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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1883
Page
3
Thrifty counts of 1883 Guernsey county life show holiday store prompts from Siddalls Book Store Meredith's Boots and Shoes and Marsh Dennis cigars. School property totals 169000 plus 140 districts. roads fences barbed wire and new boardwalks dot town.
W XN Cowden visited Cambridge Monday while Miss Lucy Neal and Miss Kate Newman spent time with Wheeling friends. Mrs Maria Stormont of New Concord is very ill. J A Buchanan and John S Nace were in town visiting friends. Several residents traveled or planned visits to Columbus Cincinnati New Philadelphia East Liverpool Canandaigua Baltimore and Philadelphia.
The author extols families using long evenings to have a member read aloud from books and newspapers. It notes mutual improvement from discussion and questions and laments that educated people often lack strong aloud reading skills. The piece urges nurturing the family reading habit.
An experimenter notes wood can outlast iron underground with linseed oil and pulverized coal finish. basswood posts lasting seven years show no rot. The piece also lists a Thanksgiving program at M. KE church with acts like Cinderella and Villikins and Dinah, bee-keeping tips for winter, and advertisements for Hirschberg’s boys clothing. It covers local school principals and student counts, and Cambridge Chapter No. 53 Masons officer slate.
John and Wilkin traveled to southwestern Kansas to oversee land for a potential rancho purchase. A local company has been formed to run the venture in the county. Several thousand dollars are expected to be invested.
Hon Jupar W H Frazier and Sheriff McGill presiding. Revival of judgment for Wm Devries vs F A Knouff at 2137.40. Divorce rulings include Elizabeth Cramblett vs B Cramblett with 25 alimony. Multiple verdicts: Carnes vs Bracken 153.64. Shriver verdict for plaintiff 4. Ledlie vs William August 603.90. Amicable partition of 700 acres Scott vs Scott. Taxed cases include liquor law indictments and framed guilty pleas with fines and jail terms.
Commodore Garrison of the Wheel ing and Lake Erie Railroad bought the Marietta City Branch Railroad on Friday. He paid all bonds mortgages and accrued interest. The line runs from the Muskingum bridge end to the Green street depot.
Washington notes a daughter for J C Robe and multiple hogs taken in on Friday. Samuel Clements receives a pension of about seven hundred dollars. Miss Anderson moves into W Cochran’s former house. J Mack Perry and Miss Black marry by Squire Creighton. Cale and Aplin buy 100 head of fat sheep from James McCreary at four cents per pound. W Wood White travels the state selling charts and maps but is taken insane and kept at a hotel awaiting news from Grafton West Virginia. he reportedly holds the only correct map of West Virginia and his condition is attributed to a sun stroke last year.
Winter apples keep poorly at Oldham's Station. Bob Robinson now works on the C and O Railroad. The poultry market is dull for the season. Mr and Mrs S Hayt of Ry esville visited here. Lemon Bros fulfilled a contract to deliver 1000 ties at the station for the C M Railroad. Oldham of Paola Kansas is here to see his ailing father S H Oldham. JS Campbell bought 200 sheep, average 95 pounds each. A young black man wanders the area claiming discharge from the regular army and appears unsettled.
Farmers husk corn and a two inch tee lists on Skullfork dated the 17th. Rev S George of Mansfield filled the R P pulpit last Sabbath. J E Morrison suspends coal bank work for better drainage. Distemper in horses caused some fatalities. Mare Wim LB McElroy rents farm and returns among neighbors. John Leipsay visits Cadiz for medical consult. Ella Wiers teaches Londonderry school. Brown Upper Crab Orchard and Gates Dry Ridge noted. Pax ton property sold to John Stewart who plans spring teardown and rebuild. Corn sale price 56 cents a bushel at R P Tiderick’s. West reports similar price. Fat stock shipped East. hogs fed little corn. acorns abundant. Henderson McClenahan buys shoats from W W McCall for woods pasture.
New Concord College has resumed work with about 80 students enrolled. Hunting is the chief occupation of settlers in Eastern Muskingum. L Hukill will run the penmanship class this winter. R J Miller of Pittsburgh preached a fine discourse in the U P church Sunday. Union Thanksgiving services are set for Thursday at 11 am in the U P church with Roy Brown to preach. R K Porter to organize a photography class. he comes highly recommended from Otterbein University. Jas A Miller, esteemed citizen and longtime U P church elder, died Wednesday morning aged 84. funeral Friday at 11 am with remarks by Dr Paul, Prest Spencer, and Roy Brown.
Local notes report Sugar Turner of U. S. seen on our streets. 8. C. Hayt and wife spent Sunday at Old ham's Station. L. W. Smith and J. A. Conner visit friends at Cardington. Theodore Morford and wife of N. J. visiting at Lewis R. Morris'. An oyster supper is planned in the town hall on Thanksgiving evening. Rev Ream F. Dollison Jamesee and others are on the sick list this week.
Hopewell reports Joseph Lowry visiting friends at Love City last Sunday. A match hunt is planned there next Thursday. Mr Elliot of Louisville stopped by last week, and Miss Dorcus Chapman visits her sister Mrs Phelps in Miller's Station. Frank Sunderland and James Wolf of Coshocton attended George Geese's area last week.
The No.6 school, taught by Jas H Dull, enrolls 28 scholars and is described as a success. An organized rat hunt last week involved twelve men per side under Captains Charles Smith and Wm McConnaughy. Casualties totaled 856 with Capt McConnaughy at 446 and Capt Smith at 410. Wesly Porter was declared champion.
Sunday work continued in coal mines and at the C W N Y R yard as Col Jake Kemple’s second attempt failed due to weather. Henry Booth and wife from near Cambridge visited relatives. Andy Richey sues Senecaville felt stockholders over premiums near nine dollars. Rainie’s grocery advertises cheap goods. Mr Church’s repairs begin. church renovation follows Thanksgiving. The missionary society anniversary at the Presbyterian church featured Rev Donaldson Satterthwaite and physicians wives as speakers with music and children’s band. Presbyterians collected gifts for Rev Nam Donaldson in Washington, totaling about seventy dollars, and a loaf of bread containing teaspoons proved a curious but valued present.
Street Talk cites a testimonial praising Hall's Catarrh Cure for a 32 pound gain and “complete cure” after 20 years of ill health. The ad notes price of $50 per bottle and salesperson John Downar, 3m.
Mrs W C Scott is very ill. Corn harvest nearly complete locally. A A Johnson suffers neuralgia, Ed Johnson back on streets after illness. Schools fine under Mr Rose. Uncle Johny Sayiers near death. W C Scott enters poultry business. one shipment made. Local mill running after water delay. District No 1 Jefferson township formed a literary society. W C Scott sold 1000 lb butter to a shipper. Rev Edwards of Washington visits. protracted Brushy Fork Baptist meeting ongoing with 16 accessions.
The December North American Review features Gardiner Hubbard on government control of the telegraph and telegraph postal integration, Laughlin on the sub treasury, Gail Hamilton on Carlyle, Henry George on overproduction, Franklin on national defense, Waldo on uniform time standards, and Rider and Hodge on morality without religion. Published at 30 Lafayette Place, New York.
Reports from Ava and surrounding areas include visits by Miss Jane Selders to Tyesville and Charley McCreary from Washington, a Kansas Hall teacher on vacation, and a ME church meeting set for December 9. Pastor changes, local visits, a festival with an organ fundraiser, and minor injuries at a well and a bottle firecracker incident are recorded along with a child’s eye injury later deemed permanent blindness.
The item notes churches in Antrim contemplating a Christmas tree and a Brushy Fork Baptist meeting led by Rev Erwin with 18 to 20 accessions. It mentions baseball with a 28 to 21 score, a sick child of Wat Fuller, A H Caldwell buying a Mason Harding farm to locate near Birmingham, and an aged lady McCandlas buried in UP cemetery.
The December issue offers a $20 prize to anyone who counts verses with exactly three words in the Old Testament and mails the answer by December 10, 1883. If multiple correct answers are received the prize is split. Send 20 cents with the answer to receive the January Monthly.
Distemper affects horses at Cald The Zooloreal gardens near Cincinnati. Belmont County Grand Jury urges a new jail. Farmer’s Institute to operate in about forty counties this winter. Harrison County teaches 130 teachers to “shoot” the young idea. Logan County dog tax stands at 2597 with sheep damages at 2893. Alexis Cope named Clerk at OSU Board of Trustees with 1200 salary. Muskingum County reports a 32 year old horse owned by Mrs Avery near Otsego. Salvation Army captain arrested in Wheeling for disorderly conduct. Vigilance committees form in Belmont County to hunt thieves. Ohio strawboard manufacturing grows. new factories in wheat regions. Amateur baseball reps to meet in Springfield Dec 18 to form Ohio Association. Ohio penitentiary figures: 1274 inmates Nov 1 1882. 1,287 remaining after year details. total labor 325,819 days. earnings 221,953.15 dollars. average earnings 73 cents per hour. maintenance 140.80 per erg.
Advertisement notes Edison’s electric light as a wonderful discovery but praises Hall’s Cure as even more remarkable. Sold by John Downar. Dated October 4.
Marriages listed: Levi Miller wed Jennie Pollock on November 22, 1883 at North Salem by Rev T Luecock. Henry Anes wed Flora C Ables on November 21, 183% at the bride's parents’ residence by Rev Fr B Edwards in Middlebourne Ohio.
Mr and Mrs M F Gallup announce the birth of a son last week, adding a new member to their family.
Corrected weekly prices list shows items such as Sorghum gallon 125 135 and Butter 10 12, with multiple grain and seed entries. Includes Chickens dozen at 200 225, Hams 10 12, and Croton Loom sacks priced at 9 4006. Also lists Orchard Grass seed and Timothy seed with small unit prices and assorted rags mixed with paper.
General newspaper highlighting full home news correspondence and democratic advocacy invites trials. Subscriptions include daily four cent and Sunday editions. Map offer adds 10 cents for a West Virginia map with any edition. Address Lewis Baker & Co. Wheeling West Virginia.
Public sale of Lot 14 in Point Pleasant Guernsey County Ohio follows an order from the Court of Common Pleas Samuel F Trott v Michael S Trott and others The lot is appraised at 350 with cash due now and 14 in one year and 4 in two years mortgage security at 6 percent Nov 1 1883 Cambridge Ohio J M McGill Sheriff Belford Lewis and White Campbell attorneys for plaintiff
Harper's Magazine opens its sixty eighth volume with the December number. It touts popular illustrated content and timely topics. The issue features serial and new novels by William Brack and E P Roe along with illustrated papers and stories by multiple noted authors.
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