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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1925
Page
9
Used Car Exchange Opens in Pomeroy Bend District
Announcement for a new used car exchange at East Main Street in the Brocalla Building near Excensor Salt Works. It states all cars taken in on new Chevrolets will be reconditioned in their own shop and sold for value.
Wetwash home laundry ad promotes low wash bill and services
An OCR fragment advertises Wet Wash Laundry promising weekly bills from 7k to 1.00 and home laundry services in Middleport. It also mentions Humphry radiants, Wetzell’s appliance store, dental services, and a wool coat sale with high grade wool items priced 6 to 7 dollars.
Varsity Inn Plans Thanksgiving Dinner Service
The Varsity Inn announces a Thanksgiving Day dinner service offering a full menu for local patrons. Details on hours and pricing will be released by the inn management.
Logan Gas Company Proposes Higher Rates in Athens
The Logan Gas Company files with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio Schedule No. 9 proposing increased natural gas rates for Athens effective December 15, 1925. The first 500 cubic feet cost 1.00 per meter monthly. over 500 is priced per 1,000 cubic feet with a 3 cent discount if paid within ten days. Copies of the schedule available at Athens agent W A Casley’s office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan Gas Company
Public Utilities ,Commission of Ohio
Athens
Niente
W. A. Casley
K K. C. Krick
Do.t.w
Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
K. C. Krick
T.w
Logan Gas Company proposes rates with P U C of Ohio
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio Schedule No 9 proposes gas rate increases for the Logan Gas Company as filed by Vice President K C Krick. Rates listed include 68 cents per 1000 cubic feet for usage up to 500 and higher charges for additional usage, with payment required at the Athens office, dated November 17.
Appointments as Executrix and Administrator in Athens County
Lizzie Bell Barber named Executrix of the estate of William Barber of Athens County Ohio. Henry A. Dixon named Administrator with the Will Annexed of Ethalinda Brooks estate in the same county. Both instruments dated November 1925 and signed by S. M. Johnson, Probate Judge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lizzie Bell Barber
Illiam Barber
Athens County
Ohio
Said County
T. Wv
Henry A. Dixon
Ethalinda Brooks
S. M. Johnson
T.w
Attachment Issued in Auftick Case For 122 Dollars
On October 29 1925 Pearl W Helwig Justice of the Peace issued an attachment order for $122 in the case of Anna Auftick and John Auftick in his court. Emmett Keenan is attorney for the plaintiff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl W. Helwig
Anna Auftick
John Auftick
Emmett Keenan
Hocking Valley Railway Company Notice of Hearing
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio schedules a hearing on the railway’s request to reopen authority to station at Poston Station Athens. The matter No 3856 concerns the Hocking Valley Railway Company with Q Wasson general freight agent. Hearing set at Columbus Ohio on November 5, 1925 at 12 2 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cntities Commission of Ohio
Hocking Valley
Comeau
Shane Poston
Nerane My Niven
Poston
Athens
Columbus
Obie
Veces
M. Cent
Hocking
RAIL_ woMPANY
Q. Wasson
T. W
Public Auction of Athens Ohio Property in In Lot No 95
Probate Court of Athens Ohio orders public sale of a parcel in Athens city near Union and Depot streets. Property in In Lot No 95, 76 feet along West Union Street, 115 feet deep, appraised at three thousand dollars. Terms: one third cash, one third in one year, one third in two years at 6 percent interest. Administrator Emmett Keenan. Sale set for Wednesday in November 1925 at 1 PM.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Probate Court
Athens
Ohio
Ing
Athena
Athens County
Union Street
Depot Street
Said
Lot
Said City
Said Street
West Union Street
Emmett Keenan
Mary B. Kennedy
T.w
Market Downturn Persists As Selling Pressures Markets
New York stocks opened lower as speculative selling hit motors oils rails and coppers with a further week of declines. Chrysler Motors rose on talks of recapitalization and a dividend plan while money conditions worried investors as Cleveland Reserve Bank rates influenced borrowings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Lst
Wall Street
Cleveland
Chrysler Motor
Cleveland Reserve Bank
Chicago Livestock Prices and Receipts Report
Chicago markets show hogs with 10 to 15 cent declines and mixed weights trading 10.70 to 11.75. Cattle receipts at 11,000 with strong beef steer prices 13.50 to 14.50, cows around 4.30, bulls 4. So on. Sheep receipts 11,000 with fat lambs 15 to 15.75 and yearlings 8.50 to 12.50 in demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Pittsburgh Livestock Prices Reported for Cattle Sheep and Hogs
Cattle supply light and market steady with various grades listed from common to prime and fat bulls and cows priced from 4 to 10.25 dollars. Sheep and lambs show 1000 head with good and lamb prices around 9 and 15.50 dollars. Hog receipts 2500 with prime heavy hogs at 11 to 12.10 dollars and mid ranges 12.25 to 12.50.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Local Market Prices for Produce Eggs Poultry and More
Cleveland area prices list butter eggs poultry cheese apples potatoes cabbage tomatoes and onions. Butter 54c to 1c higher. eggs fresh 65c with regional highs 60c for extra firsts. poultry roosters springers and ducks in mid 20s per lb. cheese York State 28c. apples Baldwin $4.75 per bin. potatoes Ohio $2.00 to 2.10 per bushel. cabbage 28c. tomatoes hot house $1.00 per ten pound basket. onions Ohio saxoline $2.40 to 2.62 per cwt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Ohio
York State
Chicago Produce Butter Prices
Receipts total 10 558 with creamery extras at 50 percent gross and extra firsts at 47 ic per pound. Firsts quoted 45 percent and packing stock at 38 to 30 cents per pound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Liberty Bonds Opening Quotations
Liberty Bond quotations list early bids with sigs and values such as 90.18 first4s 100.25 second4s 100.20 time 101 fourth 4148 102.3 new4s 102.20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liberty Bonds
Cincinnati Live Stock Market Report Summary
Cattle receipts 400 with steady to strong trade. Steers and calves trading at good to choice levels. prices around 13.50 to 134.50. Hogs receipts 5300 with market down 25c to 70c. butchers 11.90 to choice packers. Sheep receipts 300 steady with good to choice at 14.50 to 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Weather and market notes from Minneapolis Atlanta and Shreveport
Minneapolis reports bad weather cuts potato and sugar crops and slows grain movement while livestock prices rise offsetting grain losses. Atlanta notes savings accounts in regional banks rising, a strong near record increase. Shreveport covers oil output in Louisiana and Arkansas inching up though bad weather hampers new operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Shreveport
Louisiana
Arkansas
Studebaker ships seventy two cars to run overs into Florida
The Studebaker company has shipped seventy two automobiles to Tifton Georgia to run overs into Florida and will continue shipments at twenty five a day Ford considers a ship line from New Orleans to Tampa reported in the same dispatch The India Tire company of Akron Ohio will add a new addition next January increasing tire production from 1300 to casings and dad
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tifton
Studebaker Company
Florida
Ford
New Orleans
Tampa
Akron
Ohio
India Tire Company
Unclear OCR Note Reads Outdated Terminology and Codes
Fragmentary OCR line mentions Cincinnati area and coding terms with overdue and ungraded values. Lacks clear event, person, or organization names. Unable to derive a definite news item from the garbled text.
Mystery in man's death finally cleared in Huntington
Police located a wounded man in a Huntington hospital who told of a fight over a woman. George C. Francis of Cyrus admitted shooting Amos Salyers during a trunk len brawl at Salyers' home. Salyers died from a heart wound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
W. Va
George C. Francis
Cyrus
Amos Salyers
Latters
Salyers
Ball Funeral for Claude Ball Aged 12
Funeral services were held at First Christian church Ath ens for Claude Ball son of Mr and Mrs Benjamin Ball of Armitage. The Rev M B Chatley conducted the service and burial followed at Green Lawn Nelsonville. Claude died after a truck wheel rear ran over his left shoulder on his parents farm Saturday morning. He died shortly after at Sheltering Arms hospital. He was with three brothers during the accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claude Ball
Benjamin Ball
Armitage
First Christian Church
Athens
M. BR. Chatley
Green Lawn
Nelsonville
Cigade
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Baldwin to Face Commons Question on Submarine Conference
Premier Baldwin will be questioned in the House of Commons tomorrow about possibly summoning an international conference to discuss abolishing submarines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baldwin
London
House of Commons
Paris style directors foresee long hair trend revival
French fashion directors report long hair gaining favor in Paris while bobbed styles decline. Several large department stores refuse to hire sales staff with bobbed hair, signaling a shift in salon and retail standards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
France
Puppet show entertains children and adults with Browning tale
A Marionette theater presented The Pied Piper of Hamelin and Treasure Is Certain, featuring Tony Garge puppets and a vaudeville segment with Juseler and Professor Ko Neecher. The afternoon crowd of children reacted warmly while the evening audience, mostly adults, enjoyed polished performances and careful staging.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tony Garge
Ighideen
Letty
Mech
Judy
Punch
Juseler
Ko- Neecher
Ita
Hamelin
Robert Browning
Robert @evenson
Local VFW backs universal Armistice Day observance
Canton veterans group Floyd Hughes Post No 69 voted to support a nationwide Armistice Day stoppage. They urged all businesses trains and telegraph services to halt for two minutes starting at 11 a.m. on November 11.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canton
Floyd Hughes
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Ferton Johnson Pleads Guilty After Armistice Day Incident
Ferton Johnson a colored man from Glouster was arrested at a negro dance near Glouster on Armistice Day and charged with possessing intoxicating liquor. He pleaded guilty to the charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ferton Johnson
Glouster
Unclear Justice Action Over Dance Incident
The fragment notes a person named Johnson fined $100 by Justice Pearl W. Helwig after a dance incident. Johnson was detained for several days and could not appear before Magistrate Helwig until last night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl W. Helwig
Johnson
Helwig
School Superintendent Blocked From Dismissal
Judge N C McBride of Hillsboro rejected Prof F L Perry’s request for an injunction to prevent his removal as New Straiteville schools superintendent after one year of service. Perry said he was hired for three years and satisfactory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Lexington
N. C. McBride
Hillsboro
Prof &. L. Perry
New Straiteville
Perry
Mayor of Buchtel Arraigned On Serious Charge
Porter Sweasy, mayor of Buchtel, was arraigned before Magistrate Pearl W. Helwig on a complaint by Loretta Rife charging assault and battery with intent to kill Wills Rife. Sweany pleaded not guilty and posted 37500 bond awaiting grand jury action. Mrs. Sweazy said the men argued over politics. Sweazy struck Rife, who struck his head on the curb and was taken to a Columbus hospital with a fractured skull and serious condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porter Sweasy
Buchtel
Pearl W. Helwig
Mra
Loretta Rife
Wills Rife
Rife
T . Sweany
Rags to Riches Tale Realized in Standard Oil Career
Horatio Alger tale comes to life as George H. M. Jones rises from stenographer at Standard Oil thirty five years ago to chairman of the board of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. He succeeds the late A. C. Bedford and draws a salary of 125000 dollars annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Horatio Alger
George HM. Jones
Jones
Standard Oil Company
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey
A. C. Bedford
Labor Parson of West to Speak in Ewing Hall and Church
Dr. George Lackland head of Denver Labor College will discuss phases of the labor problem in Ewing hall at 9 40 and at First Methodist church at 7 Thursday evening. He known as the labor parson of the West for his work with unions and business leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Lackland
Denver
Colorado
Labor College
Denver Forum
Ewing Hall
First Methodist Church
Doctor Lackland
West
Grace Church
Federation of Labor
Doctor Lack
Jadd
Deaths Funerals Mary Helen Antle
Mary Helen Antle aged 10 or 11 died after a two weeks illness at home on Central Avenue. Parents Mr and Mrs A F Antle grieve with another child Dwight. Funeral arrangements pending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Helen Antle
A. F. Antle
Central Avenue
Dwight
Rob Bank Messenger Robbed in Cincinnati Suburb
Three youths in a closed car attacked Henry Vierling in Mt Healthy early today and fled with about 1600 dollars in cash and 4200 dollars in checks from the Mt Healthy Savings and Loan Association collections made Monday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ROB Bank Messenger
Cincinnati
Henry Vierling
Mt. Healthy Business District
Mt.Healthy Savings and Loan
Public Forum on School Discipline and Morale
The speaker asserts teachers bear full responsibility for discipline and morale in schools. He notes complaints from outside Athens and references a severe incident including a boy named to have harmful injuries and finger prints around the throat, urging common sense and humane consideration by authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mersenger
Athens
Ahlbrand
Ohio Faces Wittenberg In Homecoming Clash
The report notes an Ohio quarterback showing distance and accuracy on punts, with a drive ending near the 20 yard line. It highlights Ohio’s strong football history against Wittenberg since 1913 and the chance to claim another victory in the homecoming clash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Hach
Ted
Wie
Okie
Wittenberg
Stu
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Cation ON
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Brocalla
SUN
Home Laundry CO
Middleport
Burr-A
Humphry
Wetzel
Eroy
G. H. Caldwell
Cleaners
GHONE
Pomeroy Home
B. T. Harmon & Co
Bond & Mortgage Investment Company
Athens, Ohio
the Varsity Inn
T.we
Atlanta
Ray Tek
Roelfe
A Coe
Cmscaee
Cincinn
wiPu
Boots
WANE
Gor
Ger
Willis
Labor Parson
G. S. Lackland
Athens High School
Gallipolis
Presbyterian Church
Earnest Wilson
John Borague
W. BL. Gard
North
Athens Gree Athome
Neathboun
Athene
BA Timour
Bane
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