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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

May 28, 1921

Page

7

Demonstration of a Noiseless Washing Machine Launch

The piece notes Prima Electric Washer claims to clean a single piece or a full tub with minimal noise. An Athens event reports E D Waid outlining dairy farm improvements, public education on dairy nutrition, and a plan to form a county dairy association chaired by John Lax with members from multiple rural routes.

Prima Lfred Noes Nelsonville Ohio Sales Agen E. D. Waid Ohio State Farm Bureau Federation Athens E. R. Raymond Alderman East Washington Street John Lax R. D W. C. Maxwell George Wakefield Frank Moler Julian Gift C. P. Riley J. G. Hope Mr. Ward Farm Bureau Waid

Lumber and building materials at new lower price basis

We are headquarters for lumber and building materials with daily receipt of cars of lumber bought on the new lower price basis. Two cars unloaded include small timbers 4x4, 4x6, 4x8, 6x6, and 6x8 inches from 10 to 20 feet long.

Local Social News Highlights From Somerset and Salem

The Plains Tom Scott of Salem and Mrs Zimmie Scott Kanan and baby of Somerset were supper guests of Mrs Emma Hawk. Ed Shipley and M E Twiss with Mary Jo of Athens visited Mary Micheals. Bobby Dicken ill with tonsillitis. Paul Popovich and friend Brammer of Cleveland vacationing with his parents. Cliff Wolfe and children of Connett visited Roscoe Shields. Ed McCall of Athens and William Moore hosted guests. Detroit visitors Sanford Snyder with relatives here.

Tom Scott Salem Zimmie Scott Kanan Baby Somerset Emma Hawk Ed Shipley M. E. Twiss Mary Jo Athens Mary Micheals Bobby Worth Dicken Harl Shreves Dot Dicken Buchtel Paul Popovich Brammer Cleveland Cliff Wolfe Connett Roscoe Shields Ed McCall Atheny William Moore Sanford Snyder Detroit Michigan John West Sr

Unknown driver hits gate at Union Street railroad crossing

An unidentified motorist rushed to cross Union Street tracks as gates were down. The car struck and broke the wooden gate and smashed the windshield after a passing train. the driver did not stop. No other damage reported.

Union Street

Irregular Grain Moves In Pre Holiday Chicago Session

Chicago market notes show May wheat edging higher on short covering with a 1.68 opening and 1.50 close, July wheat up 1.25 at 1.28% as trade fluctuates. May corn starts 0.25 higher at 68% and ends 0.25 higher. July corn rises 0.125, September corn up 0.5. May oats fall 0.375 to 39.625, July oats up 0.375 to 41.375, September oats up 0.625 to 2.00.

Chicago Chicago Board of Trade

Cincinnati Produce Price Listings

Figgas ready extra firete twenty cents. firate eighteen and a half cents. ordinary eighteen cents. 18 eo.

Cincinnati

Grain prices and futures near month highlights and stock items

OCR fragment lists grain and seed prices with futures for corn oats rye barley cloverseed and timothy for 1918 1919 1920 seasons plus price shifts and a few odd values. It resembles a market quotation column with numbers and months but many words are garbled.

Butier

Chicago Produce Market Prices

Market price list shows butter creamery at 28 cents per lb, standard and fursts at 22 to 27 cents, eggs ordinary 18 to 19 cents, cheese twins 14 cents, American 16 cents, live poultry listed without clear quantity. Ratios and garbled terms indicate a scanned dairy and poultry rate sheet.

Chicago

New York Exchange Markets Closed for Memorial Day

The New York Stock Exchange announced a holiday closure with markets closed today and reopening Tuesday. An extra trading day was declared for Memorial Day observances.

New York Stock Exchange

Live Stock Market Report Shows Mixed Gains and Declines

Receipts fair and prices mixed across cattle veal calves sheep and lambs hogs and pigs. Choice cattle steady at 9.00 to 9.28 per cwt with some variation. veal calves 10.00 to 10.50. wethers 5.40 to 5.76. lambs 4.00 to 10.50 depending on class. hogs and pigs ranged 7.90 to 8.25 for mediums and heavies, with roughs and stags noted.

Cade—redes

Cincinnati Cattle Market Steady With Mixed Receipts

Cade receipts around 300 with buyers steady as shippers pay from 7.50 to 8.25. Calves show 50 lower with some 9.00 tops. Hog receipts near 2200 steady with 2 headed lower to 8.00 10.00. Sheep about 4000 steady with lambs near 13. five to 14 dollars.

Cincinnati Eady

Athens Memorial Day Parade Promised As Finest In Years

Locals will attend Memorial Day exercises to honor veterans of all wars who have passed on. The Athens parade is billed as the best in years, following publication of the order of march by The Messenger on Friday.

Athens

Big rush for marriage licenses in Athens county

Memorial Day 1921 brings a wave of wedding permit activity as Probate Judge S. M. Johnson handles endless applications. At least eighteen residents lined up, with seven couples waiting at one point, as licenses were issued to pairs including EK Smith and Lulu Steed, H B D Murch and Myrtle Duckler, J W Jones and Kovach Forrest Murphy, and others from Chauncey Glouster The Plains and Hollister, with Mayor T B Roush present.

Memorial Athens County M. Johnson EK. V. Smith Athens Lulu Steed Gee BH. D. Murch Morris Myrtle Duckler Roberts Avold English Glouster Miner Ella Tanner J. W. Jones Daniel Kovach Hollister Forrest Murphy L. Strecker Emmett Dickerson Chauncey Elisabeth Safronko Edward Dearth Zaleski Farmer Winnie Maxwell BE. D. Murch John Nichols Trimble Gladys Armstrong William EB. McCoy Mary Cotter Father Shaffer William Lowry the Plains Frances Bricker T. B. Roush

Poet Edgar Guest’s 14 year old daughter dies in Detroit

Marjorie, the cherished daughter of poet Edgar A. Guest, dies at age fourteen in Detroit after a prolonged illness from tuberculosis. The death ends a life that inspired many of her father's optimistic child poems and touched readers across the city.

Detroit Mich Marjorie Edgar A. Guest

Stillman Divorce Hearings Likely Resume in Poughkeepsie

New York May 28. With settlement talks abandoned opposing counsel prepare for resumption of secret hearings Wednesday in Poughkeepsie.

New York Stillman Poughkeepsie

Hogs and cattle brisk at Union Stock Yards market report

Union Stock Yards IL reports hogs receipts 3000 with markets 10 cents higher. prices range from 7.00 to 7.90 for hogs and 7.00 to 8.50 for cattle. Cattle receipts zero with steady market. sheep receipts 7000 with wool market 5.00 to 11.60 and ewes around 1.00.

Union Stock Yards Ackin

Foster to Deliver Memorial Address on Decoration Day

Congressman I M Foster will give the memorial address at the Union Street cemetery on Decoration Day May 30. The parade forms at the Armory at noon and visits multiple cemeteries to decorate graves of soldiers from past wars. Major S M Johnson serves as grand marshal. the event precedes a baseball game with Ohio State.

I. M. Foster Dliver Union Street Ark Armory Old Cemetery State Street West Union Street Congressman Foster Co. L Athens State Hospital G. A. R. and Woman's Relief Corp 8. M. Johnson Ohio State Athens

Dorset Men Send Patois Toast to King in London Dinner

A Dorset society in London prints a mock kingly message in regional patois signed by Shaftesbury. The text praises loyalty and cider to His Majesty, jesting about English speech and Dorset characters at the yearly Yeast Day gathering at Connaught Rooms Kingsway.

London George Society Earl of Shaftesbury King Jar Dorset Kingsway

Cat famine hits Valley near Sistersville

Sunshine Valley, a hamlet of about 100 in West Virginia, endures a cat famine as rats raid granaries and smoke houses. Farmers report high demand for loaned pet cats and even issue payments in barber-shop style with taps from a dinner bell to call the numbers.

Sistersville W. Va Sunshine Valley

Deserted Husband Pursued by Wife in Athens County

A Missouri MacCumber writes to Prosecuting Attorney W. B. Bartels claiming C. W. MacCumber is her husband and whereabouts with Annie Marks and Bebeps Marks in Carbondale Ohio. She asks the prosecutor to arrest him for desertion and to protect her and her children.

Athens County Athensity Bebeps Marks Annie Marke C. W. MacCumber W. B. Bartels W. V Mysouri MacCumber Tery Annie Marks Terney Carbondale Ohio

Manhattan to Have Big Parade of War Veterans

Memorial Day 1921 will feature 800 grand army men marching up Fifth Avenue in an air parade. They will be joined by 5 000 who served in 98 and 4 000 youngest veterans. Officials at G A R headquarters say it will be the greatest Memorial Day parade ever held in New York.

New York Fifth Avenue

Athens Rail Schedule Fragments From Daily Trains

Readable fragments show inbound No. 30 arriving Athens at 10:10 a.m. No. 32 at 3:45 p.m. No. 34 at 8:15 p.m. Athens times for outbound and daily trains are listed earlier in the fragment.

Athens Zoczmwe Eee Picthens

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