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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1919
Page
7
Cattle receipts 1500 and hog receipts 4500. market quiet steady for cattle and strong for hogs with good demand from packers and butchers. Calves up 50 cents. sheep and lamb steady to strong with prices listed. eggs and live poultry show varied prices for firsts seconds and different weight classes.
Cattle receipts light with steady market. Choice ranges 14.25 to 15.00, prime 13.00 to 14.00, common 8.50 to 10.00, veal calves 18.00 to 19.00. Sheep and lamb receipts light. lambs lower. Prime wethers 9.50 to 10.00, good 8.25 to 9.00, mixed 6.50 to 8.00, fair mixed 8.00 to 14.00. Hogs receipts light. market higher and active. Prime heavy 16.00 to 16.25, mediums 16.00 to 16.25, heavy yorkers 16.00 to 16.25, light workers 15.25 to 16.50, pigs 14.50 to 15.00, roughs 10.00 to 12.50, stags 9.00 to 9.50.
Hog receipts 41 000 with market at 15 250 lower. bulk 14.25 to 15.00. other hogs at 13.50 to 14.50. cattle receipts 18 000 with strong market. beeves 8.25 to 19.75. cows and calves varied. sheep receipts 3 500 with higher market. lambs 8.50 to 14.50. wool and ewes 3.00 to 8.00. Chicago produce market shows butter classes with varying cent prices.
Closing prices list for commodities in Toledo Ohio dated November 4. Corn No 3 at 1.56, Oats No 2 white new 0.76 3/4, Barley No 2 1.40, Rye No 2 1.39. Clover seed cash 30.20 with future dates 30.35 30.45 30.60 30.35. Alsike Dec 29.60 and Mar 29.85. Timothy cash 1917 1918 5.35 with 1919 5.60 Dec 5.65 Mar 5.77 1/4 Apr 5.75.
Joe Leopold secretary of the Doplin Missouri Chamber of Commerce and visiting with his brother will speak at the Wednesday noon lunch this week. He has led the local organization for over a year and spent two years in Joplin where his work has gained national notice. Leopold will share his Joplin achievements and practical ideas inspired by Carl J Baer’s Athens success.
Seven thousand two hundred quarts of Kentucky bourbon whiskey valued over $100,000 were secretly taken from Chicago warehouses and sold to saloon keepers. Internal revenue officers investigate graft charges involving Chicago policemen with one dealer reportedly confessing participation.
An all day conference for young people in Athens is planned at the First M E Church on Wednesday. Chaplain Warren T Powell and Miss Dorothy Mead of Chicago will lead sessions and present addresses. The program runs from 9 45 a m to 7 p m with a noon and evening program including a supper and a public platform meeting.
Rev W Ahlbrand reports strong interest across Chauncey Millfield The Plains and Sugar Creek churches with planned youth singing sessions Tuesday at The Plains and midweek services at Millfield Chauncey. A Bible teachers training class will begin soon with Rev Ahlbrand teaching. All are invited.
Workers nationwide prepare a general strike if the government refuses to liberate social prisoners. La Montana cites arrests during the January strike as the trigger and notes Buenos Aires shoemakers painters and ship coalers already gone on strike with spread expected to other trades tomorrow.
In Kempt Texas a farmer faced continuous rain and flooded fields. He hitched a mule to a boat and ferried his children to harvest cotton selling at forty cents a pound.
Supt. Morgan told the board last evening to rent the city armory for high school basketball this winter. Officials propose 100 dollars a month for four months with the armory supplying all. Dr. Higgins and Mr. Sluts start school medical inspections and Jessie Larch is hired as Central building sweeper. No mines operating in Illinois fields and no violence reported.
Law rence William Fick files in Athens County Court a petition for partition of lot 3793 in Patton and Jackson's Addition to Nelsonville Ohio. Infants Anna Fick Mary Fick George II and Elizabeth Emrick reside with guardianship. notice requires answer by December 20 1919. Attorney W H Spence represents petitioner.
John Leslie Fragier, an Oklahoma City oil magnate who claims to be founder of the Patched Clothes League of Oklahoma, arrived in New York asserting the group will force down clothing prices.
Walter B. Light 12 recovers a burglar alarm in a Chicago home after pulling a toy gun on the intruder. The intruder spanks the boy as a punishment, while police report the incident as a household safety scare.
The United States Brewers Association cancelled its planned meeting in Atlantic City, originally set to open November 19, after extensive preparations for what was billed as the most important convention in its history.
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