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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Oct 25, 1939

Page

10

Halloween Club Event and Social Guests Highlight Local Notes

Coolville 4 H Toppers Club held a Halloween party at Barbara Chapman’s home with 18 members and advisor Bettie Burdette. Numerous families from Coolville and nearby towns visited relatives and hosted weekend guests, including Dr. and Mrs. J L Shepard and Linda Lee and many others across Marietta, Parkersburg, Ravenswood, and Glenville.

Coolville Barbara Chapman Bettie Burdette H. C. Parrish Parrish Hockingport Road J. L. Shepard Linda Lee Joseph Shepard Sterling W. F. Kampf Chris Kampf Rome A. H. Parrish Jack Robert Dickie Will Moore Parkersburg Alda Larson Ernest Schrader New Eagle Mary Baker Clara English Paul Davis Athens William Dixon Zanesville James Wines Orval Persinger A. B. White R. S. Burdette E. M. Daugherty Oscar Gunder St. Joseph’s Hospital Dorothy Blair Melba Morrison John Shanks L. C. Brafford Charleston F. R. Owens Frank Birch Marietta J. W. Kincade Kincade Byron Hunter Rosedale W. Va Carl Kincade

British Fliers Rout Germans Over Berlin and Hamburg

British Royal Air Force planes flew over Berlin Magdeburg and Hamburg while Nazi foreign minister Ribbentrop spoke at Danzig. The raid interrupted listeners at air raid shelters and targeted Krupp armament works, with all planes returning safely.

London U.P Royal Air Force Berlin Magdenburg Hamburg Olachim von Ribbentrop Danzig R.A.F Ribbentrop Magdeburg Great Krupp Armament Works Evening Standard

Basin blasted to find water at South Park Mansfield

In Mansfield Ohio workers under park commissioner Roy W. Vaughn blasted a three acre basin in South Park to locate water, creating a field of shellholes. Nearby Emporia Kansas the Soden flour mill on the Cottonwood River runs nonstop since 1859 due to rising flour demand.

Emporia Kas Soden State of Ohio Board of Education Superintendent of Public Instruction General Assembly State Board of Education Education

Stocks Open Firm With Mixed Advances In Dow Jones

New York stocks opened firm with broad gains led by war stocks and industrials. Douglas Aircraft rose to a new high, United States Steel and Bethlehem edged higher, while Curviss-Wright traded heavily on an 11 000 share block.

NEW York Curviss-Wright Ening Douglas Aircraft United States Steel Bethlehem Wheeling Steel

Toledo and Pittsburgh Grain and Produce Prices Report

Grain and produce prices listed for Toledo and Pittsburgh markets. Wheat No 2 red quotes about 88 to 89 cents, corn No 3 yellow around 47.5 to 49 cents, eggs steady with various grades, live poultry prices for fowls roosters and broilers, Butter receipts and prices by grade, and other poultry market figures.

Toledo White Rocks Plymouth Rocks Pittsburgh Egges

Livestock Markets Reported in Cincinnati and Pittsburgh

Cincinnati hogs 160 to 240 pounds 6.80 top for 160 240 pounds 6.60 300 350 pounds 6.50 140 160 pounds 6.25 sow markets 5.25 5.75 cattle and calves steady to firm with some high yearling prices. Pittsburgh cattle generally steady to firm with steers dry fed 10 to 11 dollars and cows 4 to 6 dollars. hogs in Pittsburgh 500 head 5 cents lower with at 7.10 7.25 for 160 to 180 pounds and rails at 7.30 for one load.

C. C. Mills Wrightstown Co. C. Mills Clyde McFresh Pittsburgh

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