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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1905
Page
4
The Messenger and Herald Printing Co lists subscription rates. One year costs 96 pounds if paid in advance within the county and 99 pounds outside the county. Editor and manager is W BUSH.
Charley Faires of Glouster visited friends here and enjoyed a rabbit hunt. Len McDonald and wife were Athens visitors Friday. Wellington Clifford and family stayed with grandmother Mrs. Sarah J. Stewart Sunday. Orson Lewis and wife visiting relatives at Marshfield and Nelsonville this week. Fred Laughlin and wife of Sugar Creek visited Eli and Lon Spaulding Sunday. Protracted meeting closed at the M. E. church last Tuesday evening with about fifteen accessions. Will Shay and Edward Henderson spent Sunday at Chauncey. Mrs. Dixon Linscott and daughter Hazel of Chauncey visit Alec McHarter. Misses Vina and Mary Bennett left for Monmouth Illinois to seek their future home.
Community items from Pike Valley include church lectures in Athens, a Thanksgiving Eve Epworth League fundraiser, and family visits. The Athens County Court lists an order of sale for multiple parcels in Hockingport and Troy township, with detailed lots, acreage, appraisals, and a three installment payment plan.
The M. E. Church announces services next Sunday with preaching at 10 30 a m and 7 p m by Dr W L Stutz. Sunday School at 4 m and Epworth League at 6 p m. O A minstrels rehearse for a performance next week in the opera house. A tally hooad of students who are intimate friends of J O Wright attended Mrs Wright’s funeral in Albany Saturday morning.
Fire destroyed the oil house used for storing lubricant at the Ath ens Brick company early Friday. The structure stood near the factory but did not threaten main buildings. It contained only a few barrels and the cause is unknown. The fire department did not respond due to lack of wagon access. loss described as small.
The War den and Chayglain recommend D Elmer Jones for parole consideration. The application will be heard on and after December 14 1905 at the Ohio Penitentiary with the Board of Prison Visiting as the approving authority.
Albert Jones, a law student at Harvard University, is confined to his room with a sprained knee after a wrestling incident. No further details are provided in the clipping.
Ohio University trustees plan a December 15 meeting at the Southern Hotel in Columbus to chart a united stance before the upcoming legislature. They aim to decide on financial policy and present a cohesive program, noting past discord but seeking harmony for the college’s best interests.
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