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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1920
Page
5
Only three cars remain including a near mint 1920 Chevrolet 490 and two 1920 Ford tourings. Visit McCune Tire & Accessory Co. to inspect these vintage vehicles.
Cattle receipts 700, market weak to steady, shippers paid 8.00 to 10.00. Calves market strong to 50c higher, top 14.40 to 15.50. Hogs receipts 6200, market slow, 50c to 75c lower, good choice packers and butchers 10.00. Sheep receipts 200, market steady, extra 4.00 to 4.50. Lambs market steady, extra 10.50 to 11.00.
E M Norris tuner and rebuild er of pianos offers services to convert old upright and straight pianos into player or electric models. Ukulele attachments available. Gr Music Store advertises week of December 3 with specific date range 12 1 to 13 15.
Cincinnati report notes eggs priced higher with extras at 66 cents, extra firsts 66c? firsts 64c, ordinaries 63c. Market prices reflect daily fluctuations in Cincinnati.
Social affairs list events at K of P hall with a seven piece jazz orchestra on New Years Eve. A Christian church social room hosts an oyster supper Friday night by Esther Class. Owls Hall hosts Elite Dancing Club New Year’s night with a jazz orchestra. ladies need invitations. Also trade ad for a heavy two-horse wagon for a light one and a rental notice seeking one or two light housekeeping rooms for a couple in the city.
Cattle receipts light and market steady with prime prices around 10.00 to 10.50 and choice 10.50 to 11.00. veil calves 18.00 to 18.50. Sheep and lambs light receipts steady with prime wethers 6.00 to 6.50 and yearling lambs 13.00 to 13.50. Hogs receipts 20 double decks and market down with prime heavies 10.25 to 10.50, mediums 11.25 to 11.40, light yorkers 11.50 to 11.75, pigs 11.60 to 11.75.
Hog receipts 26000 with prices 9.25 to 10.50 for various hog categories. light hogs 9.90 to 10.50. Cattle receipts 9000 with beeves 7.00 to 13.00. stockers and feeders 4.25 to 9.00. cows 3.25 to 4.75. calves 10.00 to 12.50. Sheep receipts 13000 with wool lambs 8.75 to 12.60. ewes 2.00 to 5.50. Market steady or down slight in spots.
Toledo Ohio December 29 close shows wheat cash and futures at 1.98 for Dec 1.98 for March and May 1.93. Corn No. 2 yellow cash 79 cents. Oats No. 2 white cash 52 to 53 cents. Rye No. 2 cash 1.60. Barley No. 2 cash 79 cents.
Seed price list shows Clover seed cash 1819 at 12.40 and various months from 1920 12.60 to 12.90. Timothy seed cash 1918 at 3.45 and 1919 3.55 with December 3.62 and January February 3.65. March 3.67. Assixe seed new at 16.50 with cash and March 17.50 and December 156.60.
Chicago market notes show butter creamery at 65 cents with standards at 40 cents and 33 to 37 cents for seconds. Pac ordinaries quoted 60 and 64 cents. Cheese twins priced at 1940 and fowls featured in the listing.
The Bureau of Mines announced that 1 983 people died in coal mine accidents this year to supply American fronts with coal. Last year 2 146 lives were lost.
James Carr of Circle Hill was arraigned before Justice Helwig on a criminal mistreatment charge involving Margaret Lowry, age ten. Carr pleaded not guilty, posted $800 bond signed by Carr and his two sons, with the girl's father preferring the plea.
The court of appeals scheduled a January 10 review of Joshua Botkins life sentence for the killing of 3 year old Arthur. At trial Botkins was alleged to have held the boy by a foot and beaten him with a strap, causing death.
Reports from Wilson Arkansas say Henry Lowery a Black man who killed two white people and wounded two others Saturday has been surrounded on Island 84 in the Mississippi River opposite Nodena. Scores of armed pursuers have tracked him since the crime as authorities warned locals to stay away.
Two armed men robbed grocer Miller in Elyria Ohio as he prepared to take money to the bank. They entered and emptied the cash register, leaving him shaken and reporting the crime.
In Danville Illinois on December 29 authorities cite a Staunton Virginia man, J F C, for bigamy after a camel incident drew attention. He is held awaiting requisition papers.
Three thousand harbor employees in New York anticipate further negotiations with the New York Tow Boat Exchange on pay and conditions before Saturday, the deadline for a strike that could disrupt city supply lines.
Detroit December 29 Ford Motor Company confirms indefinite shutdown of its Highland Park plant where about 50 000 workers were employed. An inventory from December 24 to January 3 preceded the halt with reports the entire operation may stay idle through at least February 1 due to general financial and business conditions.
A fire at the Liebern Art Emporium in Indianapolis gutted the building early today causing an estimated loss of $175,000. The blaze destroyed statues and other works of art housed in the shop.
In New York Herry Wolfe faced charges for a penny shine incident. The court deemed the act outrageous and suspended his sentence after Wolfe punched the boot black in the nose.
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