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Newspaper
Cambridge Jeffersonian
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1909
Page
7
B and O railroad plans a yard extension near Cambridge to handle growing freight traffic. Officials secured an option on the Stage lot on West Steubenville Avenue, with Hoge lot proposed for the expansion. filling and new tracks will be needed to store more cars.
Harry Flesher employed by contractor Jack Malloy suffered a deep gash on the backs of his three right fingers while loading a wagon at the Mellyar property corner East Wheeling avenue and North Tenth street. Dr. Mitchell treated the wound and he returned to work.
For sale on Garfield avenue between Ninth and Tenth streets, a five room two story slate roof residence with cistern and garden. Investigate. No trouble to answer questions. Apply to W. R. Dougherty.
Mrs Theo Stevenson and her children from Clark Street are visiting friends in Newark Ohio, traveling to the city for a short visit.
Bargain property with six rooms and slate roof on three quarters of an acre. Includes well and good orchard cellar within corporation limits. Priced at 900 dollars. Must be sold at once. Apply to W. R. Dougherty at Central National Bank Building.
Local notes record the Kimbolton community tying a ice cream social hosted by the Ladies Aid Society Saturday night. Several visitors are named including Mrs Painter of Hastings Nebraska and Mrs Bevington visiting Cambridge for shopping.
A. Wright of Phoenix B. C. asks for information on his brother John D. Wright born in Rochester New York. The farmer was last heard from in Ohio about fifteen years ago and is believed to be H. A. Wright’s nearest living relative who requests news as H. A. Wright is critically ill.
A lighthearted note describes a picnic scene with playful jabs at Mr. Grouch and cheerful details. The ad copy touts rub a lac as a back saver and mood lifter, claiming liquid ice cream and shipshape dresses lift spirits and dimples cheeks.
Mr and Mrs L O Riddle of Byesville were guests of relatives here Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Harper have returned from a visit with relatives and friends in Marietta.
Mr and Mrs James Patterson of Washington were the guests of relatives and friends here on Monday.
A J McCollum and his North Tenth Street family spent time with relatives near Cassels Station, enjoying a brief visit during the period referenced.
Lore City residents learn of the death of the Rev. Robert Robe in Oregon where he moved in 1851 along the Oregon Trail. He had been a schoolteacher and a prominent gospel preacher in the area. He died May 25, 19% at age 87 after more than sixty years in ministry.
The Daily Jeffersonian lists prize winners who answered the missing word contest with one dollar each. Names include S. M. Hadden Willis Bell Ray Dean Grace Schairer Luna Harper Wm Hartley Margaret Kraft and others from Cambridge Guernsey county and beyond.
Freeman T. Eagleson of Columbus visits Cambridge family members Mrs. Bertha Morgan of Canton visits her parents Mr. and Mrs. Mack Sigler of Cambridge. Bert Frank and John Le Page were guests in Winchester over Sunday. Cambridge items note a Sunday train to Marietta PACUASION.
Joint baptismal services were held on the banks of Wills Creek in the Glass Plant Addition Sunday afternoon. Rev. C. C. Slater of East Cambridge and Rev. W. O. Siffert of Madison Avenue led the rites for 36 candidates, with about fifteen hundred spectators in attendance.
Manager Harry Clark and the Cambridge baseball team received a welcome surprise from J. H. Dilley, a local grocer, who gave them a box of 50 cigars with a note praising the team for cleaning Belmont. The players expressed sincere appreciation for the gesture.
Pleasant City and nearby towns saw visitors from Noblesville Jasper Ken nebago Bluebell and Hartford. Community events included Children's day services at the Evangelical Lutheran church and memorial services by the Knights of Pythias.
Birds Run Misses Nettie Forney and Blanche Dull return from Granville to spend the summer. Mr and Mrs John MacClease visited relatives in Coshocton. Mrs Ida Warden is sick. Kenneth Colman of Granville visits Prof Dull’s family. Della Jones and Ella Cosby of North Salem guest of Charlotte Johnson. J F Barnes family and Odessa Walkenspaw visit Mrs Barnes’ mother. Sidney Wilson dines with Bessie Johnson. F A Johnson and Mrs Johnson host F A Forney and family. Homer Orsborn heads to Paulding county for the summer. Forest Hayes and sister visit Sam Yayes family on Highland avenue.
Misses Lillian Ruby Ella Marquand and Etta Carnal spent Sunday as guests of Mr and Mrs Ross Bundy in Quaker City.
Mr and Mrs Paul Townsend of New Philadelphia will reside in Cambridge as Townsend accepts a position at the local sheet mill.
Donald and Richard McRae of Bridgeport Ohio who have been attending school at Delaware visited Friday and Saturday with J C Purkey and family.
Alex Wilson, a well known colored man of Zanesville, is visiting relatives and friends in this city and in Washington where he once lived.
Jefferson township resident David Culbertson spent Monday in town calling on friends and handling business. It marked his first city visit in nearly a year.
A good turnout attended the Whip-poor-will club dance at the Masonic Temple on Saturday evening with Lucag and Ewalt providing the music.
Love City June 22 Saturday evening W Hale on the north side tried to coax a swarm into a hive when bees stung his face and legs. Dr Arndt gave medical aid and Hale, though badly swollen, is recovering. Local notices follow about visitors, relocation of Moorhead Construction Co to Coshocton, and a comic festival rumor by the Busy Bee family.
Miss Katie Jackson ill at home on Steubenville avenue. Fred Reed recently returned home to Akron. Clarence McCulley and Miss Pearl Combs visited Wheeling Sunday. Fr P Leverett of Marietta spent Sunday in Cambridge. Miss Leda Rankin left Monday to visit Miss Fay Sipes at Batesville. Mrs J Knox Montgomery of New Concord shopped in the city Monday. Prof Young and wife left Monday for a week with relatives at Klondike.
Miss Pearl Shaw spent Sunday at Love City as a guest of Mr and Mrs Louis Riggs. Paul Marling of Pleasant Valley visited relatives in the city Saturday and Sunday. Miss Ada Fenton of Newcomerstown is visiting her uncle John Hawthorne of Cambridge. Miss Beatrice Lytle left Monday for a week's vacation at Canal Dover and New Philadelphia. Chas Regula of Coshocton returned home Monday after spending Sunday with Ralph Jones.
Joe Oliver departed Monday for Lancaster Ohio to take a night clerk position at the Hotel Marten.
Alvin Blackburn and his daughter Ioma left Monday to visit relatives in Fairmont West Virginia. The trip aims to spend time with family and travel plans were not detailed.
Mrs A J Quillen of Newcomers town is visiting her daughter Mrs Ord Marks of Madison Avenue.
Lloyd Linkhorn and his family of East Gomber avenue were the guests of relatives and friends in Byesville for a social visit.
Chas Morrison, who has been visiting in the city, left Sunday for Columbus where he is employed by Eldridge Higgins Co.
D L MccElfresh is re papering and repainting the interior of his barber shop on East Wheeling avenue and making other improvements.
Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Nicholson of New Philadelphia and their niece Miss Helen Thompson of Sebalia Kansas spent Sunday with relatives in Cambridge and returned home Monday.
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