===================================================================== Match: Bowles Source: OHMEIGS-L@rootsweb.com From: Schumaker4@aol.com Subject: August 22, 1889 Athens Messenger These pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other persons or organizations. They are for individual research ONLY. They will remain the property of the OHMEIGS list serve and may NOT be FORWARDED on to any second party or group. Persons or organizations desiring to forward or use this material must obtain written consent from me or my legal representative and contact the archivist of the OHMEIGS list serve with proof of consent. I have given permission for these files to be stored permanently for free access in the archives of the OHMEIGS list serve. SIDE NOTE: These newspaper transcriptions are being posted for individuals on this mailing list to use in their family research or written family histories. It is not necessary for you to ask for permission to use them for that. I am mainly concerned about the transcriptions being forwarded on to others or groups taking the transcriptions and using them as a profit making adventure. My reason for posting these is that the information be made available free for you and future researchers. August 22, 1889 Athens Messenger Athens Ohio Meigs Captain J. C. McElroy, of Racine, who was reported to be seriously ill, is convalescing. Prof. T. C. Flanagin has been elected Supernatant of the Syracuse, Meigs county, schools. He is an excellent teacher. Mr. Andrew Wolf, in his 69th year, a respectable citizen near Racine, died quite suddenly, recently, as the result of a paralytic stroke. Recently V. F. Shepherd, of Rutland township, harvested eighteen bushels of Beauty of Hebron potatoes from a piece of ground containing 6 1/4 square rods. That would be at the rate of 490 bushels per acre. Col. Grant, of Pomeroy, recently received a photograph of his uncle, John Grant, of Kansas, taken on his one hundredth birth day, which was April 12th. The old gentleman looks vigorous for a man of his age. At the late Meigs county Pioneer meeting "Uncle" Phineas Robinson said the first murder trail in the county was that of a man named Staats who killed an Indian girl, and that the first person to go to the penitentiary from Meigs county was Samuel Hart. John Graves, aged 24, of Addison, Gallia county, has been arrested on the charge of having set fire to the barn of S. F. Smith, at Middleport, which burned down early Sunday morning of last week. Smith claims that he can prove that Graves threatened to burn him out, and that he was seen going toward the barn a few minutes before the fire started. The Meigs county Democratic mass meeting at Pomeroy went through the unimportant formula, last Saturday, of nominating the following ticket: Representative, John N. Webb, Salem township; County Commissioner, J. R. Ogden, Columbia township; Auditor, Jacob Dean, Orange township; Sheriff, Will F. Bartels, Sutton township; Infirmary Director, R. S. Saul, Bedford township; and Coroner, Dr. D. D. Harringer, of Middleport. C.E. Peoples, Lewis Caster, J. V. Webb, W. H. Acker and J. F. Bowles were chosen delegates to the State Convention. Transcribed by: Connie Cotterill Schumaker The above was transcribed without making changes to spelling or grammar. The original newspapers were provided by Joyce in Columbus, who gave permission to transcribe and post. =================================