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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1895
Page
4
Advertising rates reflect threefold circulation claims and cover display and reading notices. The page lists rates for one column and half to full columns, with durations from one month to one year, plus discounts for multi month contracts. Local notices include obituaries, legal notices, events, and society news from Athens and surrounding towns.
Eben Coe and relatives are at the center of a brutal case on Strouds Run near Athens. The 70 year old is charged with assault on his daughter Eunice Everett and with involvement in the death of Hattie Coe, the teen’s illegitimate child, after a pattern of alleged abuse. Meningitis from head injuries is cited as the cause of death pending coroner inquest.
Beta Theta Pi held a Cincinnati reunion and dinner last Friday to honor the fraternity’s three living founders. Local members traveled to Oxford and Cincinnati for toasts, a founder’s dinner at Burnet House, and a district convention. Ohio University alumni were well represented and the event ended with strong loyalty pledges.
The Ohio Weather and Crop Service notes cold dry weather with heavy frost early in the week, followed by cloudy warm conditions and light weekend showers. Frosts damaged grapes and corn, potatoes froze to the ground, and gardens fruit and wheat oats suffer in low places. Wheat heads short, Hessian fly injures crops, corn being replanted, cut worms damage clover and vegetables, meadows poor, strawberries small yield, apples ok, barley frost affected.
Public fountain arrival last week is bronze with a statue of Hebe. Dedicatory exercises at city hall today at 9 include Rev Dr Powell address Miss Ryan solo Miss Pilcher poem Miss Kurtz fountain history. Fountain to be presented by Mrs Boughton. Mayor Wilson and Prosecutor J P Wood to accept for city and county. Invitation extended to all. Ohio State University 25th anniversary celebration set for June 11 at 2 pm on campus Columbus speakers include Warren Noble Edward Orton Henry Snyder James E Campbell Oscar T Carson and Charles F Thwing.
James W. Lusk by Grosvenor Jones Worstell sues Columbus Hocking Valley Toledo Bay Co. for 5000 dollars claiming injuries from a fall on December 2 near Salina while alighting from a Nelsonville Salina train due to no depot light and no railing. Lusk seeks damages for alleged negligence. Also a local testimonial cites Chamberlain's Pain Balm for rheumatism with sale by W. H. McKee.
The Athens high school marks its thirty seventh annual commencement in City Hall on Thursday evening June 6. The program features orations, music, orchestras and invocations by Rev D Y Murpocr, with students Delilah Dean Marion Norton Lefavor Amanda Karns Charlotte E Kaler Mable Zoek Wilson delivering orations such as A Calm Sea never pleads a Skillful Mariner and Tyranny of Facts. The event highlights include Our Nation or Lord anthem and a chorus featuring Houtman Row, with Greibel and Gram mar as instructors.
The article extols Syrup of Figs as a strengthening laxative superior to all others, praising its value to the world by illustrating improvements in the mechanical arts and noting that eminent physicians acknowledge the progress in medicinal agents as equally important.
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