Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-09-04
LOO AL ITBMS

-StalwarU hats are quite fashionable.
-Our public schools open next Mon
day.
Hon. Mills Gardner speaks at Zanes-
vile next Tuesday evening.
-Fayette County stock-rafsers came
home from the State Fair loaded with
premiums.
The first train was expected to run
into ChillieOthe over the d. & 5. E. Ry.
yesterday.
A communication from DR.. w. H.
Jones is unavOidably omitted this week.
It will appear in our next issue.
General r. P. Kennedy will be here
with General Shields to address the Re-
publicans on Wednesday evening next.
Mrs. Lon Harris, of HillsborO, has
rented the room lately occupied by E.
Saul, on Main street, as a millinery store.
Judge Thompson, of HillsborO, Reg
lister in Bankruptcy for this district, is
holding Bankrupt Court at the court
house this week.
We will send the HERALD from now
until November, 1890, for $3.50, in ad-
vance. Read our advertisement for the
new volume in another column.
Jacob Dahl has his elegant new brick
residence on his farm near town on the
ChillicOthe pike, about finished. 1t is
very handsome, large two-story building,
with mansard roof.
| The Board of Education have en-
ployed Mr.. Young for the ensuing school
year as janitOr ut our union school build
ing. Also, Mr.. Simon Doran as ianitor
at Sunny Side School House.
- The regular meetings the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union will be re-
sumed on Friday afternoon, at three
O'Clock prompt, at the residence of Mrs.
Morris Sharp. 1t is hoped there will be a
large attendance.
The G. and M. V. Ry. runs an excnr-
sion train to Circleville to-day, to carry
passengers to the soldiers reunion. The
train leaves here at 7:15 A. NJ, arrives
at Circleville at 8 :2T and returns at 6 p.
M. Fare for the found trip, 81.
The jamestown Tribune says: p. S.
Collins, the livery man, of Washington
c. H., it is given out, showed the best
pair of match horses ever shown in Green
County. They can be bought with mon
ey. They weigh about, 27O0 lbs and are
as active as grasshoppers.
The Ohio Conference of the NJ. E
Church will meet this year at GallipOlis,
Sept. oath. This being the year for Lay
Representation in the Conference, Mr.
| hoe o1o hs
4 Lay Delegate from the M E. Church ir
this place.
3 If any of the Democrats of this county
should land In the penitentiary for vic
g Iating the provisions of the Seitz election
law, it will be none of our fault, for W,
have kindly, affeetiOnately and repeat
edly warned them of the awful cOnse
quenc es of such rash act.
Mr.. Russell Parrett, of Jeffersol
|. township, in this county, informed us oI
Monday morning last that on the previOu
Wednesday he had drilled in a field o
wheat, and on Monday morning last
had come up, and the drilled rows G
> green wheat could be seen for twenty o
thirty rods.
Antioch College, of Yellow Springs
Greene county, as may be seen by a
advertisement in this paper, offers il
rare advantages at less expenses tina
ever. If any of our readers wish soho,
with rare advantages for College, Pr,
paratory or Normal studies, let them il
20 .quire further about Antioch.
e. A rOusing Republican meeting wa
held at New Martinsburg on Monda
ed evening last, and addressed by Hol
y Mills Gardner. The Republicans of PERI
township are actively and earnestly wOr
ing, and will make good report in o
tOber. Perry can always be relied on f
a good, round Republican majority, an
this year they are trying to do better thi
ON ever.
"A party of Washingtonians, numbe
lis ing eighteen or twenty, on their vi
to home from the State Fair last saturd,
night, were left at Circleville by the fa
to ure of the Scioto Valley Railway to CO
meet with the c. and NJ. V. accommod
ton for this place, it being the last ira
this way until Monday. A portion
the party hired carriages and drO
through. The rest remained in Giro
vile over Sunday.
"A farmer of this county sold Il
spring 80 acre farm, on which the
are was growing crop of wheat. The pri
1ur paid for the land was about 81, 200. T
en-, wheat was offered to the purchaser of t
ats; land for So per acre, but he didn't take
,,lu ,a,, and there was where he missed it
ain When the wheat crop was threshed a
all marketed, it brought the former owr
ney of the piece of land over 81 400; not vt
de- far off from the price paid for the land
ur- which it was raised.
MS us Auditor Lindsey publishes his pr
Sd lamation, in another column, calling
election of land appraisers, at the ii
and places of the regular October el
10, ton. The county has been divided i
nr- ten districts, each township constitut
in a distFict,and one appraiser is TO- be elt
all ed in each district. Candidates for
'ak- appraiserships, win now come to
an- front. The office of appraiser Is one
uld Importance, and careful selections shO
be made in each district.