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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1906
Page
1
The editor urges severe punishment after Patterson and Mills fought on a public Athens corner. Both sought to settle grievances with brutal blows. Patterson and Siley each received $5 fines. Mills was released. The writer calls for maximum fines and a workhouse sentence.
In Athens a breed of loafers exists both portable and stationary. The stationary type stands for hours, known to many locals, often remarking wryly. A country youth asked why they stand so long, and the reply was bluntly humorous about being paid to stand.
An itinerant Irishman named Pat dining with a Zaleski family tries to ease a dog crowding under the table. After asking the hostess, he throws the dog 25 feet toward the yard fence, then John Kale the Court House Janitor will explain what followed.
Mrs. Rachael Bean marked her 75th birth anniversary with twenty five guests including children and relatives. An elegant dinner and music followed at her Fremont Street home. Mrs. O B Murphy of Albany attended as an out of town guest. Mrs. Bean married Isaac Bean in 1850 and has received the Messenger weekly since.
Mayor Day presided as Robert Rainey and Edna Smith married today to settle a case that would have gone before the grand jury. Rainey has been jailed on bastardy charges. Dr. B C Vorbes of Albany visited the city on business yesterday.
Murray Dalton, longtime Central Union Telephone Company manager, resigns effective January 1 due to health. He will oversee operations until March 1 when a new manager is chosen. He plans to quit telephone work entirely and move to a farm near Hamden on the R. F. Traphagen property three miles from town.
A committee of local women led by Mrs. E. A. Price and others will manage the city bond issue for new school facilities. They invite all interested ladies to a meeting at the M. E. church at 2 30 p m on Thursday to discuss tasks and arrange coffee and lunch for voters at Friday's event.
Glouster January 31 Special. Mrs J J Gordon and Mr and Mrs Cc M Kuhns were called to Somerset Sunday on account of their uncle Henry Culp's death. They returned Monday evening. Alex Nelson and Percy McCloud were called to Springfield Sunday for Mrs Mary Lamb's death, sister of Nelson and mother of McCloud. Nelson returned Monday evening.
Quick results report Mayor Gormley appoints Richard Druggans to the post for the year. He began work Monday addressing East High Street sewer problems by repairing a broken tile. Before the fix water stood on the street for hours after rain, now the sewer works properly.
Major L. M. Jewett entertained last evening in his usual genial way with three tables of bridge whist at his home on Court street.
Glouster January 31 Special. IL H Bailey and Miss Hallam married in Athens on Monday and returned home. The girl's father thwarted the union by stopping the couple and a fight followed. Hallam threw stones striking Bailey on the arm fracturing the elbow. Hallam was arrested on a warrant sworn by Henry Bailey and bound over to the county court on a $200 bond after a justice court trial.
Mrs. F. L. Preston hosted a two to six o'clock bridge party with five tables and progressive play, at her open home filled with carnations. A three course lunch was served at five. Guests included Mrs. Will Starrett, Mrs. Sam Preston, and fifteen other attendees.
John Bishop Phillips aged 72 died at his Amesville residence from heart trouble after weeks of illness. He was born in Trenton New Jersey and lived on a Clark's Chapel area farm for fifty years before moving to Amesville last October to be near his daughter Mrs W P Hois tington. He leaves a widow and two children Mrs W P Hoisington and W R Phillips. a son James Phillips died in a mine accident in Boomer West Virginia December last year. Funeral at Clark's Chapel Tuesday at eleven conducted by Rev Canfield, his former circuit pastor.
Edward Desch a local plumber employed by Charles Demolet suffers a severe blood poisoning in his right arm after picking at a pimple with his lead scraping knife. Dr Alderman treated the swelling and Desch faces several days off work with possible recovery.
Mrs Docie Kaafen, daughter of Mr and Mrs William Biddison, was operated on at Grant hospital on Sunday afternoon for appendicitis. She had recently returned to Ohio after living in the West a year and was visiting her sister in Columbus during the illness. Her mother, also from here, was at the hospital but returned Sunday night reporting her daughter resting easily and a speedy recovery expected.
Grace Jewell is in Big Run visiting her parents for a few days, staying at their home during the trip. She plans local calls and a brief tour of nearby shops before returning.
John Burson, father-in-law of David L. Sleeper, says a recent newspaper tale of his fleeing a Kentucky Colonel was false. Sleeper claims he is at home in Tulsa, Oklahoma, preparing to move into a new house with his family and reports business prospering.
The Women's Relief Corps packed a barrel of fruit and a box of linen cushions and other useful articles and shipped them to the Madison Old Ladies Home. Mr Charles and William Bower visited their father Capt J C Bower at Groveport. O L Mathie was a business visitor to Guysville today.
Mabel and Ora Hull hosted a masquerade party at 125 Lancaster Street delighting many school friends. Prizes went to Fred Finsterwald as The German Cobbler and Paul Casley as King of Tramps. girls Vida Maxwell and Ora Secoy also won for their costumes.
Funeral services were conducted at the late residence near Bishopville for Mrs Carliska Adams born June 16 1838 daughter of Thomas and Rachael Eddy. She died January 26 after six weeks pneumonia age sixty eight. She married James C L Adams February 26 1854 and had five children three survive Alda Mina and Vinnie. Mrs Adams burial followed in local cemetery. Also notes on Mrs Biddison William McDonald and a group visit by Athens residents.
The Advanced Primary features a long slate including Nellie Brooks Nita Edmundson Jennie Larch Gertrude Port Flo Patterson Ruth Hamp Fletcher Blackburn John Hibbard Ross Headley Claire Kyle Harold Lancaster Lexie Patterson John Porter Fred Love Earl Nye Leonard Russell Walter Hutchinson Dean Copeland Chalmer Cooper Alva Dye Rufus Hopkins Wilbur Hall Gerald Lambert Willis Sands Hazel Grenther Ada Maxwell Eva Hooper.
Names of patrons with letters advertised include Mrs Will Addleman Paull Buchan Margaret Foster Francis Foster Emma Giesecke Charles Gilbert Ethel Henegar Miss Bella Hopkins John Kennedy Evat Morgan Dorra Moore Mary Price Charlies Reed F M Rogers C B Stevers Bessie Stewart Athel Vaughn Jeff West Iva Wilson Dr James Yarnell John Finsterwald P M Persons calling for these letters should state advertisement. Unclaimed letters after February 12 1906 will be sent to the dead letter office.
Glouster January 29 Special The semi annual installation of officers of the Magic City IOOF lodge of Glouster was held in their hall Friday evening. W H Bartels of Nelsonville conducted the installation and a banquet followed. Officers installed Noble Grand Earl Olliver Vice Grand Lewis Wareham Corresponding secretary J L Davis Financial Secretary J W Davis Treasurer G W Rose Chaplain A C Robinson Right supporter to N G Robert Skinner Left Supporter to N G Fred Storkmeyer Right Supporter to G John Howard Left Supporter to W G Chris Yeorger Warden Thos Lewis Conductor Iden Brown Right Scene Supporter Charles Morris Left Scene Supporter Elijah Dyson Inside Guardian Edward Goodin Outside Guardian George Eric
A Messenger reporter rode Tuesday in Chas. 8 Newsom's recently purchased palace coach. The elegant three seat carriage is leather trimmed with broadcloth interior, rubber tires, and a high piano gloss finish. It was built by The Riddle Coach and Green Company of Ravenna and cost $1,200.
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