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Newspaper
Coshocton Age
Location
Coshocton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1895
Page
7
Long county column recounts Plainfield events including Decoration Day speaker Col J D Nicholas and local Masons. Reports on local candidates for county offices, Sunday school officers, weather, visits, weddings, and a township teachers meeting with upcoming events and personnel changes.
Traveling residents report a dry season and early corn planting. Pike Township Sunday School Union held a well attended meeting at the M B church with papers on lesson helps and children’s attendance. Officers elected included BE G Lott as president A B Struthers Jr as vice president A D Preston as secretary and treasurer. The West Carlisle Reading Circle met at Mrs R C Edwards home with 19 members reading Hasmiét General History and The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. Mr Thomas Neland and Miss Flora Ash Crest wed at Cosheston. Mr A A Azuee, aged citizen and farmer, died.
The Epworth League enjoyed a Friday social at Mrs Lybarger's home. Dr Baker and family attended the Finlay anniversary near Keane on Saturday. Various locals and visitors, including Mrs Lytle Fredericksburg and Mrs Ros Ulman, plus Wm Bowers and family, attended events and visits around town.
The region endures a heat wave with 108 degrees the past Sunday, oats drought and pastures drying. A Decoration evening program by the I O G T Lodge is planned. Local updates note visits, illnesses, a fatal accident from ingesting carbolic acid, and notes on school starting and a marble works building project.
The Daughters of America Saturday evening entertainment drew a large audience and pleased attendees with the award ceremony. Mr and Mrs J C Theil of Lewisville visited relatives here over the weekend. Mr James Akeroyd traveled to see friends near Dresden last week. Rev Long will preach the Betcaluresta sermon to the graduates on May 26. Miss Alfrada Bremiton called on friends here Saturday.
Miss Anne Tilton of Coshocton visits with her parents. J A Dunmeed of Zanesville spends the week at home. Mina Bertha Taylor of Trinway visits Elle Tilton. Pearlville hosts a 17th birthday gathering with friends Saturday evening. Carrie Dele is noted Sunday. other lines appear garbled.
West Lafayette reports Dr. Lewis unable to deliver his lecture on How to Make Things Go replaced by Prof. Williams of Granville Ohio. The season closes with a note of success and local social events including a May Day picnic, a ball game with Plainfield, and various visits and community happenings.
Crawford Township district listings show teachers for District No 1 led by George Elsin and others including Aoy Hinkle and J A Price. Local notes report church services, a literary society event, health updates, and community happenings with forecasts and soon to be observed Children’s Day.
In Syracuse Mrs. C. G. Abell recounts long liver and rheumatic trouble and heart issues healed by Dr. Kennedy’s Favorite Remedy. She praises the treatment, claims six bottles cured her, and notes others benefitted, urging sufferers to consult physicians and try the product. The advertisement touts the remedy as a cure for skin diseases, blood disorders, and women’s ailments. It lists price and availability in Ohio and New York papers.
Rev. Tl C Mayer preached on intemperance at the Episcopal church in Coshocton. He argued liquor spawns vast national waste in 1891 expenditures far surpassing government costs and rail earnings. He warned health damage, moral decay, and crime, urging prohibition and public resolve to curb the vice.
A newspaper ad asserts deafness stems from blocked tubes and cata racts and cannot be cured by local applications. It offers a cure via Mall's Catarrh Cure and promises free diagnosis with a $100 reward for any cured case, authorizing mail orders from Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio.
A Lexington style Ohio dispatch reports political letters from Senator Culyin Brice urging opposition to a party test on free coinage of silver and warning Democrats against loyalty tests in the state convention. Fire at New Caralie destroys town hall and other property, with losses around 76000 and several injuries. Steubenville notes indictments for robbery by four Hammondsville youths, who bound victims and looted homes in April and February. A small joke about a dentist and a shop ad follow with household remedies and local endorsements for Dr King’s New Discovery, including a trial bottle offer.
Residents named Lydia Cogginn David Gorettie Baniah Lawrence Mary Schuyler Peter Hammel Joni Herm and others are notified of a partition suit in Coshocton County Ohio case 285 filed April 1595. The petition seeks division of a one hundred ninety acre tract in Sew Gaue Township described by bounds and deeds, with unknown heirs listed and a request for answer by June 1. Judge James attorney for the plaintiffs.
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