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Newspaper
Coshocton Age
Location
Coshocton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1903
Page
8
An advertisement extols Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills as a complete antiseptic and health restoring treatment for female ailments and general skin care. It cites relief from discharges inflammations irritations and weakness while promising safety economy and beauty benefits. It claims global popularity and uses from skin cures to hair care and personal hygiene.
W G Johnston of Aultman member of the state board of public works arrived in the city hall on Wednesday and, with Charles Gidel, began an inspection tour of the Sugar Creek dam. He is staying at Mr Geidel's Chestnut street home during his visit.
The Model clothing store ceases operations Monday night as proprietor RE Zimmerman plans to move to Toledo then New York to pursue business. C Davidevitch of Cleveland has been a partner. stock is divided and Shaw's china store will occupy the Model room July 1. Guernsey County commissioners instruct Auditor Wallace to notify Standard Oil they will meet July 6 to discuss an electric line along the National road from Muskingum border through Guernsey and Belmont to Wheeling.
The home of Mr and Mrs Russell L Sharpless near Tunnel Hill hosted the wedding of their second daughter Sadie to Karl H Clarke of Warsaw at high noon on Thursday June 25. Rev Howard Clarke performed the ceremony. Guests included eighty attendees and the couple received many fine gifts.
Local residents including Laila Pritchard Moore Fleming and Mrs. Holder visit West Lafayette and nearby towns. City officials Wimmer and Helbling return from a trip near Wills Creek. several readers travel to Avondale, Dresden, Canal Dover, and Medina. Community updates cover visits, work changes, and upcoming meetings with officers installed and labor hall notices. A 50 pound catfish was landed on a trout line near Randles bridge. John Lorenz resumes Crawford store duties amid wool season activity. Advertising in The Age continues.
There is strong interest in a baseball game Saturday between the Fountains and the Athletic club. The seven game series opens with a clean record at stake. Newark umpire candidate sought to avoid bias. Carnes and Craig will play for the Fountains, Captain Colopy will pitch for the Athletics, Burrell catching. The game is at 3 PM at Riverside park with expected large attendance.
In Coshocton county, Conrad J. Lower seeks reinstatement as a board of education member and an injunction to preserve the five district plan and high school. Judge Maxwell granted the temporary injunction. The piece also notes an assessment case against Coshocton city and a historic Tiverton township note dispute with mortgage reform sought by Eli D. Phillips. Partition actions involve Mario D. Leathro and J. G. Werts estates seeking land division or sale.
Market figures list beans spring chickens country hams potatoes and grain items with prices per pound and per dozen, followed by a divorce case where Lulu McKee Riley gains custody after gross neglect grounds. Licensed to marry notices cover several residents, with deeds filed and real estate transfers in Coshocton and surrounding townships. Also notes on John Young’s home confinement and Mrs. William Brunskill’s recovery after recent surgery aided by Doctors Marshall Barcroft and nurse Agnes Cabe.
At the Stonemasons and Bricklayers International union meeting in city hall on Tuesday evening a nine hour day paid at fifty cents per hour was adopted as the wage rate until next January when the rate for the following year will be set. The union, now flourishing, welcomed about twenty traveling cards increasing membership to ~sixty. A three bricklayers and three stonemasons committee was formed to draft by laws. Edward B. Stevenson chairs. Meetings will be held each Tuesday. The new scale mirrors the old but is officially fixed.
Dave Jennings and a friend started early to celebrate the Fourth and drank heavily Tuesday morning. Dave fell in an alley near the distillery and was jailed for the night, fined 380 dollars by Mayor Rinner on Wednesday. John Kleinknecht and George Compton raced fast horses through Roscoe. no ordinance covered such driving, so they were discharged. An ordinance will be discussed at the econficil meeting next Tuesday evening.
Locates in the Sunny South Sherman E Emerson of Westerville has moved with his family to Crichton Alabama where he bought a farm and will grow fruit The Age will follow him. A brakeman John Crawford of Indian Point on the B&O died after being crushed by a locomotive in Bellaire Ohio His left leg was torn off and his right arm severed before rescue.
Lisbon sent a loan to Wellsville to cover expenses for Lloyd Grate a thirteen year old from Wellsville who contracted smallpox while visiting Lisbon, but Wellsville rejected the bill arguing no legal responsibility. The incident occurred during Lisbon centennial celebrations raising tensions between the towns over who pays for medical care and quarantine measures.
Sam Bard, William West, Martio Carle and Michael Gorman travel to Warsaw on Wednesday to spend the week camping. In other news from Chicago markets, wheat futures quoted 7.512, corn 4.712, oats 9.5. The Age ads report good results.
Barbers in the city will keep shops open until ten p m Friday and close at 11 30 a m Saturday to allow barbers a chance to celebrate the great national holiday.
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