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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1927
Page
7
A fragment of a newspaper page includes a card of thanks for kindness during illness and death of Mrs. Geo. Wilkes and family names. The rest lists scattered trivia questions and partial crossword style clues with partial headings and garbled text.
In Athens Ohio the Probate Court orders the sale at public auction on Tuesday Oct 12 at 1 30 p m from the Court House steps of undivided one half interest of west half of Inlet No 125 in the city known as 73 Franklin Ave appraised at 2500 00 The remaining one half interest will be sold on same terms at the same time and place Cash in hand day of sale Moorehead Lucy Moorehead Est M D Hughes attorney 9 12 4 ot w
Public auction scheduled for Tuesday October 1 at 1 30 p m offers the west half of Inlet No 123 known as 73 Franklin Ave. appraised at 2500 dollars. Remaining one half interest part of sale. Cash in hand day of sale. M P D Hughes guardian of Theo Moorehead 9 12 460t w
Prices listed include Alsike cash at 14.90 with December and January figures such as 16.60 16.88 and 15.15 for various dairy and feed items. Butter coats and eggs priced around 30 cents, hay at 25.00, reflecting a quiet market with small moves.
Chicago market butter receipts total 3,159 with creameries at 28 and 42 cents. Egg receipts reach 14,043 with ordinaries 2,400. Firsts 374 and 320 with seconds around 35 and 21 cents. Extras and standards noted in mixed quotations.
Liberty second 4s opened at 100.18, Liberty fourth 4s at 104 with a 2 point dip, and Treasury 3s at 100.3 down 2 in New York trading.
Butter and creamery products hold steady with graded and common prices listed. Packing stock ranges: No 1 30c, No 2 20c to 22c. butter fat 42c to 44c. Fag prices are steady with fresh gathered extra firsts at 36c, firsts 35c, seconds 28c, nearby ungraded 35c.
In Boston on Sept 12 the wool market remained steady with holders confident of price gains. Fine staple territory fetches $1.18 and up, lower ranges to $1.10 minimum. half bloods around $1 and above. three eighths blood about 90 cents. quarterbs around 80 to 82 cents. Fine Ohio Delaines 45–46 cents. Buenos Aires 4s 32 cents. Montevideo 4s 33–34 cents. Australian 64-70s $1.05–$1.10. Pulled wool $1.10–$1.12.
Hog prices showed uneven gains of 25 to 50 cents with weights ranging from 90 to 350 pounds and top quotes near 12 dollars. Cattle receipts totaled 4 500 with calves 750 and beef cattle mostly steady to weak. sheep receipts 600 with fat lambs and cull ewes priced across a wide range.
Butter held steady with receipts of 5 622 and creamery extras at 44 c and 45 c. Eggs firm with receipts 9 384 and various grades quoted from 22 c to 84 c including nearby white fancy 51 54 c and Pacific coast 49 50 c.
Pittsburgh livestock prices show hog receipts at 3 500 with markets 15 to 25 higher and cattle receipts around 1 200 with calves 400. Beef cattle and vealers posted steady to higher figures with assorted weights and prices across hogs cattle and sheep sectors. Top lambs listed at 14.00 while cull lambs reach 38.00 with bulk ranges noted.
Jersey potatoes sold in 150 pound sacks at four dollars per lot. Cheese selections include brick at 27 to 28 cents, Swiss imported 52 to 55 cents, domestic 40 to 42 cents, Limberger 28 cents. York state new eggs price range and fowls listed. Butter and eggs prices noted with various grades.
More than 100 descendants of the late Ed Walburn gathered at Chillicothe city park for a family reunion and picnic. Elington Walburn of Berlin was elected president and Bertha Angle of Glouster secretary. next gathering set for September 1928 in Chillicothe park.
Marion Smith, 45, of Long Bottom, jailed in Jackson county West Virginia on arson charges for torching the Road community church behind Ravenwood. He allegedly confessed to the $35 deed as others face arrest. the church, built by multiple denominations as a community center, was said to have sparked animosity and was destroyed. no insurance. bond set at $5,000.
A fragment lists numerous Chillicothe residents and relatives including Fred Walburn Albany Elington Walburn Jr Berling Florence Walburn Portsmouth Edward Maple Chillicothe Harold Barnhart Carl Rodgers H. E. Jackman Frank Kinsel Mary Rodgers Byer Wellston Harry Mergler George Hayes and others and their households.
In Gallipolis Ohio a New York Central railroad bridge crossing the Ohio River near Kanauga is under constant guard day and night amid fears of a dynamite plot. The bridge carries several hundred coal cars from West Virginia to the Great Lakes region daily.
C C H deputy game protector notes frequent calls about the squirrel law passed by the legislature. The new law, effective this year, clearly prohibits hunting of squirrels during 1927.
Fred Bell of Franklin Pa visits with Mr and Mrs Charles Bell of East Main, last in the area in 1914 after working in local oil fields. Mr and Mrs Fred Collins spent Sunday afternoon in Laurelville
Train listings show No 33 Athens service at 13 10 pm and No 32 arrival at 4 45 pm with No 30 and No 30 Athens connections. Details are fragmented but indicate limited timing for Athens bound services through the Hocking Valley line.
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