The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-08-21

been completed on West Lima Street.
The teachers of the Union School are
to be examined next Monday.
The Mt. Blanchard school house will
be completed by the last of next month.
Croquet by lamp light is the popular
amusement on the north side of the riv.
er
The Ladies' League had an all-day
prayer meeting at the NJ f. Church,
Tuesday
f. BACHER is budding a brick addi-
tion to his mineral water works in
North Findlay.
The Fostoria Cornet Band will give
an excursion TO the Islands on the 2nd
of next month.
The business of the L. f. & l.. Ry. has
increased very materially within the
! past few weeks.
\ great many fellows about town COM
planned of a head ache Monday morning.
They were at Carey the day before.
\ party of people from this place at
tended IA picnic on the farm of Mr.
SHEPPARD, near Carey, last Monday.
The Lincoln street folks are getting
stylish. L. II. Tufts has just finished
fine piazza in front of his residence.
\ frame building of considerable size
is going up on West Front Street, near
the l.. f. & l.. Ry. track.
The New Constitution was the worst
defeated candidate that ever run in this
county.
ID. d. SNYDER & Co. merchants at
McComb, sold Sl,5OO of goods Oh Mon
day and Tuesday of this week.
DAVIS, of the BIulTton St0Hdard, was
in town Tuesday night He buys his
'.things TO eat" in Findlay
The Central Ohio Conference of the
N. f. Church meets at Sidney ON the
18th of next month.
The wafer was so low III the river this
week that there was scarcely enough to
supply the street sprinkler
i llt ldSt TOSe ol Slillli!fT - gone, anu
soon the first leaf OF Autumn will APP
pear.
They had congregational singing at
the Presbyterian Church last Sabbath,
as the choir was absent.
Don't forget the County Fair. Call
at this Office and get a copy of the
premium list
The new Methodist church at Bluffton
is to be dedicated on Sunday, the Both
inst.
A log house on ISAIAH SHAFER'S farm,
about one mile southwest of Mt. Blanch-
ard, was burned one night last week.
SO great has the passion for croquet
become thar the young people about
town play it on Sunday.
ROCKWELL & MCCONNELL have been
making extensive repairs and improve
ments in the Eagle Mills.
The mail train OH the l.. Z. & l.. Ry.
has been running through to st. Marys
for the last couple OF weeks, a III uch
better arrangement than the old one.
Too much confidence in a ''bObtailed
flush" came very near causinga a young
chap, of this place, to walk home from
Carey last Sunday.
''Chasing nimble jack" too far in a
game of three card monte was the rea-
son "a Findlay boy left lis watch at Ca
rey last Sunday.
BALSLEY, OF the Fremont Journal,
was presented by Mrs. b. with bouncing
twin boys last week. Happy BALsLEY,
happy twins.
The Fat Mems Convention meets at
Put in Bay, September 10th. As We
only weigh Il thousand pounds we will
not attend.
Rev. Mr. MUSE, of the Presbyterian
Church, of this city, delivered tenn
perance lecture at Forest, last Monday
evening
-Four coach-loads of people went from
here 10 the Carey camp meeting last
Sunday. besides a large number in wag-
ons and carriages.
1t will not be long until the wind will
begin to whistle that familiar melody,
''What have you been doing all summer,
or where is your winter Overcoats.
Tom. IL. Houpt has been compelled
to load his shot gun and turn his dog
loose in or.ler to protect himself against
persons having elder berries for sale.
We are perfectly willing TO be returned
to dust when We shuttle off our coil of
life, but we do object to the dust being
the means of our taking off by choking
us.
Judge EATON, of BlufTton, says he lost
wallet containing between five and six
hundred dollars, at a Sunday School
picnic near Webster. Putnam county. on
the 11th inst.
The fire last Tuesday morning was
caused by a pile OF Saw-dust at PowELL'S
mill. burning. IL had caught from a
spark during the day, and after smolder-
ing for several hours. burst intoa flame.
Mrs. y b. FIELDS, formerly OF Find
lay, is now acting as correspondent for
Baltimore and Buffalo paper. She
is also telegraph reporter of the Chicago
Times. She is at present sojourning at
Put-inBay.
The figures cut" by some of the fel-
lows who returned from the Carey camp
meeting, last Sunday night, was not at
all creditable to themselves, and does
not speak very well for the quality of the
Carey liquor
The C0HrieT'S local says he can tell us
a ghost story that will make our hair
raise. All the stories that he can tell of
that kind are about snakes, toads, liz
yards, goblins etc, that he has at times
imagined We're crawling around or fly
ing through the air.