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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1919
Page
3
Egg prices are listed with firm loss noted for certain grades. Live poultry rates include fowls, broilers, roosters, and weight categories with per dozen or per pound pricing across several classes.
Mr and Mrs Victor Hough and daughter Vivian Mae returned home after a pleasant visit with Senator Elmer Hough and family of Wellsburg West Virginia J L Murphy is a business visitor in Columbus Don Shafer of Columbus was a Nelsonville business visitor Thursday Margaret Hoodler of Columbus is spending a few days with relatives here Louise Hyde of the Columbus School for Girls is spending her vacation with her parents Waldo Chute is a business visitor at Montgomery West Virginia
Experts have inspected Nelsonville's water plant this week and may hire a qualified engineer to study the system and recommend treatment. The plant is in critical condition and needs thorough examination soon.
The first ball game of the season will be played at Pastime Park Sunday between Glouster and Nelsonville. The old reliables, Simpson and Stewart, will play their usual positions on the local lineup.
Local notices advertise pumps and well services by Lawrence Young at 108 Jefferson Street. J. A. Isselstein promotes July 4th goods, old potatoes, brooms, beans, and phonographs. Sauter's Studio lists repair and sale of talking machines. A rental at 893 High St is offered. A 1920 beer slogan quip closes the page.
Paris reports a draft treaty pledges aid from Great Britain and the United States to France in case of an unprovoked attack. President Wilson is expected to sign before departure if ready, otherwise Secretary Lansing will sign. The accord will be submitted to the American Senate in treaty form.
Washington June 27 the House voted 220 to 0 to hold the average army at 300000 for the next fiscal year. Chairman Kahn said Senate conferees agreed to accept 350000 as a compromise.
Governor Cox issued to Massachusetts a requisition for Abraham Scaffer and Isaac Garr, under arrest at Canton, for alleged safe blowing in the state.
The Glouster page lists a musical comedy Wonderful Baby featuring Sophia Davis with a singing and dancing chorus for weekend shows. A separate film Virtuous Wives starring Anita Stewart runs July 3 with 9c and 22c admission plus war tax.
Suspect Toney Elardo charged with murder and attempted cremation of his wife will be taken to Fremont Ohio today by officers Will Hawk and O C Ballard. He was arrested in Memphis while obtaining a trunk express shipment from Toledo and denies guilt returning without requisition.
Suit to oust the Wheeling Traction Company from Bridgeport streets was filed by city solicitor Herman Schaefer. The case, alleging tracks wires and cars operate without Bridgeport council franchise or ordinance, has been transferred to federal court.
Merwin Bryson of Athens spent the weekend with his parents Mr and Mrs O O Bryson. Mrs Sarah Copeland hosted an ice cream supper for guests Mrs Hattie Noland and Elsie of Marietta. Ella Morse and son Clyde returned to Pittsburg Pa. Hart Rathburn drove to Hebbardsville. Children Day services drew locals to New England. George Dewees Amesville visited George Brown and Ruth Roberts family.
Elsie Ritter, daughter of Cedar Point keeper Frank Ritter, alerted Marble Head guards after sighting the sunken steamer Cupid off Cedar Point. Lifeguards rescued George Martin and Wilson Voight, saved from wreckage as forty seven barrels of gasoline shifted. The two men survived.
Navy ship Melville heads the Destroyer Flotilla No. 2 and supports trans Atlantic Seaplane flights. It houses shops, hospital, payroll, supply depots, and mail for about 15,000 crew with British royal visits and daily on deck entertainments.
Berne reports a Ukrainian official statement saying Ukrainian forces defeated Bolshevik troops along the front recapturing Odessa and threatening Kiev as of today.
United States Senator Miles Poindexter is to be formally named as a presidential candidate. A call issued by prominent Republicans asks that Poindexter clubs be formed across the state on the evening of July 5.
Chicago municipal employees face a growing strike when patrolmen president Michael OʼConnor warned they will quit unless salary demands are met immediately. Patrolmen seek 1800 dollars a year, up from 1700.
A House committee report outlines a resolution to probe the department of labor actions in the Thomas J. Mooney case. It focuses on Director General Densmore and the employment service as part of the inquiry.
New York June 27 Gordon Fawcett Hamby known as Jay Allen was moved to Sing Sing where officials said he would face electrocution in the week beginning July 18. Earlier, Hamby feared a sanity commission might rule him insane. En route to the penitentiary he proposed that a $1500 reward for his capture be donated to the Red Cross or himself, a suggestion tied to his past in the prior three years.
Recruiting Officer Chapin at the Post Office Building warns enlistments for service in France, Germany and other European lands will close after midnight Saturday July 5. Several young men, including Cecil McDonald of Gloucester, are anxious to report before July 6, and many already await assignment to cavalry units.
John Collins of Nelsonville sues Charles Reynolds and A B Wells administrator de bonis non of the John P Reynolds estate to recover 2830 for caring for Reynolds’ son Wilbur since 1905. Collins seeks a first lien against the estate’s property for the alleged debt.
Washington bulletin from the Bureau of the Census shows the 1918 cotton crop at 12,040,522 equivalent 600 pound bales, higher than the two prior years but below 1911 and 1914, with decreases in Texas and Oklahoma and increases in states like South Carolina and Arizona.
In Urbana a 15 acre rye field in Champaign County is reported destroyed by an unidentified insect. Federal entomologist H L Lewis seeks a state expert to identify the pest as he surveys grain damage. Stalks show extensive feeding from base to tip leaving stems powdered. French scientists have produced motion pictures of battles between white blood cells and disease germs.
Washington reports that with national prohibition starting July 1 internal revenue officers will expand the hunt for dope peddlers. 100 extra agents will search for unscrupulous doctors druggists and underworld figures violating the Harrison act.
German delegates who will sign the peace treaty are due to arrive in Versailles at 9 o'clock this evening Secretary Von Hamiel was notified. Earlier reports had said they would reach Paris tomorrow morning.
Zurich gazette reports General Von Lettow ordered to advance on Hamburg as the city is described as in Spartacan hands. The message places the German move in a wartime context with emphasis on strategic objectives and control of Hamburg.
Liberty bond market report listing quotes for various issues in New York on June 27. Figures include 314s at 99.30 up, First 4s at 94.84 up, Second 4s 93.90 off, 10 First 4Ms 95.26 up, Second 414s 94.14 off, Third 414s 95.10 off, Fourth 414s 94.14 off, Victory 3Ms 100.08, and 4% at 99.92 up.
Following prices paid by consumers to producers and retailers: No. 1 timothy baled 37 dollars. No. 2 timothy baled 36 dollars. No. 3 timothy 36 dollars. No. 1 clover mixed 40 dollars. No. 1 clover 36 dollars. No. 2 clover 33 dollars. No. 1 night mixed 37 dollars. Standard 38 dollars. Oats straw 10 dollars.
Hog receipts total 22 000 with a market range 366 to 40c higher and several price points for hogs and pork products. Cattle receipts around 4500 show varied values for steers cows calves and feeders across buyers including canners and cutters and stockers. Sheep and lambs receipts 1600 show market lines for wool lambs ewes and related categories.
Cattle receipts light with steady market. choice cattle 14.50 to 15.00, 13.25 to 14.25 for commons, veal calves 19.00 to 20.00. Sheep and lambs steady. prime wethers 9.00 to 10.00, good 8.25 to 9.00, fair 7.00 to 8.00, lambs 13.00 to 17.00. Hog receipts ten doubles, primes 21.75 to 21.98, mediums 21.75 to 21.95, heavy yorkers 21.75 to 21.95, light yorkers 20.75 to 20.80, pigs 20.00 to 20.25, roughs 31 and 19.00, stags 14.00 to 14.50.
Butter-creamery prices shown at 51 cents with various lots described as firsts at 48 14 cents and 50 cents, seconds at 46 cents. Market listings reflect standard grain and dairy commodity quotes for Chicago buyers.
Cattle receipts 400. market strong. Shippers 11.50 to 14.00. Calves 50c higher. extra 19.00 to 20.00. Hogs receipts 34.00. market 1.25 higher. pigs 75c higher. choice packers and butchers 21.50. Sheep receipts 1800. market steady. good to choice 7.50 to 8.00. Lambs 25c. 60c higher. good to choice 18.00 to 18.25.
Closing prices today at Toledo show No 3 yellow corn $1.84 1/2, standard white oats 73 cents, barley No 2 $1.23, rye No 2 $1.44, Alsike Oct $21.50 Dec $21.00, Clover seed cash $27.50 Oct $34.80 Dec $24.00, Timothy new cash $5.50 opt $6.10 Oct $5.75 Dec $6.00.
An electrical device designed to start automobile motors when alarms are received is developed by an Ohio inventor. The invention aims to automate engine ignition in response to fire alerts.
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