The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-12-28
Facts and Fancies Not Local But
Nevertheless o. T. zeal
Interest.
The Bears Loose In adams County
Pie without Sugar Flend
ish Proof Reader.
BEAR IN ADAMS G, UNITY

lives in Bratton township, near Sinking
Springs, hearing a noise in his hen
house, went out to investigate the
cause, when to his surprise he found a
cinnamon bear helping himself to his
fine poultry. He called his dogs and
put them after the bear and they fright
tened the animal away. The next
morning on getting up he looked out of
the window and saw the bear standing
in the road in front of his house. His
dogs again chased it away. The bear
had a collar on it's neck and chain
about three feet long to it 1t is sup.
posed it must have escaped from some
travelling show-West Union Defender.
TRAVELLED MANY MILES.
The Lancaster Gazette says Engineer
Zantmeyer. who runs through on the O..
& NJ. V. every morning from Morrow to
Dresden, and back in the evening, has
been on the road forty-six years, max
ing him one OF the oldest engineers in
point of service in the business When
the G. & NJ. V. was completed in 1853 he
ran one of the first locomotives over the
line, and has been running one ever
since. He has never had an accident.
Mr.. Zentmyer has kept careful &C.
count of his runs and up to December !
had travelled ], 800 600 miles.
SELLING WIND
A couple of slick individuals have been
working the country surrounding Rlan-
chester ahd selling territory for patent
right. They succeeded in securing over
$1,000 in notes on some of the best
farmers in that vicinity. The transaction
is a legitimate one, but the men who
sold wind" will be about the only per.
sons to reap beuefit.-Ex.
WORSHIP OF WEALTH.
At the death of Matthew Berryhi bis
estate was valued at seventy two thous.
and dollars. The household goods were
left to his wife. They were appraised
week before last at less than twenty. five
dollars, but Mrs. Berryhill had given
away some few articles, prabably that
would have been valued at five or six
dollars. This is the method some peo-
pie adopt to get rich: A hired girl who
worked there said Mr.. and Mrs. Berry
hill ate gooseberry pie without sugar
We simply mention these facts to let
people know what economical methods
some people practice, and that for the
love of money some will even deprive
themselves of the ordinary nourish
ments of life -Bellbrook Moon.
A SLIGHT DIFFERENCE
A certain bachelor editor of Northern
Ohio town is in predicament, as re.
suit of careless proofreader. Having
occasion to apologize to bis readers for
a delay in issuing his paper, he wrote
"We beg the indulgence of our readers
for being day late this week. Our fail.
ure to get out on time was on account
of the physical decentralization of the
editor, caused by sleeping to close to the
boarding house window" The cussed
compositor set the last word "widow,"
and the proofreader failed to discover
the omission of the "n."-Ex.
THREE NAMES IN ONE DAY.
A Jackson county woman broke the |
record last Friday by changing her name
twice. She was the plaintiff in divorce
case styled "Juliann Cooperrot vs. Jo-
seph Cooperrot" and the case came on
For its final hearing before Judge W. H.
December Is. She was grant
ID divorce, and was restored to her
maiden name, Julisnn M. Marquis. La
'er in the day, Probate Judge +. q. Will
ION issued married license to Adam
Siferd and Juliann M. Marquis, aud they
we're married by Justice M. X. Glenn of
Goal township. The woman thus bore
egally in one day, the three names
Jooperrot, Marquis and siferd.-Jack-
ION Standard Journal.