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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1920
Page
7
Utah Senator Reed Smoot shows the volume of congressional documents by displaying mail bags he received weekly. He notes most material is discarded or sold for sixty cents per hundred pounds as part of a plea to cut paper waste and lower government costs.
Sunday School themed talk centers on Deborah and Barak from Judges 4 4 10 12 16. Epworth League topic asks What Shall We Do with Our Sundays from Nehemiah 18 15 22.
Leaders from Athens county and a large Nelsonville delegation attended the interchurch conference at the Christian church in Athens. Dr. T F Chambers opened the meeting noting the World Movement's goals and the need for one war council and an offensive strategy.
E D Murch and J H Burt lead morning worship at 9 00 A M with a 10 15 A M sermon by the minister. The evening service at 7 00 P M is by the Christian Women’s Board of Missions followed by a 7 00 P M Christian Endeavor with leader Miss Maud Skidmore on What Shall We Do With Our Sundays Neh 13 15 22 A Christian Endeavor Social is tonight at 7 20 P M in the church parlors for college and city youth. Mid week prayer at 7 00 P M led by Mrs B E Walden on Christian Internationalism Luke 19 25 37 Everyone is welcome.
The Sessions meet at ten in the Session room. The Pastor leads morning service and administers the Lord's Supper with the Elders. Evening talks cover reasons for the Interchurch movement and means to realize its aims. Christian Endeavor holds a youth oriented service.
Sunday school starts at 9 30 A M with preaching at 10 30 A M and again at 7 00 P M at the Music Hall.
Pastor B F Timmons leads Sunday school at 9:00 AM with morning worship at 10 30 and evening service at 6 30 PM A Thursday night preaching at 7 00 PM H A Sherwood of Anderson Indiana will speak at Sunday services Rev James A Miller of Athene conducts 10 30 AM service at New England Presbyterian Carthage 2 30 PM at Carthage Church and Guysville 7 00 PM Congregational meeting to elect elder and trustees follows Guysville service
The bulletin lists Sunday services at multiple churches with service times and subjects. Christian Science Society meets 10 45 A M with topic Are sin disease and death real and a Wednesday 7 30 P M. Church of the Good Shepherd 10 30 A M with Rev C B Plummer. Free Methodist Church Stimpson Campbell Sts with Sunday school 9 A M sermon 10 15 A M and evening 6 30 song service 7 P M subject Gods la
The First M E Church posts a busy week with a Thursday prayer meeting at 7 PM, Sunday school at 9, a 10:30 sermon on Love, Epworth League devotional at 6, and a 7 PM travel talk on Camping on the Trail of Jesus. Junior League meets Monday at 3:30 and a Wednesday prayer meeting at 7.
Hogs receipts totaled 5000 with a lower market. Bulk trades at 14.00 to 15.00, butchers 13.65 to 15.25, packing 12.25 to 13, light 13.75 to 14.75, pigs 12.00 to 14.00, roughs 12.00 to 12.50. Cattle receipts 1000 with slow to steady movement. Beeves 10.00 to 15.00, butcher stock 7.50 to 13.75, canners and cutters 4.25 to 8.00, stockers and feeders 7.50 to 11.85, cows 7.50 to 14.50, calves 13.00 to 14.50. Sheep receipts 65000 with steady market. Spring lambs 18.00 to 20.00, ewes 11.00 to 15.00.
Cattle receipts light at Pittsburg with market firm and top steer quotes at 14 path from 13 50. Veal calves fetch 18 to 19 dollars. Hogs 19 double decks, lower range 16 to 17. Cincinnati cattle receipts 250 with no tone. steers 12 to 13 75. Hogs 4000, slow, 17 dollars for good to choice packers and butchers. lambs 19 to 20 with strong demand.
Fragmentary OCR results show itemized scores with multiple labeled positions such as Second First Third Victory and a series of numeric values including 96.96 91.02 88.80 91.00 88.90 97.48 97.56. The readable items reference Liberty 81s and Victory entries with decimal-like scores, suggesting a catalog of performance figures or match results from a sports page.
Butter creamery 638c and standards 62c. Firsts 7c and 62c. Seconds 47c and 52c. Eyes ordinaries 36c and 38c. Firsts 40c. Cheese twins 29 14¢. Young American 31 1/2¢. Live poultry 41c.
April 10 report shows cash quotes for Corn No. 3 yellow $1.73, Oats No. 2 white $1.08, Rye No. 2 $1.94, Barley No. 2 $1.63, Clover seed $29.50 April $29.50 Oct $23.75 Dec $22.76, Timothy $5.70–$5.87 with monthly variants, Butter $0.73, Eggs $0.46, Hay $2.10 per cwt.
Cincinnati reports butter markets with steady tones on April 10. Whole milk extra at 69 cents per pound, firsts 64c, seconds 63c, dairy fancy 60c, packing No 1 40c, and No 2 20 to 30 cents.
Fresh gathered eggs show extra firsts 39c per dozen and firsts 38c, ordinary firsts 37c, seconds 35c. Ducks 45c, geese $1.00. Live poultry prices: fowls 4.14 Ib and over 40c, under 4.14 Ib 40c, springers over 2 Ib 42c, under 2 Ib 55c, over 4 Ib 40c, roosters 25c.
Boston College will play Marietta College of Ohio in an intersectional game this fall after rising in prominence by defeating Yale. The schedule lists all other dates against eastern teams.
On April 10 Mrs Mable Mingus becomes post mistress succeeding Clarence Sanders who resigned. Gilbert Kearns serves as carrier on R D 1 and Grove Patton as carrier on R D 2.
A Constantinople dispatch said Bolsheviki forces concentrate for an attack on Perekop in the Crimea. Reports also placed Soviet troops gathering heavy artillery before Kerch.
The Ohio banking department says Bruce Campbell secretary treasurer of Struthers Savings and Banking Company was arrested on irregularities. The bank has been closed since April 3 and cannot be reopened safely for depositors.
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