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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1928
Page
11
Page shows a crowded classified section with flour and groceries, furniture, towels, fish, dairy products, household items, and services. It lists specials, real estate, cars, insurance, and employment offers from local merchants and agencies across Logan and Athens Ohio.
Butter receipts 11 820 units with standards 42 percent firsts 40s c 4l c seconds 36c 40c extras 42c 41c. Eggs receipts 30 873 units ordinaries 254c 26c firsts 2 S seconds 25c extras 30c.
Butter steady at 44 cents with receipts of 16 989. Creamery extras 44 cents. Eggs easy with receipts 51 794. Nearby white fancy 35 to 36 cents, nearby state whites 30 to 34 cents, fresh firsts 28 6 to 29 cents, western whites 30 to 32 cents, Pacific coast 29 to 38 cents.
Hog receipts total 2300 with prices across weight classes from 90 to 300 pounds. Cattle receipts 25 with calves at 300 and market steady. beef steers around 120 to 14.50, vealers 14 to 16. Sheep receipts 600 with fat lamb top at 16 and bulk fat lambs 12.50 to 16. Overall market stable across categories.
A Cleveland market notice lists potatoes in 150 lb sacks with prices from Michigan Wisconsin and Minnesota at 2.50 to 2.65 per sack and Idaho Russet Burbanks at 4.50 to 4.75 per 150 lb sack. Poultry stocks include express stock heavy broilers 40 to 45 cents, Leghorns 32 to 35 cents, heavy fowls 27 to 28 cents, old roosters 15 to 16 cents, ducks 19 to 20 cents, geese 16 to 17 cents, with car fowls priced about a cent lower.
Favorable weather and an embargo on grain shipments to Fort Williams due to storage shortages pushed wheat lower on the Chicago board. Corn rose as shorts covered and oats edged higher, with late trading showing wheat down ½ to 1 cent, corn up 4 to ½, oats steady to up ½. Provisions mostly unchanged.
A meeting at Hotel Berry established a women in business club. Mrs. Dell Finsterwald chaired, Mrs. Ralph Dalton secretary. A committee of five appointed to name the group and draft by laws, with Maude Fanzel to notify eligible women. J H McClure spoke on the Federal Reserve system. Next meeting set for June 6 at Hotel Berry.
Mrs John Lee hosted a bridge party at her West Second Street residence with five tables. Decorations featured white, snowballs and syringas. Guests included Mrs Judson Shriner and Mrs Charles Notestone among many others. High scores went to Miss Matheny and Mrs Brown. Mrs Hillyer and Mrs Eberst helped serve lunch.
Butter steady at 40 to 42 cents with common discount 2 to 4 cents. No 1 butter at 30 cents and No 2 at 24. Butter fat 42 to 43 cents. Eggs steady with gathered firsts 27 cents, firsts 26 cents, seconds 23 cents, nearby ungraded 26 cents.
Hogs receipts 8200 held over 441 market steady to 10 higher with varied weights trading at 9.85 to 10.10 for 250 300 lb hogs and 8 9.50 for lighter ranges. Cattle receipts 6500 calves 700 veals up 50, beef steers 110 13.50, beef cows 99 10.50, vealers 11.5 15, heavy calves 9 12, stocker steers 10 11.50. Sheep receipts 1000 market strong with fat lambs 12, fat lambs 10 11, cull lambs 6 8, fat ewes 6 8, spring lambs 17.5 19, cull spring lambs 12.5 15.
The Columbus market report notes active trading in neweyrene commodities with price changes including cabbage at 4 cents per pound and cantaloupes standards at 3.75 to 4.00 per unit.
The fragment lists assorted measurements and figures such as 3'4's 100.8 and 4'4's 101.23, noting positions 1st through 4th with various shorthand indicators. It appears to be a partial, numeric sports or data card with unit marks and abbreviations.
Toledo market recap lists grains and prices for May wheat at 11.80, corn No 2 and No 3 at 11 and 10.9471.10, rye at 1, oats at 750, clover cash at 16.60 to 17.78, butter 45 to 48 cents, eggs 26 to 27 cents, May and Dec futures noted for various feeds. Prices show near-term activity and futures levels for agricultural goods.
Freeholders in Ames Township request a new public road of about one fourth mile from the Mason road south-east to Concord Church. Chief petitioners are P Thompson and Hettie Thompson. June 15 1928 set for viewing. final hearing June 19 1928 at 1:00 pm in Athens County Commissioners office.
The City of Athens Ohio gives notice to non residents listed that on May 1 1928 an ordinance authorizes underground work for a boulevard lighting system on North Lancaster Street from Columbia Avenue southward 1975 feet. Costs include surveys printing notices and bonds with deferred assessments. amounts will be assessed by frontage on abutting lots as specified in the project plan.
The Council of the City of Athens passes a notice dated May 21 1928 listing nonresident parties Milo Wilson of Gallipolis Ohio Mrs John Howard of Columbus Ohio and Mis G Averill of Pasadena California in a matter issued by W I Hull Columbus Ohio referencing city action and tolls or notices.
A coast wireless station intercepted a Vladivostok signal from AF2BQ claiming Nobile heard a transmitter on about 33 meters. The message urged proceed while follow up signals were too weak to decipher.
Ordinance seeks grading draining curbing and paving North Lan caster Street from Columbia Avenue 1975 feet with brick on concrete base or concrete asphalt on concrete base. Plans profiles and estimates are on file in the Director of Public Service office. Includes preliminary surveys notices resolutions ordinances publication and bond interest costs. Council order sets 80 percent deduction from total cost and capone of improvement.
Daily northbound No 33 leaves Athens at 7 15 am No 35 at 12 10 pm and No 37 at 6 30 pm Daily southbound arrives Athens No 30 at 11 08 am No 32 at 4 45 pm and No 34 at 9 pm Westbound service listed by Baltimore and Ohio.
Hocking county farmers and ex extension agent Robert W. Lang expect at least fifty farmers to travel to the Carpenter experiment station on June 8. They will spend the day at the station to observe ongoing scientific farming experiments and results.
Canada produced 1,138,800,000 pounds of sugar last year. Southwestern Ontario and southern Alberta led with 70,388,105 pounds of beet sugar, higher than other provinces.
Mrs John Woolley will present certificates to the Athens high school ninth grade at the June 7 commencement program. Rev I P Day offers the invocation. George Merchant as class president will speak, Paul Nichols discusses The Making of a Man, and a ninth grade chorus and girls sextette perform.
The Athens High School band played at three Memorial day events in Athens county led by Russ Stevenson the band director. They declined an invitation to attend the Silver bridge dedication at Gallipolis to stay in county duties. The group led the morning parade in Athens and participated in memorial services at New Marshfield before closing with an evening concert for the Crystal pool opening.
Bill Herbert and C. E. Cooper won the two ball foursome at Athens Country Club yesterday afternoon with 68 over 18 holes. R. F. Hawk and E. W. Chubb were runners up at 72, John Preston and Dave Fetch placed third at 73, and A. C. Gubitz with W. R. Cable finished fourth at 73. Arg Smith, the club professional, reported strong interest.
John A. Klemann, a New York stamp specialist, paid 4000 dollars for a block of ten 1845 stamps. He notes their uniqueness as stamps printed and canceled by the New York post office postmaster. The purchase occurred at a 3 million dollar philatelic exhibit in Cleveland.
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