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Newspaper
Coshocton Weekly Times
Location
Coshocton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1908
Page
4
Local ads tout Root Juice as a remedy for stomach liver kidneys nerves and related pains. Claims bloating belching constipation heartburn and headaches vanish, with Andersons drug store selling bottles at one dollar or six for three dollars.
Ledger of late December market notes from Pittsburg Toledo Chicago and East GuNalo detailing cattle prices for prime, good, fair and heavy grades with hogs and sheep values. grain prices for wheat corn oats and clover seed. plus regional meat and dairy figures including calves, ewes, lambs, and steers. Noted are export and shipping cattle categories, price ranges for heifers cows bulls and milkers, with broader mentions of Boston, Cleveland and Cincinnati market data.
Market prices for wheat oats rye buckwheat corn flour bran middlings screenings and meal with retail and wholesale butter lard potatoes and chickens listed. The report also notes guests including Mendesie and son Ralph of tipsy Mecinnia of Chicago and MeCinnis of this week visiting local families.
Tax due 7.60 for Robhison Pretetrer Co listed by County Auditor R Randles. Tax sale proceeds under the authority of the county auditor. Public notice states outstanding balance and readiness for legal steps.
J H Newman, a former resident near Cadiz, vanished and was believed dead. A Harrison county farmer, gravely ill, confessed to robbing and killing Newman with a deceased accomplice and hiding the body in a well. The well is being opened and, if the body is found, the confessor will be arrested plus the other man.
Washington December 29 Beekman Winthrop of Massachusetts named first assistant secretary of state in Taft cabinet Winthrop is expected to take office soon in the department headed by Secretary of State This appointment marks a key personnel move in the Taft administration and aligns with the administration's diplomatic staffing plans.
Rome reports vast Calabria and Sicily casualties from a devastating earthquake. Mt Etna activity accompanies the events. Messina loss tallies range from fifty thousand dead to seventy thousand in latest estimates. Palmi and Bagnara suffer heavy destruction. A.Custer’s Philadelphia home burgled with drawers torn and contents missing.
Mrs Nancy Magee of Bethlehem township reports the death of her brother Dr Givud Stewart of Hartley Kansas after a fall from a stepladder. He is survived by his wife and three children, plus his sister Mrs Magee and two brothers Andrew of Kanaga and Joan of Coshocton. A later item notes a gang accused of stealing a box of Hasor from a Penn car near Conceville, with a suspect brought by Detective Dowsy from Newark. he pleaded guilty before Squire Wimener and was fined $75.
Sumbocieville notices a New Year’s shooting contest at Canal Bewisville on January 1 with captains Ant Lannua and Dive Markley inviting 25 men and all to participate. Oysters will be served to winners Friday night and to nonparticipants, proceeds support the piano fund. Bring your best gal and join the event.
Court orders support payments to Minnie Dawson from La Lie Dawson bonds. Distribution of funds in the John Macdeve case. Partition proceedings filed by Chas H. Jones vs Samuel James et al involving two tracts in Lafayette township. Answers filed in J J Bretzius assignment by Anna Howell and Commercial National Bank. County Treasurer to add 5 percent penalty and 15 percent after date. tax collections. Court adjourned to February. Judge Nichols to split time with Holmes and Wayne counties. War Association to open court at 9 a.m and extend clerk’s term to four years. Jo Love as administrator files first and final account. Will of Wm Poster admitted to probate.
The Christmas program at the Darling Bus. school house drew a good crowd. Local residents attended church in Princeton and gathered at the Shepard home afterward. Names mentioned include Millie Grant Coshocton Leatha Shepard Butte Shepard Flora Shepard and others. Henry Wilhelm was seriously injured chopping timber. several locals helped with sawmill work. Genev a Leighninger and Leander J. Mr Camomant wedding noted among Coshocton and West Lafayette friends.
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