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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1933
Page
9
Local auto dealers report limited inventory and demand. buyers can seize a current window to purchase vehicles. Offers highlight affordable models, financing options, and in stock selections at participating showrooms.
Girl Scouts hold all day Camp Day at Camp Rotan from 10 30 a m to 7 30 p m with lunch and a pocketknife. each Wednesday in summer is Camp Day. Weekly Saturday meetings at Crystal Pool start at 10 a m. The Athens area reports include visits to Columbus by Fair Board members and social notes on residents and visitors from Youngstown to St Louis plus a Farm Bureau meeting and Kiwanis Club guests.
Men and wives attended the Clover Farm Merchants monthly dinner in Athens at Hotel Berry. Guests included W H Fierbaugh and daughter Melba of Glouster Route 5, H O Mc Daniels of Millfield, B F Davis Hollister chief supervisor, Robert Gamwer Glouster, W E Terrel Gore, C E Bode Glouster, J O Roedell, Freda Warner, Abe Masser, Norman Klees Pomeroy, Ivan Wilbur Hamden, Melvin Dunfee Stewart, and C E McCafferty Chauncey.
The first Ladies Day of the season will be held at the Athens Country Club on Wednesday with a luncheon at 12 15 PM. Wives and members are invited Bridge is arranged for non golfers Mrs Harry Beckley Mrs E C Schioss lead bridge duties Miss Doris Withite coordinates women golfers Also news of Mrs L V Brown and sister Miss Clara Bowser visiting Lancaster from Athens and Mr Charlie Schaffler visiting from welfare work in Cleveland with family on University Terrace Also reports on trips and social bridge activities at Hillcrest Inn and high score prizes won by Mrs O L Hotsing ton and Mrs Co W Gross and residents returning from Cleveland.
Glouster report says 125 meters installed cut water pumped to the reservoir by a third and future savings expected when remaining consumers are metered. Previously pumps ran day and night with a shortage in supply, a board member noted.
H F Hambel and Mrs Marie Hogue were married last Thursday afternoon in Ashland Kentucky officiated by Rev J W Hagin. Hambel, former Glouster postmaster, serves as a mail carrier. They returned to Glouster and reside on Earl Street with friends.
Glouster reports a Wednesday change in mailing times for the Messenger newsletter. The bus will depart at 7 45 a m, one hour earlier, and news items must reach the office by 7 30 a m to ship on the 7 45 bus.
About 250 people attended the Fortieth anniversary and homecoming at the Ferndale church on Sunday afternoon. Sunday School attendance reached a new high of 62 for the local school with many former residents present to mark the event.
H H Dulaney formerly of Gloucester and partner with his father F F P Dulaney in general merchandise in the city, now runs a 24 hour grocery fruit store with 15 workers in Miami Beach along with brothers Ray and Lon.
Glouber June 20. A meeting of Girl Beouts will be held at the American Legion Hall on High Street Wednesday afternoon at 3.30 o'clock.
GLOUSTER June 20. W J Golding traveled to Columbus for a meeting of the Grand Lodge I O F F He will return to this city Wednesday.
About 150 Athens County Pomona Grange members attended an all day session with Trimble Grange No. 1830 at the Trimble Grange hall. A chicken dinner served by Trimble women preceded a program by Lodi and York Granges featuring recitations music and plays. Pomona Lecturer Mrs. J. L. Miller of Albany led the program.
June 20 report from Chauncey states Lam bert, employed at Poston Mine No 6 Millfield, suffered a left leg injury from a coal fall Monday afternoon. He was removed to Athens for X rays and later returned home to Jacksonville.
Mr and Mrs Fred Leake of Greens Run hosted their children Harold Blower and family Donna and Mary Lee of Millfield plus Glen McConkey and Ray Leake and families from Athens and elsewhere on Sunday.
Chauncey June 20 report shows three miners at work today in the district. Eight mines operated Monday with active crews at Black Diamond No. 9 and No. 119.
The Ladies' Aid Society of Millfield Church announces an all day session. Members will meet to organize events and discuss church activities. Plans include refreshments and devotional gatherings.
Trading on the New York stock exchange was brisk with many issues hitting new yearly highs. Major gains appeared in Reynolds Metals Chrysler and General Motors while steel and oils led advances in early dealings.
New York date June 20 Dun and Bradstreet daily weighted price index for 30 basic commodities stands at 92.66 for 1980-1832 average with a 91.25 prior close and a week rise of 3.16. The index tracks highs and lows with a 93.16 peak on June 18 and a 67.486 low on January 20 1933.
A mixed session across rails and industrials with United, Am. Can, Armour and Allied Chemicals among movers. Notable shifts in locomotives, energy, and consumer goods sectors reflect varied demand as investors monitor larger groups like Union Pacific, Coca Cola, General Electric, and Westinghouse Electric amid fluctuating prices.
Chauncey residents and relatives spent the week end in Columbus and Cincinnati for visits and a game trip. Several Chauncey families joined dinners with local players and enjoyed gatherings with extended kin across Nelsonville and Greenfield areas.
A June 20 surprise party honored Bessie Barstow for her birthday anniversary. Friends hosted a picnic dinner on the lawn with 20 guests from Chauncey Athens Nelsonville and Columbus and she received many gifts.
Mr and Mrs H McDaniel and family of Millfield entertained guests Sunday joined by Mr and Mrs Floyd Mean, expanding a local gathering in Chauncey dated June 2.
Baltimore Produce lists eggs and poultry prices by grade and type, including fresh 12 13c eggs, leghorn and colored chickens, and fresh killed hens. Cincinnati Produce shows butter packing stock prices, eggs by grade, and regional poultry quotes across Southern Ohio West Virginia and Kentucky.
Butter market holds steady with extras 24e and standards 26 c. Peas market steady with extras 130 and current receipts Ile. Live poultry market steady with heavy fowl 10 12c, medium fowl 10 13c, leghorn fowl 10c, heavy broilers 17 20c, leghorn broilers 13 14c, ducks 10c, old roosters Be.
Kges Market notes prices steady to higher for extras and firsts with receipts 15 305 cases and current receipts 10 percent. Butter market remains firm with prices up to one cent higher and varying lots including extras firsts seconds and standards.
A garbled listing shows various farm goods with prices and weights including beans cabbage lettuce onions peas potatoes radishes rhubarb strawberries and tomatoes. Regions cited include Virginia California Colorado Michigan Texas and Mississippi with multiple unit sizes and prices.
Hog receipts 500. market mostly higher with 180 to 350 lb hogs at 4.90 to 8.75, 140 to 170 lb at 4.25 to 4.75, pigs 83 504, packing sows 3.36 to 3.75. Cattle receipts 30. steady market with medium and good steers 50 6.40, heifers 4.25 to 5.50, beef cows 3.75. Calves receipts 100. steady to 50e higher. good and choice dealers 4.80 to 5.60. Sheep receipts 500. steady market with better grade lambs 7.50 to 8.
Hog receipts 500 with prices 15 cents lower on top and bulk good to choice 180 to 300 lbs at 4.50 and lighter classes around 3.25 to 3.75. Cattle receipts 450 with calves 350 and general steady after Monday's decline. low priced cows active. bulls 2.75 to 2.46. calves mostly 35 cents higher with dealers paying 4.25 to 5.0. Sheep receipts 3800 generally steady. best ewes and wethers 7.50 to 7.75, plainer 5 to 6, aged ewes smaller mix.
June 17 sale receipts totaled 875 head with cattle showing some improvement but limited fat cattle available. Cattle receipts 113 from common and medium grades sold around 3.05 5.65 per head, cows 1.50 3.65, bulls 2.50 3.25, stockers 3.50 5.40, veal 2.50 5.50. hogs 3% receipts 4.50 4.70. sheep and lambs 2.23 receipts with shorn lambs 8 3/4, old sheep 1.75 2.50, spring lambs 5 7.
Noon prices show Lib. Sig's 47 at 102.18 and Lib. 1st 44's 47 at 102.8. Lib. 4th 4's 38 trades at 103.2 with Treas. 34's at 86 10495 and Treas. 4's at 109.80.
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