MADISON COUNTY OHIO - Newspaper Excerpts (June 9, 1886)
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Newspaper Excerpts from Madison County Democrat "Occurrences Here
and Elsewhere" June 9, 1886


The Plain City Dealer says that Chas. DeLeon of that place has received
a back pension of $900.

Fountain Park, Magnetic Springs, near Woodstock will be opened Thursday,
June 10th, with a grand time - music, roller skating and dancing.

That noble hero, General Durbin Ward, died in the arms of Thomas
Proctor, Lebanon's Democratic editor, who several years ago was foreman
of the Enterprise office, this place.

Martin Van Fleet, defaulting treasurer of Huron county, O., who
absconded two years ago with $65,000 of county funds, extradited at
Ottawa, Ontario, and returned to Norwalk, O.

John Millholland, the tile and brick maker at Plain City, got his hand
caught in a brick moulding machine Tuesday of last week and had it badly
mashed.  The machine had to be broken before the hand could be removed.

If Mrs. Margaret Arnold, who lives with her son, Henry Arnold, in Perry
Township, Pickaway county, lives until July 4th, she wil be 109 years of
age.  She was born in Augusta county, Va, and is well preserved for her
age.  Her eyesight is good, but her hearing is defective.

A locomotive engine at Bellaire exploded last Thursday killing Geo.
Johnson, John Vandevort and Matthew Hammond, engineers and fireman.  Two
of the men were blown from 200 to 300 yards and all were fearfully
mangled.  They lived in Newark.

Andrew Lellis, better known as "Bud" Lellis, a young blacksmith at
Catawba, attempted to jump from a north bound train at Mechanicsburg,
and get on a south bound train that stopped at Catawba Station.  He
misjudged the distance between the tracks and was struck by the
cow-catcher of the moving train and knocked under the wheels.  His right
leg and body were horribly mangled and he lived about three hours.  He
leaves a young wife and babe, the former being a sister of Mrs. Auditor
S.M. Prugh of this place.

Those Madison County taxpayers who pay over $10,000 personal taxes not
previously reported by us are:
Somerford - Schuyler Lewis, $21,320; J.B. Prugh, $11,360.  Pleasant -
David Heath, $14,017.  Paint - David Watson, $10,940; H.T. Strawbridge,
$10,000.  Darby - A.S. Morgridge, $19,925; J.B. Morgridge, $22,242; S.
Taylor, Sen., $11,510.  Range - John Fallestine, $10,640; Hewitt Bros.,
$13,775; W.A. Koontz, $18,200.  Pike - C. Phellis, Sen.,$35,602.  Stokes
- M.W. Corbitt, $12,400; Saml. Fralick, $12,190; R.L. Slaughter & Bro.,
$18,250.  Jefferson - Jas Davis, $14,200; T.B. Fellows, $16,410; C.C.
Jones, $17,310.  London, Second Ward - Simeon Brownell, $12,200.  Oak
Run - J. Rea & Son, $14,229; J.C. Smith, $11,227; John Pancake, $13,375;
A. Houk, $10,870.  Deercreek - E.G. Campbell, $12,000; Wm. Franklin,
$10,000; Gwynne heirs, $16,530; Messrs. Dun (Kilvert), $29,000; T.J.
Stutson, $11,850; Val H. Wilson, $18,950; James Wilson $13,650.  Union -
Fult. Armstrong, $18,080; W.H.H. Morgan, Agt., $12,120; John Thompson,
$77,263.  Canaan - M. Worthington, $13,410; Wm Wilson, $10,980;
Elizabeth Lane, by agent, $20,000; Alva Smith, $52,550; John Price,
$10,935; Thos. Kilbury, $26,055; I. Leonard, Agt., $12,500; same,
$11,000; Luther Lane, Agt., $21,731.

SCHOOL REPORTS

Report of Oak Run School, Sub District No. 1, Union Township, for the
second month of Spring term:
Whole number enrolled, 39; average daily attendance, 25.  Names of
pupils present every day:  Dick Anderson, Forest Lannon, Ores Sweet,
Willis Sweet, Artie Knott, Grace Terry, Dora Terry, Mary Terry, Jessie
Allen, Effie Allen.  Names of those present every day but one:  Lester
Anderson, Clyde Tingley, Bertha Sweet, Minnie Tingley, Mamie Welsh.    -
Nellie Paine, Teacher.

Report of Sub District No. 7, Union Township:
Number of pupils enrolled:  Boys, 8; Girls, 10; average daily
attendance, 16; per cent attendance, 93.  Names of pupils neither tardy
nor absent:  Bertha Rhoades, Libbit Truitt, Ora Timmons, Ernest
Cornwell, Norman Wilson, Pearl Wilson.  Names of pupils whose grades for
the monthly examination exceed 90 per cent:  Florence Turner, Josie
Rhoads, Leroy Cornwell, Libbie Truit, Belle Webb, Bertha Rhoads,
Lawrence Webb, Pearl Wilson, Ernest Cornwell, Esta Cornwell, Norman
Wilson, John Scarry.  - Lizzie Webb, Teacher.

Report of Noland School, Fairfield township, for the second month of Spring:
Whole number enrolled, 20; Average daily attendance 18; per cent of
daily attendance, 90.  Names of pupils averaging 200 per cent of
attendance - Amanda Gillham, Mertie Gillham, Lina Gillham, Lora Hull,
Katie Holland, Renie Noland, Lora Clark, Eddie Gillham, Frank Hall,
Harley Hastings, George Noland, and Charley Fisher. - J.W. O'Brien, Teacher.

Report of the school month beginning May 3d, Range township,
Sub-District No.4:
Number of pupils enrolled, 19, as follows:  Fannie Andrews, Bertha Hull,
Nettie Henry, Carrie Johnston, Eva Johnston, Essie Johnston, Cora
Johnston, Daisy Newman, Mytie Shepherd, Harry Baber, Joseph Gartner,
Harry Gartner, L.D. Lutes, Alvie Johnston, Floyd Johnston, Milton
Shepherd, Frank Shepherd, Edward Shepherd.  Average daily attendance for
the month, 17.


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