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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1903
Page
6
The 6th to 14th district Democrats renominated Mayor Hugh Gormley of Gloucester for state senate. The convention debated candidates but settled on Gormley despite criticism of his free trade stance and alleged tendency to avoid paying debts.
The speaker argues that under a single tax plan land should bear all tax burdens while improvements, including large estates, are ignored. He claims inflated valuations and reports to assessors enable evasion, urging voters to back Johnson for governor to implement land tax across farms big and small.
In 1882 Xenia Ohio invested 40000 in an electric light plant and operated it fourteen years before selling for 2500. The city bore high costs 105 per lamp per year and later paid 63 per lamp under private contract. Total excess cost reached 90220, implying taxpayers would have been nearly 90000 better off without municipal ownership.
At Marietta a Democratic convention nominated Mayor Hugh Gormley of Glouster for state senator by acclamation. Delegates returned crestfallen, believing the selection weak. The ticket honors were filled by E. L. Lawrence, P. Hyde chaired, and Curtis V. Harris served as secretary with an all-male slate for the senatorial committee.
Our townsmith notes Rev James R Conner A M has been conferred the Doctor of Divinity by Nashville College Tennessee. The institution is noted for its flourishing law literature business normal and medical programs and trains students by correspondence. The honor, unsought, honors a man regarded as a leading theologian and biblical scholar in Athens.
Banks clamour for a portion of Secretary Shaw's forty million treasury pot. Some institutions expect profit, while others fear being left out, forcing them to seek gains by improving the secretary of the treasury's life.
Athens citizens have filed one hundred seventy licenses raising $354. About twelve to fifteen private vehicles remain unlicensed, mostly cooperative residents. Warren Bros. and Bower Bros. initially resisted the double tax but plan to pay promptly.
The Athens township QC will organize at the high school building this Saturday September 26 at 1:80 pm. The meeting seeks maximum attendance for the season's first session and aims to adopt regulations for the year. M Matheny Tp Secy.
The article touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a universal cure for catarrh, claiming it treats the constitutional disease internally by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. It offers 100 dollars for any case it fails to cure and invites testimonials, listing F J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio as manufacturers and doctors selling the product for 75 cents along with Hall's Family Pills.
Notices urge Ohio residents to attend the Ohio Canal Association convention in Zanesville on September 28 1903. The event aims to spark support for rehabilitating the canal from Cleveland to Dresden to a five foot depth and fifty foot width, linking with the Muskingum River at Dresden. The Ohio Board of Public Works will prepare plans and estimates for the project for the next legislature.
The Coolville fair’s second day drew record crowds as a Hockingport 26 to 19 win over Tuppers Plains drew attendees. Tomorrow’s final day promises strong entries in trotting and pacing for a $110 purse along with steady showings in farm products and household departments.
Marriage license entries list E R Lahs Jr and R Estella Hob son of Athens Hoyt E McAffee and Myrtle Carsey of Hebbardsville Charles Richards of Nelsonville and Miss Jennie Lagsdon of Amesville Walter A Curtis and Bess Worden of Bachtel Samuel Frost of Judson and Blanche Holland Lysander Perley McDonald and Mrs Minnie McDonald of Hamley Run
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