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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1887
Page
9
The Republican State Central Committee plans a May 4 meeting in Cleveland to fix the State Convention date and venue. Columbus is favored. The report notes strong party activity, proclaims Ohio gas and distillery output, and cites local trials over ballot integrity and a fatal bridge accident.
J M Grosvenor improves from illness as Gen C H Grosvenor visits after his sickness. James Ginn and daughters Ella and Hattie attend McDougall chapel quarterly meeting. Mrs Joseph Alender hatching 115 chickens praises her poultry. Peter Grosvenor closes a successful term at Guysville. Bundy begins a three month school term in Grosvenor district. Ash er Copeland admired as educator entering his third term. Elwood E Vaendyke recovers from mumps and leaves home. OBSERVER.
E L Bumgardner F B Tidd and E T Wise head Wednesday for Minnesota to locate. O R Hoon and family leave the 18th for Stewart to start an undertaking business. Charlie Wedge contemplates taking ice to Florida. Flora Harman visits relatives in Morgan county. sister Miss Mary is in Caldwell as a stenographer. J T Mitchel's youngest child ill with lung fever. New flouring mill complete. flour yields good satisfaction. Mr West of Case Co buys into the mill and will move to the Davis property next month. L Sanderson of Stewart visiting father M L Sanderson. Merchants report full stocks of new spring goods.
Business is good with all rental properties occupied as prospects rise for a new coal shaft on Joshua Sands farm. Rip-rap work on the creek bank above the bridge at Trimble is underway. The Trimble Mill Company employs twenty five to thirty men. Nathan Davis known as Greenville has moved from Trimble to Chauncey and the section gang mourns a loss. Addie Wagner is gravely ill with fever. Trimble village plans a cooler and sidewalks once arrangements are made. Catholics rent a room and hold services in Trimble.
The piece warns that ignorance of remedies like Dr Harter's Iron Tonic leads to widespread ill health. It argues that lack of knowledge about addressing physical and mental weakness indigestion impure blood and headaches causes immense societal costs.
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