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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1888
Page
3
A wide mix of social notes, visits, and incidents from Cambridge and surrounding towns including marriages, illnesses, travel, store openings, and public meetings. Notables include J.R. Troette furniture, Mrs. J. H. Dilley visit, Foraker inauguration attendance, and the death of Alfred P. Shaffner with a full biographical sketch and funeral planned for Thursday.
A Friday collision between the C. and M. yard engine and a north bound accommodation train killed Conductor L. J. Pack of Marietta and badly burned fireman Charles Renny of New Philadelphia. Pack died at 7 p.m. after intense pain. Renny anticipated recovery. Pack’s body sent to Hinton, West Virginia, with Odd Fellows and ministers in attendance. Coroner Sarchet found the yard engine ran on the other train’s time at excess speed, violating city ordinance. Pack left a wife and three children.
The Board of Visitors recommends banning tobacco for inmates to reform and discipline. They suggest relocating the women’s cell from the attic for fire safety and court visibility. Infirmary departments are commendable except the laundry which needs a dedicated building. Inmates should be more remotely separated.
The National Banks in the area held their annual elections on Tuesday afternoon. The following were the directors chosen.
A readable segment lists figures including J. McMahon J. W. Campbell S. B. Clark Dr. Wm Black W. A. Rainey W. B. Cosgrave A. R. Murray and central names A J Hutchison John R Hall A C Cochran E W Mathews John Boyd Andrew Nicholson G W Brown.
Public invited to the installation of Cambridge Lodge Knights of Pythias at Hammond's Opera House Thursday at 7 PM. Barnesville city band provides music. Col Sedgwick Capt Fulkerson and other Knights to attend. Silver Cross Division and Uniformed Rank Knights will be present. Parade in the afternoon and a banquet at the Eagle Hotel are listed features.
The Cambridge Loan and Building Co elected R W Anderson A J Hutchison Wm Hoyle John Beckett W B Boden Ed Urban and Dr J C Warne as directors on Saturday evening. A semi annual dividend of four percent was declared and stock will be issued for one weeks dues paid in advance. Loans total about $4 500 with $580 cash on hand. The association reports good success and bright prospects.
The Commercial Gazette notes 1888 as a rare year to date letters with three consecutive digits. It observes no other year has matched this since 1777, and none will again until 1999. It adds that 2000 will bring four of a kind dates like 2222 after two centuries.
William P. Tedrick, confined on manslaughter sentence, died after his left arm was torn free by a belt while fixing a belt in shop No 3. He was lifted by the shafting as the belt tore, the grindstone flying free. Doctors tried for twenty minutes but failed. Tedrick had killed a man named Red in a prior incident and faced death threats.
Monthly report for the Cambridge Public Schools for the month ending December 23, 1887. The fragment notes CLaAaTS and SeeEa win and mentions a 4nap a0g. No clear additional details or outcomes are readable.
The following jurors were drawn Monday for the February term of the Common Pleas Court. Grand Jury to assemble February 7 and Petit Jurors February 13. Names include James D Taylor Cambridge township J W Jare Millwood A L Rose Jackson Baker Barton Oxford Robert Stewart Wills Charles Smith Liberty A W Johnson Wills D M Slay Jackson Geo Ruby Cambridge Thomas R Ferbrache Liberty Adam Milhone Millwood John Milligan Liberty Harvey Scott Monroe Jackson Howard Knox Amos Kimmey Cambridge Frank Montgomery Madison township Jed Williams Cambridge J A Weyers Madison Stephen Lee Jackson Daniel H Hanna Madison Joshua Bond Londonderry GA Doyle Millwood HR Moore Cambridge George B Hance Millwood Joseph Stewart Wills JS Law Valley Jerry Bond Londonderry CC Deck Millwood Chase Moorehead Cambridge J L Young Spencer Thomas Bell Cambridge
A political ad style line touts Salvation Oil as a superior remedy that kills pain for a price of 25 cents. It contrasts public reaction to Darwinian theory with a light jab at Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, noting even a baby would not object.
Cambridge Ohio January 7 1887 the following list of letters remain uncalled for at the Cambridge post office Persons calling for them will please say they are advertised Miss Bell Berkley Miss Lizzie M Boyd 2 W R Crawford Mrs Maggie Bugton Mrs Thomas Ford Alonzo Burnsworth Thornton Gray Mrs M E Iloyt Geo Hoech Joseph McPeek Mrs James Mears Lima Miller Miss Annie Miller J Kasper Nichols Wm peoples Mrs Ella Par son Mrs Belle Simpson L Williams W H H McIlvar P M
Townsfolk discuss creating new creameries at the roundabout talk session. If ideas translated into action, several local dairy enterprises could be launched.
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