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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1929
Page
13
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Local Nelsonville items show porch swings priced at 4 foot 9235 and $450, along with Niagara Nicotine Dust and other merchandise from Lor We Pale Toh and Tre Carpenter Hardware Co. The notices list vendors such as A Ward in Valley Parma Co and others in Nelsonville.
Auction and legal notices announce sealed proposals by the Board of Education of Clouster Village District for a fireproof school building and auditorium in Ohio. Separate bids cover general, plumbing, heating and ventilation. deposits and bonds required. deposits refundable. right to reject bids reserved. sale of land tracts and mineral rights noted in adjoining notices.
Notices express heartfelt thanks to neighbors and officials for support during a death. Includes thanks to minister Rev M. E Chatley undertaker Mr Coe and singers. Also mentions monuments and cemetery lots and a Belgian stallion notice near Sharpsburg by W. S Marris.
William R Tirtcher Walter F Pirtcher James A Birtcher Dora M Eirtcher and Mary Firtcher heirs of Frank Birtcher and Sarah Hirtcher residents of Mooseheart Illinois are named in a foreclosure petition filed May day 1929 by Athena County Savings and Loan Co in the Court of Common Pleas Athens County Ohio Case No 14259. The mortgage on Lot 39 Deanville Village Athens County Ohio was to secure 400 dollars plus interest. Defendants must answer by June 20 with Woolley and Rowland as attorneys for the plaintiff.
Proposals will be received by the Athens County Board of Commissioners for furnishing limestone gravel or slag for road projects in New Marshfield Albany and Kimber Carbendale roads. Bids due by 12 o'clock M on May 2 1829. Specifications and forms on file for inspection with clerk Terapkins.
In pursuance of an order of sale the court will offer minerals real estate at public auction at the Athens County Court House door on Saturday June 1920 at 1 o clock. The property in Waterloo township Athens County Ohio includes 99 acres more or less with a 40 acre claimed portion. appraised at 425 and sale for cash. Located at Mineral Ohio. Sheriff William Williams and Deputy Wayne Wingett. attorney M D Hughes.
Executor's sale by Prebate Court of Athens County Ohio to take place June 1929 at 1 99 o'clock A M on premises in Dover Township. Describes first tract in Section 8 Town 18 Range 14 beginning at the southwest corner and running east 1 145 feet with lines to be completed.
Sale items include 2 work horses 9 Jersey cows 28 sheep 10 ewes with lambs and various farm implements. A second notice in Athens County offers city lots 1922 1920 1918 1919 1927 with appraisals and cash terms. Sheriff William and deputies announce the auctions with dates in May and June.
George Carleton residence unknown. Sam Werren files partition petition in Common Pleas Court Athens County Ohio case 24212. Real estate Let No 1301 Mill Street Addition Athena City Ohio. Defendant must answer by June 3 1929. Attorneys for plaintiff.
Market notes from Baltimore show creamery butter at 44¢ per pound for fancy and 42¢ for choice. Prices for prints and blocks vary, with records around 46¢ and 45¢ to 46¢ respectively.
A dated price listing shows butter extras at 43c, 41c for other grades, and poultry terms like fowls at 34c, leghorn prices around 20c to 30c, springers similar, and ducks and geese at 26c to 27c. Stags priced at 2c and 22.
Partial OCR lists butter receipts with various grade markers and quantities. Mentions extras first seconds and standard quality notes with percentages and price indicators. Context appears to be a market or dairy pricing snippet from the Chicago area.
May 15 report from U P notes domestic wools showing improvement with specific grades trading at moderate volumes. Prices received remain near the low end of recent ranges and sales include fine original bag wools around $1 scoured.
Reading shows a Cincinnati market listing egg prices with several lines noting prices like 27 cents, 21 dollars per dozen, 60 cents for gos eggs, and 29 cents per dozen. The fragment mentions fresh gathered goods and rear- items.
Hogs receive bids across weights with prices listed for different classes. Buyers and sellers record varying quotes for 100 to 300 pound hogs, packing sows priced around four dollars per hundredweight, and totals shown for several lots across the market.
Hog receipts up 1.8 percent with market around 28 cents per pound for pigs 250 to 280 pounds. Sows and feeder cattle showing varied values with beef cattle and vealers noted. Sheep receipts include fat lambs and cull categories with scattered price points across weights and grades.
The text lists numerous companies and stock names in a jumbled OCR fragment, mentioning firms like General Motors, DuPont, Goodyear, Hughes, and Missouri Pacific along with various city and regional references. It appears to be a damaged stock or corporate listing with unclear punctuation and many garbled terms.
In Newcastle on May 15 the Prince of Wales was praised for saving Foreman Guinness from a moving belt at a can making plant. Guinness fell from a ladder and dangled above machinery before the prince leaped in, grasped his legs twice, and dragged him away to safety.
The Athens Grange will present The Deacons Honeymoon Friday at 8 pm in the Grange Mall Jerseyville. The show was delayed from Albany and Canaanville last week due to the death in a participant’s family.
Central and Southwestern Ohio will host the first air ground maneuvers as a mutual declaration of war between blue and red states. Observation planes will reconnoiter at midnight and dawn to map entrenchments and prep land combat.
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