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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1929
Page
9
A dense catalog lists categories like Automobiles Real Estate Employment and Merchandise. Items include automobiles for sale used parts and services real estate for chauncy ohio and surrounding areas plus notices such as not being liable for debts by spouse and local services like undertakers and taxi calls.
Market notes from Cleveland Cincinnati and Boston show butter eggs and poultry prices with varied firsts and extras. Cattle veal lambs and wool prices listed alongside oranges strawberries and bananas with general market movements and company quotes for GM and others.
Pattern describes a daytime dress design in tweed or wool crepe with Canton crepe moire options. Features include revers facings, right front overlap, plaits, a slim sleeve with cuff, and a narrow belt with slight blousing. Six sizes 84 to 44 inches bust. 3 1/2 yards of 39 inch material for 38 size plus facing material. mailable pattern by payment with stamps or silver.
A fragment lists Cincinnati produce prices with fresh rath ered 33 1/3 cents and firsts 32 cents, seconds 31? cents, alongside shorthand references to Standard Oil of Indiana and individuals Leonard Ol and Devip.
The Rev W H Hunt told a Tuesday revival at the Church of God on Hocking Street that visions of sinful pleasures fail to satisfy. Pastor Charles V Weber reported strong attendance as the three week series began, noting sin harms mental and moral well being and leads to misery both here and after death.
Athens Elks Lodge No. 973 names officers after a largely attended meeting. Installed April 2 will be John Cross as installing officer. Elected: Exalted Ruler Glen M. Romine Leading Knight Clyde Featherston Loyal Knight Harry Hinman Lecturing Knight H N Burgett Treasurer David Johnson Secretary Francis A Lavelle Trustee L C Baker Grand Lodge Representative Sam M Johnson Alternate Hugh Jefferson.
Harry McCully aged 25 from Buffalo Creek West Virginia fell from a barge near dam 28 while aboard the steamer D. T. Lane on the Ohio River yesterday. His body was not recovered.
A Toledo Ohio bowler struggled in a recent city league game, leaving only 19 pins as part of the tournament.
Residents near the Central School grounds report a spate of missing home implements during Hell Week. Investigators found 23 brooms, six mops, two long brooms, hoes and rakes with handles removed after noises from the old standpipe site.
In Kentucky near Constant two girls riding with three men report the car slid into a flooded Dry Creek. The vehicle balanced on the bank then plunged, sending the men Walter 25 William B Cavanaugh and Lawrence Carruthers to their deaths while the two girls Mary 16 and Marian Young 21 escaped unharmed.
Rome Grangers will hold a meeting at Stewart on March 9 to carry out an announced program. Kenneth W. Hayes, lecturer, will lead a discussion on the dairy cow feed and care. A Grange Exchange will sell a small article to replenish the Flower Fund, wrapped for sale. Mrs Spear will discuss grange and church collaboration and W B Spear will cover essentials of a prosperous grange.
Detroit report says David D. Buick, 72, founder of the Buick automobile, died penniless yet clung to his dream. He had sold a plumbing business to fund his mobile venture, later losing control amid internal dissension as W. C. Durant organized a stock campaign in 1906 that built over 1 million dollars in capital.
Daily rail schedule lists northbound and southbound trains from Athens with departure times and numbers. Trains include No 3 at 10 33 and No 9 at 7 11 northbound, No 7 at 11 51 and No 8 at 6 18 southbound, plus various notes about additional trains and daily arrivals.
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