages and case counts, mentioning high or rising values and second items. Details are obscured, but references to fat content and grading imply a stock market or commodity note.
Fragmented OCR lists receipts for Kyeo Market and Huttero Market with figures for current and extra charges. Entries include references to receipts, extras, seconds, and dates or codes, but the text is garbled with misread numbers and names.
Hog receipts 400, market steady to higher with 180 to 230 lb hogs at 4.40 to 8.08, total receipts around 5.75 to 5.95 per cwt. Steers and heifers mix but mid ranges decline. Calves light demand with choice dealers around 66 to 70. Sheep receipts 780, heavy lambs at 6.00 to 6.20, good ewes up to 3.75 per cwt.
The auction notes Hog and cattle prices show varied demand with prices around 5.15 to 4.25 for cattle and 6.40 to 6.75 for lambs. Sheep conditions appear uneven, with strong sales for good grades and softer demand for common stock as weight and quality shift.
Total receipts 710 head with several new buyers entering the market creating a bidding contest. Cattle receipts 186 with steers and heifers bidding around 3.20 to 6.25 per hundred, cows and bulls weaker. Hogs tops around 5.00 per hundred, lambs attracting outside buyers despite overall weakness in veal and other meats.
Grain close lists Wheat No 2 red and No 1 mixed bids, corn No 2 yellow around $1% to $3, oats and barley noted with unclear figures, butter and eggs priced, hay at 86 cents per cwt. Prices are partially garbled but reflect a daily market snapshot.
Liberty bonds and Treasury issues show mixed prices with several bonds quoted. Notable levels include Liberty 3% at 101.4, 4s at 102.10, and Threes around 95.28 to 101.96, with Treasury 4.5s and 3% issues near 99 to 100.1 as reported for July 25.
Trade reports stronger buying and higher consumption giving a firmer tone to wool as receipts in Boston for the week ending July 93 rise to 6,369,300 pounds from the prior week’s 27,853,000 pounds.
Train departures and arrivals listed for Athens including Chesapeake and Ohio Hocking Valley Northbound 33 at 7 44 daily and southbound 30 at 12 03 p m daily. Baltimore and Ohio Westbound line shows limited numbers and schedules with no clear times due to OCR errors.
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