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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1920
Page
7
Three old mules described as large and well matched a four year old mare one ofe horse wagon and a disk harrow offered by L. D. Gillogly Albany Ohio dates show 0 2 26 Sp likely a notice of sale including contact and location details.
Cattle receipts around 500 with a steady to slow market. Steers good to choice quoted at 11.00 to 31.50. Calves steady with good to choice at 19.00 to 20.00. Hog receipts about 5000 with steady to higher prices, heavy grades weak. packers and butcher hogs 15.25 to 15.60. Sheep light receipts with steady to good to choice around 10.00 to 10.50. Lambs strong for good to choice. Chicago produce notes show butter at 64 to 66 cents, eggs and culls listed, live poultry at 5 cents.
Hog and cattle prices listed show steady demand with hogs trading around 14.25 to 15.25 per cwt and beef cattle including beeves near 14.00, 16.00 and butchers around 6.50 to 11.50. Pigs, calves, and feeders move between 4.60 and 16.26, with lambs and ewes also noted as firm in the fragmented report.
Cattle receipts are light with a steady market. Prices show choices at 13.75 to 14.25, primes 12.00 to 12.75, veal calves 20.00 to 21.50, common 9.50 to 11.00. Sheep and lambs receipts light with steady market. primes 15.00 to 16.50, good 13.00 to 14.00, yearlings 13.00. Hogs receipts 8 doubles with steady market. primes 16.00 to 16.25, mediums 17.00, heavy yorkers 16.00 to 17.00, pigs 15.50 to 15.75, roughs 12.00 to 14.25, stags 9.50 to 10.50.
Toledo Ohio February 28 close report for grain and seed prices. Corn No 3 yellow cash 1.56. Oats white No 2 cash 0.93 and 0.9414. Rye No 2 cash 1.44. Clover seed cash and February od a 34.60, April 33.80, Oct. Timothy 1917 1918 cash 6.40 6.57% March 6.57%4, April 6.55, May 6.50.
Chaplain Samuel B. Knowles of Ft. Bliss and the Columbus recruiting office visits Athens to promote the new army. He highlights opportunities at Camp Sherman, including literacy, grammar, high school courses, stenography, bookkeeping, and motor mechanics. Soldiers receive pay, board, and lodging plus education with mornings for drill and afternoons and evenings for personal development. Chaplain Knowles supports the army and the 7th cavalry.
The Prince of Wales, presiding at the annual gathering of the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum, recalled his American tour and joked that in London he did not even have to pretend to try.
Laredo Texas dispatch says Tacubaya in the federal district of Mexico has general permission from the federal government to license gambling houses. The motive is to channel the municipalitys share of proceeds to its depleted treasury per El Universal of Mexico City.
The article discusses a new automobile license law up to Supreme Court review. It outlines car classes by horsepower with flat fees, plus truck rates, dealer fees, and phased fee reductions after April 1. Revenue funds street maintenance and state highway work, with distributions to cities and counties.
Edmonton records the removal of the last ruins of the old Hudson Bay fur post built in 1795 at the edge of Edmonston’s earliest landmarks. The article recalls the fur trade era with prairies described as black with buffalo and streams crowded with carver.
The Salvation Army in Britain, with the government, promotes emigration of about 1,250,000 women surplus to men. Commissioner David C. Lamb, London foreign secretary, announced the mission to the United States. An inventor patented a reversible mirror for store windows to show how garments would look on buyers.
An advertisement claims Lubricant Carbon Remover cleans spark plug holes to restore power and improve fuel efficiency. It instructs pouring two to four tablespoons into each plug hole, following directions, with a guaranteed result and price of $1 prepaid. Address: E. G. Gossett, 603 Lawrence St., Jacksonville, Tennessee.
Mrs. J. C. Coggeshall and daughter Sarah attended the funeral of Mrs. Harry Yates in Porterfield. Milo Foster moved a drilling machine from Little Hocking to the Brown farm near Red Bush. J. C. Coggeshall and son Jim visited Parkersburg. Mrs. Jim Conley and Hazel are recovering from flu. R. M. Patterson of Athens spent days on his farm here. The new barn on the Patterson place nears completion. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Cornes and children are out after flu. J. C. Coggeshall is on the sick list.
A wartime report notes 148 moments taken into the ocesa and mentions ships from the American reg ve to the lakes. It states none of the Canadian registry crews has been sent back, reflecting limited repatriation among maritime personnel.
Iowa Supreme Court rules public highways serve both pleasure and business. In a damage case the court states coasting is not contributory negligence.
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