Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-08-01
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= The sabina Fair begins on the 18th
inst.
= County Commissioners meet next
Monday.
The Greenfield Fair commences on
the 18th inst.
Plenty of rain the past week, and
corn growing finely.
= Business was brisk in ''horse-traders'
alley'' on stock-saIe day.
= Mrs. H. c. Lydy advertises her stock
of summer millinery at cost for cash.
Mr.. Frank NJ. Guthrie is buying
grain at Jasper Mills again this season.
= Fifteen and one-half cents is the
freight rates to Baltimore, paid by our
grain shippers.
= The C. w. & c. Ry. will run camp
meeting train from Washington Jun ction
to this place next Sunday.
= The D. & S. E. Ry. brought in sew
eral cars loaded with excursionists from
Musselman and Frankfort last Sunday.
The usual big crowd attended the
Quaker Quarterly at Leesburg last Sun
day. There were about 10, 600 people on
the grounds.
= The Novelty Comedy Company, Geo.
Ober and Ada Murray, managers, will
commence an engagement at Music Hall,
Monday evening, August 5th.
Through passenger and freight trains,
between Jackson and Springfield, on the
S. J. 6 P. narrow-gauge, are to com
mence running on the 9TH inst.
= Four excursion trains came in and
two went out of Washington on Sunday
last. At least fifteen hundred people
came in on the different railroads on that
day.
Blackberries are big item of freight
over the Sd. & P. Ry. just now. Several
cars of them are shipped from Bainbridge
daily for Springfield and intervening
points.
= The West Union Neao Era says: sc
NJ. Ustick, of Washington C. M, pur-
chased some 25, 900 pounds of wool of J. w
Rothrock & Co., and n. R. Thomson OF
Winchester"
Mr.. A. Minear, of Ross county, Ohio
has purchased the Wesley Rowe farm, ol
10 acres, about three miles north from
this place. He expects to move to the
place next spring.
The New Holland ReUiea0 is not to be
removed to Frankfort as announced. The
editor has made such arrangements az
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ton in New Holland.
An excursion train over the S. J. &
P. Ry. carried a large crowd of people
from this place and other points along tn,
road, to Springfield to attend camp-meet
ing there last Sunday.
= The Democracy of this county holC
their county nominating convention OF
the 10th. The Democratic congressiona
nominating convention for this distric
meets at Columbus to-day.
: The quarterly meeting of the Wo
mans Foreign Missionary Society, will b
held at Mrs. Col. Maynard's, on next Tues
day evening at i9O p. m. The election Q
officers will take place, and full attend
ance is desired.
= The teachers institute which com
mences next Monday at Union Scho,
building, promises to be one of unusu;
interest. 1t is hoped that every teache
in the county will be present and tax
T part in the excersises.
The excursion train from Daytor
over the D. 6 s. E. Ry. last Sunda!
| In r. aFk
camp meeting-the number is estimate
at not less than 1000 persons. The c. v
& G. Ry. also brought in big train,
= The ladies of the Church at Whiteos
: Grove, near Buena Vista, Fayette coul
ty, will give Festival, for the benefit
the Church, on Saturday evening, Au
{. 10th. A regular supper will be set al
r ice-eream and other delicaeies serve
ii Everybody is invited. No admittance
l. charged.
L = Rev. DR.. Granville Moody, of
n Cincinnati Conference, will dedicate t
is new M. E. Church at Waugh's, Fran
IN fort Circuit, Rev VIM. Mclaughlin, p
or tor, Sunday, August IL, 1879, serm
st Saturday at 8 p. m. Sunday servi'
RS commence with Love-Feast at 8 a.
al Sermon at IL a. m.
e - Council has ordered the imprO
II ment of North street, from Broadway
III the corporation line east, by gradil
TO grave ling, etc. This improvement v
eF require the building of a bridge O.
n aI Paint Creek, which will be done by
Id county commissioners. The impro
ment of Temple street through to Lee
street, has also been ordered,
ed = Rob't Smith, deputy marshal, '
struck in the month by a boulder, thro
by one of party of drunk and disorde
rowdies in the northeastern part of to-
on Tuesday night, and badly hurt,
teeth being knocked out, and his
broken. The names of the parties
not known. They were from the coun
The officer was attempting to quiet
crowd and get them to disperse and
home.
= The greatest bargains ever offere
Ladies Linen Suits are now to be Obtai
at Melvin, Silcott & Co. IS, where they
offering Ladies' full suits, stylish tt
le'- ming, complete, at less than one
8. their value. This lot of suits contain
the latest styles to be found in the T
ket. Any person intending to buy Ii
Suit, to wear on some of the numel
I1Gk %;z excursions now advertised, will do
His His to call and buy one of those suits he
ter they are all gone.
uni 1,o,.,,
new ty, living near Mt. Sterling, was st
What by lightning on Monday, and burned
lem gether with its contents. A horse il
'e0'' barn at the time it was struck was ki
The barn contained a buggy; as tt