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Newspaper
Cambridge Jeffersonian
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1909
Page
5
Local newspaper notice announces The Daily Jeffersonian available for sale at News Depot located in Mathews Block on North Seventh Street. The brief item notes distribution access for readers in the area.
Local ad promotes home telephone service and long distance options with contact number .218-489-3 .36 indicating pricing or rate note.
Craig's rug shop advertises all sizes. F. A. Pny bar 10 Pittsburg Monday on business. H. J. Boyd dentist in Taylor block remarks on Belmont visit. Mrs. Margaret Brill ill at Ogier avenue home. H. T. Schick on business trip to Buffalo. M. Gilfred of New York visiting Cambridge. Esely’s jewelry advertpromises savings. Mr. and Mrs. Jas Moore of New Concord shopped in the city. W. C. Boyd attended funeral of relatives at Somerton before returning home.
Branthoover Johnston Co offers 20 percent off entire line with January sales. Dr Bartlett provides eye tests and discounted glasses saving two to four dollars per pair. McMurray Neel advertise painting and paper hanging services with estimates on contracts. Royal Neighbors hold April 20 meeting at Modern Woodmen hall. W A C bean supper April 20 in Pathfinders hall 6 to 7 45 PM.
In depositing money with The Guernsey Building and Loan Co you place funds where they are absolutely safe and work for you. E A Scott secretary Cambridge Ohio.
A Cambridge Band was asked to travel to Parkersburg West Virginia on May 19 to perform for the State Knights Templar Conclave. Organizers require twenty musicians but the local group will not contract for fewer than thirty. A series of Electric Park concerts may be planned in summer. decision postponed.
A stockholders meeting in Pleasant City organized the Pleasant City Oil and Gas Co with James Laughlin as president Mansel Williams as vice president P D Cowgill as secretary J M Secrest as treasurer N E Secrest as general manager The company recently incorporated with 10000 capital and about 1500 acres under lease near Pleasant City Plans to begin drilling the first well as soon as possible.
A meeting of the Guernsey Valley Fair Co. elected a board of directors and formed officers for the year. The board includes A J Bennett, Dr A W Boyd, Dr W G Lane, Grant Turnbaugh, James C Orr, John Nicholson, J H Dickens, D B Burt, and Arthur Hoopman. Officers are James C Orr president J W Cale vice president Arthur Hoopman treasurer W M Sherrard secretary and Dr A W Boyd assistant secretary. A second meeting is set for April 26 to appoint committees and finalize arrangements for the fire hig event of the season at the Driving Park on Monday July 5.
Advertises optical work available at H Esely, successor to E G Sites, inviting customers to have their lenses and sight needs handled by the new proprietor. Includes contact or location cues typical of a small-town shop listing.
Mseers N T Bell and J W Ruly hunted ducks in the northern part of Guernsey county on Tuesday. Miss Nettie Moore of Coshocton, visiting her parents Sheriff and Mrs H K Moore, returned to Coshocton this morning.
Mr Upregraff reports Well No 1 has reached about 140 feet under city water project directed by the Board of Public Service. The plan is to sink to 165 or 170 feet before testing with machinery to be provided by the Ohio Drilling Co and approved by the Board. Poe proposes steam pump testing and will visit Cambridge this week.
The Evangelist delivers a Sunday night sermon praising divine guidance and urging the race to leave vice for virtue. She ends her services tonight, hopeful that nearby believers contribute funds for her church and community work.
Mrs. Dr F M Mitchell of Oakland Place Addition sustained several sprains and bruises after tumbling down a basement stair while carrying two large glass jars. Both jars shattered but she was not cut by the glass. Family members aided her to a room after the incident.
Deputy Fire Marshal Albert Worstall of Zanesville visited the city Monday en route to the Little Trail Run mine of the Byesville Coal Co to inspect a recent fire that destroyed the tipple boiler room and engine house. Incendarisms is suspected.
A full evening of fun at Cambridge's Orpheum last night featured the Washer brothers in boxing comedy, the Funny Rubes from Missouri in aRave sketch, and comedian Bob Dupreez. The show ran 7 and 8 15 pm with a 3 30 pm children's matinee Wednesday.
Craigs offers a one dollar dress goods sale and gingham table linen deals. Granite kettle priced low with four wrappers off. Local ad notes varied fabric and kitchenware items with several discount lines.
An ad invites shoppers to Williams for 25 percent off in jewelry, notes dentists Dr. J. E. Secrest and I. L. Stewart on the second floor of Central National Bank building Cambridge Ohio. It also mentions Atkins silver polish with free samples opposite the courthouse.
Advertises a Percheron stallion’s schedule at Mosses’ barn in Cambridge, noting the animal is at home other days. Includes names Patter son and Wilson and address 93-21.$ Dr. A. W. Boyd, Dentist, Cambridge Ohio. An anecdotal testimonial praises Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as lifesaving for a woman, and promotes Brooks Sutton Drugstore selling the tea.
A small grocery listing highlights sugar, beans, soap, naptha, canned fruits, crackers, flour, coffee, rice, and meat specials. The ad touts a selection of household staples and mentions pictures and looking glasses offered at close prices to attract customers.
A recipe invites readers to make a Lemon Jello salad with two packages of powder dissolved in boiling water, folded with Spanish sweet peppers, walnut meats, chopped celery and salt, then molded and chilled until sliceable. Serve ten with a light whipped cream dressing.
Be sure and see Wm. B. Mapell, contractor and painter, for wall papering and painting. Workmanship guaranteed. Orders receive prompt attention. W. B. Mapel, 490 Wall avenue, Bell phone 355 J.
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