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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1927
Page
9
Livestock receipts in Cincinnati area show cattle, calves, and sheep steady with varied prices. Beef steers range from 7.50 to 10.26, heifers 6.50 to 10.00, with vealers around 11.00, while fat lambs bring up to 14.25 and ewes 5.25 to 7.50. A long list of residents from Millfield Chauncey Circle Hill and surrounding towns appears in the petition section.
Hogs receipts 1 500 and sheep at 1 000 indicate a fairly active market with varied weekly quotes. Prices range for hogs from 11 65 to 12 75 per hundred during lighter weights and packing sows around 10 00 to 10 75, cattle steady with beef steers 9 00 to 10 65, wealers 16 to 18, and top fat lambs near 4 73.
Butter receipts total 8,817 with creamery figures shown. Extras listed as 49c 30c and standards 50c. Firsts SCGAB SEC, seconds 46c 47c, extras Slc. Liges receipts 17,814 and ordinaries 22c 23c with firsts B3c 23c gc, seconds 22%4c, extras 24¢.
Eggs steady in Cincinnati markets with fresh gathered extra firsts at 22 cents and firsts at 21 cents. Ordinary firsts 20 cents and seconds 19 cents. butter prices unchanged.
Cleveland Produce lists round white Maine potatoes at 4.00 for 4.25 dollars, New York 3.50, Idaho russets bakers 120 pound sacks 3.70, Ohio bushel sacks 1.50 to 1.60, ware garnets in hampers 1.50 to 1.75, Cuban reds crates No 1 5.50, sweet extras 5b standards 50 in tablets, extra firsts 25 4c, firsts 24 24 4c, ordinary 2c.
Butter steady with receipts of 15 148 pounds and creamery extras. Eggs unsettled at market with receipts of 41 045. Nearby white fancy 33 cents, mixed whites 28 to 32 cents, fresh firsts 24 to 25 cents, western whites 27 to 30 cents, Pacific coast 27 4 to 34 4 cents, nearby towns 2 to 11 cents.
Toledo grain markets report closing prices for Wheat No. 2 at 1.35 to 1.36 per bushel, Corn No. 2 at 74 to 75 cents, Rye No. 2 at 1.06, and Oats No. 2 at 40 to 41 cents. Cash and future bids for Timothy, attieke, and butter and hay pricing are listed with February and March contracts.
Liberty 1st 44s open 103.11 down 1.4s trade 100.22 steady, Sid 4%4s up 1 to 101.12, 4th 4%4s at 103.26 off 1, IL S Treasury 4%4s rise to 111.18, Treasury 4s at 107.3 off 2.
The speeding charge against J M Lama, a prominent Hocking Valley coal operator, was dismissed in Common Pleas court yesterday by Judge L G Worstell upon the prosecutor's application. Lama was arrested August 21, 1926 by Constable Edgar C Mariner, who has since died.
Two petitions signed by eighty nine and ninety residents seek the removal of William Glass, the justice of the peace in Dover township. Hearings set for March 16 by Judge L. G. Worstell after Glass pleaded guilty twice to possessing liquor and intoxication.
President Coolidge signed the Pepper McFadden branch banking bill. The measure lets national banks open branches in states that permit branch banking under their laws.
Coshocton February 25 Mrs Fred G Haskins wife of a local high school teacher left her husband and three children February 7 and notified him she was in Newport Kentucky
The Justice Department opened an anti trust inquiry into the motion picture organization led by Will Hays after Frank J Rembusch of the Indiana theater owners association accused it of bearing despotic control and holding about 95 percent of the industry. Officials said the inquiry would not be a formal investigation.
The U S Navy can begin construction July 1 on the last three of eight light cruisers authorized in 1924 unless President Coolidge halts the plan. The Senate is expected to approve a House amendment reversing itself to fund starting the ships, with House passage by 208 to 172.
A fire in Gallipolis destroyed the Loose Leaf Tobacco warehouse and its contents with an estimated loss of 100000. Nearby Hocking Valley railroad yard cars were damaged. The warehouse lease holder is a group of Gallipolis businessmen led by Grayson T. Thornton of Huntington West Virginia. Cause of the fire is undetermined.
Floyd Hewitt, 16, faces murder charges in Conneaut after the February 14 killings of Mrs. Fred Brown and her son Fred Jr. A special grand jury was convened by Prosecutor C. B. Cook. Hewitt’s mother hires counsel to seek to avert the electric chair.
New storms threaten Pacific coast shipping as several vessels run aground. Three men are believed dead after a small boat foundered in a northeast gale between Cordova Alaska and Hindenbrook Island. Fifteen scientists escaped when the Schooner Scandia grounded near Kodiak Alaska yesterday.
A Daily Mail dispatch from Hankow reports fears of anti foreign outbreaks in the Chinese city where many British nationals stay to protect property amid tensions.
American Minister McMurray joined with the Peking diplomatic corps in a curt warning to Chinese civil war generals to respect the neutrality of the Shanghai international settlement. The State Department said foreign authorities will act to protect foreigners there. American Consul General Lockhart reported a general strike at Hankow protesting British troops at Shanghai and the northern militarists, tying up Hankow port as demonstrations were organized.
H E Myers and Parker Nolin pleaded guilty to ignoring a stop sign at Mill and College and speeding on State street. They were fined five dollars each after appearing before Mayor Alex Moore at seven last night. Myers, a Chadwell bus line driver between Gloucester and Athens, was ordered into court by Safety Director Wranz L Woodworth on Wednesday afternoon, and Nolin was arrested by Chief of Police Herb Parker Wednesday evening. Both paid the fines.
One man was killed and two others wounded when gunmen in a sedan opened fire on a group outside Club Kadix in Philadelphia. Police described the incident as a bar area shooting that occurred early morning hours.
Athens County and the city of Athens have killed about fifty mad dog victims since last Monday after four people were bitten in the business district. City officers killed thirty dogs and the county about twenty. two thirds were unlicensed. Judge Worstell approved W. J. Rice as special deputy to catch land kill dogs not tied per county orders.
Courtney hill on the Athens Nelsonville road slips soil and brick, endangering traffic. Mayor Alex Moore warns traffic at risk while two families flee their homes and one way traffic is allowed as officials fence the hazard.
The Diaz Nicaraguan government's plan for a U S protectorate was revealed in Washington via the Nicaraguan legation. The treaty would guarantee a stable government in Nicaragua to protect life property and liberty while the United States secures a canal and naval base under the Bryan Chamorro framework and can intervene to ensure the guarantee.
Lemuel Ward 71 was fatally injured blasting rocks on his farm when fragments from an exploding boulder perforated his back. He died half an hour after arrival at a hospital. Grandchildren who witnessed the accident summoned aid.
Jesse Coon and Edward Dunn appeared before Magistrate Pearl W Helwig pleading not guilty. Dunn faces charges filed by his mother in law Laura Rizer and R D Williams. Coon charged by prosecutor Williams for non support of two illegitimate children. A preliminary hearing is set for March 2 at 2 PM.
A one cent reduction in gasoline prices was announced today by Standard Oil Company of New Jersey for New Jersey Maryland North Carolina South Carolina and the District of Columbia. The move lower fuel costs for tank wagon deliveries across the region.
In Ocean Town New Jersey Garrett Folsom is found stabbed to death while bathing. Intrigue centers on his companions including Roger Neville business associate Mrs Helen Barnaby and Carmelita Walden as investigators tie a Oriental knife weapon to a boardwalk purchase. Anastasia Folsom arrives to direct the inquiry while Dan Pelton and Titus Riggs pursue clues as Myrtle the chambermaid and Tubby the bellboy poke into rooms seeking hints.
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