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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1887
Page
3
Local items report Hi Henrys minstrels and a palace car show engagement at the Opera House on Monday January 24. Notes cover town visits, injuries, pensions, church revivals, and upcoming entertainments and sales.
Ice hazards lead to injuries while several townsfolk suffer illness as schools close for scarlet fever and diphtheria. The oil well progresses and local politics gain traction as residents discuss candidates. A humorous aside recalls remedies and a proverb about domestic strife.
The grand and petit jurors listed are drawn to serve at the February term of court in 1887. Names include Moses Stockdale Madison William H Gibson Cornelius DeHart Wm Hender son Liberty Charles W Moore James P Aiken James W Smith Monroe Wm T Crow Thomas Webster Millee W Hi Vermillion Londonderry M Covert Robi Glass Spencer Ben quate Hawthorne Knox William Will is Center Benj Trenner Jackson PETIT JURORS include William Pollock William Allen Jas P Spence W. T. Loggins William Anderson et Brown Thos Satchett David Walters Cambridge James Rob inson Richland William Cowden Knox Thos Eagieson Aaron Luzadder Center S. W Liberty Daniel Ault Oxford BF Dollison Westland Geo Salladay Valley Grand Jury to appear 9 o clock a m February 15th and Petit jury February 21st at the same hour.
Ice stocks and dried fruit amounts noted with 14 000 pounds of fruit and 30 to 40 tons of ice. Cold complaints rise while box social at Centerville draws young couples. Butter at 16 cents per pound eggs 18 cents per dozen. Green apples scarce 60 to 75 cents per bushel. Ransom brothers visiting Columbus母. Baptist church plans new build. citizens urged to contribute.
Protracted meeting at Winchester has closed. Ada Hanna visits Columbus friends. Charles Armstrong injured coasting. Lyne infant buried at Winchester. Prof McFadden held music at Antrim. Della Anderson back from London Derry visit. Burson returns to Minerva for dentistry study. Antrim hosts oyster supper Jan 21 to fund sidewalks. Olie Gaddis and Hattie Combs return to Fayette county. Madison Township sends teachers to Londonderry Jefferson Center Hattie Ford. Mrs Ford dies at home after fever. Burdock Blood Bitters advertised by clergy and medical groups.
Byesville notes T J Lee on sick list. Fk H Winniker builds dwelling addition on High street. Nomine switch wreck cleared last Sunday. Welk Nelson drew a $14 platform rocker at Jas Smith's. Chas Andrews and mother visit Howard Andrews family in Zanesville. George Conner injured loading apples on the switch. W L Bay of US Buggy Co guest of L W Smith. Joe Oliver runs a feed mill at Sugar Point mines. Conner sold 600 bushels apples to J M Clegg and 500 to D B Grier. CD Callen shaken in Caldwell wreck but mobile. Jewelers C V Smith eyes a drug store window. C V Smith plans to stay here was a good choice.
M A Matson of Valley Junction visited here last week. Born January 9 to Mr and Mrs Aaron McKinley a son. Laura two year old daughter of Jas Wilkin dangerously ill. ED Stone injured in buggy accident Sunday night. String band played at a box social near the saw mill school house, Jackson township last Wednesday. ME church meeting continues with five forward for prayer and notable interest.
College work resumed last Tuesday. Dr Paul is gaining strength and J A Armstrong with T O Anderson plan to enter the creamery business soon. Mrs Pox, an aged resident, was buried last Sabbath. J A Clark bought the house on South Street from W H Stewart. Rey J Leiper and family left for Philadelphia to make it their future home. SH Maharry visited town, having closed school for scarlet fever. A Concord dispute questions whether the Board of Trade or a man named Citizen controls the institution here. Prof Paden and wife spent holidays in northern State and attended the Inter-collegiate Prohibition Association in Cleveland. Literary society debates settled by jury. Philo favored jure over statesman, Mary Queen of Scots to be executed per WS committee. Advertised remedies Dr Bull's Baby Syrup, Day's Horse Powder, Dr Bull's Baltimore Pills, and Drexel's Bell Cologne are endorsed and sold locally.
Center area notes Casterline ill with diphtheria and Scarlet fever spreading north. Local events include dances at Geo Braden's and Mrs Casterline's wood chopping. Protroacted meeting at the colored school house midweek. WFMS fundraiser nets $14. markets show wheat 85c, corn 40, oats 29 30, rye 60, potatoes 40, flour 2.50, buckwheat 300.
Rome Georgia wholesaler W D Hoyt & Co reports two years of selling Dr King’s New Discovery Electric Bitters and Bucklen’s Arnica Salve with strong cures and universal satisfaction. Noted are several pronounced consumption cases cured after using the medicines. guarantee offered, sold by C L Wall & Co.
Jacob Phelps is on the sick list and James Kenedy plans to build a new house in spring. Market prices: corn 40 cents, oats 35, wheat 75, hogs 4, cattle 4, butter 20, turkeys 6 12 to 7, chickens 2.50 per dozen, hay 12 per ton. Young folks socialized at Wm Beatenhead's and at A K Gibson's with Kimbolton visitors. Personal items: Wm Mekhumm at Winchester, Benj Carothers at Odell, Mrs Mary Thompson returns home, A K Gibson moves to his father's home. J H Bell to return to Iowa early February.
Active pushing and reliable. Wall & Co. carries in stock the purest and best roads and sustains a reputation for urging merit. Agency for Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption cold and cough will sell on a positive guarantee and offer a trial bottle free to prove the claim.
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