The Cedarville Herald, Volume 24, Numbers 1-26

adless the best ones 20 cents its per pound. Ei lb. ■ that grow 20c lb. tm o d a y s . d about “ what to r<m to ilcd'ule,. e 20 per cent, off publish1-; w you best line in the city. Teacher's Bible' fbr'only •sudh a price. e. We have all kimle, l prices; .50, every'one guaranteed points don't ju st suit. idicap as SI '»nrl beautiful c. the most appreciated pres- e. He still have nmitv ts in latest style ovals. if 20th C en tu ry .” They cost so little that the arev rnhle. - , Nice Foxes from 10c up ►k Store, Ohio, ‘igJit, celling right- inves tiga te .. Hundreds. 1 .terests'will make interesl ***£’*•/#■ . »JC^r.fCD) 7 |k 00 {i(O CUOCtlO i eat-h, Ladies’ Fine AIM jric 'Handkerchiefs, heraiW rod -h inch hems; no fiwj ricj at 20c, :: each Ladies Fine Heisstit Linos Haudkerehic/s j * henis; node belter in the 1 1 each , 0 Ladk‘3 Hoffc Linen, E x tra Fine acd >ri« Handkerchiefs, j- 1 ° ^ titched; none better ut any den’s Handkerchie 5 cash, Men’s Fine ditched Handkerchiefs; 1 >I5e. ; each, 2 lots Men’s Fin i, Hemstitched Haudker and A inch hems, the regal iy- . ’ each, men’s extra F ine. ditched and Initial AIM Ikcrcdiiefk, \ and 4 >oeh v.Hl 5 jo found to equal ai terchb f in the city, traordinary Value.- - 2,4wI leifiatitchcd Cambric , plain white and fancy _ ar lOe quality; todays p« higher grades a t like re«® vfi .? nor box -'4 in hj>*) Fancy Border Hen5*1 liicrddefe. , . , hoc per b m 16 it* h°*?i ] - fjifc initial. fy i'atiibrie lla n d k r r c h t^ REN. w £X(HWK« OurJWwork * 0 m v ortter pm. ■V-OMW^W^YT.I|THM|L TWENTY-FOURTH y e a r . n o . 2. ColdWeather necessities When this item k marked by an Index, it deaotti th a t your awboerip- ti.m u overdue and a prompt payment is deeired. CEDARVILLE, OHIO. DECEMBER 29. i9Q0. PRICE $1.00 A YEAR. H EAVY W E IGH T UNDERWEAR , Fleece and Balbriggan, per garment, W IN TER CAPS, Plush, Kersey and Wool, - EAR MUFFS, - - - . . „ . . MUFFLERS , - . PURE WOOL SOX - » - . '• „ . . Hats, Shirts, Collars. Cuffs, Neckwear. 50c to $1.00 , 25 to 50c IOC . /50c up 25c 1 . £. Davis, T a i l o r , * H i i t t e r , F u r n i s h e r COGITATIONS On Various Themes and .*About Town. Observations A woman in this town though shh liiifl lost a five dollar bill a few days ago. She worried about it a great ileal, as any woman naturally would. It was no small amount to drop a t one time. She tried to think of every­ where site hud been and what she had bought and where, but all to no avail. A man would not have worried half as much. About a week afterwards she found the hid in an out of the way pocket iu some dress of hors and then she was so glad site had not lost it that she went right straight down town and .bought some silverware she bad no notion of buying, to celebrate the finding o f her supposed loss, • A baby'in this town, whose parents think it is the -only real for sure, . smartest kid in town,, cays its “ kitty eats wif its tongue." • A man in this town has a furnace which he says heats only on warm days. • A tramp came In the other day and related some o f his personal experi­ ences before we could get away. A* mong other things he said he was in the war of the rebellion and helped to capture the man who “ vaccinated” Liucoin. I f he actually vaccinated him, we do not blame the hum for helping to capture him. • The woman’s foreign missionary so ciety of this town is locking for old clothes to send ftway to missionaries and juat now they want a suit for a preacher who is Bix and a half feet high. W hat do you think o f a bix half foot .man who will wear .people’s clothes? / • poung man in this town attended the show, “ The Knobs 0 ’Tennessee," and had to take his girl home a t the end of the third act because she got to crying over the touching parts in tbe play and couldn’t stand it auy longer • A little boy in a town not far away was in the habit o f swearing more than was absolutely necessary, In ­ deed, his teacher did not think i t re­ quired any profanity i t all, So one day shegav* him a good, motherly talk and when be asked her who told tier he swore, she said, “ O, a . little bird told me.” The urchin of swear­ ing propensities retorted, “ I ’ll bet it was one o f them damned sparrows." Which shows th a t there is nothing like giving a dog a bad name. • . A man in this town explained his absence from church one Sunday morning recently by saying that he Staid a t home to read his Bible and rend fifty chapters. You could hear the organ groan when lie told it. This town has a man who says he is ail elegant poker play, the only draw back being that he runs out of money so soon. Two little girls met another little girl on the street and she was a sweet' little thing. One of the girls said’to her companion, “ Isn’t she Bweet! .Tust as sweet and iunocent!” Ju s t as if she knew what she was talking about and then some people wonder why women are funny. • A woman, iu this town, who has an ambition to be a devoted mother, had her baby a t the opera house one time, and when the performance was over, she was so busy being devoted for the benefit of spectators that she forgot the kid and would probably have left it there if her attention had not been called to it. • - A man in this community is a suc­ cessful farmer and hog feeder. But he calls all his hogs spring pigs. The neighbors Bay he saves himself by not saying what Bpriug. town meant to re fe rL -touc^ on A roan in this to the modesty and timidity of a friend, and said, “ Owing to Mr. A's ‘temerity,’ I will speak for him.” And the audience looked a t the design of the wall paper on the ceiling. SantaGets Scorched. Last Friday, a t the Mclntire school house, Miss Effie Duffield.thh teacher, with the assistance o f her pupils, was giving a Christinas entertainment. The entertainment waB first-class and everything went nicely until Santa Claus made his appearance. James Alsup had been engaged to play this part and was costumed accordingly In some manner his attire caught fire and the ligh t material with tbe cotton soon made a great blaze, which came near causing a panic in the school. The flames wers soon smothered, how­ ever, by those around, bu t Jim mourns tbs lots s f a portion of his hair. His escape was a lucky one, for be was in danger of serious burns. WE*VE TOO HANY Eeft-Owrs. There are lots of things left in our stock that we had hoped would go be* fore Christmas. r n n 6k* fM tfttft until they are disposed of appropriate time to give a than the beginning of the a< tury W t 0 6 6 f t * * * f t n the dateVr any inscription you want on any article of gold or silver you buy from us * w t m m m m * * * * * * * * * w m m r n m i m m * * * * , No More present oth, Cen- “TOUCHED” llpos a Public Steet.—Carnegie did not Stop his Walk InWashington While Agreeing to Give a City, in Iowa n Library. Mr. Andrew Carnegie, of Pittsburg, donor of libraries, stepped out of the Shorehnm in Washington, Saturday morning, and started for Senator Hanna's residence, just around the corner. Two .gentlemen, who -were waiting for him at the hotel,, ap­ proached and Hsked for five minutes’ talk with him. “ All right,” respond­ ed Mr. Carnegie, “ but just walk along with me: I am'hehind time." So they went along together, and us they walked the two gentlemen laid before Mr. Carnegie the necessity for a public library nt P i. Dodge, Iowa. They said Ft. Dodge needed u library the worst kind, aud the way thiugs were going it, seemed tlint the ouly chance of getting one was for some great and good philantropist to give them one. They talked their case for the square and a half to Senator Haunu’s house, and when the party reached the Sencmr's door the. library, was won. “ Surely,” said Mr. Carnegie, “ Ft. Dodge shall have a library building. Let the city donate a site and agree to maintain the library, and as soon as this is done draw on me for 830,000 for the building. Good day.” The two men were Solicitoi O’Con­ nell and Director of the Mint Roberts of the Treasury Department. I t was one of the most successful cases of the public streets on re cord.—Enqu irer.. Threatens Suit., Harry Frey, who, recently secured the consent of the property owners on South Center Street, Springfield, for his electric line is meeting with con­ siderable trouble. The property own­ ers have now withdrawn, their consent and are raising considerable disturb­ ance. Mr. Frey feels that he has been treated unjustly in the matter, even to the extent of grounds for a damage suit against ull who have thus given atid withdrawn their consents tti the proposition. He argues farther, that upon the consents received and which he has in writing, lie went to work upon parts of the franchise both in and out of the county and spent considerable money. Now to have the consent withdrawn means dam age to him, and be Irm ly believee that ha can recover demagee. NEWS TID BITS From Manv Sources, Gleaned From Our Exchanges Gathers Some Odd Pieces of News and Clever Anecdotes in His Rambles About Town. n c C O L L U M , the Jeweler Trade. rheutiitiFiial is the only word lie- fitiiig (lie enormous business done at Bird’s .Ismmolli Store during the holiday season just dosed, All pre­ vious records lieing broken. This season this store had the largest and most complete stock of goods, all new and seasonable, it fins ever owned. An extra number of clerks were put on in nnticipn-ion of the holiday rush and their services were greatly needed. Messrs. Robt. Wilson, Robt. Galbrcath and J . M. Bull assisted the regular force. Misrepresentation is a thing un­ known by this house, nod might be attributed to the success which it has attained. Mr, Bird's inauguration of his clear* ance sales in the way of auctions has been a great help to him, in that it keeps his store cleared of dead stock, and a t all times can he found a dean , fresh line of merchandise to select from: A White Christmas. Practically the entire town and vicinity were agreeably surprised Mon­ day evening when a heavy snow be­ gan to fall. The wishes of thousands for a white Christmas was in & fair way to be gratified, white the weather still continued delightfully moderate. {Hits storm was the first for years which has occurred on Christmas day. « s B em em lw r B p ilitn an B iggs’ lee* ttire,«rsn. 8, 1601. A Tucson girl will start for the Philippines next week. The girl Bays she can’t figbt,hut she can put patches on the seat of war. Move on Jennie you areal! right.—Phoenix (Arizona! Gazette. M t Dr. Love, of Bawersville, won a 85 prize and Mr, Fletcher, of Lumber ton, a 110 prize in the Enquirer.— Greene County Press. t t ’!• , W. E. McFarland, who bought the G. N. Guthrie farm northeast of thie city, arrived with his family this week. Mr. McFarland is from Ohio and we gladly welcome him and his family to our midst. H e will not get posses­ sion until March and has rented a a house in town.—Walker,. (Mo.) Herald. . . . ... t f t ' I .K . Warner has organized “ The Ohio Real Estate Exchange” with its main office a t Xenia. He says the Exchange will become nn almost indis­ pensable adjunct to every well regu­ lated town.—Yollow^Springs News. t t f ' Columbus has raised the necessary f 10.000, and the State Fa ir will be held in that city nex t-year for two weeks instead of one as heretofore. The required amount was secured re­ cently.—8 . Charleston Echo. t t t: With the opening of the 20th cen­ tury Hustead will soon become a su burb of Springfield. The Electric railway, free mail delivery and tele­ phones will do the work.—Hustead Cor. Yellow Springs News. t f , f Miss Ella Laudaker went to Cedar ville, yesterday, to remain till after Christmas the guest of her sister, Mrs. Charles Grouse, j r .—S. Charleston Echo. i f f A race look place in Kentucky last week in which a well known race horse and a mule were tbs contestants, the distance being a quarter of a mile. About 15,000 changed hands and the male won. On being cloeely inspect­ ed, the male proved to be “Long- eared Dan,” an exceedingly fast quar­ ter hone. When Dan is gotten up right, he is said to make a good look ing nrole, his ears being unusually long for a horse.—Jerome, (Ariz.) Reporter,' t f f In serving notices to persons who have been drawn as jurymen for the January term of court, Deputy Sher iffTnrbox notified Thos, Mitchell, of Cedarviltc township that lie had been selected as a member of the Grand Jury. Mr. Mitchell stales that he Was the first colored man who ever served on a jury in Greene county. It was during John Orr’s term of office as county clerk and Mr. Mitchell states that at tho time he was very anxious to be relieved from duty, hut was held as a juror and was told at the time that he was the first colored matt who hadever been drawn: I t is quite a distinction for Mr. Mitchell, -Gazette. f + f An exchange says the twentieth century will have 24 leap years, the greatest number possible. February will have five Sundays three times, 162(1,1948 and 19?G. The earliest possible date ou which Enstcr can occur is March 22. The last time it occurred on that date was 1818. The latest date that Easter can occur is April 25. I t will occur hut once the coming century on that date^ -1945, The middle day o f the century will lie ,t«ntiary 1,1951. There will he 080 ec )ip * fsd n rm g c e n tu ry , OUR REPORTER We have often heard the statement that truth is stranger than fiction and have been disinclined at times to be­ lieve it, but, it is true that a great many of the sayings of children are more laughable than those manufact­ ured for the funny columns of our papers. Borne of the readers of the Herald may remember tha: the Sab­ bath school lessou a week or two ago was about “ Zaccheus. tbe Publican.” Tbe four-year-old daughter, Ruth, of Deputy Sheriff Frank Tarbox, of Xenia, came home from Sabbath school in a great glee that day and gave this account of the lesson: ‘‘O mamma, we had the best lesson today, there was a great b ig . crowd and a man named Jesus, and Jack Pierce wanted to see him and the people wouldu’t let him see him and so Jack Pierce went and climbed up in a tree and Jesus saw him and told biin to come down that he was going home with him. I guess that all happened lip at Ccdarville. I wish I ’d been there,” . —O— If our public school. teachers to do so they cojild furnish columns of funny sayings by the children under their care. A friend sends tiie fol­ lowing examples. H e r scholars were studying synonyms for the first time and were given some sentences to write; One girl was told to use the word frantic in a sentence, so she wrote the sentence—“ John picked a bouquet o f frantic flowers.” During the same lesson n g irl' found the Word convulsion defined as a fit and wrote, “ Mary’s dress fins a n6at conuilsion.” In the manufacture of sentences boys, perhaps,- exercise more ingenu­ ity tlinir girls, but a t the-same time their sentences are less grammatical. A boy w a s ‘given the words, boys, bees and bear to weave in a sentence and immediately produced the fol­ lowing marvelous construction, “ Boys bees bear when they goes'in swim ming.” His ideas were all right if his grammar and spelling were a little faulty. Last fall there was a great deal of fever around Cedanrille. During that time the aunt o f one of our little girls came home and the little one felt that it was her du ty to warn her aunt against the uso of impure water, so she said, “ Auntie you want to be careful what you drink as there are a lot of typhoid “ gems” in the Cedar* ville water. — o - .- • Mr. W. H. lliff’s have some curious animals at their house. A cat was the mother of three kittens, and when they were three or four weeks old the mother refused -to own them and it seemed for a Time that they would have no mother to look after their welfare. But it so happens that Wal­ ter IIHI*has a very intelligent bird-dog which immediatly took in the situa tion and began to look after the kit­ tens,bestowing upon them all the affec­ tion that a mother naturally would, whining and showing other signs of distress i f they were out of sight. o--- ■ I heard some one say this week,“ No I don’t take Any Btock in Christinas, it is all a delusion. They don’t know that the twenty-fifth of December is Christ’s birthday, aud If it is his birth day it would be blasphemous to cole hrate it in the way that wo do. It doesn’t pay to celebrate it anyhow, it costs a lot of money and amounts to uotliing.” I left him and met n ten* year-old youngster, whose mouth was being stuffed with tho candy that filled both pockets, running along the street {lulling a brand new sled, As he pasted ma ha shouted, “ M arry Christ mas” with a voice that came from a heart full ofjoy. As I thought that this was only oiie of the millions of youngsters that Christinas made hap­ py, all the arguments of the chronic -kicker were answered, and I felt" and knew.that Christmas does pay. — o — ■ A. singular, yet commical incident took place last Monday. The affair might have proved disastrous to the one engaged but fortunately he came off with only a few bruises. Mr. B G. Itidgway, the druggist, recently purchased a cow and tor some reason it was out last Monday, and “Pompy” Smith was dispatched to look up the animal. -After a search it was found in the vicinity of Rev.Ross’. “Pompy” to make sure of his holt, ties the hal­ ter rope around his wrist and pro­ ceeds to halter the cow. The halter went ou over the animals head onto her neck, the cow gets frightened and. drags.“ Pompy’’ about the lot. “ Pom- py" wasn’t just at himself as he had his “ habits on” and for that reason lacked strength. Those who saw it ny it was a most comical sight, with the bellowing of the frightened cow and utterances of “ Pompy.” “ I aint hurt much but then I am bruised awfully bad”, said “ Pompy” when they released him. ' —9— Ervin Kyle hud an .experience a few nights back that he doesn’t care to repeat soon. He had just finished feediug when a couple of drunken fellows drove into the barnyard and- getting out, commenced to uiibitcb their horse. Ervin asked them what they were going to .do. They replied that they were going to put their horse up and stay all night. Ervin said that he guessed they were not hu t they insisted that they were; when Ervin told them that if they pu t the horse in the barn they wouldn’t take it out, He thought he had persuaded them to leave as they started away, but stoppednt tho gate again, got out and started for the house. Ervin got betweeu them and the door and told them that if they came any farther some one was going to get hurt. They ilidu’t stop and Ervin cracked one of them between the eyes with such force that for the next few minutes he was dead to the world. His comrade con­ cluded that things were getting too warm for him, so lie picked up his fellow comrade and retreating to his wagon dumped his friend in and drove off. The fellows were unknown to Ervin and who they were no one knows. Ervin’s father-in-law had gone np to 8t. John’s for help but by the time he returned it was all over. I f any­ one else lias any trouble of this kind we would advise them to use a shot gun instead of their fists. IN SOCIETY The Various Local Social F mc U oos Which Have Marked the Holiday Waak. The holiday season for 1900 finds an unusual uiimber of dinners, enter­ tainments and parties. The week has been a busy one for society goers, scarcely a day but what there whs some function.* -- Tuesday evening a t the country home of Mr. and Mrs. William Stev­ enson was celebrated their fifth anni­ versary. The home had been fittingly, decorated for the occasion, small wooden hearts being need as souven­ irs, as well as in the decorations. Over one hundred covers were laid, and all enjoyed a very merry Christ­ mas evening. Mr. and Mrs. W ill A rthur enter­ tained a number of their friends a t a six o'clock tea at their home Wednes­ day evening, A very social ’time is reported. Mr. Walter Condon gave a six o’clock dinner, Thursday evening, to his gentlemen college mates, Prof. J . Robb Harper, Wallace Iliff and Clar­ ence'Young. i Mr. and Mrs. Will McMillan gave a dinner to a large number of their friends a t their home, Thursday. A number of young people attended a party Thursday night given by Misa Pearl and Mr. Earnest Hutchison, of near Goes. The weather was 'v e ry disagreeable for the long ride, never­ theless the evening was Bpentina very social manner. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Nash of near Wilberforce entertained a number o f their friends Thursday evening. A second crowd was entertained at the home o f Mr, and Mrs. Will Stev­ enson, Thursday evening. The party consisted ot young folks and a merry holiday evening was enjoyed by all present. Miss Effie Duffield issued invita­ tions to a large number of her friend* for Thunday evening, b a t oa aooouat of so many aocial affairs for that same evening, the invitation* wars rooalled for an indefinite time. Mr. and Mrs, Ebenezer Archer en- t tertaineil about fifty invited friends a t their home Thursday evening. An elegant supper was served. Messrs. Charles and James Ervin and their wives, of Xenia, were present. The Misses Knott, o f near Pitcliin, gave a'party to a large circle of friends last evening. Appreciative Employees, Iu these days o f strikes and strifes between employers and employees, it is gratifying to know that tho bost^of feeling exist on both slde3 in our paper mill. I t is a sign of two things: the first is that the superintendent of the mill has dealt justly with his men paid them well and treated then* kindly in every way. In the second place it shows that the men appreciate this treatment and are ready to re­ spond in every way that they can. The employees of the paper mill not only felt this but wished to express it in some material way. So they got together and purchased a fine gold, headed walking-stick, which was pre- to Mr. E ; W. Hagai on last Monday, Mr. A. Z, Smith, the foreman, mak­ ing the presentation speech. This cane was not given as a sign that Mr. Ilagar is getting old and in need of a something to lean upon, hut the cane is ouo that would lie more appropriate to use on dress occasions. May the good feeling continue be­ tween employers and employees, as such a condition will he for the best interest o f both. -^F o r something nice in the line off *-'R e tf Badlm** i ^ * 4 4 h i o j g |« l XmasFreeenfc for ladies o r .fentle*|hon#iuJ‘ai »*$, l i l t , p e p , go to t*. M, JRMgway a , *B ill i l i a «ml ifiiflt** , Miss Daisy Gray gave a dinner party to a few of her young married v friends, Friday. A t the palatial home of Mr.«and Mrs. D. S. Ervin last evening was a- most pleasant social gathering. The host and hostess treated their guests to a bounteous supper. .TOW P Tho telephone company have put in quite a number o f boxes during the past ten dajp. Workmen are already stringing Wires between this place and Charleston owin gl to the heavy trade. The boxes are as/followaJ John W ib liam’s KeelaursM, W , If,IKff»Dav* Dixon, Thomas 'A rthu r and W, Sterretl, restdeweeawdoiki*.