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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1928
Page
11
A mixed classified listing lists bargains and services from Logan Ohio area. It includes vehicle ads, real estate, poultry catalogs, and rentals. It mentions K S Garage wreck car service and Overland Olds 1924 touring car for sale, along with farm for sale near Logan and a 42 acre farm offer. It also notes a restaurant-confectionery in Pomeroy for sale and a real estate broker in Logan.
Hogs receipts around 2000 with prices from 10.15 to 10.50 for various weights and packing sows at 7.50. Cattle receipts include 10 calves with steady market, beef steers 11.50 to 13.75, light yearlings and heifers near 10, beef cows 8.00 to 10.00, cutters 5.50 to 7.50, heavy calves 9.00. Sheep receipts show strong to 15 higher with top fat lambs 15.65 and bulk lambs 13.50 to 15.65, cull and fat ewes 6.50 to 8.50. Chicago produce: butter 44 to 46. Eggs quoted with various grades and a range around 26 to 30 cents. Corn No 3 12 1/2 percent, rye 1.40, oats 72-74, cash prices for timothy 2.10, alsike 15.25, hay 1.20 per owt.
Cincinnati livestock market reports show cattle and calves receipts with mixed price movements. Steers and yearlings range from 11 to 13.50, cows from 5.75 to 12, veals 10.50 to 13.50, and hogs around 10.25 to 10.75 with various weights listed. Sheep and lamb markets reflect slight declines on fat lambs and mixed prices for feeder and cull lambs.
Butter receipts listed at 10 508 with creamery extras 45c. Fees quiet with receipts 90 427. Nearby white fancy 44c 36e and nearby state whites 28c 33c. Fresh firsts from western whites 32¢ and Pacific coast 31e. Nearby browns noted as Me PAhe.
Cincinnati produce market reports steady byes with gathered extras. Firsts number 27,440. firsts 270. seconds 24 cents. nearby ungraded 27 cents. duck 24 cents. goose large 40 cents. smalls sold at a punt.
In a terse market note, price ranges for putter extras are listed with figures like 32c for extras, 30c for extra firsts, 27c9 for firsts, and 27e for ordinary. The data appears from a catalog or auction table, with historical currency styling and compact shorthand.
The Probate Court suspends hearings on listed accounts until May 1928. Administrators or executors including Mary Hawk Roy Hawk Jennie O Dell Sherman Minor The Athens National Bank M L Boudinot A R Gillette Martha J a James C Mulligan Robert C Hunt Charles Wallace L G Devore GC P F Wallace Clarence a John W Johnsop Frank Matthews Elizabeth Drake Garner Powell J W Wade The Bank of Athens N B A Annie Addis The Athens National Bank Sarah Margaret Stalder act as administrators guardians named in estates with first second or fourth accounts filed between 1922 and 1928 and dates noted.
In Athens Ohio on Saturday May 19 1928 at o'clock P M the court house door will host a sale of lot 283 and ten feet off the west side of lot 282 Guthrie Gouldan Company Addition to Athens located at West Wasmegen Street. Premises appraised at 1080 dollars. terms cash. William Williams sheriff Wayne Wingett deputy Woolley Rowland attorneys. 4-20-5otw.
Dr. William H. McMaster president of Mt. Union College told Columbus alumni at a dinner that the college is now out of debt for the first time in its history and has raised 700000 dollars for an endowment fund.
Train times list northbound and southbound departures from Athens with Nos. 1 5 2 4 and Hocking Valley trains 33 35 37 northbound and 39 32 34 southbound plus westbound and eastbound Baltimore and Ohio services. Daily times show morning and afternoon departures and Sunday exceptions.
The State of Ohio Athens County governs a sheriff sale in Common Pleas Court Case No 138824. The Athens County Savings and Loan Company sues Anton D Feffis and others, and the order of sale directs the real estate to be offered under court authority.
A meeting discussed the presidential primary and voting procedures for women. Grace Rarey Peters criticized the lack of uniformity among states and urged that bona fide candidates appear on ballots for all states.
The Labor department reports retail food costs fell two tenths of one percent in March and one percent since March 1927. Since March 1913 prices rose about 56 percent. Eggs led March declines with a 14 percent drop followed by pork chops evaporated milk lard bananas at 8 percent and bacon and cheese at 2 percent.
Washington April 20 Publication today of correspondence with Canada on lake water division shows the Dominion government insisting no diversion without an international agreement. The letters indicate willingness to yield on technical points but refuse to discuss them until the legal question is resolved.
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