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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1904
Page
4
County ballot listing Judicial ticket for Circuit Judge Thomas Cherrington and County ticket for Auditor with candidates and positions to be voted on.
City Solicitor Price says purchasers must verify the town's title and the town would deliver only a quit-claim deed. The title appears cloudy with no record beyond council minutes, prompting calls to pause the sale and secure a marketable title. Also notes Judson Harmon as a potential Democratic presidential candidate and shifting party dynamics.
County solicitors report strong demand for a new Athens County Atlas and a centennial history. The project pledges first class photographs and accuracy, with surveys and farmer consultations to ensure correct township maps at four inches to a mile. E. S. Rhodes and James Palmer lead soliciting efforts with Huffman photographing landscapes daily.
Estimates place student expenses at five dollars weekly totaling about two thousand five hundred dollars per week and eight hundred fifteen thousand dollars for six weeks plus faculty costs. Athens merchants show no store closures, remaining open until six daily. The piece notes the public dictated Roosevelt and Fairbanks nominations at Chicago months earlier.
The city of Athens faces slow post event recovery and announces postponement of Independence Day celebrations. Officials say healing will take time and primary gatherings may be rescheduled to allow the community to regain strength.
Apartment listing states a commodious eleven room dwelling at No 1 West ers street, available for rent furnished or unfurnished for one year after August, by J P McVey, with modern improvements.
Twelve hundred fifty Ohio Knights of Pythias uniform rank camped on the fair grounds, marching and playing daily. Brigadier General Minchell led regiments from Columbus Cleveland Athens Toledo and more with 50,000 Ohio Knights in view. Four bands supplied open air concerts as they showcased a highly organized, semi military presence at the World’s Fair.
Probate Judge Lynch issued marriage licenses since last Wednesday listing pairs including Carl Mail 22 of Buchtel with Ella Hill 17 of Lathrop and Charles Maki 21 with Ida Soimi 21 of Jacksonville. Other couples include Jewett Linscott 34 of Perry county with Minnie Douglas 28 of Athens county and Wm J Roberts 24 with Carrie Jeffers 22 both of Athens. Further pairs: Benjamin Lair 30 Scioto county with Bertha Davis 20 of Flee wood. Frank Galbrith 22 and Hallie Linscott 19 of Planteville. John Bettemyer 27 of Buchtel with Lizzie Brown 26 of Nelsonville. A Minton 43 with Zola Dodds 24 of Nelsonville. Okie Pickering 21 Amesville with Bessie Barnhart 21 of Glouster. James Woods 24 of Nelsonville with Jane Harkless 17 of Carondale.
The summer term attendance at the state normal college reached 532 students by yesterday afternoon. This figure excludes over twenty music students in special instruction. It marks the highest term enrollment in the university’s history.
Read notes describe old issues of The Messenger and Herald from 1846 1847 with reports on the Mexican War tariff debates Whig and Loco Foco election returns and editorials on paper costs and prospects amid scarce local news and an ad for chairs by Wm D Bartlett.
Sealed proposals are invited by the Board of Trustees of the Athens State Hospital Athens Ohio for planned construction work. Bids must follow plans descriptions and specifications on file with the Superintendent and architect Frank L Packard Columbus Ohio and be accompanied by a fifty percent certified bond. Deadline and contract terms to be determined with bid opening. right to reject any or all bids reserved. Attest E H Rorick M D Secretary June 30 15.
A vintage druggist note promotes Green's August Flower as a digestion aid. It claims improved digestion, liver regularity, stomach comfort, and prevention of constipation with trial and large bottle prices listed.
Louis Presses kici and Yargy Harris, Hungarian emigrants, were crushed by slate from a premature explosion at Continental Coal company’s mine No. 22 in Modoc. Presses kici died at his home nearby. Harris survived but cannot state the cause. Officials suspect they were blasting coal around 4 pm when the fuse burned too quickly.
Notice that at the June 11 1904 session of the Athens County Board of County Commissioners a petition signed by over thirty residents requests the organization of a village in Waterloo township. The description covers township 11 range 15 Waterloo and other parcels. The petition sets the number of inhabitants and names Marshfield as the village and Edwin D Sayre as agent for petitioners. Hearing is set for August 13 1904 at 1 pm in the Auditor's office in Athens Ohio.
The Chicago Glee Club presented a highly praised program Tuesday evening at the college auditorium. The ensemble, reputed as one of the nation's finest, received enthusiastic ovations for pieces including Remember Thy Creator and Ole King Cole, with a final encore of I'm a Pilgrim. Miss Elma B. Smith will assist the club on July 4. The chart is now open at Cline's.
Ohio visitors to the World’s Fair are advised to take westbound direct cars to the southeast entrance near the Ohio building. There the Ohio Commissioners to the Exposition offer registration, parcel check, rest rooms, telephones, an Information Bureau, and mail delivery via care of the Ohio building. An Information Clerk at the building can provide details on lodging, hotel rates, and locations.
Administrator announces sale by public auction to highest bidder from June 2 to June 30 under order of the Probate Court of Athens County Ohio. A. E. Price, attorney, to conduct the sale.
The Probate Judge of Athens County Ohio lists accounts filed and suspended for exception with a final date of Saturday July 9 1904 at 10 o clock a m. Names include James Terril executor of Catherine Terril Isaac Fierce estate. Mary J Snyder guardian Samuel McClelland. M Rossetter administrator James Clark. America L G Phillips guardian Howard L Goodwin. Eleanor G Adair executrix Martha Patterson. George S Totman executor Isaac Totman. M Park Jacob Amesser. A W Lyne judge. June 23 13.
A quip notes that many men stay free simply because their presence goes undetected, suggesting clever evasion rather than reform as a social observation. The line plays on detection, accountability, and the gap between appearance and reality.
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