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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1920
Page
7
Markets report from Cincinnati and Toledo on April 1 shows butter steady at 60 to 68 cents per pound, eggs a range from 38 to 41 cents a dozen, and live poultry prices. Cattle and hog receipts in Cincinnati area indicate steady to slow movements with steers 11.50 to 13.50 and hogs around 11.65 to 15.65, while Toledo lists corn at 1.68 and oats around 1.03 to 1.04 per bushel and rye near 1.88.
Washington April 1 census bureau lists 1920 populations for Pine Bluff Arkansas 19280 Excel sior Springs Missouri 4167 Cameron Missouri 8249 Rosedale Kansas 7674 Charlotte Michigan 5126 Harvey NL 9216 West Hammond NL 7492 Fairfield Alabama 4998 Millersburg Iowa 210 Manistee Michigan 6690 Warrensburg Missouri 4811. Increases since 1910 include Pine Bluff up 4178 27.7 percent and others. decreases shown for Manistee down 2691 21.7 percent. Millersburg and Fairfield noted as incorporated with no comparison available.
Col Henry Page, commanding officer at Fort McHenry, has done splendid work rebuilding bodies and spirits of wounded veterans in the Fort McHenry hospital. He will move to Denver soon to continue the same work at the Colorado army post hospital.
A. Mines of Cleveland was fined for contempt after sending ballots without proper containers. Judge Frank C Clevenger ruled the board of elections are custodians of ballots and cannot open them. The net majority remains 159.
A federal grand jury indicated four men in Washington in the investigation of an alleged attack on the United States Supreme Court. Ashton S. Embry Barnett E. Moss James Harwood Graves and Millard Mayer were charged with conspiracy to defraud the government. Embry and Graves have resigned.
Max Berman and Phil Kadansky confessed to a jewel theft at Field's store in Chicago last November as Abe Kadansky unlocked a display and took diamonds worth 8625 dollars in full view of pedestrians. Berman had prior arrests in San Francisco and Denver for related thefts.
In Fort Wayne on April 1 three thousand Pennsylvania Railroad shop workers walked out at 10am demanding a closed shop. The action involves most workers at the Fort Wayne shops and reflects a union push for employment terms.
In Cleveland 400 Express Company drivers and handlers walked out halting delivery and collection service. They demand higher wages as part of a broader labor action. Albany report notes an Easter Bazaar by M FE Ladies Aid at Cline's Department Store with home cooking and ice cream on April 3.
Benjamin G. Humphreys, a Mississippi congressman, is a leader on the Democratic side opposing a third term for President Wilson. He is noted to have the backing of Champ Clark and other prominent Democrats.
The U S Supreme Court placed oil lands in the Red River Valley under federal receivership for Oklahoma and Texas after an injunction halted state interference during boundary dispute. Illinois former Secretary of War James M. Dickson was named receiver and private owners may respond within 15 days to the inclusion. Production may continue unless the receiver deems it necessary.
New York April 1. Five ousted socialist assemblymen will appeal to the state supreme court and, if needed, to the U S Supreme Court, said S John Block associate counsel. Appeals rest on legal questions about the assembly’s power to censor political affiliations and the federal guarantee of a Republican form of government.
Columbus April 1 Public Utilities Commission today denied Central Union Telephone Companys request for reconsideration of a rate increase approved Wednesday and set to take effect today in seven Ohio cities.
Cleveland April 1 The street carmen union will seek 1 per hour and an eight hour day when the wage and working conditions pact with the street railways ends May 1 Motormen and conductors now earn 60 cents an hour Railway officials expect higher fares to cover wage increases The demands must be filed by April 15.
Delegations from the Cleveland Akron and Zanesville chambers of commerce arrive in Canton to confer with the Canton chamber on the proposed barge canal from Cleveland to the Ohio river via Akron Massillon Coshocton and other cities and ending at Marietta. L H Gibson former director of the Ohio home rule association leads the Canton visitors.
All scouts of Troop One meet tonight at the high school at 6 30 instead of the church. Bring clues and come rain or shine. An attachment to hold a razor blade on a comb to cut hair has been invented.
The Athens Messenger owners include F W Bush and Georgia H Bush with others. Managing editor F W Bush and business manager F Bush. Publisher The Athens Messenger & Herald Co. Names list multiple Athens Ohio residents as owners and a notary public attests to sworn statement date in April 1920.
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