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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1876
Page
4
The successor to Drs. Johnson and Wilson remains at the old Main Street office in medicine and surgery. An August 4 1875 notice urges subscribers who owe for the Messenger to call and settle debts.
The MESSENGER reports a busy week in Athens with church services, lectures, and a public concert planned. Town business includes probate duties, university trustees’ votes, and local society notes while weather and social chatter frame daily life.
The county sub-district school system faces reform as a State School Commissioner proposal favors a Township Board and County Superintendency. The note invites educated readers to share views for publication. Also reported: Webb’s $600 bond after a preliminary hearing on forged contracts for lithographs, Hill witness, and discussion of prank valentines and offensive caricatures.
Revival services started over a month ago at the colored Baptist Church continue with visible zeal. A notable incident reports a sister praying for divine intervention on a girl in the back seat, seeking a dramatic reckoning.
Judge T L Minton succeeds Judge Jewett as Probate Judge on Monday and will discharge the office’s functions intelligently and efficiently. Clerk Berry Jewett will be retained by the new incumbent, whose apt and experienced service is publicly gratifying.
Washington orders the post office department requires P. O. box rents to be settled for at least one quarter in advance before box assignment. The postmaster has no discretion in the premises and those involved should not censure the local postmaster for insisting on advance payment.
Farmers are likely to pursue contemplated building work in the coming spring as high farm prices contrast with lower costs for materials and labor, creating a favorable window for construction activity.
The M E Church hosts nightly meetings with Rev L Taft from Columbus as speaker this Thursday and tomorrow evening. Sacrament will be observed Sunday morning with Taft presiding.
General Grosvenor returned to Column Bus on Monday to take his place as presiding officer of the House. He has filled the role with credit to himself and to the great party that honored him by its choice.
Saturday evening audience praised J M Case for an instructive lecture on The Birth Death and Destiny of the World linking Proctor’s theory to Genesis. He illustrated with a lunar crater drawing and closed with an original poem evoking the limits of human knowledge.
The House adopted a resolution expressing sorrow over the illness of Hon. Charles H. Grosvenor, Speaker, and sending heartfelt sympathy. It commends medical care and nursing and hopes for his early restoration to health and return to duty at Athens, Ohio.
The annual stockholders meeting in Lancaster saw six directors chosen Gen. Thos. Ewing W C Lemert H P Platt KF Marsh M V B Pratt and F M Mills with the four first re elected to the reorganized board Gen. Thomas Ewing was re elected president Prof F O Marsh named vice president and W C Jones continued secretary and treasurer.
Indianapolis notes a wave of local drafts in business and talent as young men depart for the Hoosier capital. The latest mover is Frank Stedman known as Turkey, who left this week to pursue fortune in Indianapolis.
Senate and House committees toured State Hospitals for the Insane in Athens, returning to Columbus Monday. They reported universal gratification with conditions inland around the hospital. The Cleveland and Columbus Railroad coal supply plans to shift from Nelsonville to Straiteville Coal Company. Bozman Bros offer superior matches wholesale and retail.
A nostalgic column on Valentine’s Day praises the festival and Cupid’s visitors. It recalls a quiet romance where artist E. B. secretly crafts a Valentine filled with classic love tales, delivered unseen by the post, inspiring delight for the recipient awaiting a cherished unknown benefactor.
Albany becomes trade hub as John Scott sells his Clinton street residence storehouse stock and more to W C Foster for 8000 dollars. Foster buys Main street lot lines and Outlets, while Scott nets land near M C and Carbondale lines. Also notes season leap year party at W C Lindley residence and Dan Johnson’s sudden religious fervor.
In Pleasanton and vicinity spring and winter markets shift as Henry Rickey buys and resells farms at 28 to 37 per acre. Anthony sells 130 acres for 4000 to Kinney, Ballenger trades with Allen, and Moss and Ballenger eye Westerville Ohio. Hooper sells Isaiah Bean farm near Pleasanton, grangers buy Burnham property for a hall, 16 to 18 horses shipped to Cincinnati, wheat looks good, and visitors arrive.
The Bozmans deal exclusively in Lorillard’s plug tobaccos offering one hundred different kinds. Each genuine plug bears a patented metal stamp to guarantee authenticity. The tobaccos are universally pronounced the best manufactured.
Statistics show plug tobacco trade remains steady through hard times. Consumers and dealers can buy any brand of plug tobacco cheaper at Bozman Bros, 15 to 25 cents per pound below ordinary cost. Twelve ads of choice Turkish Prunes for One Dollar at A. L. Roacu & Son.
The Bozmans announce prompt supply to the trade of their popular cheap cigars and tips, noted as fast sellers wherever marketed. Also advertises highest cash price for all kinds of raw furs, hides and shabby pelts, with call and get pujesse Setere ling. Ostrr. Nov 25 to Apr 1 1876.
The Atwood Institute announces its spring term starting March 7 1874. The school offers better facilities for education than many state colleges. For information contact Principal Prof. J. M. Woop at Lee, Athens County.
If it is a waste to store tea in depot it is worse to pay high prices elsewhere. Armitage and Davis advertise tea at much less than ordinary cost, presenting a frugal option for shoppers seeking value.
Yesterday’s weather reinforced the forecast that the coldest spell of winter ends soon as Zenner & Co. announces a broad sale of seasonable goods at or below prime cost. The firm reports its stock kept sorted to the standard limit with extensive lines available.
Donnan and Pickering Druggists announce a large stock of feather dusters white wash scrubbing brushes and blacking brushes at greatly reduced prices. They invite customers to inspect stock before purchasing. The Bozmans will receive a large varied pipe invoice directly from importers with many novel designs offered retail or in job lots near cost.
For sale a cooking stove in good as new condition at a bargain. Apply to 2w W. H. Harris.
Baltimore February 10 1876 hogs market slow with a 10 to tie advance and tendency toward lower figures sheep market slow but slightly more active with quotations 5 to 64 cattle opening tops firmer yet other grades unchanged and closing dull
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