The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-01-09
RAINSBORO.
January 6, 1896.

OdhuoAy AoVo'
John Linton, of Clarksville, was vel.
come visitor at the nome of your cores.
pondent, last Thursday.
Henry Copeland's wife is recovering
from protracted siege Of stomach
trouble.
Fred Spargur is entirely we'll ofscarlet
fever, and we believe the threatened
scourge from that terrible malady is past.
Miss Fannie Murdoch recently had
the pleasure OF entertaining Miss Ida
Rowe and Hamer, Lee Storer, of Sugar.
tree Ridge, and John Sparks, of Allen.
town, at the home of her parents north.
west of town.
Mr.. Asher, with his engine and drill,
lie solving the water problem here for all
who feel able to bear the expense. He
has been striking bountiful supply at
a depth ranging from forty to fifty feet.
He struck a splendid vein at Henry
Plummer's last week, and is now work.
ing for VIM. B. Roads.
Rev. J. Fl. Dixon and bride were
guests of W. J. Redkey, over Sunday.
Mrs. Harriet spargur, of Valisca, Iowa,
is here renewing old acquaintances and
visiting her sisters, Mrs. ]. W. Upp and
Mrs Waverly Waddell.
Rev. j. s. Ruggles will begin series
of meetings at Boston, Wednesday even.
ing of this week.
The Paint township s. s. Union have
decided to hold no more meetings till
April, at which time the meeting will
be at the Friends Church.
A bsalom Miller received word few
days since, that his son Thomas, who
lives at Washington G. H., was seriously
sick, but Mr.. Miller's own illness pre-.
vents him or any of his family from
going to see the sick son.
John Hoback, of South Salem, spent
two or three days OF last week here,
seeing friends and looking after business.
P. A. Daniel and vile, OF Rocky Fork,
spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Milton Fenner.
Mrs. Enos Roads has been afflicted for
some time, with no signs of permanent
improvement.
Our friend, Henry Hope, has furnish.
ed us with picture of paw paw tree,
growing near Paint P. o., that is thirty
feet high and fifteen inches in diameter.
1t is probably the largest tree of the
kind in the country. The picture shows
two persons sitting near the base of the
tree, and Mr.. Hope standing, as if in a
reflective mood, in the fore ground.
Don't fail to attend the Farmers In.
stitute, next Saturday, at 2 p. M, and
listen to the paper of John McMullen,
and participate in the discussion that
follows.
The Photographic entertainment at
the NJ. E. Church, by Geo. Bowers, of
Hillsboro, on New Year'e Eve, was a
charming affair and we'll patronized.
Rev. j. F. Trout, OF Martinsville, was
a welcome visitor among some of his
,parishioners last week He was the
guest of Mrs Lydia Browning and E. B.
Roads, Wednesday.
We will aim this year, as we have in
the past, to make the space allotted to US
in the NEws-HERALD the medium
through which the readers of the paper
may know what transpires in this vicin
ity, and in order to do that successfully
we must have the hearty cooperation of
the citizens. If you have births, we'd
dings, reunions, social gatherings, visit.
ors from abroad, accidents, sickness or
deaths, or any other special incidents or
occurrences in your family or neighbor.
hood that the public ought to know,
please notify me at once. News week
old is too stale for insertion. All we
need are the facts. Don't attempt to
prepare them for publication. That is
our business. The Rainsboro cores.
pondence will be non.partisan and non.
sectarian, and if we give more space to
one party, creed, or family than another,
it will be because more things transpire
therein, or that our opportunities for
gaining information from that source
were better.