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Newspaper
Coshocton Age
Location
Coshocton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1903
Page
6
Local notes report visitors and holidays across Coshocton County. Families join relatives in Illinois and near Bakersville while churches plan revival services and sledding remains good after snowfall. Multiple residents travel, host gatherings, or attend events including a Messiah rendition and a Christmas tree party as frigid weather continues.
In Bakersville the Presbyterian Christmas program drew a large audience with the well laden with gifts as the main highlight. Sunday school scholars received treats and various residents visited kin and joined sleighing gatherings.
Avondale reports Mrs Carne Childlow and family from Cincinnati visiting Mrs Kate Geese. Mrs Florence McGill of Dalton called on friends. Several attended Mr and Mrs Alex Adams Christmas dinner on White Eyes Ridge. Mrs Sarah McCleary from Coshocton visited relatives. Mr and Mrs S F Boyd of Canton with May Brown spent holidays at their old home. Anna and Charles McFarland visited Ben ford. George Wyler spent Thursday at Pearl. Prof and Mrs Dummermuth vacationing at Sugarcreek and Bedford. Mrs F H McCullough visiting sister Mrs Ed Clark in Canton. W C T U meeting set for Jan 3 at 2 pm at Mrs Emma Sandles home. Mrs Drummond and Mrs Dickey of Coshocton to attend. Rev McCrea to begin Amity church meetings Jan 4. Rev J C Pinkerton of Ontario to assist. Mrs Moses Miser returned from Coshocton. Mrs Will Gephart and family and Miss Julia Arnold to visit Helmick. Miss Bessie Boyd and Mrs Liza Decker back to Coshocton Wednesday after two weeks with A F Boyd. John Henderson of the Wenleyan
Ten room brick house at the corner of Welonut and Sixth For is offered for sale. Terms inquire with R I Sayer at 459 Walnut or call 412-31.
A young woman riding near Corpus Christi Texas is attacked by a giant octopus or devilfish as her horse stumbles in shallow Gulf waters. The creature seizes the horse and the riders fight to free themselves using oars boathooks and firearms as horse and rider struggle in blood flooded surf. George Judy and companions attempt rescue and subdue the monster.
Miss Fanny Flackman and companions on a Corpus Christi ride encounter a devilfish attack as a horse rears and a tentacled monster wraps a limb around the rider. John Satlings dives in with a knife, frees Miss Flackman, and carries her to safety as the octopus thrashes and sinks away. The tale ends with the rescuers back in the boat and the danger past.
Washington reports a treasury surplus of 72 222 151 for the year ending December 31 with expenditures 495 463 188 and receipts 67 684 339. Expenditures rose about 18 million over 1901. Ferris Steam Mortar Co of Columbus contracts T H McDermott for 100 car loads of sand from his north city farm. earlier a thousand car request was noted.
The Orethian club chorus of twenty three voices under Prof Hosmer gave part of Handel’s The Messiah at the Presbyterian church Tuesday evening. Solo parts were sung by Mrs Walter Winters Miss Georgia Voorhees Mary Mortley Eleanor Brooks Edward Dawson and Prof Hosmer with Mrs B F Voorhees at the piano. A fair audience praised the exceptional performance which ended with the Hallelujah chorus.
An old advertisement promotes Cascareta Candy Cathartic to train bowels and cure constipation. It claims genuine tablets stamped C C C and notes refunds from fall druggists, urging readers to help their wives with household products and Mrs. Austins Pancake Flour.
The regular meeting of stockholders of the bank for the district will be held at the banking rooms on Tuesday in January between the hours of and 4 o clock. Inv. L. Montgomery, Cashier.
Society reporters extol beauty and happiness for brides, praising Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription for women’s ills. It claims to ease pain, regulate, and heal inflammation, with testimonials from Mrs. H. S. Jones of Forest NC about regained vitality and ability to ride and exercise.
Market prices list include butter eggs smoked sides onions beeswax chickens dressed chickens corn meal hams country honey lard potatoes shoulder salt tallow and grain quotes for wheat corn oats rye buckwheat with retail flour prices and meal brand middlings screenings across several entries. Prices shown per pound per bushel per sack per barrel and per hundred as of the current market period.
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