The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-12-18
GREENFIELD GLEANINGS.
December 18th, 1890,

Mr.. Chas Ballard, a saloon keeper on
East Main street, was arrested last
Thursday at the instigation of the family
of Mr.. Jas. McCabe, whom he had been
selling whisky and whose name is on
the township books. Mayor Milholland
heard the case and bound Ballard over
on $1OO bond. Ballard came here from
Columbus about three years ago and
started cigar factory, which he soon
turned into saloon.
Mr.. VIM. Swartz, an aged citizen liv-
ing few miles west OF Greenfield on
the pike between Monroe and Martins
burg, dropped dead suddenly of heart
disease while hauling rails in his field
on the Slh of this month.
Mr.. A. B. Coover is very sick with
congestion of the lungs. He is a watch
maker by profession, and in addition to
his Greenfield store he has been con-
ducting branch house in Bainbridge,
which he visited one day in each week.
During one of these periodical visits he
caught severe cold, which resulted in
his subsequent sickness.
Mr. E. j. Morton, of the New Vienna
Shoe Manufacturing Company, was here
last Thursday and Friday.
There is some talk of laying stone
esplanade with playing fountain in
that portion of the public park bounded
by the City Hall, post Office walk and
Main and Washington streets. 1t would
not be useful in a business sense, but
nice and ornamental 1t would serve to
tone up the town and impress strangers
with our respectabilty. And as the
estimated outlay is only $1,000 let us
have the Improvement.
Messrs. Rucker & Love have suspend
ed active operations at their stone quar-
ries. They worked them later than
usual this season because of contract
with Washington @. H. to furnish
crushed stone for recent street improve
ments in that village.
Now that we have secured good side
walks let us have another needed i'm.
provement in our streets. They are
very muddy in wet weather and good
layer of macadam would do them no
harm.
Mrs. John Taylor, nee Jennie Long,
died last Sunday morning at her home
about two miles south of Greenfield.
To what can the lethargy that at pres
ent grips the town in regard to the elec.
trio light and water works projects be
attributed? A few weeks ago were we
not all agog over the subject, and did
we not hold mass meetings in the City
Hall where Pickwickian oratory, pro and
con, ran rampant? Were not repre-
sentatives of various supply companies
here ready and anxious to furnish re-
quisite plant? Can not revividus Of
the ancient enthusiasm be affected and
will not few more Sl,lmkeyan expostu
lations decide for or against? Let it be
tried
| Washington @. H. is to have free mai
delivery shortly, and we are inclined te
think that proper presentation of ths
facts could secure Greenfield an institu
ton that would at once be benefit ant
step toward metropolitan advance
ment. h
The citizens of Greenfield should TAX
advantage of the temporary lull in th
} action of the State Board of Equalization
to make strong effort to get restitution
by the county board from their recen
unjust action toward Greedfeld in n
gard to taxes. They (the county board
have consented to give us hearing O
December 10th, when : committee i
full possession of evidence should b
sent to deal with them.
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