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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1920
Page
7
Furnished first floor room with bath opposite the Carnegie Library south door. Contact 6811. Also a near car line room with optional board. Phone 283.
New York 5 Cincinnati 2 in the first game and 9 to 3 in the second. Brooklyn edged Itsburg 3 1 in 10 innings. Chicago beat Boston 6 1 in the first and Boston won 9 1 in the second. St Louis won 4 3 over Philadelphia. American League results show Cleveland tying Boston 3 3 while Chicago 13 Philadelphia 6 New York 2 St Louis 8. Washington defeated Detroit 9 8. In Hackensack New Jersey Grace DeVoe discusses choosing a day with William Lozier noting October 19 as the weather man’s pick.
Cattle receipts 600 with slow to steady market. Steers good to choice 11.50 to 14.00 dollars. Calves steady to good 18.00 to 18.50. Hogs receipts 1500 steady with packers and butchers paying 18.00. Sheep receipts 1400 steady to good 6.00 to 6.50. Lambs weak with good to choice at 138.50 and 14.00.
Hogs receipts 21000 at 15c market down 25c bulk 16.20 17.90 butchers 16.75 18.00 packing 16.75 16.65 light 16.75 18.00 pigs 15.75 17.25 roughs 15.75 16.20 Cattle receipts 15000 market steady to slow beeves 8.75 17.85 butcher stock 6.50 14.75 canners and cutters 6.35 7.50 stockers and feeders 5.00 12.25 cows 6.00 12.50 calves 15.00 18.00 Sheep receipts 27000 market slow and lower wool lambs 8.25 13.50 ewes 3.00 9.75
Cattle receipts are light and the market is slow with prime cattle at 15.00 to 15.50 and veal calves at 18.50 to 19.00. Sheep and lambs show light receipts with mixed ranges, hogs and heavy stock are mostly lower, with prime heavies around 17.75 to 18.75 and pigs 17.50 to 18.00.
Butter creamery 6614c stand ards 53c firsts 48c 55c seconds 48c 46c Eggs ordinaries 48c 50c firsts 58 4c 54c. Cheese Twins 2514¢ young American 26c. Fowls 34c.
Liberty bonds values listed with several series and yields, alongside Toledo grain prices. Wheat cash $2.53, December corn No. 2 cash yellow $1.24, oats No. 2 cash 61 to 62 cents, rye No. 2 cash $1.89, barley No. 2 cash $1.09, clover seed $14.81, timothy various contracts around $3.70 to $3.95. Alsike not quoted.
Glouster fell 9 to 1 to Millfield on the local diamond as the home team failed to compete. Next Sunday Glouster visits Jacksonville for a road game while Mrs. C. M. Heaton travels to Columbus for treatment after her illness worsened. Mr. Heaton left Columbus this morning following a late message.
Mrs J L Walters leaves for St Louis with daughter Mrs Achauer after weeks as guest of B F Achauer. Mr and Mrs W M Cubbison head to Buffalo after visits with Catherine Daugherty and relatives. Mr and Mrs Wm Druggan visit Sherrodsville then Cleveland. Mr and Mrs G W Wyatt return from Dayton with daughter Mrs J A Thiele and son. Dr and Mrs F H May return from New Matamoras. Millfield and Murray to play deciding game next Sunday at Millfield with Hilliard White for Murray and Earich Simpson Whitlatch for Millfield.
Miss Madgie Perry of Floodwood, mother of a child born in April, dropped paternity charges against William Peach after a plan to wed. Peach, 45, and the 83 year old bride chose a quiet ceremony handled by Justice Pearl Helwig after delays and a brief jail dispute.
London reporters say a national conference of miners will meet Tuesday to discuss the strike negotiations. The government’s offer of advance wages and rejection of price reductions will be placed before the miners for acceptance or rejection.
In Albany on September 21 the assembly judiciary committee voted 7 to 6 to report the Gilbert resolution. It calls for ousting the five socialist members barred from the legislature last spring but re elected in a special election.
James M. Dolan proposes alimony set at 22 dollars weekly with work. The judge counters with a flat eighty dollar weekly payment and no requirement to work.
The census bureau announced the 1920 population results. Summit County Ohio is listed with 286,065 residents, reflecting an increase of 177,812 people or 164.3 percent.
Elmus L. Wilson as executor of Lottie Newsom seeks court permission to sell real estate in Athens County Ohio to pay debts and administration charges. The first and second tracts describe parcels on in lot numbers 26 and 40 with distances and lines noted. Ed Wilson known as respondent is named in the petition and must answer by a stated deadline.
Bank condition report for The Peoples Bank Co at Nelsonville Ohio as of September 8 1980 shows figures for loans real estate collateral and other loans. It includes U S bonds and securities cash from reserve banks and other assets and details on deposits and capital accounts.
Notice of appointment and qualification of Wm McEifresh as administrator with the will annexed of Rhoda M Haynes, deceased, late of Athens County Ohio. Dated September 8, 1920. T Phillips H T Probate Judge. Advertisement shows a $21 30tw fee.
George Summers, Bayfield Wisconsin, lost an eye after a dynamite charge failed to explode a stump. The incident left Summers evaluating why the blast did not detonate as planned in the wooded area near town.
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