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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1931
Page
11
Pages list sections for memorials funeral directors monu ments and cemetery sets personals religious events socities lodges lost and found automotive sale and service ads help wanted business opportunities loans mortgages and livestock listings with various categorizations and contact prompts
Classified items include compact coal ranges for sale with addresses and prices, a Sunnyside Drive house listing, rental notices, and employment ads. A large legal notice concerns Harry S. Day as Treasurer of Ohio and the Jonathan Winters Company, detailing court actions, bond securities, claims, and hearing date set for April 4.
Mr. George Willie advertises two broad saws in Messenger classified ads and finds a buyer after a single insertion. Readers are urged to use ad-takers at 0243 Athens, Nelsonville 41a-Woor Logan 272 for similarly fast and profitable results.
Terme made known on day af ree Sale to commence at 10 o'clock Lunch served at the Wouse A. M. Mooney, auctionee Fred Blazer Administrator Feb 18 26 Mar 3.
The heirs of John Carsey deceased offer for sale at public auction the 83acre farm in Lodi Township Athens County Ohio Section 32 Town 4 Range 13 at the farm residence on the Sunday of March 1931 with the right to reject any bids. Terms made known on day of sale. Fred Plazer agent for heirs. 2-18-25-Mar-3.
Baltimore market report lists prices for dairy creamery extras butter and milk standards with scores, plus meats and poultry values from Maryland and Pennsylvania. Poultry shows large and small chickens, turkeys, ducks, and geese with varied price ranges.
Prices list for butter nearby tubs at 92 score with extras 2 cents and standards 28 percent. Poultry includes live hens 17 to 21 cents, colored springers 25 to 26 cents, old roosters 13 to 17 cents, ducks 20 to 25 cents, spring geese 15 to 16 cents, fresh killed hens 33 to 38 cents.
Market eased with Hutter prices per pound and receipts totaling 18 392. Creamery extras at 28 and 29 percent. Market firm with receipts 34 754 and nearby whites 34 to 251 percent. State whites 21 to 33 percent and fresh firsts 19 to 20. Pacific coasts 21 to 27. Nearby browns at 0 35.
It is announced that on March 14 1931 at 1 PM Sheriff Wayne Wingett will auction Lot 101 in George Harvey Nye's Addition Chauncey Athens County Ohio. The sale at the courthouse door in Athens requires cash and starts at not less than 1000 dollars. This sales order comes from the Common Pleas Court of Athens County.
Chicago produce reports show receipts of 19,288 cases with extra firsts at 20 cents and firsts at 19 cents, while ordinary goods edge to 17 cents. Butter market firming with 14,934 tubs received, extras at 27 cents and firsts around 26 to 27 cents, seconds 33 percent to 4 cents, standards 27 cents.
Cleveland fruit and vegetable prices show butter at 27 cents per pound with 27 percent extras, standard 27, and eggs at 18 to 33 cents per dozen for various poultry categories. Potatoes priced mainly at Green Mt 2.40 to 2.50 per 120 lb sack, Idaho Russet around 2.00 to 2.10 per 100 lb sack.
D A Campbell of Quys ville Ohio is appointed and qualified as administrator of the estate of Walter Fairchild Bean late of Athens County Ohio deceased. Dated March 2 193%. Signed M Johnson probate judge. 3-4-30th.
March 3 report states Walter Ralls, 32, Negro, had a jury tentatively seated in the Crawford County case charging him with the fatal shooting of Sheriff George Davenport in Jam. The proceedings focus on selecting jurors for the homicide trial.
Hi 2100, held over 280, steady to mostly 0.10 higher, better grade 160 to 230 lbs. Prices range from 7.65 to 7.85 with plenty around 7.65 for 170 to 220 lbs and some 230 to 250 lbs. Cattle and calves steady to mixed. bulls weak, yearlings up to 7.76, beef cows 4.25 to 5.00, dealers steady. sheep active and steady with lambs 8.50 to 9.00 and fat sheep 2.50 to 3.50 per hundredweight.
Hogs receipts 1000 with holdovers 500. market steady to 10 cents higher. 160-200 lbs 7.65 to 7.85. 220-240 lbs 7.45 to 7.65. 250-300 lbs 7.00 to 7.35. 140-160 lbs 7.35 to 7.78. pigs mostly 7.00 to 7.25. good packing implies 6.50 to 6.75. Calves receipts 100. market slow to steady. choice feeders 9.50 to 10. medium to good 6 to 9. Sheep receipts 500. market steady. good to choice wooled lambs 8.50 to 9. medium to good clippers 7 to 8.50.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions Cincinnati produce with higher eggs and case pricing. It lists various price points such as extra firsts and firsts and notes uncertainty in the remaining text.
Columbus March 3 Guthrie announces Charles Beer of Ashland as assistant director of agriculture and state fair manager. Beer, a Democrat, has worked in agricultural advertising in Ashland and was formerly with Edward Meredith for farm journals at Des Moines Iowa.
Ohio University negative team clashed with West Virginia affirmative in a debate at the Fine Arts Auditorium on Monday night. The topic was compulsory unemployment insurance with WV arguing for a 26 week wage cushion and state labor bureaus to set cure data. Ohio countered that unemployment risk is not a single-industry issue and that employers and workers are not ready for such a program.
Bids for music instruments and equipment for a drum corps project will be discussed at the meeting of the K. T. Cra Post American Legion led by Raymond Connett. The session aims to finalize bids and organize the drum corps efforts.
In Newark on March 3, Vice Chancellor John A. Backes continued for one week a hearing on a claim by Bethlehem Steel minority stockholders seeking recovery of 36 million dollars allegedly paid as bonuses to officers and directors.
Washington March 8 The Senate laid the Capper Bill aside without a vote to limit the importation of foreign crude oil and tin products. The move, made during unanimous consent consideration, effectively kills the measure.
Cleveland March 3 A E Evenson receiver of the defunct Citizens National Bank of Gabion Ohio files in federal court here a stockholders suit to recover 206700 from several bank officials for alleged misdeeds in the failed institution.
Toledo market notes show mixed grain quotes with No 4 red wheat around 81, No 3 pale corn 65 to 66, oats 61, with oats white 34% to 36. Domestic prime old 614 new 14.75, prime choice new 14.55, butter creamery 30 to 33 cents, hay priced at 1.25 per ton.
Prices paid for Pennsylvania crude by Tide Water AR and several pipelines. Regions include Bradford, Allegheny, Southwest Pennsylvania, Buckeye, Cumberland, Eureka, Ragland and Kentucky states with rates from $1.10 to $1.85 per barrel and various local grades and locations such as Somerset, Wayne, and Lima.
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