Source: News-Herald (Hillsboro, Ohio) Volume: 50 Page: 9
Dated: Jun. 2, 1886
LEESBURG
 - Miss Lena Simpson spent Tuesday in Cincinnati.
 - Mr. George Cooper has gone in Indiana on a business trip.
 - Mrs. Ed Hardy is visiting her parents in the Hill City this week.
 - Mrs. John Cox and Miss Louis Milner paid the Hill City a visit Tuesday.
 - Mr. Jesse Bush of Greenfield, was calling on old friends Wednesday evening.
 - Mrs. Hattie Teter, of Chillicothe, spent the week here visiting relatives and friends.
 - Miss Sallie Hughes, of Cincinnati, spent the week here the guest of the Misses Kinzer.
 - Rev. M. Rodkey and E. W. Cox made Washington C. H. a business call last Thursday.
 - Mrs. Joel T. Wright, of Hardin's Creek, is the guest of Mrs. Eli S. Barrett this week.
 - Mrs. Dr. McLaughlin spent last Sunday in Greenfield, the guest of relatives and friends.
 - Rev. John Davis spent yesterday afternoon and last night with Rev. Martin Redkey and family.
 - Miss Nellie Johnson, of near Centerville, spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. G. W. McFadden.
 - Mrs. John Meyers, of Greenfield, was visiting MRs. W. H. Teter  last Wednesday and Thursday.
 - Herbert and Fred Johnson of Cincinnati, spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elias Johnson.
 - BORN - To Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Barrett last Tuesday night, an eight pound girl.  Mother and child doing well.
 - Mrs. Evans, wife of Marion Evans, deceased, of Lynchburg, was visiting Mr. Taylor Evans and family this week.
 - Miss Sallie Hughes of Cincinnati, who has been spending the week visiting friends here, returned home yesterday.
 - Miss Stella Sanders, of Samantha, visited Rev. Leroy Clements and family, and Thomas Sanders and family this week.
 - Mrs. Dr. McLaughlin and Mrs. Rachel Slaughter were the guests of Aunt Polly Milner last Wednesday afternoon.
 - BORN - to Mr. an Mrs. Charles Woodmansee last week, a fine boy, and Charley wears a broad smile in consequence thereof.
 - Mrs. Eva Elwood, of New Antioch, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Newton Templin, and Mr. and Mrs. Clark Elwood this week.
 - Misses Lizzie and Fannie Thurman were the guests of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Thurman, in the Hill City last Sunday.
 - Mr. Chas. Waterman, of Chillicothe, came up Saturday evening to spend Sunday with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Rains.
 - Miss Nettie Hardy, of this place, and Miss Clara Nordyke, of New Vienna, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Adams yesterday afternoon.
 - Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Washburn and family, of Indianapolis, Indiana, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Washburn and family this week.
 - Rev. John Davis, of Rainsboro, who is a traveling minister of the M. E. Church, spent Monday evening here the guest of Rev. M. Redkey and family.
 - Rev. Lord, of Hillsboro, occupied the pulpit in the M. E. Church last Sabbath, in the place of Rev. Shultz, the regular pastor.  Mr. Loyd was the guest of Rev. M. Redkey for dinner.
 - Mr. Garland Terrell, a very old and highly respected citizen living near Centerville, was interred at Fairfield graveyard last Sunday.  Funeral services were conducted by Rev. M. Redkey, after which the remains were laid to rest.
 - Mrs. Henry Elwood was taken very violently ill quite suddenly with neuralgia of the heart last Thursday evening, and for a while her life was despaired of.  Dr. Ireland was called in and rendered the medical aid, and she is much better at this writing.
 - We had the pleasure of shaking the hand of Honorable Judge Huggins, of the Hill City last Saturday evening.  The Judge stopped here on his return home from Chillicothe, where he has been holding court for several weeks.  The Judge has a host of friends here who  would be glad to see him here oftener than they do.

NEW PETERSBURG -
 - Farmers say that cut worms are too numerous to mention.
 - Tom Gray, of Greenfield, was visiting his mother last Wednesday
 - T. L. Head, of Hillsboro, came down to see his old friends last Thursday and returned on Friday.
 - The streets and sidewalks are receiving a coat of gravel under the finical supervision of Eli Wise, "Esq."
 - Quite an interesting case came up before Squire Kretzer last Wednesday, between Jim Arrington and Henry Smith.  It seems that each had a bill against the other, and there was a difference of eighty-five cents in favor of Arrington, which he thought he could not lose and do himself justice financially.  We are unable to state the decision of the Court, but presume it was referred to the Supreme Court.

DODSONVILLE.
     May 31st, 1886.
 - DIED, at noon, on Saturday, of Consumption, Mrs. Rebecca Cordray, aged 31 years.  The remains were interred in the Lutheran cemetery on Sunday morning.
 - DEATH - Margaret Stroup, wife of James T. Stroup, was born May 21st, 1831, died, May 4th 1886, aged 54 years, 11 months and 13 days.  She united with the M. E. Church at the age of 15.  She moved in 1868, with her husband, to Holt county, Mo., and is a short time to Western -Kansas.  Although in her new home on the frontier, she was deprived of church privileges, which she had enjoyed in her native home, she did not forsake the cause she espoused while young.  There being no homes in which to worship, she opened her house for religious services of every kind and God's ministers were always welcome to share her hospitality.  She leaves a husband and six children to mourn the loss of a loving wife and mother.  The funeral services took place in the M. E. Church, at this place,  Sunday morning, Rev. L. M. Davis officiating.  The house was filled to overflowing by her many friends and relatives.

DUNN'S CHAPEL -
 - Misses Maggie and Lizzie Holladay, of Westboro, are the guests of Miss Ina Newell.