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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1919
Page
9
Today's Markets list eggs with extra firsts 58 cents per dozen, firsts 67, ordinary firsts 54, and seconds 46. Live poultry includes fowls four and a half pounds 24 cents per pound, under three and a half pounds 20, roosters 18, broilers 1 pound plus 33, fryer 2 pounds 26.
Cattle receipts light with steady market. Choice cattle 16.00 to 16.50, prime 13.50 to 14.25, common 9.00 to 10.50, veal calves 19.00 to 20.00. Sheep and lambs receipts fair, primes 9.25 to 9.50, good 8.25 to 9.00, mixed 6.50 to 8.00, fair 8.00 to 15. Hogs receipts 25 doubles, market lower. Prime heavy 14.75, mediums 14.15, heavy yorkers 14.75 to 14.00, pigs 13.76 to 14.00, roughs 12.00 to 18.60, stags 10.00 to 11.00.
Cincinnati cattle receipts reach 1500 with slow market and shipper quotes at 10.50 to 14.50. Calves steady with extra 19. Hog receipts 5400 with steady market, good-grade packers and butchers at 14.25. Sheep 500 kept steady with 6.00 to 6.50 and lambs 13.50 to 14.00. Chicago butter and creamery prices mixed with standards at 54 to 64 cents and seconds around 65 cents.
Albany Oct 16 Linten notes village folks and visitors will gather Oct 18 at Place Martins garage for a Methodist Ladies Aid ice cream service all afternoon and evening with a 5 o clock supper featuring soup pumpkin pie and other dishes.
On October 16 in Toledo Ohio the corn No 2 yellow closed at 1.42 percent. No 2 white oats were quoted at 74.4 cents. Barley No 2 traded at $1.83.
A market brief lists rye with price 1.36 per unit in October for Clover seed cash and future months from October to March with varied bids. Alsike seed shows October December and March prices around 29 to 29.40. Timothy seed priced cash for 1917 1918 at 5.40 and later months up to 5.82 with October December April values.
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary J Fuller were conducted Wednesday at 3 PM at 34 Morris Avenue by Rev. Dr. C B Taylor of McArthur. Charles Schaeffler gave three vocal selections. Interment followed at West Union Street Cemetery. Out of town relatives included Mrs Elmer Dickson Chillicothe Mrs Charles BE McClure and Mrs B C Curtis Marietta Mr and Mrs D L Ogg Ironton Mr and Mrs Sumner Wyatt daughter Miss Edna and Mr G E Wyatt of Amenville.
Public auction at the seller's residence in New Marshfield Ohio on Saturday October 18 1919 starting at 10 o'clock A M. listing a chestnut sorrel stallion two draft mares and foals cows heifers calves hogs hay straw corn oats and farm implements with terms of one year no interest on $6 or more and four percent cash discount.
Train departures and arrivals listed for Athens with numbers 30 to 108, detailing No. 33 35 87 32 34 services and schedules. Lubricant Carbon advertised as a car additive promising power, reduced knocking, and cleaner plugs with a $1 prepaid offer and agents sought in Philadelphia.
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