The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-11-28


Extra copies of the News for sale at the
Post Office.
There is a reward of $1,000 for Nc
Kimie.
The boys viii all be full tomorrow Of
turkey
We will have to decline all invitations to
Thanksgiving dinners tomorrow.
Who viii 90 and interview McKimie
We don't want any of it.
What do our city authorities intend to
do with the tramps?
Mr.. w. F. Crispin, after a trip through
Indiana, is home again.
The stores will, as a genera thing, be
| closed tomorrow until after service.
Hogs have taken a raise. The farmers
are again hopeful
Hemp rope and tar-and-feather matt
nees, tramps have no inclination to at
tend-not if they can help themselves.
Coal s. cents. Last year at this time
our people were paying "A cents. Hurrah
for the S., J. d P. R,yl
/ 1t took 8 workmen and q loafers all of
one day last week to put pump in a well
/ on Main street.
The ChillicOthe Register is now delivered
to its agents here, Parrett & Son, early
/ every Saturday morning.
/ An excursion of the workmen of the S.,
j.. q P. to Minahan's Bend passed over
/ that road Sunday morning.
The S., J. q P. viii change the time Of
/ the running Of their trains next week OF
| the week following.
It cost the corporation over SIS for
/ bread and Bologna-sausage for tramps last
month.
Mrs. Sallie McGinnis, Of Xenia, O., is
/ the guest of Mrs. James Robbins, on West
Lafayette street.
/ Mr., John Storms and his daughter, Miss
/ Jennie, of Storms Hollow, paid Greenfield
a visit on Tuesday Of last week.
Don't forget the Temperance meeting
tomorrow Thursday evening in the City
Hall.
Mr. John A. Elliott, son and daughter,
of Pana, Ills, after pleasant visit to Mr.
Martin De Voss, Of this place, returned
home on Tuesday Of last week.
At the meeting Of the Board Of Direct
! Ors of the Agricultural Society, Saturday,
it was resolved to hold the Fair for 1879
from August 18th to 18th, inclusive.
A young gentleman of this place has sue
ceeded in putting 3O27 words on one side
of postal card. This discounts Marks by
| 1000 Stand up, Joe, or hunt your hole.
The new R. R. engine, No. II, on the
/ S. J. & P. is a beauty, and what Is more,
| Geo. Crawford knows how TO keep it as
| such
The ladies of the N. E. church gave
their regular annual Oyster Social at the
/ residence OF the pastor, on Tuesday evening
/ Of last week. The attendance was quite
large, as also were the receipts.
! The residence of Mr.. Lewis Leib, on
/ South Washington street, was sold at as
/ signee's sale, last Saturday, for S1.SOO II
was bid for and secured to Mr.. Mat. Ar
nett. This place cost, four years ago,
/ 81, 500.
Workmen Will commence on next Sun
day the distribution of telegraph poles
along the line of the s., J. d P. The work
Of setting the poles and putting up the
wire will commence some day the follow
ing week.
Mr.. Joseph E. Marks told the people OF
Frankfort, Ross county, how to run q
! Murphy movement last Saturday evening
He was the guest Of Miss Lydia Mcclellan
during his brief stay, which we notice was
over Sunday.
A grand ball and banquet will be given
by Hackley's Band, in Bells Hall, to-mor.
row (Thursday) evening. The proceeds
viii 60 toward the purchasing Of new in.
struments for the band, which they evi.
IDENTIFY need. A full attendance is desired.
Marks says he is in favor of a narrow.
gauge to run through Marshall from this
place. The reason is obvious. It would
save a good amount of carriage-hire tc
him. 1t may therefore be safely conelud.
ed that he viii use his influence toward
the completion of this new road.
Mr.. j. D. Hudson, a well-known mail
/ agent, now on the Pan Handle route, sta.
/ toned at Columbus, o., has removed his
family 10 that place. Himself and wife
have been residents of this place for ovel
forty years. Success to them IN their new
I homel
( Mr. Wolf, in the employ Of Stern s
Braham, was making a short cut to his no,
tel on Church street a few evenings since
through the alley east of Washington street
when he was assaulted by foot-pads. He
showed fight, and succeeded in getting
away from them.
Two young men named VIM. Moore and
John DOggett stole an overcOat from the
front Of Robinson's clothing house Satur.
day. They we're seen in the act, pursued
and arrested by Marshal Harris, taken be-
fore Mayor Eckman and held to bail in the
sum Of $500 for their appearance at court.
The young gentleman who borrowed our
book, ''They All Do It, =" is hereby request
ed to return it. It has been so long since
he got it, that we suppose he thinks he is
| entitled by law to keep it. We will try
and dissuade him of this notion by getting
out a writ Of replevin and having it served
on him.
We are glad to see that ''Lochinvar" has
got better half. But we pity the ''better
half" We never knew q fellow who was
in any way connected with the newspaper
business but what be was always running
down to the pOst-ofice after dark and talk
ing to the postmaster until 10 or Il
O'Clock. Watch him!
The report that the trackmen on the s.,
J. & P had struck last Monday was a mis-
take. It originated from the fact that four
of the men refused to 90 to work until the
company provided them with bOard-their
boarding house having shut down on them.
This being done, they resumed work in the
afternoon.
Thanksgiving will be observed in the
usual manner at this place tomorrow
Union services will be held in the Second
Presbyterian church, commencing prompt
" at 1870 an. The Presidents proela-
nation viii be read by the Hon. H. L
Dickey, and Rev. ThOs. Collett, of the N.
E. Church, will deliver the sermon. The
ministers of the other churches will assist.
Rev. Geo. B. GOwdy, the popular young
pastor of the Second Presbyterian church,
has severed his connection as pastor with
that church. On Sunday morning he de-
livered his farewell sermon, previous to
accepting a call from the church at Car
Isle, o. During Mr.. Gowdy's stay here
he has made many friends, and the part
ing between himself and his members was
truly affecting. May he enjoy success in
his new field, is the wish of every one.
To those of our citizens who wish to at
tend some place of amusement tomorrow
evening, we would suggest that they go to
the concert at the A. NJ. E. church, on
North Second street. The programme,
which we have seen, comprises nearly all
the familiar old plantation songs and
chants, and will afford unbounded enter
tainment. They also hold Thanksgiving
services in the morning at II o'clock.
There will be, in all probability, a new
bank started here about the middle of
January. It is composed of the solidest |
citizens Of this place and neighborhood. |
Although it is not, as yet, a sure thing, it /
VIII be, if established, one of the best f. 4
nancial concerns in Southern Ohio. The |
heaviest stockholders thus far are: W. W. |
Caldwell, Judson Smart, John H Sellers, |
II. L. Dickey, G. W. Price, Dudley Diggs, /
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