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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Dec 19, 1921

Page

3

East School P T A Bazaar Draws Large Crowds and Funds

The East school Parent-Teacher association held a Friday evening bazaar and Christmas entertainment. All merchandise sold within two hours and plays in multiple rooms attracted big crowds. A large sum was cleared, exceeding expectations. Executive and committee groups plan next year’s work and dues collection, with full committee representation expected at tonight’s meeting.

East School Parent-Teacher Association

Correction on mine mash arrest wording

A clarification corrects a misnaming in a recent mine discovery report. The arrested individual was Alf Wolf, not Al Wolf, as Alfred Wolf attends the Church of God.

al Wolf Alf” Wolf Alfred Church of God

Glenford Dugan Post committees meet this evening

Committees of Glenford Dugan Post American Legion will hold meetings tonight at 7 o'clock at post headquarters. The sessions aim to discuss post affairs and upcoming events.

Glenford Dugan Post American Legion Post

Real estate and business offers in Logan and Nelsonville Ohio

Classified from L D Martin Logan Office James Theatre ad lists homes on 2nd St Logan and Main Street priced from 4 500 to 6 500 with features sun porch hard wood floors and modern wiring. Also a Nelsonville 12 room double on the square with 50 rent and a confectionery ice cream parlor for 3 500 and a coal mine 100 acre lease offered for a few days at 3 000 under value. Including a 6 000 acre farm 6 miles from Logan and a cement block 7 room house for quick sale at 6 200.

Logan Ohio 2Nd St Tdouse Nelsonville West Hunter Street

Phildorian Lodge Meeting At Masonic Temple Tonight

The regular Philo dorian lodge F and A M will hold a meeting at the Masonic temple tonight. After the business session a smoker will be given and a large attendance is expected.

Blue Lodge Philodorian Lodge Masonic Temple

Thankful for Assistance After Fire Loss

Mr. and Mrs. Enos Starkey express gratitude to friends and neighbors for acts of kindness after losing their home and all belongings to a fire last week. They say a friend in need is a friend indeed and will never forget the support received.

Enos Starkey

Mrs Ella Arnett Dies After Goiter Operation

Mrs. Ella Arnett aged 42 died Saturday at Mt. Carmel hospital after a goiter operation. The body was taken to her Carbondale home for funeral services Tuesday. She leaves a husband and seven children.

Ella Arnett Mt. Carmel Hospital Carbondale

Eight-year-old Chester Stevens dies of diphtheria

Chester Stevens aged eight died at his home The Factory after a diphtheria illness. Private funeral services will be held Tuesday morning and burial at Green Lawn.

Chester Stevens Greenlawn

Attendees at Mrs Collins Funeral in Straitsville

Mr and Mrs J C McCarty and Mrs Marie Walker attended the funeral of Mrs Anna Collins in Straitsville on Wednesday. Ralph Parks spent the latter part of the week in Northern Ohio on business. Mrs Parker Sniffen and son Max of Kingwood WV are guests of the formers parents for Xmas. W H Parks returned from a business trip to New York City. Clifford Spencer of Kingwood WV is spending Christmas with his parents Joshua and Mrs Spencer.

J. C. McCarty Marie Walker Anna Collins Straitsville Ralph Parks Ohio

Surprise party for Mrs Verity marks sixty second birthday

Daughters organized a large social gathering Friday night to honor Mrs. Henry Verity on her 62nd birthday. Friends and relatives attended a luncheon with gifts and flowers. Out of town guests included Mrs. Grover Nagle and daughter and Mrs. C. A. Hooper of Athens.

Henry Verity Grover Nagle C. A. Hooper Athens

Hyperion Club Ladies Hear Papers on Current Events

Mrs. B. E. Le Fever hosted the Hyperion Club gathering on Saturday afternoon. Roll call prompted reports on current events. Mrs. D A Ferree explained the Crabbe Act and Miller Bill. Mrs. C H Roudehish presented a paper titled How the Bootleggers will tell on another. A group discussion followed the papers.

B. E. le Fever Hyperion Club D.A. Ferree Crabbe Miller Bill C. H. Roudehish

Elks Host Beneficial Wrestling Card at Opera House

Arrangements set for a high class wrestling program at the Opera House next Thursday night under Elks auspices. Featured match pits Prof. Manford of the University of Virginia against Charles Sission of Nelsonville. Proceeds aid Xmas baskets for needy families and toys for children. Sission donates his services and takes no fee.

Opera House the Elks Prof. Manford University of Virginia Charles Sission Nelsonville Sission Order of Els

Main Bout Promised After Generous Preliminaries

The program opens with aid to worthy and needy families and proceeds to a main bout. Sission and Man ford are noted to go to a finish, with the evening expected to be large for both. A message that more than money’s worth is promised and to remember the object.

Sission Manford

Sealed Mine 267 Fire Forces 275 Out of Work

Mine 267 at Hunterdon will stay sealed about 90 days to smother a Saturday fire found by the fire boss. Fire raged in the 21st west entry in old workings with no current wiring, possibly spreading from Murray City area. Slopes sealed to starve air. no operation until late March.

Hunterdon Murray City Old 7

Bakery worker robbed at railroad crossing

Bill Burns of the Quality Bakery was held up by two white men near the Stoecklin building about 1 45 am. A revolver was brandished and Burns was searched but his cap hid the cash. He did not recognize or recall the robbers.

Bill Burns Quality Bakery Stoecklin Bill Burns

Dulaney Attends Star Manufacturing Stockholders Meeting

F. P. Dulaney travels to New Mexico for a stockholders meeting of the Star Manufacturing Company today.

F. P. Dulaney New Mexington The Star Manufacturing Co

Athens visitors Mrs Daugherty and daughter Beatrice

Mrs C A Daugherty and her daughter Beatrice of Athens were guests of friends in this city Friday and Saturday.

C. A. Daugherty Beatrice of Athens

Mrs Bernard Noon Visits Columbus Guests After Holidays

Mrs Bernard Noon of Columbus arrived Sunday to stay with Mr and Mrs M F Noon through the holiday season.

Bernard Noon Columbus M. F. Noon

Lunsford Women Return From Columbus Trip

Mrs. Percy Lunsford and Mrs. Chester Lunsford arrived home Saturday after spending the past week in Columbus.

Percy Lunsford Chester Lunsford Columbus

Roof blown off Beshara building in heavy windstorm

Part of the roof on the front part of the Beshara building was blown off during the storm Saturday night and fell across electric wires, interrupting lighting until the next day. The storm was unusually heavy but caused no serious damage.

Beshara

Cincinnati Live Stock Market Report

Receipts: cattle 2200 hogs 6000 sheep 300. Cattle dull with prices 26 50 to 28? for good to choice steers about $9.50 to $10 for cows. Hogs steady to 25 cents lower with best packers and butchers around $7.50. Sheep receipts $300. market dull to good, ewes and wethers offered around $3.60 to $7.50.

Cincinnati Deco

Pittsburg Livestock Market Reports Fall as Demand Slows

Cattle receipts 90 cars, market dull and lower with prime 7.25 to 7.50 and common around 7.00 to 7.40. Sheep and lambs receipts 18 loads, prices for prime wethers 5.25 to 5.50, yearlings around 10.50, hogs receipts 40 loads, heavy and medium grades decline with prime heavy 7.25 to 7.40 and pigs 8.60 to 8.70.

Pittsburg

Livestock Market Totals From Union Stock Yards Chicago

Hogs receipts 48000 market steady top 7.25 bulk 6.50 to 6.99 heavy 6.55 to 6.75 light 6.80 to 7.19 heavy packing sows 6.50 to 6.25 packers 5.10 to 5.65 pigs 7.10 to 7.30 Cattle receipts 28000 market 25e lower best 8.59 to 16.50 medium 8.40 to 9, common 5.50 to 6.40 good to best 5.8 to 10.75 cattle and heifers 3.50 to 8 cows 3.25 to 7.25 bulls 3.85 to 6 canners 1.75 to 3.20 veal calves 7.25 to 9.25 feeder steers 5 to 6.75 stocker steers 4.25 to 6.60 stocker cows 2.75 to 4.75 Sheep receipts 21000 market steady lambs 9.25 to 10.50 yearlings 7 to 9 ewes 5.25 to 8 call common ewes 1.50 to 2.75

Union Stockyards Illc Chicago

Chicago grain and produce price notices from December

A brief price listing for butter creamery and cheese from Chicago with mixed firsts seconds and ordinary ranges. Poultry values show live birds ducks geese turkeys and roosters with varied per unit prices.

Chicago rae _ ae Ucks

Market Report Cleveland Ohio Prices for Dairy Poultry

Cleveland December 19 Butter prices include extra in tubs 49 to 50 cents prints 50 to 50 and a half cents extra firsts 48 to 49 cents firsts 47 to 44 48 cents scends 40 cents packing stock 25 to 26 cents Eggs fresh northern extra 52 cents extra firsts 51 cents Ohio firsts new cases 49 cents old cases 48 cents Western firsts new cases 47 cents Poultry and potatoes unchanged

Cleveland Ohio

Toledo Grain and Seed Prices in Early Dec Trading

Toledo reports closing prices for grains and seeds with wheat at cash 1.19 and futures Dec 1.19 May 1.26 July 1.10. corn 52 53 cents. oats No 2 white 40 42. rye No 2 87. barley No 2 63. clover seed Dec and Jan 13.00-13.25. timothy 3.12-3.25. alsike 11.00-11.20. butter 45-46 cents. eggs 65 cents. hay 1.00.

Toledo Timothy Alsike

Legion to care for disabled veterans on Christmas Day

Indianapolis December 19 Disabled veterans and dependents nationwide will be cared for by American Legion members on Christmas Day. Legionnaires will visit homes of sick and wounded, with committees aiding hospitalized men. Gifts and entertainments planned, while investigators will report neglect cases to pursue government aid and ensure proper care.

Indianapolis Ind United States American Legion Legionnaires Legion Red Cross

Christmas Thought Among Ex-Service Men

Hanford MacNider National Commander of the Legion frames a charity sentiment as a Christmas greeting between ex-service men. He emphasizes it is a goodwill act not a fund drive and notes the recipient’s status as Legion member is not essential to the gesture.

Hanford MacNider The Legion

Oklahoma City Report Promises Carter County Cleanup

Oklahoma City dispatch says Carter county Oklahoma a remaining stronghold of the lawless will be cleaned up immediately Assistant District Attorney Fulton declared Ardinne is in this county.

Oklahoma City Okla Carter County Oklahoma Fulton Ardinne

Parliament Postpones Irish Peace Treaty Ratification

London reports that formal ratification of the Irish peace treaty by parliament was postponed until January 31 as the session was prorogued at 4.50 PM.

London

Deaths-Funerals James Cornell 28 in Akron burn blast

James Cornell 28 son of Mr and Mrs Otis Cornell of Barberton died in an Akron hospital from burns suffered in a benzine explosion at the Goodrich Tire and Rubber plant in Akron last Thursday. He previously lived in Athens. Burial plans to be announced. Mrs Otis Cornell is sister of Mrs John P Dana.

James Cornell Otis Cornell Barberton Akron Goodrich Tire and Rubber Factor Athens John P. Dana

Caroline Tedrow Dies at 90 in West Washington Home

Caroline Tedrow widow of Thomas Tedrow died Saturday at 7 p.m. aged 90 at the home of her daughter Mrs. L McDonald on West Washington and Cemetery streets. Survived by three of six children Mrs. Stanton James Mrs. L McDonald and John Tedrow of Columbus. She lived in New England 60 years and was a church member since childhood. Funeral Tuesday at 10:39 a.m. at New England M E church with burial in the adjacent cemetery.

Caroline Tedrow Thomas Tedrow L. McDonald West Washington Cemetery Streets Stanton James Athens John Tedrow Colmbus Tedrow New England Christian Church

Strike Triggers Aid Appeal After Newport Mills Shooting

Newport Kentucky December 19 strike tensions erupt as two Newport Rolling Mills employees are shot. Plant head W Andrews says appeal for aid to Governor Edwin P Morrow may be sent. officials tie shooting to a steel workers strike.

Newport Ken Newrt Rolling Mills W Andrews Edwin P. Morrow

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Nelsonville News L.d.martin Logan and Nelsonville Real Estate James Theatre Bidg J. J. Nutter Wrestler A. D. Farrow Public Square Ouro Milton J. Rosenan Glouster Liberty Bonds New York Liberty Gas Victory N. Y. Exchange Meeker & Co Columbs Allis Chalmers Eee Bimoricks Ok Oaks Com H & Lb Seeree Atchison Baldwin Eeeetee Ceeses Eee Tose Seesesee Pharmacy Bethlehem B Seesesese Ce & Oo Chino Tenet Geweneneee Col. Gas & Electric Svences Ester General Motor Wee Enens Mickel Ssda Kennecat Inter Marine Republic I & Bs Eeeseseers Midvale Nevada Copper New York Central Norfolk & Western Northern Pacific Seeereee Pennsy Eee Southern Railway Mid States Chandler American Loco Seepee Esse Eseses Generals Electric Eteeseerarse Western Union Pittsburg Livestocce Toledo Grain Buckeye State Building & Loan Co Rankin Bldg West Gay St Scott Haney Co
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