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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1933
Page
9
A garbled newspaper notice presents a classifieds section note on value and error adjustment. It references services for sale and employment, plus rent listings. The text emphasizes that errors do not reduce the ad value and mentions lodges and promotional items in a broad classifieds context.
Classified ads serve the needs of the little fellow with the efficiency of big business, offering a big help to small merchants by expanding reach and cutting costs. The note frames ads as a practical tool for independent sellers and local traders seeking growth.
Thomas M. Conroy seeks a money judgment of 43212.68 plus 6 percent interest and foreclosure of real and chattel mortgages on five Athena Brick parcels in Nelsonville and York Townships to secure notes totaling 343212.65 with a receivership request and involves Lloyd Astrup Tillie Astrup Robert Bond Eleanor Bond and others. The case is filed in the Athens County Common Pleas Court and requires responsive filing by a stated date.
Mattie M Blackburn of 51 Lancaster St Athens Ohio named Executrix of the William Blackburn estate in Athens County. Court dated March 8 1953 and signed by Probate Judge M Johnson.
The Probate Court of Athens County Ohio suspends publication and hearing on multiple estate accounts until March 20 1933 with the 9 am hearing session on April 8 1935. Executors administrators guardians and executrices listed include Baker Higgins Parker Woodworth Pinsterwald Selig Cable Guthrie Tantey Brooke Moore Robson Mall Badnell Winner and others. Interested parties may file exceptions to any item.
A young blonde, about 22, robbed Irving Berman’s fruit store in Chicago with a pistol demanding silence. She took $225 after threatening to shoot the men present. The crime was reported on March 10.
New York reporting a strong spirit to carry on in the face of the banking crisis. Dun and Bradstreet notes only a minor setback in general business for the past week. Optimism grows as banking suspensions do not devalue the dollar.
Auction note lists fresh 15 4 G Loc live poultry. Items include old Healy 108 ide, young colored stock, 14 16c, leghorns 9 0c, guineas 49c, smaller 300 35c, turkeys young hens 19 20c, gobblers 150 16c.
No butter eggs or poultry market today. Potato prices for Ohio New York and Pennsylvania 100 lb sacks 74 to 90 cents depending on grade. Butter market unsettled with prices about 4 cents lower. Receipts include 446 cases of potatoes and 9101 tubs of butter with various grade prices and packing stock notes. Egg prices listed for duck and goose at about 60 cents and higher.
The notice lists current receipts and prices for poultry and related stock. It covers hens leghorns colored springers old roosters ducks geese and fresh killed hens with prices per unit and regional references to Southern Ohio West Virginia and Kentucky.
Mogs Receipts around 2000 head with market steady to 10 cents higher in 170 to 210 pound range at 4.20 to 4.30, 220 to 250 pounds at 4.04 to 4.15, 100 to 140 pounds at 3.50 to 4.00, most packing sows around 2.75 to 3. Cattle receipts about 10 with varied classes: steers and yearlings 4.25 to 5.25, higher heifers 3.75 to 5.25, common to good cows 2.75 to 3.25, bulls 2.90 to 3. The calf market steady to weak with vealers 6.50 to 7.50. Sheep receipts around 2000, market slow but steady, best wool lambs over 6.60, better grades clippers about 5.15.
Hog receipts 2500 with 43 direct and through. Prices mostly 56 cents higher with advance on 140 to 275 lb butchers and 260 to 270 lb at 4.20. Cattle receipts 225 calves 250 light supplies, demand seedy to strong. steers and heifers mostly 4 to 6.5 with some up to 5.50. Fat cows 2.50 to 3.00. bulls 2.75 to 3.50. Sheep receipts 990, lambs best 5.96. common to medium 3.50 to 4.75. fat ewes 1.90.
Quotations on finer grades of territory wools move higher with as much as a 10 percent advance over last week. Some of the increase has been realized in isolated cases while many offerings remain available at steady to slightly higher prices. Eastern fleece wools show less fluctuation than territory and other western wools.
The executor and interested parties are notified that schedules of debts and inventories in several estates have been filed and hearings suspended for publication. Exceptions must be filed by March 22, 1933, with hearings continuing until disposed of. Probate Judge 8 M. Johnson presiding in Athens County Ohio.
Columbus March 10 One hundred employees of the Department of Industrial Relations will lose their jobs March 15 due to a $186 000 annual budget reduction ordered by the state finance director. The department, which has trimmed staff by four in two years, will operate with 460 employees after March 15.
Two Brooklyn patrolmen must serve five to twenty years for the attempted kidnapping of Erheat Schoening a New Jersey rum runner.
A former West Virginia state policeman Hoyt Morrison, 47, was jailed in Gallia County awaiting arraignment on a charge of shooting his son Woodrow Morrison on Christmas morning. He was arrested in Columbus at the request of Gallia authorities after a warrant for liquor manufacturing and a separate shooting with intent to kill were issued. Morrison had been in Columbus less than 48 hours coming from Parkersburg. The son said he was shot while defending himself. he had previously served 38 days of a fine and was released as a trusty.
Grace M E Church in Gallipolis plans Young People's Day with morning sermon Playing the Game and evening topic Jesus View of the Judgment. Junior sermons include Gods Whispering Gallery and He Called Them All by Name. Senior and junior choirs from First Presbyterian perform after a two week break. Sarah the Volunteer is the vesper topic at 4 PM.
Heavy wind tore the Greene Line wharf boat loose and damaged the stage at Gallipolis while rivers rise with all dams down between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. The Liberty delayed over 12 hours near Parkersburg, the Queen City over 12 hours late for Pittsburgh, and the George Nutt moved downriver to replace the Ramsay for overhaul at Pittsburgh. Captain Johnson has been succeeded by Capt. John Douglas on the Ramsay, now commanding the Nutt.
Ga l lia Academy High School graduates plan a formal dress code for commencement with dark suits and black shoes for boys and white dresses for girls. No date has been set. Steve Clark chairs the pictures committee with Elizabeth Carnes and Ida Grover assisting. Jane Cating leads the girls apparel committee.
C M Reynolds of near Vinton was released from Gallia County Jail on a writ of habeas corpus by Judge W R White. He had been serving a sentence from Justice of Peace Leo Carter for trapping an opossum out of season. Reynolds says the opossum wandered into a trap intended for a different animal. The habeas corpus case is the first in the local common pleas court in six years.
Paul Kauffman of The Plains pleaded not guilty during arraignment before Magistrate C. H. Porter on a paternity charge filed by Edna Rhoades of Ath ing. He was held to the grand jury under a $400 bond.
Fire at Marmet Coal Company Marine dry docks in Raymond City destroyed several dock sections and two work boats. Captain Steven Miller of Point Pleasant saved vessels Otto Marmet Joe Cook and Salby Marmet but was severely injured. Dewey Stewart of Raymond City suffered severe burns while trying to save tools.
In Gallipolis March 10 Rev H Wilbur of Grace M E Church officiates at the funeral of Mrs Freida Looff 42 of Columbus killed by her husband Hillie Looff in a jealousy related murder case. Looff pleads guilty to murder.
Gallia County education officials announce all schools will stay open for eight months amid rumors of closures. Trustees approved an eight month term. some boards briefly considered shortening or delaying, with Gallipolis City Schools aiming to May 5 and others debating nine month plans.
Thomas Brooks 72 a farmer was found dead in his barnyard Wednesday afternoon near Gallia by neighbor Fred Wagner. Funeral services held at his home. He leaves three children Ola Lona and Roy two daughters at state hospital.
Gallipolis reports the Home and Foreign Missionary Societies of the First Presbyterian Church held a meeting in the church parlors this afternoon with Mrs. William Wood Duff leading the program. Also in Gallipolis the Royal Arch Masons Chapter 7 conducted Thursday night inspection at the Masonic Temple with George Bailey serving as high priest.
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