Athens News Highlights and Local Notices From 1875
The Messenger touts circulation and ads while reporting shop deals like Swiss Watches at C McLean. It notes potato prospects, wool prices, and new potato prices, and reports on deaths, marriages, elections, and local court proceedings. It covers academic events, temperance talk by A G Byers, and university news including commencements and board actions.
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Athens
G. W. Boyce
Bundy
Waddle
Blistering Show Day Heat at Robinsons Tent
The show day featured extreme heat inside the canvassed tent, with a dense crowd adding to the sweltering conditions. Endurance under such conditions is praised as martyrs worthy, while a few MESSENGER compositors protest any link to the vanished cakes for the Odd Fellows banquet. Mayger defends the individuals, denying any serious fault and deeming allegations groundless.
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Athens
Organization of Serene Lodge
Independent Order of Odd Fellows of
Town Hall
Coolville
Sereno Lodge
Court Street
Marietta
Guttenberg
Harmar Lodge
W. G. Cooley
Mr. Burns
Nelsonville
N. H. van Vorhes
Odd Fellowship
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Charles Townsend
Col
van Vorhes
Townsend
Tropics
Robinson
Messenger
Mayger
Tragic Rail Cut Fatality Near Big Run
A Lodi township resident named Reiley was killed Thursday while undermining in the cut at the Southern terminus of the Federal Creek Valley Railroad near Big Run. A large mass of dirt fell, crushing his head as he worked. He was about two.
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Reiley
Lodi Township
Federal Creek Valley Railroad
Big Run
Southtown crops flourish amid local business activity
The Southtown letter notes strong rainfall and bright prospects for potatoes corn and sweet potato plants reaching county supply. Local trades include Shingless and locust posts, Al Woodyard Burkett Hart, Andy Wood milling, and Isaac Brooks lumber. A Sabbath School picnic is set for Saturday at the Grove on the Billy Wood farm supervised by Rev E N Nichols. The Atlantic and Lake Erie Railroad will build to Chauncey six miles from Athans with funds and workers on site. General Thomas President of the
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Southtown
al Woodyard
Shade Creek
Messrs. Burkett & Hart
Oliver
Atlantic and Lake Erie Railroad
Chauncey
Athans
Thomas
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David H. Moore
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Wilson
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Lewis Campbell
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Isabel Morley
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A. G. Byers
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Chas. R. Fuller
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Parkersburg
United States
Charles R
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Turman’s Creek P. O
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Charles R. Fuller
Charles Fuller
Sullivan
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Joshua Ernest
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I. M. Sellars
Lunny School
J. C. Arbuckle
Jesus
L. H. Binkley
J. L. Hatfield
W. T. Harvey
G. R. Copeland
F. A. Spencer
W. H. Scott
Jos. Morris
Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society
J. L. Durant
Balaam
R. D. Morgan
G. W. Burns
Angels
J. van Law
Cmiversity Addr.s
R. G. Hutchins
Philomatheans
Temple of
Themis
Welch
Hudson
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Coultrap
Erman
Wm. Baumann
G. W. Martin
F. Acker
W. Gist
W. W. Gist
Delta Tau Delta Fraternity
M. E
Jesse van Law
H. M. Lash
K. K. Golden
Elder Dizon
Sereno Lodge No. 4
Board of Trust
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Board of Trustees
B. N. Spahr
Amos Miller
A. G. Brown
W. B. Horton
Robi. Wright
E. H. Moore
H. 8. Bundy
L. Jewett
Wm. Waddle
Horace Wilson
J. M. Dana
A. M
W. H. Gibbons
Richard Gundry
C. R. Long
The
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Alexander
State of
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State Treasury
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Leonidas Jewett
R. D. Steiguer
W. H. Sporr
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