The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-08-16

rRI-couNrY NEWS.

| TRI-CoUNTY NEWS.
Attorney N. P. Clyburn attended tht
Hillsboro Fair Wednesday.
Miss Eta beaverton is spending the
week in Hillsboro.
+. M. Robinson is at the Hillsborc
Fair today, having gone oyer Thursday
morning.
Hillsboro needs water and they mus
have it.-NEws-HERALD.
Well, we should say sol Any one who
has quenched thirst in that town viii
agree with the NEws-HERALD man.
NEW VIENNA REPORTER.
Misses Matte and Anna Randall made
pleasant trip to Hillsboro last week.
Miss Ann Kelly is spending the week
with Hillsboro relatives.
Messrs. @. F. Irons and J. G. Santee
transacted business in Hillsboro on
Tuesday.
William Randall spent part of this
week in Hillsboro.
LEEsBURG BUCKEYE.
Mrs. S. H. Spencer and daughter, Miss
Bessie, of Hillsboro, are guests of DR..
and Mrs. McLauthlin.
Master Fay Mackerly, of Hillsboro,
returned to his home, Tuesday, after q
pleasant visit with his aunt, Mrs. NJ. E.
Gage.
Henry A. Pavey, OF Hillsboro, spent a
part of this week combining business
with pleasure among friends in the
ninth ward. Henry is always a welcome
visitor among the people Of Leesburg.
The modern idea of strike for better
wages has at last reached the farming
community. Last week some commotion
was caused just south of town by an
action of this character among the men
who were engaged in threshing wheat.
Leaders were appointed with full power
to dictate the terms upon which work.
men should proceed and it appears that
the rules and regulations they made
were strictly complied with. The officers
are now known as Coxey, Frye and
Brown with power to act for three years
or during the war.
WINCHESTER HERALD.
q. W. Doyle was attending the Hills.
boro Fair this week.
Mrs. Beatrice Bayless Rhoades and
lady, Helen, will leave next week for
their home at Hillsboro.
BAINBRIDGE OBSERVER,
At the Hillsbore Fair last Thursday
two cambridge horses acquitted them.
selves with honor to their owners and
the town. Clay Gu Roc, formerly owned
by Postmaster Claypool, but now the
property of Hillsboro man, won three
straight heats in the 2:30 trot, and Willie
Wiiks, who is still owned by Mr.. Clay
pool, won second money in both the
2:40 and 800 minute class.
PORTSMOUTH TINES.
The Oldest surviving soldier of the
war OF 1861 we know of is Hugh j. Ne.
Surely, of Capt. John T. Wilson's Co. E
in the 10th o. V. I. He enlisted Nov.
l, 1861, at the age of So and was dis.
charged December %, 1862, for disability.
He is now living at Wheat Ridge, in
Adams county, and is the father of Rev.
VIM. j. McSurely, D. D., pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church, of Hillsboro.
BLANCHEsTER STAR.
J. W. Scott took "day of" and visited
the Worlds Fair at Hillsboro.
Elmer Weaver, aged about 26, married
and whose home was at Columbus, met
with an accident at Westboro on Tuesday
which cost him his life. He
was beating his way on the morning
freight train to the Hillsboro Fair. At
Westboro he was ordered by the train.
men to get Oft the train. It was barely
moving at the time, but in getting off he
slipped an l fell under the cars. The
wheels passed over his right leg at the
knee, mangling it so badly that amputa-
ton was necessary, and DR.. N. B. Van.
winkle, railroad surgeon, his brother,
Of this place, assisted by the Westboro
physician, performed the operation.
Weaver failed to rally from the shock,
and died on Tuesday night. His remains
we're taken to Portsmouth, for interment.
GEORGETOWN NEws-DEM.
A postoffice has been established be-
'ween New Market and Sugartree Ridge
n Highland county, called "sorg"-for
Butler county's Democratic Congress.
nan. The patrons of the Office are un.
Ter bond to chew Sorg's brands of to.
oacco and the postmaster to vote his
ticket with cross under the rooster. If
his is we'll and faithfully done TJpcla