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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1930
Page
11
Cable Hardware Co advertises a nickel plated one burner electric stove with cord for 128 dollars and a free 82 piece dinner set with beautiful designs. The offer runs during June at Carpenter Hardware Co.
Logan June 18 A fully equipped moonshine still that had not operated was found by Deputy Sheriffs L F Hammond and Joe Farhbeant in Mine No 29 at Murray City after an extensive search. A barrel of mash, a gasolene tank, cracked corn and rye were present. all materials were destroyed except the still and cuss which were brought to the city.
Witnesses to the drowning of two youths at Edgewater Park were questioned by police after their row boat overturned in Lake Kepear last night.
An ordinance amends Section Five of Ordinance No. 831 to specify assessments for Stewart Street Storm Sewer District No. 3. The lengthy list names parcels and owners affected including Ohio University property and local residents. Effective upon legal passage.
Mr. and Mrs. Durward North announce the arrival of a son Wednesday in Logan at Cherrington Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Downey of Columbia announce a son born Saturday naming Paul Roger with Alfred Richardson and others listed as grandparents in Nelsonville.
Will present the original play The Fortunate Calamity by the Happy Hollow Parent-Teacher Association at Buchtel Opera House on Thursday June 26. Miss Bessie Brady stars as Mrs Miriam Merkle with daughters Alta and Ruth, plus a cast including Frieda Covert Ruth Altman Kate Ruby Moore and a group of colorful servants and locals.
The page shows fluctuating commodity quotes with butter, poultry, and meats alongside stock market moves. Live poultry prices and eggs are listed, while investors watch broad market shifts in steel, gas, and electric shares.
The Chicago Produce Market lists steady to firm prices for eggs poultry and fowls with various subtypes and weights. Readings include leghorn springers medium and heavy classes with special notes on extras and grades. Receipts total 11 468 tabs while extras and second grade items appear at modest marks.
Mogs receipts 1 400. market steady to higher with top at 8 240 lbs. 9h yeeG 280 Fa BOO and 4 9.35 plus 43 sows. Calves receipts 180. vealers good and choice at 3. Sheep receipts 800. market steady, fed lambs and yearlings quoted. A mix of prices for goats, wethers, and aged stock noted.
The market shows limited demand with mixed cattle hog and sheep prices. Feeder weights hold around 230 to 286 lbs. beef cows around 4897 and 8.50 per hundredweight, hogs mostly steady with lighter weights down. Sheep demand weak with lower grades and slow sale.
A partial OCR listing various poultry items and prices including live chickens various breeds roosters ducks and muscovy hens. The text names farms or sellers and notes stock quantities and pricing in a historic market context. The fragment provides limited readable details but indicates a mixed poultry sale catalog style.
Butter markets show steady to firm tone with varied tablet pricing. No 1 and No 8 grades listed at 18 to 28 cents per pound with fat content around 28 percent. fresh stock and cases included. firsts and seconds shown with small differentials across grades.
In New York trading on June 240 the steel sector steadied after United States Steel touched a new 1930 low of 189. Off from the prior close the stock opened at 183 and then moved higher, helping lift the broader market before noon as other stocks opened lower and market mood remained unsettled.
Australian prohibitionist Miss Houlder Leewo Graccio Houlder will speak at the First Methodist Church in Athens Thursday night under the Athens W C T UU auspices. A reception follows in the M W F Church parlors. Friday she lectures in Nelsonville M Church. Admission is free with delegations expected.
The Fivere and Harbors Bill passed by the House authorizes a War Department engineer survey of the Hocking River in Athens County as a step toward flood control. The Senate approved it weeks earlier and the measure now awaits President Hoover's signature, with Congress man Jenkins noting provisions for the Athens County flood prevention effort.
A fire at Chicago Municipal Field early today engulfed 40 airplanes and three hangars, causing an estimated loss of 2,2750,060 dollars. Fire crews battled the blaze as damage extended to multiple structures on the field.
Athena Board of Elections clerk David Johnson announced filing fees for the August primary totaled $424.24, the largest in any prior year. Republican stateCentral Committee candidates Edwin Davis, George B. Davin, We Gomer Jones, Winnie Mauck, and M. FE Rathburn. Democratic contenders Thomas Eyré and Vesta V. Sisler faced no opposition. William H. Middleton, Republican, also unopposed for Court of Appeals judge.
Ohio University announces a campus frolic as the summer social highlight. Saturday night events feature musical numbers and balcony stunts, with details about timing and location provided in the campus notice.
Plan announced for New Marshfield on June 28. Zumici Granewe will host an ice cream social at Grange Hall July 4. The High School Alumni Association will stage a play titled Wild Ginger at the same venue that evening.
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