Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-02-01
For the REPUBLIC An.
COMMUNICATION.
ORRvILLE, OHIO, !
Jan. 20. 1S62.S

ORRvILLE, OHIO,
Jan. 20, 1S62.}
Eds. Republican: Grim winter con-
tinres to hang on with plenty of cold
but not much snow. The few days of
sleighing with which We were favored
were taken advantage of by all who
could do so. The merry jingle of the
bells ceased not during the entire night.
Parties went out early and came in
late, some of them early, lin the MORN
ing.) Many transfers of real estate and
other property have occurred with us
since my last. D. G. Evans sold his
Brick Block to the occupants, Messrs.
Beckley & Strauss, dry goods merchants.
for the sum of $1,000. Samuel Tsggart
sold ten acres of land to John Taggart,
Morrow Taggart and Joseph Snavely
for $4,000. This land lies quite near the
business portion of the village and will
be laid out in town lots by the new
proprietors.
Messrs. Reed & Steel have purchased
Amos Eshelman's stock of groceries
and will continue the business. Geo.
Kilgore has bought out John Dunn in
the Orrville livery. S. A. Shaffer, OF
the firm of Shaffer & Heffelman, timers
and stove dealers, has sold his interest
to Mr.. Benjamin Brenneman.
We have not yet been visited by the
smallpox, however, such reports are
current in the country. Fairview, four
miles east of us, had visitation of the
dreaded complaint in two lately arrived
German families, but, upon the ad-
vice of DIR. Miller of this place, the
school was suspended and the disease
was kept confined to the two families
until the patients had recovered.
Our methodist people are quite in
dignant, and well they may be, over an
article in the Crescent which Represented
them as acting more like New York
roughs than quiet village persons as
sembled to promote the welfare of the
church. in such harmless amusement as
tearing down the window curtains, up
setting stove and such other christian
like proceedings! calculated to refine
and improve the manners of the rising
generation who congregate at such
places. If this were true it would pre-
sent very deplorable picture, indeed,
of the manner in which our young peo-
ple conduct themselves when out from
home. Mr.. Yoder, the proprietor OF
the house so shamefully abused by
these NJ. E. Mite Society people, rises
to explain and says that the curtain
torn down-was neither lace nor muslin.
but only newspapers supported by 8
couple of tacks, and that the stove wa:
minus leg and pipe, placed in the
room temporarily and forgotten. The
room was not in use and unfinished. Il
the Crescent had another local reporter
it would be able to dish up tirst-clasi
, sensations a la New York Police Gazette
and give Orrville such lovely nam'
; that all good people would shun th'
place as they would smallpox hospi
tai.
Ye capitalists, and all others, of Mil
lersburg should take lively interest IL
: the new project, or rather the reviva
of an old project, for another roa'
| southwark. The opening of new roa'
7 would bring them recompense 10
) what they have lost by the establishing
of new and opposing markets in othe
part. of the county. We have plent
a of railroad excitement here, but canno
a say what may be accomplished.
d Yours,
WAYNE.