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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1938
Page
10
Real estate ad listing several properties with features including five rooms basement garage and brick construction in good locations. Prices shown are 2000 for 5 room, 1000 for a close in room, and 4000 for a brick home. Contact H. C. Cameron & Sons at 15 West State St Dial 435.
Friday October 14, 1938 sale 120 acres mineral rights located 10 miles west of Athens on State Route 56 two miles north of Mineral half way between New Marsh field and Carbondale at Hewitts Crossing in Waterloo Township Athens County Ohio. Improvements include a 2 story 17 room frame house and outbuildings. Land largely wooded pasture with 200+ acres cultivated and 600 acres of second growth timber. Mineral rights transfer with the farm and oil gas timber coal development potential noted.
Troop 66 meets at 7 30 tonight at West School. Regular members and junior leaders to attend. Patrol leaders Verlogg Ted Juniper Donald Jonas confirmed for Mohican Wolf Panther Patrols. Explorer Patrol expands with Senior Scouts meeting Mondays. new officers elected. Halloween party on the agenda. bring clues and wear uniforms.
New York stocks rose rapidly in fore noon trading reaching levels not seen in over a year. Leaders such as Chrysler General Motors Kennecott Montgomery Ward Du Pont Allied Chemical U S Rubber and many building shares posted fresh 1938 peaks while rails and utilities remained strong.
Toledo and Cleveland markets show No 2 yellow corn 47.5 48.5 cents and No 1 red wheat 64.4 29765 cents with various grade prices. Pittsburgh and Chicago show steady eggs butter and live poultry with respective highs and receipts, while U S government bonds list several 3s and 4s maturities. Pittsburgh hogs 180 225 lbs at 9.25, cattle and calves mixed, lambs around 8.0 8.5, and assorted stock prices across regions.
Fairly active demand noted for fine domestic wools on the Boston market with top prices. Graded average French combing fine territory wools sold 64 to 66 cents per pound scoured. Original bags of fine territory wools brought 65 to 47 cents scoured for good French combing length, and 42 to 64 cents for short lengths. Graded ample combing length half blood territory wool sold 64 to 66 cents scoured.
Middleport Literary Club held its first meeting of the year hosted by Rutland at Mrs. Frank Bean's home. Officers and guests were welcomed after a message from new president Mrs. O B Stout. Reports covered the Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs and club work on The Northwest Territory Contemporary Literature and Drama.
Mrs. H A Rothrock presided as president at the Heath M E Church parsonage for the regular monthly meeting of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. Officers elected include Mrs. Roy Barnes as vice president and Miss Bess Sanborn as treasurer. The program featured hymns, a study summary on The Kingdom, and discussions of Moving Millions about Christianity in India. Members of the Junior Missionary Society wore saris from Lancaster Camp while assisting with refreshments.
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