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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1933
Page
11
Dense fog blanketed the Athens district this morning as cold air moved in. Temperatures hovered near 48 degrees after a 41 degree low, ending a spell of warmer weather and marking the coldest afternoon since early spring.
Commandant J Searchell from New York arrives to address Salvation Army revival sessions nightly. He has served 40 years as an officer and led talks on Excuses Forever Closed Door Lose and Gain with evening guitar performances. His three sons hold Army roles in New York and Pennsylvania.
All men on the relief list in Athens County must register at one of four re employment offices in Glouster Chauncey Nelsonville or Athens on Saturday 8 30 to 12 30 or Monday 8 30 to 4 30. Offices are run by volunteers under Dr J P Porter county chairman with Glouster at the mayor s office Chauncey at Harvey Dance Hall Nelsonville at the American Legion Building and Athens at the Armory.
Athens High School held an 11 am assembly with Dr. E A Hansen as speaker. The program featured choral and instrumental performances by the Junior Girls Octet and others before a football game against Lancaster tonight. Ann Beasley led announcements and 80 Athens students will attend the Ohio State Virginia game as part of All-Ohio High School Day with 35 000 students expected.
New York trading opened irregularly but firmed with gains across sectors. Alcohol shares led advances with National Distillers up over a point and U S Industrial Alcohol rising about a point. Majors like General Motors and Celanese posted fractional to modest gains as bonds rose irregularly and commodity prices stayed steady.
Three arson cases involving the destruction of barns in western Washington County are under investigation by the state fire marshal and the sheriff. Testsimony was taken from Belpre Township residents in Marietta as Deputy Fire Marshal J L Benadum presided. Authorities note heavy losses and say conditions imply firebugs. arrests may follow.
Hugh Drain aged 87 longtime Farmer Township resident and retired farmer died at his home near Barlow Wednesday evening after infirmities. He lived in the neighborhood all his life and is survived by a sister Elizabeth Drain a brother and three sisters Anna Trotter J M Proctor and W S Proctor. A niece Fred W. Turner of Marietta also survives. Funeral services were held at his home today at 2 p m with Rev. B E Foote of Williamstown officiating. Interment followed in Murdoch Cemetery.
Columbus reports a week of rising hog prices with strong advances on Monday and continued gains through Wednesday. Demand for feeder cattle and lambs is fair, with Texas lambs selling at Ohio feed rates and Northwest lambs ranging from 6.50 to 7 per hundredweight. Pack- ers view live prices high relative to cut-out value, and further gains depend on pork product prices.
James Meaney, 45, a paroled inmate who had been convicted 21 years earlier of slaying a Cleveland policeman, died after a fall last night. He was found at the bottom of a basement staircase with a skull fracture from the incident.
Clayton G. Hilghman of Fairmont West Virginia died recently at the Veterans' Hospital in Chillicothe. His widow, formerly Dolly Norman of Bartlett Ohio, is ill at her mother Mrs. B. E. Layton’s home in Jere West Virginia. The widow will return to her grandfather Henry Norman's farm in Washington County to spend the winter convalescing.
Fire destroyed the historic Whiskyville Tavern located four miles north of Oberlin on Telegraph Road, erasing one of Lorain County’s oldest landmarks.
Cincinnati jurors return manslaughter verdict against Ralph Riedy 21 for the January killing of 32 year old Mrs Martha Sottong. Defense claims death resulted from a pistol fight during a scuffle after he refused to accompany her to St Louis. Riedy admits secret meetings with the woman for over a year at her husband’s restaurant.
Ohio University will distribute about 2000 student directories next week. Registrar Frank B. Dilley announced that the booklet copy is with printers and a new photo reduction process will be used to speed production. Directors have been offered at a low price, with sales and expenses expected to balance.
A revival will open at Asbury Chapel M. E. Church near Guysville on Monday night October 9. Rev and Mrs D Vause Snyder of Tupper Plains will lead the meetings. Services start at 7 00 each night with a half hour song service followed by evangelistic preachings.
Steady demand for hennery whites with large and medium stocks noted. Current receipts list hens, leghorn and barred rock varieties, turkey and duck offerings, with prices per pound or per unit across sizes and grades in Southern Ohio West Virginia and Kentucky markets.
Bulter Market barely steady with extras Zie standards 25 cents per pound in tubs Yeqe Market firm. Poultry prices show weak demand with colored fowls and leghorn fowls at varied rates per pound. Potatoes listing Maine cobblers Green Mountains 61.4562 per 100 pounds, Idaho Russet Burbanks 202.15 per 100 pounds in sacks, New Jersey cobblers 5 61.85 per 100 pounds, Pennsylvania best 1.75 to 1.85 per 100 pounds.
Receipts total about 1 659 cattle hogs and calves with steady demand and prices. One load hogs at 5 75 a hundredweight and cattle steady with yearling steer top at 12 40 per head. lambs Tops 7 35 with mediums around 4 50 to 5 25.
Hiogs Receipts 3200 direct and through with 70 heldover. Active steady to 10 cents higher. top 170 to 250 lbs at 4.50, 250 to 275 lbs 5.10 to 5.40, 278 to 300 lbs 4.75 to 5.10, 300 to 350 lbs 4.90 to 4.76. Calves and cows mix, vealers 6.50 to 7.50, lambs 6.75 to 7.25, ewes 10 to 12.
Wheat No 2 red 86489 corn No 2 yellow 46447 cat a No 2 white 37 36 s rye No 2 73074 track prices 28 rate Wheat No 1 red 84085 No 2 red 63084 corn No 2 yellow 42 42 4 No 3 yellow 4142 oats No 2 white 34 35% No 3 white 32 034
Boston market reports weighed by demand with prices rising for combings and wools. Ohio Delaine and similar fine combings quoted in grease at 34935 cents, half-blood 35036, three-eighths 41048, quarterblood 404. Territory coming wools of fine staple priced around 60083 cents.
Fragmentary OCR shows assorted ledger-like entries with Lib Treas and numbers such as 47 102.10 and 34's 38 103.12. The text mixes Lib and Treas labels with sums, ratios, and percentages, lacking clear context or full sentences.
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