Meigs County OhArchives News.....Athens Messenger October 21 1875
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October 21, 1875 
Athens Messenger 
Athens Ohio 

NEIGHBORING COUNTIES 
MEIGS 

George Miles, son of H. H. Miles, of Racine, died on the 10th inst., of 
inflammatory rheumatism. 

Miss Myra Cline, late a very efficient teacher in the Columbia public schools, 
died lately of consumption. 

Healy DeWolf died in Syracuse, October 1st. He was sick almost two years. His 
age was about twenty years. 

Mr. Furman Smith, says the Pomeroy Telegraph, of this township, raised on one 
vine this year, 33 pumpkins weighing, altogether, 524 pounds, 

Mr. Jasper Branch and wife, both former citizens of this county, and who were 
each about 77 years of age, recently died in Wayne county, Ill. 

David, son of John C. McElhinney, while playing on the school grounds, Tuesday 
afternoon, 12th inst., fell and broke his right leg just above the ankle. 

The Williamson boys of Great Bend, have sold their potato crop (about 3,000 
barrels) to a Mr. Graham of Gallia county, at 40 cents per bushel. -- Racine 
Herald. 

Daniel Rutherford, of Rutland, extensively known as a nurseryman, fruit grower, 
and proprietor of Merrill's black salve, died on Friday, the 9th, of Epilepsy, 
aged 61 years. 

On Wednesday morning, 3d inst., Jacob Warner, who lives on Leading Creek, found 
his child, about 2 months old, dead in bed. Mrs. Hartinger dressed it and 
Warner took and buried it without putting it in a coffin or administering any 
funeral rites.

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