Cambridge Herald Highlights April 24 1884 Local Briefs
Spencers depot construction underway and Kohn's lace goods advertise new fabrics and carpets. Marietta baseball club, New Athens cheese factory, M E church repairs, and John Robinson circus set for Zanesville May 5. Obituaries for Mrs. Jonah Long and Mrs. Moss. court terms closed. civic notes on schools, pensions, and local trades.
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Spencers, Call and See Kohn’s
Lace Curtain Coods
Marietta
New Athens
Switzer
M. E
Kohn’s
Ingrai
Safe Blown At Cumberland In Early Morning Burglary
A Cumberland store safe belonging to H B Zoller was drilled and blown open with tools stolen from a local schoolhouse. About 500 dollars in watches and 200 dollars in cash were taken, including a quarter of the cash from American Express Company. Two youths reported seeing two men near Cambridge at daylight, but no arrests made as officers pursue a strong clue.
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Cumberland
H. B. Zoller
American Express Company
Zoller
Stones
Claysville
Cambridge
J. S. McClelland
Norwich
Cam bridge Fair Group Forms In New County Association
An organization was perfected last week with W. B. Cosgrave as President and R. F. Barnes as Vice President. F. K. Raymond as Secretary. John Orme as Treasurer. The incorporated company plans a capital of 8000 to 10000 dollars and includes J. T. McPherson A. J. Clark Ebenezer Johnson and Henry Miller. Grounds may be leased or bought from Lon Isaac Morton for a fall fair in Cambridge.
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Cambridge
W. B. Cosgrave
R. F. Barnes
F. K. Raymond
John Orme
J. T. McPherson
A. J. Clark
Ebenezer Johnson
Henry Miller
Lon. Isaac Morton
Home Remedies For Pain Relief From Headache And Toothache
An exchange notes folding a towel in hot water then wrung and placed on the painful seat provides prompt relief for toothache or neuralgia. Headaches generally yield to hot water applied to the feet and the back of the neck.
Davis Named District Mine Inspector for Central Ohio
W A Davis, superintendent of Nicholson’s coal mines, accepted a governor appointed post as District Mine Inspector for Central Ohio. The position carries a salary of 1200 dollars per year plus expenses and he left for Columbus Tuesday to begin duties, a favorable appointment.
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W. A. Davis
Nicholson’s
Ohio
Hoadly
Columbus
Dr G J Arnold Returns From Cincinnati Course
Dr. G. J. Arnold a successful physician has just returned from a practitioners course at Cincinnati He plans to make the treatment of Catarrh a specialty and offers consultation with all necessary appliances for successful treatment to aid sufferers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. J. Arnold
Cincinnati
Park Hotel to be Led by J B Smith in McArthur
J B Smith of McArthur has leased the Park Hotel and will soon take charge. He is described as a pleasant gentleman who will make guests comfortable and, under his management, the hotel is expected to become a leading Eastern Ohio establishment. Aunt Becca Burton turned 80 on Sunday and neighbors hosted a surprise gathering Saturday evening. Mrs M Scott, daughter of Ross Scott, died last Saturday. the funeral was held Sunday with a large crowd attending and burial in the local cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Atkinson
Batesville
Stottlemire
Stanley
J.B Smith
McArthur
Park Hotel
Ohio
Becca” Burton
M. Scott
Ross Scott
Death of Carry horse thief Tinker at advanced age
Tinker, long known in Carry Pennsylvania for horse thefts, died last week at an advanced age. He boasted of helping seize over 400 horses from their owners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shep. Tinker
Carry
Penn
Daughter of William Gorley Wanders Off in Cambridge
A daughter of William Gorley went to town Saturday to buy groceries. After the purchase she headed home but strayed in West Cambridge and wandered off the main road. She was later found and overtaken at New Concord.
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William Gorley
Cambridge
New Concord
Cambridge Man Buys Gelding from Rue and Miner
Mr. T. G. Brown of Cambridge Ohio purchased a combined gelding from Rue and Miner. The four year old horse stands 16 hands high and is sired by Mambrino Denmark with a dam by Dreen. Consideration not disclosed. Danville Ky Tribune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. G. Brown
Cambridge
Ohio
Rue & Miner
Mambrino
Denmark
Dreen
Danville
Knox township man fined for disturbance and language
In Knox township, Thomas Kenworthy appeared before Elza Turner last week and was fined five dollars for disturbing a meeting and fifty cents for profane language. The total cost amounted to about thirty five dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Kenworthy
Knox Township
Elza ‘Turner
Funeral large for James L. Smith in Washington
The funeral of James L. Smith of Washington was held Tuesday afternoon and described as one of the largest ever in the area. He was a worthy citizen and will be greatly missed in the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James L. Smith
Washington
Fire damages The Fountain Hotel in Newcomers Town
The Fountain Hotel in Newcomers Town owned by W. H. Maberry was partially destroyed by fire last Thursday. Investigators suspect incendiaries caused the blaze and the loss is pegged near $2,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newcomerstown
W. H. Maberry
Park Hotel to be run by Morton during Smith’s absence
Joseph Morton will manage the Park Hotel while proprietor J. B. Smith is away in Cincinnati to marry an esteemed local resident this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Morton
Park Hotel
J. B. Smith
Cincinnati
Personal notes from Cambridge area residents
Local notices list Dr. Underhill in Europe and many residents visiting Cleveland Dayton and Louisville. Movements include George Callinan returning to Byesville and Dora Moore moving to Dayton, with several others traveling to Cameron Mo Louisville Ky and New York for work housing or illness. A few report illness resignations appointments and a Republican State Convention crew from the county.
Nor rich notices of town life and events
A digest of local happenings lists a Norwich nursery delivery, new street lighting proposed by James Barton at 34 cents per night, a thriving mill and No 1 flour production, S P Steele closing out in two weeks, Normal School opening with good attendance, and Arbor Day activities with no trees planted. Other items include exams with 33 in class, livestock arrivals, potatoes at 25 cents a bushel, Dr J E Smith's visit, church services, funerals, brick demand, a lively Saturday, a surgical operation, a Springfield visitor, death of James Weyers and James I Smith, and Price Bros grand opening with music and acclaim.
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Sproat
Columbus
Norwich Nursery
Washington
James Barton
S P Steele
J E Smith
Wonowoce
Wis
Presbyterian Church
Filler and Son
Zanesville
James Weyers
George Fanes
Wedding in Cambridge on Jefferson StreetResidents M H Scott and Adelle Boyd wed
A pleasant wedding was held at Charles Fisher's Jefferson street home on Wednesday night officiated by Dr C C Foote. The couple, Mr M H Scott of the city and Miss Adelle Boyd of St Louis, will live in Cambridge on Pol street. The event drew many guests and included refreshments.
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Wopela Daily Commonwealth
Cambridge
Charles Fisher
Jefferson Street
C. C. Foote
M. H. Scott
Adelle Boyd
St. Louis
Topeka
Pol Street
Henry
Steamboatman Captain William Davis Retires After Long Career
Captain William Davis, the oldest steamboatman in the Muskingum Valley, retires after a career starting in 1836 and amassing a fortune, as reported by the Courier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Davis
Muskingum Valley
The
Courier
West Cambridge property rented for Children's Home
The Commissioners rent Dr. McPhersons property in West Cambridge for 500 dollars per year to house a Children's Home. Rev J H Nash will serve as Superintendent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. McPhersons
West Cambridge
Rev
J. H. Nash
New Type and Stationery Supplied for Job Work
The Herald announces a fresh stock of type and a large lot of stationery. If you need any job work done, call for prompt service. Prices are reasonable.
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the Herald
Guernsey County Awards Bridge Contracts After Bids Rejected
At a recent Guernsey County Commissioners meeting the board awarded iron bridge contracts to Penn Bridge Company for Steubenville street bridge and to Caldwell & Lane for Bridgeville and Salt Fork bridges. Earlier bids for wooden structures were deemed uneconomical and rejected. Engineers must inspect work before payment.
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Guernsey County Commissioners
Leonidas Brill
Millwood Township
J. W. Robinson
Gibson’s Station
Owen Nelson
Spencer Township
John Boughman
Steubenville Street
Morton Bridge
Gilkinson Bros
Kennedy Bridge
John Milligan
Miller Bridge
Samuel Boyd
J. M. Cowgill
M. D. Braniger
Rocky Fork
J. W
M. D. Robins
Cambridge
Joseph Brown
John Cale
Samuel Morrison
George Cale
Penn Bridge Company
Caldwell & Lane
Bridgeville
Salt Fork
Electric Bitters advertised cure for Bright's Disease and more
A brisk pitch touts Electric Bitters as a universal remedy for liver complaints kidney disease diabetes and weak backs. The ad asserts thousands cured permanently and guarantees every bottle with a 50 cent price per bottle by J. R. Downar and promises blood purification bowel regulation and direct action on diseased parts.
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Bright
J. R. Downar
Seed corn tests near as planting time arrives
Farmers prepare for seed testing as planting approaches. Local notes report assessments by J. T. Oldham and various community items including school terms, travel to Washington, and wool price discussions. Several farm activities, cattle, crops, and local visits are also mentioned.
Local Notes and Transactions In Center Township Area
Miss Lids McKahan of Brady visited Wm Thomas last week. Rev Henry Stewart preached at the ME church Sabbath afternoon. Mrs O G Bonnell of Perry county visits her father Alex McCollum. Wm Thomas sold 125 sheep at $3.60 each. Mrs Alex McCollum returned home after a few weeks. Rev Shepherd preached at Baird's school house last Sabbath at 3 PM. Rev Whitaker will baptize several persons at 10 AM then preach at the Baptist church. T J Calvert sold his sixty acre farm to Mr Tobin of Milnersville for $40 per acre and moved to his father's. Scarlet fever reappears in the neighborhood with two of Jonathan Warne's children ill and outlook doubtful. Wool Growers of Center township plan a meeting at Independence school house Tuesday evening. Slaughter Hill school house hosts a debate Tuesday evening on whether man is a creature of circumstances with T J Calvert and C N Black for affirmative and John Harding and John McConnell for negative.
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J T Oldham
Nannie Swan
Francis Barnes
Washington
E B Miller
William Duff
Andrew Dales
Otis Miller
Selders
Pt Pleasant
Wm B Gilkinson
John H Britton
Kimbolton
William Ralston
J W Satchet
Clio
Margaret Maffet
Cambridge
UP Presbytery
Jennie McCullough
Andy Barnes
James Miller
City
Stephen Secrest
S C Barr
Jessie Bell
Wm H Bell
Herman Church
Lids McKahan
Brady
Center Township
Independence School House
Slaughter Hill School House
T J Calvert
C.N. Black
John Harding
John McConnell
Athlophoros Promises Quick Relief for Rheumatism
Rev. S. A. Cooper of Williston Vermont testifies that twelve hours of Athlophoros use greatly reduces pain and loosens stiff muscles enabling easy movement, while claiming permanent cure depends on expelling acids from the body.
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Rev
S. A. Cooper
Willston
Grand Army of the Republic Post seeks data on unmarked Cambridge Cemetery graves
A Cambridge Post committee asks residents to provide full names, ranks, units, enlistment dates, discharge details, ages and causes of death for Civil War soldiers buried without tombstones in Cambridge Cemetery and Guernsey County. Information will guide government inscription lettering. Also includes a clinician endorsement of Dr King’s New Discovery with trial bottles available at J Downar’s Drug Store.
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Hrapauarrers
Cambridge
Guernsey
Don't Hamuonn
Stewart Harris
C. H. Lover
J. A. Tawney
Winona, Minn
Dr. King
J. Downar
Death claims two respected local residents
Death has entered our midst, taking Mrs John Garvin and Eleazar Spooner. Mrs Garvin died Thursday at over sixty years old, leaving many friends and a funeral Friday. Eleazar Spooner died Saturday at 94, identified with the community for over six decades and highly esteemed by all.
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John Garvin
Eleazar Spooner
Spooner
James Hutchison Ready To Return After Eight Weeks Sickness
Miss Mary Neely to begin teaching school on the 21st at this place if no spring wedding occurs in Hopewell. Thomas Kenworthy arrested last Tuesday for disorderly conduct at band meeting. local note. How to Make Canopy offers candy making book with postpaid offer to readers in Rochester, N Y.
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James Hutchison
Mary Neely
Hopewell
Thomas Kenworthy
Rochester
Osburn Block
N. Y
Notice of Estate Sale in Guernsey County Ohio
George H. Kimble as administrator of John Allison deceased petitions the probate court seeking sale of multiple parcels described in Guernsey County Ohio to pay debts. He alleges insufficiency of personal estate and names heirs at law including Augustus Perkins and others. Interested parties must answer by May 24, 1884.
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Guernsey County
Thomas Robinson
Guardian
Robinson
Abner P. Brill
Abigal Graham
Robert D. Louis
Robert Maxwell
Elizabeth Smith
Lewis Toland
Jane Cochran
J. W
Hattie George
Mary Basford
Susan Brown
Robert Banker
Aliee Casner
Timothy Rose
Turnbaugh
Jne Shively
James H.wallace
James Gatterl
James McClelland
A.J. Buckingham
Margaret Morrison
Wm. C. Morrison
Wm. Rose
Sam’l. McCulley
W. L. Matilda V
Levina A. Sawhill
Lot P. Hosice
Augustus Perkins
Ollie Perkins
Belle Périns
Harriet Perkins
Samuel Perkins
Margaret Perkins
John Allison
Montana Territory
Joseph Allison
George H. Kimble
Guernsey
Ohio
Towit
Township Four
Sheriff Sale of Guernsey County Real Estate
Court of Common Pleas order directs a public sale in Cambridge Ohio for 70.34 acres in Wheeling township and 68.18 acres in section one. The properties in township four range three total appraised at 4500 dollars with cash terms. Sheriff J M McGILL notes sale date April 10 1884 with attorney S C Luccock representing the plaintiff George W Mulvane vs John Little et al.
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John Orme
Lewis McPherson
Elza Turner
Cambridge Township
Guernsey County
Ohio
A. D
Court of Common Pleas
George W. Mulvane
John Little
Court House
Cambridge
Wheeling Township
Cambridge Ohio
J. M. McGill
S.C. Luccock
David Larcher
Liberty Township
J.T. Richard
Zanesville
Main Street
D. T’. Satchet
W. A. Carpenter
Heirs of Margaret Crawford Face Partition Suit in Ohio
Alice Crawford files in Guernsey County Court of Common Pleas for partition of undivided shares in described lots and quarters in Muskingum and Guernsey counties, with specified out-lot adjacent to In-let 32, seeking equal or valued division. Answer date set as May List, AD 1884. attorneys Campbell & Rosemond represent Alice Crawford.
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John McGee
Rolling Green
Sumner County
Kansas
Elizabeth Woodburn
Pete Chaney
Crawford County
Michigan
Margaret A. McDonald
Peoria
Illinois
Margaret Crawford
Alice Crawford
Court of Common Pleas
Guernsey County
Ohio
Muskingum County
Mill
Cumberland
Campbell & Rosemond
Atty’s
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