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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1901
Page
8
Local notices list visiting relatives from Virginia and Boston, business trips to Athens Marietta and Crooksville, hotel ownership rumors, street grading contracts, railway wreck recovery, new home move ins, attendance at Athens hearing, and multiple residents traveling to fairs or institutes. Includes farm, furniture, and threshing machinery purchases and family updates.
Miss Belle Braddock of Trimble visits relatives this week. Miss Durcas Allison of Dixmont is guest of her parents. Principal W A Thomas returns to town for the coming year. Lottie Clutter visits sister Mrs Charles Burt. Ice cream supper at Air Line attracts many. Pidlocks visit Mrs Angie Drake near Athens. Dawnard and Creighton go to Oakdale for work. Prof W O Lambert of Grove City School in town on business. Sylyeonter Withers and T J Withers visit Mrs Efe Bridge at Murray City. Fishing party at Athens yields 8 to 15 pound fish but details omitted.
Mrs. Della Graf of Vinton county visits Aunt Della Ator. Ed Carleton and wife of Coolville were here on business. Annie Wilson stayed with Aunt J W Oxley of Picayanton. Anna Williams visited sister Mrs G A CAe in Athens. Turley of Marshfield gave a discourse at the M E church. Walter and Blanche Newman of Pendington KY visit grandmother Mrs G W Snyder. A box supper at the Seminary next Saturday evening for the M E church. Mr and Mrs Matheny and Nettle son visited their parents Fev and Mrs L G Matheny. Mr and Mrs J E Williams and Mrs Mary Williams of this place with Miss Blanche Mohler of Albany left for Pan-American exposition visiting Niagara Falls en route home.
Albany area notices show travels of residents to Athens and Newark, with Mary Winehart's return from McArthur. The Ath ens high school exam set for August 11 invites advanced pupils, while the Albany school board hires a furnace contractor from Athens to heat the building and outlines the upcoming seven month term. Additional items report educators at the teachers Institute, local births, mine updates, and illnesses including typhoid.
Mary Patten's business trip to Athens is noted along with visits from Miss Nellie Petty to Mrs. Hudson Wright in Beebe. Leonard Petty earned work in Jackson vil e last week. John and Seth Smith of Sciotoville visited here. Wyatt Johnson fractured his ankle while surveying land. An ice cream social at the Methodist church on Friday raised about seven dollars. Mrs. L C Crippen returned from a protracted New England visit attending camp meet.
In Glouster area railroad construction advances as Ohio Central workers see wages jump from 1.25 to 1.05 per day and a new track segment is laid between No 2 and the main line near the brick plant. Mine activity remains strong with hundreds employed and salaries up for Chas Newberry who works at Mine 17. A pump house move and a new trestle alter the creek, affecting local drainage.
Miss Grace Tuttle spent last week with relatives in Sumner. Will Hilackwell and Charles Colburn made a business trip to Mason City W Va. Miss Winnie Colburn visited her sister Mrs Edna Sanborn near Burlingham. Miss Ana Darth of Pomeroy guests of Tessie and Beasle Blackwell. Mrs Rhoda Young and North Dakota children visit Mr and Mrs Wm King. Miss Minnie Rush of Redhouse W Va visits aunt Mire Lucinda King in Columbus. John Carl, invalid for years, died August 17 and was buried in Burlingham cemetery. funeral conducted by Col Brooks of Downington.
Townspeople report illnesses including typhoid fever and lethal fever with several residents on the sick list. Visitors travel between Greenfield Albany Athens and Zanesville as relatives and guests move between towns. Local residents like W G Shafter Mrs Ira Andrews and Miss Louise Roberta appear in guest lists with family travel and hometown relatives noted.
In Sugar Creek Mr H A Junod of Iowa visits relatives. Mr and Mrs Pearl Laughlin of Athens spend Sunday with Wm Laughlin. Mrs Jeanie Harvey and son George at John James in Hixor last week. Miss Beroe Knox returns home from Indiana for a visit. Mrs J C Campbell and son and daughter of Athens spend last Wednesday at W at Spaulding’s. Mrs Cora Knox and two children of Floodwood stay with relatives. H J Wickham and Warren Wickham of Athens visit John Harvey. Mrs G H Junod of Athens and Miss Clara Fullharvest of Columbus visit here last Wednesday. Miss Fanny Frye of Missouri and Miss Mae Wolfe and Will England of Vaudenville visit last week. Mrs Fred Laughlin and two girls visit John Spauld near New England. Friends of Mr and Mrs E A Weekley shocked by the death of Willard Thursday night after typhoid fever. Interment at Nye cemetery Sunday. family receives sympathy.
In Wolf's Plains Herbert Brickels of Rendville visited parents. Mrs. Peter Martin and son Leslie stayed at Mr. and Mrs. Wahlu Laughlin's in Athens. James Bell, a bridge man worker near Amesville and Utley, spent Sunday with relatives. Mrs. John Yontz and two sons Baker and Charles visited J. P. Davis and family. Mrs. Maria Tedrow of Nelsonville and her children stopped by Mrs. Barker's in Indiana, and Mrs. J. S. Phillips with daughter Freda of Chillicothe returned home after four weeks with J. A. McCathran's family.
Will Lake and family of Water Town visit George Lake and relatives. Mrs Wilson Bowers and son Verne of Delaware visit her parents Mr and Mrs Mike Doland. Miss Lou Sleeth, Parkersburg teacher, vacationing with family. Residents of Lottridge and Frost attend Sunday meeting and witness the baptism administered by Rev Childs.
Nathan Sutton was at Big Run on business. Mrs. Eliza Barrows was buried at Claya grave yard Friday. Rev. Lucas remains very poorly with little hope of recovery. G. W. Rathburn of Plymouth visited Big Run recently. Mrs. George Vandyke of Amesville visited J. B. Rathburn's last. Miss Mathe Rathburn visited her sister Mrs. Ella Connant of Lix last week. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Harra of Armadale visited Ed Clark's Sunday. Mrs. J. R. Rathburn visited Mrs. James Morrison of New England last week. Delmar Place and Bethany and John Cline’s wife and daughter visited E. A. Cline Sunday.
Amesville residents host visitors from Athens Lebanon Chesterhill and Marietta. Peaches are shipped to Columbus with low prices and few sold locally. A Gifford farm picnic honors Miss Addie Alderman. C D Gift injured at Beasley mill shows improvement and will move to Athens.
Community notices from Trimble and nearby towns list residents visiting relatives in Amesville Athens Nelsonville and Stewart as well as travelers from Columbus Roseville and New Castle Ind. People like John Heasley Maggie Tolliver J N Sands Angeline Tinker and Orrin Sayers are mentioned with plans to visit or return home. A reunion for the regiment is planned at Union Furnace October 1 and 4. A travel ad notes a round trip via the Ohio Central Lines leaving Columbus at 6:25 pm and returning at 6:25 pm with a 6 am departure marker.
Lottridge notes show visits by Gorn to John Kin nen and wife and a boy. Elias Dunfee of Torch is a guest of relatives. John Steinmetz and wife of Marion are visitors. Mrs Adda Medford of Chicago stays with sister Mrs Grant Russell. Mr and Mrs Phoebe Wryers of Glouster visit relatives. Miss Kate Klingenberg and Miss Anna Arnold spending week with Mr Erle Burke near Secbe.
Miss Erie Howard attended the institute last week. Mrs. Jennie Haier and son George visited Miss Florence James on Thursday. Miss Jeasie Southerton leaves for Cincinnati to enter nurse training. Ice cream supper at Mr John James for McDougall church fund on August 24. All invited.
Advertisement urges young ladies in the vicinity to enroll this week or next to learn dressmaking for personal use and stylish self sufficiency. It promotes neatness and style through the art of dressmaking.
Athens Ohio July 20 1804 sealed proposals due August 22 1804 at Auditor's Office for grading excavating and paving or graveling miles of road from Robbing ridge to Court House Bridge in Yer township bids may be rejected and bonds required for faithful performance by order of Nordnerons Lon andwerk W F Scott Auditor Aug 1 to St JM no 3f-wd
State fair excursion rates to Columbus via Ohio Central Lines for travel from all points in Ohio during the sale period two weeks from August to September. Callon agents at Ohio Central Lines for rates and full particulars.
Ohie Central Lines offers a special rate of $1.00 to Columbus for Farmers Day at the Ohie state fair with return on Thursday August 29. Tickets are on sale for train No 15 and returning on train No 12 the same day. Constipation cure ad promotes Cascarets Candy Cathartic 10c.
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