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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1904
Page
4
The slate names L. Laylin of Huron and Vic Zan re for Secretary of State and William T. Speak of Trumbull for Supreme Court with Lawson E. Emerson of Belmont for Clerk of the Supreme Court.
A collection of brief society and business items mentions visits by Gladys Wheeler, Miss Blanche Barries, Nellie Curtis, and Lucile Curtis among others. Attendants include Mrs. P. Smith, Mrs. Lucy Adair, and Mrs. J. Snedeker. A drilling machine sale occurred under Squire Keirns, with M. N. 8 as purchaser at 150 dollars.
John Butter reports he was robbed of $6.50 and a pair of socks during a jamboree at Sugar Creek shaft. Harry Haynes and Earl Bryan were arrested. Bryan released after no evidence. Haynes bound over to the grand jury on $300 bond and jailed for failure to post. Butter alleges Haynes helped himself while Butter was intoxicated and stole the socks after taking his shoes.
Commencement week events announce the summer session opening June 20 at Ohio University in Athens. Rev George Walton King will preach the annual sermon at 10:30 Sunday morning in the university auditorium and a 7:40 Sunday evening service will follow. About 500 students are expected, requiring lodging and meals. locals urged to host and charge reasonable rates to support the university and community.
The Ohio Central Lines and the L and M S Ry offer low rate excursion tickets for delegates to Chicago for the Republican National Convention. Tickets go on sale June 16 to 20 and are valid for return until June 29, 1904.
For a century Witch Hazel has been a key remedy and DeWitt & Co of Chicago combined it with antiseptics into a salve. DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve is promoted as best for sores cuts burns bruises and piles. Counterfeits appear. buyers urged to seek the DeWitt name on packages and avoid others. Sold by Cline's Pharmacy.
A Toronto Mail essay classifies noses by temperament not origin. It assigns traits to each type: the aquiline signals goodness and weakness, a small nose hints at gullibility, a long middle nose shows insatiable desires, the ferret nose marks inquisitiveness, the devil may care nose lacks firmness, and a prominent nose rising from the orbits marks a thinker.
Sir Hermann Weber supported the idea that mental work preserves life. The London Chronicle cites examples from Sophocles to Kelvin and notes brain activity increases blood flow and nourishment to nerve cells. Mosse's experiment showed head weight rose with mental effort, while claiming brain work never killed anyone.
A London writer defends the British coinage as bone of our bone noting 240 pence per pound and 240 bones in the body with parallelities such as 12 ribs per side and 12 pence per shilling. He argues the proportions reflect nature and keep commerce vigorous.
Athens hosts Prof. Galvani the hypnotist and mind reader during Homecoming week. He has frightened neighboring cities with high class art and will be one of the chief attractions, with Manager Slaughter praised for securing him. His performances are described as marvelous.
Fred Harris born August 22 1887 died May 30 1904 at 16 with a short, full life spent at home and in boyish sports. The Union M P church funeral was led by Pastor T W Ireland and Rev A E Black before a large crowd of sorrowing friends and relatives. May heaven comfort the bereaved.
Orrin Chappel died Monday at his home in Alexander township after a prolonged illness of paralysis at age 68. A former resident near Clark's Chapel, he had lived in Alexander township for a short time. Funeral services were held yesterday at 11 o'clock at Clark's Chapel with interment there.
Fresh testimony pours in praising Dr Kings New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds as unequaled. A Virginia man claims three years of bronchitis ended after using the remedy. It is said to cure lung and throat troubles pneumonia and grip with trial bottles free and standard sizes priced at fifty cents and one dollar.
420 acres of good fresh land in Scipio township Meigs county Ohio offered by J M Wood Athens Ohio. Splendid stock farm well watered fair improvements plenty of fruit timber good neighborhood five miles from Albany nearest railroad station. Will sell as a whole or in tracts on reasonable terms. May 26 14.
Tickets from all stations to Tiffin Ohio sold June 13 14 and 15 by the M C C to one cent per mile plus 25c for the round trip. Tickets good returning to June 18 and may extend to leave Tiffin by June 20. Contact any agent or P M Seymour G P A Marietta Ohio for information. Perry Davis Painkiller advertised with directions and claims of relief from many bowels complaints.
In the District Court of the United States Eastern Division of Ohio William Dusz files a bankruptcy petition seeking discharge of debts. A hearing is set for June 10, 1904 at 9:00 a.m. before Judge Albert C. Thompson in Columbus Ohio to show cause why the discharge should not be granted. Creditors and interested parties urged to appear. Attorney IL Foster represents the petitioner.
Tamar A Worthing sues Samuel Worthing in Athens County Court Common Pleas and an order of sale in partition directs a public auction at the court house front step in Athens Ohio. Property lies in Rome Township New England lets 85 and 37 appraised at 425 dollars with cash due on sale day. Sheriff A Murphy handles the sale. June 2 to 30 noted.
A zoological note ranks animal strikes by power, placing the lion’s paw stroke as the third strongest force after a whale tail blow and a giraffe kick.
Probate Court of Athens County Ohio orders public auction of 30 acre northwest quarter of the southwest quarter in section 6 town 5 range 12 with ten acres carved off, located two miles south of Frost Carthage township. Property appraised at $435. Sale at two o clock p m terms per administrator Dye represented by A. E. Price attorney.
The fragment notes polishing with emery powder in a large revolving drain and observes few opponents in Japan due to revered elders. It mentions no parents or children visiting and general protectors being dead or disabled.
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