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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1904
Page
5
Byron Wolf visits Columbus and Springfield while many residents host visitors from Covington Kentucky to Duluth Minnesota. Numerous local people travel, guests stay with relatives, and community events highlight church, school, and social life across Athens.
Miss Ellen Wood hosts Mrs Hartinger of Middleport at Pedro as Pi Phi events and many others share parties at homes along Morris Avenue Carpenter Street East State Street and Congress Street. The Athens Reading club and Athenians open a new headquarters with Selby's orchestra while Rebekahs, Knights of Pythias, and T S S club members attend ceremonies and birthday joys.
Miss May Hudson and Miss Nora Mills faced asphyxiation from a gas heater with no vent on May Avenue. Hudson lost consciousness for about thirty minutes and was revived by a physician. Mills alerted neighbors as air from a raised window dispersed the fumes. Hudson recovered by Monday afternoon.
Georges Cillet, one of Casnay township's pioneer residents, died yesterday morning at his Strouds Run home after a prolonged illness. He was 83 and left a wife and five grown children. He had farmed on the same property for 47 years. Funeral services will be held Friday forenoon at Bethel Church with interment there.
A leading American theater critic hails Quincy Adams Sawyer as a cleanly pathos filled production. The company is carefully chosen for fit roles and the staging is described as complete and elaborate for the modern stage. The show opens at the opera house on March date, promising an honest story with human interest.
An advertisement offers one hundred dollars for any catarrh cure failure and endorses Hall's Catarrh Cure. It lists F J Cheney Co as trusted makers with Toledo wholesalers West Treax Walding Kinnan Marvin and promotes internal use to reach blood and mucous surfaces. Price is 5 cents per bottle with testimonials available.
Notice seeking workers for a white quad car creek project. Company Wheeler-Heiden in tIA ce offers highest market price. Contact Bald Battalots for information.
About February 1, a liver ensicved pointer dog with two white hind legs and a streak of white down his breast was stolen or strayed from my residence. I offer a five dollar reward for the return or information leading to recovery. KR. P. Enderlin, Carbondale.
Notice that Athens county Ohio Board of County Commissioners set a hearing for April 11, 1904 on an amended petition by over thirty electors to form a Village in Dover township, Athens county, with a detailed territorial description and plan to organize the Village of Chauncey. Edwin D Sayre acts as agent for petitioners.
The undersigned has been appointed and qualified as administrator of the estate of Catherine Pidcock late of Athens county Ohio, deceased. On this 20th day of February, 1904. Charles T. Pidcock. 7 25 Med 10.
A housewifely guide urges pristine table linen as the sign of refinement. It extols EASY TASK soap for purity and longevity, claiming a snowy cloth elevates the home atmosphere and keeps linens from rotting, with a 5 cent bar sold by grocers.
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