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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1920
Page
9
Today at the Cincinnati produce market butter ranges from 59 to 68 cents per pound with various grades listed. Eggs hold steady with extra firsts at 48 cents and seconds 46 to 47 cents. Live poultry prices show fowls over 4% pounds at 35 cents, roosters at 22 cents, and smaller birds around 40 cents per pound.
Cattle receipts reach 600 with a steady market and strong heifers up 25 cents. Steers top at 11.00 to 11.50, calves steady to weak around 19.50 to 20.00. Hog receipts 5800 show steady to 25 cents higher with good to choice packers at 15.50 to 16.00. Sheep receipts 500 steady with good to choice 10.00 to 15.50, lambs strong at 20.00 to 20.50.
Butter Creamery 59c Standards 58c 58c Firsts 54c 66c Seconds 49c 52c Haggs ordinaries 43c 50c Firsts 53c Cheese Twins 29c 30c Young American 31 44c 32c Live Poultry 34c
Hogs receipts 31000 market slow weak bulk 14.25 15.25 butchers 14.25 15.50 packing 13.00 14.00 light 14.50 15.50 pigs 13.50 14.75 roughs 13.00 13.50 Cattle receipts 5000 market steady beeves 9.00 17.00 butcher stock 6.40 12.75 canners and cutters 12.00 17.75 stockers and feeders 6.76 11.00 cows 6.40 11.50 calves 15.75 17.25 Sheep receipts 9000 market slow
The report lists lamb prices at 14.75 and 21.00 with debts owed of 6.00 and 13.75. No additional context or names are provided.
Cattle receipts light and market steady with top cattle at 14.60 and prime cattle at 18.50. veal calves range 20.00 to 21.00. Sheep and lambs show light receipts with prime wethers 14.00 to 15.00 and mixed lots around 12.00 to 13.50. Hogs rise on light volume with prime heavy 15.25 to 15.50 and mediums 17.00 to 17.25. pigs 16.00 to 16.75 and roughs 12.60 to 13.75.
Grain prices in Toledo Ohio show corn No 3 yellow at 1.54 dollars per bushel and rye at 1.54. Oats No 2 89 and 90 cents traded. Barley No 2 at 1.35. Clover seed varying from 26.45 to 35.25 with monthly futures listed. Timothy futures range from 6.60 to 6.85 with 1917 1918 1919 contracts noted.
River gauges across the Ohio River show rising levels at Pittsburgh and major points. Point Bridge 7.5 feet, Hert's Island 7.6, Davis Island 9.6, Beaver Dam 19.7, Parkersburg 8.9 feet, all increasing while Point Pleasant drops to 12 feet.
Crooksville defeats Hancock Hi Met 28 to 20 in a close fast game. Early lead by Hancock Hi Met dissolves in final minutes as Crooksville surge comes from behind led by Springer and Showers. Stockdale’s Arich and Edwards stand out for Hancock.
A Brooklyn society woman, a wealthy widow and the president of Brooklyn's fashionable club were victims of Fred Vincent Gordon of Dayton Ohio. Gordon, now confined at Brooklyn navy yard, is charged with impersonating an officer and passing worthless checks. He was an aviator officer and served in the French ambulance corps. Authorities say he evaded detectives in Scotland and Paris for months.
Rear Admiral William Sims told a Jersey City audience that Americanism is a defect because Americans fear adverse criticism. He warned the United States remains unprepared for the next war unless the Navy accepts advice from knowledgeable men and recalled predicting a world war in a 1910 letter to the secretary of the navy.
Members of Troop No. 2 Boy Scouts of Athens are asked to gather at the Presbyterian church Sunday at 7 15 for an in person attendance at the annual Boy Scout sermon to be held at the First Christian church that same evening at 7 30 Roy L Dupler S M.
Bliss Woodyard has been appointed and qualified as executor of the estate of Seldon Woodyard late of Athens county Ohio, deceased. Dated January 30, 1926. H. T. Phillips, Probate Judge of Sald County.
Conservative investments win over flashy profits. The Buckeye State Building & Loan Co. Rankin Building Columbus Ohio offers safe 6 percent returns. Assets exceed 19,700,000 with a booklet titled Money available on request.
Capt. Andre Tardieu reports on reconstruction progress since the armistice. Sixty thousand houses rebuilt, 2 016 kilometers of railway repaired, 700 kilometers of canals reactivated, 1 160 plants restored, 1 000 000 acres of red area returned to cultivation, and 6 000 miles of barbed wire removed. He notes massive labor loss yet progress supports reliance on allies for full restoration.
Reports from Belgrade describe widespread confusion over Yugoslav currency as denominations drift and exchange rates shift daily. The situation strains the Caete and Farmers, who fear continued instability and evasive negotiations without a clear monetary plan.
Paris announces a decree creating a committee of loctations to govern railway operations in France. The plan by M. Claveille calls for collaboration between commerce and industry representatives, railway heads, and employee delegates in road management.
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