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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1887
Page
3
A long, railway of brief items notes pensions granted and sought, visits across towns, illnesses, deaths, sales, farm and craft notices, and local events from Byesville to Cambridge including Friedman Bros promotions, school levy approval, and a murder of civic activity.
Miss Nettie Knowlton visits Putnam friends while Elwood Herron and Mrs Jne Law suffer typhoid fever. Mrs Pearl Hayes and daughter visit Indiana. Miss Helen Johnson of Zanesville visits uncle C Garlington. Miss Cora Hinman visits Aunt A D Crumbacker in Zanesville. Mrs A Barr Mrs J C Bay and Emma Conner plan Cleveland weeks. Miss Lou Bay and Miss Cubison enjoy Chautauqua and Niagara. Local coal mines south of town on the B and C line owned by M B Hunter reopen for Fall trade.
Brady Mrs Jos Kupps visits relatives at Sum merfield. Melancthon Allen plans a few weeks in Zaneaville. A small gun of YN Allen in recovery from flux. Forty dollars taken at Allen's chapel festival. Mrs Cassander Wilson and Andrew Will visit Newark for weeks. G J McCracken leaves for Mt Union to enter college. Attendees at quarterly meeting at Winchester. Miss Lora Gibson guest of Jne Daugherty. Roy Moses to preach his last sermon for this conference year at the chapel in one week.
Threshing nears end in this vicinity as farmers cut corn. The mayor’s court was lively last Saturday. A frame shop sees timber sawed up. The band provided music at the Saturday event. Many locals plan to attend the Pennyroyal reunion. Jacob Amstot Sr. has been ill this week. Mrs W H Houser of Cadiz visits her parents, Mr and Mrs Edward Hall. Josiah White repairs his house and adds a slate roof. A new town hall walk improves appearance. Samuel Cochran hauls lumber for a west end home. Wm Bumgardner and Mrs N Clagett attend the funeral of sister Mrs Wm Norris from Mercer county Ohio. Mrs Mary Haines and children return to Minneapolis after visiting here. Wm Conwell and wife Mrs S Lawrence. Miss Mary Anderson and Rev Donalson joined Niagara Falls excursion.
The column records a slate of community happenings from Cambridge and North Salem. It notes sermons by OS B Grimsley and Rev Martin, visits by Mrs Josie Cain and Flora Adams, farm activity including an addition to a kitchen, planing mill move by W A McCullough, and well drilling updates. An accident in Wheeling township ends in a fatality when John Alloway discharges a gun while trying to catch a groundhog.
Western tour by F H Johnson selling glass and visiting Pittsburgh. Reunion attendance from here. Miss Georgia D Andrey and Miss Sadie Shepherd visit. Mrs Mary Cochran buys property and will move here. Glass Company gas well down 860 feet with gas shows. Normal School session closes profitably. Mrs T J Romans and Inez join Niagara Falls excursionists. Our band to Boston for a festival. Sale of Jesse B Hall set Aug 27 as he moves here to Prof Finley property. Prof W R Scott Preaches at ME church praise. Death of Mrs Henderson. J G Likes arrives from New York for reunion. Quaker City planing mills change hands to Kansas City buyer. Frank Orr may lead. Rey T H Armstrong to speak on travel in the Orient. John Moniger bound over for unlawfully selling to Quaker City patrons. Street work active. macadamizing lagging. many pavements condemned and relaid. Fifty-five notices for repairs issued. town largely meeting demand.
E Bainbridge Munday Esq county attorney Clay County Texas testifies that Electric Bitters cured his brother’s malaria and jaundice and that the medicine saved his own life. Mr DI Wilcoxson of Horse Cave Kentucky also credits the remedy for preventing death. The ad claims Electric Bitters wards off and cures malaria and various kidney liver and stomach disorders. Price 50c and 1 at C L Wall & Co.
Senecaville residents note Jno Crossen and son threshed the largest wheat amount in the county last week. David Birch leads a petition in Senecaville and Noble county for Thomas Birch’s release from the penitentiary. 488 citizens have signed. A soldiers reunion is planned for September 21 to 23 with a sham battle and other attractions. Many visitors from nearby towns are listed, including families from Pt Pleasant, Sarahsville, Alexandria, Wheeling, Duncan's Falls, Newark, Columbus, Cambridge, and Alliance.
The report notes a church event with ice cream and neck tie festival on September 1. It also mentions well boring for John Wilson and local residents Madison and Eugene Scott returning from California. Charley Wharton is ill with consumption and recovery is doubtful. Rev Jones will preach a farewell sermon at U Bchurch the first Sunday in September. The new school house nears completion and Will McConnell starts the winter term. Payid Wilson and son of Rendville and W Wilson of Scotland visited their brother J C Wilson last week.
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