Medical Notice

Marietta Intelligencer, September 2, 1856

Dr. Seth Hart of Harmar has opened an office in Marietta on Front Street, between Baldwin's Jewelry and Tomlinson's & Co.'s Dry Goods Store, at which place he may be consulted on subjects belonging to the practice of Medicine, from the hours of eight in the morning until eight in the evening, when not necessarily absent.

Dr. Samuel Hart is associated with his father in the practice, and has special charge of the office in Harmar.

Arrangements will be made at the Muskingum Ferry, so that persons may pass at all hours of the night in case of emergency.

 

Houses and Lots for Sale in Marietta

Marietta Intelligencer, September 30, 1847

The undersigned offers for sale many eligible Town Lots with Dwelling Houses, worthy the attention of those who desire a residence in Marietta, among which are the following:

Ward's Brick Block - being four distinct two-story dwellings on Second Street, above Scammel - built in modern style, with out-houses convenient; excellent well water and cisterns to each.

Also, the Darrow House and Lot, corner of Putnam and 5th streets. A large and commodious two-story Frame House, near the College - very suitable for a Boarding House - good well and soft water on the premises.

Also, the Johnson House and lot, on Fifth, above Wooster Street, nearly opposite Major Clark's - a large and roomy two-story frame, pleasantly situated, with a good-sized Barn.

Also, a small Frame House and Barn, and lot No. 419, on 7th below Washington Street.

Also, a small Frame House, and lot No. 321, Washington Street.

Also, Frame House and Lot No. 322, Washington Street - a very desirable residence.

Also, a large two-story Frame House and lot No. 133, near Vinton's Tannery.

Also, a large modern built, two-story Frame House and lot, being the northern part of lot No. 501; Second below Wooster Street; now occupied by Mr. Kelley.

Also, the Kelley House and lot, No. 514; Second below Wooster Street; a very neat and comfortable residence.

Also, the Gidley House and lot; a two-story frame near the Foundry, Harmar - good cellar, cistern and barn.

Also, the McCoy House and lot, 40 feet by 33, on town lot No. 9, Harmar - a two-story Frame, fronting on the common.

Also, the Skinner Mansion House and lot, No. 6, large and commodious, recently fully repaired, fronting on the river - is one of the most desirable residnces in Harmar.

The foregoing property will be sold low. Terms liberal. Title undisputed.

Nahum Ward

 

Girl Fights Instructor

Marietta Daily Times, February 1, 1912

Trouble Reported at Lynch School House

A battle between a girl pupil and a woman teacher, with a resultant strike that brought the attendance at the Lynch school down to a single little boy, is giving the board of education of Fearing Township something to cudgel its brains over, according to reports that have reached this city. The story is given below as it comes from the neighborhood where the school is located.

A difficulty between the teacher, Miss Crawford of Coal Run, and a girl pupil named Jordan, whose home is at or near Caywood, occurred when the head of the school took the girl to task for something she had done. The young woman was unruly, however, and proceeded to mix things up with the instructor in real rough-house style. Miss Crawford was seized by the hair and pulled and jerked about for a time. It was a tough battle, but the teacher finally regained control of the school.

But the other boys and girls took side with the pupil against the teacher, led to do this by desire for a holiday as much as anything else, perhaps, and consequently they declared a strike and said that they would not come back to school as long as Miss Crawford is the teacher.

Wednesday there was only one pupil at school, it is reported. He was a little boy who did not want to attend, but his mother made him attend as usual.

The matter is receiving the attention of the township board of education. 

 

Still Monkeying With Father Time

Sunday Morning Observer, November 24, 1918

Marietta time ordered pushed ahead an hour on anniversary of standard time.

New boundaries moving time zones were announced in Washington last week by the Interstate Commerce Commission. They become effective at 2 A.M., January 1. Previously they had been fixed by cross country railroads or local laws.

The announcement came on the anniversary of the adoption of Standard Time eighteen years ago, for it was on November 18, 1883, that Standard Time was born in the United States. Since then he has been adopted and given a permanent home in nearly all the civilized countries of the earth.

Before the birth of Standard Time, travelers from Boston and Washington needed to change their watches five times in order to keep up to date. There were over half a hundred standards used in the United States and Canada between the Atlantic and Pacific. Even in the same town there were often two different standards, one known as "sun" or "local" time, and the other as "railroad" time.

Many persons of scientific attainment invented schemes for standardizing time, but the plan finally adopted was worked out by W. F. Allen, secretary of the American Railway Association. At noon on November 18, 1883, there was a universal resetting of clocks in all parts of the United States and Canada, and the four great time zones into which the North American Continent is divided came into existence. European nations, which had suffered as much as America from hap-hazard methods of reckoning time, soon adopted a similar system. The observatory at Washington now distributes standard time with errors of only one-thousandth part of a second.

Here at Marietta the division line between Eastern time and Central time has been the Ohio River. But the new line fixed by the Commission to separate the Eastern and Central time zone begins at the Great Lakes and follows the boundary of Michigan down through Toledo, Mansfield, Columbus and Gallipolis, Ohio; Burlington, Kenova and Williamson, West Virginia; Dungannon, Va.; Bristol, Va.-Tenn.; Telford, Tenn.; Asheville and Franklin, North Carolina; Atlanta, McDonough, Macon, Perry, Americus, Albany and Thomasville, Ga., the north boundary of Florida to River Junction and the Apalachicola River to the Gulf of Mexico.

On the statute books of Ohio there is a law fixing Central time as the official time. For the past few years there has been some agitation in different parts of the state to change the official time to Eastern time. Much of the agitation came from Cleveland, the home of Secretary of War Baker. And in this connection it might be mentioned that Cleveland gets everything she wants now-a-days - from Washington.

Between Central and Mountain time, the line begins at the Canadian boundary at Portal, North Dakota; follows the Missouri River and extends through San Angelo, Texas, and the 109th meridian to the Rio Grande River.

Between Mountain and Pacific time zones, the line goes through the Continental Divide to Helena, Butte and Dillon, Montana. It runs along the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad, through Seligman and Parker, Arizona, and along the Colorado River to the Mexican boundary.

All of Alaska is left within a single time zone.