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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1922
Page
7
Fragmented classified item shows mixed employment phrases including female and male help wanted, agents and salesmen, and situations wanted. It reflects a historic job listing style with broad categories but no clear specifics or names.
U S weekly market list shows butter with various grades and prices including extra 40 percent 41c prints 41 1 2c, firsts 80 to 44 40c, oLeo and oils, cheese York State 24 to 26c, live poultry heavy fowls 25 to 26c, roosters 16 to 17c, spring chicks 21c, turkeys 40 to 40e, live geese 20 to 22c, dressed meat 6 to 10 higher.
In Cleveland on January 16 Miss Mary Davey, a woman prosecuting attorney from Hocking County, urged dry advocates at the Hotel Windsor to let higher officials lead and show the way for police officers, citing Hocking County as a model.
The Central Avenue M. E. Church reports its largest attendance of the year at Sunday School and a large evening audience for Class Six Chorus. Rev Allbrand delivered a strong message and tonight the pastor preaches How May I Know that I Am A Christian with several accepting salvation. services continue all week with an open invitation.
The American Legion under Cliff Cornell will stay on duty until eight o’clock Tuesday to distribute bonus payment applications for ex soldiers. Ex soldiers in the district are urged to visit the bonus department in Zenner’s store to obtain blanks, aiding Legion volunteers who donate their time.
The War Finance Corporation announced 214 government loans totaling 6,127,000 dollars for agricultural and livestock purposes.
Ten survivors of the German steamship Vesta, which was burned at sea with 11 reported dead, were landed at Lowestoft today.
Toledo grain prices dated January 16 show cash wheat at 1.08 to 1.21 per bushel with May at 1.22 and July 1.064. Corn and oats quoted with miscellaneous fractions, rye, barley, clover seed, alsike, timothy futures and cash bids listed for several months.
Cincinnati reports egg prices on January 16 with fresh gathered extra firsts at 38 cents per dozen, firsts at 36 cents, and ordinaries at 34 cents.
Receipts show hogs active and lower by 25 to 40 cents with top and average prices listed across weight classes. Cattle receipts reach 29,000 with market mostly lower, while sheep run 27,000 with steady to slightly softer prices. regional figures include beef steers, heifers, cows, veal, and feeder lambs across multiple grades and weight ranges.
Pittsburg stockyard notes Jan 16 with cattle supply around 1900 and varied prices for grains cows calves and fat bulls. Sheep and lambs seen 500 higher with prime wethers and mixed grades listed and hogs receipts 6600 with prices down 25 to 40 cents from prior reading for prime heavy hogs and mediums.
Cattle receipts 2300 with slow market. best steers 6.50 to 8. Heifers and calves higher up to 11.50 to 12. Hogs receipts 8000 down 25 to 50 cents. good packers and butchers about 5. Sheep 200 steady with good to choice 4.60, lambs 12.50 to 13. Market tone reflects declines in hogs and steadiness in sheep segments.
Hubert Keeney age 16 of Wellsburg West Virginia died Sunday night after a five week illness Typhoid and double pneumonia he was born September 24 1906 in Buchtel Ohio He lived there until moving to Wellsburg two years ago He attended public school in seventh grade He leaves his parents four sisters and four brothers Funeral services were held Wednesday at 2 30 p m at his parents home with Rev Mason of Derwent Ohio officiating Interment was in Brooke Cemetery
Senator Kellogg of Minnesota introduces a bill to add a board member labeled a dirt farmer on the Federal Reserve Board. The move follows a White House meeting with President Harding and Senators Kellogg and Kenton of Iowa to secure bloc support. The President reportedly pledges to appoint a dirt farmer once the bill is enacted.
Secretary of Commerce Hoover met with leading railroad executives in Washington on January 16 to press for voluntary rate reductions ahead of potential wage cuts. Hoover said the discussions focus on harmony between railroads and labor, not specific wage or working condition issues, as they work to strengthen the authority of the United States railroad labor board in Chicago to settle disputes.
Senator Pomérene of Ohio introduced a resolution in the Senate setting a ten thousand dollar limit on expenditures by or for candidates to secure election to the United States Senate.
John Moore a farmer killed John Sexton a 45 year old merchant at Camp Branch near Whitesburg during a morning clash over moonshine liquor. Reports to the sheriff's office say the altercation arose while they were drinking.
Two American girls were lured aboard a ship in Glasgow after tea with a sailor. The vessel sailed to South America, then Colon and Callao before the girls escaped to the British Consul and were sent home.
The foreign debt funding bill creating a five member commission led by the secretary of the treasury to arrange terms for repayment of 11 billion dollars borrowed during the war was favorably reported to the Senate by the finance committee on Monday by a majority vote.
Washington January 16 rail roads of the United States gained 200 million dollars during the period of government control through increased values of materials and supplies paid for by the government Clifford Thorne attorney for the shippers asserted before the Interstate commerce commission during the transportation investigation
Senator King of Utah introduced a resolution in the Senate declaring it the sovereign right of China to determine its domestic affairs. The measure denounces the armament conference for considering a program that would control Chinese finances and abridge China's political and fiscal autonomy.
Reports from London describe a northern sea revival where fishermen and workers attend all-night services in open churches. The movement uses nautical terms and vows, with leaders like a Wick cooper and a Peterhead cook attracting crowds across Wick, Peterhead, Yarmouth, and Lowestoft as herring season draws Scots to shoreline towns.
Berkley California January report from Lick Observatory notes that daylight savings dates to Pope Sylvester II in 996. Director W. W. Campbell announced in the university annual report that astronomer R. H. Tucker found clocks run faster at night and slower by day than 24 hour rates.
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