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The
health of the neighborhood is generally good. Edward Brooker has been
sick during the past week however.
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Mr.
and Mrs. Hiram Sikes spent Sunday at L. M. Sikes.
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James
Scott and Miss Flora Frowine, together with Mrs. Oberley and her daughter
Mrs. Leonard Conklin, spent Sunday after noon at L. M. Sikes.
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Miss
Cora Frowine was the guest of Miss Lena Dever Sunday.
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Henry
Frowine, of this place, is learning the barber trade under the guidance
of John Link, the Gallia street tonsorial artist of your city.
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Charles
H. Frowine, of Colorado, is visiting his parents of this place. Mr.
Frowine is the editor of the Manitou Springs Journal.
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Miss
Lena Dever of this place spent last week with her sisters Mrs. Ida Janetzky,
of Portsmouth.
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Mrs.
Emma Frowine and her husband, together with Mrs. Sadie Watkins, have been
visiting with their parents, Samuel Monroe and wife, the past week.
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Edmund
Cole has had a serious time with a gathering on his hand which was caused
by getting a splinter in that member, which probably went to the bone.
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The
K. of P. had called meeting Saturday evening for special business.
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J. M.
Shaner had repurchased his goods of Mr. Addis and is doing business for
himself at the old stand.
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The
administrator of the Mault estate and Isaac Wheeler, of Harrison Mills,
are having trouble over a note which Mr. Wheeler owes the estate.
Mr. Wheeler bought property at the administrator's sale, giving his note
therefore, which property he claims was misrepresented to his damage, and
now Mr. Wheeler refuses, to pay the note and they have had two hitches at
law over it. Saturday was set for trial, when I. J. Haney appeared
for the defense demanded a new suit and being overruled left, leaving everything
to the prosecution, who proceeded and got judgement. Mr. Haney will
now take it to court upon error. The trial, such as it was, was before
a jury, Squire A. Purtee presiding.
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Reading
the account in the letter from South Webster of the number of voters who
made oath, they could not properly mark their ballots, brings to mind out
experience with the amendments that were voted upon. The judge who
had charge of the ballots, after writing out several ballots for voters
and having them refuse to vote upon them, concluded he would ask every man
whether he wished to vote upon them or not. And in this way he found
to his surprise how few knew anything about that they they were to be voted
upon and much less about the amendments themselves. The judge and
one of the clerks put in the day faithfully explaining them, and when the
votes were counted out we had a fair showing but nothing to brag of.
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These
were the intelligent voters whom the Blade speaks of in so high
terms. Many of them have considerable property and it would be supposed
that they would study the tax amendment at least. But (to our surprise)
they knew so little about it that they were afraid to vote upon it for fear
it was political and they would vote against their political convictions.
They had evidently read nothing but the Blade and now they take
a sort of inward pride in themselves because the Blade tells them
they are too intelligent to be convicted by "hog wash."
But they will learn some day, probably, that that the Blade is
playing them for puppets and their ignorance is his gain. Cute is
Val to puff them up as to their intelligence. It is cheap lectioneering.