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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1927
Page
10
Local page highlights everyday opportunities with listings for 91 SEDAN bags and various cats and other pets. Readers are urged to explore buy and sell options, ad notices, and pet listings featured in today’s edition.
Puzzle list lists many clues across horizontal and vertical directions. Included are compass, fort wall inside, and terms like mutton fat bare pi pi notations prison hazy. The page appears as a word puzzle with assorted short clues and answers.
Seven year old horse weighing 1200 pounds offered with harness and wagon in working condition. Contact Greenlawn cemetery. Also promoting Federals tires at Midway Service Station with seeable improvements and new fish tires and tubes.
Hogs receipts 3,000 market lower across weights from 90 to 160 lbs 8.75 to 9.25 and up to 9.85 for 160 to 200 lbs with several weight classes listed. Cattle receipts none calves 150 beef steers 10.50 to 12.25 dealers 13.00 to 13.50. Sheep receipts 300 market slow top lamb 15.50 and fat lambs around 8.00.
Liberty 3s opened at 10031, first 4s at 102.30 down 1, second 4s at 100.13 down 1, third 4s at 100.29 down 1, fourth 4s at 103.23 down, Treasury 4s at 108.3 up 1, Treasury 44s at 113.3 down 3, Treasury 34s at 105.3 down 3. Market activity in New York as of June 24.
Butter firmer at 42 cents with receipts of 19 171 from creamery sites. Eggs firm at 22 660 with nearby whites at 33 to 35 cents and mixed whites 24 to 32 cents. Fresh firsts 90 to 24 cents, western whites 25 to 21 cents, Pacific coast 28 to 34 cents, nearby browns 28 to 33 cents.
Local classified fragment advertises meats and fresh vegetables with a phone order line for Dalton's Grocery, Nelsonville number 611, and mentions The Mode Home Bakery and Moler the Jeweler in Nelsonville. Also references Pakes bread doughnuts and a home address at 909 Chestnut Street with Mrs M McCall and phone 69 W.
Hog receipts total 4 500 with bids uneven. hogs 250 to 359 lb at 8.50 to 9.10. 200 to 250 lb 9.00 to 9.40. 160 to 200 lb 9.45 to 9.50. 90 to 130 lb 7.00 to 5.25. sows 7.50. Calves 450. beef steers 9.00 to 11.75. light yearlings and heifers 9.00 to 11.75. beef cows 5.50 to 7.00. stocker stocker steers 8.00 to 9.00. Sheep and lambs 3 100. fat lambs 10.00 to 14.50. culls 7.00 to 9.00. fat ewes 4.00 to 6.00.
The report lists butter receipts totaling 18 360 and eggs receipts 18 743 with assorted price columns. Creamery extras show 38c 39c, standards 39c, firsts 36 2c and 7 2c, seconds 33c 35 2c, extras 4c. Eggs show ordinaries 20c 2lc, firsts 22c 23c, seconds 19 sc and extras 23c.
Cleveland Produce reports South Carolina slave barrels at 5 2595.35 dollars and Virginia barrels at 5 7 dollars with other regions holding steady.
The Boston wool market remains steady with strong demand for foreign wools. New clip wools arrive and sell at 1.08 to 1.10 dollars per pound clean basis. Ohio delaines hold at 44 1 2 cents, or 1.08 to 1.10 on a clean basis. Local dealers expect firmness but not sharp price rises due to ample world supply.
Wheat No 2 at 1.43s per bushel. Corn No 3 at 1.01. Rye No 2 at 0. Oats No 3 at 0.49 to 0.50. Clover cash 13. Timothy cash 2.45. Dec timothy 2.7. Aug timothy 14.25. Butter 42 to 45 cents. Market figures for June 24.
Federal agents raided in Ohio as prohibition officers wrecked Jimmy Muncine’s establishment last night. Large quantities of liquor were confiscated and four men arrested.
Two Niles boys were killed when an automobile struck them on the Niles Warren road. The driver abandoned the car and fled into a nearby field. Police traced the license to James Nicholson of Youngstown but have not identified the driver.
Legal notice details a foreclosure answer and cross petition in Case No. 15542 in Athens County Court of Common Pleas with property in Hockingport sought for sale to satisfy claims. It also reports Pioneer Transportation Company filing with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio for a certificate to operate transit between Marietta and Athens with four trips daily on weekdays and two on Sundays.
J Ko Hartnell files in Athens County Ohio Court of Common Pleas on September 13 1926 to recover a 1000 debt plus interest on mortgage given by C W Randolph to Hartnell securing Inlets 2 1133 1142 and 1143 in Hockingport village. Defendants must answer by July 6 6 otw.
The state of Ohio Athens County Common Pleas court issues a sheriff sale in partition for Cora M. Moler against Arthur V. Goodrich et al Case No 13621. On Saturday July 1 1927 at 1 p m at the courthouse door Athens Ohio the real estate part of 42 feet off the south side of Int No 120 west of the cement wall in Athens city will be sold cash in hand. Appraised at 7000 00. Sale directed by Sheriff WM Williams with deputy C C Gibson and date June 9 1927.
In Athens County Ohio probate court hearings on estate accounts were suspended for publication and exceptions until July 5 1927 at 9 o clock a m. Listed are administrators executors guardians and one bank as guardian with accounts filed ranging from April to June 1927 and earlier. Also notice of an application for certificate of public convenience and necessity to operate a motor transportation company by Pioneer Transportation Fee Partnership appears.
Former Athens resident Louis R. de Steiguer will be promoted to admiral November 14 and become commander of the battle fleet. He succeeds Admiral Richard H. Jackson and joins a reshaped leadership including Admiral Charles F. Hughes as chief of naval operations and Rear Admiral Henry A. Wiley as fleet commander. De Steiguer, born east of the Christian church, comes from a now-dispersed Athens family. his father Rudolph was a former judge of the Common Pleas court.
The state-wide Knights of Columbus summer outing will be at Cedar Point from June 25 to July 1. Nearly 5,000 Knights are expected to attend from 119 Ohio councils.
In Paris the women taxi drivers are accused by male competitors of securing all the best stands by kissing the police. The claim highlights tensions between drivers in the capital's taxi trade.
The notice lists Athens railway times for depart and arrival of several trains. Southbound No 2 leaves at 12 26 PM and No 4 at 4 33 PM daily. Northbound No 33 leaves at 7 15 AM, No 35 at 12 10 PM, No 37 at 5 30 PM. Arrivals include No 30 at 11 08 AM, No 32 at 4 45 PM, No 34 at 9 10 PM daily except Sunday.
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