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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1887
Page
3
Measles are reported in Byesville with cases spreading toward Nicholson's. The issue lists local business promos, clothing shoe shops, carpet and dry goods offers at Raymond's, Kohn's, Mellyar's, Hubert's, and D W Anderson Co. Also notes family sickness including Mrs. William Smith and John Brower.
The Turner Coal Co of Cleveland has opened a new mine at the old Joyce siding north of Yorktown. They seek 100 miners immediately and have rail transport with the . M. railroad for 15 cents round trip to Canal Dover until housing is built. Miners earn 53 cents per ton of coal and provisions may be issued weekly. Apply to A W Turner Canal Dover or J V N Yarus Cleveland for permits.
The town awaits Adam Forepaugh's traveling wild west show arriving after nineteen New York City weeks. The act, recently expanded with a Custer Battle, promises historic tableau vivant drama and drew strong booster efforts at a Hammond Opera House mass meeting. Local fund-raising and land sale talks targeted support for the venture with subscriptions and committee plans moving forward.
A Cumberland affidavit charged Wilson C. Denny with aiding an abortion for Miss Side Chadwell. Denny returned after injuries from highwaymen in Peoria and was bound over in $500. Maria McLelland faced similar charges. both waived examination. The Grand Jury investigates both cases.
On a farm near town A W Nicholson a sawyer William Hixenbaugh fed a saw and a rotating blade grazed his breast and tore his right arm. Nicholson’s son grabbed him by the heels and swung him free over the beam, saving his life. Dr Wail treated wounds and the man is recovering with possible limb salvage.
At the regular Monday evening meeting Cambridge G A R Post No 342 appointed committees to arrange Memorial Day events. The General Committee includes Hanna Moore Mahaffey Hering and Moore, with Finance members McDonald Taylor Campbell Johnson Hinds. A resolutions committee was formed for Mrs J D Taylor obituary.
Operators wait on two or three more leases to start a test well in the Claysville oil belt. Lease takers expect success and landowners are buoyant. If the test wins, more wells may follow along the line with options to take one eighth of the product or sell interests for $500. Land leased as far as Cambridge.
The Bella Moore (Mountain Pink) entertainment at Hammond’s Opera House Wednesday night drew a smaller crowd due to prior town events and gas shortages. Still, the performance was praised with splendid acting and strong support, and the company deserved a larger audience.
At a Tuesday meeting the Directors of the Guernsey National Bank decided to take 50000 of the 44 percent bonds as the government called in their existing issues. The new bonds will not be subject to call until 1891.
In a brisk verse glimpsed as Ex. promotes spending, the speaker mocks gloom and urges readers to “borrow-buy a corner lot” and pursue wealth. The lines celebrate gain over sorrow and exhort action to secure immortal fame through property.
The April term begins with Judge Campbell presiding and 79 witnesses subpoenaed. Grand jurors respond except John H. Brown and Ross W. Lindsey. replacements named. Foreman Hugh Keenan leads the panel as docket calls and motions occupy day one. List of hearings spans April 28 to May 14 including Engle v Demster and Rotheids v Johnson among others.
Alpheus Ringer Jr of west of town died in Ann Arbor Michigan from pneumonia on Sunday while in the medical department of College he would have graduated in June his funeral was held at his father home and he was buried near New Concord in a large funeral. William Stephens son of Wellington Stephens of Columbus formerly of Fairfield died suddenly at East Richland Ohio last Friday at about age 20 he was an excellent young man and many friends will mourn his loss his sister in law Chas H Giffee salesman at Mellyar s store accompanied the remains to Columbus for interment.
Excess real estate activity fades as capital shifts to stable manufacturing and business ventures. Cambridge with its location railroads minerals and ample gas supply emerges as the strongest investment point in eastern Ohio.
W D Hoyt and Co of Rome Georgia report four years of selling Dr King's New Discovery Electric Bitters and Bucklen's Arnica Salve with high satisfaction. They claim several pronounced consumption cases were cured using a few bottles of the discovery paired with Electric Bitters and guarantee the remedies.
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