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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1888
Page
3
Cambridge pages report Pennyroyal Reunion and Merchants Pair at the opera house, with varied local business notices. Updates include M. P. church meetings, Quaker City window glass dividend, and civic council discussions about a town hall and cemetery site.
The Muskegum county probate court appointed ex-Sheriff Hunter guardian for Margaret Moore. He then filed in common pleas to recover a $200 note and mortgage backed by her and husband’s property, claiming care promises by Jesse Sweed of Quaker City. An injunction blocked disposition of the notes pending hearing.
The Barnesville hamlet reports 5000 bushels of strawberries mostly market-bound to Chicago, netting growers about 3.50 per bushel for roughly 17500 total. Raspberry output reaches 7000 bushels, home use adds, totaling near 40000 in berries sales with pickers paid about 8000 at two cents per quart.
Levi Hirschberg in Cambridge Ohio declares a limited time sale to clear outdated stock. He promises steep discounts on men and boys suits and hats, urging customers to act fast to cash in low prices before season ends.
Miss Jennie Stewart visits friends in Quaker City while Washington reports a quiet week. L Coen opens a fourth grocery in Amstet rooms as ripe apples sell at 40 cents a bushel. Posters for the county fair are distributed. Mr Workman suffers a horse kick and is badly hurt. Mrs W H Houser visits her parents Edward and Mrs Hall. Jonathan Rose hauls about 10 000 pounds of wool last Friday. SS Linn buys fat sheep in the vicinity. Wm Perry finishes the schoolhouse foundation at Elizabethtown. Oats harvest is ahead and promising. D Skinner from Woodsfield visits his uncle H Clemens. Our band plays well as the trip to Columbus nears. Miss Laura Skinner from Baltimore visits friends. Dr Houser will be in town for dental work. call for old do well to call on.
A community roundup notes visitors to Marietta and Antrim, local job changes, and school start. Entries mention Miss Mary Boyd visiting Dr Coen, Miss Vera Rose visiting Columbus relatives, I E Eagon becoming a drug store clerk, Ora Boyd visiting in Martin's Ferry, and Mrs M S Rose hosting.GAR meeting tickets sold. Cambridge and Hartford teams play soon. Window Glass Co plans a new stack furnace. dividend declared. Six boys arrested for car climbing. warned by Mayor Hartley. Bob Hoover injured in horse accident. family tragedy as Mrs Mattie Hoover dies. Funeral services held. Morton club visits discussed.
Brady and Clyde Brown of Hopewell visited over the Sabbath. John Wolverton will teach in Londonderry next winter. James Temple owns a four year old horse weighing 1525 pounds. Mss Alice Dyer returns from Flat Ridge visit. Rev Matthew Moses and wife from Senecaville renewed acquaintances here. Mrs Margaret Deveny and Frank Spence visited relatives at Senecaville. Linn and wife return from Hardin county where Mrs Linn’s mother’s health is failing. Over twenty probationers joined ME church. three more by certificate. Rev Bowers to aid in Winchester quarterly meeting next Sabbath. no preaching at Allen's chapel. Missionary concert at the ME Sabbath school on Aug. 12 with Prof T N Roach. Attendees from here at Harmony church report a pleasant evening.
James Lanming visits Hopewell this week. Jerry Millicons drives a fine new buggy. W P Ross of Creighton has added a house addition. John Wagenzeller returns after illness. Mrs Andrew Baird of Peculiar Missouri visiting Knox relatives. C E Monroe and John Calhoun buy a large lot of fat sheep at 32.5 per cwt. Mrs Wylie of Adams township and baby escape serious injury after wagon accident. Prayer meeting at ME church weekly continues with discussion over a proposed change to accommodate a billed concert.
Byesville farmers busy harvesting as butter and eggs stay scarce at 14 and 15 cents. Peaches fetched 1.50 per bushel on the streets. The K of P's plan an anniversary on the 26th. A tri color festival is set for Burt hall next Saturday by 12 young ladies to aid the band boys. Eyesville and Trail tun Kids played a baseball in Trail Run with Byesville winning 10 to 9. Byesville weighs need for health board action soon.
R Bell had his house painted last week. Oats ripening fast and will be a good crop. Some threshing has been done in this neighborhood. Nearly all the wool sold in this locality at 25¢ per pound. Capt OM Shipley was at Cambridge last Saturday on business. WF Padgett went to Winchester on Monday to assist John Stockdale in teaching a normal school. Lon McPeek of near Brushy Fork church died Tuesday night 17th of int. consumption. Interment in the ME cemetery here.
Galigher and Hattie Camp tease a wedding soon while Miss Mattie Scott visits Washington and Middlebourne. Jacob Ringer to teach the winter school as locals discuss a new toll house and a singing school appeal, with reunion rain memories and travel tales.
A busy week in Kimbolton includes visitors Eph Sears and J P McKee in Birmingham and Robert Black of Ireland at John Moniger's. Ira Lloyd erected two monuments in Bell cemetery. Community happenings cover illnesses, accidents, a GAR festival, ball game previews, and a North Salem church call for Rev J W Best. The ice cream festival drew about two hundred with the Jefferson township string band.
Residents report heavy rains this week and quiet social visits. Johnston and wife spent Sunday at Miller Moses after a rough Saturday night. Cambridge visitor Thomas McCourt stayed Monday with his father. Frank Johnston injured his left foot by stepping on an iron rake.
Center Township notes crop progress with oats harvest urgent and hay work near completion. W F Beymer buys a new buggy and leaves the saw mill near Galligher to pursue farming. Soward Forsythe attends normal at Washington while Miss Kate Goshen visits Zanesville and Misses Minnie Driggs Ida Nelson attend Cambridge normal. Jug Williams visits Washington. CL Hyde and wife host a guest at their home.
New two story six room house with out houses and well of water in Carson's Addition Cambridge Ohio. Call on or address M L Camesect June 28 Cambridge Ohio.
Osborn Beal visited Wm Calvert’s area last week and Mrs Phoebe Stewart visited friends near Inchester. Rev JH Harding will preach next Sunday at the ME church. JC Rolingson completed a fine bank barn. Alex Allender and daughter Maude of Bridgeport Ohio visit friends here. An ice cream social at Mack Lake’s last Saturday evening was enjoyed. A new post office near Thor Maxwell’s Birmingham road named Why Not with Doc Watson postmaster. Lon McPeek, former resident near Winchester, died last Thursday. he was well liked and mourned by the community.
Miss Clara B Hammond a former Cambridge resident dies suddenly at age nineteen. The essay notes a brief illness linked to diabetes and describes the family’s grief as her mother travels from Norwich to Cambridge, then to Ohio as plans for funeral rites unfold.
James M Gregg and N T Oliver as administrators of Thomas F Strong deceased filed July 21 1885 in Guernsey Probate Court a petition for sale of real estate in Noble County Ohio to pay debts. Heirs named Thomas Strong Mary Ann Nigh Margaret J Cutright Henry Waldren and others must answer by September 16 1888. Mathews & Heade Attorneys. July 26 1888.
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