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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1942
Page
14
Mounted on rubber in no 1 condition the Huber separator is offered at a fair price. Contact E. Romine located 1 mile from Hemlock Grove for details or to arrange purchase.
The Vinton Rural High School concluded with a noon community dinner and an eighth grade program. Principal J W McGhee awarded honors, and the orchestra and glee club performed. Bus driver J W Wells Jr guided about 30 pupils to Buckeye Lake as a perfect attendance reward.
Floyd L. Bridge, commander of Floyd Bolin Post, announced a new Veterans of Foreign Wars post will be installed in Wellston on Saturday night May 23. He urged all local post members to attend the ceremony.
A scattered list of New York stock quotations shows various companies and percent changes at noon including Am. Car and Fay, American Rolling Mills, American Smelting and Refining, American Telephone, Anaconda, Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe, Atlantic Refining, Baldwin, Bendix, Aviation, Curtiss Wright, Douglas Aircraft, Procter and Gamble, Sears Roebuck, United Airlines, U S Rubber, U S Steel, and Youngstown Sheet and Tube with mixed gains and losses noted.
Grain prices show Wheat No 2 red 1.1549 16 percent, Corn No 2 yellow 85 86, Oats No 1 white 54 54, Soybeans No 2 yellow 1.714 13 percent. Eggs firm with white extras 29, current receipts 26 percent, Browns 29, standard 28 percent. Butter steady at 40-42 cents, live poultry firm with various categori es. Furnished by Cleveland Butter and Egg Board.
Livestock prices show hogs at Cincinnati with top $14.40 for 180 to 275 lb and cattle and calves with varied lots. Pittsburgh reports include salable hogs around $14.25 to $14.45, cattle and calves steady to active, and sheep with spring lambs around $13.90. Multiple weight bands and animal classes are listed for both cities.
In Cleveland bankers from the Ohio Bankers Association heard that the United States need not endure a postwar low mood. A speaker outlined measures to sustain economic optimism and stable lending practices after the conflict.
Hartford reports conclude a Friday night First Aid class led by Milton Burdette of Point Pleasant. Local attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gerlash, Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Smith, Rev. Elden Waltz, Mrs. Grace Brown, and others.
Blue Lake notes report illnesses including Mrs. Cot trill and Eleanor Sheets while Gillingham and Berridge sons serve in Norfolk Tennessee and Westerly Pa. Mrs. Berridge visits Pennsylvania. Holcomb visits from Pittsburgh. Harrison Boggs ill at Gallipolis. Beatrice Gay to have gall stones operation at Holzer Hospital. Wooten family visits Point Pleasant. Rader Rader conduct meetings at Bailey Chapel. Ladies Aid meets May 27 for potluck and program. Rev. Herman Lewis to preach at Elizabeth Chapel Sunday 11 a.m.
Dayton officers probe the fire that demolished the re equipped Soldiers Home hospital building. Maj A S Miller, V A admin domiciliary officer, places the loss at 100090 dollars. Built in 1868 the three story shell was unused as a fire hazard for years before its conversion into an emergency facility housing 458 beds.
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