Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-05-16
SAYBROOK.


I'd Tel.-For nearly week, we have
had COED, odd fashioned spring weather
excepting showers-the weather being
warm and dry; still the grass did grow
some. fruit aud forest Trees began to show
some signs of life, the buds expanded into
leayes and flowers, and then last night
welcome rain came down upon the parcb-
ed and thirsty earth, and the effect has
been 10 give vegetation OF all kinds fresh
start in the world This warm weather
was timely, for our cattle aud horses have
eaten up about all the hay in the county,
besides and untold amount of meal and
shorts, but the worst is over now, t"r The
present, but it looks to me as if the higl
price of butter and cheese had caused far
mers to eYerstock thier farms, and the last
years crop of hay not being quite up to
the mark, the price in April and the first
week in May, was higher than 1t ever
should lie in Ohio. under any circumstan-
ces. -
There are some pieces Of winter wheat
in town that look very well, and
some that don't look at all, and never will
amount 10 much-like piece 1 saw TO-
day, there won't be straw enough on Il
half saere % Hssse 4 legal geese ynest.
dohfl.Fsalt 10 tell the mans name that
owns this wheat field. for he feels bad
enough about it now. without my saying
anytliiRste.I .Ilnrt bis feelings. Efhe truth
is, be did not have any manure 10 give it
a top dressing in the fall, but thought he
must SOW about five acres, any how, and
am sorry 10 say. this man is not the only
one that sows wheat in this fashion, in this
town.
There is much sickness among the
children in town at this time-somr seri
Gus cases among them. There were two
deaths last week, one little son of SiIas
Moreland, some five years old; the other
a boy eleven years old, son of DanfoIth
Young. The funeral services were held
at the Methodist and Con-
churches last Friday and Sat
urday. .ra.a
The Ladies' Aid Society met last week
on Wednesday afternoon at ]. e. Wrights
the lime social met at the same place in
the evening. '.'
Mission Sabbath schools have been or
gauized, and the summer campaign COM
menced in Dists No. and Z. Harrison
Maltby is superintendent in No. 8, and
Isaac Flint in No. T. 1t is difficult for some
of the scholars living in these districts TO
attend the central schools, and, as the
will nor come to Mahomet, why
Mahomet will go to the mountain; for the
same reason, as many of the children viii
not attend any school unless tits held in
the district where they live. So Sabbath
school workers have been in the practice
more or less tor several years of holding
schools in different parts Of the town On
Sunday afternoons.
l noticed the las. time was at the Cor
ners, thai the Congregational folks had
their parsonage, and learn il is
their intention to repaint their church This
season. +. --. -. f.-..e
The Doctor is pushing things, gently,
on the Methodist parsonage building-the
frame being up and nearly enclosed.
1 meant sometime to have said a few
words in favor OF the temperance move
ment that has been so prominent before
lhe peopieof Ohio, for several months, but
your columns haYe been supplied by able
my sympathies are all on the
temperance side oflhe question. J.J.f