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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1919
Page
11
A Ford with license 389702 driven by an unnamed miner plunged over an embankment at The Narrows near Millfield. The car hit a tree, the driver was uninjured and the machine suffered no serious damage.
After selling the E G Antle farm the owner will offer the property at public auction on the farm site 2 miles southeast of Trimble. The event invites bidders to inspect the farm and participate in the sale on location.
Edna and Shirley Luikart, aged victims of bichloride or mercury poisoning by their mother Hazel Luikart, travel with father Ray Luikart to Chicago for Dr. Thomas A. Carter to treat them. Carter agrees to treat if brought to him as the children weaken by the hour. Hazel Luikart remains jailed in Pontiac, certain the girls will recover.
Hugo Haase, leader of the German independent socialists, was shot by a Vienna man named Vogel outside the Reichstag. Haase, who also served as attorney in an extortion case, sustained non serious wounds.
Cattle receipts light and market steady with prime at 14.00 to 14.75 and veal calves 22.00 to 22.50. Sheep and lambs receipts light and market slow with prime wethers 7.75 to 10.25 and lambs 8.00 to 15.00. Hogs receipts 20 doubles with a tower market. ranges include prime heavies 15.50 to 16.00 and light yorkers 14.50 to 15.00.
Hog receipts 2800 market steady to 50c lower bulk 13.75 15.50 packing 13.00 14.00 night 14.75 15.50 pigs 13.75 14.50. Cattle receipts 16000 market steady beeves 8.25 18.75 butcher stock 6.00 14.25 canners and cutters 6.25 8.75 stockers and feeders 6.00 13.00 cows 7.75 13.00 calves 17.00 18.25. Sheep receipts 46000 market steady wool lambs 8.50 12.75 ewes 3.00 7.50.
Cattle receipts 990 with market steady. Shippers price at 10.50 to 12.00. Calves down 0.50 with figures at 21.50. Hog receipts 4100 and market 0.50 lower. Good quality packers and butchers 14.75. Sheep receipts 410 with steady market and good to choice prices 6.25 to 6.50. Lamb market steady with good to choice at 14.00 to 14.25.
The market lists eggs at 57 cents per dozen for extra firsts, 55 cents for firsts, 52 cents for ordinary firsts, and 44 cents for seconds. Live poultry prices show fowls 29 cents per pound or higher, roosters 18 cents, broilers 38 cents, and fryers 26 cents per pound.
Akron fireman George Mays claimed the national horseshoe championship at Wooster, defeating Hughie Palmer in the finals. Mays led eliminations and finals with 230 points and 80 ringers among sixteen competitors. Palmer tied for second with Russell Witt, who then beat Witt 21 to 4 before facing Russell Leisy in two straight wins. Forty to fifty pitchers entered the eliminations.
Acting Chief Ed Bolin traced a Ford found near the Athens Nelsonville detour to I M Bowen of Lancaster after the stranger who sold the car to Doug Lewis failed to provide proper ownership. Bowen and a Lancaster officer arranged the seizure for return to the owner while the suspect remained at large. An inventor has patented a desk tray for pens and blotters.
In Nelsonville Ohio a 1919 city council resolution asks voters at the November 4 general election to authorize bonds of fifteen thousand dollars for water works improvements including a new water source wells and equipment. Ballots will read For the issue of bonds or against the issue of bonds. Mayor H E Donley signs the notice.
New York police dispersed several hundred radicals who tried to march up Fifth Avenue on October 9 in protest of the Russian blockade, swinging clubs as they routed the demonstrators.
The Plains November 1 1919 sale notice for Rownshine School District Township bonds to fund energy revenue deficiencies bidders must submit bids with certified check and a 6 percent bid guarantee. Bonds issued to mature 1920 1926 at 6 percent annual interest payable at the district depository. Joseph Evans clerk Athens County Ohio.
Reader Belvin Maynard arrives in Rock Island Illinois after a coast to coast radio message. The note timestamps show October 9 at 8 37 A M as the arrival time.
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