The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1904-06-09

ODD HAPPENINGS.
Items OF Local Interest Clipped
from Our Most Valued Ex-
changes.
New Bank for Greenfield--Lived
over a Century--Old Odd Fell
low Lives In Clinton County
--Strrck by Lightning.

Greenfield is to have a new bank
which will assist in conserving the
best financial interests of that city.
Articles of Incorporation we're fled
Thursday in the Office of Secretary of
State signed bv the following Austin
Ferneau, J. N. Douglass, Adella Lang
don, Nellie Dunlap, Joseph l.. Cald-
well, M. Irwin Dunlap, M. l.. Mat
thews, Albert M. Mackerley, Chas.
Mains, Add Dwyer and J. B. Elliott.
The new bank will occupy the cor
ner room of the new business block,
which is being built by Messrs. Mack
erley, Ferneau and Dunlap, and will
conduct a general banking business.
The capital stock is $4,000 and the
new bank will open for business about
January l, l9O5.-Ex.
A RIPE OLD AGE.
The Oldest citizen of Athens county,
and possibly the Oldest in the United
States, Ma jor Tucker, died Wednesday
morning at his home on West State
street at the remarkable age o. Ii,
years. He had been a resident of Ath-
ems for fully three quarters of cen.
tury. Death was due to senility. Fun
eral services were held Thursday. Ma
jor Tucker leaves wife about 65 years
of age and many other relatives.
A year or two ago when Major
Tucker was seen at his home here, he
said he distinctly remembered the
funeral of George Washington which
was held in $780, when he was about
six years of age. He claimed to be a
soldier in the war of 1872 and served
throughout the Mexican war. Until
few years ago he was man of rare
preservation and had a remarkable
command of his mental faculties
Athens Messenger.
OLDEST ODD FELLOW.
There is some question as to whether
Justus Taylor, of Wilmington, is the
oldest Odd Fellow in the United States,
or even in Clinton county. George F..
Bowers, of this place, who is now
eighty.two years of age, has been a
member of the Odd Fellows for fifty
seven years, having joined in lS47. He
can also remember being present and
assisting in initiating Mr.. Taylor.
The article clipped from the Whining
ton Journal and published in the Re-
porter few weeks ago stated that a
picture of Mr.. Taylor had been pub
lished in Muncie, Ind, paper as the
Oldest living Odd Fellow in the United
States, he being member for the past
fifty.six years. The Journal further
states that Mr.. Taylor is ninety-tive
years of age, and that when the |. O..
o. F. was organized he was lad of
ten years, and that nineteen years
later he joined the Order. These fig
ures would have made Mr.. T. twenty
nine years of age when he became a
member, and twenty.nine substracted
from his present age, ninety.fve,
would leave him a member for the
past sixty.six years instead of fifty.
six as stated by the journal, differ
ence of ten years. 1t is likely that
Mr.. Taylor was nearer forty years
of age when he joined the Order.
Clinton county may still retain the
honor as having as resident the old
est living Odd Fellow In the United
States, but Wilmington will have to
hand over the honOrs to New Vienna
New Vienna Reporter
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
During the hard thunder storm at
Bloomingburg last Wednesday after
noon, Howard Stitt and Floyd Holdren
were struck by lightning. They were
rendered unconscious by the shock
and for time we're thought to be SER
iously injured. They are still suffer-
ing from the effects of the shock,
though able to get around the house
some with the aid of a cane. Floyd
HOldren was standing in the front
door of his fathers residence at the
time and Howard Stitt was In a barn
a short distance from the Holdren
home, where he was engaged in clip
ping dog. Both boys were rendered
unconscious by the shock. Howard
regaiued consciousness in short time
and managed to drag himself to the
house, where friends worked over him
for an hour or more.
1t is supposed that the lightning
followed the telephone wire, which
passed over the barn and into the
HOldren home. e.--Fayette County Rec