Rathbone Heights

Marietta Daily Times, January 30, 1914:

Observing what is being done in and near the city, it might be well to note the rapid strides the new addition known as Rathbone Heights is making at the upper end of Third Street. 

We recall the fact that only a few weeks ago this new addition was a dairy farm and since that time it has been surveyed into desirable residence lots with large frontages, some of which are 80 and 90 feet with great depths, being a great place for a good garden and to raise chickens.

The observer notes the fact that a beautiful drive, known as Sunset Drive, is almost completed from the paved street on Muskingum Drive to the top of the hill, being 40 feet wide and a good grade.

Five new bungalow houses have been contracted for and one is now nearing completion, which is attracting considerable attention. Numerous sales have been made during the past week to residents of the city, who are particularly fond of sunshine and plenty of room and fresh air.

The writer knows of no more beautiful addition, considering the location, its nearness to the city, street cars and paved streets, than Rathbone Heights Addition, and predicts for it within the next six months many attractive homes with green lawns and contented families with the ring of the carpenters' tools still there in their ears.

Rathbone Heights Sales Continuing

Marietta Daily Times, February 18, 1914:

Mr. Charles Bertram of Scammel Street has purchased of Doan & Mann a fine lot in this new addition out of high water, and will at once commence the erection of a fine home. The plans for this beautiful structure are now in the hands of the architect and the contract will be awarded at an early date. Charley says: "Rathbone Heights for him," it being out of the water.

Mr. John W. Holliday of Parkersburg, W. Va., has also purchased lot 34 of this addition and will commence the erection of a bungalow this spring. Mr. Holliday has been paying $30 per month rent for the past several years, and the liberal terms offered by Doan & Mann in securing one of these fine lots and the possibilities of getting a home of his own, appealed very strong to Mr. Holliday and family.

Lot 32 has been sold to a prominent lady of the city, who wishes her name withheld from the public and who now is perfecting plans for the erection of a bungalow the coming spring.

To the young man or young woman who is desirous of buying something in the form of an investment, or securing a home, and on the easy terms offered, Rathbone Heights lots should appeal to them.

Harmar Cemetery

The Marietta Register, July 11, 1867

The Harmar Cemetery contains some "tombstone literature" that is worth printing, as follows:

William Thomas Milligan, died May 18, 1853, aged 22.

     All you take notice as you pass by,

     As you are now, so once was I.

John Taylor, died July 20, 1836, aged 46.

     How strange, O God, that rules on high

     That I should come so far to die;

     To leave my friends where I was bred

     And lay my bones with strangers, dead.

We also notice that Isaac Humphreys, Esq., a noted Democratic politician in this county in former days - a member of State Senate - was born in Ireland, January, 1768 and died in Harmar, June 2, 1850, over seventeen years ago.

William Skinner, one of the early merchants of Harmar, was born at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, February 22, 1768, and died, December 14, 1840.

Martin Ludixen, a native of Poland, died August 11, 1841 - "crossed the Atlantic sixty times."

Hungarian Hall

The Home News, February 12, 1859

Is there a City Marshal among us?  Has he no authority to break up such low places of resort as the one called "Hungarian Hall," on Ohio Street, between 2nd and 3rd? If not, cannot the City Fathers do something to abate the nuisance?

A Scrap of History

The Marietta Register, April 19, 1883

A scrap of Pioneer history showing how a Washington County boy became a King.

Among the sturdy men who emigrated from Connecticut to Ohio was one named Stephen Guthrie, who located in the settlement called Newbury, at the lower end of the county. His first wife was Sally Chappell and they raised a family of six sons and two daughters. Four of the sons went to Putnam, in Muskingum county, and became prominent men in that town. The oldest daughter married Amos Dunham and died at Pomeroy a few years ago. The youngest daughter was the wife of Walter Curtis, and died at her home in Newbury in 1881.

Mr. Guthrie's wife died and he married a widow named Palmer who lived in Marietta, who had previous to her second marriage, four daughters and two sons, some of whom will be remembered by the older class of your readers. Mary Palmer married Richard Short and settled in Lowell, where he died rather mysteriously many years ago. His widow still lives with a daughter in Columbus. I believe Achsah Palmer married Erastus Guthrie, a son of Stephen Guthrie, who occupied the homestead in Newbury for several years and afterward moved to Malta, in Morgan County, where he died and the widow died and was buried at West Columbia, West, Va.

Waterman Palmer went to Pittsburgh, became wealthy in the dry goods trade, and was well known to all Washington county merchants who in those days made semi-annual trips to the Smoky City to buy goods.

Walter Palmer, the youngest son, left Newbury, entered the store with his brother, and being a high spirited, adventurous youth, became disgusted with the confinement and vexations which generally attend the life of a young clerk, ran away and no tidings from him were received by his anxious family and they supposed he was dead. 

Long years after the Palmer family learned indirectly that the brother whom they supposed to be dead, went to South America, became a sailor on the Pacific Ocean and his vessel was lost in a storm. The crew took a boat and after much privation landed on the Sandwich Islands, where they were received with great kindness by the natives. 

Walter, with that enterprise and confidence which characterize men in Ohio, made love to the King's daughter and became his son-in-law. His wisdom, energy and amiable qualities rendered him very useful and influential among the people, and upon the death of the old King was unanimously elevated to the throne, and under his rule, reforms were established which elevated the Islanders from a race of savages to a civilized nation. Thus did the truant boy who left Washington County to seek his fortune, become a king and father of the present King Kalulu.

Truly, the adventures of this Ohio boy read like a tale of fiction.

C.

Court Proceedings

The Marietta Republican, May 14,1858

The May Term of Court has despatched the usual amount of business. A number of interesting civil cases were disposed of involving sums of from $10 to $1000. Several cases of assault and battery were tried upon the Criminal side. Albert Rodgers, found guilty of assault and battery. David Lefevre was fined $35 for the same offence, and Newton Wood, a small boy, was fined $15 on account of a fray between he and an elderly lady, the preponderance of testimony indicating that he had been the aggressor, although he was doubtless more seriously injured than his feminine antagonist. Levi Barber plead guilty to an assault and battery upon J. M. Jackson and was fined $10.