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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1921
Page
7
Registration figures show 496 students enrolled by mid afternoon with expectations of about 600 to 700 total this spring. Registrar W R Cable notes a higher share of male students than usual and cites high school reclassifications from second to first grade shortening teaching staff workloads as a factor.
Willie Dalton, a 17 year old, walked from the Northern Trust Company with $725000 in liberty bonds. His attorney argued bond intoxication caused his actions claiming he earned only two dollars daily and could not be responsible after handling vast sums.
Market notes show light cattle receipts with steady to firm prices. Prime cattle bring 8.50 to 8.75, veal calves 10.00 to 10.50, with common 7.50 to 8.50. Sheep and lambs are light with steady values. prime wethers 6.75 to 7.00, yearling lambs 10.50 to 11.00. Hogs trade higher with prime heavy 8.25 to 8.50, mediums 9.25 to 9.85, light yorkers 9.25 to 9.35, pigs 9.00 to 9.25 and stags 4.00 to 4.50.
Hogs receipts at Union Stock Yards total 19000 with a market rise of 10 to 25 cents. Bulk hog prices range from 8.10 to 8.55, with butchers 8.00 to 8.35, packers 7.00 to 7.75, lights 8.25 to 8.65, sows 7.00 to 8.00, roughs 6.75. Cattle receipts 7000 with 25 cent higher market. beeves 8.60, canners and cutters 2.25 to 5.00, stockers and feeders 6.50 to 7.00, cows 5.00 to 7.25, calves 8.00 to 10.00. Sheep receipts 19000 with slow market. wool lambs 5.50 to 7.25, ewes 2.25 to 5.00.
Chicago market notes list butter creamery at 31 cents for standards and 25 to 29 cents for firsts and 20 to 24 cents for seconds. Egea ordinaries quoted 18 to 19 cents with firsts at 20 cents. Cheese-twins 18 to 19 cents, young American 21 to 22 ½ cents. Live poultry selling around 28 cents.
Fragmented OCR fragment shows multiple numbers and codes like 88.80 61:00 87.40 90.56 and 98.00 with scattered terms such as Liberty 3146 and Victory SEC. No coherent event or names emerge beyond numeric entries and garbled identifiers.
Prices for vegetables in Cincinnati Ohio show eyes at 1 cent lower with extras at 21 cents. Firsts average 20 cents and ordinaires 19 cents amid trading activity.
Cattle receipts 600 with a steady market. Steers good to choice priced at 8.25 to 9.00. Calves strong with gains to 10.50. Hogs receipts 3500 up 0.25, good to choice 8.75. Sheep receipts 300 steady with 5.50 to 6.00 for extras. lambs steady with 10.00 to 10.50 for extras.
May 3 report shows cash and futures prices for corn oats rye barley and seeds. Prices listed include corn 68c cash No 3 yellow, oats 41 42c, rye 187, barley 66c, clover seed 13.50 and 9.60 9.30 for futures, timothy 2.90 2.95 3.00 and aliske 12.50, butter 37 and 39 cents, eggs 29 cents, hay 1.25.
Sunday greetings flowed among Wrightstown and Elliott residents as Miss Beatrice Wogan stayed with Miss Marie Morris. Visitors included Mr. and Mrs. Ball from Mountville, Mrs. Lizzie Ball and Otis, and Mr. John Ball from Mountville, plus many relatives.
In New York on May 3 officials from U. S. Steel subsidiaries remained in session with Chairman E. H. Gary as wage reductions were reported to be under consideration.
Washington officials say the allied delay in pressing Germany for reparations sustains hope for a satisfactory European settlement. High authority indicated the pause aims to avert wider disruption while seeking agreement.
The ends of a new table book rack are joined by coiled springs that allow the ends to be drawn together as books are removed, making it compact during use and retrieval.
Dispatches report engagement of August Herrmann, president of the Cincinnati National League team, to Mrs. Elizabeth Dougherty of Chicago. Initial quotes suggested a July wedding, but later officials called the report a joke. Dougherty confirms the engagement in light of the confusion.
Fifty thousand Chicago boys will march on Michigan Avenue May 6 to inaugurate Boy's Week. A seven day program is set by the One Club and allies. President Harding sent greetings via wire to the Rotary Club. Governor Len Small and Mayor William Hale Thompson join in the cooperation.
A special musical service will be held at Sugar Creek M. B. H. Church on Wednesday evening May 4 at 6 15. The program features the Johnson sisters singing Miss Maud Skidmore reading and C. F. Girls singing with violin selections by Robert Lowther and duets and solos by the Cowen brothers. Everyone is welcome.
The Wheaton left Cherbourg with 2800 American soldiers aboard and bound for Antwerp where it will receive 1000 more bodies before returning to Newark.
A West Virginian develops electric hair shears using a motor that drives a flexible shaft and gearing to power barber tools.
A complete radio telephone unit, powerful enough to operate to distances up to 15 miles, has been developed that weighs but 60 pounds.
Public notice states Ohio Fuel Supply Company filed with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio to raise rates for Glouster schedule No 8 and Trimble schedule No 4 effective June 2 1921. New rates: fifty cents per thousand cubic feet less six cents discount for prompt payment plus a fifty cent monthly bill. Copies may be inspected at Glouster office of Charles Dunn. J M Garard vice president.
May 8 report says twenty killed and 150 wounded in a clash between Jews and Arabs at Jaffa Sunday. Police and troops restored order after forces fired on fighting crowds.
Readable text lists trains with Athens departures and arrivals including No. 83 No. 37 No. 8 No. 24 and times 6:00 10:10 6:16. Mentions daily trains westbound and arrivals at Athens platform stops.
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