The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1904-02-11

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Miss Alice Stevens, Of Samantha,
was the guest of Rev. 4. L. Knox and
wife three or four days last week.
Miss Mary Boatright was visiting
her sister, Mrs. Y. L. Strange, and
family, in Greenfield, Saturday and
Sunday.
Lewis Ballentine was in town last
week making arrangements to move
his family back again from Greenfield,
where he has been for several months
past.
Miss Lizzie Mccoy was the guest of
her sister in Leesburg Saturday night
and Sunday.
Mrs. j. II. Sprague has been suffer.
Ing from an attack of grippe for the
past week
Joseph Cohn was visiting his sons in
Sabina Saturday and Sunday.
h. M. Horseman and family were
guests of @. Il. Hixson and wife, in
Leesburg, on Sunday.
Jasper Hodson and wife, of Dayton,
are visiting the latter's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Noah Hixson.
MIR. and Mrs. S.'Marquis we're the
guests of Jos. Langley and family, in
Greenfield, over Sunday.
Curtis Clay, of Bellfountaine, was
the guest of Samuel McClure's family
the first of this week.
Miss Sara Cohn was visitor at the
home of her sister, Mrs. Rice, in New
Vienna, Sunday and Monday.
Daniel Wollard and wife moved on
Monday to the farm of John veneman,
two miles north of this place.
Mrs. Samuel Paris has. been on the
sick list for the past two weeks.
The protracted meeting> which has
been in progress for the last three
weeks at the M. e. Church, will possi-
bly, close tonight Monday. The meet
ings have been well attended and have
certainly resulted in a general stir
ring up of the membership to higher
sense of their Christian duty. And If
those outside have failed to be con-
vinced of their responsibility and priv
ilege 1t is not because the truth has
not been forcibly presented to them
by the plain teaching and earnest APP
peals of the pastor, Rev. j. II. Hill.
There has been a number of conver.
sions and accessions to the church.
We came very nearly in touch with
genuine cyclone. Between four and
five o'clock Sunday morning people
were awakened by heavy thunder and
vivid lightning, accompanied by some
rain and continuous roaring. The
severe part of the storm being a mile
or more south of us. A new barn was
totally destroyed at the home of Dolph
Ockerman, near Careytown, and two
horses and three cattle killed. The
barn of Joseph Naylor was badly dam.
aged. The dwelling of VIM. Wright,
of Careytown, was lifted from it's
foundation and considerably wrecked.
The barn belonging to Allen Ocker-
man was blown down and fine horse
killed. The dwelling on the farm
formerly belonging to John Edwards
was unroofed and out-buildings de-
stroyed. A tenant house on Daniel
Ockerman's farm was completely
blown away. G. j. Smiths0n's barn
was torn down and the dwelling house
unroOfed and badly wrecked. He hav.
ing very narrow escape from his life
from the falling timbers. His orchard
was destroyed and much timber blown
down. The dwelling on Noah Hix-
sons farm, occupied by his son, Clay,
was badly injured and the barn de-
strOyed. 1t came next to the home of
Joseph Banks, taking OIL the roof on
south side, blowing down chimneys,
&c. Some damage was also done at
the home of VIM. Roads, which
it apparently struck with less force,
until reaching Leesburg and beyond
in the region of Martinsburg. Fences
were ent irely torn down in It's tracks,
which seemed to have been not more
than two or three hundred yards in
width.