Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-05-14
IN TOWN AND OUT.

The wild flowers are blooming.
The street cleaners are at work.
"A good floor manager broom.
The gait of fast age-investi-gate.
A pair of drawers span of team
horses.
The peach trees were in full bloom
on Sunday.
Send i'm all items of interest from
your neighborhood.
-Peach-bud smellers report every
thing lovely thus far.
Call at this Office for Cards, Circu-
lars, Bill and Letter Heads.
Spring has come at last. Truly
thou art welcome.
Warm weather dropped down sud-
denly last Saturday.
Smiling May comes in play, making
all things fresh and gay.
1t is now about time to commence
writing verses on Spring"
Several new houses are going up in
different parts of the town.
-"Scatter the gems of the beautiful"
plant flowers in your door yards.
Our street sprinkler was badly
needed the first few days of this week.
The man who wants to know how
much you are worth, &c., has been
around.
j. w. Farrah & Co. have their man.
moth sign in position. John knows how
to sell furniture.
Attention is called TO the pro-
gramme of the State s. s. Convention
published to-day.
Our town was very quiet ON Monday.
Scarcely farmers face could he seen
all day long.
The prospect for most kinds of fruit
this season is good. The air is beeom-
ing fragrant with the blossoms.
Mrs. Battin is Offering the ladies of
Millersburg and country surrounding 4
fine assortment of Millinery Goods.
A young husband handed his wife
q dozen buttons the other day, and
asked her to put shirt to them.
Wheat never looked better than it
does at this time in this county. The
prospects are very flattering.
The annual convention of the Ohio
State Editorial Association will con-
vene at Columbus, Friday, May 29th.
Keep your gardening implements
in good repair. Neighbers are some
times little particular about the tools
they borrow.
Those who are good at figures may
work at the following sum: If this and
that, and half of this and that makes a
100, how much does half of this and that
make?
The Cosh0ctOn council has repealed
the anti-liquor ordinance and the Ger
mans celebrated the event by a free
dinner and band music.
Many of the ladies are disappointed |
with the new bonnet. 1t is a monde |
script sort OF an affair, and it is difficult |
to tell which is front and which is back. |
"A young woman married to an old |
and bald-headed man said she supposed |
she would be compelled henceforth to
waste her sweetness on the desert hair.
"A gentleman from the northern |
part of the county, told us last Saturday,
that goods Of nearly all kinds were sold |
in Millersburg at from 10 to 15 per cent.
less than in the larger towns around us.
"A little daughter of Nathan Scott,
who lives near Sidney, o., was killed
while blowing into the muzzle of gun
which had not been discharged for four
years.
The Southern Ohio Editorial Asso.
citation will have their annual conven-
ton in the city of Chiliicothe on the
11th and 18th of June next.
The Cincinnati Exposition will be
open to the public from September End
to October 3rd, and for the reception of
goods from August 3rd to September
2nd.
The citizens OF the Ashland Union
School district have decided, by ma
jority of 100 in favor of building q new
school house not TO exceed 81, 900 in
cost.
The town Of Ashland displays very
enterprise by offering q
list Of premiums to farmers for the
largest quahtity of butter and eggs
brought to market.
The public debt of the United
States was reduced two million nine
hundred thousand dollars during the
month of April.
The Alliance council has passed an
ordinance prohibiting the sale of ale,
wine and beer.
The CarrolltOn people are making
it hot for man who has reOpened one
of the closed saloons.
Two jail-birds released themselves
from confinement at Findlay and the
jailOr has discovered the hole where
they slipped through.
She tied the halter TO her waist,
and led the cow to water; the brute
took fright and gave 4 twist-aMy
daughter! oh, my daughter
If there is one time more than an
ly alone, it is when line full of clothes
comes down in the mud.
The weather is now more favorable |
for farmers, and they are busy as bees |
improving each shining hour.
Our professional anglers are fol-
lowing their avoca.ion closely these
warm days.
Felix A. Vincent and Troupe ar
rived in town from Shreve on Sunday
evening, and haye been giving enter
tainments to crowded houses in Ameri-
can Hall during this week.
The wind has gone into the crusad-
ing business at Brooklyn, Jackson
county, Mich. Lately it took down an
undertaker's sign, from its fastenings,
and deposited it in front of whisky |
shop, informing passers by that "cask- |
cts and coffins were furnished at short |
notice."
How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the water of the Nile
On every golden scale!
How cheerfully lie seems to grin, |
How neatly spreads his claws.
And welcomes little fishes in
With gently smiling jaws.
BENZ. Woods of killbuck township
has sow that has had thirty pigs in
five months. He asks any Granger to
beat that il he can.
Rev. MIR. Sample of Wooster preach
ed in Millersburg on Sabbath last,
morning and evening. Rev. Thompson
of Apple Creek, will preach in the same
place on week from next Sunday by ap-
mil ,f, Of hut