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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1883
Page
3
A 19th century testimonial claims Brown's Iron Bitters is non intoxicating and can replace liquor while killing the desire for whiskey. Dated Cin, O, November 16, 1881, the letter urges use to curb intemperance and spare vitality wasted in business and pleasure.
The Cambridge Herald notes a busy April sale period with Kohns advertising bed spreads, dresses, lace, gingham, table linens, shoes, corsets, ticking, buntings, and large dress goods stock. Also mentions Bee Hive Store openings, local obituaries, rail contracts, and community updates.
Peter Ogier is very sick. Park Meredith visits from Big Rapids Michigan. Daniel Craft moved from Sarahs ville to this place. William Hyatt of Bellaire visits with friends. Rev ER Wilson resigns pastorate at Quaker City. B T Luccock leaves Kimbolton for Spring goods. Will O Hanlon visits from Newcomerstown. Mrs Martha Scott of Venice PA visiting her son A G Scott here. Miss Sadie Wharton to teach Caldwell schools again. Rev R Y Siegfried visits from Cumberland. George R Kimble of Newark and Tom Tracy of Zanesville seen here. Geo Smith of Cumberland goes to Kansas to see son Cam. Roy Campbell accompanies. Charlie Jones back from West and South seeking health. Knights of Pythias lodge instituted with B and Hering, Sam Thalheimer, James Stevens. Dr J Cal Warne visiting Cambridge for practice. Hl H Madison, Pan Handle Route agent, returned home. vacation until June 1. Miss Rose Ankeny of Washington Ohio visiting Barnesville. A C H Ritter of United States Organ Co. entertains locals. noted pianist and composer. praised performances.
Clerk Barr and Sheriff McGill selected jurors Monday for the next term of Common Pleas Court which opens May 13 1883. Grand Jury includes David McBride Cambridge township Robert Law Oxford O M Shipley Londonderry Samuel Larue Wills John Deets Cambridge Isaac Hartley Millwood Alexander Hammond Adams William Shaw Richland John Hutchi son Knox London Heskett Millwood John S Fordyce Jefferson Thomas McFarland Millwood Samuel McAdam Cambridge Wm S Proctor Liberty Hugh Morrison Cambridge Petit Jury lists Ira Aplin Valley township John Coplin Milwood Noah McMullen Wills George W Clark Jefferson S C Wort man Cambridge Alfred Skinner Wills James A Meyer Madison Wallace Oldham Cambridge John S Miller Liberty W C Cowgill Oxford James P Aiken Monroe John L Kackly Valley
The W C T U hosts a Book Reception at the Reading Room on Thursday evening May 3. Citizens are invited to attend free with a book donation or a money contribution to cover Reading Room expenses. An attractive program will be offered to replenish the library and bolster the treasury.
Parties desiring to purchase Marble or Granite Monuments, Headstones, and c can view the largest stock in Eastern Ohio at Jed Williams on the Public Square and save agents commissions. Also notes the Illustrated World magazine from Philadelphia on the table and mentions five cent lawn cloth at Kohn's.
The committee appointed to canvass for a cheese factory will meet at the office of W. M. Farrar on Saturday April 28 at 2 o'clock P M to report. A full attendance of those interested is requested. Jan GEO McMILL EN CHESTER BORDWELL. April 28 1883 Ex. Com.
Brady announces garden work as the day’s order. John Thomas expands into a fine poultry business. Wm Ford builds a new residence. A wedding is anticipated soon. Roy Devinney recovers from neuralgia and moves about. Luzadder of Lore City begins a two month school term at Independence. W R Tetrick plans to return to Western Kansas. Howard Willis recovers from a sprained knee and leaves the house after a long winter.
Residents report visitors from Frederic and Zanesville. Prof Paden’s new house nears completion on High and Liberty streets. Measles spread, college literary and musical departments enroll about 165 students. A patent medicine case ends with $50 bail and release. Senior class selects orator Lutchi son and historian Mothatt. diplomas to be conferred by C E White. Miss Johnston and Revennaugh to respond.
Farmers forecast a large fruit crop this season as John Reynolds recovers at home. J R Brown and J R Locke of Cambridge visited last Wednesday. Jacob Endley of Washington is clerking for Hewett, successor to Carlyle. J S Hixson plans to move to Wichita next Tuesday. Summer school starts in Jefferson township with Miss Luzadder as teacher. Thomas Moore repairs the steam flouring mill and adds a boiler. D W Lyne visits Dr Lyne in town. Stuffy and Banker moved portable saw mill to George Anderson’s Washington township. Simeon Brown elected Justice of the Peace for over twenty years.
Rev Hays family settles in the Cumberland parsonage. Dr W K Bolen reports a successful paraphimosis operation on a six year old boy. Knowlton sells fine apples and Michigan Rose potatoes at low prices. A bill to expand insane care passes with a committee to decide on a new or expanded asylum. Dr Richardson discusses Athens Asylum wings for incurables and epileptics. The Great German Invigorator ad is promoted. available from John R. Downar.
Local notes report a $300 bell installed at the Presbyterian church after years of waiting. Other items include travels to Cambridge and Omaha, a 17 pound fish caught by Ben Ward, a man cutting his foot, and a sales pitch for Hall's Catarrh Cure at 75 cents a bottle via J R Downar.
Byesville features a notable class of landscape painters with Mr Peters and wife celebrating their first child. The town contemplates building a lockup as Marshal Large resigns and Geo Dudley succeeds. A liquor case sees G W Callihan fined $75 plus costs, and jailed for nonpayment. Indies sew carpet rags at Red Cloud House. Henry Wilson hosts local youths. Osburn sells fruit trees praised for prompt reception.
Town reports brighten with farming yields and new lamps costing about $161 to light. Visitors include D E Patterson in Fredericktown and N D Purdum group from Sac City Iowa. A first public sheep shearing draws crowds and promises future exhibitions with 15 to 20 pound results expected.
The column reports cherry trees in bloom and convalescence among the sick. W and JW Barnes visited Byesville on business Saturday. James M Warden rented Jesse Clark farm for a year. Assessor L Bonnell visited locals. Wm Sarchet family visited relatives. Mr Sawyer of Bakersville spent Sabbath with James Johnson. I A Lemon to start Brush Run district summer term May 1. Garden activity rose in nice weather. The Herard leads Oldham's circulation. Cambridge youths hauled 45 pounds of fish from their trot line. LH Oldham has a new roof on his barn, work by Samuel Anker and Joseph Cullens. LB K Bell drove home a new platform spring wagon from Cambridge. Rain improves wheat prospects, though many fields may yield only half a crop.
Garden making and corn planting underway. Clark Anderson back from Byesville. Geof Kimball repairs home. Miss Kate Kimball visits friends. Merchants bring new Spring goods amid post office talk. Clinton Anderson visits from St Louis. Swearenger moves to Linton Mills. No more preaching at Presbyterian church until May 13. Teachers appointed for next year. Local residents recovering from illness. Washington township begins new schools this Monday at Nos 3,5,2.
Mrs Elizabeth Shear is quite ill. William Selders moved his family to Byesville last week. Master Willie Scofield visits grandfather Wm Young. Mrs James Scott of Valley township sold 1600 pounds of butter last year. G W Spaid is night operator at Richmond Indiana on the Pan Handle railroad. Mrs Moses Larrick is dangerously ill. Filmore Deeren to teach at West Point Valley township starting April 25. Joseph Secrest plans dwelling addition. Local youths attended singing school at Hartford Saturday. Mrs M McFarland bought property in Cumberland and will move next Wednesday. L F Jackson resigned as ticket and freight agent at Canal Dover. Charles Thompson named agent and telegraph operator at Whipple on the C M railroad. Dr Belford purchased land from Michael Trott for 2700 dollars and occupies it. The Doctor has possession of the last six months. Mrs Ellen Heinlein returned to her old home after wintering with her sons in Ava Noble county and Independence Missouri.
Antrim reports George Mercer back on the streets and April showers cooling. W L Knouff of Baird Wheeling visited over Sunday. Wheat crop prospects brighten as the season progresses. Alex Harford plans a fine residence south west of town. The school board faces trouble over division of the Coon Run district.
A letter from Troy New York dated April 8 1880 describes relief from gravel and a bladder stone after using Kennedy's Favorite Remedy. Andrews reports one and a half bottles freed a 1 16 inch oval stone and declares himself cured. The letter promotes the remedy as affordable at one dollar a bottle and invites others to test it.
W G Walters is in town and Wm Bonnell is about again. Wm Thomas bought fifty sheep at four dollars each. John Allender’s son is ill with typhoid fever. Walter Bonnell remains ill. Robt Kirkwood is bedridden and not improving. Ida McConnell’s summer school starts next Monday in Cambridge district No 12. Rev Henry Stewart and Rev Jackson preach at the ME church at 2:30 pm on successive Sabbaths. Sam Voorhes and wife of Cambridge visited. they plan a few days in Coshocton Co. Hall’s Catarrah Cure firm offers a $100 reward for untreatable catarrh cures. Sold by John R. Downar.
Albert Stewart visits Lebanon school to gain knowledge. Abram B. Warnock sold forty sheep to a Harrison County man at five dollars per head. Perry Fisher returns from the Southern States upset about gardening prospects. Farmers weathered a week with good conditions and sowed oats. Clear Fork U P Sabbath School organized by John A. Thompson with good attendance. District No 4 school closed April 14 with picnic and treat for scholars. Homer M. Knowles taught seven months and was praised for efforts.
A reader testifies that Dr Kennedy's Favorite Remedy cured his daughter of salt rheum after two years with no return. The ad urges purchasing from a druggist or writing to Rondout NY, priced at one dollar per bottle.
Corrected weekly market prices by J. O. McItyar and R. W. Linpsey. Items listed include meal, tubes, feathers, sorghum, honey, salt, tallow, butter, chickens, sides, clover seed, timothy seed, red top seed, blue grass seed, millet, potatoes, and rag stock with prices per unit or weight. Prices appear as cents or dollars per unit.
W E Tipton administrator of Martha Hall died petitions in Guernsey Ohio Probate Court on April 24 1883 for sale of her real estate to pay debts. The heirs and unknown heirs of James Laughead and Joseph Laughead are named as defendants and must answer by June 16 1883. The property includes Lots 2 3 4 and 22 in the second addition to Senecaville.
Those seeking a durable roof for life longevity are urged to choose Water Fire and Lightning-proof roofing now claimed as the best manufactured. Orders receive prompt attention from M A Scott agent for TC Snyder & Co Cambridge Ohio. Reference S J McMahon First National Bank Cambridge. A Nicholson Coe Commissioner J P Mahaffey editor of Herarp-
A frame dwelling house in West Cambridge with two well located lots and a never failing water well on the premises. Includes many fruit trees. Terms reasonable. For particulars contact Peter Dennis in Cambridge Ohio.
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