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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1926
Page
9
Receipts 2 000 market fair to 20 higher at Cincinnati and 1 500 at other centers. Steers and heifers strong to 25 higher with tops near 11 75 to 13.00 for choice beef, cows 6 25 to 7 50, vealers 6 50 to 14 00. Lambs and sheep mixed with bids 10 75 to 13 45 for medium to choice weights, fat lambs 13 00 tops, feeders 6 00 to 9 00. Overall activity steady to higher across species.
Cincinnati butter steady with creamery tablets and various grades. prices listed for fat content 49c and 75 l. Ege steady fresh gatheres with extras firsts at 44c and 42c for fresh gathered. Oregon and Pacific coast entries show whites 42c and other regional prices. Chicago notes butter receipts 7,689 with creamery prices: firsts ordinaries 38c seconds 42c.
Wool and livestock prices hold steady in holiday market. Fed lambs around 11.60, fat ewes higher. feeders scarce but steady. Wool sales showed fair quantities at 1.10 clean for fine medium and Utah bloods at 1.00-1.10 clean. Multiple grain and commodity quotes listed with No. 2 and No. 3 figures.
Officials announce changes effective Sunday January 2 affecting northbound trains 33 35 37 and southbound trains 30 32 34 with renumberings and revised times. Notable shifts include train 32 from 4 32 p m to 4 45 p m and train 34 from 2 40 p m to 9 10 p m.
In Athens County Ohio Common Pleas Court a partition sale is held for Lot 93 in C. L. Sanders Addition Millfield. The auction is Saturday January 15 at 1 PM at the Athens county house. Premises appraised at 2500 dollars. Cash on day of sale. P H McKinley Sheriff. L A Koons Plaintiff Attorney.
Public sale of described real estate in York Township Athens County Ohio on Saturday January 8 1927 at 1 PM at the courthouse door Athens Ohio. Property appraised $1550 cash terms. Notice includes executor appointment for Jessie B McVay estate and stockholders meeting for J H Grayaton Manufacturing Company January 3 1671 at 7 PM to amend articles for preferred stock and expanded manufacturing capacity.
D P Wills of Wellston Ohio files with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio for a certificate to operate a motor transportation service from Wellston to Athens via McArthur. Two daily round trips with two vehicles are proposed as an extension of a prior certificate. Hearing set for February 1 1927 at 12 30 PM in Columbus Ohio. Interested parties may request details from the commission.
Charlies Burke, driver for a Middleport Baking Co. truck, faces two police court fines after police say he parked too close to a fire plug and lacked license tags on both ends. Chief Herb J. Parker arrested him this morning and Burke is set to answer at 4 30 this afternoon.
Two men faced fines for intoxication in local court. Jack King of Athens paid 10 dollars and costs after pleading guilty before Mayor Alex M. Moore. Wash Cable, living in Kentucky, was fined 10 dollars and costs by Magistrate Pearl W. Helwig after arrest by Sheriff P. H. McKinley.
Three new partners Francis Dwight Bartow Arthur Marvin Anderson and William Ewing join J. P. Morgan and company in New York. Following the death of Henry Herman Harjes the Paris firm Harjes and company will be renamed Morgan and company.
Probate court yesterday approved Elmer Bobo as administrator of Fred Bobo estate to settle a $500 claim against the Cleveland Cincinnati Chicago and St. Louis railroad. Fred Bobo was killed November 28 1926 west of Georgesville Franklin county. The court accepted $500 from the railroad: $350 for death and $160 for property damage.
Authority to act as administrator of the estate of H. T. Mulligan for the late Athens county sheriff was given to James C Mulligan in probate court on Wednesday. A bond of 10 000 was required with J J Wooley 4 T Sheridan and Peter Walsh as surety.
Public forum outlines a religious crusade by the WCTU, not politics, marking its 53rd year since a 40-woman sidewalk prayer campaign in Isboro Ohio. The movement, with nearly a million members, links national prohibition to its crusade and calls Athens union to prayer at 2 PM Tuesday at the First M E B church parlor.
Chauncey Dec 31 The Hocking mine is working again after several days of inactivity due to lack of orders. The mine has operated daily since Tuesday. Local residents William Myers spent Christmas in Canton with his parents Mrs and Mr Henry Myers. Mrs Ella Tedrick is ill at the home of her daughter Mrs W D Hines Chauncey. Saul and Abe Wilson and Miss Lena A Wilson plan to visit Columbus. Pearl Wicks and son from Powhattan are visiting The Plains with Owen Martin family. Henry Osborne and family hosted guests Dane Osborne Harry Noble and Fred Osborne from Athens.
Social notes recount a Baker family homecoming in Chauncey with dinner and gifts among siblings and relatives from Dayton Springfield Hillsboro Charleston and Marietta. It also covers a Women’s Bible class meeting at the First Christian church with officer elections and a luncheon hosted by Mrs. Edward Minister, listing attendees and visitors.
Former Hocking resident Mrs. Isaac Wallace, now of Barberton, hosted a festive Christmas at her home with 35 children and grandchildren present. Attendees included Harry Wallace family, Willard Wallace family and daughter, Joe Wallace family and daughter, R. C. West, Lloyd Thorne and baby, all from Hocking area, plus Sallie Johnson, Pearl and Louise Romine, and Henry Frost from Athens.
Mrs. Robert Hixson Sr has been ill since last Friday but is reported improved. The Rev and Mrs W Ahlbrand will move to Chauncey to occupy the Methodist Episcopal parsonage on High Street. Miss Myrtle Myers of Canton is visiting friends in Chauncey.
A string of family visits is reported: Mrs. Howard Mayberry and two children tour Ann Arbor to see her mother and sister. Mr. and Mrs. John Pinnick of Murray City visit their in laws, James Hardy and wife. nephew L. D. Slater accompanies them home for a short stay. Marie Wallace of Barberton visits her parents, Harry and Mia Wallace. Tom Nash and Izetta Stillwell with her son visit from Columbus to Will iam Breaker’s home. Pat Moore and daughter Evelyn of Powhattan spend Christmas with Mrs. Lucy Surgeon and Mrs. Floyd Linscott in Delphian Keaton. George Bescoe Jr. of Powhattan visits his parents at The Plains.
The tale follows Mollie and Prof Elwell of Camdenville Indiana as their son Jim Elwell survives a battlefield misidentification from Sedan against a backdrop of Nellie Downing’s wartime search in Washington. The family learns Jim is alive but mentally impaired and must be guided by Nellie and Mike Hennegan as they pursue truth and care.
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