The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-06-30
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| I.. ..IH June xOtn, l06O.
James Tharp, Of Lyndon, was in town Wed
nesday.
Wild raspberries arc more abundant this sea
son than usual.
DR.. Miller reports William Lucus, of Boston
Squire T. M. Watts, Of Carmel, was in town
. few days since.
Milton Lucus. we understand, will teach IL
the Barrett Mill district next fall and winter.
z. @. Miller reports that his potatoes are rot
ting in the ground. Too much wet We opine
A blight or rot has struck the grape crop ir
this vicinity that threatens the destruction OF
the entire crop.
John Sanders, Of Leesburg, visited his pa.
rents Rev. William Sanders and wife, Of this
place, Thursday.
Will Miller and Frank Gossett expect to &c
into camp with their company at Washington
@. H., Tuesday next.
James Brown and wife, Of Danville, are vis
iting Mrs. Browns parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A.
W. Redkey. Of this place.
William Foraker 10 confined to his home
with severe attack of lumbago that came up
on him suddenly, few days since. r...
]. H. Roads, of Chillicothe. was in town the
fore part Of The week on business connected
with the estate Of P. 8. Roads, deceased.
Aunt Celia Russell, whose serious illness w
reported some time since, is on the mend, and
Notwithstanding her extreme age, may gel
we'll.
Mrs. Absalom Miller and daughter, Mist
Emma, Of the Point, were the guests Of Thorn
as Miller and family, of West Main street
Wednesday.
A gentleman from Jeffersonville was here
Tuesday and Wednesday buying butcher
stock for Dayton company. He was measur
ably successful.
There Is considerable smut in some fields o
| wheat in this region. A bottom field sown BY
| O. A. Gossett, on Rocky Fork, is said TO be full
ly one half smut.
william Estle, late correspondent Of the Ga
zette, is Just recovering from pretty severe At
tack Of whooping cough. He 10 pretty old
boy to have the whooping cough, but II is Q
fact. nevertheless.
Prof. D. 8. Ferguson, Of Leesburg, was the
the West End, Wednesday. This is Mr.. Fer.
guson's native town and he is always vel
come visitor when among us.
Clean timothy hay win likely sell at premi
um in this region % nearly all the
meadows are infested with weed known al
the white top. The hay crop will fall below
the average in quantity as well as quality.
Edward Roberts will go to Greenfield, Mon.
the supervision Of Prof. Story. Ed has beer
engaged as principal Of the public tchools oil
South Salem, Ross county, for the coming
year. r...
Mrs. Benjamin Carper lost . family horse q
short time since and gave 1t decent burial
which was the right thing to do, but reports
say that some ghoul dug up its remains and
cut off its tail and carried IL away. Too bad
isn't 1t Wonder who did It?
There stands beach tree on the lands Of
Robort Sumner, Just north Of town, on which
Mr.. Summers father and others killed bear
more than three score and ten years since and
yet the marks made by the claws of the bear in
climbing the tree can be distinctly seen to this
day.
Thursday evening John Duff came in with
his beef wagon and stopped at his residence
on Main street and slipped the bride from his
horses head to let 1t drink, but left it hitchod
to the vehicle, and while the bride was off the
horse took fright and ran away. Mr.. Duff had
purchased ten dozen Of eggs and they were in
the beef box, but when Old Gray was through
with his street performance the eggs and wsg.
ON were in much the same plight. There was,
however, this essential difference, the wagon
could be go rebuilt as to look like wagon, but
even the Indian that works in the shop around
the corner, with all his native genius and &C.
quired skill, could not reconstruct the eggs.