The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-06-30
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June "a, 1898.

June ~, 1898.
N. R. Barrett and family were among
friends in Hillsboro yesterday.
Rev. J. h. Davis, Of Feesburs, spent
part Of lest week in this vicinity.
Scott George, who has been attending
school at Columbus, 10 home on vacation.
Percy Roads went to town to enlist In
the army but could not meet oil the 70.
ouirements and had to return home dis.
appointed.
Miss Ruth Britton has been enjoying
visit among friends at Lynchburg,
New Vienna and willettsville for sew.
eral days.
James W. Spargur, Jacob Upp and J..
1. Taggart have been appointed to ap.
praise the property Of Allen Ferrell. de-
ceased. next Thursday.
Edgar Ashton, Otto and Edgar Jack
son, students of the Ohio Western Uni.
versity, at Delaware, are to spend their
vacation with their parents.
Undertaker Carey Wright went to
Carmel last Friday to bury uncle George
Scammahorn. He was one of the oldest
citizens of that vicinity.
T. M. Ferguson had the hons r Of being
chosen at the recent encampment at
Mt. Vernon to the National 6. A. R en-
campment that meets in Cincinnati in
September.
Miss Cloe washburn has been staying
with friends near Fl. Hill since the
death of Nancy Washburn, with whom
she lived at this place.
George and Charley Lafferty, of this
vicinity, both passed the examination
at Hillsboro last week and will doubtless
be in Tampa before this is in print.
The Rathbone Sisters will give an en-.
tertainment at the K. of P. Hall Sat.
urday night, July 9th, for the benefit Of
NJ. E. Church that was go badly wrecked
in the storm last Saturday. As the Sis.
ters bear all the expenses and give the
entire proceeds to the Church fund the
festival ought to be well patronized.
L. A. Means, of Arkansas, joined his
wife in her visit at the home OF her moth.
er, Mrs. H. M. Caudy, and being 80 we'll
pleased with this part Of the country he
has decided to remain here for the sum.
mer. They have gone to Greenfield
where he will work at the carpenter
trade.
Mrs. Nancy Washburn, whose illness
we mentioned last week, died on the
22d, aged 81 years She was born two
miles west of Rainsboro and grew to
womanhood on the farm where she was
born. She was married to James Wash.
burn, April 18th, 1858 and few years
later with her husband moved to the
vicinity Of Sinking Spring, but they re.
turned to Paint township about 80 years
ago and purchased farm now owned
by Geo Sans and resided there until
they came to Rainsboro FIVE years ago.
Her husband died the 10Th day of
August, 1896 With her death the home
that has been made comfortable and at.
tractive by her efforts is now closed.
That with her little farm near town and
her personal effects not disposed OF by
her will, will be sold in the near future.
The NJ. E. Church was badly wrecked
by the storm that visited this place last
about noon. The destructive
force OF the wind that was confined to
narrow channel struck the west end of
The building and blew the gable down
% the square and carried away the larger
part of the roof; the cupola, the frame
II which had been morticed into heavy
timbers and small portion of the roof
around 1t was not blown off. The falling
If the heavy gable wall composed Of
brick and mortar, broke through the cell.
ing and filed the rostrum and the space
around it and the raised platform where
The choir sits with debris many inches
leep. The top of the pulpit was crush
ID, the organ demolished, one chanda.
ier was broken to pieces, the carpet was
entirely ruined, some Of the chairs were
ruined and the front seats injured. We
10 not yet know the extent of the dam
age nor what it will cost to repair it. If
The walls OF the building still standing
are not too much cracked to remain and
The cupola and the large frame work that
the roof does not have to be
replaced, we believe that less than q
dollars will make the repairs,
but If the whole building has to be torn
down it will cost several thousand dol.
lars to erect one as large and commo-
aious as the one now injured, and the
burden would fall very heavily upon the