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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1928
Page
11
Real estate rent notices appear alongside a Cleveland Market style listing showing produce items and prices. Items include butter tablets, eggs by grade, Leghorns chickens, ducks, geese, potatoes and regional sack prices for New York Ohio Michigan Wisconsin and Maine.
A fragmented stock list shows items from Cities Service and Pure Oil with bid and asked figures. Ohio Bell Tel, Paragon Refining, Scioto Valley and Seaboard Oil are noted with various preferred and common shares trading, including several preferred listings and price estimates.
Hogs receipts total 5 400 with prices 8 75 to 9 50 per 100 pounds and 160 to 190 pound ranges. Cattle receipts 1 500 with steady market. beef steers 8 50 to 14. vealers 13 to 15 50. stocker steers 9. Sheep market unsettled. fat lambs around 13 and bulk fat lambs near 11 50.
Butter firmer with receipts 9 358. creamery extras 47s c. eggs firmer with receipts 11 461. Nearby whites priced 6 1c and 33c to 48c for mixed whites. Fresh firsts 30c to 35c. western whites 38 8c to 48c. Pacific coast 65c. browns 33c to 55c.
Butter prices in Cincinnati hold steady as fresh gathered butter earns 42 cents per pound for firsts and 34 cents for seconds with ungraded near 40 cents.
The Rev J G Patton Congregationalist minister in Hull England described modern women’s fashions as an orgy of undress in a blunt critique reported from October 25.
Seven Union League waitresses were dismissed after shouting for Governor Smith at a social greeting for Mrs. Herbert Hoover. Charles E. Roberts, chair of the house committee, said the act insulted Mrs Hoover and Republican women. the event drew a large crowd outside the league.
Clifford Douglas residence unknown must respond as Amanda Sheridan files in the Court of Common Pleas Athens County Cause No. 14044 seeking judgment for 650 dollars with 7 percent interest from January 20 192% and foreclosure of mortgage. Defendant must answer by November 23 192s. Woolley and Rowland 9 11 6th Attorneys for Plaintiff.
Electors of Amesville Village School District in Athens County Ohio will decide at the November 1928 general election whether to levy an additional three mills for five years above the maximum tax rate for school purposes. The vote will occur at regular township polling places. L Thomas, Clerk.
The report lists cash grain prices with Wheat No. 2 at 1.424 to 1.43 and No. 2 Rye at 1.13. Oats No. 2 at 46 to 47 cents, Barley No. 2 at 67 to 68 cents, with cash oats at 18.20 a hundredweight. Butter 45 to 50 cents, Eggs 38 to 40 cents, and live cattle near 1.35 per cwt.
Hogs receipts 8 steers and heifers mixed. hogs 250 to 3 price range. Cattle receipts 50, calves 100 with market steady. Beef steers around 10.50 to 12.50. heifers 9 to 12.50. beef cows 8.50. vealers 8 to 9.50. Sheep and lambs steady with fat lambs around 13.50 and fat ewes 4.50 to 6.50.
The report lists uneven movement across commodities with flour steady and lard firmer at $12 per middlewest spot. It notes refined sugar and turkeys at various prices, live poultry dull to firm, ducks and fowls ranges, and broad fluctuations in grains and livestock items.
Readable lines show fruit and vegetable prices with scattered figures including beets romaine grapefruit lettuce and unknown quantities or units. The fragment hints at produce pricing but lacks full details or clear attributions to vendors.
The Lockheed Vega monoplane Yankee Doodle, piloted by Capt. C B D Collyer with passenger Harry Tucker, departed Roosevelt Field at 4 15 p m and heads toward the Rockies on a nonstop Atlantic to Pacific flight with 520 gallons of gasoline.
President Charles A. Richmond of Union College told incoming students that mental indigestion is the educational disease of the age and urged digesting a page rather than devouring a volume in Schenectady.
The Messenger carries the final Whirlwind chapter tomorrow ending a weeks long serial run. Favorable reader reactions accompany its close. Next Sunday the entire first page of the Magazine section features the opening chapter of High Flights by Ruth Dewey Groves, a popular Messenger serial author.
Hoover holds a strong lead over Smith in the Literary Digest nationwide presidential poll. Hoover shows 1,717,041 votes to 971,356 for Smith from a total of 2,700,000, with major gains in the Solid South and notable margins in Texas Florida and New York City. The breakdown shows cross-party shifts with most Hoover ballots drawn from 1924 Republicans and substantial Democratic support for Smith in the South and border states.
Francis W. Poulson Cleveland attorney and Democratic candidate for Ohio Attorney General asserts that Boss Rule will prevail if Gil bert Bettman is elected. Poulson attacked his opponent during the remarks in Cleveland on October 23.
Coach Glenn Thistlewaite softened the dismissal of Gene Rose and Joe Kresky from the Badger squad saying they might be recalled at his discretion. He denied they were dropped for the season and provided no reasons for the original move.
Certificates received show Kenneth Montgomery Kyle born October 13 to Gus Kyle and Marie Kyle in Athens R. D. 6. Letha Mae Adams born October 20 to Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Adams.
Two professionals from Lake Erie, Julian Blanton of Toledo and Jack Thompson of Cleveland, led the state open golf title into the second round after each posting 72 in the morning. Blanton, a former Athens pro, opened with 86 on each nine in the afternoon, while Thompson matched with three birdies in a row to recover from a 39 on the first nine. Blanton slipped to a 38 on the second nine in the afternoon.
Coshocton hosts a political day with Curtis to address Republicans in the afternoon. Myers Ye Cooper campaigns for governor on the platform. The theater closes for a break and reopens to hear Judge P. Riley Carl W. Smith and Charles V. Truax in the evening.
The Ohio Division of Fish and Game takes over five miles of the old Ohio Canal from Laramie Reservoir to Newport Basin in Auglaize County to create a basin for fish propagation. Work starts immediately and should finish in a few months. Large screens will mark the inlet and outlet ends as water is supplied from Laramie Reservoir.
A shortage of $428.90 has been discovered in Company G Ohio National Guard Lancaster. Joint report to Adjutant General Frank Henderson by Col. Robert Haubrich and Major C. Ws. Goble made public today.
Residents from Athens joined the Galli Curci recital at Memorial Hall in Columbus last evening. The attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cameron and their son Arthur, Miss Arvilla Van Dyke, William Longstreet, and Dean J. R. Johnston of Ohio University.
Inbound No 3 leaves Athens at 10 32 am and No 9 departs Beneiv a8 am. No 2 leaves Athens at 11 am. Daily trains Geant Adios and Daily Trains Hocking Valley No 33 leaves Athens 7 18 am and No 37 6 30 pm. No 30 arrives Athens 11 20 am.
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