The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1886-07-15
Daily Observations! !!

had a very bad spell last night. Mrs
Maggie Davis and little son Frank ar
rived this morning, from Chattanooga
-. Steele and Aleshire take a small
drove of cattle through town. 49,. Great
quantities of watermelons coming in by
railroad. Two colored ladies, a Mrs
Jordan, who formerly attended the ladies
room at the Rink, and Mrs. Baker, wife
of Lewis Baker-recently sent to the
Work-house-met near Squire Meetings.
Office to-day, and got into a difficulty,
which ragged into the office, resulting in
Mrs. Baker getting knocked out, and Mrs.
Jordan getting into Jail. Broadway mast
have sensation of some kind -. Some
of the finest singing heard in Jackson in
long time, was heard at the residence
of Thomas Baker, on Portsmouth Street,
tonight The new building on Broad
way, below Gray's, presents very fine
''iron front" made of wood. ...... The
"Army" held an open-air meeting in front
of George Radcliff's. Argo, the loud
singer is gone. William Warneke is
hauling in his wheat to-day, ready for the
thresher. -. The ice cream saloons are
reaping harvest tonight The per-
formance of the boys who impersonated
Washington, Franklin, and others, on the
Fourth-and who were out again to-day,
were very amusing. But, boys, that
won't do! Washington, Adams and
Franklin never had such legs as those.
THURsDAY.-Mr. Silsby, the fire engine
man, was here last night, and appeared
before Council. For some inexplicable
reason, no purchase has yet been made,
and had Mr.. Silsby done as he threatened,
and shipped his engine away this morn
ing, the town would now be without any
protection from fire, and no man would
be able to tell the cause. This looks like
a strange sort of economy. Mr.. Silsby
has given the town the use of this mag
nificert engine for month, and it is not
probably that we could do any better
than to buy it,. "A party of young
folks went to the residence of G. S. Dick
son tonight for social gathering. 49,.
Dr. A J. Newell, of Mabees, called. The
Doctor came in on horseback, and had a
hot ride of it. .Elihu johnson and
family moved to-day to their new pur-
chase, the Witte residence on Portsmouth |
Street. Dave F. Edwards, of Wells
ton, is here. -. M. B. Shaffer walks out |
occasionally of mornings. .......L. w.
French is gone West. So is Judge Long
bon. Miss Rosa Kabisch arrived from
Columbus this afternoon. ...... Hugh
Barnhill, of Wellston, called. -. Tyson,
the horse-buyer, is here. go. .Workmen
are still employed at Cherington's new
building, on South Street. ..... Mathe-
matical problems are the amusements at
Farrar & Evans. 1t is almost a problem
to think of living at all this kind of wea-
ther. Uncle George Dever has hoist
ed the National colors over the Dever
House. He has painted the chimneys red,
white and blue.
FRIDAY Commissioner Jones came
in on horseback this afternoon. They are
selling out some bridges in different parts
of the county. Exc Commissioner
John McGhee is in town.. e. B. Bing-
ham, of Wellston, is here. -. Ed. Poor
and his partners shipped two double-deck
and one single-deck cars of sheep yester-
day, and a number of cattle. s.. M.
Pollock does not believe in being outdone
by the farmers and gardeners who boast
of their wonderful crops, and feels this
evening that he can say, with impunity,
that he has cut the biggest thistles grown
in Southern Ohio. This crop was raised
on the Orange Furnace grounds. ......
Uncle John McGhee and number of
gentleman who attended the schools of
Jackson many years ago, tell some funny
incidents of their early experience. 1t
used to be customary, about the holidays,
to fasten the teacher out of the School
House. Mr.. McGhee was attending a
school taught by George w. Brown, and
took occasion to fasten Mr.. Brown out.
After coaxing the boys, and using every
means to induce them to open up, he af-
fected to be very angry, and threatened
to go straightway "after the Directors"
After Brown had been gone few mo-
ments, McGhee slipped out and ran away
in another direction, but on coming
around the hill was somewhat surprised
to meet Brown, on has aoay to q dance, at
Mr.. Nally's. McGhee fell in with him,
and they both attended the. dance, and
had good time. Those were merry old
days -. Edgar Thompson is the cham
pion thrower. With small potato, this
evening, he threw from the front of his
store over the Court House cupola. He
claims to have killed bird on top the Gu
pola, with potato thrown the same dis
tance. We will of course not refer to
Eds statement that he threw at fly, on
the spire, locating it by hearing it's heart
beat. He don't think he hit the fly, how
ever. -. Pickett Clark is making few
pastoral calls on his Jackson friends to-
day.
SATURDAY-The Railroaders of the o.
S. Road tackled a picked nine in a base
ball match this afternoon. The Rail-
readers are nearly all large powerful
men, and the other side mostly boys-but
the "kids" got away with them, 13 to 9.
Much merriment was caused by the little
pitcher Harry Marshman, striking out |
the big gbatters-"regulars," Coe Bennett |
called them, because they struck out reg
ularly -. About hundred little folks,
under the direction of Miss Hartinger, |
had jolly time in David's Grove this af-
ternoon. -. Some blackberries were
bought at &c. per gallon. C. W. Rice
bought in at least cart-load of eggs to-
day.. The marriage of young Burt
and Miss Lego tonight was a surprise to
good many people, including the lady's
father. The curiosity of some of the
young ladies was so great that they fol-
lowed along, and happened to be across
the street from the Parsonage when the
wedding took place. 80. Some of the
young men had an amusing time to-day
weighing each other, or rather the
crowd weighing new recruits. A ques-
tion as to the weight of man would be
raised, and the bystanders would take