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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1927
Page
7
Classified notices advertise several rental options in Athens and Nelsonville. Listings include multiple room houses with baths and utilities, a 12 room two story building for restaurant and grocery use, and various business opportunities. Other items mention grocers, a garage service, used materials, and roofing supplies.
Spareen Chevrolet Co advertises affordable used cars in Glouster offering cheap prices on reliable vehicles. The notice highlights value deals and a wide selection.
Used cars listing from R. Beasley offers a 1931 Ford coupe at 85 dollars each a 1923 Ford touring car 6110 dollars a Ford sedan price 225 dollars and a 1926 coupe described as priced right.
Market notes show butter receipts at 17 823 and creameries at 38 39 cents with standard and first and second grades priced. Wool market remains steady with volumes moving to farmers, midwest wool bids hold firm, fine Ohio fleeces around 45 to 46 cents, Montevideo and Australian lots cited with national price ranges.
A garbled OCR quiz lists varied questions toward logic and general knowledge asking who created certain works who led sports teams who authored epic poems and who designed famous cars. The fragmentary text mixes names places events and prompts with no coherent narrative or answer set.
Butter week receipts reach 6 927 while ex tras 4lc 41 cent special market 42 to 424 cent. Eggs quiet with receipts 9 088, nearby white fancy 39 cents, nearby mixed whites 35 to 39 cents, western whites 30 cents, Pacific Coast 270, nearby towns 30 cents.
Hog receipts 4 400. market uneven with gains 25 to 40 cents. 250 to 350 Ibs hogs $9.25 to $11.00. 180 to 250 Ibs $10.85 to $11.25. 90 to 130 Ibs $7.00 to $7.25. Sows $7.00 to $8.00. Cattle receipts 1,500, calves 600. beef steers $3.00 to $12.00. light yearlings and heifers $0 to $5.50. beef cows $4.50 to $7.00. Vealers mixed. Sheep receipts 1,300. fat lambs $14.50. fat ewes $6.50 to $7.00.
July 25 Cleveland notice lists cheese varieties with prices Cents per pound and per brick and poultry items with grade and price ranges. Butter and eggs shown with standard market terms including extras and firsts and seconds.
Hog futures steady with prices around 11.25 to 11.65 per cwt and strong cattle activity. Cattle receipts near 100 with calves 1,200 and beef cows sharply varied. top beet steers fetch 10.50 to 12.75 while vealers and light yearlings range around 6.00 to 10.50. Sheep receipts 1,700 with top fat lambs at 15.00 and cull ewes 6.00 to 10.50.
Liberty new issue bonds traded lightly amid thin interest with Treasury 4s quoted around 108.4 while small blocks moved at 100.10 and 00.31 in erratic trading as market watchers await clearer cues.
Butter prices steady with creamery tablets at 36 to 38 cents, common stock discounted 2 to 4 cents. Paggins stock No. 1 at 29 cents, No. 2 at 18 to 20 cents. Butter fat 39 to 41 cents. Eggs fresh gathered extra firsts Asi frets 26 cents, seconds 19 to 4 cents, nearby ungraded.
Orlin T. McLaughlin of Nelsonville Ohio has been appointed and qualified as administrator of the estate of Mary Anne Grose of Athens County Ohio deceased. Probate Judge M Johnson signs the order on July 22 1997.
Notice to creditors that Hadley Campbell doing business as the Chocolate Shop has filed for discharge in the United States District Court Southern District of Ohio Eastern Division. Hearing set for October 14, 1927 at 10:00 a.m. before the court in Columbus. A B Wells attorney for bankrupt.
Logan County authorities probe a fatal accident near Russells Point. Joseph Binzer, 49, of Cincinnati, a pedestrian, was struck by a car driven by Dora Hibbs of Columbus who wore a bathing suit. He died at the scene or en route to a hospital.
Fire marshals launched an investigation into a fire and explosion that destroyed a two story Cleveland building yesterday with an estimated loss of $75000.
Daily trains depart Athens for the south at 12 26 p m and 4 33 p m. Northbound departures include No 33 at 7 15 a m No 35 at 12 10 p m and No 37 at 6 30 p m.
Four Columbus residents died over the weekend in two drowning incidents and one fatal traffic crash. Dr. Joseph W. Leist, 41, drowned while attempting to save his son John, 8. Clarence McCreary, 45, drowned after cramps. August Vehoehl, 43, also drowned. Robert Broadfoot, 26, killed in an automobile collision near Kirkersville on the National Pike.
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