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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1908
Page
8
Pratt Fork families and local residents spent Sunday with relatives. Protracted meeting at Holliday attracted attendees. numerous visits to Athens, Garden, Flora, and Amesville noted. A medical testimonial for Dr King’s New Discovery appears amid community health notes.
Pine Bluff Arkansas faces potential flood danger as crews work to reinforce crumbling banks ahead of a projected 16 foot rise in the Arkansas River tonight. Officials seek Roosevelt's permission to cut through government levees and reroute water to avert massive property damage and possible loss of life.
About one hundred miners at the Central Coal and Iron company mine near Central City Kentucky escaped after smoke filled the workings when a dynamo powering a pump blew an armature. The men fled to safety as the smoke drove them from the shaft.
Smoke billowed as a miner freed himself through an air shaft sending flames of relief through anxious wives and mothers who gathered at the mine mouth after word of the accident spread through the town.
The Carlisle Indian football team appoints Little Boy as captain succeeding Emil Hauser. Addison Lyste, a noted Ohio riverman, is mentioned in connection with the team.
Night riders destroyed the W. H. Gossar barn near Evansville in Warrick county. The structure held tobacco and the loss is estimated at 3000 dollars with 1009 dollars covered by insurance.
Miss Mary A. Stone from Gravel Bank spent Thursday in town with friends and days with her sister Mrs. A. Elliott near Hockingport. Several households noted travel and visits including Mr. A J Dilly from Smithson W Va and Mr and Mrs W Y Rowles in Athens with Albert Wood.
Mrs C L Orr hosts her mother Mrs Martha Morris of Greenfield along with guests William Williams Thomas Vereco and Grover Williams for Thanksgiving. Mrs Mary Watts visited Mrs George Boring. Miss Mary Angell of Athens and Miss Ethel Burson of Shade stayed with Miss Pearl Henderson. Olive Boring a business visitor in Athens. James Geston and sons Lafayette and Arthur of Athens stayed with sister Mrs Arnold King. Olive Boring and George Boring family visited Mr and Mrs Jesse Seamon in Burlingham. Anna Powell visited Miss Pearl Henderson. Rev Tuttle served at Pratt's Fork replacing Rev Hater. Mr and Mrs Ellsworth Winger and Finis and Ernest Winger were Athens visitors. Rev J A Storerailed his appointment at Mt Zion.
Over 60 000 tons of pedauts are brought to Bordeaua annually from Africa and the value of the oil made from them is 2 900 000 dollars. Many French families prefer it for table use to olive oil and it is much cheaper, selling for 55 to 89 wals a gallon depending on quality.
Tax collection begins Monday November 16 with no tax for 1908 due before then. Taxes received after that date go to the next June collection closing July 20 1909. Offices closed on legal holidays.
A man mourns his vanished fiancée as his rival dies unknown. He discovers flowers on her grave and meets a living woman who aids his heartbreak. A staged return by the dead fiancée exposes a fatal secret of love, jealousy, and mortality.
Social notes record visits and visits and arrivals across Hebbardsville including Mrs Rickey Ada and M P Wingo of Portsmouth visiting relatives. Dozens of residents, sales, travels and school officials are listed with family guests in Athens Glouster and Pleasant Hill areas.
Jacksonv ille reports show Mine No 254 at Sunday Creek will begins shipping coal in days, employing 300 men as day hands work to ready the mine. Other local movements include managers and workers relocating to Athens Greenfield and Murray City as leaders move to new posts. Receipts at the Jackson ville depot topped $600 for the month ending November 30, the highest since the agency began.
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