The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1882-06-01
Leesburg, Ohio,

az LNdus, spent Iuehuay ana NeQnebuhy III ]
Cincinnati, making purchases to replenish |
their stock.
Horace Johnson one Of the oldest telegraph |
operators on the NJ & C.. r. r., paid a short
visit to his fathers home last Saturday and
Sunday.
Hussey q Lindley'i drug store, under the
supervision Of Wesley Davis is receiving a
Frightening up profss, and is doing a good
business.
There was a wedding amongst the colored
people at Centrefeld, last Thursday evening,
Matilda Beard being married to Jasper Rick
man, Squire John Fultz officiating.
The second nine of the Leesburg B. b. G.
are going about the town saying, 'Well bet
the Hillsboro boys can't come here and beat us
as bad as they did the boys at Lexington
Eli Hollingsworth Of Xenia, o., an extern
sive dealer in walnut lumber, was here last
week looking to the shipment Of a large lot of
that lumber to Boston and other points East.
John c.. Routh, of the firm of Routh &
Livezey Of New Vienna, came here last Friday
and bought 700 bushels of wheat of Samuel
Leverton, shipping it the same day to Mari
eta.
The colored people in and about Leesburg
enjoyed themselves hugely at a May festival
held last Saturday afternoon and evening at
the school house out near the Fairfield Friends
church.
John Horst, who has been teaching the
school at New Petersburg is al home for his
summer vacation. His sister, who is teaching
in the Walker district, also made visit home
Sunday.
Otho Bently went to the city last Wednesday
to engage with j. q. Bennett, Of Walnut Hills,
in the purchase Of walnut lumber Otho will
probably be stationed in Kentucky for the next
three or four weeks.
To our friends in and about Lexington and
Leesburg, the NEWS would say, we have sam
pies of all kinds Of job work at its office in
Leesburg, and can furnish prices that we are
| sure will be satisfactory
Prof. S. NJ Taggart, Of our public schools,
does not propose to spend his summer respite
from school duties in complete idleness He
left last Friday morning to Join a special SUM
mer class in analytical chemistry now forming
in Delaware College.
| The NEWS is indebted to Col. d. c. Johnson
for courtesies shown to its representative in the
way Of introductiOns to strangers, and for
fayors in obtaining items of interest to its
readers. Colonel Johnson is one Of the largest
landholders in this section Of the country, but
is man Of progressive ideas and forward in
the way of pike improvements and all material
prosperity.
The medical gentlemen who conducted the
autopsy on the remains of Aaron Terrell were
very much disappointed in not seeing their de-
! tailed conclusions, as to the cause of the sud-
den DEATH in last weeks NEWS. So much
comment was made on its suddenness that the
medical fraternity in the interests of science,
did what they could to satisfy both themselves
and the people, and regret its nOn-publication.
The Leesburg Base Ball Club is in a flourish
ing condition, and meets for practice almost
| every evening. They authorize me to extend
challenge to the HillsbOrO club TO meet them
in a match game, to consist of either one OF
three games. If they prefer the latter the
opening game to be played on the grounds OF
Leesburg, and the return in HillsbOrO, with
the closing game at a point selected by CON
sultation Our boys play well, and your clul
won't have a ''soft snap"
A petition is being circulated by the FayettC
county people, for a road improvement from
the Fayette county line, near the residence OF
Mrs Bennett adjoining the lands of DAME
Payey'5 heirs, passing through Buena Vista
and terminating on the line of the Leesburg
and Washington pike, at the residence of Ste.
phen Stafford which will be followed by q pc.
tition in Highland county for the continuation
of the same to Leesburg, and thence to the
village of Centrefeld.
A number of gentlemen Of our town, who
have idle capital, are baking of forming al
association, whose PURPOSE shall be the buying
of a number Of vacant lots and erecting there
on tenement houses, either for sale OF to rent
This is something that has been neglected too
long, and now that some stir is being made W,
hear of naught but contmendation Of the enter
prise The commission appointed ito plat thi
village, has about completed It's work, and tn,
map will soon be ready for publication and OBJ
jectiOns
Happening in New Lexington last Frida,
afternoon we wended our way, together witt
crowds of others, toward the school house, i
being the closing day Of the term. The eXer
cises were all in good taste, pleasing, and in
structive. Professor Ferguson, the head O
] H. gV1.. 91 So nk 5InL
which speaks well for his popularity and schOl
arship; and we understand the people were 81
fortunate as 10 secure him for another yeaT
A more extended notice of the yarions exercise
will probably be sent You by the bcal at tina
place.
Al Flescher, who has been in Iowa and Ne
braska for the last six weeks in the interest O
the Pneumatic Gas Machine Company return
ed home last Friday. He reports the bus
ness prospect of their machines for maxim
gas to be good, and has established agencie
for their sale i'm both of the States mentioned
As he also has an interest in the firm Of G. /
Keen q Co, who make the German Embrocl
tion, a lniment that is rapidly growing int
public favor, he managed to interest seyeri
parties in its sale, with excellent prospects TO
large orders.
Last Thursday morning your correspondent
took the train and visited the people of Eal
Monroe and the north eastern part of ''ol
Fairfield The first acquaintance we formG
was that of the obhging postmaster, VIM.
Penn, who Keeps a nice stock Of general me-
chandise and who is doing o fine business
Mr.. Penn has been located i'm the place fC
some years, and by his honorable and uprigl
business transactions has earned the rcsl)e,
of all classes He very kindly rendered me a
the assistance and information at his dispOsa
the result Of which was yoW correspOndeI
obtained quite an additional list Of names
subscribers 70 the News. We were so kind
treated we win take the opportunity to ca
again, soon.
We hear a great deal Of comment ON ii
seeming impeIfections df the manner in whic
the school affairs of thiBtOwnshipare managed
The most prevalent objections are that thel
are too many school districts, compared wit
the nu nber Of pupils to.attend For instance
the enumeration of some districts Is as low
twenty-five, While the attendance where tl
pupils are so. few, is, 30 we are Informed l
parties who aIB in position TO know, as low, o
the average, ab six or. seven. The total enl
meratiun Of school children in this township
. only 437, which would give an average Of on
81 to each district, a which we would get
daily attendaIioe of, say one-half, As all thel
districts insist ON having all the school ten
possible, and the township board Of educaho
win appropriate only $4,000, which added
$500, coming from the State fund, we ha,