The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-03-07
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March 4, 1901.

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Clarence Epperson has gone t
Auglase county to spend the sprinl
and summer.
Isaac Kerns has been on the sicl
list for some time, but is able to b.
out again.
Henry Eakins and son, Charley. o
Stringtown, moved to Rainsboro las
week.
Samuel Coleman and wife are re
ported quite sick since the middle O.
last week.
Amos williams will move to tn,
farm he bought of Mr.. Gaskill OF
Clear Creek today.
Miss Elsie Auckerman returned las'
week from Kankakee. ILL.,, where she
has been spending some months.
Mrs. Rosco West and little daugh
ter, of Liberty township, we're guest,
of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. j
Sans, last week.
Herschel Phillips and mother, Mrs
Jennie Epperson, left last Thursday
for Auglaze county, where they will
make their future home.
John Roads is still on the Petit
Jury at Hillsboro.
John Combs, of Cynthiana, has
moved to the J. H. Davis farm south
of town.
Samuel Bost contemplates the er.c.
tiop or new barn on the farm boue hit
of 8. Coleman and has let the contract.
Miss Ethel Skeen, of Greenfield, has
been the guest Of her auhts, Mrs. J. B.
Gossett and Mrs. Nancy M. Redkcy,
for several days. ....
Aaron and Walter Auckerman re-
turned to Illinois today, after an en-
joyable visit of several weeks with
their parents tere. j
J. X. Beath will vacate the hotel
today and move to the property in
East End, bought of Amos Williams.
Elmore Eubanks will take possession
of the hotel, and Mrs. Mary Clark
will occupy the house he vacates.
Miss Mary Brown and nephew, Mr..
Smith, of Russells, were guests of J.
F.. Brown and family SATURDAY. and
Sunday.
Oliver Patton, of Dallas, has been
attending the protracted meeting at
this place during the past week.
John L. Redkey died at his residence
east of Rainsboro, February 26, 1901,
urrounded by his family and friends.
He was born November 10, 1922, a
short distance east of his late resi-
1ence, and his whole life, covering a
period of nearly four score years, was
spent in that vicinity where he won
and maintained a reputation for in
lustry, economy, truthfulness, hon.
esty in business, sociability, kindness
Of heart, and other good qualities
that helped to make him the kind
husband and father, the obliging
neighbor and valuable citizen that he
was. He was a firm believer in the
doctrine of the Bible, and embraced
them more than fifty years ago and
united with the M. E. Church, and as
he neared the close of life, and his
faith was tested by approaching dis
solution, he realized that his hope in
Christ was we'll founded, and he gave
his friends the comforting assurance
that all was we'll. Largely attended
funeral services in charge of Rev. 81,
G. Curless we're held on Thursday at
the M. E. Church, participated in by
Revs. Winget and Davis. Interment
in the Hartman Cemetery.
James H. Chestnut and Miss Mary
Myers, well-known young people of
this vicinity, were united in mar
riage by Rev. ]. 1. Taggart at his res
idence on West Main street Sunday
evening, March Sd, 1901, and are re-
ceiving the congratulations of many
friends.
Cyrus Barrett, who lived near Over
man, moved to Wilmington last week,
and VIM. Kearns, of the same neigh
borhood, moved to the vicinity of
this week.
Miss Carrie Swisshelm, of Hillsboro,
has been the guest of J. L. Gossett
and family for several days.
The series of meetings at the M. E.
Church closed last night with six ac-
cessiOns and a revival among the