Celebration Arrangements Are Complete

The Marietta Daily Times, Wednesday, October 28, 1925:

A Hallowe'en celebration that will probably surpass affairs of its kind here will be held under the auspices of the Marietta Lions Club, Friday night on Second Street. An elaborate program has been arranged. This is the first Hallowe'en celebration to be given by the Lions club, and it will become an annual affair, if proper support is received from the people.

A parade will form on Second Street below Putnam at 7 o'clock. It will include the Marietta school band, the members of the Lions club and persons who will be masked. The line of march will be down Second to Greene, down Greene to Front, up Front to Putnam, up Putnam to Second and down Second past a judge's stand, where selection of the best fancy costume and comic costumes will be made. The judges are George W. Lansley, John H. Rennard, Ray Sprague, and Luther E. Toller. Prizes will be given the best costumed individuals. Fox News will take photographs of the party.

Following the parade, Second Street will be roped off into three sections. The first, from Putnam Street to the alley, will be used for modern dancing, and the Chrysler orchestra will furnish music. The second will be from the alley to the fountain, where Sam Farmer's band will play for the square dances. The third section will be from the fountain to the railroad tracks, where roller skating can be enjoyed. Crippen's orchestra will furnish the music there. Permission has been given by Mayor Sprague for throwing of confetti, which will be sold by college students.

As an added attraction for the big celebration, Tom Lowry, local artist, will give a chalk talk at the judge's stand.

A mystery man, who is to be a Lion from the Parkersburg club, will mingle in the crowd and the first person to ask him the question, "Are You the Mysterious Lion?" will be awarded $5 in gold. A Kennedy radio will be given away during the evening. The local club requests that persons who do not dance remain back of the ropes.

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The Marietta Daily Times, Monday, October 30, 1950:

Lions Club Holds 25th Annual Halloween Celebration Tuesday

Ghosts and goblins, black cats and witches, and just plain Halloween-loving kids form six to sixty will take over here Tuesday night as once again Marietta observes the merrymaking preceding All Saints Day.

Parties and "trick or treat" jaunts are scheduled all over the city and county, but the festivities will center around the annual parade of costumed celebrants.

Started 25 years ago by the Marietta Lions Club with the primary purpose of keeping youngsters out of malicious mischief, the parade has been enlarged through the years and this one will be the "best ever," according to Co-Chairman Tom L. Schwendeman. 

Four musical organizations - the Marietta High School Band, the Norwood Drum and Bugle Corps and the high school bands of Salem-Liberty and Waterford - will keep the parade stepping. The Tiger band will lead off behind a police escort and the Lion's cage, and the other three bands will be spotted among the costumed paraders. Several local Boy Scout troops will also participate in the parade.

Scheduled to start moving at 6:45 p.m., the parade will be marshalled at 6:15 at Putnam and Fourth streets. The parade route will be down Putnam Street past the judges' stand at Third and Putnam to Front Street, down Front to Greene Street, and then up Greene to Municipal Stadium. Final judging and awarding of cash prizes in 14 separate divisions will take place at the stadium.

Judges, named by the sponsoring Lions, are Miss Florence Hennis, Miss Barbara A. Breese, the Rev. Frank Nagy, Dr. R. D. Smith, and Maurice Mitchell.

Serving on the parade committee with Co-Chairmen Schwendeman and Brad Vrooman are Norman LaFaber, H. M. Taylor, John Trader, D. M. Winans, Robert Hausser, Neil Christy, Leonard Ogle, Dr. H. Lester Krieg, Ted Angel, Dr. Harold W. Oyster, James Stowe, T. H. Mehlberg, Leigh Smith and Dr. W. L. Sackett.

 

Some Reminiscences of the Pioneers

 The Marietta Register, June 19, 1873

It is to be regretted that perfect lists of the early settlers at Marietta have not been preserved. We have lists of those who resided in Campus Martius, the garrison at the Point, and in Fort Harmar at the commencement of the Indian war in 1791. Of the period which followed the war we have a very imperfect record of names.

Among those who, I suppose, came out after the war was Dr. Robert Wallace of Philadelphia, with his family. The exact time of his coming to Marietta we do not know. He was an intelligent physician. He had three sons and three daughters. 

The eldest son was the Rev. Matthew Wallace, a Presbyterian clergyman. He married Deborah, daughter of Dr. Joseph Spencer of Wood County, Virginia. The second son, Dr. David Wallace, was unmarried when he left Marietta. The youngest son was Robert; he was a young man when the family left here. Robert was living, a short time since, in Covington, Kentucky, where he has resided for many years. One of Dr. Wallace's daughters married Charles Green; another married the Hon. Jacob Burnet, formerly of Cincinnati. The youngest daughter was unmarried at the time they left Marietta. She probably married afterward in Cincinnati. The exact time of Dr. Wallace's removal from Marietta to Cincinnati, I do not know - probably 1809. 

Two of the oldest houses in town were built by Dr. Wallace while he resided here. The first is now occupied by Mrs. Smith, tobacconist, on Ohio Street opposite the wharf boat. He resided in this house for some years and kept his office in the front room. After this he built the lower part of what is known as the "Brophy House" on Ohio Street. Here he lived for several years previous to leaving Marietta. The Doctor was well known in Cincinnati.

Charles Greene

Mr. Greene came to Marietta, probably in the latter part of 1788 or early in 1789. He built a house in what was known as Campus Martius, on the Stockade, in which he resided during the Indian war with his wife and his three children, Sophia, Susan, and Charles. His wife's sister, Miss Sheffield, resided with them. She afterwards married Major Ziegler of Wayne's army (who settled in Dayton, Ohio). Mr. Greene was one of the earlier merchants of Marietta and was also engaged, after 1800, in building sea-going vessels: in 1800, brig "St. Clair"; in 1801, brig "Eliza Green"; in 1806, brig "Sophia Green." The brig "St. Clair" went out in the spring of 1801 under the command of Commodore Whipple. She was owned by Mr. Greene and several other businessmen of Marietta and was loaded with flour, pork, and other produce.

Her first voyage was to Havana, where her cargo sold to advantage. Flour brought forty dollars a barrel (the duty was twenty). The yellow fever raged in Havana and hindered their operations somewhat. The next voyage of the vessel was to Philadelphia, where she was sold.

During the continuance of the Territorial Government from 1788 to the organization of the State Government in 1803, there was no registration of marriages; but, as I understand, the second wife of Mr. Greene was Miss Wallace, the daughter of Dr. Robert Wallace. Capt. W. W. Greene who died at St. Louis on the 16th of April, 1873, was their son.

Mr. Greene, while living in Marietta, built a house on Ohio Street, afterwards occupied by Moses McFarland as a public house. A portion of it is still standing. Part of it was torn away to build a three-story brick for Skinner & Thomas. Mr. Greene's eldest son settled at Dayton at an early period and was killed in an unfortunate street fray.

A.T.N. [Anselm Tupper Nye, 1832-1899]