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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1897
Page
8
The column chronicles social visits and family news in Bendable Stigde including Mrs Hodney Goddard visiting relatives, Florence Wan visiting, and Miss Stella Prast completing a school term. It notes new arrivals, birthdays, and community events plus weather and wheat market updates.
Albany notices report Mrs. Howers serious this week and Roush of Gloucester visiting relatives. Several illnesses and deaths are listed, including malarial fever cases, a funeral at the Toles grave, and Mrs. Winget returning to Iowa. Postmaster J.B. Dudes takes charge, and a timber accident injures a man on Carl Stanly’s farm. A horse incident injures Mrs. Beckley. Lucile Smith, 16 months, sustains arm injuries. Mount Pleasant items note rain damage on crops and a sniper incident near Guy day night.
A garbled text block from New England mentions Wallington country a typhoid fever case and various individuals including Jacob Stopher and Susie Jarvis. Pronounced garble and misspellings obscure facts but reference travel illness education and rain impact in a single unsettled item.
Miota King visited sister G Stanton in May Huftuian and grandchildren at Zion. John Slate held a crowded public sale on Saturday. Misses Wherry returned home to Me Commelaville after weeks away. K W Dietts and family travel in Catarrall and Jefferson counties with Jennie McLane’s aid. Lillian Diverten injured by a hit and run incident near Athens. A heavy Sunday rainstorm caused car damage along the stream. Antony Douden of Whester Hill died from long illness tied to a local dry goods firm. friends express sorrow.
Visitors and residents from Athens and nearby towns are listed enjoying Sundays at relatives in Isheg and Mams Anvell of the state hospital. Farm damage from heavy rains worries farmers as other townfolk recall illnesses and recoveries. A Michiganturned teacher and several local residents share visits, while travel ads offer a Niagara Falls excursion via Lake Chatauqua with return by August 3.
At the annual meeting in Washington William J. Wilson of Philadelphia was elected president for the ensuing year. Secretary Maynard read a copy of the first telegrams west of the Alleghany mountains. The message from Adjt Gen Bowman to President Toll notes Bowman organizing the Second Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers in Pittsburgh on December 20, 1846.
OCR read contains scattered items: bullets from Genin expedition affecting firearm reliability, a travel fare notice for a convention in Indianapolis in May, and details on return trips for a National League Wheehren meeting. Also references to a Queen Vienna memorandus and a Kansas to Indiana hardware transport anecdote.
Public auction scheduled for Saturday the 24th of July 1897 at ten o'clock in the forenoon. The sale, by sheriff M. Riley, includes personal property such as crops and household goods with cash in hand.
A legal notice outlines a land sale by the sheriff with terms cash in hand and describes parcels in Athens county Ohio. It details tracts from the East Clayton Clay Manufacturing Company to investors, with specifics on boundaries, measurements, and mining rights, plus reservations for timber and minerals.
Trustees of the Athens State Hospital invite sealed proposals August 9 1897 for heated direct and indirect systems and warm air ventilation across buildings at Athens State Hospital Institute. Bidders must provide bid with bond 5 percent and submit on specified forms.
A sheriff sale is set under an order of sale by the county court to liquidate extensive tracts of land. The properties include multiple sections and parcels described along Hocking River and rail lines, with hundreds of acres, rights of way, and embedded mineral rights, to be offered for cash in hand.
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