The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1881-03-17
LOCAL OBSERVATIONS.
MRS. HARRY RUPP is dead.

MRS. HARRY RUPP is dead.
OLD Mr.. VEST, father of Mrs. John Swanson, is
the point of death.
residence on Pearl Street.
THIS has been a wicked winter. Even the pave
ments have been on 'bust.'
JOHN H. PRICE talks of putting up a fine residenc
on his property near the NJ. e. Church.
JAKE HARREL, the butcher, has bought the proper
| ty of Elder J. p. Ewing, on South Street.
BENJAMIN TRAGo has occupied the Valley House
B. Harry French and wife will board at this house.
THE road to prosperity is built upon Narrow
gauge track and 1t is frequently exceedingly hard to
| get
Ex-SHERIFF JONES will, understand, shortly
convert his Pearl Street residence into two-story
building.
Boy, when you drive mule, be careful to drive
him right Just look at Jim Garfield. He was good
mue-driver once.
THE Spring election comes apace, and the local
statesman is persuaded that he would make good
Township Assessor.
JACKSON has the largest number of bankers of any
town of its size in this part OF the State Most of
them are coal-bankers.
SPRING is coming! There's a sound among the
iorcSt trteS-DuL lue SOuuu Vi Tic Wlhu signing
through the bare branches.
JAKE MARTIN of Iowa, and James Martin, of Nor
walk. Ohio, have been spending few days with rela-
tives and friends in Jackson.
MRS. HoLLENBEcK, of Gallia Switch, whose name
has heretofore appeared in our Court Reports, has
been dangerously i'll, of typhoid fever.
THE warm winds and sunshine of the last few days
were calculated to arouse in the minds of common
people, feeling pity and contempt for the man who
feels himself above eating bacon and greens.
"CLAIRE SCOTT" the actress, ought to have had
from ten to twenty thousand dollars worth of dia-
monds stolen in jackson. 1t is fashionable for
great actresses to have their diamonds stolen.
THE Bible Society will send out canvassers to sup
ply our people with cheap and good Bibles, and we
trust that the agents will succeed in convincing our
people that Bibles to read-not to strop
e. c. POWELL has rented, and will shortly occupy,
the new building owned by Mrs. Mackley, on Ports
mouth Street. Charles Rhodes will remove to the
Chapman property, formerly occupied by him, on
Street.
Wednesday of last week. Thus the
majesty of the law has been Justice is sat-
lsed, and the doggerykeeper awaits an opportunity
TO again get in his work.
BECAUSE the good old hymn says
"Come ye sinners, poor and needy"
a
rom all hope of salvation, If he sought in the right
spirit
JAMES O. HATTEN is again able to greet his many
cquaintances in Jackson having returned last week,
rom Hooking County, in Company of officer Reed.
Tim ought to feel proud of his friends. They won't
Iow him to leave when he wants to.
"I'M only demonstrating of the Poet Longfel-
owls IDEAS" said drunken man as he staggered up
o friend.
'sHow's that 2" asked the friend.
.swhy, don't Longfellow say life is reet-life is
arnestr"
TRUE WEATHER PRoPHET-There is no man,
erhaps, who exhibits such profound wisdom the
veather prophet Too frequently, however, he miss
s it sadly in his representations. We heard one,
ew dsys ago, who hit it as correctly ever ''old
robs'' did. A FREUD, seeing the "prophet" coming
long the street, said:
"Wel, what kind of weather are we going to have?"
ST should say" said the prophet" looking around
earth and sky, ''that going 10 have muddy
Teatherr'
'oU may talk of the pleasures of Heaven and earth,
Of the evils and dangers of sin
hey things talk of, but what they worth
To the man who sits down pin?
10 pleasures can lure him-no evils can scare,
No reason can hold him in check;
lie longs to spring up from that torturing chair,
And break some poor Juveniles neck.
'HERE, Jimmy" said the fond mother, 81 want you
come here and do this churning."
"Aw," said the Juvenile, with long face, 81 don't
mink its fair to make do the churnin'. I'm sick
nd tired o. hearin' of sich work!
''Come, sonny, you know at the debate the other
vening Mr.. Poundair said "a motion to a-churn is al
-ays in orderr"
The boy called the nays-but the gavel stern
brought down, and debate cut off.