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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1888
Page
7
Advertisement touts Golden Specific as a harmless additive that can be placed in coffee or tea to reform drinkers without their knowledge. It claims thousands of drinkers become temperate and quit on their own, promising permanent results. Send details to Golden Specific Co. Cincinnati Ohio. Nov. 11. -ly.
Local items report grape pruning timing butter shortages and theater plans. News covers court, education in Athens, crops, garden hints, and community happenings including birthdays, funerals, saloon debates, and public works on Main Street.
A Florida reader mails orange blooms to correct a misprint about southern harvests and mentions February strawberries. The item recalls Prohibition politics, a bid for State Senator, railroad pay debates, and opposition to semi monthly wages. It also warns against adulterated baking powder tests and urges safe, proven products.
At a recent Ohio University Executive Committee meeting Mrs. Mary F. Townsend was named to succeed Miss Ebert as modern languages teacher. Townsend, a Canton Illinois resident, brings years of continental schooling and family teaching experience and will start at the spring term opening.
The Athens schools show evident improvement in music and drawing attributed to Miss Anna Appleton Lane. She is highly regarded as an instructor and formator of the juvenile mind in these aesthetic educational lines, earning golden opinions for her efficiency.
A bill proposes a one cent bounty for each English sparrow killed with payments issued to township clerks in batches of at least twenty five. If enacted the township clerk role in sparrow dense areas like Athens would become far from enviable.
A well planned new school house at the junction a mile west of Athens reflects public spirit of the Factory district with John F. Davis credited for its erection. Athens County will lose John Dewing of Albany to Los Angeles with his daughter Mrs J H Holmes and family expected to move early next month.
Dealers show confidence in extended mild season by starting ice cream manufacture. The note attributes the temperate climate to dwellers in the latitude and marks the practical start of summer concessions.
A notice announces a screening or event titled Dad's Girl at City Mail next Friday with unspecified start time and venue details. The fragment mentions a watch/wait context and the name Hastege appears as a possibly misread proper noun.
A large group of prominent Athens residents met at City Hall to back the town ship local option law recently passed by the House. Judge Welch chaired a fifteen-member committee that praised Representative Emmett Tompkins and urged Senate approval. Speakers including General Hamilton and J M Wood argued the bill’s moral and practical benefits for Athens, and the meeting ended with strong enthusiasm. The organizers hoped to report Senate passage in the Messenger’s next issue.
Sheriff Stalder lost a pocketbook containing twenty five dollars and papers while away on county business. The item was found Tuesday in a meat barrel at his home cellar, its contents soaked but intact. The funeral at Nelsonville honored Charles Johnson of Johnson Bros Patterson with Masonic rites, deaths linked to mine air compressor burns.
Mellie Free, the young soubrette, will appear at City Hall next Friday night in the original play Dad's Girl. Free has been a favorite wherever she has performed and promises a lively show. Tickets on sale at the Meyton store.
A young man named Charles Canter, whose mother lives in Buchtel, was shot and killed by a pursuing officer while attempting to evade arrest near Dennison last week. His remains were brought to Buchtel last Thursday for interment.
Gen Hamilton delivered the second Athens Young People's Christian Association lecture on The Earth and the Book. He described the local carboniferous geology from Mount Pleasant near Lancaster to Nelsonville, noting sandstone, clay deposits used in Haydenville and Nelsonville coal seams, and the river’s impact on coal depth. He warned that as mining moves east, Athens could become a major industrial center akin to England and Scotland.
The Palace Hotel in Cincinnati is praised as the favorite resort for visitors from this section. Walter H. Maxwell, junior proprietor and manager, is lauded for attentive service and cordial welcome, described as accomplished, genial, and entertaining.
Chasies Boileas aged 27 son of Mr Joseph Boileas of Nelsonville was fatally injured when a misaligned switch caused him to fall before passing cars. Both legs were severed, and he survived only briefly. An account of a separate event at Buechtel is continued on page three.
An optimistic note describes eager anticipation in mining districts up the valley for improved times following the reopening of lake navigativa, signaling renewed activity and prospects.
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