Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-05
From Over the County.
RICHFIELD.


Fine weather.
Turkeys reioieeth again.
Ella Veneer is convalescing.
....A happy New Year to you all.
THE roads are quite good again.
....Lizz;s Conway Sundsyed at home.
....Sleigh bells jingle and the boys are hap
|py.
....F. Michal is spending few days in
Nevada, o.
..B: F. Henry and wife visited at Ham
Ter Sunday.
>. Burr StrubIe has the meanest dog in
the township.
The matrimonial fever is raging with
renewed vigor.
-. Oarr's have moved into their new house
IN section ten.
Andrew Swartz, of Cardington, is Wis
iting VIM. Burns.
y. .Jesse Edgington and wife are visiting
in Putnam county.
-. .Callie Barr, of Fairfield county, is vis-
iting Mrs. j. Bowles.
=. Burr Sfruble and B. A. Lebay spent
Christmas at Findlay.
...F. j. Lebay was in Napoleon Saturday
visiting Judge Meekison.
&c. d. Winner, of Wyandotte county, is
visiting friends of this place.
Dora Kirk spent Sunday with her cous :
in Mamie, of Masdon Ridge.
Quite a number of Floridaites visited
friends in Richfeld Christmas.
-. John Masdon is preparing to take the
timber off of the NV or of sec. IL.
=. Mr.. Michel had his leg broken last
yaalrb bx,k kns, L. olrnlI /.
WIN. Bridget and wife, of Napoleon,
are visiting their parents in this place.
-. Our protracted meeting at West Hope
is progressing finely with good success.
wv. Foote will leave for Hamler to-
morrow where he will engage in the log bust
ness.
-. Fred Andrix and wife visited the fami-
| ly of j.. B. Garwood, at Leipsic, Saturday and
Sunday.
....P. L. Witham is bidding his friends
good bye, he intends to start for to Nebraska
| by the middle of the week.
49,. Is not barrel of salt big thing to
lose out of wagon and the driver not know
It'll but Republican can lose most anything.
....W .Wewould like to see more of our neigh
boring villages sending their local items to
the NORTHWEST, the best local paper in the
Northwest.
....F. J. Lebay and Anna Frankfather
made flying visit to the Office of I'll. ID. Ba-
ker on Sunday, and were united by the gol-
den chain of wedlock.
Several of the friends of the bride and
grom met at the residence of FeJ Lebay, ST.,
on Sunday and had a jolly time. We hope it
will be day long to be remembered by all
who were present.
-. There is certain married man in this
neighborhood who had better be careful
abou kissing young ladies on their way home
| from church, or perhaps q dose of tar and
feathers will be in order.
/ Our poet E. d. visited Mcclure last
week to examine the gas and write some
poetry, but he says if he had to stay there
long enough to write of the beauties Of gas
/ well, be would freeze to death by their gas
stoves.
~ Sabbath School was organized at the
Masdon school house Sunday with the follow.
ing officers, to-wit; superintendent, Abnei
| Fellabaum; Assistant Superintendent, Geo.
Garwood; Secretary, Frances Garwood; Lii
brarian, Alta Winner.
~. Our revival at West Hope is d success
SO far; on Christmas eve Rev. Bender preach
| ed from the text '.Oh, where as my boy to-
night9 Oh, what sermon there is in that
text. How many of you, dear readers, spent
your Christmas eve in the saloon or gam
bling den or some other place where you
would not wish your mother to meet you
how many of you were at home or at church
Oh, if the girls of our grand and glorious re-
public would refuse to accept the company
or associate with such men, how long would
it be until such place as saloon would moi
be found to allure the young and degrade
society. DEsERTER.
| Jan. Sd, 1883.