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News (Athens Messenge [Archives ] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from OH-FOOTSTEPS-D, send a message to OH-FOOTSTEPS-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 07:28:35 -0500 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <200501031228.j03CSZN26460@genrecords.org> Subject: Oh-Meigs Co. News (Athens Messenger) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Meigs County OhArchives News.....Athens Messenger July 3 1890 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Connit Cotterill Schumaker Schumaker4@aol.com January 3, 2005, 7:28 am microfilm July 3, 1890 Athens Messenger Athens Ohio John German, an old resident of Lebanon township, near Bashan, died recently. Thirty-four business houses in Pomeroy and Middleport are lighted by the incandescent electric system. This is in addition to those lighted by the arc system. M. H. Watkins, Surveyor of Meigs county, and Miss Amanda E. Weldon of Racine, were married at the old Weldon homestead in Racine, Tuesday evening of last week. Recently Major J. B. Downing, of Middleport, exhibited his fine bird dog "Chief" at the Cincinnati Kennel Club's Bench show, and the dog took first premium. Before removal from the show the animal was sold to the Agent of the Milwaukee Kennel Club for $600. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/meigs/newspapers/gnw71athensme.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ohfiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 07:29:43 -0500 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <200501031229.j03CThE27787@genrecords.org> Subject: Oh-Meigs Co. News (Athens Messenger) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Meigs County OhArchives News.....Athens Messenger December 31 1928 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Connit Cotterill Schumaker Schumaker4@aol.com January 3, 2005, 7:29 am microfilm December 31, 1928 Athens Messenger Athens Ohio Minersville Man Dies of Pneumonia Today Pomeroy, Dec. 31. -- (Staff Special) Joseph Garland, 74, a well-known resident of Minersville, died at his home this morning at 7 o'clock of pneumonia which developed from a bad case of influenza. Mr. Garland was a staunch member of the Minersville Methodist Church and of the Pomeroy Odd Fellows Lodge. He is survived by two daughters, Ethel, a teacher in the Pomeroy High School, and Clara of the home. No funeral arrangements have been announced. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/meigs/newspapers/gnw72athensme.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ohfiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #3 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 07:31:51 -0500 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <200501031231.j03CVpg28407@genrecords.org> Subject: Oh-Meigs Co. News (Portsmouth Time) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Meigs County OhArchives News.....Portsmouth Time April 28 1860 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Connit Cotterill Schumaker Schumaker4@aol.com January 3, 2005, 7:31 am microfilm April 28, 1860 Portsmouth Time Portsmouth Ohio Death of Capt. Charles Giles Four weeks ago last Tuesday this gentleman called o bid us good-bye just as he was on the eve of starting to Pike's Peak. Little did we think so few days remained to him on this earth. He was in good health, high spirits, and entertained firm hopes of a few months profitable labor in the newly discovered Eldorado. He embarked on board the Ohio No. 3, on the 20th of March, in the company with three others, and on Wednesday morning last a telegraphic dispatch was received by his brother Joseph Giles, living in Rutland, Meigs county, stating that Capt. Charles Giles had died in Leavenworth City, on Tuesday, the 10th inst. --- Gallipolis Journal [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/meigs/newspapers/gnw73portsmou.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ohfiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #4 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 07:33:54 -0500 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <200501031233.j03CXsu28885@genrecords.org> Subject: Oh-Meigs Co. News (Athens Messenger) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Meigs County OhArchives News.....Athens Messenger August 2 1888 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Connit Cotterill Schumaker Schumaker4@aol.com January 3, 2005, 7:33 am microfilm 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 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/meigs/newspapers/gnw74athensme.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ohfiles/ File size: 2.7 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #5 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 07:36:31 -0500 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <200501031236.j03CaVK30621@genrecords.org> Subject: Oh-Meigs Co. News (Newark Daily Adv) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Meigs County OhArchives News.....Newark Daily Advocate September 3 1887 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Connit Cotterill Schumaker Schumaker4@aol.com January 3, 2005, 7:36 am microfilm September 3, 1887 Newark Daily Advocate Newark Ohio Josiah Terrill Dies on the Scaffold Protesting his Innocence to the Last Columbus, O. Sept 3. -- Josiah Terrell, convicted of murder of an old man named Phelps in Meigs county last January, was hanged about 12:30 this morning at the penitentiary. He protested his innocence to the last. His neck was broken in the fall and life was extinct in fifteen minutes. The history of the crime for which he was is as follows: Charles Phelps, aged sixty-five years, and old miser living near Pomeroy, Meigs county, Ohio was found murdered in his nut on the morning of January 6, 1887. His throat had been cut and the hair of his dead was frozen to the flood in a pool of blood. Terrill was arrested on suspicion and convicted by an unbroken chain of circumstantial evidence, not a word of controverting evidence being offered by the defendant. A hand glass and overcoat belonging to the old man were found in his possession, and he was seen near the scene of the murder on the day in question. For years he had been regarded as a worthless fellow, of homadic disposition, his name having appeared on the criminal docket on numerous occasions, although never directly charged with serious felony. He was soon to have married Miss Permelin Allmade, a young lady in the neighborhood. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/meigs/newspapers/gnw75newarkda.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ohfiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #6 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 07:37:51 -0500 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <200501031237.j03CbpA31017@genrecords.org> Subject: Oh-Meigs Co. News (Athens Messenger) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Meigs County OhArchives News.....Athens Messenger April 26 1888 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Connit Cotterill Schumaker Schumaker4@aol.com January 3, 2005, 7:37 am microfilm April 26, 1888 Athens Messenger Athens Ohio Judge J. P. Bradbury the candidate for the Supreme bench is personally, or by enviable reputation, well known to nearly all the readers of the Messenger. He is in life's prime, his age being fifty. He is a native of Gallia county but has for many years been a resident of Pomeroy, Meigs county, where he began legal practice in April, 1866. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Meigs county in 1869, and re-elected in 1871, serving two full terms. He was elected Common Pleas Judge for the Third subdivision of the Seventh Judicial District in 1875 for an unexpired term; was re elected in 1876 and again in 1881. He was election one of the Circuit Judges of the Fourth Circuit in 1884, and resigned the Common Pleas Judgship and entered upon the duties of Circuit Judge in February, 1885, and is still serving as Circuit Judge. In addition to his brilliant reputation as a jurist, Judge Bradbury has an enviable record as a soldier in the war for the suppression of the slave- holders rebellion. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/meigs/newspapers/gnw76athensme.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ohfiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #7 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 07:38:48 -0500 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <200501031238.j03Ccmq31228@genrecords.org> Subject: Oh-Meigs Co. News (Athens Messenger) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Meigs County OhArchives News.....Athens Messenger April 26 1888 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Connit Cotterill Schumaker Schumaker4@aol.com January 3, 2005, 7:38 am microfilm April 26, 1888 Athens Messenger Athens Ohio NEIGHBORING COUNTIES Meigs Undertaker Biggs, of Pomeroy, has a match team of black mares which weigh exactly 1,006 pounds each, both drawing the same notch. They are eight years olds. The corner stone for a new M. E. church, to be known as Highland Chapel, was laid with appropriate religious ceremonies on Thomas Fork Tuesday morning of last week. The wife of Henson Willis, indicted at Pomeroy, last week, for the murder of his father-in-law, denies the story that she ever said that Willis had killed a man and woman at Pt. Pleasant and sank their bodies in the river to get their boat. On Wednesday afternoon of last week C. L. Henderson, son of ex-commissioner I. H. Henderson, of Portland, was married at the Grand Dilcher hotel in Pomeroy to Miss Rosa Middleswart, daughter of J. F. Middleswart, also of Portland. The Meigs County Common Pleas Court convened Tuesday morning of last week. Among the indictments returned by the Grand Jury was one against Willis Henson for murder in the first degree and whose trial will come off at the present term of the April session with Judge Sibley on the bench. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/meigs/newspapers/gnw77athensme.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ohfiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #8 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 07:40:54 -0500 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <200501031240.j03CesL00509@genrecords.org> Subject: Oh-Meigs Co. News (Athens Messenger) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Meigs County OhArchives News.....Athens Messenger October 26 1876 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Connit Cotterill Schumaker Schumaker4@aol.com January 3, 2005, 7:40 am microfilm October 26, 1876 Athens Messenger Athens Ohio Neighboring Counties Meigs W. E. Hayes, of Bedford township, has sold his farm and is preparing to move to Missouri. Rev. J. D. Smith, formerly of Athens, has taken up quarters on Fifth Street, Middleport. The people of Chester were entertained by an address from the Hon. Judge Plants, Oct. 12th. Geo. Snowden started for Montana a few days since where he will take charge of some mining interests. Dr. David Radford, of Chester township, exhibited a Poland hog at the Meigs County Fair, 2 1/2 years old and weighing 840 pounds. Miss Brechtle, the only support of invalid mother and several children, died in Pomeroy, on Wednesday morning, Oct. 18th, after an illness of fifteen weeks. The citizens of Pomeroy had made arrangements to give her a Benefit in the way of a Musical Festival on Thursday night, and now the proceeds will go to pay her funeral expenses and to support her mother. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/meigs/newspapers/gnw78athensme.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ohfiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #9 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 07:55:28 -0500 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <200501031255.j03CtSg08062@genrecords.org> Subject: Oh-Meigs Co. News (Athens Messenger) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Meigs County OhArchives News.....Athens Messenger October 10 1880 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Connit Cotterill Schumaker Schumaker4@aol.com January 3, 2005, 7:55 am microfilm October 10, 1880 Athens Messenger Athens Ohio Meigs Mrs. Philip Gittshall lately died at her home at Side Hill, Rutland township. Everett Wells has, says a Middleport correspondent of the Telegraph, removed on a farm in Athens county. Common Pleas Court, of this county, opened on Wednesday, of last week, with Judge Bradbury on the bench. There are 260 civil and criminal cases on the trial docket. Mr. Edward Short, a well known and deservedly esteemed citizen, of Middleport aged about 60, died at his late home in that place on Sunday of last week after protracted illness. At Racine, one day last week, Dale Roberts, a lad of 12 years, grandson of the late Dr. Philson, was kicked by Thomas Decker's colt in the face. His nose was broken, and the flesh torn from one side of the face. Miss Rhoda Chase, who, says a Rutland correspondent of the Telegraph, for many years had made her home in the family of Mr. Seth Paine, of this village, was united in marriage to Mr. James W. Atba, of West Virginia on last Wednesday evening, the 13th. The Chester correspondent of the Telegraph says; The new cannon brought up from Pomeroy last Saturday for the purpose of arousing the township, after firing about half a dozen rounds bursted, with a tremendous explosion, into several pieces, two of which struck the old Courthouses with great force, breaking a hole in the heavy wall and throwing some of the inside bricks nearly half way across the house. It being early in the evening but few people had gathered and very fortunately no one was injured. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/meigs/newspapers/gnw79athensme.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ohfiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #10 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 08:07:36 -0500 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <200501031307.j03D7aR14660@genrecords.org> Subject: Oh-Meigs Co. News (Athens Messenger) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Meigs County OhArchives News.....Athens Messenger June 26 1890 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Connit Cotterill Schumaker Schumaker4@aol.com January 3, 2005, 8:07 am microfilm June 26, 1890 Athens Messenger Athens Ohio Meigs Ezra Hulbert, landlord of the Hulbert Hous at Pomeroy, has had his pension materially increased. John W. Picket, age 27, recently died at his home, at Carpenter's station, Columbia township, of Consumption. Edward Wakely, a much respected citizen of MeigsCreek, who was lately taken to the Athens Asylum subsequently died in that institution. "Baron" Chas. P. Von Kaminietz, well known in Pomeroy and Middleport recently, died suddenly at the National Military Home at Dayton. The Pomeroy school board at its meeting last week employed Mrs. T. C. Flanegin and Miss Clema McKnight to fill the remaining vacancies in the schools there. Thomas J. Baker, under indictment for shooting with intent to kill broke out of jail at Pomeroy on a recent evening and made good his escape. He is also under indictment in Powell county, KY., for killing a man. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by Connie Cotterill Schumaker File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/meigs/newspapers/gnw80athensme.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ohfiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #11 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 08:19:29 -0500 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <200501031319.j03DJT220708@genrecords.org> Subject: Oh-Meigs Co. News (Athens Messenger) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Meigs County OhArchives News.....Athens Messenger May 20 1890 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Connit Cotterill Schumaker Schumaker4@aol.com January 3, 2005, 8:19 am microfilm May 20, 1880 Athens Messenger Athens Ohio Neighboring Counties Meigs The youngest child of Rev. Starcke, of the Second Ward, Pomeroy recently died. Mrs. Lucinda Stansbury, wife of the Infirmary Superintendent of this county, was lately very seriously injured by being thrown from a horse. Herman Smith and Alonzo Cooper of Rutland lately caught three full grown and seven young foxes with steel traps set at the mouth of a den in the township. Ida, youngest daughter of Wm. Beal, of West Bedford, died on the 10th inst., and his son Charles was not at the close of the week expected to survive an attack of fever. Henry Lehue [or it could be Lebue], aged twenty-five a Bedford township farmer in good circumstances, has been adjudged insane and application made for his admission to the Athens Asylum. About two years ago he suffered a sunstroke, and has since been subject to occasional fits of insanity. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/meigs/newspapers/gnw81athensme.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ohfiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #12 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 08:45:59 -0500 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <200501031345.j03Djxw03072@genrecords.org> Subject: Oh-Meigs Co. News (Athens Messenger) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Meigs County OhArchives News.....Athens Messenger May 29 1890 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Connit Cotterill Schumaker Schumaker4@aol.com January 3, 2005, 8:45 am microfilm May 29, 1890 Athens Messenger Athens Ohio General Enochs, of Ironton, will address the G.A.R. Post of Middleport at Coe's Hall at 2 o'clock on the afternoon of Decoration Day. Fire at Middleport last Friday morning destroyed three dwelling houses, one owned by John Grogan and two by Rodney Downing. Loss $1,500. Pendleton Pickerell, aged 22 years, a resident of Lebanon township, was recently adjudged insane and brought to the AThens Asylum. He is the sixth person taken to the Asylum in the past five months from Meigs county. David Davis, better know as Big David Davis, a miner in the Peacock coal mine, Pomeroy, last Thursday receved injuries from falling coal and slate, which will probably result fatally. He is a Welshman aged about 60 years, and has several daughters. Mrs. Jacob Mee, living at Mason City, near Pomeroy, one day last week gave birth to three four-pound boy babes, which have since died. Mrs. is a next door neighbor to Mrs. Foster Curtis, who several months ago gave birth to a child that now only weights two pounds. George H Goff, in his 21st year, son of Mr. and Mrs. Draper L. Goff who live a short distance east of Danville, was accidentally shot with fatal effect on Tuesday afternoon of last week by Clarence, son of F. D. Barns, while on the way to the woods to hunt. Young Gof died on Wednsday night from the effects of his injury. At Langsville, Monday afternoon of last week, Austion Barton while in the act of shooting, or getting read to shoot a rat, his weapon was prematurely discharged the bullet striking his nephew, Austin Ward, aged 17, above the right eye, entering the brain cavity. Immediately following the shooting the brains oozed from the wound, and the victim was expected to live but a short time. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/meigs/newspapers/gnw82athensme.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ohfiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #13 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 08:53:25 -0500 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <200501031353.j03DrPV07381@genrecords.org> Subject: Oh-Meigs Co. News (Athens Messenger) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Meigs County OhArchives News.....Athens Messenger January 15 1858 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Connit Cotterill Schumaker Schumaker4@aol.com January 3, 2005, 8:53 am microfilm January 15, 1858 Athens Messenger Athens Ohio A Change -- The Meigs County Telegraph has been sold by Mr. Thomason, its late editor and proprietor to Mr. Plants. Mr. Thomson was the member in the House last year from Meigs county, and Mr. Plants is the member this year. -- Mr. Thomson intends to leave Ohio and will most probably settle in Iowa. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/meigs/newspapers/gnw83athensme.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ohfiles/ File size: 1.1 Kb ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #14 Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 13:59:29 -0500 From: Archives To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <200501031859.j03IxTD26780@genrecords.org> Subject: Oh-Meigs Co. News (Athens Messenger) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Meigs County OhArchives News.....Athens Messenger April 1 1875 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker Schumaker4@aol.com January 3, 2005, 1:59 pm microfilm April 1, 1875 Athens Messenger Athens Ohio NEIGHBORING COUNTIES MEIGS Hosmer Branch, who the Telegraph say is a Republican, is the Democratic nominee for Mayor of Pomeroy. There is a young man in the Meigs county jail who has at least four wives ?ying, and it is supposed six. Three of them reside in Meigs county. Hon. V. B. Horton, whose term as President and Director of the A.L.E.R.R., had expired, accepted a re-election as Director but not as President. It was, in his opinion, desirable that this office should be held by one who lived near the center of the road, and who could devote more time to the management of it than he himself would be able to do at Pomeroy. [The above was transcribed as it appeared in the newspaper without making changes to spelling or grammar.] Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/meigs/newspapers/gnw84athensme.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ohfiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V05 Issue #2 *****************************************