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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1920
Page
7
A collage of small notices offers banking interest, burial vaults, piano sales, tires and auto parts, trucks, used cars, and buying requests. Also includes wanted ads for furniture, sewing machines, housework, clothing, and farm land in Meigs County with brief details and contact cues.
The Leader Confectionery between Sommers' and College Inn offers a fine assortment of Xmas candies and fruit baskets, including Romance and Reymer's Chocolates. The Model Restaurant advertises meals for 45 cents or a luncheon for 35 cents with quick service near the Opera House.
Wanted men to learn barbering with pay and steady work. Learn while learning at Moler Barber College located at 841 W 6th Cincinnati. Apply December 10 to January 9.
Wanted owner to claim a yearling Jersey calf with a white nose ring. Owner may claim by paying for ad and feed. Call IL A itmore. Lost girl’s black beaver hat about three weeks ago. Reward returned to Charles Evans’ Plumbing Shop. Lost fountain pen and Rebecca pin. Call Bell 894.
Vacancy notice to vacate by January 1 lists items for sale including an oak davenport gas range two rockers six oak dining chairs and a rubber wheelchair. Also announces a new second hand furniture store opening January 8 1921 with upholstery and repairs at Majestic Restaurant space in Nelsonville. Catalogs miscellaneous ads for Christmas candy and a brindle Boston terrier puppy.
Vic Pierce of the Pierce restaurant in Lodi township reports a valuable hound is missing. The dog, described as vicious, left the owner after a dispute over tariff policy and may be in a kennel associated with a local individual. Pierce seeks information on the hound’s whereabouts.
Fragmentary text from a Athens page shows unreadable times and names. no clear event or outcome is discernible. The readable pieces offer no coherent subject, participants, or location to summarize a distinct news item.
A list of items includes a cyclamen plant priced at $1.50 offered to Whitmore by Cal with date 12-21-3 and a fine line of toilet articles promoted as Christmas presents. Orders to Mrs. Lucy Hoodlett at 235 W Washington St or Bell phone 657. Also advertised four-room houses for sale with slate roof, 60 by 180 lot, coal on lot, electric lights, new paint, inquire Wear-A-Well Store, date 12-17-tt.
Wheat cash and December at 1.99 dollars, March and May 1.91. Oats cash No 2 white 0.652 to 0.68 dollars. Rye cash No 2 1.58. Barley No 2 0.80. Clover seed cash 19.19 to 12.15 with futures 12.20 to 12.45. Timothy prices 3.30 to 3.55, Alsike 16.00 cash and 16.75 futures. Butter 57 cents, Eggs 80 cents, Hay 1.60 dollars.
Cattle receipts light and market slow with choice at 10.50 to 11.00 dollars, prime 9.50 to 10.00, fair 8.00 to 9.00, veal calves 14.50 to 15.00. Sheep and lambs receipts light and market steady with prime wethers 5.00 to 6.00, good 4.75 to 5.25, yearling lambs 10.50 to 11.00. Hogs receipts 20 double decks. market higher with prime heavy 9.75 to 10.00, mediums 10.50 to 10.65, heavy yorkers 10.50 to 10.65, pigs 10.50 to 10.65, roughs 3.50 to 9.00, stags 6.50 to 7.00.
Butter creamery 68c and 38c 49c standards bed firsts. seconds 33c ic. Eggs ordinaries 57c 61c firsts 65c 66c. Cheese twina 19% live poultry 18c 25c.
Illinois Union Stock Yards shows receipts of 8000 cattle and 8000 sheep with markets lifting. Cattle bids range from 4.75 to 14.50 for canners and cutters and beeves, while sheep prices feature wool lambs at 7.00 and 11.75, ewes at 1.60 and 4.50.
Cattle receipts 200. Market strong for steers with good choice at 8.00 to 10.50. Hogs receipts 400. Market active up 50 cents with good choice at 106.00. Sheep receipts 200. Market steady with extras 4.00 to 4.50. Lambs market steady with extras 10.50 to 11.00.
Cincinnati reports egg prices with a 2 cent drop for extras, firsts at 64 cents, 62 cents for firsts, and 60 cents for ordinary eggs, reflecting a softer wholesale tone in the local market.
Mamie Rose aged 58 died at Athens State hospital on Wednesday. She had been an inmate there for three years. The remains were shipped to Marietta for burial by Newsom Walburn Co. undertakers.
William Hamer died suddenly at his sons W A and W Hamer home at 71. Funeral services were held at the sons home before the body was taken to Wellston for burial. He worked as a miner until age and illness forced retirement.
Mrs Abbie Shry died at her brother E L Willson's home in New Marshfield Ohio after a two week illness. She was born in Albany and lived in Zaleski and Greensburg before settling in Ohio. Survived by three sisters and three brothers with funeral at the residence Friday at 10 am and burial in Hebbardsville cemetery per her wishes.
Local residents search Monty Ruth in various spots including a barber shop and Masonic Room but fail to locate the hound. A reward is offered for the animal known for a famous soup, amid mounting town intrigue and missing hound reports.
Martha J Warren petitions in probate court for the estate of Charles Carren, deceased, stating the personal estate is insufficient to cover debts and charges. She seeks assignment or sale of real estate in Hudson Addition to Athens and in-lot numbers 660 and 740 to pay charges. heirs named and unknown must answer by December 22 1923.
An administrator will sell at public auction on January 22, 1921, at 2 o clock p m the real estate in Bern Township Athens County Ohio. The First Tract covers about 50 acres with described boundaries from Section 7 to 12. The sale follows court order and references to the Boileau and Elliott families and related records.
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