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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1899
Page
8
Notes By The Way lists a string of regional social updates from Albany and surrounding towns. It mentions illnesses and hospitalizations, guests visiting relatives, weddings, and local deaths, including Reubin Pettit who died of diphtheria and Humphrey Knowlton who died suddenly. It notes visitors from Athens, Glenville, Marysville, and Beverly, and mentions several residents moving, hosting, or celebrating births and events.
Frank Hannis sold a horse to parties from Belpre last week. Mrs. C A Dunfee and S P Dunfee spent Thursday in Parkersburg. Mrs M A Daly and daughter Clara were guests of Mrs Lydia Mc Laughlin of Coolville Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Fred Baker and child of Benwood WV visiting W L Hannis in New Martinsville WV with his parents. Camp meeting ends. Grange picnic set for August 16 at Coolville fair grounds.
M. P. Totman made a business visit to Athens on Monday. Aaron Ogg was arrested Friday for petty drunkenness and disorderly conduct. The T. C. C. E. railway is driving pile at the trestle at this place. J. McCuse of Marietta left all parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. T. McCame, after returning from marriage where he had been.
Marshfield visitor A D Russell stops by on business. Many townfolk attend ice cream social. others visit relatives in Parkersburg and Logan. Wheat harvest light and poor. limestone contracts boost jobs. Ohio river area families and visitors frequent Gardens schoolhouse show and Coolville camp meeting. Elvin Patten to enter Soldiers Home. marriages and births noted. snake sighting reported.
VLANTSTILLE. O L Strahl of Canaanville visited our village guest of Joni Fawcett. Mr and Mrs James Potts visited friends in Hockingport. Robert’s Amesville family spent days with their father here. Mrs Sarah Cordsay summered with daughter Ad Fawcett. Henry Bowman and family and Iva Crew of Columbus were callers Sunday. Camp meeting at Chester Hill drew neighbors Sunday. Will Woodyard family attended camp fire in Jay. Heavy rain and thunderstorm Saturday caused no reported damage. Ice cream supper at Gifford’s delayed to Monday due to rain. J W Harris sisters Oilie Harris and Dora Randall visited uncle Leander Harris of Stewart. Plantsville 682 Company shipped first tank of oil and plans more wells. James Arthur Edgerton of Rocky Mountain News telegraphed, now with father Richard Edgerton. Born to Mr and Mrs D G Lowry Sunday, a girl. B J Danny trip to Athens. Will Phillips of Marshfield visited here Sunday. Armstrong of Athens visited over Sunday. Mrs Drank Phillips and son Howard visiting Carbondale relatives. Mrs Ida Fuller of Marshfield guest of Mrs Diantha Hester. Mrs Sarai Hewitt and Mrs RR Marquis attended Coohville camp meeting. H L Sanders hosting his sister Mrs Johnson of Daleton. Dolph Danny and wife guests of Mr and Mrs Townsend near Albany over Sunday. Mabel Ross of Kansas leaving for home Wednesday. Local youths enjoyed hay ride Saturday. Participants: Nora Wing, Mabel Ross, Caloe Foster, Fer mer Wadley, Blanche Beckler, Madge McAdoo, plus Beckler, McAdoo, Herron, Bobo, Wadley, Foster.
D. W. Cornell is ill. Edna Waidon of Chester visits Mre 3. Co. C. Calvert visits his daughter. Kienl at Belnre guests J. B. Smith’s daughter Coolville. Anna LeGoullon of Harrietesvide visits Mary Cornell. Rev. Cheadle and wife attend Woolville camp meeting. Stella Vantorn of Athens visits friends. Maude Crippen of Athens visits Mrs. Eliza Saunders. Branch Tresize and wife of Athens visit Laura Glazier. D. W. Cornell travels to Zaleski for brother Knight Templar Charles Scheer’s funeral. Myrtle Webster of Cannanville and Mabel Webster of Ross county visit Mrs. G. M. Calvert.
Rev Jamison buys a thousand lambs for his farm while locals report on cider prospects and a potential three story hotel on the camp grounds. Mentions of marriages births visits and travel fill a busy local column with social and farm news from Coolville and nearby areas.
Zelda Hla Davis travels on Perry county business while Mr and Mrs Dennis Bodkin visit friends in Piqua. Ruben Pettit dies Saturday from diphtheria. The township health board has taken no action, despite clear laws requiring quarantine and disinfection. Origin of contagion remains unknown.
E Michael has gone to Toledo IN. McHarg is on the sick list. Alfred Love spent Sunday at Ames. John F Davis spent Sunday at Nelsonville. Mamie Davis visits friends at Parkersburg WV. F Hatch and wife spent last week at Sugar Creek. Mr Wyattland wife of Albany visits Chas Perry and wife. John Perry came from Nelsonville to spend Sunday with his parents. A V Courtney received news from Hixon of his sister Mrs Peter Hixon death. Mrs Wm Wilkea and daughter Grace of Salem visited A Verity and family. Henry Martin of Factory hosted visitors including Dr W H Martin and Luzern Griswold of Chillicothe. Ice cream social at McDougal church postponed to next Saturday night August 5 due to rain. All are invited.
A fragment on a so called consolers in gambling dens who soothe losers with slick talk. They earn salaries from upscale houses and bolster players to borrow again, boasting of big losses as mere bagatelles while steering victims toward future bets. The piece notes their smooth manners and easy graft.
Congressmen share a humorous moment as Cox and Cannon spar in the house. Cannon wields a dramatic left forefinger while Cox interrupts, prompting a playful contract breach and a burst of laughter that lasts for weeks. Governor McMillan of Tennessee recalls the joke as one of the era’s funniest.
The New York Times notes the earl of Arundel is described as idiotic and deaf and dumb. His father the duke of Norfolk, a young widower, has prayed at Lourdes with him but shows no signs of improvement while maintaining deep devotion to his son.
The steamer Parrametta reported a heavy squall from the Paracels to Hong Kong with northwest wind and lightning. At about 11 am a meteorite reportedly fell into the sea within 300 yards of the ship and exploded with a loud report as vivid flashes and thunder rumbled overhead.
Agricultural dept uses moving picture machine to document oak growth from first shoot to four feet, photographing hourly and lighting exposure at night. Series aims to study plant diseases and pest life cycles, with potential loan of lantern slides to colleges and exam stations. Also mentions X-ray adaptation for invisible objects and broader uses in medicine and horticulture.
Advertising blurb touts No To Bac as a magnetic life enhancer to quit tobacco easily forever. Claims of revived nerves vigor and strength target “weak” people with a free booklet offered by Sterling Remedy Co in Chicago or New York.
Auction notices call for bids by noon Tuesday for transporting twenty frame houses from Floodwood in Athens county to the Cawthorne mine near Monday in Hocking county Ohio. Specifications available from the undersigned in Orbinton, Hocking county or room 30 Wesley Block Columbus Ohio. Some stray ad text about Discarets and excursions appears in the item.
The B and O Southwest will sell excursion tickets to Mountain Lake Park Missouri from August 1 to 30 with return August 31. Fare from Athens One dollar to Cincinnati and return. Train leaves Athens at 6:00 AM arriving Cincinnati 11:15 AM. Returning special train leaves Cincinnati at 7:90 PM. Two baseball games and other attractions listed.
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