The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-08-30

Judge H. B. Maynard left Tuesday
morning on his annual eastern vacation,
taking in Washington, d. O., and all OF
the eastern cities, after which he will
spend some time up in New Hampshire
and Massachusetts, the home of his
youth.
LEBANON STAR.
The body OF a daughter of Henry
Clay was exhumed last week and taken
to Lexington KY, for reinterment. The
daughter, whose name was Eliza, was
taken suddenly i'll at Lebanon while the
great statesman was enroute to Wash
ington on such important business that
precluded his return to Kentucky with
her body, and it was buried at Lebanon.
GEORGETOWN GAZETTE.
B. F. Dyer who has not been so we'll
for the past two weeks, from the sore on
his face, returned to the City, Sunday,
accompanied by DR.. Y. Stephenson.
Mr.. AL Montgomery, the popular
grocery salesman, was here on Monday
and Tuesday and reported sugar on the
boom. We will have no more sc. sugar.
People did not appreciate the Mckinley
law, but when they have to pay SC. for
sugar you will hear somebody squeal.
Every house-keeper will be Republic.
an.
SUGARTREE RIDGE, OHIO.
A. J. Kerr was Hlllsboro visitor on
Wednesday.
Burch Elliott was in Hillsboro on
business Wednesday.
Hamilton, of Maysville, KY, who were
Conductor Riley Graham, who has
been running the Hillsboro passenger
train while Burley took vacation,
is again waiting freight up the branch
with that smile of complacency that
fortune or Miss Fortune does not affect.
GEORGETOWN NEws-DEM.
Mrs. Maggie Stephenson and children,
of Hillsboro, are spending some weeks
at the hospitable home of Buchanans,
near Ripley.
Fred Risch, John A. Stephen, Bob
Cross and Lee Richey took in the agri.
cultural dog trot at Hillsboro, Wednes.
day. The dog trotted the day before
they arrived on the ground. They report
a good time and successful Fair.
AS we 60 to press the Clerks office is
completing the cost bill in the Jones
case. The footings have not been made
yet, but enough is known to reliably
state that the bill in this case will be
considerably less than in the other case.
For instance, the witness fees before
were 81 800, while this time they are
only $500. The jury cost shows quite
an increase being before $3.50 and this
time $1,217. Jones is still in Jail but
will be taken to the Annex tomorrow.
Homer Charles has secured work in
the stone quarry near Hillsboro.
Mrs. Anderson Kirkpatrick is at home
from pleasant trip to the Hillsboro
Fair last week.
WASHINGTON c. H., REG DEM.
A very bright young man in an ad.
joining town received merited roast at
hotel few days ago which very prop.
erly subdued him. He was at dinner
and wishing to let everybody in the
dining room know how smart he was
commenced to guy the waiter girls. He
succeeding in driving several half crazy,
but finally made the error OF "joshing"
the wrong one. "Drive in the cow"
said he, looking around for the milk
pitcher. Taking the man by the ear the
girl convulsed the guests, and at the
same time paralyzed the young man by
loudly remarking, "Come along. Aleck.
It's easier to trot the calf to the COW
than to drive the COW in"
While Washington is getting good,
pure water from away down in the rock
q hundred or more feet below the sur.
face, Greenfield is getting creek water
that makes US shiver to think of drink.
ing it. They pump up the water from
the bed of the creek. Some feet below
the bed of the creek they have steel
cylinder which is perforated by thous.
ands of quarter.inch holes. This cylin.
der is covered over with broken stone
and gravel, and the water percolates
through it from the bed of the creek in.
to the cylinder. The pump is attached
to this cylinder and the water is pumped
directly from it into the stand pipe. OF
course all the filth of our sewage system
empties into the creek. Then there is
the waste from the soap factory and that
of the fertilizer company which is too
horribly putrid to think about, also
empties into the creek and so pollutes
the water that scarcely any fish can live
in it for miles below town. The water
all the way to Greenfield is covered
over with green scum, and it seems to
us that the people who drink the water