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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1919
Page
7
Martins migrate south in large flocks as cooler weather arrives. Bees swarm to spilled molasses at the B and O freight office. Heavy rain and mud slow travel along the Jerseyville route toward Pratts Fork with several vehicles stuck but freed later.
J. T. Dailey of Lee township was elected sheep representative on the Athens county farm bureau board by delegates from the Amesville Albany and Canaanville wool growers associations. A county sheep day is planned for October and talks covered sales matters and the new state dog law pending arrival. Athens county sheep claims last year totaled about two thousand dollars.
A Brooklyn doctor Lewis Stephen Pilcher appeals to Canaan township authorities to restore and maintain the burial site of early settler Stephen Pilcher. He describes the neglected grave, asks for a fence and path, and urges communal responsibility to honor past generations. Dated September 18, 1919.
Hogs receipts 23 000 with a strong market. butcher, packer and light prices listed from 16.00 to 18.40 and 15.00 to 16.50 for pigs. Cattle receipts 22 000 with a slow market. beeves 8.00 to 17.65, stockers and feeders 6.50 to 12.25, calves 20.25 to 21.50. Sheep receipts 4 000 with a steady market. wool lambs 7.00 to 15.00, ewes 6.00 to 12.25.
Butter Creamery listing at 5614c and 57c with standards at 63c and 55c firsts at 490 and 55c seconds at 47c and 48 4c. Market notes show varied per unit rates and quality grades for dairy buyers.
Liberty bond quotations listed for New York on September 22 show prices as 3144's at 99.96, Ist 4's at 95.00, 2nd 4's at 93.94, Ist 414's at 95.16, 2nd 44's at 94.20, 8rd 44's at 95.76, 4th 414's at 93.82, Victory 3% at 99.94 and Victory 4% at 99.92.
Cattle receipts 115 cars, market slow and lower. Prime 14.00 to 14.75, choice 16.00 to 16.50, common 11.50 to 12.50, real calves 22.00 to 22.50. Sheep and lambs receipts 15 doubles, market slow and lower. Hogs receipts doubles, market lower. Prime heavy 17.50 to 17.75. mediums 18.40 to 18.50. heavy yorkers 18.40 to 18.50. light yorkers 17.00 to 17.50. pigs 16.50 to 17.00. roughs 14.00 to 15.50.
Cattle market remains slow with ships at 11.00 to 13.50. Calves hold steady with 20.50 to 21.00. Hogs receipts around 2500 and steady with good packers paying 17.00 to 17.25. Sheep and lambs show steady trend with premiums from 14.00 to 14.50 for certain lots.
The Toledo grain market lists closing prices for September 22 with corn No 3 yellow at 1.52 and oats No 2 white at 74 1/4 to 75 4/4 cents. Barley No 2 1.39, rye No 2 1.44. Seed prices include clover cash 29.80, Oct 30.00, Dec 29.45, Jan 29.55, Mar 29.60. alsike Oct 25.50, Dec 25.65, Mar 26.10. Timothy futures show 1917 65.40, 1918 5.60, 1919 5.75, Sept 5.75, Oct 5.65, Mar 5.82.
Eggs steady and listed as fresh gathered ex tra firsts 50c per dozen, firsts 48c, ordinary firsts 47c, seconds 42c. Live poultry prices show fowls 4% lbs and over 81c, over 31% lbs 28c, under 3% lbs 26c, roosters 19c.
Harry Wyatt of the Cline Ice Cream Co. severed an artery in his hand when a milk bottle broke as he handled bottles. Medical help was given at once and he returned to work a few hours later.
At least fifteen thousand mill men in Wheeling and vicinity are idle as mass meetings Sunday prompted workers to stay home. All blast furnaces were blown out last night and ten plants in the district, half of which belong to United States Steel Corporation, are nonoperational. Newark report notes a fox killed 600 chickens in four years. Ohio sale notice lists real estate in Athens Township, Athens County, with a 66.18 acre tract described and appraised at 1700 dollars, to be sold at public auction October 25 1919.
A party of American sailors has landed at Buccari six miles southeast of Fiume, according to advices received in Rome on September 21.
Ottawa Ontario September 23 The Hon Frank Cochrane minister of railways and canals dies today at age.
Daily trains from Athens list No 1 at 6 44 A M No 3 at 9 59 A M No 6 at 2 03 P M No 32 at 11 41 A M No 4 at 4 87 P M No 6 at 4 25 P M No 33 at 4 00 A M No 36 at 11 15 AM No 37 at 6 16 P M No 30 arrives Athens 10 35 A M No 32 arrives Athens 4 00 P M No 34 arrives Athens 7 55 P M Southbound trains route between Athens and Columbus shown.
An ad promotes Lubricant Carbon Remover with promises to restore power and reduce knocking by cleaning sparkling carburetor holes. It asserts improved mileage, proves results via cleaner spark plugs, and offers a 1 dollar prepaid price with agents wanted from Perfection Products, 247 Friendship St Providence RI.
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