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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1935
Page
15
Freddie Miller world featherweight champion will face Claude Varner of Los Angeles in a 10 round finale next Wednesday night. Varner returns from Australia and Europe and will weigh in over the title limit, making it a non-title bout per Katz.
A 1985 sale at Mac Strode Farm Amesville Ohio lists a horse bale with stocks tools and implements. A second sale on a Gillogly farm near Albany Ohio includes stock grain implements and household goods, advertised by auctioneer Joshua Ashcraft.
Early stock trading shows activity with gaps in大shares and advances. Department of Commerce notes September rural retail sales up sharply, with strongest gains in the south. Copper and steel stocks listed amid broad industrial and agricultural price movements across New York and Cincinnati markets.
Two engineers in the Athens District WPA office resign this week for new positions. Paul L. Allen will become district engineer for the U S Department of Health overseeing mine sealing in Athens Vinton and Jackson Counties with offices in the Athens Post Office Building. C D Ault replaces him and B F Beckler Jr resigns to join Truscon Steel Company in Youngstown with Richard Wilson replacing him. Beckler earned a civil engineering degree at Ohio University in 1922. A ferret killed 497 chickens before being recaptured after escaping its cage at Mansfield England.
Hogs traded around 180 to 195 cents with 700 direct and 1,500 total head noted. cattle and calves steadier with steer and heifer classes near 6.60 to 8.05 per cwt and fat cows about 4.50 to 5.90. Sheep and lambs showed 9.50 top for choice lambs, with steady demand and prices around 6.50 to 6.75 for plainer lots. Market activity described as slow to steady with mixed direct trading and several price adjustments.
Sheriff Charles Stratton stopped a fight in Chauncey last night between Frank Carter aged about 48 and his son in law Everett Taylor about 25 in a restaurant. The combatants were turned over to Chauncey officials.
Sheriff Bernard Mente of Lawrence County and Arthur Oakes of Seloto County asserted Ralph Fulmer, 21, confessed to the sex murder of Helen Shannon, 40, on October 2. The report comes as a formal declaration from law enforcement Wednesday.
The almanac notes a lively day with far reaching influence and surprising developments favoring promotion and progress. Hard work yields rewards, birthdays may bring radical life changes, and a coin born on this day could reveal notable talent in an original, scientific path.
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