The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-05-30
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
DELAWARE, ONO, May 10, 1889.

alive and prospering. There seems to
| be somewhat more of a building boom
here now than usual at this season of
the year. Hence carpenters are busy
and painters and paper hangers hustling.
The Delaware waterworks which are
in progress OF construction contribute
not little to make business lively for
ltboring men. Some fifty hands are
constantly employed and the water
pipes are being rapidly put down. The
supply of water will be furnished by a
mammoth we'll that has been dug two
miles north of the city on the west bank
Of the Olentangy river. Within few
months it is cofdently expected that
Delaware's water supply will not be
second to that OF any city in the State,
making this still more desirable place
in which to locate.
Two years ago gas we'll was bored
here which developed into a genuine
artesian well, yielding beverage known
as "odevene." 1t is recommended for
its medical properties. The failure to
find gas cooled the ardor of capitalists
for the time being, but the "gas fever"
has again broken out in our midst. We
are almost on bee line drawn from
Lancaster to Findlay and it is urged
with some degree of plausibility that
gas can be developed here. AS result
of the agitation of this question an act
was passed by the last General Assem-.
bly,, authorizing Delaware to issue bonds
in sum not to exceed fifteen thousand
dollars, for the development Of natural
gas. An election will be held June 3rd,
to decide whether the bonds shall be is
sued and thorough investigation for
natural gas made. There is but little
doubt that the requisite two.thirds Of
the qualified voters of Delaware will be
in favor OF Investigation and determin-
ing beyond peradventure whether the
speculator's panacea for all the pecuni-
airy ills is to be.found here or hereabout.
AS soon as ale" is struck we will run
down to the telephone and "Hello" you
Hillsboro folks. Do not hold your
breath until that time, however, lest
you should have some serious cases OF
asphyxia to report. Dear readers, il
anything in the above savors OF an at
tempt to start real estate boom do not
whatever in the rise OF real estate at this
place. The Bishops of the M. E. Church
meet in our city tomorrow to hold their
annual conference. Some of them have
already arrived. Bishop Newman lee.
tured in the Opera House last night to a
large and attentive audience. His sub
ject was "One Thousand Miles on Horse.
back"
Nearly every pulpit in the city will be
filled by bishop next Sunday, both
morning and evening. 1t is limited by
some that this meeting of church digni.
taries. under the shadow of the Ohio
Wesleyan University, will lead to the
endowment of new chair or two in
that institution. We are glad to have
them with us, and if their presence will
enhance the material prosperity of oul
college we are doubly 80 and hope they
will come again.
q The spring term at the O. w. U. is
! rapidly slipping away, The commence
ment will be held June 27th-a week
later than announced in the catalogue
on account of the scarlet fever which
broke out the latter part OF the winter
term and caused the faculty to extend
the spring vacation one week. No cases
have resulted fatally and the danger ap
J pears to be past.
!. I am pleased to be able to chronicle
another victory for the o. w. U. Az
stated in former article, our champion
Mr.. Ed. H. Hughes, was the winner o
the palm in the Ohio intercollegiate
oratorial contest held at Akron some
months since. He accordingly repre-.
sented Ohio in the interstate contest
which took place at Grinnell, Iowa, the
I'd inst. About midnight of the above
date, the chairman of our delegation to
the contest wired us as follows:
"GRINNELI., Iowa, May I'd, 1889,
"Glory I'VE have met the enemy and they
are ours Ohio first, Wisconsin second, Indi.
ana third. Hughes has gained q magnificent
victory and we are stpremely happy.
u u Frttt "BEN y. RANNEILs."
1t goes for the saying that the Ohio
Wesleyan folks were all "supremly hap
py," and the way the boys threw ur
their hats and yelled, whats the mat.
ter with Hughes?" and hugged each
other was caution to sinners. When
our orator returned, Of course, we had
. to meet him at the depot with carriage
brass band and the 20. w. U. army
The procession headed for Monnett
Hall, where, upon our arrival, DR.. Nc
Cabe was called upon to make speech
Of welcome, He did SO in his usual hap
py manner, " which Mr.. Hughes re.