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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1875
Page
5
The notice advertises American and Swiss watches for sale at the Jewelry Store of C. McLean. The item list hints at local commerce and neighboring trades, with other community notes about illness, social events, and town happenings in the Athens area.
A colored miner named John Gabbens, employed by the New York and Ohio Coal Company at Nelsonville, was shot on Tuesday evening by two footmen he had passed on the road. One bullet hit his lung and may prove fatal. two bullets struck his horse. The company offers 200 dollars for the arrest of the assailants.
Advertising columns announce a stockholders meeting to vote on increasing capital from five to twelve million dollars and on placing a permanent mortgage to issue seven and a half million in bonds at seven percent interest. Proceeds would redeem current mortgage bonds and finish the railway. If approved, early road completion is anticipated.
A hopeful message urges cheery words and extended help to uplift lonely travelers and restore their courage, turning heavy steps into lighter strides and even a song as they face life's rough places.
The text notes rising fatalities from a widespread illness in the county, measured by the number of professional calls made by Van Bibber in January. It emphasizes a tense, ongoing struggle with local doctor James and the medical team.
Rev. E. H. Heagler, recently stationed in Athens, concluded a lengthy M E Church meeting in New Lexington with marked interest and many accessions. Wam Smith of Chauncey faced Mayor Golden on a charge of assault and battery on Marion Dowler of Waterloo township. held to $200 bond for the next common pleas term.
A respectable number of Athens ladies and gentlemen travel to Marietta today to attend the Mendelssohn Club concert this evening and return home after the performance.
Due to business engagements Judge Guthrie declines to officiate next Saturday evening. Mr. George M. Gould will act in Judge Guthrie’s absence as Schoolmaster.
The article extols Judge Leonidas Jewett as one of the most hospitable figures in the Hocking Valley with high praise from Presiding Elder Dixon as the authority.
Rev. D. H. Moore of Trinity M. E. Church Cincinnati delivered a Sunday evening discourse titled How Christ Treated an Honest Skeptic. He examined Nicodemus visit by night and the Christ example, noting lessons for listeners and the impact of a rebuker on bold wickedness.
A party member touring the Federal Creek Valley to inspect resources thanks Mr. Joseph Dunbar of Ames town and Mrs. Charles Henry of Ames township for their hospitality and a dinner described as a rare fortune to receive.
The Frederick Maryland Examiner obituary for J. N. calls him harmless and inoffensive while noting the editor may invite him for a lengthy visit if copy is in demand. The piece suggests contrasting the editor’s opinion with that description in a future update.
During a Saturday incident Tim B Warden narrowly escaped injury when a lower floor section collapsed in the Warden and Bros warehouse. About fifty barrels of dried fruit and other goods toppled into the cellar as workers remodel the Columbus and Hocking Valley Depot to serve the M and C company. The Postmaster later mishandled an odd directing note, placing a misguided letter in a box.
John M Clure the Magonella engineer says he returned from rustication amid the hills of Athens county on Tuesday. He arrived in time to celebrate Christmas and notes locals would not feed their dogs the grub eaten here. He adds a readable letter by Herbert C Jones about a sleighing jaunt on Haginaw Bay.
Mr Jobo Laird a farmer living about a mile east of town was buried on Sunday. He had been ill for several weeks and was about 60 years old.
Obituary notice from Coolville Ohio dated January 30 1875 records the deaths of Asher Waterman born 1792 in Duchess County New York and E H Williams known as Uncle Holt of Hockingport. Waterman lived in Troy township since 1810 and died January 19 1875 after sixty four years of church and community service. Williams died January 25 1875 in his sixty ninth year and was a long time local landlord connected with Troy township and Hockingport. A large crowd attended Waterman’s and Williams’s funerals as the community notes the severing of pioneer era links.
The Epirork Messenger asks columns to note orthography and argues for recording multiple spellings when usage is split. It references Webster and a Golden Age piece noting almanac and almanack both appear in print.
A. B. Tidd receives 12.10 from Mrs. Knuckle of Coolville for a spelling school proceeds, to aid Kansas sufferers. The funds are sent to Athens county citizens and forwarded to E. H. Moore amid urgent appeals for money food and clothing to prevent suffering.
James S Ricketts requests a correction to the obituary notice for Mercy Pierce of Carthage township Athens county Ohio. He states the funeral was preached at the Christian Church by the M E Church writer and that his name was appended unintentionally.
The letter calls on Rep Sprague to restore the discontinued semi weekly mail route to Hocking P O and notes mail access is reduced. Mrs M Parris announces as agent for Cornwell's Never Failing Dress System with location details. Centennial district appointments listed for Athens and surrounding towns. Hiram Stanley, longtime Athens area resident, dies after months of illness. funeral held at Pleasanton M E Church. Post office hours on Sundays changed to open from 1:30 to 2:30 PM.
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