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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Mar 28, 1927

Page

7

Clay Curtis returns home vows to work after disinheritance

Clay Curtis quits his father Thomas Quinn Curtis and New York life to seek independence in the Curtis store. He rents a furnished room from Billy Wells and her mother, explaining he has twenty-one dollars thirteen cents and plans to find honest work while pursuing music.

Clay Curtis Col New York Thomas Quinn Curtis Mammoth Claire Ooon- Neld Clay Claire Oh T. Q T. Q T. Q. Curtis New York Philharmonic Paris Horatio Alger Boilermakers Claire Donnell Mrs. Moore Brown Curtis Europe Goodby Chopin Billy. Wells Billy Wells Dern Billy Wells Mother Cretonne Cove Plana Eatoud Billy Els Mr. Curtis Opan Thelma Elema Marie Corelli Tharmat

Pittsburg Market Receipts Mixed as Cattle and Sheep Steady

Market notes show cattle and calves steady to 25 cents higher with beef steers and cows reported across several price ranges. Sheep receipts total 2,809 with fat lambs peaking around 10.25 and bulk prices near 16.00, while poultry and produce prices in Cleveland fluctuate with rings of cheese and potatoes listed for regional shoppers.

Pittsburg Cleveland York Maine Michigan Ohio Idaho Rassets Bakers Colorado Broom Beauties

70 Year Old Baby Safe After Kidnap Ordeal

Josephine Frazier, age 2, was found safely in her mother's arms in Chattanooga Tennessee after four days in captors’ hands. Her father Fred G. Frazier, city commissioner, paid 8332 in ransom from the family bank account, bringing the girl home naked but unharmed to the rectory doorstep of the First Presbyterian church.

Jong Chattanooga, Tenn U.R Josephine Frazier Fred G. Frazier Frazier First Presbyterian Church

Market Receipts Mixed as Hogs Cattle and Sheep Prices Listed

Livestock market figures show hog receipts of about 2 000 with varied prices across weights from 90 to 200 pounds and oddities at 810.50 to 11.50 per cwt. Cattle receipts near 1 700 with calves 700 and beef prices from 4.00 to 9.00 for cutters and vealers. Sheep tally 50 with fat lambs and fat ewes priced. market described as steady overall.

Market cattle and hog prices and ranges listed

Market report lists hogs at 10 to 12 dollars and cattle with steer prices from 10.50 to 13.60 per hundredweight. Yearling steers and heifers range from 6.00 to 12.25, cows and canners from 4.50 to 6.00, and lambs and sheep priced up to about 16.05. Includes feeders, stockers, vealers, and various grade distinctions.

Larotto Coommon

Chicago live stock market summary March Chicago cattle and sheep receipts

Chicago cattle receipts at 20 000 with steady classes and stronger weights for steer runs. Price ranges include bulk steers and yearlings 9.50 to 12.00 with best yearlings at 12.00 and heavies around 10.50. Sheep receipts 13 000 with lambs rising to 16.50 and good to choice weights 14.50 to 18.45, ewes to 9.00.

Chicago Livestock Chicago D. A

New York Produce Butter and Cream Prices Reported

New York produce market reports butter firmer with receipts 6,145 and creamery extras 511, market price 52 and 815 cents. Receipts stand at 25,083 with nearby white fancy 33 to 34 cents, mixed whites 27 to 32 cents, fresh firsts 24 to 21 cents, western whites 26 to 30 cents, Pacific coast 20 cents. Nearby towns quoted 0 to 2 cents.

New York Igen Pacific Coast

Butter and egg prices in local commodities listing

The notice lists butter prices with higher rates and creamery tablets, packing stock numbers, and fat content. Eggs show declines with fresh gathered extra firsts at 22 to 24 cents, firsts around 22 cents, ordinary at 21 to 22 cents, and seconds at 19 cents. ducks priced at 35 cents and geese noted.

Wool Prices Reported in Boston Market

Boston March 28 market notes show fine staple territory wools at 1.12 per unit for the first lot. Fine unwashed Ohio Delaines at 0.45 to 0.5, Montevideo 0.32 to 0.34, Australian Merinos at 0.64 to 0.70. A A pulled wool priced around 1.10.

Boston Territory Ohio Montevideo A. A

Chicago Butter Receipts and Creamery Exports Totals

Butter receipts reach 18 070 with firsts 48 to to compare. Creamery exports report 80 742 receipts with ordinaries 22 c and firsts 2 c. Extras include 2644 c.

Chicago

Grain prices in Toledo market report

NOLERO GRAIN TOLEDO March 28 reports prices for Sloot Wheat No 2 at $1.3114 1.3 coh, Corn No 2 at 72c, Rye No 2 at $1.02, Oats No 2 at 18e, Clover cash $17.00, Timothy cash $2.65, Misike cash $23.75, Butter 28 to 25e, Hay $25.00.

Nolero Toledo Timothy

Glouster Tire and Vulcanizing Service Ad

GLOUSTER Autonative offers vulcanizing for all tires and tubes. Tow truck service for Graham truck models, 1925 era, with new rubber. G Parris advertises Glouster Ohio location and contact in this early notice.

RTE Graham Right. Co G. Parris Gioueter

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George Ford Dies At Home In Athens City

George Ford 74, longtime Athens resident and city overseer of service work, died at 9:20 p.m. Saturday at his home 12 Walker Street from blood poison after dropping a brick last November. Funeral 2 p.m. Tuesday at the residence. burial in West Union Street Cemetery. He left a widow, five children, nine grandchildren, and one great grandchild. Three children had died earlier.

George Ford Athens Walker Street Ford Sheltering Arms Hospital West Union Street Mr. Ford C. E. Ford J. Ford Youngstown O. B. Cullums Huntington W. Va EF. R. Higgins Harland Hartman Akron George Ford, Jr Terre Haute Ind Bertha Lewis Arizona

Athens man arraigned in liquor case in court

Jesse Maxwell Athens undertaker pleaded not guilty to four liquor counts in Common Pleas court. Bond set at 500 on each count. Fred Pritts garage owner fined 250 and costs on four counts. Federal raids by prohibition officers followed a statewide cleanup linked to two Columbus agents attacked weeks earlier.

Athens County Athens York Township Jesse Maxwell L. G. Worstell Common Pleas Court Maxwell Worstell Fred Pritts Nelsonville Federal Prohibition Department Frdila Sevon Columbus Ciry

Weekend Crime Wave Stuns Cleveland Citizens

The roaring third precinct supplied weekend drama with police kept busy by two murderers two assaults with one person shot and another beaten across a busy period leaving residents on edge.

Cleveland Third Precinct

Auto Crash in Lorain Fatality Reported

A March 28 auto accident in Lorain caused the death of Ernest Enslow from Portage Lake and injured four others.

Lorain Ernest Enslow Portage ‘Lake

Missionary Pageant Shown by Ohio University Class

An Ohio University Christian Church pageant presented by the student class highlighted the roles and contributions of various occupations to the Christian mission. Coach Dr E A Hansen led the production with performers including Nellie Smith Howard Bigler Allan Gould Phyllis Stout Mabel Darst Agnes Hisen William Beck Clarence Hartline I A Pepperton Ruth Harper Helen Cutler Eva Wilson Francis Carpenter Dayton Frost in a full auditorium audience and overflow seating.

Ohio University Christian Church E. A. Hansen Department of Education Love Nellie Smith Howard Bigler Allan Gould Phyllis Stout Mabel Darst Agnes Hisen Doctor Hansen William Beck Clarence Hartline I. A. Pepperton Chester Dribble Ruth Harper Helen Cutler Bessie Wooley Eva Wilson Francis Carpenter Dayton Frost

Santoy Mine to be Dismantled by Sunday Creek Co

Columbus March 28 The Santoy mine of the Sunday Creek Coal Company will be dismantled with machinery hoisted and the entrance sealed permanently after miners refused for three years to accept an amended wage scale needed to renew a railroad fueling contract. George Smith, company official, said the strike could end in no acceptable way and the mine, though well equipped, is high cost due to low coal and limited strata.

Columbus U.R Santoy Sunday Creek Coal Company George Smith Smith

Ohio clergyman killed in streetcar crash at Niles

The Rev. Georgian Bald of McDonald Ohio died when the automobile he rode in collided with a street car in Niles. Two children in the car suffered cuts from flying glass. John Fern the driver is jailed pending investigation.

Niles Georgian Bald McDonald Ohio John Fern

Urban Reinhart 21 Drowned After Auto Tire Blowout

Urban Reinhart, 21, was drowned after his car tilted into a foot of water and pinned him beneath it on Findlay road. Alfred Calmus suffered a dislocated shoulder as bystanders freed him. The accident occurred last night when a tire blew out and locked the steering gear.

NEW Riegel Urban Reinhart Alfred Calmus Findlay Road

Three Die in Auto Train Collision at Scotts Crossing

A Pennsylvania train collided with an automobile at Scotts crossing, killing Cletus Gerlich 13, Mrs. Bruno Burns 40, and Mrs. Catherine Gerlich 50 of Wapakoneta, Ohio, with three others injured.

Police Seek Drowning Baby Body in Scioto River

Seek baby body after two boys report seeing two men with a baby wrapped in a pink blanket approach a bridge over the Scioto River. The lads claim the men returned without the infant amid an excited crowd.

Columbus Scioto

Cornstalk Clothes Could Fly As Artificial Silk

New York report says cornstalk fibers will soon appear in high fashion as artificial silk. Dr Bela Dorner, a Hungarian chemist, developed a process deemed practical and economical by the C B Roberts Engineering Co for a group of investors holding American rights.

New York U.P Bela Dorner C. B. Roberts Engineering Company

Eight marriage licenses issued in Athens Court

Eight licenses were issued Saturday and one more this morning. Judge S. M. Johnson urged applicants under age to bring both parents. licenses require parental consent when one party is a minor. Licenses went to Harry Blake and Goldie Williams, Clyde Canter and Ersel Wenger, Harold Mount and Lina Cooper, Elmer Dunn and Eva Dowler, Edward Daugherty and Cora McBride, Addison Van Horn and Ada Latta, Hannibal Clouster and Bernice Rizer, Clyde Stanley and Lillie Woods, with various officiating ministers named.

S. M. Johnson Probate Court Goldie Williams Athens Edward Williams C. M. Coulter Clyde Canter Chauncey Miner Ersel Leota Wenger Chauncey John Wenger A. Y. Wilcox Harold Mount Glouster Miner John Mount Lina Cooper Glouster Robert Cooper M. BE. Chatley Elmer Dunn John Dunn Eva Dowler New Marshfield Richard Dowler Pearl W. Helwig Edward M. Daugherty Coolville Cora A. McBride Harry Dye Addison van Horn Rinegold Miner George van Horn Ada Latta Corning Elmer Latta M. E. Chatley Hannibal, Clouster Nelsonville John Clouster Bernice Woods Rizer Erwin Rizer Clyde Stanley Zaleski Lillie Woods William Woods George Appleman Ralph Hobart Shirley Middleport Ephrim Shirley Meredith E. Cooper Albany Point Pleasant W. Va H. C. Pierce

Probate notes show two estates exempt from inheritance tax

The court records Mary E. Baker estate exempt with gross value 5550 and net 3325, passing to one daughter and four sons. Mary T. Cox estate exempt with gross value 1469 and net 1216, passing to one son and one daughter in law.

Mary E. Baker Mary T. Cox

Estate of Howard H Brannon Noted With Tax Exemption

Probate court values the Howard H Brannon estate at 11345.25 gross and 8045.25 net. The widow and five children are heirs. The estate is exempt from inheritance tax.

Howard H. Brannon

Sell Carlyle Estate Proceeds To Support Daughters

Probate court orders sale of the Ralph G. Carlyle estate to raise funds for his children's maintenance and education. Appraisers named include C. G. Dew John L. Wilson and Ralph W. Parks.

Carlyle Ralph G. Carlyle C. G. Dew John L. Wilson Ralph W. Parks

Mortar and Granary Fire Yields Charred Body

March 28 report from Youngstown states Sheriff Peter Coriil investigates the charred remains found in a granary ruin on the McGrew Farm after a deadly Sunday blaze. Evidence points to a murder as the cause of the fire and death.

Youngstown Peter Coriil McGrew

Rebels Attack Routed in Jalisco Hills Clash

AEl Universal dispatch reports 60 to 70 rebels and 80 federal troops killed in the Picahos Hills Jalisco clash. Two thousand federal soldiers attacked and routed about 700 rebels with artillery and infantry.

Mexico City Picahos Jalisco el Universal

Liberty bonds open higher on steady New York market

Liberty bonds in New York trading March 28 opened with the first 42s at 103.18 up 4 2nd 4% at 100.15 off 1 3rd 44s steady at 103.20 off 1 4th 4s at 103.20 unchanged.

Liberty Bonds New York U. P Liberty Firat Srd

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