The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-03-05

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RAINSDORO.
March 2, 1893.
John Hurst, Of Belfast, has been the
guest of Miss Clara Pulse, the past few
days.
Burch Hlxson has rented the Hotel
and will take charge Of II, when ]. g.
Foraker, the present proprietor removes
to Greenfield.
Miss Blanche Jones, OF Hillsboro, is
visiting her sisters, Mrs. ]. M. Turley
and Mrs. II. NJ. Barrett, at Barrett's
Mills.
Mrs. Nancy Boatman is gradually re.
covering from sick spell Of two weeks
continuance.
DR.. Mclaughlin and wife, of Newport,
O., are welcome visitors at the home of
his sister, Mrs. Fenner, just north of
town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Foraker, Of String.
town, are delighted with the privilege of
entertaining a prospective voter, who be.
came a resident in their home, Sunday
morning.
Tod Gossett left during the past week
for Lincoln, Illinois, where he expects
to spend the spring and summer.
Prof. w. A. Rogers has been quite
sick for several days and unable to be in
the school room. He has the sympathy
of the pupils and patrons of the school,
among whom he is deservedly popular.
Your correspondent is under obliga.
tions to Marshal Montgomery for box
of luscious apples of new variety, the
name of which he does not know.
w. T. Roush and wife, of Russells,
were guests of James F. Brown and fam.
lily, Friday and Saturday.
VIM. and BENZ. Hays have removed to
H. s. Foraker's farm, on Plum Run.
Mrs. Tharp, of Hillsboro, has been
the guest of her son, Prof. w. A. Rogers,
for several days.
Mrs. Thomas Ladd gave birth to still
born babe Sunday night, and is quite
poorly since.
The Paint township Anti.Thief Asso.
citation will hold it's semi annual meet
ing at this place, next Saturday, at 2 p.
m. All interested parties should attend.
HI Foraker has hauled two thousand
bushels of coal from Greenfield and
cambridge to this vicinity during the
iall and winter.
Mies Ella F. Keelor closed successful
term of school at Rosebush, last Friday,
and is now at home.
Mrs. Berry w. spargur has been ser.
iously sick for several weeks, but is said
to be slowly improving.
Mrs. J. @. Harrington, of Colum bus,
arrived Saturday, and will remain awhile
with her sister, Mrs. VIM. Miller.
KIN. Ferguson, making tour through
Virginia and the Southern States as
salesman for an eastern firm, informed
his parents here that he had recently
enjoyed pleasant visit at the home OF
II. L. Garrett, in Covington, Va.
The Farmers Institute, last Friday
and Saturday, was perhaps the most
largely attended and interesting session
ever held at this place. The hall was
comfortably filled in the forenoon of the
first day, and at each subsequent meet
ing there was an overflow. The we'll
arranged program was carried out, ex.
cept that Prof. Rogers was too sick to
make the address of welcome, and j. H.
Williams was lawfully hindered from
taking the part assigned him. Prof.
Gibbs, of Columbus, occupied the hour
assigned to Prof. Rogers with lecture
on Crop Rotation, and AT. McKelvey,
of st. Olairsville, profitably filed the
time assigned to Mr.. Williams in an.
swering questions relative to the grow
ing of apples and some other kinds OF
fruit. Mr.. McKelvey is practical farm.
er and well informed along the lines OF
agriculture, and has the happy faculty
of imparting that information to others
in pleasing, instructive and impressive
manner. Prof. Gibbs is one of the in
structors in the Ohio State University,
and treated most of the subjects assign
ed him from a scientific stand. point, and
did it we'll. Miss Lizzie Keelor's paper
on Home Life on the Farm was carefully
prepared, we'll read, and was listened to
with interest. Miss Nellie Coleman
charmingly entertained the audience, at
the evening session, with a mirth pro
voking defamation, for which she was
roundly applauded. The music furnish
ed by choir composed of J. B. Gossett,
John Montgomery, VIM. Browning, G.
l.. Workman, Dode Thoroman, William
| MONTGOMERY. Mrs, George BroWning