The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-05-24
OUR NEXT-DO0R NEIGNBORS.
Pickings by Star Reporters in Neigh
boring Cities and Towns.
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Strawberry festival at the Presbyte-
rian Church tomorrow evening.
Mrs. VIM. Webster, Jr., is the guest
of her parents at Mennonite, Ill.
Mr.. John Pritchard, chief clerk at
Curtis grocery, is an expert at the busl-
ness.
Lewis Miller, one of the happy clerks
at F. NJ. Kemp & Co.'S, reports business
brisk.
The Dayton Football Team have not
yet challenged the Middletown team for
game.
Mr.. A. Hill, of the firm of A. Hill &
Sons, was in Dayton Saturday on busi-
ness trip. ...
Mr.. Gus Kemp, who has been lying
quite i'll with measles at Madison is, con-
valesc ing.
Mrs. Z. G. Pope and family have re-
turned home from pleasant visit at
Dayton, Ohio.
Mrs, Charles Guncle and Miss Jennie
Rapp attended the afternoon matinee Of
the May Festival in Cincinnati.
Don't forget to attend the great closing
out sale of WI Hills grocers, queens
ware, &C., to continue twenty days.
DR.. George B. Evans has returned to
his business again from Franklin, where
he was confined to his bed with sickness.
Mr.. James Dwinell, manufacturer of
carriages and buggies, reports rush of
business, and the work he turns out is
the best.
The rush at Bowman's cheap store
trade palace has simply been enormous
for the past few days since their big re-
duction in dry goods
The State Board of Public Works, To-
Gated at Columbus O., stopped off here
for few hours Saturday while on their
inspecting tour from Toledo to Cincin-
natl.
Denny Mcmahon, late phunny man at
the Signal office, was seen vending his
way in the direction of Franklin with a
quill behind each ear and handful of
feathers in each hand, thinking up
funny leader for the first issue of his
paper
LEXINGTON. IKE.
Mr.. Dan. Cooper, having sold his farm
to MIR. Shirley of Louisville, thinks of
moving West this summer or fall.
Rev. J. L. Mckee, DID, of Danville,
preached in the Second Presbyterian
Church yesterday, morning and even
ing.
General Fitz Lee, of Virginia, will
deliver the annual address at the COM
mencement exercises of the Sayer Insti-
tute.
Mr.. VIM. Cochran is once more in the
Sheriff's office. He is clever and en-
ergetic gentleman and is the right man
in the right place.
Jim Trimble, the negro who killed his
brother at Slickaway some time since,
was sentenced to- the Penitentiary for
twenty-one years.
DR.. B. w. Dudley has removed to his
beautiful and elegant new residence. This
is one Of the finest and handsomest resi-
dences in this city.
The excursion and picnic, to come off
at Kentucky River, by the school of the
Christ Church Seminary, has been post
poned until next Saturday, May Goth.
Some of the physicians who attended
the State Medical Society remained in
our city, attended church yesterday and
departed tor their home to-day.
The fourteenth annual open session of
the Periclean Society, Of the Kentucky
University will take place at Morrison
Chapel on next Friday night, May 2Sth
at eight clock. The ladies are especially
invited to attend.
The commencement of the Midway
Orphan School will be held in the Chris
tian Church of that city, Thursday, May
9th. Hon. Joseph Desha Picket, Sup
erintendent of Public Instruction, will
deliver the annual address.
The funeral of David H. Hood, son of
Mr.. William P. Hood, of Mississippi,
who died at the residence of his uncle,
DR.. Thomas H. Hood, of Cynthiana, was
buried Saturday afternoon from the resi-
dence of his uncle, Sidney R. Smith, Of
this city.
The next fair in this city by the Ken.
lucky Agricultural and Mechanical As
sociation will be held Tuesday, August
the 31st, and continue five days, and in
the succeeding years will continue to be
held the last Tuesday of August.
Messrs. Warner, Tabler & Go. have
contracted for three hundred eonvicts to
work on their section of the Big Sandy
Railroad at 80 cents per day.
Wolf & Trost's Band discoursed some
fine music at the Park. They play some
new selections that are very fine indeed
but there is no material improvement
on our last summers music, as they had
then already reached a degree Of perfec
ton, where improvement is obliged Il
stop. e
Until the rain of Friday the crops hac
suffered very much from drouth, and i
is feared that the rain came too late Il
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