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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1890
Page
3
Fair season opens with Woodefield fair and many local items from Cambridge including hospital plans in Dennison Muskingum College fall term September 2nd and various visits illnesses and events around Cambridge Ohio and nearby towns.
W H Ledlie erects a new cistern. W McConaughey in Cambridge. Mrs Jno Whitis visits sister Mrs Hope. Arr Charles Guthrey of Dennison to John Alloway's. Miss Georgie Gibson visits New Comerstown. J P McMillen with Prohibition home folks. Dr Miller family away in Cambridge. Mr Black of Freeport delivered fertilizer here. Wallace family of Zanesville visiting. Six hundred pounds of live turtles shipped here last week. C Gray visits sick wife's mother Tuesday. H W Luccock and Rev D L Clark visit friends. S D Barr sister Minnie and Mrs Ledlie attend Hermon church. Kimbolton to host Aug 30 ball game Hopewell vs Odell. Young folks at Guernsey social. Bruner & McFern finish sawing and load boiler for Belle Valley. Revs Cosby and Martin preach to crowded Salem U P Church. George White of Kansas visits brother William after G A R reunion. Mrs Eliza Philips and others attend Baptist Association near Washington. H W Luccock trustee offers mill property again with no bidders. S L Black sells 61 acres of Stewart farm. remainder unsold.
Butter is worth 15c per pound and eggs 12c per dozen. Farmers plow for wheat. Camp meeting last Sunday was poorly attended. Dr Mills preached to a large congregation. Penny royal reunion set for this week. Sells and Barrett show billed for Cambridge. September 10 visitors Emma Conwell and Blanche Luzadder in Columbus. Latch string out at Maj J W Moore’s Saturday welcomes friends. Corn crop expected to be larger due to rain. Mary White’s music class entertained guests Saturday. Fair Board meeting next Saturday at 1 pm. A Skinner returns from Baltimore and plans to settle in Arkansas.
Wanted one hundred miners for Rock Hill Coal Co at Flushing Ohio Belmont county. Semi monthly pay and steady year round work. Union men preferred.
The G A R picnic and lawn fete failed due to heavy rain. Talks of rescheduling soon circulate. Six year old Frankie Johnston delivered a horse and bogey ten miles to Cambridge for his grandpa Johnston. J H Mackey spoke to the G A R boys but rain swept away the event.
Will Briedenthal visited Pennsylvania last week. Peter Good and family return from Ross County. Mrs Heidleback builds a portico. Miss Mary Tilton visits George W. Yarnell's family in town. Mrs Messer home from Steubenville with malaria. Hon Roland Frame and family from Washington visited friends. Ode Ryan returns from Pittsburgh where he worked this summer. Mrs Mary Young leaves to visit Luther Timberlake’s family in Flushing Ohio. John Secrest of Newark visits his sick mother. George Hannum and family travel from Newark. Hannam stays several days. J M Rainie visits brother Dr Frank Rainie in Manistique Michigan. William McConnel leaves for Antonito Colorado to teach this winter. Several whooping cough cases in town. not an epidemic. Greenbrier school house contract awarded to Emerson Lowry for 622 dollars. old site chosen for new building.
G H Lepage returns to Hopewell. Albert Barnes adds a house extension. Elmer Taylor moved to Adams township last week. Dr H J Chapman sold his snow fluke team Tuesday morning. Fred and Harry Stewart employed by the B and O R R. Oscar Miller near Love City did most threshing with a steam thresher. Marriage of J Ross Addy to Maggie Cullen near Hopewell. Visitors include Ida Finefrock and Ella Fleming, Samuel Danly and family, Mrs Waight and daughter, Kate Robinson, Lota Law visiting relatives.
A brief advert promises a guaranteed safe remedy for throat lung and chest ailments including consumption bronchitis asthma and croup. It notes a money back purchase price return if unsatisfactory and offers trial bottles free at D. M. Hawthorne's drug store.
An order of sale issued by the Court of Common Pleas directs a public sale in Cambridge Ohio. The case lists Jacob Spaidis as plaintiff and Barbara Trenner et al as defendants, with the sale to proceed at the courthouse door.
The Sells Brothers, viewed as the nation’s premier exhibition organizers, announce a winter expansion that consolidates their zoological and equestrian attractions with Mr. S. H. Barrett's famed shows. They promise the largest and most splendid tented exhibition ever organized and will bring the consolidated show to Cambridge on September 10.
The Office of the Village Clerk of Cambridge Ohio invites sealed proposals by October 1 1890 for the purchase of five one thousand dollar bonds to extend the time of payment on existing indebtedness. Bonds dated October 1 1890 mature 1896 1897 1898 1899 at six percent interest payable semiannually. Bids must show bond count and gross payment plus accrued interest. The village may reject any bid. John S. Black Village Clerk August 28 1890.
Ad proclaims a salve curing cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter and more with a money back guarantee. It is priced at 25 cents per box and offered by D. M. Hawthorne with a December 5 89 sale date.
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