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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1927
Page
16
Dense page of classified ads listing a female wanted for housework, used car bargains from various makes and models with prices, repair and service offers, shoe repair, piano sale, cement supplies, coal, free cinders, and other local business notices. Also notes a garage, a restaurant, and a car wash promotion.
Classifieds offer messenger ads and special trips by Johnson Bus and Taxi Service. Listings feature a 1927 Ford sedan, a 1936 Ford Touring, and a Chevrolet Coach from Burson Chevrolet in Glouster Ohio. Fred R Beasley also listed.
Probate court of Athens County Ohio schedules a public sale of three parcels in Athens township. Tract one covers about 0.15 acre from Lease Lot 213. Tract two comprises 17.92 acres across parts of Lease Lot 18. Tract three includes portion of Lease Lot 217. Auction October 20 at 1:00 PM at Athens courthouse door.
The undersigned will offer for sale at public auction on October 20 1927 at 1 PM at the Athens court house door. The sale includes multiple tracts in Alexander township Athens county with descriptions and measurements totaling about 980 acres plus additional parcels, rights of way, and village lots in Hebbardsville. Terms require one third cash, one third in one year, and one third in two years with mortgage security. Kanawha and Michigan Railway rights noted. The administrator is Lewis Drescher with Jones & Jones as attorneys.
W. H. CO. EY of Buchtel is appointed and qualified as administrator of the estate of Tony Onal late of Athens County Ohio, deceased. Dated September 20, 1927. Probate Judge 8 M. Johnson. 9-19-3 otw.
Louise Woogerd petitions for divorce and restoration to maiden name Louise Colley in Case No. 18759 of the Common Pleas Court of Athens County Ohio. Hearing set on or after November 8 1927. attorney A B Wells for Louise Woogerd. Amount $27 and costs.
In the district court of the southern district of Ohio eastern division the bank ru ptcy for William Dixey of Nelsonville Athens County Ohio has a first meeting of creditors scheduled with George B Bitzer Referee in Bankruptcy at Room No 1 Carlisle Block Chillicothe Ohio on October 11 1927 at 1 30 PM Creditors may prove claims appoint a trustee examine the bankrupt and conduct other business as needed
Hogs receipts 2,000. Market steady. Prices 250 to 350 Ibs 11.00 to 12.50. 200 Ibs 12.00 to 12.50. 160 to 200 Ibs 12.00 to 12.15. 130 to 160 Ibs 12.00 to 12.15. 90 to 136 Ibs 10.50 to 11.00. packing sows 9.00. Cattle receipts 250. calves gone. market steady. Beef steers 8.00 to 8.56. beef cows 6.00 to 7.50. low cutters 3.50 to 5.00. venters 16.00 to 18.00. heavy calves 13.00 to 16.00. Sheep receipts 1,500. top fat lambs 14.50. bulk fat lambs 14.25. bulk cull lambs 10.00 to 11.50. bulk fat ewes 6.00 to 6.50.
New York on bond markets opens at 101.14 with 4% treasuries around 103.07 to 103.30, while Treasury 44s trade near 118.31 with minor shifts. Market notes show small gains and one slight decline amid fluctuating bond quotations.
Butter firmer, receipts 14,897, creamery guites 46c0 49%c, special market 490 ac. Eyes quiet receipts 20,083, nearby white fancy 62c 66c, nearby mixed whites 35c- 6ic, fresh firsts 35c%38c, western whites 35c46c, Pacific coast 440 63'4c, nearby towns 50c 60¢.
Hogs receipts 4200 with steady to 26 cents per pound for 250 to 350 lb hogs and 200 to 250 lb at 11 to 12.25. sows 180 to 200 lb at 11.25 to 12.10. Cattle receipts 600 with beef steers 9.60 to 12.00, high yearlings and heifers 7.50 to 12.00, beef cows 6.60 to 8.00, cutters 4.25 to 5.25. heavy calves 10.00 to 12. Sheep receipts 800 with lambs 14.28, bulk fat ewes 4.00 to 6.00, bulk rams around 7.00.
The U S Department of Agriculture reports Chicago livestock receipts at 22 000 with uneven prices across cattle calves hogs and sheep. Slaughter cattle and calves range up to 16 10 per 100 pounds with steers 1100 pounds and lighter around 15 15 to 16 00. cows and bulls vary 6 75 to 11 50. hogs and sheep list multiple weight classes and prices including veal calves 7 00 to 11 00 and feeders 12 00 to 15 00 for stock cattle combined with common and medium grades of cattle and stockers.
Poultry values show fowls 26 to 27 cents, heavy springers 7 cents, horn springers 22 to 24 cents, cocks and ducks 22 to 23 cents. Potatoes list prices per sack from 2.50 to 3.50, with regional varieties Ohio to Wisconsin and Minnesota priced 3.00 to 3.28. Homegrown bushel baskets offered at 1.35 to 1.50. All other items unchanged.
The Cincinnati produce market shows butter steady with creamery tablets quoted at 40 to 42 cents, common stock discounted, butter fat at 45 to 47 cents, and graded eggs with fresh extra firsts at 48 cents and firsts at 42 cents amid nearby ungraded at 42 cents.
Otis Bridges, a Black man, was indicted on a first degree murder charge in the shooting death of John Co. Post, Dayton police captain, during a gun battle Saturday. Bridges, wounded in three places by another officer, is recovering at St. Francis hospital in Columbus and will be arraigned once fit for court.
R J Reynolds heir to the late tobacco magnate R J Reynolds of Winston Salem is missing for 12 days in New York. The 21 year old was in town to manage Reynolds Airways Inc plans for a national air system and was last seen at 6 am Friday leaving a night club with a woman named Houston or Hueston after visiting Oyster Bay and Long Island.
In Pisa Italy on September 27 members of the American Legion touring Genoa were welcomed by King Victor. The prefect Podesta and local veterans and Fascist militiamen lined the station as the Legionnaires went to the royal palace for a noon audience and luncheon at the town hall. Howard P. Savage spoke in reply.
Lorain reports more than 80 criminal cases to be presented to the grand jury convening today. Local residents are involved in about half of the cases reviewed by the 15 jurors this week.
Four unexploded bombs were found by trackwalkers on railroads near Lyons Station as two special trains carrying American Legionnaires passed.
Mr and Mrs Joseph Walbute announce the birth of their son Othal Joseph on September 22 at their home on South Congress street. The father is manager of KS Grocery Company of Mari. They will reside at the same address.
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