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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1886
Page
4
Public notices and society items from Athens region including a serial tease Beauty's Secret, college lecture, gas boring trial in Nelsonville, Athens High School commencement June 4, and local civic notes. Nearby updates include Memorial Day plans, car stock additions, railroad traffic, and court term start with civil and criminal docket details.
An English lady residing in Cleveland offers to teach French German and music in Athens during the summer months. Potential pupils are sought and terms details can be obtained by contacting Miss Emma Dana at 130 Bolivar Street Cleveland Ohio.
Ohio State University Professor Tuttle will speak in the college chapel this Thursday evening May 20 in a free event. The professor is described as fluent instructive and entertaining and organizers hope for a large audience.
The Young People’s Christian Association invites the public to a special programme of exercises at their room next Sunday afternoon at 3 30 to celebrate their second birthday. Attendees are urged to bring a camp chair to ensure seating.
Cordon of hills surrounding Athens acts as safeguard against visitations of cyclones that have caused heavy damage in less favored towns and villages of the State within the past week.
An ad invites readers to mail 16 cents in stamps to the Joseph Dixon Crucible Co. in Jersey City for pencil samples, promising pencils worth twice the amount. In Athens County the fifteen remaining assessors finally filed their reports with the Auditor after the legal extension expired last Monday.
A deadly tornado struck Carpenter's Station near Albany in Meigs County late last Wednesday, destroying homes and injuring several residents. Mrs. Margaret McConias and her grandson were killed, with Lizzie McConias seriously injured. Other damaged properties include the Wilcox and Jackson houses, a warehouse, and the depot. Community notices detail a grand ball by the Athens Commandery Knights Templar on June 30 with arranged committees and invitations.
Local notices describe showers at East Wing on short notice and social notes from the college. Mentions Miss Addie C. Coe and Prof. Tuttle with lectures, along with various campus visits and fraternity activities. A piece critiques a Republican Central Committee meeting as lacking public notice and questions leadership.
M P Murphy operates the Cigar Emporium opposite the Court House offering all brands of chewing tobacco. He buys direct from manufacturers in large quantities to undersell smaller dealers and invites customers to call.
Elias Graham's store opposite the Warren House shows frequent invoicing and steady restocking as prices remain consistently low. The busy shop maintains activity with daily arrivals and rapid turnover, reflecting its popular status in the district.
The notice promotes Murphy's tobacco shop with an extensive pipe tobacco stock and attractive prices. It also advertises a rental house with terms available at the issuing office.
The text notes a recurring event every two weeks during the season tied to a tariff time. It references the present administration and a payment of 15, Mb. A. S. Com, Marreenville, dated May 4, 1586.
The notice announces Henry Nelson's store at Athens offering the largest stock of mens, boys, children, ladies and misses goods. It highlights D Zenner & Co receiving a new spring invoice and promotes the best cheapest shoes in Athens. An extra bargain offers rifle thread boxes at 25 cents per pair from Dr Zenner & Co.
Basam has received an elegant line of gents and boys new style straw and manintosh hats in choice shapes at Zenner & Co's.
May 6 1886 notice for W H Conkelin advertising a full florist business near the depot. He offers flowers of all kinds cheap plant and arrange yards cemetery lots and lawns and all florist work. Also teems of the finest French satin fabrics and other supplies advertised in a local notice.
Slogan recalls Castoria use across life stages from infancy to motherhood. The ad highlights Castoria as a remedy for a crying child and as a comforting product for mothers and their children across generations.
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