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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1919
Page
9
A message lists two Jersey cows and Economy Cream Separator No. 16 in Guysville with Ada Graham contact. A girl at Harwich Restaurant and a Finder of a roll of $20 bills offers a return to the Messenger office to prevent trouble.
Henry B. Riggs of the University of Michigan engineering department and Fred Ballard will assist Service Director David N. Goodwillie in valuing the Toledo Rail Way and Light Company property. The valuation supports ordinances for municipal ownership if approved by voters. It marks the ninth day since Rail Light removed its cars and there is no restoration in sight.
Peter Woodrum moved his family from his Vinton county farm to a newly purchased farm of Delver Bolin last week. Mrs. Carrie C. Bobo shopped in Athens on Monday. Mrs. Gilbert Bowen, recovering from typhoid, now sick again at Arch Arbaugh’s on the Townsend farm. Mr. and Mrs. Ney Carpenter visited Athens on business. Robert Collins returned home after visiting Kentucky and West Virginia. The Davises moved from West Virginia into Woodrum’s former house. Davis rents the farm for spring. J. A. Rutherford hosted Russell Perry’s family near Vales Mill. Edith Bowen assisted with housework at E. J. Rutherford’s near Vales Mill. Luther Perry buying for Emery Simmons of Chicago. Mrs. Carl Rutherford’s illness improves. Born to T. M. Galaway and wife a daughter on November 9. Mrs. E. S. Tedrow spent the week with her daughters Keagem and Sylvester Sisson. Arbaugh of near Carpenter visited with his brother on Thursday.
Hogs receipts 58 000 market 1c 15c lower. Bulk $14.35 $14.66. Cattle receipts 30 000 market lower with beeves $8.00 to $20.50, cows $6.50 to $14.76, calves $17.50 to $18.60. Sheep receipts 3 200 market 25c higher with lambs $8.75 to $15.00. Liberty bonds listed with multiple series and prices. Cincinnati cattle market quiet steady. hogs steady to 25c lower. sheep steady to sickly with selected prices for good to choice.
Butter Creamery offers standard butter at 64c and 64 4c, firsts at 59c and 68c, seconds at 58c. Chicago produce market listings show price points for dairy butter and grades.
Pittsburg livestock receipts light with steady to weak prices across cattle sheep and pigs. prime and veal figures listed. Toledo grain prices firm with corn oats barley rye and various hay prices shown. Cincinnati produce notes record egg prices live poultry and turkey rates for the period.
Everett V. unknown residence listed. Etha Mae Moore petitions for relief at Reaves Lane No 11 in Ath County Ohio. Hearing scheduled on or after November 25 1910. W B Bartell attorney for plaintiff.
Alex Dudash filed a petition for divorce and child custody against Juliana Dudash in the Ohio Court of Common Pleas Athens County. Hearing date referenced as on or after mber 34 is noted. Woolley & Rowland are attorneys for the plaintiff.
New York November 18 Hackney army mounts and harness horses competed on day two of the 34th national horse show at Madison Square Garden. Opening day drew unprecedented society attendance as boxes and seats filled and events sold out. Lieut Col Herbert C Cox of Toronto won the largest single prize sweeping six army mounts from Ennisclaire farms.
A classified-style ad seeks waste materials for salvage including clean rubber boots and shoes, auto tires by tonnage, tubes, hoses, lead, newspapers and magazines, books, and brass. Offers per hundredweight and estimates for various items are listed, with emphasis on mixed tires and shell items for recycling.
The freighter Griffin overdue since November 19 after leaving Ashland Wisconsin was reported lost in a gale that cost twenty two lives on the steamer John Owen. It docked in Toledo on Tuesday morning as readers focus on newspapers rather than the Bible, says the Rev. A E Bell.
The probate court of Athens County Ohio suspended publication and set December 3 1919 at 9 a m for final accounts and exceptions. Executors administrators guardians and administrators of estates including Maynard Gilaen Crislip Duncan Knyowles Feerer Herrold Phillips Dyke Clifford Mill Mooguard Moore Peston Cooley Watkins Batley and others filed final accounts with dates ranging September 1919 to October 1919.
Fragmentary OCR text shows a guardianship matter in Pennsylvania with names such as Anna Fick and W. H. Spen. It references custody and a child born in the state with a date that appears as 10-31-6otw, indicating damaged date data.
Sealed proposals for a bond issue of the Ames township rural school district Athens County Ohio seek funding for school revenues under a 1919 act. Eight bonds of six hundred dollars dated Sept 1 and March 1 yearly 1920 1924 incl. interest semiannual. Bids due at board office with five percent certified check. Sale details and contact Dr J F Weber Amesville Ohio.
Fragmentary text from an Athens page shows disjoint phrases with numbers and letters. No discernible event, person, or organization can be established from the readable fragments.
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