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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1933
Page
9
A consumer advisory urges motorists to place their cars in an economical running order to cut costs. It emphasizes timely maintenance and efficient use of parts to stretch fuel and repair budgets.
New York stocks steadied despite a Chicago wheat crash and softer commodity prices as a weak dollar buoyed shares. Utilities firmed while steel and motor issues showed mixed moves. copper and mines listed varied gains. In Cincinnati, livestock receipts showed higher hogs and mixed cattle and sheep, with prices generally easing from earlier highs.
Eggs nearby steady markets list live poultry items including heavy chickens leghorns and ducks with prices per dozen or per pound. Record shows 11014 area market notes heavy fowls priced 13 to 14 cents, leghorn broilers 14 cents, ducks 10 cents, with no receipts for roosters and potatoes.
Glouster Kiwanis Club opposes Ohio Fuel Gas Company plans to abandon its local office and require paying bills at a store. The club plans to travel with Slick's Band to McConnesville for the Marietta to Zanesville highway celebration, meeting at the depot noon Thursday.
Report for relief work at the city building Thursday morning at 7 o clock. Names listed include Donald Adams Mike Andanova Lawrence Bland Delbert Bodkins John Clinesmith Barbara William Cook John Dyre Harry Gardner John Gayton Tom Gibbs Harold Hogue James Halbert Thomas Hopes Lawrence Jones Thomas Judson Henry Kempton Thomas Killingsworth William Lewis Norman Logue Carl Love Nile Love James Mc Carter Lawrence McClelland Ben Miller Lawrence Miller Dave Palmer Ernest Parker M A Preston Clarence Rigney Chester Sanborn Ben Searls Frank Seiler Len Singer Frank Skinner Cecil Stephenson Harold Astrohmeier M D Thompson John Tudor Ed Vaughn Clyde Vernon Goldie Willis William Waller Hubert Bailey John Bradley Charles Brooks John Ceola B J Chambers Harry Craig D W Davis J G Freeman.
An Epworth League group staged an engaging comedy at the high school auditorium Monday night. Nine cast members performed with additional participants in act interludes and musical selections.
Misses Haze and Alberta Raber attend the Youth Conference at Marietta as delegates from the Church of Christ.
Rev. and Mrs. M. Rogers Mrs. F. E. L. Jones and Mrs. Jane LeFever returned Monday from Springfield Illinois where they attended the North American Church of Christ convention.
Dorcas Burns Anna Louise Logue Betty McAfooes Mary Chute Lois and Er nest Gibbe and Charles Sharp returned after a week at the LeFever cottage on the Muskingum River. Chaperone Mrs Frances Gibbs supervised the group during the trip.
Daily weighted price index for 30 basic commodities shows 99.42 today, surpassing yesterday’s 97.34 and the week’s 93.22. The 1980-82 average base is 100, with month and year indices at 90.95 and 72.66 respectively, and historic 1933 low 67.84.
Market report lists butter packing stock prices by grade and weight, egg prices with current receipts, and poultry quotations for fowls ducks and turkeys. It notes market firmness in eggs and butter, with varied discounts for underweight birds and updates on graded and nearby supplies across regions.
Readable lines list prices for cabbage onions peas and potatoes from North Carolina Virginia California and other regions. Also shows government bond quotes including Liberty and Treasury issues with approximate yields and maturities.
In Cincinnati authorities report three deaths linked to extreme heat last night and again today as city residents seek relief from high temperatures amid ongoing health concerns.
Cattle receipts 606 show varied bids with packing sows steady about 3.50. Good steers 5.59 to 6.50, better heifers 5.25 and down, cows 2.75 to 3.75. Calves 100 steady, most better calves around 50 to 75. Sheep 100 receipts, lambs steady to weak with tops near 68 and bulk around 7.50.
The report lists prices for wool types including Ohio three eighth combings at 94 cents a pound grease and Delaine combings at 29 to 30 cents, with Territory wools at 64 to 73 cents and carpet wools around 25 to 29 cents. Grain prices show Wheat No 2 red at 74.08, Corn No 2 yellow at 80.59, and oats No 2 white at 49.04, plus butter eggs hay and other farm staples with varied cents per unit values.
Bert G. Lawrence a 44 year old painter from Long Bottom and Myrtle Victoria Johns age 23 secured a marriage license in Pomeroy probate court Tuesday afternoon. Albert Arnold and daughter of Greensboro North Carolina will arrive Saturday to visit Mr and Mrs John Arnold of Harrisonville and other Arnolds plan to come in from Southern Ohio on Sunday. Albert Arnold holds an important post with the MC A organization.
June 28 report from Pomeroy states Mrs. Seymour Will of Peach Fork was transported by ambulance to Gallipolis Hospital. An operation was expected to be performed the next day.
Mr and Mrs Homer Parker and Mrs Callie Cowdery of Reedsville were business visitors in Pomeroy today. Mrs J B Smith of Athens also visited Pomeroy. Flora Mae Johnson 18 of Long Bottom was arrested for contributing to the delinquency of minors and is held at the county jail pending probate court hearing.
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