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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1921
Page
7
We are prepared to furnish and install windshields for coupes and sedans. If your car needs a new glass call on us at The Athens Lumber Co.
Wanted to buy good used cars. Will take them in on new ones. See me before you buy Guthrie Auto Sales Co.
Several used cars refinished and in A-1 condition for sale. Ford Roadster and Ford Delivery express Maxwell Touring Overland Touring. Two Federal Trucks 1 ton and 1 1/2 ton like new. Priced right for heavy hauling needs.
Wanted two at the Ohio Hotel and Restaurant and a girl at Barstow's Restaurant. Applications in person at 146 148 Union Street and recommendations preferred.
Cattle receipts light and market steady with choice at 10.00 to 10.25 and prime 9.25 to 9.75. veal calf at 14.00 to 14.50. Sheep and lambs light receipts and steady with prime western 7.25 to 7.67, good 6.25 to 6.75, yearling lambs at 11.00 to 11.60. Hogs light receipts and higher. prime heavy 10.26 to 10.60, mediums 11.00 to 13.00, heavy yorkers 11.00 to 12.00, roughs 7.75 to 8.75.
Hogs receipts 19000 with price ranges from 10c to 26c and bulk at 9.90 and 10.85. butchers 16.10 and 11.00. packing 8.50 and 9.75. light 10.70 and 11.00. pies 9.75 and 10.85. Cattle receipts 8000 with market dull. beeves 8.75 and 10.90. butcher stock 6.00 and 10.00. canners 2.75 and 5.00. stockers 4.50 and 9.25. cows 2.75 and 5.00. calves 10.00 and 13.25. Sheep receipts 22000 market 25c 50c lower. wool lambs 6.75. root lambs 10.90. ewes 2.25.
Cattle receipts 650 with a strong market tone. shippers paid $8.00 with calves weak 50c to $1.00 lower and extras $12.50 to $13.00. Hogs receipts 4800 steady to 25c higher. good packers and butchers $11.00 to $11.25. Sheep receipts 400 steady with extras $5.00 to $5.50. Lambs steady with extras $10.50 to $11.00.
Chicago market rundown shows butter creamery extras at 68 cents and standards at 61 cents. Firsts at 440, 5144 cents, perenne vt 98 percent, eese twins and young American at 26 cents. Live poultry 310.
Cincinnati March 2 eggs steady with extra firsts at 31 to 33 cents, firsts at 30 to 31 cents, and ordinary at 29 to 30 cents as buyers watch prices.
Market items report wheat corn oats and barley prices with cash and forward contracts. Local social notices list visits among residents from Carthage Athens Jacksonville Nitro and Lottridge plus a school teachers meeting at Lottridge.
Ohio lawmakers introduce a comprehensive administrative code reorganizing state government. Nine state departments would be created with 23 subdepartments, dozens of offices merged or abolished, salaries cut from 200 000 to 160 000, and hearings set after March 7 under Governor Davis.
The Cham ber of Commerce midweek lunch drew a full crowd as Vice President Craig announced a special carload of Marion merchants arriving Thursday en route to Washington for inauguration ceremonies. Athens Chamber would meet them and tour the town by auto. Dr. Frank G. Boudreau spoke on health department activities and warned that Salem’s typhoid fever epidemic, caused by cheap sewer material, cost twenty five lives.
Deputies and an officer raced toward Glouster after another report of a sighting of a murderer. Deputy McKinley, Bolin, and Officer Cady pursued the lead while McKinley reported his car broke down in Millfield. No capture reported at press time.
Dominic Epifano, 30, a pool hall proprietor, and Frank were arrested late today by Sri Edward Lucas and Gaeta in a case tied to the murder of Mike Veltry, a prohibition officer. Veltry's mutilated body was found in a ditch two miles west of here.
Mrs George Riley aged 78 dies Wednesday at her home 78 West State street after several months of declining health and a four week critical illness. She is survived by her husband and three sons from a former marriage Mathews of Athens Ohio Kidon Mathews of Nelsonville and a Mathews of Hebbardsville.
The Panama Canal set a toll record in 1031 as 282 ships passed the locks paying total tolls of 1,0956,864.96 dollars.
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