Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1872-05-01
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more on our streets.
ALL the pretty girls in McAFenar
are getting "Doly Warden" dresses
to wear this summer.
The time il here when decaycd
vegetation in cellars, and all cess
pools, should be removed.
THERE ars springs in parts of Vim
ton county, which Eave never failed
before in the memory of those liv.
ing, that have now ceased TO flow.
GET a "Voley Dsrden," and be
in style. All the ladies want one,
You "might as we'll be out of the
world as out Of the fashion"
BUrTER is very scarce.
If you "want to be an angel"
and "with the angels stand" light
your fires with coal oil. 1t never
fails.
DANIEL HUGHES, of New Ply.
mouth, died on Friday, April goth,
aged 25 years.
SOME people won't learn that cross
walks are intended for pedestrians.
They persist in stopping the car
riages, wagons, or some other vehi.
Gle directly over the walk, and then
go away and stay an hour or more.
LoTs of marriagable damsels in
this region, fair, lovely and winning
in their ways. But few weddings,
The girls, as courtists, amt a sue
cess, and loap~year is emphatically
pronounced failure
If you live where intermittent
fever or any fevcrs prevail, the sun.
flower has an influence on the at
mosphere, and may prevent these
ftvers. Therefore sun flowers must
be planted around your dwellings,
and in the neighborhood of places
that may infect the air that you
nightly breathe.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Co. have taken possession of the
Somerset, Newark & Stratsville
Railroad, and now own the line of
road from Straitsville to Sandusky.
This company owns the branch
road from HaRden to Portsmouth.
Wonder if they intend to own the
gap between Hamden and Straits.
vile?
SPRING.-The weather has had
many streaks of sunshine during
the week, and spring is opening in
good earnest. Garden shrubbery,
fruit and shade trees are budding
finely, and many kinds of wild
shrubs and flowers are in bloom
The grass is unusually high for the
season, and affords good feed for
stock.
FROM the Report of the State
School Commissioner, we learn that
there are 1891 boys between the
ages of 5 and Fl years, and 1854
girls in Vinton county. There are
3 Independent School Districts, So
Sub districts, and so school houses,
in the county. The Board of School
Examiners held 18meetings in 1871
and examined 139 female and 81
male applicants, and granted 1T
certificates.
THE following named persons
received certificates to teach, ut the
examination held on Saturday week
ago.
TWELVE MONTHS.
Rebccca CottrlL Matte Curry,
Six MONTHS.
Rebecca Cottrill, Minnie Cottrill.
Melissa Sharp, Sarah Strong,
MOllie Wymer, Joseph FELTON,,
ID. II. Baird, Eliza Mitchell,
Anna Linn,
THE citizens Of Chillicothe were
favored, on Monday, the 22d ult.,
with daring balloon ascension on
the flying trapeze, by w. II. Dom
aldson, as we learn from the Adver.
tiSer. He landed below Pomeroy,
near the river, 65 miles from, Chill
licothe, making tho passage in one
hour and forty-fve minutes.
THF following gentlemen were
elected to fill the various offices of
Eagle Township:
Trustees,
Charles Scott,
John Brown,
Henry Teters. 7
Constables,
Bi. Conway,
Andrew Trimmer,
Clerk,
II. @. Haynes.
Assessor,
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