The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-04-25
RAINSBORO.
April %, 1901.

April q, 1901. }.
VIM. Epperson is suffering intensely
from fellon on his hand.
G. W. Badgley spent several days of
last week at Mowrystown among his
friends. .tI.
Chas. Snodgrass has moved his
household goods and blacksmith tools
to New Petersburg.
Rev. H. G. Curless was called to
Blanchester last Friday on account of
the death of his grandfather Haines.
Mrs. James Chestnut has been quite
sick at the home of her sister, Mrs.
VIM. Webb, but is better.
Prof. H. B. Galliett has been en-
ployed to teach our high school for
another year, which is very crafty
ing to his many friends here.
Mr.. Hughes and Miss Hite, of Sink
ing Spring, drove to this place last
Thursday and we're united in mar
riage by Rev. H. G.. Curless. They
we're guests at the hotel.
A prospective voter was added to
the family of Mr.. and Mrs. w. H.
Roads several weeks ago, but the
news of his arrival failed to reach the
ear of your correspondent.
Mrs. Miranda Skeen, of Greenfield.
is welcome guest at the home of
her sister, Mrs. Nancy Redkey, east
of town.
Miss Nellie A. West, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. s. d. West, of this vi
cinity, was united in marriage with
Clement L. Wise, of New Petersburg,
April 18th, 1901, by Rev. J. I. Taggart
at his residence in this place, after
which they returned to the home of
the BRIDES parents, where sumptu-
Gus feast awaited them.
Sinclair Millikan, of Washington, D.
c., is here to spend the summer with
his aunt, Nancy Redkey. His moth
er and sister will join him in his visit
here later on.
M. v. Wheaton is reported se-
riously sick with lung fever.
VIM. Rains, of Chicago, attended
his mothers funeral here yesterday.
Rev. G. L. Winget attended the fu-
neral of young man at Petersburg
Sunday, by the name of Baker, that
had recently been discharged from
service in the Philippines on account
of disability.
Mrs. Zachariah Miller wishes to ex-
press her gratitude to the members of
the G. A. R., and also to friends and
neighbors for their kindly Offices and
sympathy during the sickness and
death of her beloved husband.
The snow storm that began here last
Thursday night with slight variations
until Sunday evening, aggregating
depth of or 8 inches, and drifting in
places to depth of several feet, has
not been paralleled at any time dur
ing the last half of April since we be.
gan keeping a daily record of the
weather 10 years ago. Neither has
the low average temperature for
so many consecutive hours been du-
plicated in the last talf of the month,
except it might have been during the
April freeze in 1882 that began on the
night of the 9th and continued until
the 18th, when the wheat was so bad
ly bitten. Just what effect the storm
will have on the fruit buds, many of
which are opening, some are guessing,
but no one knows.
The remains of Mrs. Elizabeth An
derson, the estimable wife of Daniel
of near Centerfeld, will be
brought to the M. E. Church at this
place at II O'Clock today for funeral
services in order to accommodate the
relatives that reside in this
region. The body will be laid to rest
in the cemetery just east of town,
where sleeps the dust of her parents,
her former husband, her daughter,
Emma, and other loved ones. She
was born November %, 1895, and was
daughter of James W. and Catha-
rine Roads. She grew to womanhood
in this vicinity and was married to
lshmail Rains. To them were born 2
children, Wilson H. and Emma G.
After a few years of happy welded
life, the young husband died. Septem-
ber Is, 1862. The daughter, Emma,
IS also dead. Wilson is a prosperous
business man in the city of Chicago.
On the oath of February, 1887, Mrs.
Rains was married to Daniel Ander-
son, whose companionship she joyous
y shared until the noon hour last Fri
lay, when she suddenly died of heart
failure, leaving a son and husband
Ind several step children and other
'elatives to mourn. She was a sister
# John Roads, of Paint Postoffice, land
Philip and Sanford, of this place.