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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1877
Page
5
An 1875 notice cites a medical practice location on Main Street with an old office on August 4. The fragment mentions the office and service field as medicine and surgery, indicating a local professional listing.
Local items report Rev Mrs J N Lee visiting in Loraine county and Col George W Baker returning from Pennsylvania. Notes mention sheriff sale preparations and church society meetings, repairs on parsonage, a charity ball call, railroad activity, and court actions including Dr Wilson quo warranto. An Athens fire incident, a new trial remand, and visits by neighbors complete the roundup.
A Saturday meeting at Potter's Hall led to forming the Athens Choral Society with a constitution modeled on the county group. Initiation fifty cents, dues twenty five cents quarterly, weekly Friday practices, and all able to read music invited to join.
The Albany Echo launches with energetic editor Dick and assistants, praising its neat typography and local focus. Tramps leave the old court house, a warning to seek steadier quarters, while the C and H V railroad new time card goes into effect and Mrs. Geo A Nye dies of diphtheria near Chauncey after a five day illness.
In Coolville on January 29 1877 a letter writer replies to Troy denying that Charlie Keyes opened a select school in Hockingport. He explains Keyes leased the Congregational church for ten years and fitted it up for a first class school.
The Cincinnati Commercial proclaims independent, nonpartisan journalism focused on legality and order. It touts wide circulation across Ohio Valley, extensive telegraphic dispatches, and trusted market reports. It supports specie payments, the gold–silver standard, and reinstating the silver dollar. Advertising rates are 10 to 100 cents per line. Subscriptions offered.
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