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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1920
Page
7
Furnished room at 56 Mast Mulberry Street available for rent. Note lists a large furnished room centrally located with deadline before 5 p.m. on 4012. Publication dates indicate 10-9-38 and 10-11-3.
In Newark New Jersey two children Jane and Marie aged 10 and 11 were rescued from a burning home. A firefighter Captain Messenger steadied a ladder on his shoulders as it rose to save them after the ladder fell short. The fire began when the Leitereg cat knocked over matches into fireworks left from July Fourth.
Athens residents will drive to Stewart Wednesday evening to assist in forming a Harding Coolidge club. The 7 o clock gathering at the I O O F hall will feature talks by prominent Republicans.
After a decade of contention the water power bill opens the door for white coal to serve industry and homes. The vast water power potential may be harnessed nationwide and save millions of tons of coal. About fifty million horsepower can be developed through water power utilization.
Miss Hallie Q. Brown delivers a forceful Republican speech to thousands in Athens praising the party for anti lynching reforms and constitutional amendments while denouncing the Democratic record and Jimmie Cox. She claims Cox’s stance on the league of nations and treatment of colored people as major failures. The address ends with a musical finale by the Scott colored quartet.
An advertisement by E C Miller offers to teach carburetor adjustment and motor tuning for one dollar. Readers are asked to provide car name and model, carburetor type, and address to receive a full written guide promising gasoline savings and improved efficiency or a refund. Columbus Ohio.
Brooksville residents report visits with relatives in Zaleski Luhrig and Barberton. Several social gatherings occur with the Beckle, McBride and Woodgerd families. Santford Burkett and Don Seevers are mentioned visiting relatives while a Hawaii invention uses fireproof barrels from sugar mill refuse.
Cattle receipts around 600 with a quiet market. Steers bring 11.00 to 14.00. Calves steady with 18.50 to 19.00. Hog receipts near 3000 with 600 lower and good choice at 15.75. Sheep receipts about 800 with good to choice 5.00 to 5.60 and lambs 12.00 to 13.00.
Cattle receipts light and market steady with choice 14.00 to 14.50 and prime 15.60 to 16.00. veal calves 19.00 to 20. Sheep and hogs light with steady market. prime returns 7.76 to 8.00 and good 7.00 to 9.75. yearling lambs 13.50 to 14.20. Hogs receipts 16 doubles. market lower with prime heavy 16.75 to 16.85, heavy yorkers 16.76 to 16.85, pigs 16.00 to 16.25.
Hog receipts 26 000 and market 26 400 lower with bulk at 14.00 15.65 and butchers 13.75 15.75. packing 14.00 14.35. light 14.40 15.75. Rite 14.25 15.25. roughs 13.76. Cattle receipts 16000 market very slow to steady beeves 8.26 18.50. butcher stock 3.76 16 756. canners and cutters 3.95 7.00. stockers and feeders 4.50 12.00. cows 5.25 11.25. calves 13.60 16.75. Sheep on 29 000 market slow to steady lambs 7.50 13.40. ewes 05 8.60. Butter prices 66 es standards frets 460 66 ands 420 4 44c 680 firsts 57% 58%. Cheese Twins 3% c. Young American 25 c. Live Poultry 20c 26c.
In Cincinnati Ohio on October 12 Egge extra Gists 620 firsts 60c ordinary 59c recorded for local market activity with prices listed for various egg grades and standard retail values.
A Harding-Coolidge Club will be organized in Carbondale at 7 oclock Tuesday evening in the village public hall. Athens Republicans including Raymond Slutz and Attorney M D Hughes will assist in organizing. Mrs R I Woodworth will address the attending women.
A postcard from Lieut. George A. Stuart of Nelsonville to Athens friends dated September 29 reports sailing home from Europe the next day and arrival in Philadelphia within eleven days. He mentions meeting Constance Leete and her mother in Paris and notes pride in his Athens ties and Ohio University years before the war.
Notice to electors of the Ames Township Rural School District announces a proposed levy of three mills for eight years to support school purposes. Election to approve the additional tax will be held at the regular voting place within the Ames Township Rural School District in Athens County. Helena Clerk Board fee Education School District.
Ordinance No 261 forbids manufacturing selling furnishing transporting or giving away intoxicating beverages in the city of Athens Ohio with penalties of 100 to 300 dollars for a first offense and 200 to 500 dollars for a second offense. It declares an emergency for public welfare and cites council approval and official dates.
Fragmented notice lists court holding times for the AP Appeals in various counties for 1921. It references district seats and dates in September and February, noting administrators and hours. The legible fragments indicate regional scheduling across counties such as Athens and Bexar, with authoritative lines about session dates.
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