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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1906
Page
10
The Enquirer rehashes a prior Athens graft tale tying a dormitory heating scandal to alleged misuse of state funds. It recounts inspectors being called, trustees resisting, and fears of damages as dormitory rents and heated flats loom.
Mrs George Junod and daughter Rose visit at C P Closter home on Sugar Creek for the week. Frank Hawkins Nelsonville visits Athens. Miss Young Marshfield returns home after visiting Miss Nita Young. Summer school enrollment hits 646. Dr J S Basom visits Coolville. Roll Carpenter guests in Chillicothe. Emmett Parker heads to Gallipolis for an orchestra post aboard a steamer between Charleston and Cincinnati. Albert Jones visits Charleston. Eugene Thompson at home in Nelsonville from school. Alfred James visits Athens. Mr and Mrs Harry Kelley return from wedding trip across Ohio. Thomas Jones Jackson visits Athens. Willie James Glouster visits Athens. Mrs Tom Roush ill on Richland Ave. Ralph P Jennings ill on Union St, condition improving. James Roan in Columbus with parents. Fred Hutchinson Pittsburgh visits Athens. Mrs John Gist visiting Columbus. will return to Marion. Henry Zenner returns from New York. S L McCune visits Amesville. Miss Blanch Beckler Edith Hooper Hadley Bellows S L Sayre visit Nelsonville. W W Ward spends Sunday in Columbus. Catharine Day Lancaster and Ida B Allen State Hospital guests of John Gleason. Orland McCoy Carbonda le guests of former’s parents with Clarence Russell visiting. Beatrix Fenzel week with Columbus. Nina Morgan week in Chillicothe. J R Fisher recovering from typhoid fever. Mrs Clifford Fulton ill on Franklin Ave. Charles Pickering Marion visits Athens.
The Ohio Free Will Baptist State Convention ministers and laymen conference and the Ohio River yearly meeting meet with the First Kgger church in Gallia county from August 8 to 12. Elders R C Jackson M R Allen Fred McLangon and other ministers are expected. President Joseph W Mauck of Hillsdale College may attend. THOS. E. PEDEN, Clerk.
A skilled chef at The Ohio Central operates cafe cars serving hearty meals. Patrons praise precise technique, flavorful sauces, and timely service as dining trains run on schedule across routes.
A Saturday night spree at the fair ground involved Chas Ayres of Alexander township George Ayres and Herman Wilson consuming a keg of beer and getting intoxicated. Marshal Finsterwald pursued them after a complaint, arresting Chas Ayres while the others fled. Charles Ayres pled guilty to drunkenness and paid a $3 fine plus $8.50 costs before Mayor Day. Affidavits against George Ayres and Herman Wilson were filed and will lead to jail after capture. The unnamed third man remained, unable to pay his hotel bill, awaiting developments expected to fund the bill.
An old advertisement promotes Humphreys Veterinary Specifics claiming cures for horses cattle sheep hogs and poultry. It lists conditions like distemper lameness coughs colic diarrhea and miscarriages and offers a ten specific remedies set with a book mailed free upon request from Humphreys Medicine Co New York.
A string of local visits and guest appearances unfolds as John Adrie and Duncan Williams spend the Fourth in Nelsonville with Dana Williams at home. Miss May Hearn travels to Mt. Vernon and Sandusky for a two week visit with friends.
Plantsville July 6. The large frame barn of John Armstrong about a mile and a half from here was struck by lightning around eight o'clock this morning during a severe thunder storm. The barn and its contents were completely destroyed and the amount of loss is not yet known.
A Niagara Falls excursion departs Thursday July 19 via Ohio Central Lines. Details and full particulars available on hand bills or from agents. Stops listed as 7 10 12 14 and west.
At a July 2 meeting the Ath ens Board of Public Affairs asked the City Council for an appropriation of 1000 dollars to install ten street lamps in various parts of the city. The council did not act, and doubts arise over the plant's finances versus private lamp costs.
Mr W R Angell slowly improving from an injury after a fall. Frank Marsh and family from Columbus visited Hebbardsville relatives this week and returned home. An ice cream supper at O L Johnson’s raised about 24 for C P church with 250 guests. D F Hamilton of Fremont, Neb. visiting. Mrs R B Dent of Millfield returned home after a week here. Funeral of Mrs Claude M Fryer from Marion Ind attended at Cumberland Presbyterian church. burial followed. Picnic at Ervin Reynolds’s home honored Chas Hibbard of California with Athens guests. Mrs Israel Crossen is poorly.
The fine weather aids summer students with few desertions as classes meet regularly. A Souvenir Edition of the Ohio University Bulletin is soon ready. A 700-person reception at Ewing Hall enjoyed by the faculty and students. A campus photograph of the entire summer school is planned for tomorrow at 9 a.m. A lecture by General Grosvenor is hoped for next Thursday. A new dormitory will add 175 beds for women next year. Local groups are taking photos for the Souvenir Bulletin.
Druggists offer PAZO OINTMENT as a guaranteed remedy for piles itching bleeding and protrusion with a refund if it fails to cure within 6 to 14 days. The product is sold for 50 cents.
The Athens National Bank opens in a new building forcing the Daily Messenger and many law firms to relocate. Gen C H Grosvenor and Hon E J Jones have led the long running Grosvenor firm for 28 years with various partners, now moving to the fourth floor of the bank building alongside L A Koons who has practiced here for 19 years. The old Law Building will now house only the newspaper, marking the end of an era for lawyers in that space.
Gen Charlies H Grosvenor arrived in Athens on Thursday and will spend the summer there while Mrs Grosvenor just returned from Washington. After Congress adjourned he debated Champ Clark in Winona Indiana and then spoke to ten thousand at a Chautauqua gathering in Ashland Kentucky on the Fourth.
State Epileptic Hospital trustee C. V. Harris leaves on a week long Ohio trip. J. C. Clutts of Wellston charters a boat for board members, wives, families, and about twenty friends to travel toward Pittsburg and Charleston with full comforts aboard.
George L. L. Fenzel purchased the lot on North Congress Street formerly occupied by the Hedges home from E. D. Sayre. The deed lists $100 as the consideration, though Fenzel paid that amount and more and plans to erect several elegant flats on the lot.
The Art Cooking Club enjoyed a Thursday afternoon outing and picnic supper at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Emmet Cotton on North Congress Street.
An old time advertisement promises curing a cold in one day with Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets and offers a money refund if it fails. Each box bears E. W. Grove’s signature and sells for 25 cents.
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