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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1930
Page
11
The message thanks friends neighbors and local clergy for kindness during bereavement for a wife and mother. It mentions Rev Timberlake undertaker Walburn singers and Mr Wallace for service. A second note describes a poetic remembrance of a loved one gone to rest and joining him in God's eternal home.
Roofing and high grade roof paint offered by Athens Implement Co. Fitments include 6 room and 8 room houses for rent in Grosvенor and near Athens with contact numbers. Bardin Brothers Co. provides lumber and building materials with delivery. Local listings also include rubber floor tile installation and fresh fish for sale on Walker Street.
Prices on windows and door screens offered in 100 pound sizes from 10 dollars. Linoleum rugs Palico 9 by 12 patterns at 5.25. Lawn mowers four blade ball bearing models Clean Kut and LaSalle with wheels priced around 5.65 and 7.60.
Nelsonville Floral Co advertises funeral flowers as a specialty and offers tied plants with their services at 811-W.
Harold J. Bennett, a spring 1930 chemistry graduate from Ohio University, earned a one year Harvard University scholarship after pioneering a homemade lab with crucibles jars tubes and hoses. He aims to teach chemistry and become a professor, the son of Thomas Bennett, deputy clerk of Athens County Common Pleas Courts. He was a two year student assistant in chemistry and member of the honorary chemical fraternity.
Robert N. Waid has been appointed as state highway director. He succeeds the former director and takes office immediately, bringing decades of transportation and policy experience to the position.
Depart Southbound No 2 arrives Athens at 12 21 a m No 6 arrives Athens at 8 19 p m Daily trains run on a regular schedule with these arrival times for Athens.
H A Wooley, a Messenger solicitor visiting Nelsonville rural routes, notes potato vines wilting under a hot sun after frosts and a long dry spell. He believes the extended dry period and warmth have harmed potatoes and other crops in the district.
Stocks eased in a dull session with losses up to three points and some issues showing only modest gains. Air Reduction hit a yearly high at 154 1 2, J I Case fell to a 1930 low, and Steel Common slipped to 173 1 2. Montgomery Ward rose nearly two points on May sales gains. Radio and Paramount firms also gained amid mixed tobacco and entertainment shares.
Noon prices by Vereoe and Company show varied percentages across rails and utilities. Industrials include Allied Chemical Home Products General Electric and Montgomery Ward. other names include Westinghouse, Pan American, Standard Oil entities, Bethlehem Steel and Colorado Fuel and Iron.
Fragmentary Chicago Produce notice shows garbled OCR text. Reads as misread columns with stray terms and numbers. No clear event, entities, or dates present to identify a main action or outcome.
A grainy listing shows butter extras at 36 cents, eggs at 23 to 28 cents, poultry with assorted prices for fowls and leghorns, old cocks and geese, plus potatoes noted as Maine green neck and Idaho russet at four dollars per sack.
The Cincinnati market notes 8,100 head with varied quotes for hogs and cattle. Cattle receipts around 1,200 head include good quality steer and heifer bids, while hogs show steady to weak prices with leaner sizes pushing lower, and sheep and yearlings trading modestly.
Saturday sale results show 250 hogs at 1050 dollars total, sows and gilts receipts 680, steers and heifers strong with bulk dry fed steers at 11 dollars, calves 3500 receipts at 13 dollars, hogs and cattle mixed with vealers at 12 and yearlings at 10. Bulls receipts 4108, heifer and steer weights noted, market demands steady with bulk goods and wether lambs 3 dollars.
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