Local Social Notes From Keene Area
Keene August gatherings show marriages and visits. Beall and Shannon unite. bridal shower, homebound plans, and numerous relatives visiting nearby towns mark a lively social week.
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Newspaper
Coshocton Age
Location
Coshocton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1900
Page
5
Keene August gatherings show marriages and visits. Beall and Shannon unite. bridal shower, homebound plans, and numerous relatives visiting nearby towns mark a lively social week.
Plainfield notes visitors from Flushing Coshocton and Zanesville at nearby homes. Miss Maggie Arondalt and others join relatives. threshing done, yields poor, storm damaged fences and schoolhouse. William McKee ill. Schools set to open September 1 with G E Miller superintendent and staff including E S Gaumer and W C Lane.
Last Thursday Fifty first Ohio soldiers surprised B F Jones by driving up for dinner. M D Bussey of Sharon Pa visits her brother B F Jones. Richard Jones and wife, former locals, now Beaver Crossing Neb, visit B F Jones. Jones has been absent 20 years. Earl Miller’s twenty first birthday party attended by thirty friends, Professor Yoder of Delaware and Miss Etta Sharpies of Pittsburg present. Dr Litten and Wm Walker hale returned from Atlantic City.
Aug 22 Mrs R B Bainter of Strasburg visits her parents Mr and Mrs S Bale. Mrs James Tilton and sons of Isleta visit relatives here from Saturday to Monday. Jerry Balto and daughter Miss Helen of Georgeswilie stay with relatives. Miss Zella Newcome visits at Trunway Sunday. Everyone invited to the Plains festival next Saturday evening.
Miss Isabel Forbes Irene Myers return home after a month with Mr and Mrs A J Moore in Camden. Numerous visits are listed: Miss Anna Lorenz C Zimmer man at Philip Harrisberger's. Martha Moore to Zanesville for Helen Johnson's wedding. Webb Austin from Coshocton. Mabel Leavengood with grandparents in Chili. George Caton from Cleveland visiting his father G B R Caton. Rev McCrea Mrs McCullough and others planning a Baith visit. Teachers hired by the board and Sept 10 meeting noted. Several local trips and gatherings cited among families including Boyd Deibel Elliott and Henders on relations. A Chapel festival is reported a success amid some troublemakers.
August social reporting from Bacon and Tosser Hill lists visits by Mrs Yeager of Plainfield Miss Lizzie McCune from Plainfield and other relatives and friends. Families including Barcroft Aronhalt and Jackson host or visit across Coshocton Newark Dennison and Zanesville with multiple trips and a note of soldiers gathering.
James Murphy buys a pew piano for daughter Sara. Sophia Ridgway completes dressmaking course in Washington and is home. John Daily and family set up tent near Wheeling railroad bridge with Daily in charge of construction. Farmers repair theft damaged hay stacks after recent storms.
Mrs J J Wood and Miss Georgia Hedington visited friends in Tuscarawas county. Miss Alta Mader of Coshocton stayed with Mary Conrad. Mrs J R Johnson Jamie Johnson and Helen Baker of Coshocton attended a social at Joseph Finlay's Friday. Edifa and Maud Mohler visited Abbie Craig last week. Social at Mrs Carlos Lawrence home Friday Aug 31 for Bloomfield M E church benefit.
Aug 22 Wittow Brook notes burials at Millfork cemetery for Bert Gulliams child and Edward Holdsworth’s youngest. Charley Meredith hosted visitors from Lo shocton and J.J. Givins near Mohawk Village. Tiverton Center association drew attendees. Mound school progresses locally.
A meeting of Coshocton musicians organized the Coshocton band. Elected officers include President J. E. Wagoner, Vice President Mr. Powerson, Secretary Ed Strausser, and Treasurer John Stipes. The group seeks bids for services on Labor Day.
Wheeling and Lake Erie offers Sunday excursion tickets to Canton and Cleveland for 1.50 round trip. Special 15 day rates to Ludington Traverse City Charlevoix Petoskey and Bay View Michigan at 9.45 round trip. Chicago trips for Grand Army of the Republic encampment via Pennsylvania Lines August 25 26 27 28 29 at about one cent per mile. Return by Aug 31 with potential extension to Sept 30.
Notes from Neeley’s habeas corpus petition claim the government arranged transport to Cuba after extradition orders. Lord Roberts faces counter proclamations from President Kruger. Aug 23 reports in Chicago detail McKinley’s 200-person bodyguard and escort plans for Memorial Day events. The steamer Denver sinks after a collision on Lake Erie. In New York, Katherine Scharn murder remains unsolved as police reveal the blue serge man description was a myth and the victim was with a shopmate.
Akron reports a violent mob sought the life of a Black prisoner named Louis Peck after an alleged confession. Gunfire, dynamite, and fires across the city left two dead and many wounded as police and troops were dispatched from Cleveland to restore order.
A 1900-era summary notes national bank deposits grew by 415 million dollars during McKinley’s first three years, vs a 70 million rise under Cleveland’s term. It compares deposits from 1895 to Sept 7 1899 and Sept 7 1899 to end 1896. It cites figures, parties, and dates with references to Dolliver’s Iowa appointment and other local notices.
Market notes show steer and hog quotes in multiple regions with varying grades. Prices listed include Texas steers at $3.00 to $3.25, hogs around $5.50 to $6.00, and sheep/lamb ranges from $3.75 to $6.30, plus New York and Cincinnati quotes for cattle and grains.
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