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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1888
Page
5
An old advertisement claims the Golden Specific can cure drinking problems by adding to a cup of coffee or tea. It asserts permanent temperance and urges readers to send for details from the Golden Specific Co. in Cincinnati Ohio with a November 1 notice.
The Athens County Fair will showcase the Knights of Ivanhoe tourney and a balloon ascension as prominent features. The event also highlights the Women centennial exhibit, a broad plan for fair displays, and local civic efforts including road work and a new electric engraving machine at D Zenner & Co. The article notes several community activities and individuals supporting the fair and county exhibits.
A small Democratic Club gathering in Athens County nominated a slate: Commissioner James A. Caldswell of Rome, Recorder J. W. Jenkins of York, and Infirmary Director F. M. Koons of Trimble. Delegates to the Athens County Democratic convention and to the state circuits were chosen, with Welch, Koons, Ackley, Lash, Poston, and Jenkins named for various delegations.
Hon Townsend pleads before the State Board of Pardons for Wesley Allman sentenced to life for killing Lafferty at Buchtel. Supporters argue he’s already been adequately punished and his record is good. The vote is set for the board’s adjourned meeting on September 5.
Report explains a hot air balloon ascent at the fair with two aeronauts, H. F. Vandergraff and O. J. Bready of Cleveland, under written contract with fair authorities. They describe a furnace inflating the balloon to about sixty feet, a skyward launch, and a parachute descent with risk of fatal failure if ropes or ribs fail.
An Athens-week distribution by H H Warner & Co Rochester promotes illustrated cards and cures. A big $8 million stock and bonds dispute with Hocking railroad and Stevenson Burke is now under arbitration after partial court rulings. Mrs Starkey’s home near Anthony P O was struck by lightning but escaped harm as a fire was quickly stopped. Readers are urged to read a Detroit excursion offer with four day return tickets. Burt Desenberry moved from Columbus end of CHV T to Athens pan with a 4 dollar pay raise. A note from Allentown reports Rev Dr Pratt and family preparing for a house call tour.
A mass county convention of the Ohio Woman's Christian Temperance Union will convene in Jackson next Tuesday July 24. The program includes devotional exercises, reports, committee appointments, and addresses by Mrs H B Monroe Mrs Mary de Steigner Mrs King and others with several songs and a benediction. The notice also mentions a house fire in Carthage township and a Detroit excursion on the Toledo rail line offering lower fares. The era notes miscellaneous local items and adverts.
Master Emerson Russell visits his mother Mrs. M J Russell at Frost while Mrs Chas Dean returns from Nelsonville and Athens. Voters who supported Gen Harrison in 1840 are expected to back him again this fall. A Mount Tip mass meeting near W L Cook mill in 1840 stands as a historic event to be re rededicated this campaign. Last week’s flood swept riverside bottoms causing heavy crop losses though upland wheat remains workable for the presidential drive.
The Columbus Hocking Valley & Toledo Railway offers a cheap round trip to Detroit with Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway. From Athens the fare is 8.50 dollars. departure 7:00 am, arrival 6:40 pm, returnable for four days. Through coaches, bargains on dry goods, meals at Central House.
Bargains are now available at the Kualer Palmer and Mc Grath establishment offering discount goods and new stock. Customers can expect promotional prices and limited-time sales across departments.
Samuel Cala Way aged 6 years 1 month 25 days died in Carthage township Athens county Ohio on July 8 IL. He served bravely as a soldier in Company BK 74th Regiment Ohio Volunteers Infantry Funeral held July 16 at Vanderhoft cemetery conducted by Rev Tuttle of the U B church
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