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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

May 29, 1928

Page

9

Athens City Council Approves North Lancaster Street Improvement

Athens Ohio council approves widening and paving North Lancaster Street from Columbia Avenue 1975 feet. plans include brick or concrete base, drainage, curb work and revised grades along a long chain of station elevations. bonds to fund the remainder, nine annual or eight semiannual installments with interest, and 80 percent of the cost already paid by assessments.

Athens County of State of Ohio Lancaster Street Columbia Avenue Said Street U. 8 Geological Survey St.41 U. 6 U. 8S G. S Lancaster U.S. G U. 5 Director of Public Service Woodworth C. H. Harris Alex M. Moore City of County of Athens State of Ohio Towit Alix M. Moore

Underground boulevard lighting project on North Lancaster Street

The Athens Ohio city council orders underground work for a boulevard lighting system on North Lancaster Street from the Columbia Avenue intersection southward 1975 feet. It details plans, cost allocations, assessments on abutting lands, and related procedures under municipal ordinance.

Lancaster Street Columbia Avenue

Liberty bonds and Treasury notes market report

Market notes show Liberty bonds closing around 36s with fractions and Treasury issues quoted from 108.30 to 114. Prices for grains in Toledo include Wheat No 2 at 1.82 to 1.83, No 2 at 1.10 to 1.11, and No 3 at 1.00, with oats and hay and various cash grain values listed. Butter and eggs prices are steady with butter near 45 to 48 cents per pound and eggs around 26 to 28 cents.

Noeape Toledo Dee Gammothy

Price List for Potatoes Poultry Butter and Eggs

Readable items show regional potato sacks from Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota Idaho and Florida prices from 0 to 4.75 per unit. Poultry includes heavy broilers leghorns roosters ducks geese with varied prices. Butter eggs vary by quality with extras firsts seconds and standard grades listed.

Wis Minn Idaho Burbanks Florida Hastings Seo

Butter and Eyes Market Receipts Highlight Dairy Prices

Butter steady with receipts 25,754 and creamery extras 44c. special market 4442c 45c. Eyes quiet with receipts 72,185 including nearby white fancy S c P36c and nearby state whites 30c 34c, fresh firsts 29c 429c, western whites 30c 32c, Pacific coast 29c 38c, nearby browns 29c.

Pacific Coast

Columbus stock list highlights and broker quotes

The Columbus stock list shows several companies with bid and asking prices, including Cities Service, Ohio Bell Telephone, Pure Oil, and Seaboard, with percentages and par values noted. Details are fragmentary but indicate market activity and price levels with bids around 108 to 112 percent for certain issues and various par values.

Cities Service Cols. Ry Ad. Gordon Jaeger Mach Jaeger Moores & Ne Ohio Bell Telel Piygus Paragon Pure Oil Bincio We RY I. N Seaboard Il

Columbus Produce Market Report Keeps Wholesale Activity High

Columbus daily wholesale prices show continued movement with beans and cabbage steady to weak, lettuce and onions firm, potatoes uneven, watermelons averaging 22 pounds, and overall prices ranging from 1.25 to 3.50 per unit. Notable items include cabbages at 75 cents per crate, iceberg lettuce around 3.25 per crate, and Triumph potatoes at 2.35 to 3.50 per 100 pound sack.

Columbus U. P Tedey

Market Report Posts Mixed Livestock Prices Across Classes

Hog receipts total 3100 with mixed demand and prices from 9.50 to 10.50 for various weights. Cattle receipts 250 with beef steers and cows trading around 12 to 14 and 9 to 10 for lower grades. Sheep 750 head with fat lambs 17 to 18.50 and fat ewes 6 to 8, bulk spring lambs 17 to 18.50. Market overall steady with modest declines noted in some weight classes.

Butter and eggs price details from receipts

Butter receipts show 15 377 with 43c standard and 40c firsts. extras 42c. Eggs receipts list 40 362 with ordinaries at 25c, 26c for 4c, firsts 21c, 27 4c, seconds 25c, extras 30 percent.

Market tumble seen on Chicago grain on liquidation sales

Chicago May 29 heavy selling for liquidation of sew lines caused a break in wheat on the board. Corn fell and oats declined amid bearish news. Late in the day wheat dropped 1% to 1% cents, corn ½ to 1½ cents, oats about 2 cents. Provisions were about unchanged.

Chicago U. P Board of Trade Today

Eggs Prices Reflect Fresh Gathered Firsts and Seconds

Local market notes show fresh gathered eggs priced at 27 cents per dozen for firsts, 26 cents for firsts in smaller cases, 26 cents for nearby ungraded eggs, with seconds listed at 26 cents.

Cincinnati

Livestock Prices From Chicago Department Report

May 29 livestock prices show hogs receipts 26,000 with market strong to 10 higher. top $10 for around 25 pound averages. Cattle calves totals 4,500 with steers and yearlings rising to about $14.50, top ranges near $13.25 to $14.50. Sheep 5,000 with fat lambs and springers active and steady, prices for various weights and grades listed.

Dept. Livestock Chicago U.P Dept. of Agriculture Hood Erunes Ood Oice

Fine Cattle Tests Reveal 28000 Tuberculous Cattle

More than a million cattle were tuberculin tested last March and 27,999 were found tuberculous. Despite the large testing effort, more than three percent of cattle remain on the waiting list to be tested.

Silver Mirror Girls Revealed in Ohio University Athena

The 1928 Athena year book, distributed on campus, features the Silver Mirror beauty winners selected by John Gilbert. Greelea Collings tops the list with other finalists from Athens Adena Massillon Hicksville and Cleveland. The volume includes class photos campus life humor and a dedication to alumni and a memorial auditorium.

Ohio University Silver Mirror John Gilbert Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Star Greelea Collings Athens Carolyn Christy Adena Gertrude Ferrell Massilon Margaret Cruikshank Hicksville Mariana Bing Frances Zimmer Cleveland Frances Clutts Virginia Ward Warren Russell Marple Zanesville Gilbert Beckley New Cumberland

Investigation Asked By Rural Dwellers

Complaint filed with the Public Utilities commission by Charles H. Hubbell on behalf of thirty four rural residents in Mahoning Trumbull Ashtabula and Columbiana counties against rates charged by Pennsylvania Ohio Power and Light for rural electric service near Youngstown. The filing asks for an investigation and a hearing in Youngstown.

Columbus U.P Public Utilities Commission Charles H. Hubbell Cleveland Mahoning Trumbull Ashtabula Columbiana Pennsylvania-Ohio Power and Light Company Youngstown

Postal Rate Bill Signed by President

President Coolidge signed the $16,285,000 postal rate reduction bill. The measure, sponsored by Chairman Griest of the House post office committee, reduces rates on most classes of mail to the 1921 basis, effective July 1.

Washington U.R Coolidge Griest House Post Office Committee

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