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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1909
Page
3
Tuesday’s Daily notes D W Cornell of Guysville and James Ginnan visiting Athens and Glouster on business. Postmaster C O Imes of Marshfield also visited. Mrs Kohn of Chillicothe hosted guests. Luella Littler recovers from tonsillitis. Several locals, including J C Thomas and Mr and Mrs J P Blackwood, made short trips. Mrs E C Berry’s Cincinnati visit is described. Dr Ellis improving.
Mr and Mrs Theodore Neutzling return from a visit with relatives in Pomeroy. Mrs Jack Gibbs and children of Luhrig spend the day with relatives. W A Carpenter leaves to attend a Columbus hardware convention. Mrs W S Southerton returns from Pom eroy. Mrs D A Williams and daughter Elizahbeth return from Columbus. J A Puller Kell Telephone manager returns from Columbus trip. Allen Mr and Mrs Thomas Duffee of Marshfield visit Mr and Mrs T R Hamilton. They are joined by Mrs Marl Pe of Glouster. Inside and daughter Mary return to Point Pleasant after visit with Mrs Otto Barth. Jos R F Morria and Mrs F A r
Mrs. T. R. Biddle is ill with tonsillitis at her Park Place home. Mrs. J. K. Bush of Detroit visits Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Bush. Mrs. Joshua Spencer of Nelsonville visits Mrs. W. B. Bentley on Morris Avenue. Dr. E. W. Chubb attends a Columbus meeting of college presidents and deans. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Wickham host their niece Miss Fra Frost of Marietta. The Daggetts return from a visit in Chillicothe.
Senator Rathburn urged reconsideration of a delay tactic while Senator Mather warned against halting taxation reform. In the House, GIlligan’s lodging house bill passed with a residency ban amendment. A Monday hearing on canal appropriations followed amid opposition from leaders Bader Baker Tod and Patterson. The Senate also passed a bill legalizing manual training and industrial courses in public schools. A 1912 capital centennial celebration plan, led by Governor Shlarman and Mayor Bond, was proposed.
The house taxation committee killed the Tidrick bill aimed at forcing personal tax payments by barring suits to collect on notes stocks and bonds not recorded. The house elections committee decided to report favorably the Schreiber bill creating separate ballots for electing all judges.
John Douglas and gon Henry of Athens were weekend guests of his parents Mr and Mrs Charlies Douglas. Miss Cora Frost visited her sister Mrs Elbert Sams at Long Run. Mrs Cora Hartley called on Mrs William Fulton. Jessie Watkins and family from Athens spent Sunday with Mrs Elizabeth Poston. Joseph Kelley recovering from typhoid fever. Mary Weatherby visited Miss Ollie Cranmer at Angell Ridge. John and Mrs John Bobo visited sister Mrs Arthur Konkoskie in Asbury. John Hawk and daughter Grace visited the Hawks. Luck Frost of Long Run visited at home. Emory Swartz and Mrs Swartz from Columbus visiting Joseph Hawk’s parents. Amos Holland visited his daughter Mrs Samuel Frost. Willie Poston visited friends Sunday evening. The farming community is busy with spring plowing.
Baltimore reader Mrs. W S Ford of 1938 Lansdowne Street credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with ending years of misery from irregularities drag sensations nervousness and stomach dullness. The ad proclaims the remedy as the most successful for female complaints and offers free guidance from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts to anyone seeking help.
Miss Eva Bell of Albany visits Hebbardsville. Mrs. Charles Townsend guests from Albany. Owen Jordan and son Clyde visit the Jordan family over Sunday. Glen Parker ill with pneumonia but not better. Miss Miller of Albany in dangerous condition. The Gift children improve after days of danger. Mrs. John Irwin from Athens returns home. John Irwin and Etta Patterson visit the Gifts. Will Potter from near Amesville stays with the Gifts this week.
Dr. J. R. Sprague of Athens stayed with Mr. J. Daft and family Sunday. C. L. Sanders visited in Athens Saturday. Herbert Mingus of Modoc spent days here visiting Irene Russell and friends. Mr and Mrs J Daft visited Athens Saturday. Planche Light spent Sunday in Guysville visiting her parents.
Ed Cecil spent Sunday with his parents in Wellston. Mr and Mrs Sell Jacoby of near Athens visit the former's brother here. A large crowd attended the box supper in Marshfield Friday night. Little Ross Shull is able to be out again after a severe illness. A son was born to Mr and Mrs James French on February 18. Dana Haskins spent Sunday with his parents in Trimble. Arch Simmons of Athens was the guest of Mr and Mrs Bert Martin. Sidney Watkins of Athens spent Sunday at his home here. Otto Grim was calling on friends in Mineral one day last week.
Receipts of cattle were light with prices unchanged. Hogs were extremely light as market stayed very strong with prime to workers quoted at 6.75 to 6.85 and common and roughs at 5.00 to 6.41. Sheep and lambs receipts were light with closes at 5.80 to 6.00 for ewes and 5.80 to 6.00 for lambs.
Fourth annual Ohio University alumni banquet in Pittsburg at Fort Pitt Hotel drew many Athens attendees and featured Strickland W. Gillilan as the highlight with a toast about Excluddin Finnegan. The event unveiled the mysterious Zozupa amid 40 banqueters and enthusiastic letters from attendees.
The Victorian Party featured violinist Mr Pallas Brown pianist and vocalist Miss Olive Robertson and reader Miss Maude Fowler. Fowler showed strong enunciation but weak in Eliza beth. Robertson impressed with technique and delicacy. Brown, though talented, displayed tonal flaws and room to grow. Hungarian Dance No 3 highlighted his best qualities. The next program on April 15 features My Thomas Brooks Wiotehier.
At a Monday Athens Commercial Club meeting about thirty members heard a report from a Gallipolis visit on the Nelsonville Athens Glouster traction plan. Theists and Bush endorsed the line as profitable with low motor power costs. A motion urged Athens and Nelsonville to form stock to fund a Athens Nelsonville route with gasoline power, aiming for $50,000 to $75,000.
Heavy rains have swollen the Hocking River and other streams causing widespread floods. Rail service on the BD&O and K&M lines is knocked out while Hocking Valley trains run near schedule. Residents along Richland and Stella avenues move out as water rises, with Nelsonville and Murray City seeing lowlands flooded and creeks swollen.
Glouster Ohio reports rapid water rise Tuesday after heavy rains with rivers then receding by morning. Main business district spared but lower town flooded and part of a new bridge washed away. K M tracks washed out near Burr Oak halt tram service temporarily.
Margaret's Creek rose unusually high after heavy rains, flooding homes near the old K. and M. Station site and washing out a rail track section. The water began receding by late afternoon, with officials noting the flood's peak likely passed.
Kamden Junction Ohio February 24 heavy rains Monday night and Tuesday flood Raccoon Creek washing out Hocking Valley roadbed between here and Jackson with no trains on belt line. Puri tan reservoir breach adds to floodwaters. Water at this point highest ever recorded causing extensive damage.
Flood from Sunday Creek swelled Trimble Ohio Tuesday night inundating several stores and homes. Merchandize and household goods were moved to safety as water begins to recede and conditions improve.
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