A YEAR S RESUME OF DIVORCES AND CRIMINAL CASES IN ATHENS COUNTY
Clerk McKinstry releases his annual judicial statistics for Athens County ending July 1, 1901. The report details divorce proceedings with totals by cause and by claimant, counts of crimes and prosecutions, fines collected, civil judgments, jury fees, and indictments. It also summarizes common pleas and circuit court activity, with pending and disposed cases and notable homicide and burglary figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McKinstry
Athens County
Coroners and
Justice of the Peace
Common Pleas Court
Circuit Court
Seventh Jundral
Supreme Court
Closed Like a Clam in Grovaten July 15
A mayoral edict shuts Grovaten and Glouster tight, sealing saloons, restaurants, and shops after a Law and Order League push. All businesses close Sundays to protest alleged defective ordinances, with several saloons outside the town limits seen as future refuges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grovaten
Glouster
Sunday Creek
Law and Order League
Magic City
Law and Order
Iex
Richards Arrested Again After Bail Denied
John Richards, previously jailed for stealing $50 from Warren Bros. safe, was re-arrested Wednesday and sent to jail after a failed bail bond. He faced a Friday hearing and was bound over to court in a $2000 surety. Emory Watkins and Emory Markins were fined 5 plus costs for intoxication, as was William Perry. Joseph Walker of Lubric was held on charges including threatening his wife and assault on his father-in-law, bound over to court in $200.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Richards
Warren Bros
John
Richards
Emory Watkins
Emory Markins
William Perry
Joseph Walker
Lubiig
Henry Logan
William Burnley
Walker
Annual Institute for Athens County Teachers Opens Aug 5
The Athens county teachers institute meets in the old Ohio University chapel for two weeks starting August 5. Instructors include Dr. Byron W. King of King’s School of Oratory Pittsburg Prof. Wm Crane Dayton high school and Prof J W Denney Ohio State University. Dr J P Gordy will not attend and Denney fills his place. Five evening lectures are planned two in week one and three in week two with Crane’s Poe and the Raven as a topic. All county teachers are urged to attend at least one week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens County Teachers’ Institute
Old Chapel
Ohio University
Byron W. King
King's School of Oratory
Pittsburg
Wm. & Crane
Dayton High School
J. W. Denney
Department of Rhetoric
Ohio State University
J. P. Gordy
Denney
Crane
Pump House Damaged by Fire in Early Monday Forenoon
The B. & O. S. pump house caught fire Monday forenoon, damaging the interior by about twenty five dollars. The fire started somehow from the pump house boiler. An attempt was made to reach the Arc department, but the blaze was extinguished and the damage repaired before communications could be opened with the department.
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Arc Department
Combination of Interests of the Coal Operators
The Morgan syndicate seeks to merge Hocking and Sunday Creek coal lands into one giant group. Most operators granted options. renewals extended 60 to 90 days. The plan aims to reduce competition, align stock ownership, and stabilize markets across Ohio and surrounding regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgan Syndicate
Hocking
Sunday Creek
Hocking Valley
Sunday Creek Valley
Sunday Creek Coal Company
Jobs Coal Company
W. P. Read & Company
Phoenix Coal Company
Hocking Coal Company
Buckeye Coal Company
Chicago & Ohio Central Coal Company
The
Northern Fuel Company
McLeash Coal Company
North Star Coal Company
Perry County
Athens County
Morgan
Cauca
Beasl
Indiana
West Virginia
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Steel Trust
Joined at the Altar of Nettie Fulton and George Kaler
Miss Nettie Fulton and Mr George G C Kaler were married last night at the Fulton home in Sunnyside in a private ceremony conducted by Rev L G C Baddox. Relatives attended with distant guests from Marietta and Washington DC. The couple plan to begin housekeeping soon after the ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nettie Fulton
G.C. Kaler
George GC. Kaler
J.B. Fulton
Sunnyside
Rev. L. GC. Baddox
Minnie Duckler
J. B. Fulton
Kaler
Mes
Joseph Hill
Marietta
Jennices
Misa Mary Fulton
Washington, D. C
Post Dentist from Athens County Promoted at Manila
Post Dentist Earl S. Pilcher of Manila United States hospital corps reports promotion and appointment as post dentist with headquarters at Manila. He trained in dentistry and served in the Philippines, with a newly created position offering a good salary. The Coolville campmeeting runs August 1 to 11 with evangelists singers and daily children's meetings promising rest and spiritual refreshment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl S. Pilcher
Athens County
Manila
United States Hospital Corps
bin Couras
Philippines
Coolville
Formal Application Made for Free Delivery in Athens
Postmaster Gist has applied to the U S Post Office for free city delivery in Athens. The annual business surpasses 810,000, and arrangements are under way in Washington. If approved, delivery could begin early next year with two to three new carriers after civil service exams. The town would gain six rural routes and all night service, praised for rapid distribution and clock-like operation. General Grosvenor personally reviewed the matter in Washington.
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Gist
Washington
Athens
Grosvenor
Itsalze
Attorney Ames Dies Suddenly in Grocatss
James B. Ames prominent attorney dies suddenly in Grocatss at about age, after recent operation. Survived by two wives and a one week old child. Funeral services arranged in Grocatss, with remains to be moved to Chauncey tomorrow afternoon for burial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames
Grocatss
James BI. Ames
Chauncey
Beebe Completes Globe Tour After Philippine Service
Corporal Peter Beebe of Beebe returns home from a year and a half with the 41st United States Volunteers in the Philippines. He toured the globe aboard the Logan and later boarded the Boford for home, visiting Gibraltar Sicily Egypt Suez Canal Red Sea Malacca and Manila Bay en route. He saw natives, noted their intelligence and musicians, and recalled Aguinaldo’s capture affecting resistance. He arrived in Athens Wednesday evening after the long voyage.
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Peter Beebe
Beebe
Philippines
41St Regiment
United States Volunteers
Athens
Globe
Camp Meade
Logan
New York
Manila
Atlantic Ocean
Strait of Gibraltar
Mediterranean
Sicily
Antique
Egypt
Suez Canal
Red Sea
Gulf of Aden
Indian Ocean
Ceylon
British India
Malacca
China Sea
Manila Bay
Beebe Wan
Jane
Aguinaldo
Agalinaldo
Boford
Japan
Honolulu
San Francisco
Contlocot
Corporal Beebe
Fatal mill accident at Amesville injures D M Gift
A Saturday morning accident at the flouring mill of Berslays & Bro in Amesville badly injures C. D. Gift the day engineer. His trousers caught on a set screw as he was near a rapidly revolving shaft causing him to be torn and bruised. He was taken to the mill office, dressed, and sent home then boarded a train to Columbus with his wife and two attendants. Gift, about 25, recently married, is from Hebbardaville and his parents live there. News of his condition was not yet received.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amesville
D. M. Berslays & Bro
C.D
D. Br. Beasley
Mill Companys
Columbus
J. Heston
J. L. Dille
Gift
Hebbardaville
Nelsonville Fireman Killed in Ohio Crash
A wreck on the Hocking Valley railway near Vinton Gallia county Tuesday morning killed fireman T. L. Socie a Nelsonville resident. Engineer and brakeman escaped with minor injuries. Socie’s body was taken to Nelsonville for burial. The WRBC women will serve ice cream and cake Tuesday evening at Jonesin on the College Campus price 10c.
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Nelsonville
Vinton
Gallia County
Hocking Valley
T. L. Socte
Socie
WRBC
Joness
Judge D A Russell of Pomeroy Dies by Self Destruction
Athens county mourns as Judge D A Russell, former circuit judge and cousin to Meigs county legal circles, dies by self inflicted gunshot in Cincinnati. He left a sealed letter to his wife and struggled with recent mining investments and heavy reverses. Funeral services were held in Pomeroy after his body was moved from the morgue.
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D. A. Reesell
Pomeroy
Palace Hotel
Cincinnati
Athens County
Russell
Thomas Jones
Jackson
D. A. Russell
Smith & Wesson
Judge Russell
Circuit Court
Palace
Supreme Court
Rossell
Meigs County
Ohio University
Athens
Wesleyan Institute
Delaware
Fourth
Virginia Infantry
Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Ohio
Pomeroy National Bank
Colorado
First man to market wheat this year
F. L. Junod earns the distinction as the first man to market his wheat this year with a harvested thrash delivered to John C. Campbell on Saturday. He hurried the wheat to manage a very large peach yield alongside the crop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. L. Junod
John C. Campbell
Deafness Cured by Constitutional Remedies Claim
An advertisement asserts deafness cannot be cured by local applications and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure with a $100 offer for proven cures. It credits F J Cheney & Co Toledo and Dr W Scott, mentions a July visit to Hotel Bearer, touts eye and ear work, and suggests liver and bone issues can cause poor hearing remedied by DeWitt's Little Early Risers from Cline's Pharmacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
W. Scott of
Chicicothe
For Sale Item in Athens Auction Ad
For sale a strong neat surface item in town, recently painted and little used, offered at less than half price. Send inquiries to Box 4, Athens, Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Ohlo
Also Mentioned on This Page
Common Pleas Courts
Police Court
Around
Set Sorew
DeWitt
Cline
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