Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1881-02-03
LOCAL ITEMS.

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skater in town.
-Johnston's Sarsaparilla cures Dys
pepsia. For sale by Harry Boyer.
The D. & S. E. Ry., has lately pu
another new Mogul engine on the road
Rev. Us. Hughes, of Dayton, will
preach at City Hall on Sunday next, a
II a. m. and Up. m.
The ladies of Waterloo give fes
tival at Music Hall, in that village, thi
evening, for the benefit of MessmOre'I
COrnet Band.
Mr.. F, A. Barr, late Of Circleville
has locatsd in Washington, and entered
into partnership with Mr., W. H, DlaI
in the insurance business.
There viii be d regular meeting Of
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union at the residence of Mrs. VIM.
Smith, tomorrow afternoon at 8 o'clock.
Service at the Presbyterian church
every evening, Rev. r. X. Campbell
assisting. 1t is hoped these meetings
will be largely attended and result in
great good in our place.
The WOman's Benevolent Society
will meet at Mrs. Hadley's, Sunnyside,
on Monday, Feb, 9TH, at 8 o'clock p. m.
The regular. meeting being postponed
on account of exercises at the School
Hall.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Noble, of
Bloomingburg, were thrown from their
sleigh on Court street yesterday, by
their horse frightening and running
off. Neither of them was seriously in
jured.
Court street was turned into skat-
ing rink Tuesday morning, the sleet
of the night before having put the
street in fine condition for the sport.
A number of ladies, as we'll as gentle
men, were out.
Mrs. Mary Dolan, one of the old
citizens Of our town, died at her home
en- Market street, on Sunday evening
last, after a long illness. She was 63
years of age. Her funeral took place
on Tuesday afternoon.
j. @. Middleton, the old reliable
sewing machine agent, has connected
himself with Kimberly the music man,
in Williams Block, Court street, where
will be found a full line of Pianos, Or
gans, Musical Merchandise and the
best makes of Sewing Machines.
The time for raising the required
amount of stock to secure the building
of the Columbus & Maysville Ry., un-
der the proposition made by the com
pany of Columbus capitalists, expires
to-day. A good portion Of the stock on
the new route had been raised at last
reports, but there was still shortage.
AT Jamestown last Thursday, Phil.
johnson and Bill Williams (colored)
quarrelled over a game of billiards, and
johnson drew revolver and shot Will
liams, the ball entering his arm at the
wrist and coming out at the elbow.
johnson made an attempt to fire anOth-
er shot, but was prevented by bystand-
,eas.
The Temperance ladies of this
place are hoping to secure, in about two
weeks, an address from Mrs. Mary H.
Hunt, of Boston, Mass, Superintendent
of the Department for Introduction
of Scientific Instruction in Schools and
Colleges, N. w. G. T. U. Every per-
son interested in our Public Schools
should be sure to hear her.
Mr.. A. E. SilcOtt, late of the dry
goods firm of Melvin, Silcott & Co.,
has accepted an offer from Hon. James
Emmitt to take the Superintendency of
his large dry goods house at Waverly,
and win assume the management of
that branch of Mr.. Emmitt's business
about the middle of this month. Mr.,
SilcOtt has been engaged in the dry
goods business IN Washington for over
twenty-five years past, occupying a
leading position among our Washing
ton merchants, and ranking as one Of
our best informed and most competent
and enterprlsing business men. He
possesses a thorough knowledge of the
dry goods business, gained from his
long experience in that branch of the
mercantile trade, combined with rare
taste and judgement as a buyer. Mr..
Emmitt has been fortunate in securing
his services. In his retirement from
in Washington, however, we
are glad to know we will not entirely
loose Mr.. S. as a citizen He will not
remove his family to Waverly, but win
still make Washington his residence.