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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1883
Page
5
Local items report a wide mix of events from Quaker City and nearby towns. Notes on marriages births and deaths, business openings and failures, weather, crime, and public works fill the pages. Highlights include saloon debates, school Bible provision, railway line talks, market dullness, and upcoming holidays with store ads and auctions.
Hon Jupee W H Frazier Clerk Barr and Sheriff McGul present. Civil actions include Quaker City National Bank v Snyder et al with judgment on confession for 463 50. State cases follow with multiple pleas guilty, fines, and short jail terms across crimes including burglary, perjury, keeping a lottery, forgery, bigamy, and liquor law violations.
The Eastern Ohio Teachers Association held its thirteenth annual session with wide attendance from Eastern Ohio. Highlights include inaugural by John McBurney on the new education, papers by Miss Crumbacker and J A Shawson, officer nominations, and decision to meet next in Coshocton. Also noted are an arrest of A A Sipe and a new C W N R timetable improving daily passenger service between Cumberland and Morgan Junction.
A crowded Personal column lists residents and visitors including M Seigfield clerking at the Fagle Hotel J A Leech of Cadiz in town and Mr and Mrs John Nace returning to Galion Ohio. Others travel, visit or relocate including Prof John M Richardson with Sells Brothers and Thomas Dew moving to Barnesville.
The community mourns Father Saviers who died at 83 after a long life of service and faith. Born 1800 in Beaver County Virginia, he married Nancy Huffman in 1824 and lived on a family farm before moving to Winchester. He later wed Mrs Scofield and left nine children. A devoted member of the M E Church, he served as trustee leader and steward for decades. A funeral sermon by C H Edwards filled the Winchester church and he is interred in a self-built vault.
The ad touts lowered prices on furniture with good bureaus at 7.00 8.00 and 9.00, beds at 2.50 3.00 and 3.50, and chairs at 2.50 3.00 and 3.50. Almost everything is reduced by about half, inviting shoppers to compare prices elsewhere and visit the store to buy.
Dr Eisner offers his Painless Method at Dr Arnolds office on Monday December 17 inviting all under treatment to attend. A Ladies Temperance Musicale at Col T H Andersons residence Thursday evening features Creation Song by a quartet, songs, recitations, solos, duets by local performers and instrumental pieces.
The Market Bradstreet's notes a broken week with light business across departments. Failures total 242, and December trade remains slow until year end. Grain markets fluctuate with Chicago corn up 5 cents and wheat up about 1 cent, with sea board prices lower for wheat and higher for corn.
A Washington item sheet recalls holiday prep and church events, with mentions of a Christmas tree at the Methodist Sunday School, a foreign mission festival at the Presbyterian church raising about fifty dollars, and a protracted Baptist meeting near town. It notes battlefield dates, local visits, and farm receipts amid December chatter.
An advertisement promotes Dr Taft's White Pine Syrup as a popular remedy for coughs colds and lung diseases. It claims five dollars is not half its value and urges readers to try it. Sold by Dr C A Moore & Co Cambridge.
George Stotler visited Whipple Saturday evening while Ed Booth moved into a newly built house. Oldham and Marling Oldham returned from Springfield. JS Wortman is home from Belmont County visiting friends. Richard D Oldham of Licking County is visiting here. A future wedding is anticipated nearby. David Walters lost a valuable horse from overeating corn. Mr and Mrs George Willis and Mr and Mrs Joseph E Barr visited friends near Claysville. The married men beat the boys in the hunt tally with 94 head to 89.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure with a person stating a 32 pound gain and complete recovery after 20 years of ill health. It claims the cure is worth $50 a bottle and notes availability through John Downar.
Pinegrove hosts a thriving literary society while Thanksgiving services took place at the ME church. Local residents attend college and travel for goods, with several movements and exchanges of property noted. Deaths include Mrs Mary MacCandlass and Mrs Harriett Johnson as church meetings and doctor consults are announced.
New Concord reports a hunting party secured over 300 scalps last week. R K Porter made a quick trip to his Steubenville home while Thanksgiving festivities focused on turkeys and game. Ears Rutherford of Petroleum West Virginia visits local friends as Prot Gray and wife plan to attend a Martin's Ferry wedding. Ethel Martin, daughter of Rev Samuel Martin now in India, lies ill at her uncle William Warren's home. Samuel Best and wife with Mrs Frazier visit Cambridge. Best plans to move to Kansas next spring. A Chicago telegram says S H Harper’s condition is precarious. his mother Mrs Samuel Harper goes to Chicago. Edison’s electric light is celebrated by Hall’s Cure sold by John Downar. Oct 4-5m.
David Vickers travels to Wheeling with a load of apples while Andrew Hamilton of Montana visits his nephew J Leipsy. Captain Shiley and Mrs Madden are listed as ill and convalescent respectively. Charley Payne heads to Columbus leaving his wife with family. James Niblock moves his family back to his father’s farm for five years. James McCartney converts Mr Strands’ house into a sheep house. Mrs Brown seeks funds to clothe a poor village family. One colored man in Londonderry township works for Jas Blackwood. He is from near Washington City and earns a solid reputation by his work.
Mrs Elizabeth Conner of Chaseville visits here Mrs Iris Maxwell of Cardington spends Sabbath with friends here Miss Ida Shouse and Miss Anna Gibson spend Thanksgiving at Caldwell Men from the Valley Road look into local coal interests following Thanksgiving day rabbit killings remaining in town rabbit kill count noted
Executors T. T. Richard and David T. Sarchet seek to sell decedent David Sarchet’s land in Guernsey and nearby tracts to pay debts. Mary Larchet entitled to dower. Hearing set for January 19 1884 with W. A. Carpenter as attorney.
By order of the Court of Common Pleas of Guernsey County Ohio I conduct a public sale at the Cambridge courthouse to satisfy the Trott case. The defendant Michael S Trott et al hold Lot 14 in Point Pleasant Guernsey County appraised at 35009. Terms are cash then one third in one year and one third in two years secured by mortgage at 6 percent interest. sale date 1883.
The Quaker City National Bank filed a suit in Guernsey county Ohio against Henry Welsh of Linn county Missouri. It alleges a Missouri judgment of 1173 dollars and 60 cents with interest and an attachment issued by the Ohio court. Welsh must answer by January 19, 1884.
Harper's Magazine begins its Sixty-eighth volume with the December number. It touts current social and industrial topics, high literary and artistic standards, and features a William Black serial, a new EL Roe novel, illustrated pieces by multiple artists, historical and biographical papers, and short stories by Howells and Reade.
An old advertisement lists Harper's Magazine Harper's Weekly and Harper's Bazar prices and subscriptions. It notes volumes begin with June and December numbers, ordering and binding options, and the address Harper & Brothers New York.
An archived notice lists Harper's magazines including Harper's Weekly Harper's Magazine Harper's Bazar and Harper's Young People Franklin with a subscription year of 52 issues. It mentions postage free to subscribers in the United States and Canada and cites a price of 4 or 150 in unspecified currency.
Harper’s periodicals list rates for Bazar and Young People with annual totals and terms. It notes volumes begin January, refunds, and mail or express delivery options with prices, including cloth bindings and cases, payable to Harper & Brothers, New York.
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