The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-05-03
RAINSBORO.
April 80, 1894.

Lewis Dewitt, Of the Otterbein Uni.
versity, is among his friends here.
Joseph w. Wedding, of Felicity, Ohio,
has been guest at the NJ. E. Parsonage
for several days.
G. L. Workman and Joseph Beavers
are selling buggies and farm Implements
with headquarters at this place.
Mrs. Ettie Costilla and Thos. Costilla
were chosen as delegates to the Hills.
boro District Epworth League conven.
ton, to be held at Xenia, May 18th and
18th. Jas. E. Upp and N. R. Barrett
were chosen as alternates.
Mrs. Mary Clark and daughter, Miss
Lizzie, of Greenfield, called on friends
here last week.
H. w. Roads and G. L. Garrett, of
Hillsboro, attended the banquet: given
by the Pythian Sisters, on Wednesday
evening, of last week.
Our school closed last Friday, and the
children will have long vacation, un.
less some arrangements can be made for
a summer school.
An order OF Pythian Sisters was insti.
tuted at this place last Wednesday eve
ming by Mrs Emma NJ. Bell, OF Colum.
bus, O., composed of thirty.four ladies
and twenty four gentlemen. The latter
are honorary members. The following
officers were chosen: Most Excellent
Chief, Mrs. Minnie Barrett ; Most Excel
lent Senior, Miss Ida Ort; Most Excel
lent Junior, Mrs. Lena Miller Manager
of the Temple, Mrs. Jessie Hixson Mis-.
tress of Records and Correspondence,
Mrs. Anna Harrington Mistress of FL
nance, Mrs. Elizabeth Brown; Protector
of the Temple, Mrs. Viola Daniels Past
Chief, Mrs. Cora Davis. A grand BAN
quet was given and appropriate address
es were made by Mrs. Bell, j. A. W.
Spargur, Rev. H. w. Bailey and Geo. L.
Garrett. Regular meetings will be held
every two weeks, on Saturday afternoon.
Miss Cora Skeen, of Greenfield, is the
guest of Miss Mary B. Gossett.
1t but seldom falls to our lot to record
an event so touching and sad as that of
the death, by lightning, of Scott Nc.
Mullen. On last Friday morning he
left his young wife and babe and cheer.
full home, and went to his fathers a
short distance away, to help on with
the farm interests, little thinking Of the
fate that awaited him. About eight
o'clock dark cloud arose, accompanied
with thunder and lightning, that gave
evidence of a heavy shower, and Scott
with bis usual solicitude for the stock,
mounted horse and hurried to the
field to bring in an OK that he wanted
protected from the coming storm. While
in the act of driving it to shelter, he was
stricken with the fatal current from the
gathering cloud, and his young and use.
lul life closed in moment, without any
human eye to witness his sad fate. After
the storm was over, and the men we're
returning to their work in the fields
they found him and the horse and OK
all lying in heap dead, each apparent.
ly having died without struggle. He
was the son Of Robert B. and Mary J.
McMullen, born in Ross county, but
most OF his life had been spent on the
farm, three miles east of Rainsboro,
where his father still resides. On the
10th day of March 1892, he was married
to Miss Bessie Morrow, who with a
small babe, is left to mourn. Funeral
services, attended by hundreds of peo-
pie, were held at his fathers residence
ON Sunday, in charge of Rev. S. Crethers,
of Greenfield, assisted by Rev. George b.
Beecher, of Hillsboro. and Rev. ]. l..
Taggart, of Rainsboro He was a good
citizen, and greatly beloved, and will be
sadly missed.