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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1900
Page
5
A brief notice from Royal Baking Powder, 160 Williams Street, New York, warns that some baking powder makers claim lower prices by using cheaper materials. It states cheaper products mean inferior ingredients and calls the practice of reducing healthfulness, as with alum baking powders, a crime.
Athens residents and visitors are noted in a stream of short items. Names include Lenna Patterson, J C Hoke, Capt John Dana, Dr John Frame, Adria Frame, A E Dent, G P Needham, Edith Needham, Miss Gilmore, Stella Walsh, George Bun, Mrs W H Farrell, Carl Frame, Harry O Bleness, Mrs Caywood, Mrs Mac Cornel, Mabel Botts, Nina Botts, Miss Lucille Beck, Juliet Roach, W B Francis, Nellie, Oneta Dilts, Pat Dew, Wat Craig, Harry McCord, J E Anderson, Judge Sibley, Ed Skinner, Mrs Bishop, typhoid notes, G A R encampment plans, and travels to Pittsburg, Chicago, Portsmouth, and Europe.
During a feared electrical rain storm Monday evening lightning struck the large barn of Robt Patterson on the ridge east of town, setting it ablaze and burning to the ground. The barn stored hay straw and grain, with harvest just completed. About two hundred bushels of wheat and many bushels of corn were consumed. Loss estimated at 1500 to 2000 dollars. No insurance.
The infirmary directors awarded the contract for the Chauncey county infirmary barn to F. P. Philips of Marshfield and C. W. Harris of this city. Philips will do carpentry and Harris brickwork on a 40 by 30 foot two story barn costing 6. Construction on the building has begun.
Lightning struck the barn of Henry Simms during a Sunday evening storm, burning it to the ground. The structure held hay harness vehicles and two horses, all lost though insurance is near enough to cover costs. The horses belonged to Meredith Simms of Sugar Grove visiting relatives nearby.
In Athens County politics the infirmary director race is described as cursed by fate with lightning strikes on John Mohler's barn and Henry Simms' barn, and heat illness on L. B. Woodworth. Despite dangerous signs the candidates press on toward the primary next Saturday.
Daniel Border, sitting on his back porch near Hebbardsville, was shaken by a lightning strike that hit a locust tree on Monday evening. The same tree has been struck three times over many years, with Mrs. Border once seated on the porch during a prior strike and severely stunned, widely believed to be indirectly linked to her death.
Security Savings Bank offers 1 percent per annum on savings deposits with flexible access. It advertises time certificates of deposit yielding 4 to 6 percent, and loans on mortgage or collateral security. D. H. Moone serves as president, noting stockholders are among the county's best men.
Seed rye for wheat exchange offered with sweet seed for sale at 1.50 a bushel clover A K of P Detroit excursion tickets to Detroit on sale via Ohio Central Lines round trip from Athens and low rates from other stations August 28 to September 4. Also note Dewitt's Little Early Risers by Cline's Pharmacy and warnings about counterfeit Witt's Witch Hazel Salve sellers.
A jail yard discussion among lawyers and county officials covers current topics including politics and a lawyer’s proposal about the depository law. The statute lets bounty commissioners place county funds in a secured bank, earning interest to cover treasurer salaries and save taxpayers money.
Trustees met Thursday to receive bids for an amusement hall and an Infirmary ward. Henry O Bleness won the amusement hall contract at 15000 and George Towsley secured the ward for 110. Work to begin once approved by the attorney general.
Allen Bean and family escaped injury when a lightning bolt struck their south town home on Monday evening. The chimney and roof suffered damage but the building did not catch fire. In a separate incident, Carl Martin’s milking cow on the Plains was struck and killed during the thunderstorm, Martin stunned briefly but unharmed afterward.
Mat of letters remaining uncalled for in Ath ens post office includes Natemian Jas L Tamm Jan Brown Pollard Stinehart Mary Dutton Helen Winehart Mary C Downard William hinehart Mrs A M Howeylian Michelson Matth Ilaney Mra Frank Anna Lortz J Taylor Charles Lasher Edd Thompson Mrv Lehr Prof K Thomson Emma Manafeld W D White H W E lartlow George West Ollie Persons urged to say they were advertised C D Gist Postmaster
The ad touts the remedy as curing cold in one day with endorsements from mothers children and old folks. It also highlights One Minute Cough Cure for throat and lung troubles and cites Cline's Pharmacy as a point of purchase.
Tickets go on sale August 25 27 and 28 for a round trip from Athens to Detroit via Olio Central Lines and return by September 5 with extension to September 14 upon deposit with a joint agent. A TM cents fee applies and contact through Ohio Central agents for details.
Ohio Central Lines offer one cent per mile tickets to Chicago for the G A I Encampment with sales August 2. Hocking Valley and Toledo BY announce one fare round trip tickets to Detroit for the Knights Pything Biennial event, valid return to September 5. Also a dental ad for digestion relief from Clinne's Pharmacy.
Thirty seven and one half acres near Frost offered for sale at two hundred dollars or will trade for town property and Jewett and Woon mentioned.
W. B. Lawrence announces candidacy for infirmary director in the Republican primary. The announcement mentions August primary date and lists Woodworth, Miller, Messinger, and Henald among others.
Special agent S Stlers from Hasvenville Ohio promotes stylish dressing with made to order garments from Europe and America. He performs at Monn hotel on the first and third Tuesdays monthly, invites orders by mail, and promises prices distinguishing wholesale from retail.
An order of sale directs public auction of real estate in Glouster Ohio. The parcel lies in Section 12 Township 11 Range 14, bounded by Joel J Allen and Bowley measurements, totaling about one acre with a 15 foot access road, appraised at 250 dollars. Sale at 1 PM at the Athens County courthouse front door with cash due on sale day.
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