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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Nov 16, 1899

Page

5

Athens County Social Notes Round Up In Columbus To Marietta

Numerous Athens residents travel for business and family visits with many guests in Columbus Marietta Athens and Corning. Names include Kurtz Ryan Douth Beck Grosvenor Chappelear Beav erage and McCaughey with movements to Cincinnati Columbus Corning and Marietta over the past week. A birthday party for Clyde Beverage and medical notes on workers mark the social ledger.

Jp Brown Cincinnati George Kurtz Columbus H.G Stalder EL Mclfee Grienia Lane Ryan Mes Frost Marietta H H. Wickham Gibson Amesville Atheny Koon Corning J. P Word Aviess Whde Lagan JM. McCaughey New Leswyton AJ Leonard Millfield Witens MigsTda Douth Maretta James Hughes Jennie Kurtz C L Kurtz C H. Grosvenor Mss. Grosvenor Henne Chappelear B. Chappelear Nona Southerton Lucile Beck Delaware Charles Millikan Harriett Tenan Burgettstown C S McDougall G. M. Hickle Lancaster Bickle Eliza Lupton Pennnville Indiana Ida Douih C. A. Nestinger Martinsville M. Jewett Henry Crippen Ba Deth Westerville Dalrymple Marie T.G Biddison Gallipolis Hospital

College Mates at OU with varied campus updates

Hebbardaville resident F C Moner and P G Drake from Fisher join OU Alonday as students in the business department. Prof Milliman organizes gymnasium work with new basketball equipment and several hopefuls. Prof Higley gives his final lecture in a ceilment course to a large audience. OU’s physical laboratory opens with ten classes this week and is among the area’s most modern. The football season ends with OU defeating Nelsonville 45 to 0 in a waterlogged game. The Athenian Literary Society adopts a blue and gold pin bearing the initials A L S S, signaling an active campus life this term.

F.C. Moner Hebbardaville P. G. Drake Fisher O. U Alonday Milliman Nelsonville Athenian Literary Society

Wao mans Christ in Temperance Union to Meet

The Ladies Womans Christ in Temperance Union will hold a meeting in the A B C church lecture room on Tuesday November 21 at 2 20 pm. The program centers on franchise with devotional exercises led by Mrs Snow and remarks by the pastor on Julia Ward Howe followed by Mrs Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic. Mrs DeSteigart will discuss Equal Suffrage with a duet by Mrs Milkin and Mrs Ada Kurtz and remarks on Current Events by the secretary Electra Hibbard. All invited and special invite to Equal Suffrage Club.

Waomans Christ In Temperance Union A. EB Mrac Snow Julia Ward Howe DeSteiganr Milkin Ada Kurtz Electra Hibbard All Equal Suffrage Club

Grosvenor to Lecture on Election Methods at Athens Opera

Gen H Grosvenor will lecture at the Athens opera house Tuesday evening on election methods as practiced today. He will focus on the methods of Rev Wilbur F Crafts who is currently active in politics as alleged preliminary wars in intending legislation on moral subjects. Admission free.

H. Grosvenor Athens Opera House Wilbur F. Crafts

Marriage License Record Fragments From Several Couples

Elmer Clemens of Floodwood wed Mary E Pratt of Mineral in a ceremony officiated by Rev FY Fuller. Clarence McGrew of Bartlett married Huby Davis of Latrobe with Rev G W King presiding. Allen W Ray and Mary Hand both of Nelsonville are listed as a couple.

Elmer Clemens Floodwood Mary E. Pratt Mineral Daniel Scott East Clayton Mre Breda

Mr Hickle Retires From Hickle-Kesinger Company

Mr George Hickle of the Hickle Kesinger Company disposed of his interest to Mr Fred Paeston and will retire to recuperate his health which has been precarious for weeks. He has won many friends by his gentlemanly bearing and courteous treatment and his retirement is learned with regret.

Nash Frederick N. Sinks Columbus Inks Fred Preston G.I. Cable Fostora St. Louis George Hickle Hickle-Kesinger Company Fred Paeston Hickle

Abandoned Curley Place Burns Away on Farm

A vacant farmhouse known as the Curley place on the Bower Bros. farm south of town caught fire Saturday night and burned to the ground. The blaze destroyed several thousand feet of lumber inside while no other losses were reported, leaving an old local landmark in ashes.

Curley Place Bower Bros

Comedy hits and church plans brighten Athens program

Tim Murphy headlines The Carpetbagger at the opera house with Dorothy Sherrod and A Lipman. Also upcoming events include the Lpworth Lecture Course shift to December 3, a Presbyterian Church fund-raising evening on November 24, and Charley’s Aunt followed by The Girl from Chili a Tuesday night engagement. Professor Higley to speak on civil government at the old Chapel on November 21.

Tim Murphy Texas Tanocense Brillant Funds Ope Reed Frank §. Pisley Chicago Carpetbagger Jim Murphy Dorothy Sherrod A . Lipman Opera House Dlss Showpson and Armstrong Athens B. O Higley Kindley Old Chaple Judicial Department

Not Called For In Athens Post Office Letters

A list of letters remaining in the Athens post office as of November 15 1509 shows many names including Adley Mina Smith Wath Brown Leroy Salientem C frown Olre Sholden Mary Berthil Albert Spears Charles Burge Bessie Slæet Earl AN Draper Dalton Sreya Dunkin M C Shoemaker iM Fisk 3 WwW Stotler John Gillam A R Silvers Tam Hawk Flossie Vernon Abnes Hooper Mrs F C Williams Elijah Hayden Charles Willams Waldo Haukerford John Williams Maggie Trwim Sam Warwick Rebecca Ridenaur Geo Versens calling for the above letters will please say they were advertised. e¢ D Git P M

Athens Adley Mina TL Smith Wath Brown Leroy Salientem Olre Sholden Mary Berthil Albert Spears Charles Burge Bessie Slaeet Earl AN. Draper Dalton Sreya Dunkin M C. Shoemaker Im Fisk Stotler John Gillam A R Silvers Tam

Prof McVey to Wed at Huntington home

The department of music professor W McVey of Ohio University will wed Miss Virginia Hogg of Huntington West Virginia next Monday the 20th instant. Both are well known socially and friends extend congratulations.

Zion Baptist church entertainment at Hall's hall Friday

The Zion Baptist church will host an entertainment on Friday at Hall's Hall on Dean Avenue. Ice cream cake chicken peanuts candy bananas and more will be served. Sale notice lists an eight room house with large barn broken outbuildings garden well and cellar for 3300. For particulars contact Dr F N Pilcher Guysville Ohio.

the Zion Baptist Church Hall's Hall Dean Avenue Letail F N Pilcher Guys Ville Ohio

DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve Cited As Best for Piles

Lawrence, Ohio man Geo Noland from Rockland praises DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve claiming it cured his wife’s piles after forty years. He calls it the best salve in America and says it heals every skin ailment. Cline’s Pharmacy Clothing is listed among Nelson’s Big Four stores.

Geo. Noland Rockland DeWitt America Cline

Earnings Of Playwrights And One Minute Touch Cure

Dramatists of renown write plays by order with prepayments of 500 dollars on delivery and another 500 on completion. If the manager does not stage the work the money is forfeited and ownership reverts. If produced, authors receive a percentage of gross receipts, usually five percent, rising with totals. Several plays earned substantial sums for authors. Also an endorsement for One Minute Touch Cure claims rapid asthma relief for the wife, with cautions about cures.

Franklin Fyles Theater Ladies Home Journal

Criminality of Animals Revealed In Forest and Stream

A Forest and Stream writer argues that lower animals show criminal tendencies. He lists 18 offenses attributed to birds beasts or reptiles, including murder parricide fratricide self harm theft kidnapping highway robbery polygamy and drunkenness.

Forest and Stream

Inventor Proposes Offshore Cable to Save Stranded Vessels

An inventor suggests stretching a wire cable from Cape Hatteras to Sandy Hook, anchored at intervals offshore to reach endangered ships. The device would catch the craft if it drifts toward the rope and hold it safely, preventing beaching.

Cape Watteras Sandy

Mrs Bolin Dead After Lingering Illness in Camp Wo

Mrs William Bolin dies at home in Camp Wo after twenty one weeks of severe illness. She is forty three. Funeral services were held in the Christian church Saturday at one o'clock, Rev Roush presiding. Interment in the old cemetery. History Club to meet at Mrs Lewis home Saturday afternoon at p.m.

William Bolin Camp Wo Christian Church Roush History Club

Important Difference Promotes Cleansing with Syrup of Figs

An editor endorses cleansing the system to cure ill feelings, promoting Syrup of Figs by the California Fig Syrup Co. as a remedy available through druggists. A claim extols One Minute Cough Cure for croup and throat lung troubles, with Cline's Pharmacy listed.

California Fig Syrup Co D Bridges Democrat Lancaster N. A Cline

No-To-Anything Patent Remedy Ad Promotes Strength

An old advertisement proclaims Tabeces fight and Raseke Your Tite Arey as a cure to quit taheecs easily and forever. It touts magnetic vigor and nerve, urging use of No-To- Bias from Sterling Remedy Co. Ads claim strengthening effects for weak men and offer a free booklet and sample.

Sterling Remedy Co Chicago New York

DeWite’s Witch Hazel Salve Endorsed by Rhodes

Thos. B. Rhodes of Centerfield writes he wouldn’t be without DeWite's Witch Hazel Salve for piles cuts burns and skin diseases. Warns against counterfeits sold by Cline's Pharmacy.

DeWite Thos. B. Rhodes Centerfield Cline

DeWitt's Little Early Risers and Casearets Ad

An old time ad touts DeWitt's Little Early Risers for constipation and liver health. It promotes Cancoreta and Casearets beauty pills, claiming blood cleansing and skin benefits with low price points in a pharmacy circular style.

DeWitt Cline

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