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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1884
Page
3
The Cambridge Herald reports taxes collected by Treasurer Sankey and various commerce updates at Rh M Greenway Co. new depots and goods. health worries with diphtheria in Barnesville and Knox township. community events including weddings, church notices, school terms, and a gala at Burt's Opera Hall.
Miss Jennie Black visits Columbus while Mrs J R Troette visits Marietta. Miss Lizzie Hilman from Marietta visits here. E McCollum returns from Western trip. Misses Sadie and Jennie Cork of Columbus visit here. Jack Huffman of Newark greets friends. S L Dugan seeks Kansas home from Wheeling township. Lora Haines visits friends at Lloydsville Ohio. Mrs Sarah Brashear of New Birmingham visits town. Miss Jennie McPherson returns from Cincinnati. Miss Mattie Crowl returns from Columbiana county visit. Benjamin McNerry family of Knox county visit. Linton of Salesville guests Brill couple. Effie Scott plans winter visit to Kansas. John Gallup cut hand. injured last week. Lizzie Henderson of Fairview spends winter in Coshocton county. Barb returns from Illinois. Mrs W W Hanlon of Barnesville visits P E Norris and wife. Mrs Stacy Taylor of Monroe township adjudged insane to asylum. Frank Temple and William Walters of neighborhood go to Ichita Kansas. Miss Sadie FE Bonnell returns from Edgar county Illinois. George Wyrick of Jefferson township to live in Wichita Kansas. A T Smith keeps books for J B Lydick & Son Quaker City. Frank Hammond, Wm Woodburn, T C Taylor of Washington DC, H H Madison, W G Smith return to vote. Frank Martin of Caldwell Journal visits town en route to Cincinnati for job material. Miss Marietta Askew visits Judge Mathews and plans to California. nn of Claysville nine months visit in progress.
A clerk recalls applying six months earlier with $2,000 salary, being rejected for seeming old and shabby. He grew new hair with Parker's Hair Balsam, bought a decent suit, reapplied, and was hired. The moral: Parkers Hair Balsam gives a person a new face.
A vintage advertisement promotes Dr Biglow's Positive Cure for coughs colds whooping cough croup bronchitis asthma influenza and throat and lung diseases. It claims a safe speedy and permanent cure with a 50 cent price and a trial bottle free from J R Downar.
Judge Mathews of Cambridge appointed by Gov Hoadly to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Frazier is presiding at the term in this place. He is an accomplished gentleman, fills the seat with dignity and grace, and earns satisfaction from lawyers and litigants for his meticulous, lawyer-like approach.
Mrs. Mary A. Dailey of Tunkhannock Pennsylvania suffered six years with asthma and bronchitis. After trying many physicians she found relief with Dr King's New Discovery last October. She used it for a short period and was completely cured, gaining 50 pounds in a few months. Free trial bottles at J R Downar's drug store. Large bottles $1.00.
Marriage licenses have been issued to J. H. Smith and Annie E. Clay Edward Howell and Agness Patterson A. W. Neel and Della A. Dye Geo. H. Satchet and Margaret N. Marsh C. W. Ford and Laura Morris R. R. Brill and Mary E. Mendenhall Jesse L. Wiley and Flora J. Trott H. B. Lowry and Emma Brown Thos. Wilson and Kate A. Gracey.
An advertisement touts Day's Horse and Cattle Powder as a top remedy for internal cow diseases. It claims it works well for hoove and scouring from over green feed and warns to keep it for spring grass effects. Priced at twenty five cents per one pound package.
A bystander pulled a burr from a front wheel of the vehicle carrying Hon J D Taylor Hon W M Farrar and Major J T Rainey to a Hopewell meeting Saturday night causing the wheel to come off as they prepared to depart. No one was hurt and another conveyance was found. The act is condemned.
D A Reynolds reports for the American Bible Society in Guernsey County. Data show 2138 books valued at 824.24, 304 donated valued at 78.21, direct gifts 162.23, 4540 families visited, 360 found destitute. Plus letters extoll Ayers Hair Vigor as a hair restorer and scalp conditioner.
C H Lopez the wide awake harness dealer maintains a large stock of home made work and invites calls for harness saddles or repairs. Dr Bull's Cough Syrup is praised for curing a croupy cough. D R Maple sells billiard and pool tables to a Byesyville party and shifts focus to a restaurant business.
An advertisement asserts that honesty governs medicine and claims Ayer’s Sarsaparilla is a genuine preparation and unequaled blood purifier, superior to all others.
Mrs Hannah Gundy of Tontogany Ohio is visiting Brady. A series of meetings will be held at Allen's Chapel beginning Saturday evening November 8.
Go to Kersey's on Mill Street opposite the Court House for clothes cleaning and repair services.
Premiums for the fair are being paid. Samuel Boyd reported cattle and pigs sold here on Saturday. Ed Cunningham from Marion County Ohio visits friends. A child of Thos Steele was buried Sunday. The colored school meets in the Clements building this winter. Presbyterian ladies hosted an oyster supper at the town hall on election day. The American Head Administrators sale to S B Lawrence brought 1690 dollars, with Thomas Clark of St Clairsville noted as purchaser. Cheney's Stomach and Liver Regulator advertised as a remedy.
The column lists residents under the weather with B K Bell and Mrs Sarah E Sarchet among several sick. It notes John H Britton building plans, Wm B Gilkinson finishing Kennedy bridge work, and Luther Giffin selling property before moving to Kansas. An ad extols Dr Jones Red Clover Tonic as a general tonic and purifier.
Guernsey suffers asthma and returns home Thursday. Isaiah Forney and Miss Bell Mere day. Isaac Oldham of Oldham's Station visits J B Marling over Sabbath. James Schryoch buys a buggy from Lincoln Dugan. John Marling off the road for a few days. Due to sickness John Whitis and his daughter Miss Mintie plan a trip to Kansas. Miss Maggie Angus, ten, at Union Hill, keeps Sabbath at home. Mrs T McCombs and daughter Miss Jennie visiting friends in Harrison County. horse and ching school.
An 19th century style ad extols Parer s Tonic, claiming workers from merchants to laborers cannot perform well when slightly ill. It asserts keeping organs in order prevents poor work and currency in pocket, touting one hour of good health as worth hours of languor and pain.
Byesville reports many social items including marriages births moves and local visits. J W Campbell votes in Columbus Blaine Logan. J M Kackley injured at No 1 shaft, two weeks off. Street improvements discussed and Rev Grubber new ME minister end with church concert and community updates.
Dr. Frazier's Magic Ointment advertised as a sure cure for oils, burns, sores, cuts, flesh wounds, sore nipples, corns, chapped lips and hands, pimples and blotches. Priced at 50c. Manufactured by Frazier Medicine Co. prop.
Marriages reported on October 22 and 30. Wm Olbeck wed Jennie Hillman of Cambridge at Mr. Wm Turnbaugh’s home. Edward Howell of Flat Ridge married Agness Patterson of Hopewell. C W Ford wed Laura Morris in 1884. Brill Mendenhall tied the knot at the Emerson residence in a ceremony officiated by Clark Rose.
The Phi lomatheian Literary Society of Muskingum College records the death of Anna McGary and adopts four resolutions. They express humble submission to God, cherish her quiet Christian life, resolve to continue their work, and send copies to local papers Cambridge Herald Guernsey Times and New Concord Enterprise.
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