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Newspaper
Coshocton Age
Location
Coshocton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1899
Page
8
John Lorenz of Chili and J Hickson of Roscoe are in the city for short visits. Many residents, including Rev W B Maughiman of Trinway and Peter Eckert and son Walter of Rogersville, travel to nearby towns and return. Local society figures host guests from West Lafayette Wheeling Zanesville and Cleveland as illnesses and travel mark a busy week.
Edward Savery died at his Elm Street home after a brief illness following a fainting spell at work. A prior sun stroke four years earlier is believed to have caused his death. Funeral services were held at the home and he was buried at Oak Ridge cemetery. he leaves a wife and three children.
City to open bids for Walnut street paving and bonds on Tuesday with law deadlines. Lowest work bidder may start immediately. contract award after treasury funds are confirmed. Walnut residents seek early paving before winter. bonds total 27000 drawing many bidders and buyers' reps expected Tuesday.
Courthouse notices list multiple real estate transfers in Coshocton and surrounding townships including parcels exchanged between Charles W. Loos and John Cash, John Milligan and John Orbogast, and others. Marriage permits issued include George V. Kutscher with Mary L. Caton and several additional couples.
The Republican convention in Newcomerstown selected delegates and alternates for the Eighteenth-Nineteenth district race. Delegates include Matthew McConnell Louis McClain Chas J Glover C B McCoy James Glenn W B McClure K H Gaskill J W Gardner Dr David Lawson Gen E L Lybarger A L Foutz T J Platt D R Culbertson Wm Gorsline Dr R C Edwards C P D Brooke W C Bryant Frank Kane L T Judd Seth Duncan Chas Geidel S A Stowe Orville Sargent T W Culbertson J J Rose W M Smith Seth Snyder Thomas LeRetilley Jr Geo Sykes G W Bendure Levi Williams. Alternates include John M Compton J Carhart P P Dellart A P Stewart George A Hay Jacob Lower John Ricketts John C Milligan Stilwell Squire.
Gray Hardware cap stock cars are being boarded up and converted into box cars by the Pan Handle due to car scarcity. Judge Eason will adjourn court the week of the fair, resuming Saturday. Professor Rudolph Schaeffer returns from Parkersburg to organize a music class. Republican senatorial convention delegates depart for Newcomerstown and expect to return tonight. Workmen lay a sidewalk on Main Street between Third and Wilcoxen. Grace M. E. church Ladies Aid to host quarterly social tonight with full attendance anticipated. Rev. A J Kesler of Ada to fill Bakersville and Baltic M E churches this year. George Wiatt of Conesville released on promise to provide for his family after being taken to Zanesville. A row at Third and Main ends with intervention by friends and Chief Doney. H J Gossen of Franklin Station pleads guilty to a drunkenness charge. fined $1 and costs.
The Merchants' Electric Light and Power Company plans to replace nearly all street lighting machinery and lamps in Coshocton to install the latest equipment. Wires and poles remain, but the cost will be borne by the company with no public expense. Installation aims within sixty days to brighten the streets to world‑class levels.
The first election bet of the season was placed at the Park hotel by Tax Inquisitor Keech of Newark and Captain Critchfield of Shreve. Each backed his candidate with $10 on the Hamilton county result after extended political talk.
Linemen at work connecting the Walhending and Tuscarawas bridges with the local electric light system completed their task Wednesday. The current will be turned on as soon as the lights are in position.
The Pathfinders held an enthusiastic meeting Monday night with three candidates initiated and four applications received. Adolph Sabling will lead door work in the future and members expect great things. The next meeting is Tuesday evening in Knights of Pythos hall and all members are urged to attend.
Two farms owned by the late M. C. Wagner are offered. The first is 9S acres and the second 113 acres, both about 13 miles south of New Moscow in Coshocton county. For terms write or call J. N. Perkins, New Moscow, Ohio.
Advertising line lists The Age Printery offering neat letter heads envelopes and cards with reasonable prices for printing and stationery services.
The document notes a bankruptcy proceeding No 124 in the Southern district, filed by Samuel oursaham of Varatomiki Ohio. It requests discharge under the bankruptcy statute pending court judgment and sets conditions for the debtor to be released from debts, with dates and an appointed representative T. AD 218% madTUELI-RAHAM, Bankrupt.
The court in the Southern District of Ohio issued an order directing publication in the Coshocton Age for creditors and interested parties to appear at a September hearing regarding a petition. The clerk must notify known creditors with residence addresses by order of Judge Albert Thomson and Clerk Blk Cowen in Columbus on September 12.
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