The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-07-27
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J July gath, 1899.

The real busy season is mostly over in
this section, hay making and threshing
being the bones Of contention for the
past month. Wheat was on the average,
good for this year, several fields yielding
from 20 to 25 bushels to the acre.
Rev. Amos Cook, of Harveysburg,
filed the pulpit at this place last Sun
day. He was welcome to his many
friends here, having formerly held a
very successful meeting here.
Three of our young men became
stricken with "going west fever" and
bade us good bye to the regret Of their
many friends. They bought tickets for
North Fork, D. The purchasers were
Chas. Diven, Harley Holmes and Clar.
ence Cowgirl. Success to this move on
their checkerboard of life maneuvers.
Elwood Major and son, of Boston,
Mass, and his nephew, Kenneth Johns,
of Washington D. O., are visiting friends
in this and other neighbors. Mr..
Majors boy hood friends are many and
the many "reminiscences they recall in
recounting their past escapades and etc..
will live long after them, and sement
their friendship into stronger love for
each other. He and his son leave this
week, going as far as Washington by the
Gulf and then up the broad Atlantic.
Mr.. Johns will spend months vacation
on the Overman farm.
Many anticipate attending Quaker
Quarterly at Leesburg next Sunday.
David Brock and wife will leave next
week to visit relatives and friends east
OF Pittsburg, Penn.
w. R. Cornetet, of Mowrystown, is
visiting his many friends in this COM
munity.
A very pleasant event took place here
yesterday in honor to our estemiable
neighbor, Mr.. Cyrus W. Barrett. 1t
happens that Mr.. Barrett, having reach.
ed the Goth mile stone of his journey
through life, and his many friends de-
string to show their appreciation for the
many kindnesses received at his hands
during these years, and to show their
respect for him, decided to come with
large baskets we'll filed with good
things and meet in his beautiful grove
to remind him of all these things They
consequently met at church as usual but
with their baskets we'll smuggled. and
after listening to q splendid discourse
by Rev. Amos Cook, of Harveysburg,
Ohio, 1.-THE crowd began to procesh,"
headed by Mr., Barrett himself, although
ignorant OF what was going on. As he
was in the act of driving through the
gate way at home, the fact was made
known to him that dinner would be
served in the grove. He discovered, then
that things were not as be had been ac-
customed to having them and on
looking back and viewing the pro.
cession which had purposely fallen in
the rear. His surprise was complete
indeed. All enjoyed the splendid din.
iner set, to which fact ye scribe can wit
ness. The day was ideal. As if in ap.
pology for his grim seclusions on some
past occurrences, the sun shown out in
all his warmth of beauty. The atmos.
phere was invigorating and the grove
beautiful in all the luxuries of a mild
July day. A pleasing feature was the
afternoon exercise at which Rev. ]. I.
Taggart, an old friend of the surprised,
acted as chairman with his usual tact
aud gracefulness. Rev. Amos Cook
gave quite good talk and sermon to the
three hundrad aaaemhled