The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-04-27
PerrygViue.
DEAR UNION

old time green sod will be broken, ane
the beautiful buiF3ing will rise on th'
hitherto quiet spot. Mr.. Critchfeld
is the architect and builder. When W.
located il the first thing desirable wa
to secure a fine landscape view to re
ioice the students who would lcol
abroad from the new doors and win
dows. We. have succeeded admira
bly,, and Il daily beauty will enhance
the charningly picturesque landscape
There Will be Wild woods and quie
waters, and broad meadows, and bcif
jutting craggy hill, and the sweeping
curve of the railroad for a mile on eli
Their hand, and winliag highways and
church steeples and the white village
nesting amid crowned hills and dimp.
ling v~ollies. In the background vii
be the mossy roofei mill with is rum.
bling wheels. and tie foamy flash o!
the water over the dam, and the vii.
lage grave yard with the white monu.
ments, and modest tablets cleaning
out from among the trees and shrub
berry.
There are grand cid woods in which
bo.anists viii delightto search for flow.
ers and moses, and romp and swing
on grape vines, and rest. and recuper-
ate There are Wild deIis in which ell
oquent boy-studsnts can thunder forth
noisily, and ~ges!icu:ate and demou-
to their hearts content; and
are secluded waters half hidden
by ose;haneiDg trees in which they
can battle, and swim, and FISH, with
to witness except squirrels. musk
rats. p!ump-breasted wild ducks, and
and wild wood spirits
Students coming to Greerown'
Academy find it necessary to add a
shot gun TO their otter equipments,
as a luxury.
We have succeeded in raising two
thousand five hundred dollars already
n 4 very quiet way, and feel sure, Viii.
he indomitabLe energy of our excel
ent Profo5so and Board, and Com
that we can easily raise al that
viii be needed Tor building and furn-
cur new Academy.
the members OF the Excelsior liter
soc ETY. are wide awake n the en-
e prise, and are doing good service
We esteem this % ietv as second ~
Ione we ever knew. The orltionz,
ectu.es, ESSAYS. poems and the discus
ions OIL the principal topics Of the day
re very good, and evince unusual tai
Mt AMI depth Of thought.
PerrysviIle has two excellent phy-
four dry goods s o e., al do
ng a fine business. one groce-y and
revision sore, thsea siloe shop, tAfee
blacksmith shoTs, one cabinet shop,
ne lumber yard, two cooper shops,
ne tannesy, IL wagon shop aud three
Millinery foom>.
We have n foundry in which al
OF castings ara made t',at are
ior farm ~ inoian4A.s. We
ave eve v.ling that is needed in a
irst class Wage, oniy--la. we have
0 60 70 Lridonvil'e:og get GU pi.tures
asen! That seems 100 had, a .hou.n
l.. Pof axes :,iendil pictures and
the u,mo.5 81 isGa:.iol, being
ne of the finest artists IN the Stace
lie has the tue. artistic talent an6 a
perception OF he beautiful.
n his expert hands, grimly grInning
tiers smile benign!v-Loilow cheeks
ook dimpled, and dim eyes wear the
expression OF The poets eyes
Vnen not ''in i ine f:elzy roIling."
t IS lair 10 give the artist. Poi, his just
Iues, but-we need a photographers of
'urown and are willing TO support one
Our Temperance Union Is one OF the
'est and truest in the. State. No Ii
Luo-s are allowed to be sold in the vi
There is no better safe uard
or a young nan exposed to the great
empter than to shelter undel the pro-
wing of azstrong temperance
organization. Our lady members hold
,itice just as the men do, and the chair
5 at present filled honorably, and right
by a modest, intelligent, ear
lest woman, who knows as much of
parliamentary rules, and what to say
md do as ANY man who ever filled that
When the Grand Division
net in Dayton last fall it unanimous
y elected to the second highest Office
the Safe, Miss Lide GLADDEN., one
IF the most .unassuning of u village
girls. No woman evef held this Office
in Ohio. Lide, wears her hou-
DIS very meekly, and goes about the
kitchen with her sleeves rolled up ma
king nice white ~loaves, and pies, and
cakes, while the roses of health make
her cheeks all abloom. She has prov
ed herself to be one of those women
whom the poet calls 'nobly planned "
She is not one ofthose who rant about
suffrage, and women's rights,