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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1920
Page
5
Cattle receipts 400 steady market with good to choice steers at 11.50 to 13.00 calves dull 14.00 to 15.00. Hogs receipts 1400 with market about 250 higher for good to choice at 15.25. Sheep receipts 150 steady with good to choice 12.00 to 13.00. Lambs steady at 19.00 to 20.00 for good to choice.
Hog receipts reach 38 000 with gains of 15 to 25 cents. best bids for bulk hogs range from 13.90 to 15.10 and butchers from 13.50 to 14.75. Cattle receipts total 16 000 with a slow market. beeves quoted 7.75 to 11.00, canners 5.00 to 7.75, stockers 9.25 to 11.85, cows 7.75 to 11.60, calves 8.00 to 11.00. Sheep receipts 11 000, market steady. wool lambs 17.00 to 19.25, owes 10.00 to 13.00.
Cattle receipts light with a steady market. Prime calves bring 12.50 to 15.50, choice 13.00 to 13.75, common 12.00 to 12.50. Sheep and lambs light receipts, market slow. prime wethers 11.50 to 12.00, good 10.00 to 11.00, yearling lambs 8.00 to 17.50. Hogs receipts 40 doubles. market lower. Prime heavy 14.25 to 14.50, mediums 15.50 to 15.75, heavy yorkers 15.50 to 15.75, light yorkers 15.00 to 15.25, pigs 14.50 to 14.75, roughs 11.00 to 12.00, stags 7.00 to 8.00.
Butter creamery extras 57cc 574c standards 67c firsts 5614¢ seconds 46c 49c Eggs ordinaries 39c 40c firsts 41gc 42c Cheese Twins 27¢ Young American 29c Live Poultry 35c.
The crew nears a dangerous coast as Day and Night spot land fifty miles above Boston. They discuss jumping ship to reach home, recalling the Black Hawk voyage, and prepare to swim for shore as the harbor town comes into view.
The writer recalls a lively evening of dancing and singing with friends and her engagement to Johnny. He laments losing her to life choices, while she balances love with self fidelity. After a late train ride to Merion they spend the night with Greeny, whose artist career is paused by motherhood and a deaf aunt in residence.
Prices listed for eggs show steady rates with extra firsts at 41 cents per dozen and other grades ranging from 40 to 36 cents. Live poultry quotes cover fowls, fall chickens, broilers, roosters with per pound figures from 34 to 75 cents depending on weight and type.
Grain and feed prices listed for Toledo Ohio on May 11 show cash and futures figures. Corn No 3 yellow cash 2.03 oats No 2 white cash 1.25 1.26 rye No 2 cash 2.28 barley No 2 cash 1.89 alsike 22.75 clover seed 22.00 Oct 24.00 Dec 23.10 timothy 5.45 5.60 5.95 5.60 5.77 5.60 5.65 butter 66 cents hay 2.10 per cwt.
The Plains Mrs Ella Six of Nelsonville visited Friday through Sunday with Mr and Mrs Liz Guess. Mr and Mrs Joe Hutchins stayed Saturday night with Mr and Mrs Will Bowlby at Webb Summit and visited Mother's Day with her mother Mrs Seth Robinson at Logan. Born Friday to Mr and Mrs Cliffe Powell a boy. Addison Edgar of Athens was the Sunday guest of Fletch Hawk. Lon Humphrey and family and Miss Hazel Geinsiecke were Sunday guests of Charles Loomis and family at Logan. Mr and Mrs Ed Michael spent Sunday afternoon at Clarks Chapel.
Odd Fellows and Rebekahs from across Ohio gather in Akron for the convention and the opening of the new I. O. O. F. Hall marking a key event for the fraternal order in the state.
Mathew Heck named administrator and qualified to manage the estate of Gertrude Hipscher, deceased, of Athens County Ohio. Probate judge H. T. Phillips records the appointment dated April 24 in the year 1980. The filing is dated April 27, 1980, at Athens County Probate Court.
In Des Moines Iowa Methodist women press to admit women to ministry after Miss Madaline Southard’s memorial from the southwest Kansas conference. A lively debate is anticipated with prominent ministers aiming to pigeon-hole the measure as Bishop Edwin Hughes of Malden Massachusetts speaks on the program.
Waterbury merchants following John Wannamaker set a 20 to 25 percent reduction on all merchandise aimed at drawing shoppers.
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