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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1905
Page
3
A speaker appeals to Athens citizens to back the proposed inter urban railroad project. He frames it as a duty to city and country, arguing railroads, free schools, press, speech, and religious liberty drive progress, employment, and prosperity for future generations.
Mayor Henry Logan of Athens requests Col Boone speak at the Athens meeting on June 15. John Bane of Detroit praises Boone’s railroadPromoter leadership, outlines Route changes, Meigs Creek Valley advantages, and project benefits for Zanesville Belpre Athens and the industrial triangle.
NELGONVILLE updates list visitors and travel in from Columbus Athens Jackson and Lancaster. Roads host Mrs. Tom Williams and two children en route to Athens for Mr Williams illness under Dr Lee care. Birth to Thomas Russell on Saturday June 18. Marriage near Lancaster set for Thursday at Franklin Street home.
Ohio General Assembly proposes Article XVII changes to standardize term lengths for state officers and judges and to fix election timing. The plan sets elections on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in even years for state offices and odd years for other offices, with varied fixed term lengths up to six years and four years. It provides vacancy rules and succession, submitted to electors on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November 1905.
Miss Edith Barrows returns home after a pleasant visit to Frost. Mr Liszie Robinson and daughter Ruth of Albany visit relatives here. Mrs John Robinson and children of Nelsonville spend the week with Mrs Robinson's parents, Mr and Mrs Hoisington. Mire. Ollie Wingett and children visit Wood Yard. Newsom Brooks' ambulance took Mr Wingett to the Athens depot for a ride to Columbus hospital for rheumatism treatment. He is accompanied by his son A Wingett of Town House. A linen gown belt in white linen embroidered with pale blue wheat-toned threads described as very pretty.
An advertisement extols a blood purifying tonic claimed to cure all humors and eruptions. It promises radical, permanent cures and renewed energy, building up the entire system.
Readable text notes an ice cream night at Bassett Church on Saturday to benefit the church. The fragment mentions civic or community fundraising but provides no further details.
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