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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1895
Page
8
Local notes from Athens County describe visits, relatives, and travel across towns like Vinton, Marietta, and Cincinnati. Names such as Lora Lee, Mrs J Shay, Mrs Atattic Clemens, and Sam Jennings appear along with church notices and community events at Universalist and other local venues.
J W Gates lair for Sisteraville Friday. Willie Mitchell of Parkersburg visits W B Hartnell. Pomeroy trip by P Smith and G Fagala. Birth reported Sunday August 26 to Mr and Mrs Frank Shanks. Mrs Rev 4 R Henderson hosts Columbus guest. Mrs Ida Wedge seriously ill but improving. G B Gunder pursues dentistry studies with Dr C B Harper then leaves for college. Jonathan Ewers of Stewart visits to see progress on new pew dwelling. Humphrey and Stout receive limestone crusher while building Section 1 of the pike. Joshua Cale’s farm residence burned Sunday afternoon due to a defective… Ohio farmer couple Joseph Humphrey of Kenton rents part of E N Tidd house. move planned about September 1.
Community notes record illness Clara Colwell s illness and visits by Fous Lake and wife to son Willis. Presbyterians heard Rev Dickey last Sunday. Wilton Bowers and wife from Delaware visited parents. Vic Young and Harry Lawrence joined Mrs Kate Elliott. Edna Calawar died of consumption at 10 Carthage. burial at Van derhoof cemetery. Relatives from Ross County visited. Patten couple left for Missouri. Beebe and Petty convalescing under doctor. Athens guests Mrs Louies Customs and son Orland hosted by W P Barrows. Wallace Crippen of Parkersburg, Parkersburg official of Ohio River railroad, visited relatives. Van Atkinson of Stewart caught large fish locally.
The list shows prices for wheat, oats, corn, timothy, fruits, vegetables, dairy and meats with per bushel or per pound rates. Notable entries include wheat up to 1.00, oats around 25 cents, potatoes and apples at varied cents per bushel, beef and pork prices, hay per ton, and fats like lard and butter. The report ends with a curative claim for Chamberlain's Dysentery and Cholera Remedy, offered by W. H. McKee.
Fragmentary notice mentions rates hours and times for life fable related items. It notes an ice cream and toes supply as part of a leaving order at Pickering's Restaurant and cites Agent WARPEL Assist. Gen'l Pass. This brief fragment references details about time and service provisioning without clear events or dates.
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