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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1921
Page
7
Situation Wanted as weighman or payroll clerk by experienced married man seeks coal company work. Address B. E. T. care Messenger. Housekeeper for widow with elderly couple preferred. Open shop carpenters wanted. salary five cents per hour. report soon. Cars for sale including 1916 to 1921 touring models and trucks with pricing listed.
Multiple real estate and livestock advertisements from Athens area listings. Properties include 49 acre farm near Millfield two miles from Millfield and Jacksonville. 8 and 90 acre farms near Downington with outbuildings. a six room house in Pleasant Hill and a moveable house near Congress Street. Livestock includes cows horses and a sorrel mare. seeks buyers and trades. Also notices for agents and a cattle market report.
One ton Ford truck with cab and stake body from 1920 in good condition offered by Cooley and Campbell. Buick model E49 also for sale in good condition.
Miscrelanrious sale notice items include potted salvia hyacinths and cut flowers for market display. I A Kitmore of Nelsonville Ohio lists car load hay at 24 dollars per ton and seed potatoes and onion sets with prices per quart. goods offered in bulk at low prices. Ohlinger and Wolf advertise furniture including an oak dresser with drawers and mirror for 35 dollars. Also advertised are a very fine baby carriage and single pony harness with various prices from Howe's Livery.
Personal notice states non‑responsibility for debts contracted by stants Thompson Roomy. For rent two nicely furnished rooms for light housekeeping. Gail Bell 922 for particulars, $14-3p.
Cattle receipts total 350 cars with price ranges from 9.10 to 14.00 for veal calves hitting 13.50 to 14.00. Sheep and lambs 1 car with steady market. prime wethers 7.00 to 7.50, lambs 11.00 to 11.60. Hogs 60 double decks. market lower with prime heavies 10.50 to 11.00 and pigs up to 13.25.
Hog receipts reach about 48 000 with open market gains near 10 to 15 cents. Butchers priced around 10.10 to 10.60, packing hogs at 9.00, 9. eel ted at 11.16, and various cuts listed. Sheep receipts about 30 000 with prices 25 to 60 cents lower. Wool prices noted 8.60 to 10.75 with other miscellaneous figures.
The Chicago produce page lists egg prices 29c to 30c for first and ordinary grades and 38c to 44c for other items. Panetties and young American goods are shown at 25c. Live poultry trades at 33c per pound.
Fragmentary price quotes from Cincinnati market show mixed bids for common shares with notes of fractions and ordinary rates. No full trades or company names are legible beyond general cents and percentages.
Toledo market notes report closing prices for wheat at 1.73 cash and 1.70 March while May trades at 1.68. Corn No 3 yellow 67c, oats 46c, rye 1.40, barley 1.28, clover and timothy seeds listed with various contract prices. Butter at 52c, eggs 70c, hay 1.35.
James B. Broad aged 43, Dupont Company comptroller, died at Homopathic Hospital in Wilmington from lung infection after a tooth slipped into his windpipe during extractions under gas last night.
President Harding uses a split infinitive in a White House letter addressed to Admiral Benson, chairman of the Shipping Board. The line reads to immediately advise, drawing criticism previously aimed at such grammar usage.
Mrs. Charlies Karp, 51, was found at her Cleveland residence with a bullet wound penetrating her eye. Doctors at Mount Sinai Hospital say she will recover. Police continue to investigate the shooting.
A cleanup crew in South Lancaster recovered mutilated U S currency from the streets after a possible auto toss. Denominations include twenty and ten dollar notes with some five dollar bills. A crowd collected fragments including several twenty dollars as investigators search for the source.
In Chicago a burglary in a theater ended with a battle as burglars were surprised by a police squad. One robber was killed and another wounded during the rooftop break in.
Sunday at 2 o clock on the Athens Nelsonville road a narrow hilltop collision left three cars damaged with one vehicle hanging at the edge of a steep embankment. Ed Barker of The Plains drove a Chevrolet toward Athens while Angie 16 drove a Ford toward Nelsonville. Also aboard were Ethel Buck 19 Ralph Field 20 and Gail McCreight 20. The crash occurred when vehicles locked wheels on the narrow pavement sending the Barker car into Sam Burson’s car behind. the Boring vehicle’s brakes and fender structure possibly saved the occupants as the car hung over the edge.
An obituary notice records the death of Mrs A Weer aged 70 of Van Ohio. The brief notice notes natural causes and gives limited biographical detail.
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