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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1890
Page
3
Cambridge Herald lists band performances at the rink, a horse fair, local travels and visits, weathered market reports, church events, education notes, and multiple social notices. It mentions post office closures, local business openings, and forthcoming fairs with names of residents, towns, and firms across Guernsey and nearby counties.
Fair week draws crowds as farmers report sowing and corn in shock. Louis McWilliams loses a horse to lightning. Patterson & Beymer open a top grocery in the Baker room. Rev. McCracken vacationing in Pennsylvania. Mrs. Black of Coshocton visiting her parents. Harry Heiner of Pt. Pleasant visits with family. H Clemens returns from Zanesville. Miss Lissie Rodecker visits town for the Fair. Rev. Hollet preaches to a large congregation. S B Lawrence restocks boots and shoes cheaply. D E Patterson and others run an oyster room and restaurant at Lowry during Fair. Gus Johnson leaves town with debts. Miss Huff and Mrs. Frame visit Smith House for the Fair. Ada Rea returns from Minneapolis for the Fair. Balloon ascent planned for Thu and Fri at the fair grounds. track in first class condition. Andrew Clark of Minneapolis visiting grandparents. a keen bicycle rider riding to Cambridge in forty five minutes. Prof Hawkins notes Miss May Lazelie will perform two ascensions with the balloon Thursday and Friday.
John Little of Odell went to Iowa last week. Jacob Durban moves to Jefferson county this week. John Styles shipped a car of hogs and cattle Saturday. Mrs. Dr. Lemon of Calcutta Ohio visits here. Miss Ifte Bell ill with typhoid fever. Over two hundred tickets sold for Newcomerstown Fair. Geo Lanning and wife from Pennsylvania reform school visiting Odell.
Jacob Brower is seriously ill while Simon Stiles remains in critical condition. A. Milligan visits his brother in Summerfield Ohio. A religious revival thrives in the M E congregation. Linn suffers injuries from a mule kick. Mrs A P Allen and sons Ray and Ralph of Quaker City are visiting relatives here. Mrs Shelton Wolvertin leaves for Southern Michigan to visit kin. Rev W A Rutlege, new pastor, preached last Sabbath to a favorable impression. The missionary concert at the M E church last Saturday was well attended. next concert planned for November.
Garlington visited Cambridge Monday. Elliott Prouty of Coal Hill mourns a daughter who died the 23rd. Will St Clair heads to Cincinnati to attend dental college. Lyle Moore buys Dr A H Trueman’s property and will move to Marietta. Mrs Vincent Dye of Renrock dies after long illness. Odd Fellows parade and picnic planned at High Hill Thursday. A R McCullough of Love City travels to law school in Cincinnati. Charles Stone son of Jas Stone of Claysville dies after typhoid fever. Belle McCloy and Lucretia Collins voyage to Missouri to visit relatives until spring.
Isaac McMallen returned from a Western trip. C.E. and Wm Sawyer and Joseph Fleming attended the State Fair in Columbus. Services in the M E church next Sabbath at ten thirty by Rev. J A Rutlege. Nicholas Andrews moves to New Philadelphia after selling his farm to Henry and Clyde Young. Mrs Win Mahoney operated on by Dr Wail for tumor and is doing as well as could be expected. Martha Ratliff visited sister Mrs M J Jones at the Columbus asylum and not improving. John Rati, a local citizen, returned from Mansfield and other points, poorly and badly beaten, likely robbed but he won’t give details. Wm Hutchison Jr sold his team to James Bell of Tyner for 225 dollars. Bell departs for Iowa with the mules, seven horses, three wagons and a cart, six weeks on the road.
Cambridge post office lists uncalled letters dated Sept 27 1890. Advertised letters include Miss Kate Boyd Mrs Feard Bell Mrs Frederick Brock Miss Carrie Kellar Thos Jones Miss Lisazie Pearce Sim Smith and others. Apply with proper identification to J B Taylor postmaster.
The notices record marriages of Foster Spencer Roby Reasoner Sayre Yagar McCandlass Hittle Law Stout Stitt Lee and Carlisle and birth of two daughters at this place between September 24 and 28 1890. Readings mention ministers Rev W D Starkey Rev W V Milligan Rev S Burt D D and Rev J A Thrapp, with couples from Cambridge Ohio and local residents.
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