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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1875
Page
12
Local items report Nelsonville and Athens happenings including civic actions, road conditions, and public events. Mayor Schrader fines a violator, a runaway event entertains streets, and Rev. Burns presides over a new association. Mentions of farmers planting corn and garden seed sales reflect spring activity.
Mr. Will F. Wright, a responsible official in the St. Louis branch house of the Singer Manufacturing Company, was this week visiting friends in town.
The town hall project will be completed and the appointment of J. N. will take place on the seventh of the next month, marking a scheduled milestone.
Athens Village council met in the mayor's office on Monday evening April 12 1875 with members Moore Cirones Higgins Pickering and Scott newly sworn. The mayor filed annual financials noting fines and licenses, urged oil streetlamp replacements, and recommended a secret night police to curb late hour crime. He reported on flues chimneys and saloon hours and urged ordinances to curb nuisances and protect residents.
The Athens region sees Albany’s commerce waking from slow years with new tenants and moves. James Scott opens a blacksmithing shop, Ed A. Brown rents the Union House’s successor, and D T Moore relocates to the De-Vine house near Atwood Institute. The Athens County Pioneer Association notes officers, deaths, and a countywide death table, with Foster aging but active in shoemaking and a long-used pair of nippers. The annual meeting adopts measures to boost antiquarian interest and reviews 1375 assessors rates and township officer results for Bern and Trimble townships. Also cautions on liver complaint and promotions of local remedies, plus local carpet offerings at Zenner & Co.
Dr Geo Bean returns from Illinois after attending his father Archibald Bean's death. Ellen Allen shows strong spelling earning a Webster's Dictionary prize. A quiet Meigs county visit with neighbor Jerry Carpenter highlights home life and good crops despite recent rain and cold.
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