The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-06-14
OUR NE!eABops.
The DOines of Surrounding
Counties
As Culled from Their Local Pa.
pers, with Occasional
Comment.

Washington 9. II. public schools en-.
rolled 1869 this year.
Georgetown will have q big celebration
on the Fourth OF July.
"A Dairy Maids Reception" was held
at New Vienna last Tuesday evening.
Batavia township, Cler,nont county,
will vote OH local option Saturday, June
28j.
The Seventh Day Adventists will hold
atent meetingin in Wilmington, commenc-
ing June 18th.
Os Fultz has purchased the interest of
DIR. Elster, in the Ohio Citizen, Of JefIer.
sonville, and is now sole proprietor.
The sixteenth annual commencement
OF the Wilmington High School will oc.
cur next Thursday evening, Juns 2lst.
John I. Smiley Camp, Sons of Veterans,
Of Georgetown, bave surrendered their
charter. Non attendance its members
was the cause OF the Camp being dis.
banded.
Elk President r. B. Hayes presented
the Washington G. II. Camp OF the Sons
OF Veterans, which is named after him,
with an elegant bound set OF Gen.
Grants memoirs as an appreciation OF
the honor bestowed upon him.
Andrew German, an old citizen of this
place, was found dead in bed last Tues
day night about o'clock. Although he
had been as we'll as usual during the day,
he complained of feeling i'll when he
retired few hours before, but not dan.
gerously 80. He was about "a years of
Manchester Star.
A skeleton which is supposed to have
belonged to giant OF the prehistoric
ages, was uneaIthed on the farm OF
Lewis Mallow, in Jasper township, last
week. The bones were very much de.
composed and crumbled into dust when
exposed to the air; but enough intact
to show their large proportions.-Fayetis
Register Democrat.
A. j. McAdams, of Milford, born at
Williamsburg, in 1918, is one OF the
Oldest Masons in Southern Ohio. He was
initiated in 1886, as member of Social
Lodge, and has accordingly been men,
Der Of the F. & A. M. Ms. some fifty.two
years. He has been member of Milford
Lodge many years and has held all the
offices OF the order except Secretary
ClermOnt Courier.
One afternoon last week while DR..
Clawson Maddux, of Church street, was
lying on sofa taking nap, his grand.
daughter, Mabel Maddux, not two years
old, climbed up and lay down beside
him. DIR. Maddux had bottle OF AGO.
mite in his pocket, which the child got
possession OF in some way and innocent.
10 rubbed It on her face and hands.
Shortly after her face became swollen
and infamed. 1t was first thought that
the child had been poisoned by vine,
and the real cause of tho trouble was
not known until too late for medical aid
to help her, and she died the next
morning. Chillicothe Adpertiser.
Gilbert Pavey, of this place, is the
possessor Of wonderful milk COW that
is at present exciting considerable CON-
ment among stock raisers and breeders.
She is full.blooded Alderney, some.
thing over IA months old, and only
weighs $50 pounds, and at l3 months old
gave birth to u beautiful and perfectly
formed calf weighing 80 pounds. The
di,ninutive mother and her tiny off.
spring are objects of such curious in.
terests as to attract the attention of
everyone who hears OF this remarkable
pair. The COW is 80 inches high
and a splendid milker for her age, yield.
ing gallon of rich milk daily.-Lsesburg
IN and William Ack< uf-