Resources & Prospects. The village is purely agricultural and has no ambition to be anything but what it is. The rural population that surround it look to Jerusalem to supply their wants and buy their surplus produce. Butter and eggs form no insignificant item in the commerce of the place, and being within two or three hours ride of a good market, always bring good prices. Splendid orchards afford most years a large surplus of fruit that is a consideralbe source of revenue to the farmers, and so brings money to the tills of the merchant and tradesmen of the village. The two great staples are wool and tobacco. The tobacco bought and packed here, furnishes employment to many hands for the greater part of the year and the money it brings adds much to the wealth of the country and to the trade of the merchants. "Sheep are shod with gold," and some of these, the finest flocks of the country are raised near the place. Add to these, the splendid crops of wheat, corn and hogs, produced in the neighborhood and you have, with the cattle and sheep annually shipped to market, all the elements for a prosperous community, and just in proportion to the prosperity of the farmers is that of the thriving little village built up at their demand. The outlook for the place is that these resources will increase with better cultivation of the lands and the increase of the rural population, reacting on the village in its steady growth and its increase of wealth and broadening of its limits. It will never be a great city and it has no such ambition. It were a pity to replace it with a noisy town, where red nosed policemen were necessary, walking the streets at night to care for its property or arrest its disorderly citizens. These things are incident to the mixed population of large towns. Here they can never have anything of the sort. Each man has known all his neighbors from infancy and has no suspicions of them. Generations have come and gone here, as many more will come and go, still Jerusalem will be only its ancient self, grown a little larger, along with its evergreen, that will for a long time shade the dwellings of the children of the people who now live here and cultivate a laudable pride in the beauty, order and contentment of their pretty village on the "divide." The Schools On the highest point in the town stands a little white cottage, with several gables. It has a porch on the front and the cornices and window frames are painted a dark color. The large grounds about the house are enclosed with a white picket fence. Well kept walks lead up to the doors, and the balance of the ground is covered with a sward of blue grass. The grounds are ornamented by several handsome Juniper trees. In summer flowers bloom in the door yard and in winter glimpses of geraniums and fuchsias blooming in the windows greet the eye of the passer-by. Nearer the street stands a smaller building, painted like the house but wanting its surrounding. You can see these from the depot at the railroad, and if you have not time to visit the town this house will serve as a type of a great many other houses just behind the eminence on which it stands, only, here the evergreens have not grown so large as some you will see on Church street. That is the house on the top of that knob and it is the residence of Dr. G. W. STEWARD and the small one to the left is his office. Dr. STEWARD is a native of Monroe county, just in his prime at 38 yrs of age. He was educated in the common schools of the county, and read medicine with Dr. McCULLOUGH, of Beallsville, graduated at Charity Hospital, Cleveland, in 1869. He first commenced practice in Stafford, Monroe county, Ohio but came the same year to Jerusalem. he represented Monroe county in the Sixty-fourth General Assembly. The doctor has eschewed politics and devoted all his time to his profession in which he has attained eminence. Dr. S.D. GRIFFITH Dr. GRIFFITH is a native of Virginia, and during the war entertained sentiments on political questions that were somewhat unpopular in his state. His father served in the Union army and on his return his neighbors made it unpleasant for him, so he came to Ohio the home political freedom. The doctor read medicine with his present partner, Dr. STEWARD, and has recently graduated at Sterling Medical College. He is just entering on the practice of medicine, with bright hopes and good promise of success. Eagle Mills. Milhone and Latham are proprietors of the flouring mills under the above name. Mr. MILHONE the senior member of the firm is a native of Belmont county and was born thirty-eight years ago. he learned his trade of miller with Henry MILHONE, on Captina, and came here in 1884, and built the mill he owns and operates in partnership with Jas. LATHAM. Mr. LATHAM learned what he knows of milling since his association with MILHONE here in 1886. Heis a Belmont county man and is in the prime of life. The engineer in the mill where he is now employed. The building stands in the little depression you cross in going to town from the railroad and on the west side of the street. It is a three story frame building 26 x 15 feet. The power to run the machinery is furnished by a 20 horse power engine. The machinery consists of two run of buhrs, one centrifugal reel and two flour bolts. The mill makes a speciality of custom work, buys wheat and grinds flour for the market found in the near by towns along the railroad. This is a valuable peice of property, for it is never idle and never will be so long as they maintain the excellent reputation for first-class work already established. The Merchants. J. C. GATCHELL, is a son of Robert GATCHELL who settled in Jerusalem in 1847, and has ever since been in trade here as a grocer or dealer in produce. A. J. C. GATCHELL is now only 45 years of age, he must have been but a small boy when his father started a grocery on Church street about forty years ago. Fifteen years ago he bough out A. WILEY who was doing business where W. J. MOORE now is, and began business as a merchant on his own account. Four years afterwards he took as a partner W. J. MOORE and they continued the business together for five years. Five years ago he began business at the depot on his own account. he was burned out in 1883, but rebuilt on a more expensive plan and took Mr. THRALL as a partner. He held the office of Postmaster 16 years, retiring in December, 1885, owing to a little difference of opinion on politics between himself and Postmaster General VILAS, of Washington, D. C. Mr. THRALL has lately withdrawn from the firm of GATCHELL & THRALL so that again James is thrown on his own resources. But he is equal to the emergency and with the experience of so many years is able to push forward to renewed success. The building he owns and occupies is a two story and basement frame, 40 x 50 feet. The room in which he keeps a stock of dry goods, notions, hats, boots, and shoes, is 20 x 40 feet. the ware-room, used for storage purposes and for goods in transit, is the same size except a small room in one corner is used as an office. The family lives upstairs over these two rooms and in the basement is kept the heavy goods, such as slat, lime, plows, and farm machinery generally. Long familiarity with the wants of the people enables Mr. GATCHELL to keep just what is wanted and his obliging manners secures him his share of the trade. Part #3 to follow