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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1885
Page
3
A page of Cambridge area notes records illnesses and deaths, court actions, business openings, local improvements, and social events. Mentions Miss Cora Floyd, Mrs. Chloe Jones, bridge completion, glass works revival, rail crossing disputes, and community travel to Chicago. Also reports school enrollments, weather, torpedo mischief, and upcoming entertainments at New Concord and Kimbolton.
The Hutchison vs Waltz suit from last week caused offense but did not injure any jurors. Hutchison followed attorney advice in his actions. S.4. McMahon and Hugh White are bound westward for business. The former will tour Nebraska and Kansas. White will visit his brother in Peoria.
Mrs. 1), Fletcher Stanley of Milnersville, an estimable lady, died last Sunday. Miss Jennie Black is visiting friends at Kimbolton.
Washington items report Jas A Tyson opening a meat market and Atty General Lawrence spending Sunday in town. Local youths hold parties, Miss Lib Ferrell and Miss Tude Price visit relatives, court sessions ongoing, wheat thriving, Wallace back from Michigan, corn hushings noted, roads in bad condition. Market prices indicate flour, apples, eggs, and chickens with weekly price corrections.
A Burrs Ferry resident Lt A F Evans extols a great iron tonic as a superior family medicine. The tonic’s powers are claimed to be well tested and its virtues abundantly proven. The article notes that nearly a million bottles a year are sold by druggists nationwide.
Miss Belle Conner visits friends in Noble county while Ellis Addison returns from Newcomers town. Prof J B Garber begins school at Pt Pleasant. A festival by the Byesville band succeeds. A child dies from burns Sunday evening at the Cum mins home. JF Woodrow reports eighty bushels of German millet. Mammoth quince from Geneva NY weighs one pound. Prof Collier entertains at surt's hall, praised for legerdemain skills.
Miss Lillie Hunt of Barnesville visits in town while RC Speer B and O agent at Shawnee spends Sunday here. J A McEwen was in town en route to Columbus. Mrs J H Colvig of Barnesville joined Mrs Will Lydick. several Sayre children ill. Wim Poland of the planing mill out with lung trouble. J B Lydick gradually improving. Mary Boyd spent week with Ida Trimble of Wheeling. Alonzo Lowry buys a lot near J Keevert and will build soon. Samuel Lydick and daughter of Glen Easton WV visiting J B Lydick. Sons of Veterans plan a literary entertainment for the order. Part of Pike street paving being filled by council order. Christian church protracted meeting ends with no new members. Hall and Bauer to install roller-process outfit at Orient mills, boosting local industry.
The piece notes wet weather hindering corn husking, typhoid illness in Mary Pollock, a Texas home gathering, and a Hopewell Sabbath Communion led by Rev Stewart. It records visits by Miss Lillie Gillespie and Miss Jessie Gibson, a North Salem literary society, cattle shipments, travelers returning, and a Wilson Anderson wedding in Antrim. Fifteen freight cars halt on a side track due to a wreck between here and Cambridge. Annie Wallace to lead primary in winter. A speaker cites New York and Virginia election returns with a hint of curiosity.
Wm Thomas of Newton Ta reports his wife, plagued by a cough for 25 years, found relief after trying Dr King's New Discovery. The first bottle gave great relief and the second bottle completely cured her, the best health in 30 years. Trial bottles free at C L Wall & Co's drug Store, large size $1.
A Brockaw reports lost hogs and labor boom from unfavorable weather. Rev Waltz and family travel to Cleveland by carriage. Samuel Dilley wells near Mill street. G AR to host two day festival December 24 25. Young folks plan a glee club at the hall Thursday. Ed 7s seeks to lease our mines. A new job printing office to publish weekly local paper by Elmer Bryan. Coal mine work paused with miners finding jobs at Robins near Hartford. Visitors include Mr Cowen and Duer of Iowa Mr and Mrs Heston of Zanesville at Winnett’s and Wm Potts. Mrs Holliger and sister of Troy at A Brokaw’s. Hon Williams of Noble county in town on business. Wedding of Bion Keller and Kate Gibson touted with lavish gifts valued at $200. Market notes from Senecaville show reduced prices and ranges for apples and other produce.
Save money and doctor bills by a timely purchase of Dr Bosanko's Cough and Lung Syrup. Best remedy for coughs colds croup and bronchial effects. Relieves children of croup in one night. May save hundreds of dollars. Price 50 cts and 1. Sample free. Sold by John M McGill.
Major Dane to visit New Concord on December 12. W S Harper addressed the college christian association Monday evening. Rev J K Martin preached on the immortality of the soul. Wm McCormac store sale: bid by W W McKinney at 1505 dollars. Last Friday’s auction. Musical review last Wednesday was a success. next review this week. Advertisement seeks 1000 agents for Housewife's Delight cookbook and household guide. Send 35 cents for sample via B Foch t Box D Lewisburg PA.
News notes speak of a quiet wedding last Wednesday uniting Miss Lizzie Anderson of Antrim formerly Pine Grove with James Wilkins of Londonderry. A steady stream of small items covers farming, school vacation, a Grant engraving, and a medicinal salvation oil promotion.
Nov. 5 at Farmers' hotel Alexander Lanning weds Maggie Mathews. Oct. 5 Knox township George C Wilson weds Harriet L Hamilton. Nov. 4 Antrim Jas Wilkin weds Lizzie M Anderson. Oct. 29 Stewart Bennett weds Margaret Bennett. Nov. 5 Dr Orvil O McKee weds Sadie J Wharton.
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