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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1888
Page
5
Advertises a tonic claimed to cure drunkenness by adding Golden Specific to coffee or tea without the drinker's knowledge. It asserts thousands cured and promises permanent temperance, offering full details from the Golden Specific Co of Cincinnati Ohio.
Local updates report illnesses and recoveries of townspeople including Judge Guthrie and C D Gist, plus new announcements of candidates Leroy Bean and Mrs Kate Golden. The Athens Lincoln Club marks Lincoln’s birthday with a large banquet and speeches while county affairs cover agriculture, saloon laws, and the upcoming fair.
A Town note reports Samuel Warden's illness with a near fatal scare but he has recovered enough to be out though still feeble. Buechtel Furnace set a new high by turning out thirty two thousand pounds of pig in a six hour shift. Mr and Mrs George Falloon hosted about two hundred guests at a social at their residence Wednesday evening. Trim de Mill Company plans a new store in Jacksonville. A partial eclipse of the sun Saturday was not visible to the public.
The grand jury of Athens county common pleas after two days and eighty witnesses returned indictments for stabbing to kill and wound John Barker grand larceny for Harry Jones and a clothes and watches theft from the Brown HouseMary J O Reilly for keeping a place selling intoxicants and assault and battery charges against Michael Moran Robert Love Wm F Woodyard and Harvey McDonald The Sedalia revival meetings in the county ended with twenty one accessions to the M B E church membership.
Dick Beebe of Beebe celebrated his 47th birthday last Sunday. Universalists staged a social at A. S. Crippen's on Saturday. The next social is set for C. Dean’s residence on the 25th. Mrs. Ida S. Willis of Chillicothe visited relatives in Beebe. Prof. L. C. Crippen visited friends in the township last week. Work resumed on the M. Co. & N. R. R. between Big Run and Stewart. Track laying to start next week. John C. Lewis was accidentally shot by a friend checking a revolver, flesh wound only. Voters urged to protect quails. many killed this season.
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