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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1899
Page
8
Torchville notices recounts visits moving plans and entertainment. Local folks including Hayes of Frost, Griffins, Hanis sisters, Dunfee, Vanhern, Summers, and many riders and visitors are listed with brief travels, visits, and friendly calls around Torchville, Parkersburg, Athens, and surrounding towns. Community items note school events, elocution at the schoolhouse, a local concert by The Blind Trio, and upcoming Farmers Institute.
Loyd Jones moved to his farm in Meigs county on Tuesday. Misa Lucy Jack of Albany visits her sister Mrs Frank Moore. O G Tinker of Pleasant City calls on friends here. Misses Lucy and Maud King of Plantaville visit B V King and wife. C M Henry remodels a house for Samuel Stanton of Albany. Mr and Mrs E A Smith spend days at Nelsonville with daughter Mrs W D Robison. M M DeWees and wife return home from summer travels. John Phillips of Albany moves his family to the Methodist parsonage. An oyster supper by M E Church ladies at Mrs P J Beasley's home Thanksgiving Eve to fund church interior work. Mrs Ida Smith, wife of Hiram Smith, dies Sunday from consumption. funeral Tuesday at MBE church conducted by Rev Haas. Ad for DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve from Cline’s Pharmacy.
A November 11 birth, a baby girl for H B e Co and F L Preston to John Stant and wife. Community updates show residents moving to Frost, Stella Burch sewing for Mrs H BE Stent Lewis Kyle's kitchen addition, and Miss Mollie Bishop starting a five month term of school at Jasper Bull. Obituary brief notes Willie Warner, son of Joseph and Kate Warner, dies of membranous croup. remains laid to rest in Catholic cemetery with community sympathy. Various visits, illnesses, and social calls across Van Wert area, plus a clover haying note discussing field methods and haying precautions for proper storage.
ATHENS OHIO THINGLE Wm ANDREWS was on our streets Miss Tinsle Wolf visited at Jey over Sunday Mrs W B Johnson was shopping in Athena Monday HA CG Heald has commenced a t school at Tallister 8 7 Danford was in Columbus bu siness Saturday Miss Kina Daugherty visited at Burr Oak Saturday Alex Beatie of Nelsonville was a business visitor here Tuesday Wm Palmer of Glouster is busy locating a mine on Congress Run G W Johnson and wife are the possessors of a ten pound girl baby G G Patres of Joy was here Tuesday and to the query what now A boy at our House was his reply Marietta parties are here examining the brick plant with a view of building one like it at Marietta ba.
Margaret Allston argues Boston’s character stems from its democratic culture not aristocracy. The first symphony rehearsal drew a fashionable yet nonfashionable crowd, revealing a mass of women pervasive across Massachusetts and illustrating emancipation principles from attire to stride.
A woman inventor known for creating satchel bottom paper bags was offered $90,000 for her patent while in Washington. The offer aimed to secure rights before she could depart the capital.
The Siberian Latest News reports Russian tea caravans moving thousands of tons from Ching Ang through Siberia and Russia. In January Tomsk saw 79,000 slaghs pass, with caravans ranging from 15 to 309 sleighs and five-bale loads. Each group ferries hay and oats for horses, with crews sleeping on the sledges as horses are swapped for feed in village halts. The convoy travels day and night, halting only to replace tired horses and feed the beasts.
Public auction ordered by the Court of Common Pleas of Athens County Ohio to sell described real estate in the village of Athens. Sale at the front door of the courthouse on December 16, 1890, at 1 p.m. to satisfy a mortgage claim of three thousand five hundred dollars with in hand payment required. Parties include C H Cheyney executor and Samuel Pickering executor.
Public auction to sell multiple Athens County Ohio properties under an alias order of sale from the Court of Common Pleas. Describes parcels in Canaan Township including Section 25 bounded by Lovina Love and Hugh Sheridan lines, plus a village lot in Athens. Includes tract appraisals and references to prior deeds and dower interests.
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