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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1934
Page
9
Toledo reports grain prices on track with No 2 red wheat at 97 cents, corn 92 cents, oats 55 cents. butter steady with creamery extras around 33 cents per pound and eggs at 30 to 33 cents per dozen. Boston wool prices show active demand for Western fine grades and weaker eastern fleeces with bid a 68 to 70 cent range on scoured bases.
A brief note mentions Piner Gift offering a wave from Keeton's Beauty Shop located in Nelsonville with a contact phone 352 W. The message reads as a small promotional item and indicates servicing at the shop.
Livestock prices show hogs and cattle trading steady to firmer across markets in Pittsburgh Cincinnati and nearby towns with bid ranges noted for various weights and classes. In Middleport the Young People’s Class of the Church of Christ Bradbury hosts a Friday carnival featuring a play “Whos o car” and an aftergame style gathering at the school house.
Mr and Mrs Christ Bell and daughter Louise of Miersville visit Akron relatives over Thanksgiving. Mr and Mrs Clarence Lonz with Louise Fenton of Springfield stay to see Miss Virginia Morris on Harrisonville Road and visit Mr and Mrs C M Vining.
The report notes Garden James Goldsberry suffering two broken legs in a Marion auto crash and being moved to a clinic hospital. Other items include visits by Mrs. Della Butts and George Staneart, Ila Rogers Knight’s serious operation in Athens, and family visits in Carsey town Urbana and with the Buck household. In Warren, Leroy Keith, 20, was sentenced to die in Ohio's electric chair for first degree murder tied to July slaying. In Chester, 38 year old man Feans shot his wife and wounded others before suicide with a sawed off shotgun.
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