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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1932
Page
11
The notice outlines affordable room advertisement pricing with cash payment discounts within six days of bill receipt. It promotes special monthly or yearly rates and states that hardware company operator staff can supply information promptly. A misc section lists baseball players and teams in unclear context alongside a faint statistical line.
The probate court of Athens County Ohio suspends hearings and publication for accounts in numerous estates including Nathan W Laker John Herbert Bails Harry M Roach Laura Dillinger Albert Davis Howard and Reese Ritchie Pear Lulu Brown Ernest E Kennedy Bernard Cable Bower John T Smith Loretta Brannon Howard Davidson and others. Executors guardians and administrators are listed with various account dates from August to September 1932 and a hearing set for October 3 1932.
Athens plans a city-wide flower show on September 24 and 25 at the Athens High School building. Athena Garden Club members will meet Sunday at 3 PM at the Wolfe home to discuss the exhibit with school children invited to enter flowers.
Rev Dr Tra Landreth a former Ware Belmont College president and noted Presbyterian leader will address a union service at First Christian Church Athens on Tuesday night September 21 at 7 90 oclock speaking on temperance and the Eighteenth Amendment He draws wide interest across the country and will also speak the following evening September 18 at Nelsonville.
A mob of women lynched Frank Tucker, a 40 year old Negro, at the Ashley County jailyard after he cut Deputy Reed during an arrest for stealing $10 from the Bank of Crossett. Tucker fled the street then was caught near Mayor Barnes’ office and hanged in the jail yard.
Rev Kenney will lead Sunday Behoo at 2 PM with an afternoon prayer service at 3. Evangelistic service at 7:30 PM. A Tuesday prayer meeting at 7:50 PM and Friday Bible Class at 7:50 PM. Short evangelistic service after Bible class and nightly orchestra.
Hoot's two Western friends Skeeter Bil Robbins and Milt Brown win audience applause with realistic Western comedy. Jack Curtin plays the surly station agent Edward Peil the slow witted sheriff. Otto Brower directs with Neumann photography in a lively tale praised as Brower’s best to date. The Local Bad Man offers lifelike action and a welcome break from modern crime and sex plots.
The executor and heirs are notified that schedules of debts and inventories have been filed for several estates including Cinderella Bowen Perry F McClanahan Mary Z Courtney Harriett Williams Alice Leyden and Sarah Edgar with a suspended hearing date set for September 36 1932 at 9 am. Probate Judge Athens County Ohio signs the notice.
New York sep 15 rail stocks rose over three points aiding a market rebound. Union Pacific and Southern Pacific led industrials with varied gains across transportation and utilities amid a broad advance in several blue chips and obscured by mixed gains in utilities and mining peers.
Arthur Henderson former foreign minister and disarmament conference chair urged signatories of the Versailles Treaty and allied powers to publicly declare Germany’s return to military equality as the Geneva conference resumes. He spoke on the eve of leaving for Geneva to preside over the conference.
The India Office announced that the British government will release Mahatma Gandhi from Yeravda Jail when he starts his threatened fast to death in protest against the India settlement. He will be moved to a suitable private residence and ordered to remain there.
I J Fulton as Superintendent of Banks of Ohio announces a hearing in Athens County Court of Common Pleas at 9:00 AM on a September day in 1942 to approve expenses in the liquidation of The Glouster State Bank Glouster Ohio. The expense account is filed with the Athens County Clerk of Courts.
The Past Noble Grands Club gathered at Mrs. William Hallam’s home with president Altha Dunlevy presiding. Guests included Mrs. Joe Watson, and members listed. Prizes in contests went to Mrs. John Davis and Ida Davis, with consolation prizes to Mrs. Ira Conaway and Miss Davis. Mrs. Harold Phillips to host in October as the group studies Shakespeare.
Rector L W Clarke announces Sunday services at 9 15 Holy Communion 9 15 Church School 10 20 Morning prayer and sermon. The sermon opens a series on Resources for Living the Abundant Life.
The three room frame house owned by John Radford near Lower Plains burned Wednesday about midnight. Frank Webb, a painter who had vacated the property the day before and reportedly moved to Athens, was present in the area. The cause is undetermined but believed accidental.
A son named William Lee Bell was born on Tuesday September 13 to Mr and Mrs Stuart Bell of The Plains. He died and was buried Tuesday in West Union Street Cemetery.
South Bend Ind Sept 16 Notre Dame coach Heardy Anderson plans a hard drill for 110 football candidates after dedicating the first practice to camera men. Twenty four lettermen return with key players Marchy Schwartz all American halfback Tom Yarr center and Nordy Hoffman guard among the notable figures.
Sixty deputy squads cleared main highways east of Sioux City to disperse farm strike pickets. Twenty pickets were arrested as 40 special deputies scattered the crowd. Night sticks swung during resistance while riot guns and tear bombs were used. injuries were not immediately known.
Tiger Walker of Zanesville will fight Lou Bloom of Columbus in a 10 round bout next Monday night in Columbus. The fight headlines a local boxing card and draws regional interest for the lightweight division.
Columbus reports Charles H. Lewis, chairman of the Republican state campaign, rejects Roosevelt’s claim and asserts Ohio will remain Republican. He spoke as the campaign heated in the lead up to the presidential race.
A listing from Baltimore produce shows mixed poultry items including live chickens described as young colored, roosters priced and weight noted, with miscellaneous dairy and dairy substitutes and standard scores. The OCR text is garbled but indicates a market inventory segment.
Receipts and prices appear garbled but indicate a market with steady or unsettled activity. The text references various items and figures such as receipts and extras without clear consistency or readable names or dates.
A brief stock listing notes butterfat percentages and grading for Hutter Packing produce. It outlines numbers of firsts seconds and nearby ungraded lots, indicating quality tiers and to analyze pricing or inventory status.
Nearby tubs show 99 score extras with rise and standard 21 percent, 0 score 196 68 score. Receipt details list fresh extras first 10 and heavy wides. Regions cited include Southern Ohio West Virginia and Kentucky with PoultryQelored henge and Leghorn springeta 114180. Ducks Geese and fresh killed hens noted with various counts.
Cleveland produce markets show steady sentiment across categories. Hutter Market reports extras at 30 cents, tege Market extras at 4 cents, and current receipts at 106. Poultry prices hold steady with fowls at 19 to 16 cents, leghorn broilers 16 to 14 cents, colored broilers 16 to 66 cents, ducks 10 to 19 cents, old cocks 10, young geese 10 to 18 cents. Potatoes in Ohio quoted at $1.05 per 100 pounds sack. Obie and New York produce 6 cents per bushel.
Livestock quotes show hogs 4400 with 480 direct and through, bids lower on steer and heifer classes, calves steady at 6.50 to 7.00 for vealers, cows around steady with grassy beef types at 0.95. Sheep and lambs present with bulk desirable kinds at 9.60 to 44.50, older stock steady at about 11.50.
Hogs receipts 1200 market steady to lower with sows and pigs shown. Cattle receipts 40 market steady with grasa steers to 66 and lighter cattle to 4.00. Calves receipts 150 steady with dealers paying 6.50 to 7.60. Sheep receipts 160 market about steady with lambs 6.60 to 6.90 and buck lambs down to 4.75.
Shipping market notes list varied liberty and treasury yields with figures such as Lib. Sus 47 at 101.4 and Treas. 44s 52 at 107.30. The excerpt shows a patchwork of bond prices and percentages, reflecting fluctuating demand and inflation concerns.
Grain and feed items appear with mixed pricing notes. Wheat No 2 red and No 4 fed to premium list percentages and figures, corn No 2 yellow with several entries. oats white varieties show small changes. Butter and eggs quoted in cents, hay priced per hundredweight, miscellaneous figures listed.
The Athens rail timetable lists No 3 departing 11 38 a m and No 9 at 7 44 p m for northbound, and No 2 11 20 p m and No 4 6 34 p m for southbound, daily except Sunday. Chesapeake and Ohio Hocking Valley routes show No 37 at 8 30 p m daily, No 3 at 7 50 p m, and No 30 arriving at 11 02 p m with No 32 at 7 40 p m. other services include No 44 0 84 a m and No 12 12 32 p m with conditional Washington and Easton stops and Pullman accommodations.
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