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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1919
Page
7
Hog receipts 2500 at Union Stock Yards with higher market. Cattle receipts 18000, market steady. Sheep receipts 15000, market strong. Prices listed for beeves calves cows and ewes. Pittsburg and Cincinnati markets show mixed cattle hog and sheep results with ranges. Toledo grain and seed futures shown with multiple crop prices and dates.
In Chicago on December 3, manager Ernest Stevens announced price cuts at the Hotel Lasalle. Rooms dropped by fifty cents to three dollars daily and menus by about a quarter, as the hotel aims to shift public sentiment toward broader reductions after several prosperous years.
Frank Stepitz of Bellaire and the General Baking Company with Schroehmann Baking Company of Wheeling WV petition Judge Starr for bankruptcy proceedings against Barton Co operative Store Company of Barton Belmont County. They claim about 1000 dollars due on goods sold.
A group of freeholders in Dover Township petitions the Board of Commissioners to establish a public road from the Westhem residence to the Coe farm area and to extend a road along Woodberry Run to Ferndale Road. The order sets January 5 1920 for viewing the proposed abandoned road and January 19 for the hearing.
The Athens County Board of Commissioners sets December 22 1919 for viewing a proposed road closing described as starting at the foot of a hill southeast of a property owned by ool ey and intersecting a new road near the barn of 8 R McCune. A formal hearing is scheduled for January 5 at the county seat.
Nugen Gingeralla files in Athens County Court of Common Pleas a mortgage foreclosure against Joe Carruso. The petition seeks a decree for 2560 with 9 percent interest since August 28 1918 and sale of the described Tyumpie Township property, coal rights reserved, to satisfy the debt. Defendant must answer by January 1920 or a decree will be entered.
Marcellus Rutledge has been appointed and qualified as administrator of the estate of Martha L. Rutledge late of Athens county Ohio deceased. Judge H T Phillips Probate Judge of Said County 11 26 30tw.
Dec 3 report shows Point Bridge at 5.5 feet, Herr's Island 6.6, Davis Island 7.4, Beaver Dam 11.6, Parkersburg 15.7, and Point Pleasant 21.4 feet, all falling.
Clara Calentine of 86 Eighteenth Street is filing a divorce and child custody petition in the Court of Common Pleas of Ohio. The notice lists Woolley & Ro as attorneys for the case and sets a hearing on or after December.
Fragmented timetable lists departure and arrival times for trains between Athens and surrounding points. Entries reference No 1 and No 3 services, daily trains, and multiple north south routes with times like 9 39 A M and 4 27 P M.
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