Meigs County OhArchives News.....Athens Messenger August 2 1888
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August 2, 1888 
Athens Messenger  
Athens Ohio 

NEIGHBORING COUNTIES 
Meigs 

Mrs. Hattie  Chapman was lately painfully kicked at her home at Apple Grove 
by her favorite  riding horse. 

Lewis Wright, of Rutland township, has three boys laid up  by accidents, two 
with broken arms and one with a crippled foot.  

Commander J. C. Bishop, of Middleport, has secured quarters for 350  Meigs 
county soldiers at Columbus during encampment week. 

The two year  old girl of Mr. and Mrs. Pat Dower, of Graham Station, fell 
from the second  story window of their house on a recent day without serious 
injuries. 

Ezekiel Harper, an old man who lived near the Avenue bridge, back of  
Pomeroy, recently went to feed his pigs and not returning, a search was made 
and  he 
was found dead. 

Wm. C. Keckler, Manager of the Middleport Furniture  Company, who, one night 
last week, at Cincinnati, caught his wife in a  compromising situation with 
another man, has sued for divorce in the Meigs  county court. 

The following surviving veterans of Racine precinct, Meigs  county, all voted 
for Van Buren in 1840, but will vote for Harrison, Morton,  Protection and 
Grosvenor this fall, to-wit: John Salcer, Thomas Bately, Peter  Harpold, Jonah 
Woodruff and John P. Wolf. 

George W. Fields and Hester A.  Tyre reached Pomeroy last Monday morning, 
after a walk of fifty miles from the  mountains of West Virginia, to get 
married. 
The would-be bride was a little  tired and foot-sore, but as happy as could 
be. Justice Bradford married them,  and they at once set out for home again on 
foot. 

Russell Cornell, a  brother of D. W. Cornell, the Guysville merchant, and to 
Frank Cornell, the  former well known landlord of the Central House, Athens, 
died at his home in  Chester, Meigs county, recently, in the 57th year of his 
age. His is the first  death among a family of ten, the youngest now being 40 
years of age.

[The  above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making 
changes to  spelling or grammar.]

Transcribed by:
Connie Cotterill Schumaker 




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