Personal notices from Athens and surrounding towns
A roundup of local social updates lists visits and travels of residents such as pr cA Rannells of Logan. Lena Grimm in Detroit. Aura Helwig with parents at Shade. Miss King from Ladies Bazaar. Ada May in Kingston. Edith Palmer with Mrs. Revare in Portsmouth. Mrs. Parker visiting her parents in New England. and many others visiting relatives, campers, or attending camps and fairs across Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aura Helwig
Shade
Miss King
Ladies’ Bazaar
Hamden
Ada May
Kingston
W. F. Hurst
Edith Palmer
Henry Revare
Portsmouth
George Parker
Noah Tedrow
New England
O. B. Murphey
Albany
Squire
Henry Logan
al Kesinger
Lancaster
James Ballard
Lizzie Hackman
Madge Lewis
Trimble
Mildred Eddy
Lancaster Street
John
Sumner Price
Logan
Albert Ayers
Point Pleasant
Alice Figley
Chillicothe
Edward Laughlin
Utherene
New Eng
Tillie
Helen Fruta
Charleston
W. Va
C.S. McDougal
Middleport
George Whipple
Martha
Eunice Patterson
Whipple
New York
Wellsion
Wellston
Anna Pearl McVay
M. J. Daggett
Max
Mountain Lake Park
C. D. Gift
Toledo
W. M. Mc
Anna Quinn
Cambridge
Helen
Carl Berry
J. R. Boyd
Fort Worth
Tex
Louise Cullums
East State Street
C. F. Campbell
Mery
Washington
Controversy Over Saloon Tax Burden in Athens County
A local defense of liquor taxation argues the saloon funds support county needs including poor relief, roads, and public safety. It counters a professor’s critique, asserts tax revenue would shift if saloons vanished, and condemns misleading framing by anti saloon voices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evans
Athens Daily Messenger
Athens County
State of
Ohio
Trimble
York Townships
Nelsonville
Glouster
Athens
Jacksonville
Buchtel
Washington, D. C
Ohio University
Joe Jordan
Jordan
York
York and
Town House Church Ice Cream Social and Local News
Town House church hosts an August 5 ice cream social led by Miss Elizabeth Grover and Balles. residents report visits and illnesses in the area. Attendees include Miss Fidesie Fought, Miss Nelle Rickey in Albany, and families like the Winget, Nickles, and West clans. Preparations rise for a regional fair touted as the biggest and better than ever.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Town House
Marietta Business Visitor Ed Rose Signals Local Ties
Squire Ed Rose, a business visitor, was in Marietta today. Ernest Gross, from Columbus, visited Sunday and returned this morning. Don McVay left Saturday for a week’s outing at Lakeside. Areh Johnson of Albany was a next reader in the fragment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Probat
Florence Sn
Nelsonville
Nelle McNutt
Warner
Mary Hibbard
Columbus
Helen
Hazel Morris
Katie Day
Sandusky Woodyard
Albany
R. M. Slutz
Lancaster Camp Grounds
Lillian Michael
Goshen (Inc
L. G. Worstell
Frank D. McCaslin
Athens Daily Messenger
Athens County
Crooksville
F. G. Kientz
Glouster
E. A. Lynch
Billing
W. P. Bowers
Chicago
Milton Twiss
Bowers
Twiss
Dev. S. J. Bishop
Lanaster
C. C. Millikan
Cincinnati
National Jewelers’ Association
Fred Baker
Lakeside
Athens
J. O. Arhood
Verna
Harry Roach
St. Louis
J. A. Fuller
Ray Slaughter
Frank Sheldon
Mackinac Island
Sarah Steenrod
Carl Cable
W. H. Boden
Bethany Park
Ind
R. L. Lewis
D. Lewis
Ida Hibbard
Ewest
H. W Brooks
KZ Walker
Silas Dew
Fred McCoy
Gwen Williams
Branche Bean
Emory Bean
Edward Schloss
Hockingport
R. P. Jennings
Messenger
F. D. McCaslin
The
E. Ray Lash
Amesville
Ollie Lovell
Ginnan
Pittsburg
Julia Mathews
A. R. Hunsicker
Memphis
Tenn
Canaonville
Hunsicker
A. P. Linscott
Newsom
Minneapolis
Washington
Northwest
Duluth
Charles Ivan Arthur
Juttle
Charles Downing Arthur
Sanford Hadley
John Mosher
Chillicothe
Carpenter
Huntington
Theodore
F. W. Bush
Lake Erie
Put-in-Bay
Cedar Point
Squire Ed Rose
Marietta
Ernest Gross
Don McVay
Dr E M Bean Moves to 56 West Union with Son-in-Law
Dr E M Bean, longtime Pleasanton resident, now lives with his son in law Rields Mason at 56 West Union Street. The veteran doctor, aged years, enjoys travel and steady health while recalling his early subscription to the Weekly Messenger, a habit he clings to even when away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. M. Bean
Pleasanton
Mr. Rields Mason
West Union Street
Regula
Weekly Messenger
Beagle Pup Reported Lost in Liberal Ward
Three month old black white spotted beagle reported missing in Liberal ward. Contact C. H. Laughlin age 38 at McKinley Avenue or Bell telephone 93R 7-2712.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liberal
C. H. Laughlin
McKinley Ave
Bell
Wanted Salesman For Athens Grocery Trade
Wanted at once a salesman to call on wholesale and retail grocery trade of Athens and vicinity with a well known line of cereals. Resident of Athens preferred. Address with full particulars to The Scott Tope Co, 153 Broadway St, Jackson Ohio. 7-23w2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Scott: Tope CO
Broadway St
Jackson
Ohio
Card of Thanks for George Caldwell
We express sincere appreciation to friends and neighbors for kindness and sympathy shown in our late bereavement the death of our son George. Mr and Mrs Alex Caldwell Coolville Ohio August 8 1908.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. M. le Favor
Dean of
Glouster
Charles E. Cameron
Meigs County
Charles Brown
George
Alex Caldwell
Coolville, O
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Ca Rannells
Lena Grimm
Home Telephone Company
Detroit, Mich
Rey. Swinehart
J. M. Roush
Harveyts
M. Roberts
McKinstry & Parker
Winifred Young
Marshfield
Chester
Order of the Red Cross
Messrs
George Gregg
W. E. Moser
C. W. Dowdy
Masonic Temple
Florine Talbott
Dresden
Linn
Frances Burns
Santa Barbara
Cal
Marie Huffman
Richard Daggett
Huffman
Supt
M. M. Bryson
Walter Allen
New Plymouth
Vinton
D. R. Williams
L. A. Sprague
Coolville
Emmett A. Moore
Jerseyville
Kate Snyder
Charles Baird
Chittenden Hotel
Alpha Baird
J. F. Robbing
Robbins
J. H. Cline
Myrtle Cooley
L. Biddison
Long Acre
Augustus Boyce
Indianapolis
Rio Grande
P. D. Stickney
Grace James
D. B. Sharp
Philip Spangler
Madison County
Almira Webster
John Coffman
J. M. Hudson
Ogden
Kan
P. A. Potter
J. B. Rose
Mana Rose
J. F. Downing
Marie
Dayton
Theodore Dean
Leesie
Dermont
Avis
Sharp
Lily Chapel
Morgan County
J. R. Kale
John Kale
Catharine Staats
Frank Lord
Kuntington
James Weidman
Fred Kilteau
Grant Hospital
C. F. Graves
Mineral
Oscar Graves
Harrisonville
Arthur Johnson
Columbus Dispatch
Johnson
James P. Wood, Jr
Orley Rider
Myra Chapman
Bertha Culbertson
Radcliffe
Morgan Richards
Brown
Nellie Kernan
James
Dean
F. W. Fields
J. G. Kale
State Hospital
Hillsboro
James D. Taylor
Artha Wolfe
Jolly
WV. Va
George McKinetry
Visi
L. A. Patterson
J. Halliday
Cline
Erwin Merwin
Charles Driggs
Miss Bess
F. Earl DeWeese
Jesse Davis
George Foster
W. B. Foster
F. Tresize
Granville
Thomas Tresize
Guysville
Branch Tresize
John Cuckler
Minnie Cuckler
Clare McKinstry
Washington, BC
Fay Baker
Toplabee
Mich
J. B
Hazel
Fay
Joe Woodruff
Clarksburg
Andy Woodruff
Woodruff
Secre
Tary Liberty
Nelson
Ville, Ohio
Stedman Company
West End
Reform
Elizabeth Grover
Bert Knowlton
Fidesie
John Rickey
Althea Nickles Ang
A Bobo
M ' Fought
James Dickson
Nelle Rickey
Mrs
Bert West
John West
Putnam
William Nickles
Richard Fought
Lower Baptist
Vira
Letha Wingett
Ross County
Clarence Wingett
Golda Bailes
Minnie Lambe
Lebanon Junction
Cardus
Ladies Advisory Dept
Chattanooga Medicine Co
Chattanooga
Areh Johnson
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