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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1869
Page
3
The Republican Central Committee announces a mass meeting in Nelsonville to be addressed by Lieut. Governor J. C. Lee, a top Ohio speaker, on Tuesday October 5. The event serves Athens and Hocking counties as a joint Basket Meeting. Boys get ready for it.
The C. and H. Railway extends two trains each way daily between Nelsonville and Columbus starting last Friday. Coaches connect with all gains on that road giving residents a five hour window to visit the Capital City and return home the same day.
The genial Ion Lot L. Smith was seen on local streets last Tuesday. It is unclear if he was on a political pilgrimage but he appeared well and welcome to residents of all political persuasions.
An urgent recruitment note invites a vigorous man to fill an agency for the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine with good wages and a furnished wagon. Apply to J. J. Wilson in Athens Ohio. The item also notes Pilcher of Coolville is dangerously ill at home, while the county Central Committee continues an active campaign.
County commissioners urge public approval for building turnpike roads via the October election. Voters will mark turnpike Yes or No on ballots, deciding whether to authorize a new levy to support road improvements while keeping the project to a public vote. Election judges and clerks will return poll results upon closing.
The Pioneer Association of Athens County organized December 26 1868 to gather and preserve reminiscences and statistics about the settlement and history of the town and county preceding 1820. About twenty members joined, later over thirty. officers elected include Judge Isaac Barker president Gen John Brown vice president A G Brown secretary Walker and John Brown treasurer Calvary Morris. An adjourned meeting occurred April 7 109 with poor attendance and bad roads. another meeting planned for the Soth at New England to review weather affected plans. The note urges reunion of early settlers and preservation of the county’s earliest history inviting broad attendance at the New England gathering on the Soth. ALB. OW.
Tribute recalls Mrs. Fanny Rew wife of Geo Rew who died at her son Wan W Rew’s home in Rome Township age ten She was an early settler migrating with Joseph Wickhaim from Vermont in 1505 at sixteen and known for industry kindness and virtuous conduct. Local notes mention Republican meetings in Troy and Rome townships, the Hocking Sentinel sale to C D Elder, a Nelsonville bank opening, the Hocking County Fair dates and Barrett’s products advertised in the issue.
A meeting of the Athens County Pioneer Association will be held in New England on Thursday September 50th 1869 at 10 A M. Several short addresses may be expected. All members to attend with full baskets for a good time. C Morris chairman of executive committee.
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