Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-03-07

= Street Commissioner MeCourt has
improved the condition Court street by
hauling several hundred cart loads of
mud off from it.
- The next lecture in the course of the
Washington Lecture and Library Associa-
ton, will be delivered by Mrs. Mary A.
Livermore, on the evening of the 18th of
March.
= There has been little business of in
terest in the Common Pleas Court this
week. The criminal docket was taken up
on Tuesday, but no cases were tried up to
yesterday afternoon.
- In the list of officers for which can
didates are TO be nominated at the pri-
mary election, as first published, that of
Coroner was omitted. There is a Cor
oner to elect next Fall.
The Social Circle of the NJ. E. Church
will be entertained next Friday evening,
March Sth, at the residence of Mrs. Geo.
Saxton, by Mrs. McElwain, Mrs. Rowe,
Mrs. Blanchard, Mrs. Creamer, Mrs. Lar
rimer and Miss Lizzie Drais.
John Wornick, blacksmith, is pre-
DdIcu 10 no all hiilHS VI AOEh III HIS llllCs
at satisfactory rates. He is now making
speciality of horse-shoeing and plough
work, and warrants all work in this line
to give perfect satisfaction, and his prices
lower than any other shOpin town. Shop
at the foot of Fayette street.
- Frank H. Clark returned last week
| from Michigan, where he has been buy
/ Coe
& Co. They have now on hands full
stock of all kinds of lumber and building
materials, which they will sell at the
lowest prices. They ask call from those
intending to build, before buying their
| lumber.
| The Board of Education of the Wash
| ington School District have resolved to
purchase grounds south-easterly of the
railroads, for the purpose of erecting a
suitable school house for the accommoda-
ton of pupils on that side of the rail-
road tracks. The Board have several
sites in view and their choice will be
governed by circumstances. The inten-
ton is TO build the house in time to be oc-
cupied at the beginning of the next school
year, in September.
= About twenty-five Sir Knights, of
Ely Commandery K. T., some of them ac-
companied by their wives, went over to
Springfield, via the narrow-gauge, last
Thursday, to assist at the dedication and
opening of the asylum of the new Com
mandery, of that city. They report a
very pleasant visit, and splendid enter
tainment at the hands of the Sir Knights
of Springfield. Communicates of Cincin-
natl, Dayton, Urbana, Troy, and other
cities were represented. A grand ban
quet was given in the evening.
- The editor of the Miami Union, who
visited this place, last week, with party
of excursionists over the S. j. & P. Ry.,
says: Washington G. H., the present
terminus of this road, is a flourishing lit
tie city of 4 900 inhabitants that seems
destined to have a rapid business growth
1t has now three railroads-two of which
have just been completed, and as soon
as this Springfield, Jackson 6 Pomeroy
road pierces through to the coal and iron
regions new impetus to business will be
given towns all along the line.''
= Four or five hundred of our Wash
ington ladies would like to have an inter
view with a certain female who canvassed
the town few weeks ago, selling pat
terms for rugs, and materials to make
them with. A quantity of zephyr repre-.
sented to be sufficient to work the rugs
was sold with each pattern. The agent
sold rug patterns to about every other
lady in town, and then left, and the la
: dies went to work to make their rugs
They soon found out, however, that theiI
supply of zephyr was woefully short, ant
t there are, at the present writing, from
e 1000 TO 1900 unfinished rugs in town, anC
no zephyr of the proper kind to be had tt
p finish them. The ladies think they hay,
>, been swindled.