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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1883
Page
3
Cambridge weekly includes sales, weather, travel, and social notes. Mentions Kohn Bros clothing sale, Hirschberg menswear, D. R. Maple restaurants, Emigrants westward on B and O, Love City mumps, garden crop prospects, and local incidents from court to farms.
The Sells Brothers show with a vast menagerie and thousands of curiosities will arrive by a fifty car special train. Decatur reports the event as the great show of the age with full pavillion seating and praised performances including a Ute tribal drama. The piece also lists Guernsey County personal property values and notes Children’s Day at the M E Church with flowers and birds and a sermon by Rev. Dr. Locke.
Jed Williams holds agency for the Simi Fence Company offering wrought iron fences praised as the best and cheapest on the market. The fences are noted as suitable for cemetery lots and other applications, with emphasis on affordability and durability.
Reports include Wm Maifet catching 40 pounds of fish last Friday night. James Downey lines up his C and M section in No 1 trim. JT Oldham holds the boss field of corn in the neighborhood. Mrs Marion Miller of Cambridge visits Mrs Eric Miller this week. Charles Lukins of Oldham's Station visits Caldwell Saturday. The new C and M time card brings little change at Oldham's. Wool buyers have vanished from the area. Mrs D Marsh of Idaville returns home after visiting friends. Will Oldham attends Hopewell band event and notes its quality. Wheat ripening rapidly with some cuts expected by week’s end. James Warden loses 26 sheep to the C and M coal train and A H Tingle loses a valued hog last week. District No 2 directors reseat the schoolhouse and make improvements. Democrats view the statewide ticket as strong. Gilkinson Bros finish mason work on the Washington bridge and advance local projects. SV Wortman is in pain after being bitten while trying to break up two fighting dogs.
Miss Olive Touch returns home. Ale Anderson and Annie Raiser wed last week. An infant of Solomon Bennett buried in our cemetery. Hon William Lawrence injured by a horse. John Mekhisson family visiting. William Garey travels to Indiana with son. Infant Boyd twins buried here. Wool trade dull. buyers hold at 32 or 33 cents. John Pord visits Massillon. accompanied by two cousins. Sabbath floral at M. E Church with songs and responsive service. Rev. Jackson preaches to children. Catarrh warned as seed of consumption. Hall's Catarrh Cure advertised at 75 cents. Sold by John Dow nar. June 1 3m.
J W Young spent days in town while Joseph Allison visited Milnersville friends. Various residents travel to Ada Ohio Council Bluffs Iowa and Chicago. others visit family in Cambridge West Cambridge and New Concord. Local jobs and political bids also surface as residents pursue posts and party nominations.
Mrs Barnett of Stafford visits sister Mrs W E Tipton and others are noted visiting in town. Harvey Lowrey returns from Omaha while Mrs Theodore Ijams visits Cambridge. A death from diphtheria occurs as Zillie Meek is buried after illness. The MFE Sabbath School plans a Fourth picnic with Presbyterian participation. Public school closes with treats, a gold pen awarded to a teacher, and staff for next year announced. Local horse theft scare ends with the horse found at Purdum's livery. Hall's Catarrh Cure advertised by John Downar. June 14-3m.
The Pt Pleasant wool business remains dull as merchants quote 32e with large reductions. Mrs. Michael Kackley visits Illinois. Rev Waltz from Norwich tours Bethel. Miss Lizzie M Spaid travels to Ava. Samuel Trott to Putnam county for several months. local events include a fire at Benjamin Larrick's home deemed arson by neighbors. he was sent to the Athens asylum after being adjudged insane.
Mr. J. Beach of Stone Bridge Ulster County New York suffered from a calculus in his right kidney since October 18 1874. After seven physicians and hundreds of dollars yielded only relief he used Dr David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy and voided a large stone on September 15. He praises the remedy and notes its sale by druggists with address in Rondout New York.
Local farmers report rain short of reaching the area while wheat ripens and will be ready to cut in days. Prices for wool remain around 32 cents with buyers hoping for 35 cents. A six year old boy suffered a hand wound from a revolver found in a shoe shop. Dr. Kline treated the injury with no bone damage.
An advertisement touts Dr. David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy as a quick-acting aid for kidney and liver troubles. It warns of constipation bites rheumatism and gravel if untreated and urges readers to ask in stores or write to Roundout New York for the remedy.
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