The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1897-04-29
RAYNSBORU.

The apple buds seem all right, not.
withstanding the heavy freezes Of last
week.
Mrs. Mary Ferguson visited friends in
Leesburg, last week.
Miss Nora Mccullough has returned
from Lexington, but not improved in
health, as she had hoped to be.
Mrs. DR.. Bahan, Of Nipgen, has been
spending several days here with her
sick sister, Miss Docia Gossett.
The Harsha Monument Co., of Hills.
boro, put up a nice granite stone for
Mrs. Nancy Washburn, in the Beavers
Cemetery, last Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. L. Redkey and Mr..
and Mrs. j. B. Gossett attended the fun.
eral of their brother in lew, VIM. skeen,
at Greenfield, last Wednesday.
A. j. Sans, one of our most extensive
cattle grazers, says it requires about one
acre more of ground now, on the average
to pasture three.year old cattle per head,
than it did before the grub worms be-
came so destructive, and that the mum.
Der of pounds per head ranges from fifty
to one hundred less than it did prior to
the coming of the little horse flies.
About two dozen of our young folks
enjoyed delightful necktie party atthe
residence of J. O. Ferguson, Thursday
night.
Mrs. N. R. Barrett has our thanks for
basket of nice apples.
Twenty-Five young ladies and gentle.
men treated the citizens ofthe West end
to midnight serenade, one night last
week. Come again.
Miss Mary Gossett returned Saturday
from a weeks visit among friends at
Greenfield.
Mrs. ]. 1. Taggart has received the sad
intelligence that one of her sisters died
on the 10th, at her home in Blair, Neb.
VIM. Estle, whose home for the past
two years has been at Fruit Dale and
Greenfield, will shortly return to this
township and reside near the Caves.
John and Robert Upp, OF Hoagland's,
were guests of friends east of town, Sat.
urday and Sunday.
Joseph Head and wife, of Hillsboro,
were pleasantly entertained by relatives
in this vicinity, Saturday night and
Sunday.
Chaplain Winget, of Columbus, return
ed home today, after brief visit with
his son in law and daughter, Mr.. and
Mrs. Will Miller.
The attendance at the 8. s. Union
meeting at this place, Sunday evening,
was interfered with by the rain storm,
but Prof. Caldwell and John Montgom.
cry each furnished good practical papers,
and Miss Nellie Karnes gave good rec.
itation. and the choir furnished excel.
lent music. Hence, those that came
were edited and instructed.
The anniversary exercises of the Rath-
bone Sisters, at the Hall, Saturday night,
were success. G. L. Garrett made the
address OF welcome, and did it well.
Carefully prepared papers on different
phases of the order were read by Mrs.
]. A. W. Spargur, Mrs. J. E. Upp and
Mrs. Robert Lucas. Recitations were
impressively delivered by Mrs. E. M.
Roberts, Miss Elizabeth Hixson and
Mrs. Amos Williams. Several interest
ing tableaux we're given, and the music
was entertaining.
Jessie Crawford, a prominent farmer
and stock raiser living in this township
just east OF New Petersburg, has an eight.
legged lamb-the product of one of his
high grade Shropshire ewes, 1t is 9
>eritable monstrosity. The head, neck
shoulders and front legs, and the body
extending back several inches, do moi
differ in appearance from any Other
young lamb. But, at about five inches
back of the shoulders, it becomes double
or rather thribble, for, extending back
wards towards where you would expect
to see the hind quarters of an ordinary
lamb, are shoulders and two legs O
common size. The shape of the leg
and feet indicating that that part of tn,
animal was constructed to travel in al
opposite direction from the head. And
branching of from the main body, snt
extending back seven or eight inches OF
each side of the last named shoulders
are we'll developed hind quarters OF mall
lambs. In assisting its advent, its lif'
was sacrificed and its body slightly NUT
Hated, but it is still in fair state o
preservation, and Mr.. Crawford will taxi
pleasure in exhibiting it to anyon'
wishing to see it, as he did to your cor
respondent.
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