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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1927
Page
11
An old classified fragment advertises 10 buys one and $1 monthly payments, a liberal trade in allowance from Southern Ohio Electric Co for welding plumbing heating and boiler making, and bakery goods advertised as delicious baked and guaranteed by the Model Home Bakery with phone contact 449.
The Boston wool market remains steady with clean wool around 1 dollar per pound and higher scoured prices for Wyoming across the range. Cincinnati hog receipts total 3100 with prices up to 12.34 for 250 to 350 pound hogs. Cattle receipts 300 with beef steers near 9 to 11.75 and veal and calf prices mixed. Sheep receipts 2400 with top lambs around 14 and fat lambs 11 to 14. Ewes and cull lambs also traded lower to mid range.
Receipts 1 000. Hogs steady across weights with prices from 11.25 to 12.50 for heavier 250 350 lb ranges and 12.00 12.35 for 209 250 lb. Sows around 9 25 to 9 75. Calves and steers show firm to higher bids with fat lambs around 14 50 and bulk fat hogs noted.
Butter prices show steady or improving quotes with tub averages around 38 to 40 cents and fat content at 42 to 44 cents. Eggs move steady with gathered extra firsts near 37 cents and seconds around 22 cents, near-by ungraded at 3 cents.
The barley and dairy sector shows receipts of 6 753. Ordinary items priced around 25 to 30 cents, firsts at 34 to 638 cents, extras and beds listed among receipts. creameries and sagaae entries appear intermediate in trade with varied figures.
Jersey 150 lb packs offered at 5 3.85 and Ohio round white at 3.65 per unit. All other varieties remain unchanged.
Receipts show firmer butter with creamery extras at 40 percent, 46s. tm, and nearby white fancy at 54 to 56 cents. Nearby mixed whites range from 37 to 92 cents, fresh firsts at 327735 cents, western whites 32 to 42 cents, Pacific coast 40 to 50 cents, with nearby towns at 444 to 48 cents.
Liberty Second 4's show a 160.16 discount, Third 4's at 101.9 off 1, Fourth 4% rises to 104 up 2 in New York trading as of September.
Athens County Probate Court waived the filing of several estate accounts through June 1928 due to business conditions. An exception to an estate account will be heard October 4, and another petition to sell real estate set for October 7. Eleven administrator and guardian accounts were filed with publication suspended to October 4.
1923 Cadillac Victoria Coupe and other used cars for sale with prices. Oldsmobile, Buick, Jewett, and 1924 2 passenger coupe offers. Buick tours and tires, piano sales, dry cleaning, restaurant ad, employment for girls, apartment rental, and a general store for sale. Also real estate and announcements.
Cora Fisher has filed a petition against Arthur Fisher for divorce and custody of minor children on the ground of wilful absence in Case No. 137M in the Common Pleas Court of Athens County Ohio. Hearing set after September 30.
Columbus reports state welfare director John E. Harper warned severe overcrowding has reached an acute state in the Ohio penitentiary and conditions are worsening across the station.
Notice announces a public hearing on the Marshfield School District budget for the next fiscal year. The session is on September 24 1927 at 6 o clock M at the Clerk of Education’s office in Marshfield Athens County Ohio. Harry E Hawk, Clerk.
Flossie D Crawford has filed a petition for divorce alimony and equitable relief against Oliver Owford in case No 13764 of the Common Pleas. The cause is set for hearing on or after October 1927. Attorneys for the plaintiff are Woo and Rowland.
Miss Ruth Elder, planning a Paris flight, spent the morning at Langin Field near Wheeling tuning up her plane for a departure to New York this afternoon.
H N Burgett field secretary of the Ohio State Automobile Association now leads the local auto club urging courtesy to visiting motorists who breach traffic etiquette. He advises against abuse and suggests calmly informing visitors of the regulation they violated to foster hospitality during nationwide motor tours.
Columbus September 14 Dr C P Robins head of the state division of communicable diseases said the infantile paralysis situation in Ohio is not encouraging. He noted hot weather delays an arrest of the epidemic though weather does not affect individual cases. Sixteen new cases were reported from Belmont Hamilton Muskingum Stark Seneca Washington Harrison Jefferson Tuscarawas and Cuyahoga counties with several already announced by local health commissioners.
County guards, state militia officers, railroad detectives, and a police escorted 110 nonunion Pittsburgh miners arrived at the Florence mine in Martin's Ferry. Sheriff Hardesty said more than 100 workers were en route. Two union men reportedly deserted to work at Webb. Four federal officers will be stationed at each of the county’s three large mines to enforce a recent injunction.
Betty Ludden ten year old daughter of Mr and Mrs George Ludden was injured this morning when a classmate shoved her down stairs at Central school in Nelsonville. Doctors say the left arm is broken and dislocated at the elbow with the upper bone fractured. Bettys father recently returned home from a back injury from a railroad accident at Walbridge and is the son in law of Taegrl Merz who died in Nelsonville last summer.
Charles A. Levine told the press he will begin a nonstop flight in the Columbia tomorrow with pilot Captain Walter Hinchcliffe. They aim to break air records by flying from London toward Delhi or Karachi, depending on conditions.
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