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Newspaper
Cambridge Jeffersonian
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1913
Page
5
Jack a west end hunter fired at a rabbit he believed alive. Shots failed to move the creature which stayed upright, frozen stiff for days in a trap before the hunter realized the ruse.
The Citizens Savings Bank Co of Cambridge Ohio announces it is the first local bank to operate as a savings bank and now amended to allow commercial business with checking accounts invited. Interest paid on deposits and Saturday evening hours at 639 Wheeling Ave.
Nightwatchman Martin at Piffard Station on the Pennsylvania railroad was bound to the track by two white men and a Negro as a freight train neared. The engineer halted the train when Martin failed to signal from the station office. Martin offered no reason for the assault.
In common pleas court Jeremiah Bird vs Cambridge Collieries proceeds with many witnesses to be examined. New case William Ihnat vs Imperial Mining Co seeks 3000 dollars for injuries to Nicholas Ihnat on August 10 1912. Goldie Hagerman vs Joseph Hagerman grants divorce with custody to plaintiff and injunction against defendant. State of Ohio vs Leonard Kenworthy for furnishing intoxicating liquors continued to May term. Several cases settled with costs paid including Neff vs Wills Creek Coal Co and Jackman et al. vs Wills Creek Coal Co.
Wallace Criser, 10, refused a dance. Wibert Hopkins, 14, shot him in the foot. Hopkins terrorized the neighborhood before capture.
Dr H H Price lists contact details at Central Nat Bank Building Bell phone 210 R in office and 71 R residence with March date 17 listing a one month service or availability note.
The Cambridge Grocery Co announces Chase & Sanborn Coffee at its Cambridge stores located at 628 Wheeling Ave and 816 Wheeling Ave. Six brands available for trade, with prices from 28 to 38 cents a can. Peacock Brand steel cut shown at 35 cents.
Mott and Long wed in a quiet Cast Beatty avenue ceremony with Rev. W L McCormick officiating. Ada Long and George Mott are noted as a prominent couple in the community. The notes also cover social club gatherings, St Patrick's Day festivities, church group meetings, charity fund allocations, and several private dinners and birthday observances across local households.
A meeting of the Women s Home and Foreign Missionary Societies of the First Presbyterian church will be held in the church parlors on Tuesday evening at 7 o clock. Theater party: Girls from the Allen Stock Co. performed The House of a Thousand Candles at the Colonial theater Monday evening. Pearl Davis Florence Wallace Maud Mc Claughery Ethel McElfresh Emma Hammer Aida Huffman Nina Callihan attended. Mrs W R Kirk Mildred Hornickel of Steubenville arrived for a visit with her parents Mr and Mrs Fred Hornicke on Wheeling avenue. Mrs Kirk is improving from inflammatory rheumatism and will welcome friends to call. Mr Kirk will spend Easter Sunday with his wife.
Elaborate St Patrick's celebration at the Garey home on North Fourth street featured green and white decor, a musical program by Agatha Hoskins, Frank Foster, and Nellie Waller, a card matching luncheon, and prize guessing with Edward Touvell and Raymond Randall winning. Also noted are upcoming gatherings by Miss Sadie Jenkins and a Tuesday informal family dinner hosted by Mr and Mrs John Lucas.
The noon meeting of city business men at the First M E church drew sixty attendees and featured a sumptuous chicken dinner hosted by church ladies. Evangelist Burrows Rev Jay Goodrich Dr G W Hixon and Messrs Frank Wessel and John Depew gave short addresses, with a warm welcome shared by all attendees.
The Cambridge city board asks the State Board of Health to investigate the impure water supply and remove pollution sources or secure a new water source. The resolution cites the 1908 act and requests purification works if needed. Health Officer Ramsey certifies the resolution. state intervention requires a local board action or 10 percent voter filing.
A bankruptcy sale held in Mil ton H. Turner’s court granted by Trustee Jas. W. Bell sold S. W. Price assets. A. Larner & Co. of Philadelphia bought stock and fixtures for 8000 dollars. J. A. Pryor bought two Browns Heights and Byesville additions lots for 40 dollars. Homer Witten bought book accounts for 100 dollars. Mrs. Price acquired Cambridge Electric Park Co. stock, International Surety Co. notes, and other notes for about 40 dollars.
Mr G Patterson of East Wheeling Avenue moved from the city on Tuesday to his farm in Jefferson township, which he recently purchased from J B and E S Clark.
Miss Eva Madden daughter of Mr and Mrs James Madden of Madison avenue returns home Tuesday from New Lexington where she studies at St Aloysius Academy. She will spend a week with her parents.
The First Presbyterian Sunday School will enter the Cambridge Sunday School Baseball League in summer 1913. An executive committee was formed with Harry Scott as chairman, Wilbur Orme, and Paul Simecox. A central committeeman was elected with Scott to represent the team. manager and captain to be chosen by players at a later meeting.
Mrs Mary Bass and her daughter Ruth, visiting from Omaha, Neb, are guests of Mr and Mrs George Waxler in Cambridge. Mrs Bass once lived in Caldwell and this marks her first trip to Cambridge and Caldwell in 29 years. She plans to visit Caldwell before returning home.
The damage suit of J B Bartha low against W T Davis in Squire Baxter's court is scheduled for Thursday April 3. The action stems from a recent collision at the Steubenville avenue and North Ninth street intersection involving taxicabs. Plaintiff seeks $65 in damages.
Assistant State Fire Marshal Chas Miller from Columbus toured Cambridge with Chief Long inspecting structures. He ordered several buildings razed for fire danger and required immediate improvements elsewhere. Miller returned to Columbus and will file a full report to Chief Long once prepared.
Cottage prayer meetings of the First M. B. church will be held Wednesday morning at 8 o clock in listed homes across districts. Location details include addresses for Sweeney Tedrick Rosemond Zahniser Cline Williams Bailey Trott Tilton Brown Braden Abel Stottlemire Robinson Hague and others.
Miss Anna Crouse reports appointment as matron of the Nans Sanitarium near Sandusky where Dr. Bowman has returned from Germany with samples of Dr. Freidmann's tuberculosis serum. Patients travel from Maine to California and the Great Lakes to the Gulf for treatment. Schlupps await further developments.
Mrs. J. M. Banker of Tyner was dismissed Tuesday morning. Walter Stanley is greatly improved and to be discharged soon. John Hesson has passed the danger point and will soon leave the hospital. The bullet that entered Hesson’s abdomen followed the same path as the McKinley assassination, puncturing two holes in the stomach, through the pancreas, and lodging in a vertebra.
Rey and Mr Baxter visit relatives in Flint Ohio where they stay for a time.
Miss Mildred Goodwin a Practical Business College graduate has accepted a position as bookkeeper and stenographer in the offices of the National Coal Co.
Turnbaugh Bros undertake extensive alterations to the Greenwald building. A rear addition connects a new stair, front vestibule, wider main stair, and new closets and toilets. The United Syrian Society of Cambridge will occupy rear second floor rooms. others include The Cam Sand, Morton Realty Co, Kissen Insurance, Board Trade, and Miller barber shop. A new front and further summer work aim to make the property one of the city’s most modern.
Frank Shackles who runs a shoe repairing shop in the Harper building basement at Wheeling avenue and North Seventh street offers the business for sale. He plans to move his family to the large stock farm near Summerfield owned by Mrs. Shackles' father Thomas O Neal and will take charge of the farm.
The United Syrian Society of Cambridge has leased rooms in the Carlisle building recently bought by Turnbaugh Bros, formerly the Morton building. Rooms are being prepared and will be occupied around April 1.
A Lutheran church announces special services Tuesday evening with a sermon by the pastor entitled Relation of Christ to the World. The public is invited to attend.
EF. B. Smith of Zanesville was in the city on business Tuesday, meeting with local merchants and inspecting a couple of storefronts.
A. H. Beatty of the state auditor's office in Columbus was in the city Tuesday.
Rev. H. W. Thompson, Mrs. J. W. Keller, Mrs. C. L. Baird and G. L. Berkfield, all of Senecaville, were guests of friends here Tuesday.
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