Buffalo Bill's Wild West Delights Athens Crowd
Buffalo Bill's Wild West drew a large Athens audience with a parade and arena show. Col Cody led a diverse group including Rough Riders, soldiers, Indians, and international riders, with alrededor seventeen thousand estimated in attendance despite a rainstorm that drenched spectators.
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Putlalo Bill
Wild West
Athens
Corporation
Blaine
Buffalo Bil
Buffalo BA
Col
W. F. Cody
Buffalo Bill
Main
Marietta
Mainstreet
All Eyes
Colonel Cody
Anc
Thoraday
United States
San Juan Kill
Union Reform nominates Athens county ticket at nine-man convention
The Union Reform party held a county convention in the mayor’s office with nine attendees. George Snyder was chosen for commissioner Isaiah Johnson for infirmary director and J S Jolly for recorder all by acclamation. James Pratt was chairman and A Whitmore secretary with Pratt as leader of the executive committee. A district congressional convention is planned within a month and Athens county may hold a mass convention in Logan. An anti saloon picnic was announced for Glouster’s Allen’s grove on Saturday July P A Baker and Clark will address.
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Union Reform Party
Hne
Prohibition Party
Athens County
James Pratt
Fav A. Whitmore
Convention of Nine
Union Reform
Protean
George Snyder
Lodi
Isaiah Johnson
Alexander
J. $. Jolly
Hebbardsville
L.A. Whitmore
John M. Hibbard
William Gilby
J. W. Wright
Logan
Allen's Grove
Glouster
P. A. Baker and Clark
Clark
Miss Eva Norris Earns Statewide Music Praise
Miss Eva Norris, Hutchinson schools music instructor and director, will leave Hutchinson this year for a higher salary post in another Kansas town. Her departure will be keenly felt by students, patrons, and the city, as Hutchinson’s school singers earned a state reputation under her leadership.
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Eva Norris
Hutchinson
Flatchinson
Norris Ids Veel
Kansas
Miss Norris
Tutchinson
Norris
Hutchinson Daily News
Athens Mayor’s Court Deluged With Buffalo Bill Night Offenders
Police in Athens processed a busy week after Buffalo Bill’s Wild West celebration, with seventeen arrests from Monday to Saturday. Offenders from Daleton, Athens, and nearby townships faced the mayor. fines ranged from two to twenty dollars plus costs, the heaviest for William Brown who resisted officers.
New Brick Road Connects South Bridge to State Hospital Grounds
The county and state completed a thirty foot wide brick paved road from the south bridge toward the state hospital. Built at about cost with state and county funds after legislative funding by Representative Price, the project was led by engineer J. R. Sands. Paving will continue toward the hospital entrance and nearby streets may be paved next.
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Eouth
State Hospital
Athens
Representative Price
Price
J. R. Sands
Malo Street
Home Missionary Society selects delegates at ARCO event
The Woman's Home Missionary Society met Friday afternoon at Miss Etta Miles's Congress Street home ARCO. Mrs. H. C. Wheaton was chosen to represent the society at the Coolville camp meeting and Mrs. L. C. Maddox was elected delegate to the annual meeting in Portsmouth on September 25 and 26.
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Woman's Home Missionary Society
Etta Miles
Congress Street
ARCO
Pruchaiie Gee
H. C. Wheaton
Iome Society
Coolville
L. C. Maddox
Portsmouth
Church Dedication at Catriex on August 12
The new Christian church at Catriex will be dedicated Sunday August 12 with Rev Bartlett of the Ohio Christian Missionary Society in charge. Construction costs about 600 pounds. The dedication marks exactly one year since William Swaim deeded the ground to the church.
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Catriex
Hundred Days Arrests After Drunken Assault on Wife
William Bicknell brick layer was arrested Saturday night at College and Mill streets for assaulting his wife during a drunken spree. He beat and kicked her, causing a broken right arm and serious bruising, with internal injuries feared. He faced charges of obscene language disorderly conduct and assault, was jailed, then sentenced to one day in the Columbus workhouse and to pay all costs, effectively holding him for 150 days.
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William Bicknell
College
Mill Streets
Bicknell
Rose
Columbus
Death of George Hock at East End
George Hock, 47, died suddenly of heart failure at his East End home after a night of distress following a fire alarm. He left a wife and nine children. A former Orbiston resident, he had recently bought property in East End and worked in the Jothe mine on the branch, commuting by labor train.
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George Hock
East End
Mr. Hock
Statistical Report on Judgments in Athess County Divorces
Clerk McKinstry reports for July 2 to July 100 a detailed view of Athess County judicial statistics. Divorces pending 5, brought 10, decided 35 with 18 granted. Alimony awarded in four cases. Crimes against persons and property yield fines and costs totaling 442 and 597 respectively, with 183 collected. Indictments include rape one and burglary seven. prisoners in Ohio penitentiary for assault with intent to kill and burglary. Total civic judgments 165, average 97.00. Inquests 17. native born four, foreign born others. deaths from intemperance four, tubide one, accident ten, unknown or natural causes one.
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Clerk McKinstry
Common Pleas Court
A Athess
Steen
Ohio
A Match and a Horse on Washington Street
A horse owned by W S Bower bolted Sunday evening after a match was struck near I H Haning's office. The frightened animal toppled a pneumatic driving wagon, then flipped after striking a gas pipe near College Street. The horse suffered minor injuries while the vehicle sustained only slight damage.
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W.S. Bower
Washington Street
I. H. Haning
Mr. Bower
College Street
Picnic in Allens Grove Speakers at Antisaloon League event
An alday picnic and basket dinner will be held by the W C T U Als in Allen's Grove near Glouster next Saturday July 2 in coordination with the Ohio Anti Saloon League. Mr Clark Jame and Rev P A Baker will address attendees. An ad promotes wholesale directto-planter tree purchases by Co Operative Nursery Orchard Co.
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W. C.T. Als
Ant. Saloon League
Allen's Grove
Glouster
Clark
Bill Jame
Rev
P. A. Baker
Ohio Anti Saloon League
Fell From a Tree At Athletic Park Injury to Harmen
Albert Harmen a 14 year old colored boy fell from a willow tree at the athletic park Monday afternoon. He landed on rip rap and sustained painful but not serious injuries to his back and body. He was taken to the home of John Douglas for examination by Miss Finley M D and later returned to Parkersburg.
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Albert Harmen
Athletic Park
Harmen
Parkersburg
Athens
John Douglas
Finley
M.D
Harmon
Railway Contract Let In Athens County
Jerry Martin of Vinton county won the contract for B&O S-W railway road work through Athens county and sublets to Wallo Baird of Canaanville. The project covers five townships Waterloo Athens Canaan Rome and Troy and runs east to west through the county center with work to begin at once.
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Jerry Martin
Vinton County
Athens County
Wallo Baird
Canaanville
Martin
Waterloo
Athens
Canaan
Rome
Troy
B.&o
S-W
Wreans
Baird
Gardner Sentenced for Murder by Electrocution
Richard Gardner, convicted of murdering Ethel Long, had his motion for a new trial overruled. Judge Douglas sentenced him to be electrocuted on November 9, with no visible emotion shown.
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Richard Gardner
Ethel Long
Douglas
Election Board Members Reappointed in Athens County
Secretary of State Kinney reappoints Charles D. Hopkins Republican and Arthur E. BicGrath Democrat to the Athens County Board of Elections.
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Charles D. Hopkins
Arthur E. BicGrath
Athens County Board of Elections
State
Kinney
Coolville Campmeeting Opens With Noted Evangelist
The Coolville camp meeting opened Thursday with fair attendance. Rev Henry Ostrom of Greencastle Indiana led opening services with singing by John B Hibhs. Participants included Mrs A G Crouse Miss Harriet C Lamb and others. Saturday was Soldier's Day with profitable sermons by Ostrom but attendance dipped. Rail fare reductions are cited as a factor. Athens visitors listed include A J Frame J A Palmer and others.
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Coolvale
Ostrom
Athens
A. J. Frame
J. A. Palmer
A. M. Jones
Fannie Minear
Ross and
Mary
Ads
Jennie Biddle
Burglary at Davis Home During Athens Trip
Thieves entered John Davis’s residence Thursday while he and his family attended an Athens show. Jewelry, silverware, cutlery and two gold watches were stolen, totaling about 1500. Entry found when Mrs. Davis returned. doors had been left ajar and every room searched. Neighbors away on a similar trip left homes unprotected. no crew is identified.
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Wouf
Piazna
John Davis
Athens
Girl 94 Sent to Delaware Home for Incorrigibility
Anna Baker of Nelsonville faced Judge Bethel on a charge of Incorrigibility raised by her father Hiram Baker. After the hearing she was committed to the Girls' Industrist home at Delaware. The report notes she is 94 years old.
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Delaware
Anna Baker
Nelsonville
Deafness Cure Claim From Catarrh Remedy
An advertisement states deafness cannot be cured by local applications and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy. It claims nine of ten deafness cases stem from catarrh, offering one hundred dollars for a catarrh deafness case not cured by the medicine, and invites readers to request circulars.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Tnc
De Witts Witch Frazenaive Glance for Burns and Skin Disease
A brief notice promotes DeWitt's Witch Frazenaive as the original remedy for burns, lotus urtes, and skin diseases. It urges use of only DeWitt's at Civne's Harmacy and warns against counterfeits and imitations.
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DeWitt
de Witt
Civne
Niagara Falls Excursion Tickets From Ohio Central Lines
Agents will sell low rate excursion tickets to Niagara Falls and return on Thursday August 2, with departures from Charleston West Virginia Granville Columbus and other stations. Return validity twelve days. For full details see Ohio Central Lines agents. Distillation of Byrne blessing and dyspepsia cure ad text unrelated to travel offer.
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Niagara Falls
Ohio Central Lines
Charleston
W. Va
Granville
Columbus
Ghie Central Lines
Excursion to Niagara Falls by Hocking Valley Ry
On Thursday August 2 the Hocking Valley Ry will operate a cheap excursion to Niagara Falls. Round trip fare will cheer OU. Tickets valid returning within 18 days from sale. A stop off at Brockton for Lake Chautangea visitors on return. Leaflets have details. Address W D Brown on Tine street for inspection times.
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Niagara Falls
Hocking Valley Ry
Lake Chautangea
Brockton
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