The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1879-05-15
Home Correspondence
GREENFIELD.
Wheat looks splendid.

eye"
Mr.. Ed, COllett is spending the summer
in Illinois.
Mr.. John Gadbury was given a sur
Party,l last Saturday.
Over Us different periodicals are taken
through this pOst-ofice.
The Methodists held their regular quar-
terly meeting last Sunday.
Marks was at Marshall Sunday. We
suppose he bad a Hug(h)e(s} old time.
Mr.. Charley Gay, of Springfield, a
former Greenfield boy, spent part Of last
week here.
Drs. Newcoher and W. H. Wilson are
both recovering slowly from their late
/ illness. ~
The Temperance '6ieseting Sunday after
noon was held in the First Presbyterian
church.
Mr.. Charles Miller, the we'll known elo-
cutionist, of Cincinnati, was in town Sat
Urday and Sunday.
( Mr.. Charley Bell and wife, of Washing
/ ton c. H., spent Friday in this place, the
| guests Of Mrs. DR.. W. H Wilson.
The thermometer at 3 o'clock last Sun
day afternoon registered $50 in the shade.
/ Spring is coming with a rush.
/ Thus far there have been no prepara-
tiOns made for decorating the soldiers
I graves in the cemeteries at this place.
| Charley Him is remOdeling the business
room lately vacated by Charley Anderson,
and intends TO make fine room out Of It.
| Stock sales next Saturday. Those having
stock to sell should take advantage of this
/ occasion 70 dispose Of it. A large number
Of heavy buyers viii be on hand.
If you miss the Odd Fellows eelebra-
tion June 9th, you will regret it. 1t will
be one Of THE biggest occasions Of this
year.
Mr. Sam. Caldwell has been admitted TO
the bar by the Fayette county court. We
do not know where he will hang out his
shingle.
By the time this item is read Mr.. HE'D
ingsfeld will no doubt be struggling with
sea-sickness, somewhere on the Atlantic
He left last Monday week for Germany.
Mr.. J. G. McClintock, the energetic editor
of the New Vienna Register, was in town
last Wednesday, and made us a call. He
reports his paper in a fourishing condi-
ton.
There are bigger robbers on the S. J. & P.
than that fellow who tapped the Office
till Thursday night. OF course we don't
refer to the Springfield ring"
The Workmen are bUsily engaged in re-
building the engine house Of the s., J. &
P. which was destroyed by fire few weeks
since. The new structure will be brick,
with an iron roof.
Mr.. w. II. Irwin has rented the handsome
room over Heidingsfelds clothing house,
for law office. He will move in this
week, and now the loafers will have to
climb a pair of stairs to reach him.
Bastardy scrapes are becoming so COM
mon that almost any time you step out on the
streets you can see the officers chasing some
fellow who is endeavoring to escape the
penalty of the law by leg bail.
The Hyer property, south of the NJ. &C.
r. R. was put up at Sherif7s sale Thurs
day afternoon, but was bid in by Mr.. VIM.
| McKell, of ChillicOthe, who holds mort
gage on it, to its full value.
Last Thursday morning this highly i'm
pOrtant telegram passed over the wires to
Mr.. Geo. B. Chambers, agent of the S. J.
g. P: "COme home Immediately. It's
boy" He went. Weight, ten pounds.
Father and son doing reasonably well.
While wheeling a truck load Of cheese
at the depot of the SciotO Valley road at
Chillicothe last Tuesday week, Mr.. VIM.
H. Davis had his left foot seriously in
jUred by one Of the boxes falling on it.
He is now laid up at the Davis hospital on
Church street, for repairs.
By actual count, seventeen business men
went home last Wednesday for dinner,
and when they sat down their first words
we're: "Well, WE'LL I can get a better
meal down toWnp and they got. 1t was
hOuse-cleaning day.
It may perhaps be a matter of interest
to some of our readers to learn, that a silver
half dollar of the coinage Of 1886 is worth
to any coin collector, five dollars. A young
gentleman Of this place sold one for that
sum in Cincinnati a few days since.
There was an unUsal display of Spring
bonnets and light suits last Sunday.
Greenfield is gaining quite a reputation for
its finely dressed and gOOd-loOking women.
The prettiest girls in the State, not except
ing any other town within radius of 100
miles, live in Greenfield. The climate is
50 healthy, you know.
On last Wednesday every house-keeper,
from the public square up to Seventh
street, was engaged in hoUse-cleaning, and
there were Just so many women in wet,
dirty, bedraggled dresses, who flew to the
kitchen at the sight of a man, and the
same number Of cold dinners and thanks (?)
returned for the questionable blessing.
The residence of Mr.. James Rowe, near
this place, was burned to the ground last
Saturday morning about 10 o'clock. The
fire was first discovered on the roof, but be-
fore assistance arrived it was Wrapt in
flames, and nothing could be done to save
1t. Part Of the furniture was got out, but
o11FL1n1r T1F,1 1o4g h,
tween 81, 500 and $1,000.
On last Thursday evening, after the rob-
berry Of the S. J. & P Office, burglars made
an effort to 60 through the residence Of DR..
w. II. Wilson. They tried the door in the
when he asked who was there. Seeing that
there was somebody at home they left
without securing any booty.
On Monday afternoon of last week, as
the st. Louis express over the NJ. & G. was
tearing along between this place and
Lyndon, the axle of one of the driving
wheels suddenly broke and let the engine
down upon the track. Not much damage
was done beyond a lively shaking up of
the occupants of the cab. The train was
delayed about two hours, until an engine
could be procured from ChillicOthe.
MI. Cldfley w auhlus mas leEt LOWu5
Charley was an Africanized American, and
a very good barber. He left rather sud
denly and under very peculiar circum-
stances on Monday of last week. He
should have fixed up that little affair with
CHS girl" before leaving, or else taken her
with him. When a fellow goes out in this
way it affords the gossips splendid oppor-
tunity to spread themselves, and they never
get done talking about it.
Quite frequently we receive items
through the post Office intended to be in
serted in this column. We are always
glad to get them, but would kindly suggest
that they be sent in before Monday. This
column is generally closed Sunday night,
and when items are not received until
Monday it requires extra time and stamps
to get them in the same week, as the pa
per goes to press Tuesday evening.
Mr.. Sam Clinton has come to the con-
clusion that the drug q business is losing
investment. He has accordingly quit it,
and in its stead opened shooting gallery.
This is a success. Night after night the
room is crowded, and the ''pop, pop" of
that gun is heard far into the night, and