Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1874-06-12
" TRoM BELvILLE RIDGE.

En-. JOURNxL - II has been some time sinc'
I have seen anything in your excellent papeI
from BelviiIe Ridge. And now Il Is doubtful
u your correspondent can think Of anything tc
write that viii interest the many readers Of the
JorRSAL.
It's gratifying e, state, that there has Dot O
death occurred In this vicipity since last
wrote you andthere has been bn. very little
sickness, and what there has been has mol
been Of a serious nature.
There u only three things that can think Oi
now that intervenes between the people Of this
vioinhy and perfect happiness. The first Il
the scarcity OF greenbacks. We all feel that
we would love to pay our debts and make ouT
creditors exceedingly glad, but II is next to i'm
possible TO do so under the present state Of az
fairs. The next to mar our peace is the intOler'
ahle potatoe bug, and lastly the wire worm
We may hope to raise tew potatoes by keep
ing mp the continual warfare on the bugs, but
there is no end to the wire worm. | know oI
one 10 acre 6ed that was planted with corn
and half Of the corn which was planted on
that Geld has been eaten by this worm
Rut this Is an exception. This pest to the
farmer generally inhabt low wet land, and
the only way know To get rid Of them is TO
under-drain. | never knew them to trouble
corn planted on land Thoroughly underdraincd
But We are not all able to under-drain, md II
soWe kind friend will tell us how to manage
this little epemy, we wiz be pnder lasting Obli-
CATION. Think there has been double The
amount Of corn planted in this section This sea-
son to what there was last. Wheat is coming
out beyond our most sangune expectations.
had occasion 10 take a little trip through
part Of Webs ter twp, a few days since, aud
saw some as good fields OF wheat as | have
seen for seYeCal years. The prospect for a
large apple crop this season is not lhtterng, yet
think there will be sufficient to supply the
home demand. The peach crop promises to be
an abundant one. The early cherries seem TO
be all falling off.
Our Sabbath School ia In full blast, but there
is one thing wanting yet, to make ita sue
cess. The old folks should by all means attend
the :. s. Our superintendent told me on last
Sabbath, that unless the parents would give
their attention to the School, il would be a fail
ure. II nv ADVICE is worth anything would
advise them to be at their post. Don't suffer
the s. s. to go down; let us enc ursge our
young superintendent in his eifnrts to do good.
There has been Sabbath School organized al
the Centre Ditch School House, and am told
that they are having very successful school
there. We need not woudor at their success
when we take into account that old and young
male and female are found in theirseats as reg.
ular as the appointed hour arrives, and when
books, papers, &C., there is 20 trouble to raise
it.
We are OF the opinion that Bro. Adams
spoiled his nice little speech on deportation Day
when he hoped that onr "Centenial in '7d
would d" away with the ith Of July as a Ma.
tiopal Holiday" The hre cracker seemed TO be
the greatest objection to celebrating the day.
agree with Bro. A. that fre-crackeIs are very
annoying to zoe old FOLKS, hut thev afford Young
America great amount Of solid comfort, and
can we not endure the fiz, sputter and snap Of
the intne rable fire crackers for short space
Of lime for Young America. remember tina
was a boy oBce myself, and when the glorious
old 4th Of July wonld come mr. little teart
would he filled with patriotism, and thought
was doing a big thing when on the morning Of
that day ! could take nv dre-crackers and
sallv forth at early dawn to fire salute to Inde-
pendrnce day. II is we'll to keep green the
memory of tnnse who laved down their lives "a
perpetuate the independence Of America, but To
do avav with Old Independence Day, oeper
SErER! We regard Mr.. Adams as an homes,
christian gentleman, and has a perfect right
to his views. hut we claim, the right TO differ
with him in this one thing at least.
A word in regard TO tn" irnprovemanis going
on in what we call the Six Mile Woods. The
Amen Road is to be extended East Of Centre
Ditch Road az miles, interseciing the Walker
Road little south east Of Hugh Stewart's
The job NJ completing the road has been sold
and viii in all probability be cnmpls sted
during the summer and tall. The job Of Ditch
ing the Two Root Greek has also been let. The
road running down from Belville Ridge School
House has been surveyed. and the job will be
let in n shori time. Several families have al
ready moved in on the line Of these roads and
are making rapid progress toward clearing M
farms. There are plenty 0f good chances left
to invest 10 good advantage. Land can be
bought yerv Tow vet, but it must necessarily y
gonp and that At no distant day.
What are onr Trustees doing with Ditch No,
- don't think the old Trustees raised a
finger toward haying IL completed last year.
If our new ones don't do something for MS this
wear shall be in favor Of having no Trustees
in Perrvsburg twp. at all. II seems that we
cannot haze man elected To the Office Of Prus.
tee, unless he lives in or verv near the villag
Of Perrysburg. In fact we can not elect Su.
pervisnr in Road district No. I3-the citizens
nj perrysbnrG elect him. If Won Perrvsburg-
ers are not n little more liberal in the distribu
ti0n nf the Township officers in the future. We
uns think some OF setting mp little Kingdn m
of our own somewhere near the Devils Hole.
word to the wise is sufficient
Rnt must close. No doubt have already
exhausted vonr patience with nv nonsense
Now Mr. Editor, il you will come out and see
ms when peaches get ripe we will make IL as in
teresting for you as know how. Bring
vonr w-wi-I had like to said your wife along
We'll. bring ronr Susan Jane with YOU. and we
will eat peaches aud ere, m and drink Lemonade
ali the day long. Yours Truly.
GRIDiRoN.
BELvILLE RIDGE Jnne 9th 1874