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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1895
Page
5
The MESSENGER AND HERALD prints fixed advertising rates for display and notices. Rates cover one column to one column year, months, and quarters with discounts for longer runs. The issue lists numerous brief society items, travel, weddings, and community notes from Athens and surrounding areas, including visits, appointments, and local events.
Phi Delta Theta dominated Delta Tau Delta in a campus ball game noted for its humor and colorful antics. Star players McCune Mascot Caldwell and Deiterich featured, while referees Drs. Scott and Shepard supervised the hospital corps. The score showed Phi Delta Theta ahead with a dramatic finish amid lively crowd chatter and a postgame court docket lingering on campus.
Real estate transfers listed for Athens Village Ames Township Carteage Dover Lodi Rome and Glouster plus Trimble parcels involve multiple buyers and sellers with acreages and consideration. Note: Goshen teacher Miss Lillian E Michael travels to Athens Ohio for summer. local praise from Goshen Daily News.
The council added one mill to municipal levies, bringing the total to ten mills per dollar of assessed property. Distribution includes General fund one half mill, bond interest five and a half, police four tenths, street light two and four tenths, sanitary two tenths, and street fund one mill. A recent Gloucester item noted a memorial sermon at the Christian church by Rev. Lucas, with a vocal solo by Miss Jessie Falloon of Athens.
An old advertisement promotes a 1.00 round trip rail excursion to Buckeye Park, 25 miles south of Columbus, with music by Mechanics Band of Lancaster and a day of picnicking in Ohio. It also notes low prices on groceries and oil, plus additional ticket offers to Sandusky via Ohio Central Lines and other sales from F. Stanper & Co and P. H. Hysennu, with brief product pitches.
Thomas Martin, set to graduate from Ohio University this spring, will teach mathematics here during the summer term, bringing fresh academic expertise to the program.
An old advert claims Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh as a constitutional disease and offers a $100 reward if it fails. The notice promotes testimonials from J. Cueney & Co of Toledo and mentions retailers selling Chamberlain's cough remedies for croup and whooping cough with assurances of relief and satisfaction from Kennedy and W. H. McKee in Duquesne, Pa.
A Union Camp Meeting will be held at Park's Grove in Cutler starting June 22 and continuing over two Sundays. The event is announced in local notices with emphasis on community gathering and religious services.
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