tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68557214627798625592024-03-27T05:14:32.196-04:00Historical Marietta, OhioOld Marietta Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642102606711358964noreply@blogger.comBlogger1032125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855721462779862559.post-40778774497411796402024-03-27T05:14:00.001-04:002024-03-27T05:14:00.160-04:00Rain Heavy and General Streams Up<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><i>Marietta Daily Times, </i>Saturday, March 29, 1924:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The heavy rains of Friday night have caused the Ohio River and its upper tributaries to rise, and big stages are in sight for both the Ohio and Muskingum. The Muskingum is putting out a large volume of water, the rainfall at Zanesville having been heavy - the government gauge registering 2.18 inches in 12 hours. The stage of water at Zanesville was recorded as 21-1/2 feet and rising at the rate of 9 inches an hour at 9 o'clock Saturday morning.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The rainfall at Pittsburgh was .90 of an inch, and the stage there was 15-1/2 feet and rising at 10 o'clock Saturday morning. The rainfall was general over the Ohio Valley. The Marietta gauge showed 25 feet and rising Saturday morning. The rainfall for Friday night was 1.40 inches locally.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Traffic and bus service were interfered with Saturday morning on account of the overflow of Duck Creek, which inundated the highway above Whipple and between Lower Salem and Warner. Several feet of water covered the road at these points. The Pennsylvania track was inundated at Schramm's crossing, but not sufficiently to hold up the train service. The water receded during the day.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Storm Causes Heavy Damage</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Rural sections of Washington County, especially in the northern and western parts, were hard hit by the storm that swept southeastern Ohio during Friday night and early Saturday morning, and heavy damage was done, especially to the public roads.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In the vicinity of Rockland, the storm assumed almost cloudburst proportions and tore away a new fill and concrete culvert that had been put in on highway No. 7 during the fall and winter. Engineers were sent to the scene on Saturday, to determine the loss and to devise ways of making repairs.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In the vicinity of Lowell the rainfall was especially heavy and the Cat's Creek valley was swept more severely than in Many years. The creek reached the highest stage of which there is any record, and bridges and culverts in that section suffered heavily.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><i>Marietta Daily Times</i>, Monday, March 31, 1924:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Crest Will Be Reached On Tuesday</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">At 2 o'clock on Monday afternoon, the gauge in the Ohio river at the foot of Second Street showed 37.3 feet, and the rate of rise for the previous two hours had been 1-1/4 inches per hour. This would indicate that Marietta would have very close to a 38 foot stage when the crest is reached. It may possibly exceed that figure a trifle.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Between 7 and 10 a.m. on Monday, the rate of rise at Marietta had been three inches per hour. Then it began slowing up slightly and by noon the rise was not more than two inches per hour, which continued to lessen during the next two hours.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Ohio was falling as far down as Dam No. 12 above Wheeling at noon on Monday, and a crest stage of 40.5 feet had been recorded at Wheeling, which is a few miles below Dam 12. The Muskingum was falling during almost its entire length. The crest was reached at Zanesville on Sunday afternoon at 23.1 feet. The Wills creek water, however, was expected to make the rate of fall slow for the next 12 hours at least.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Howe's Prediction</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">At noon on Monday, Director Howe of the Parkersburg weather station predicted a crest stage of between 39 and 40 feet for Marietta, to be reached early Tuesday. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">At the same hour the Marietta wharf boat was advising the public that a crest stage would be reached around 39 feet.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Past Ohio River flood experience has shown that the Ohio at Marietta will continue to rise for 18 hours after it reaches a crest at Wheeling. Therefore, it is reasonable to expect that the rise here will continue until early Tuesday forenoon.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">While 36 feet is generally recognized as the danger line in Marietta, the city can stand over 37 feet without serious damage. After that each mounting inch of water counts severely in the lower sections of the city, and once the 39 foot mark is reached, many houses will have to be abandoned.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Part of the City Flooded</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Much of that section of Marietta east of Greene and Seventh streets was inundated early Monday. Water was in some of the houses in the low grounds, while along the higher strip close to the river, the streets were being shut off. Just before noon on Monday, the flood crept across lower Third Street below Greene. At the same time, both Second and Third streets had been shut off between Greene and Butler streets.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Along upper Front Street and above the fair grounds, the waters also were approaching some of the houses, while along Gilman Street, from Lancaster to the corporation line, and along Virginia from Franklin toward Mile Run, all traffic had been blocked.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Front Street Level</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A stage of 38.5 feet will put water on Front Street in the vicinity of Union Street, and but little more will be required to bring it into the gutters at Front and Monroe streets.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Street car traffic to Norwood was to be abandoned on Monday afternoon, but bus lines were operating to that section by way of Putnam and Seventh streets.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Official readings from the weather bureau at 10 o'clock on Monday were: Franklin, 9.1, falling; Parker's, 9.5, falling; Lock 7, 31.8, falling; Pittsburgh, 25.1, falling; Beaver Dam, 37, falling; Lock 12, 38.4, rising; Lock 13, 42.4, rising; Zanesville, 22.8, falling, 3 inches; Marietta, 36.8, rising.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><i>Marietta Daily Times, </i>Tuesday, April 1, 1924:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Flood Reaches Crest Early Tuesday With 39.1 Feet.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Water Now Falling At This Point.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Good Portion of Marietta Inundated But Damage Is Slight.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Street and Rail Traffic Held Up.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Believed Conditions Will Be Back to Normal On Wednesday.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Having reached a stage of 39.1 feet at Marietta, the flood of 1924 is passing into history today. By early Wednesday, unless the unforeseen happens, the streets of the city should be free of water and business should be normal.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Reports at the Marietta wharf boat Tuesday afternoon were to the effect that the Ohio River had fallen 5.5 feet at Pittsburgh, Pa., and 5 feet at Wheeling, W.Va., and that the Muskingum River had fallen 1.5 feet at Zanesville. No rainfall was reported.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">During all of Monday afternoon and night, the waters of the Ohio advanced with diminishing speed until just after 3 o'clock on Tuesday morning, when they became stationary. Until shortly before 6 o'clock, they stood without perceptible change, then began to fall and by 5 o'clock, two hours later, had dropped away .2 of a foot. As the day wore on the rate of fall increased.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A good portion of the city was covered by the water on Monday night and Tuesday morning, and some sections that were not flooded were marooned and traffic was blocked. Second Street from Butler to the river was flooded, and much of that section to the east as far away as the corporation line was under water. Front Street, both above and below Butler, was flooded, but none of the store floors between Butler and Greene were wet.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Water in Some Stores</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Along Front from about the line of the Leader Store to a point above Union, the sidewalks were flooded and a number of the stores had water in them, some having as much as five or six inches.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Four of the city schools, dismissed on Monday, were still closed on Tuesday, but were expected to resume work on Wednesday at the regular hour. The water did not reach the floors of the buildings, but shut off the basement heating plants at Pike, Willard, Harmar and Putnam. Pike and Willard buildings were surrounded by water.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Railroads Handicapped</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">All railroads entering Marietta were handicapped to a greater or less extent. The B. & O. from this city to Belpre was cut off at several points, and there was water over the rails both on Butler Street and in West Marietta. The Pennsylvania lines were under water from the station at Second Street as far out as the old Fultonburg yards. Trains on this road established a temporary terminal east of Seventh Street. The interurban lines were shut off along the Muskingum division, and the city lines were cut off both on Greene, Front and Second streets.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Johnboats and other high water craft were numerous in certain portions of the city. They were out in large numbers along lower Second and Greene streets and through the east end. There was not sufficient water over Front Street to bring them into that territory. Boatmen ferried passengers to and from the Ohio River bridge.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Many Use Automobiles</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Many business men in the downtown sections patronized the bus lines and the various taxi companies, and automobiles forced their way through the muddy waters. Occasionally one of them would get beyond its depth. Then the motor would stop and a towing job would be in order. In a few instances these stalled cars were abandoned where they stopped.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Mail deliveries in many sections of the city were held up by the waters but should be back to normal on Wednesday. Rural carriers out of Marietta were held up on several of the routes.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In that section of the city above Putnam Street, water was on the streets at Scammel and Third, Wooster and Second, and along upper Front Street, but few if any of the houses were inconvenienced except that their cellars and basements were flooded.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Aside from loss of business, Marietta will not suffer to any great extent from the 1924 flood.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Bridge Floor Has Blown Up</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Traffic over the Marietta-Cambridge pike will be handicapped until temporary repairs can be made on the Mill Creek bridge, above the Children's Home, where the floor "blew up" on Monday afternoon. It was a wood block floor and after being under water for nearly 24 hours, the blocks apparently swelled to such an extent that they buckled and were forced out.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A considerable number of the wood blocks thus liberated, floated away in the flood, and this will necessitate the ordering of new material before the repair work can be completed. It is expected that as soon as the water leaves the road at that point, temporary planking can be put down.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">State highway engineers stated on Tuesday that plans will be undertaken soon to replace this bridge with a modern concrete arch span. The old bridge is too narrow for heavy traffic and one of the piers has settled so that the structure is out of line.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As far as state and county engineers knew on Tuesday, no other highway bridge in the county had been damaged by the flood.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>Old Marietta Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642102606711358964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855721462779862559.post-31384290250805795712024-03-20T05:35:00.001-04:002024-03-20T05:35:00.135-04:00Some Valuable Additions<div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Marietta Daily Leader</i>, April 7, 1899</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Mr. George Weiser, the undertaker, has made some very valuable additions to his business equipment in the way of wagons for the conduct of business.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">He has had the home firm of J. H. Oesterle, the Wooster Street carriage builders, make for him a casket wagon or ambulance which in point of design and style of finish is much the finest that has ever been seen here. It is quite an innovation in the way of a casket wagon, as it has large plate glass panels in the sides and ends and is thoroughly up-to-date in every particular, being constructed of the very best material known to the carriage builder.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The other addition is a funeral car, which was purchased from the Riddle Coach and Hearse Co., of Ravenna, O., who made the shipment of the car to Mr. Weiser in a car of their own. In order to get the hearse into this car it was necessary to take off the regular wheels and put on a set of smaller ones to allow it to enter the freight car. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It has a very massive and elegantly carved body, everything being of the heaviest and best wood obtainable. The workmanship is perfect. The wheels are equipped with rubber tires and the bearings are of the latest improved pattern, which makes them very easy running. There is no doubt that the car is the finest in this section of the state.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Mr. Weiser has been to great expense in getting these very handsome additions to his equipment and can feel justly proud of the selections he made when ordering the vehicles.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>Old Marietta Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642102606711358964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855721462779862559.post-85242208350627620232024-03-13T06:17:00.001-04:002024-03-14T18:26:14.013-04:00Cars Are Hit By a Runaway on Putnam Street<div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Marietta Daily Times</i>, April 29, 1922</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">When he suddenly concluded to run away, a large bay horse owned by the American Railway Express company and driven by Walter Mugrage, created a sensation on Putnam Street Saturday afternoon. Incidentally the runaway mashed up a new Maxwell car parked in front of The Times office, wrecked a Chevrolet car in front of the court house, and knocked about a ton of mud off a Ford on Second Street. The "Lizzie" was the only one of the three to escape damage.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Murgrage left the horse standing on Third Street while he delivered a shipment to the Marietta Laundry. The animal was eating grass at the curb when, without any further ceremony, he bolted. Rounding into Putnam Street on a dead run, the express wagon careened into the Maxwell car, smashing up two fenders and a hub cap. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">By this time, the runaway was "just hitting the high spots" so to speak, and the Chevrolet was sideswiped with telling effect. Fenders and running board were ripped away. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Turning down Second Street, the flying horse swung the wagon against the rear end of a Ford that was parked at the curb, spilled part of the freight out of the express wagon, and never even made a mark on the Ford. From there to the Union Depot, the runaway followed an open course, stopping in his accustomed place alongside of the train shed.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">T. N. Fenn, agent of the American Railway Express, is preparing to settle up the damages, and in the meantime a score or more of people are thanking their lucky stars that they were able to get to places of safety when they saw the runaway coming. This is the second time that the horse has run away recently, he having upset the wagon when he started the first time.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></div>Old Marietta Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642102606711358964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855721462779862559.post-22717320341929783342024-03-06T05:22:00.001-05:002024-03-06T05:22:00.150-05:00Historic Spots Marked<div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The Marietta Times</i>, December 17, 1891</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Marietta, Ohio, November 20, 1891.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">To the New Century Historical Society:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Your committee appointed at a recent meeting of the Society, to mark historical spots in and around Marietta, in attempting to discharge this duty, have found themselves surrounded with difficulties innumerable, and in this report, which is respectfully submitted, they but offer the results of broken history in support of their conclusions.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The <i>Well at Fort Harmar</i>, which for years has been disappearing in consequence of the crumbling of the river bank and the innovations of man, after diligent search was identified, and unmistakably marked by being covered at its mouth by an immense mill stone.*</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The place of the <i>Landing of the Pioneers April 7, 1788</i>, (to one of your committee pointed out by one of that number, Amos Porter, many years since), was as nearly marked as possible, and the marking was as follows: An iron rod one inch in diameter and three feet eight inches in length, was driven even with the surface of the ground, near the mouth of Monroe street, on the bank of the Muskingum river, on the lower side of the gully, 71 feet from the southwest corner of the Dudley Devol house, which point is 10 degrees E of N from the iron rod. From the iron rod to the upper corner of the Nye Foundry, 122 feet 4 inches in southeast direction. The iron rod was placed 33 feet 2 inches in a direct line to outer curb of pavement 20 degrees northeast.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Picketed Point</i> - Marked as follows: An <i>iron rod, </i>three feet eight inches long, driven even with the surface of the ground at the <i>southwest corner</i>, near the confluence of the rivers. This rod placed near the centre of the road now traveled, 122 feet 4 inches, 15 degrees W of N from the lower corner of office of Nye Foundry.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The southeast corner, marked by iron rod drive in landing 58 feet from the west corner of the Flat Iron Corner store house built and formerly owned by Dudley Woodbridge (near Boiler Corner); direction from rod 15 degrees west of north.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The northeast corner, marked as other corners, is back of the Ebinger building, now occupied by Mr. Sulzbacher, 90 feet from the east line of Front street, 12 feet 6 inches from the northeast corner of building, 106 feet from the south line of Butler street.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The <i>northwest corner</i>, marked by iron rod placed near Muskingum river bank 106 feet south of south line of Butler, 36 feet west of building.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">For a more full account of the subject matter treated in this report, inquiring minds are referred to the invaluable work of Dr. S. P. Hildreth, entitled Pioneer History, published in 1848.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Your committee would respectfully ask further time for investigation, and to be allowed in the future to report upon other points of interest.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Committee:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">George M. Woodbridge</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">William H. Leeper</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">J. D. Cadwallader</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Note - *This is the stone spoken of as follows in Delafield's Washington County History in 1831, page 28: "In making a pair of mill stones out of a block from a quarry in Salem township, there were discovered the marks of some ancient working of the same stone, and on penetrating to the depth of a few inches, there was an iron wedge discovered, firmly imbedded in the rock. The stone with this wedge in it is now the upper mill stone in Mr. Merriam's mill in Salem township." Mr. M. in after years removed his mill to the Muskingum near mouth of Bear Creek, and this stone in 1887 was taken from the river by Capt. Sayre, Sidney Ridgway and G. M. Woodbridge.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>Old Marietta Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642102606711358964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855721462779862559.post-16744411809689242562024-02-28T05:06:00.002-05:002024-02-28T05:06:00.129-05:00Local Movie Pleases Big Audiences<div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The Marietta Daily Times</i>, July 24, 1928</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Marietta had a real Hollywood setting for its first local comedy movie that was shown at the Hippodrome theatre on Monday afternoon and evening. Large crowds attended the showing of "Marietta's Hero," with Tom Battin, Alice Yost, Frank Buckley, Orien Hiett, Howard Clark and Roma Morgenstern as the principal characters in the United Photoplay Producers picture, the scenario acted and filmed under the direction of Corey Cook last week.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">All of the local people, including scores of citizens who were incidental actors in the picture, played their parts well. Tom Battin, the hero, as Jimmy Ryan, the policeman, was exceptionally good, his action in the plot bringing him into many scenes, one of which was the thrilling capture of a bandit who robbed Wittlig's jewelry store.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Times had a part in the picture, the newspaper a medium for the broadcasting of events, as they were acted. The scenes in the picture were followed up closely by the reporter-actor, Howard Clark, who landed the scoop for the paper in reporting the robbery that was important enough to require an "extra." The film early in the scenes showed him loafing on the job in the news room when he was virtually "kicked out" by Editor Tom O'Donnell, who started him out on his beat.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">There was plenty of comedy and romance. The scenes were laid in different parts of Marietta, the "Anchorage," the home of Edward McTaggart, entering largely into the setting. The plot was thrilling. The acting centered about Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jones, played by Frank Buckley and Miss Orien Hiett, the first scene the rear dooryard of the McTaggart home, the home of Jones the hen-pecked husband, and wife. He has a letter from a cousin who is leaving for South America, stating that she is sending "Baby Mary" to him on the next train. Difficulties begin when he goes to the Pennsylvania railroad station for the baby.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Arriving on the same train with the "baby" (who is a grown-up flapper acted by Alice Yost) is "Lizzie Wiggins" (Roma Morgenstern), a cousin of Mrs. Jones. In the meantime Jones, after meeting Jimmy Ryan and the reporter in front of Beagle's drug store, goes down Putnam Street with the policeman and in front of the Corner drug store he is introduced to John Boyle, who gives the policeman a nice fat cigar which he pockets. The trio are seen going down Front Street to the Marietta Furniture store where Jones buys a baby buggy for "Baby Mary's" transportation home.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The scene at the Pennsylvania station was climaxed when "Baby Mary" makes herself known to Jones and the pair walk off for a look over the city. Lizzie Wiggins, with her roller skates in hand, was amazed to see Mary walking away with her cousin's husband, and hastens to tell Mrs. Jones of her "chicken chasing" husband. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The hen-pecking wife and her cousin on roller skates go after the pair whom they spy on Front Street, below the railroad track. Jones and "Baby Mary" run up Greene Street to Seventh, dodging up by the Chair Company plant and "Goebel Place," where they are followed by the irate wife.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Jones and "Baby Mary" finally get down on Greene Street, where in order to get away from Mrs. Jones, he buys an automobile in which he starts up Front Street. Mrs. Jones and Lizzie get Raymond Lane, of the Lorentz garage, to drive them after the fleeing Jones. The chase leads along City Park, up Sacra Via and down Third. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">A rube in overalls (Francis Seeley), who is standing in Sacra Via park, is scraped by Mrs. Jones' car and he loses his overalls. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The chase ends at Second and Putnam streets, where the new car of Jones is smashed in a collision with the bandit car. There the climax of the picture takes place. Jimmy, the policeman, and the reporter are on the job and, with the arrest of the bandit, the reporter writes his story, a second scene in The Times editorial rooms.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The bandit, "Deck" Davis, is seen coming out of the Wittlig store covering everyone with his "gat." He holds up John Boyle and commandeers his automobile. John takes a passing car and gives chase, along with the policeman, and everything and everybody is rounded up at the wreck scene.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Following the family reconciliations, the scenes shift to the stage of the Hippodrome. Mrs. Jones sends "Lizzie" to be cleaned up at the St. Clair beauty parlor. The scenes then shift to The Anchorage, where Clark calls on "Baby Mary." The loaded cigar that had been given by the policeman to the reporter is innocently handed to Jones, as is also The Times, with the glaring headlines about the robbery. While Clark is courting Mary, the cigar explodes, and the reporter is kicked out, and seen tumbling end over end down the terrace of the McTaggart premises. The policeman slips in and courts Mary while Lizzie lets Clark know that "she might let him pay her board."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>Old Marietta Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642102606711358964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855721462779862559.post-82464256396759635252024-02-21T05:42:00.001-05:002024-02-21T05:42:00.135-05:00Pianoforte, Furniture &c.<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The Marietta Intelligencer</i>, September 10 1846</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">N. Cram will offer at his residence at Private Sale from 2 to 4 o'clock P.M. on the two last days of this week, being about to relinquish House Keeping.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Pianoforte, High Post Bed Steads, screw & swelled beams, low and Cot beams, Dining and Breakfast Tables, Carpets, Wash Stands, large hair Mattress, Looking Glasses, Mahogany hair-cloth stuffed Easy Chair, Nurse Chair, Scroll top Grecian cane bottomed Chairs, Side Saddle, Cook Stove, Copper Boiler &c. "Cook's favorite," Iron Ware, Hot Air Stove with Urn, Sett Bed Curtains, hair covered Sofa Bed, Barrel Molasses, Bag Coffee, 1/2 barrel Sugar, 1/4 barrel No. 2 Mackerel, &c. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Terms Cash under $100, over that sum, six months satisfactory notes.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></div>Old Marietta Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642102606711358964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855721462779862559.post-9243531911519452852024-02-14T05:42:00.001-05:002024-02-14T05:42:00.134-05:00Education in Marietta<div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Marietta Gazette</i>, February 28, 1835</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Marietta, at this time, affords advantages for educating the young and rising generation, equal to any town of its size in the great west. We have a regularly incorporated College, on the manual labor system, with able and experienced professors, and well attended by scholars. A Female Seminary, the teachers in which it would be supererogation in us to praise. A school under the management of the Rev. J. T. Wheat, the worthy pastor of the Episcopal Church; and several common schools, all of which are in successful operation.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The town is healthy, boarding cheap, and the society equally moral and intelligent with that of any town. Parents and guardians would no doubt find it greatly to their interest to examine the seminaries of learning in Marietta before sending their children and wards to any other place. The Ohio river, and two or three different lines of stages, give all the requisite means of conveyance for those who wish to come from distant parts of the country.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>Old Marietta Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642102606711358964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855721462779862559.post-45647456092578589142024-02-07T05:55:00.002-05:002024-02-07T05:55:00.373-05:00County Jail Empty Only Once in Last Four Years<div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Marietta Daily Times</i>, December 14, 1922</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Seventeen prisoners took breakfast on Thursday morning at the county jail and immediately thereafter John W. Britton, a bootlegger, was given a new pair of shoes and his liberty. He kept his agreement to leave Washington county and took the first train for Chillicothe where his home is located. Britton was arrested in a raid staged at Reno one night last summer and had served an even four months in jail. He was sent up by Mayor Sandford.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Eight of the seventeen men and boys in jail on Thursday morning are doing time for violating the different provisions of the Crabbe act and a majority of them have been sent over from the court of the mayor. Fred "Blinky" Hendershot is the "dean of the prison," having been confined for almost six months. He was sent up by Mayor Sandford on the 26th of June and his time will not be up until some time in February, if he serves it all.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">When Sheriff Roberts came into office four years ago, the outgoing sheriff turned over to him seventeen prisoners. Within a few days that number was reduced and on Thanksgiving Day of 1920 the prison was entirely empty and the big doors stood open. They continued that way for two weeks, during which Sheriff Roberts spent several days at his Waterford township farm. Then the juvenile court committed a delinquent boy to the jail and it is recalled that he made a vain attempt to destroy the courthouse and jail by setting fire to his bed.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">From that until the present time the prison never has been empty and the number of prisoners has fluctuated, dropping to a bare half-dozen, then climbing back to seventeen. About a year go, on the day that Sheriff Roberts took a party of eight boys to the Mansfield reformatory, the number of prisoners on the books mounted to eighteen, but several of them did not enter the jail, merely coming to the sheriff's office to surrender. Therefore, seventeen is the high record for the past four years - a number that has been twice attained.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>Old Marietta Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642102606711358964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855721462779862559.post-61693868019165512262024-01-31T05:53:00.001-05:002024-01-31T05:53:00.134-05:00Milliner & Mantua Maker<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The Marietta Intelligencer</i>, October 29, 1846</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Miss Ellen Young respectfully informs the Ladies of Marietta and Harmar that she is ready to commence the above named business at her Residence on 5th street, East of the College, at the house of M. Deterly, where she can be found at all times by those who choose to favor her with their custom. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">She intends to have on the newest Eastern Fashions.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">All orders from the country shall receive immediate attention.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">N.B. She will also attend to Embroidery and plain sewing.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Marietta</i> Oct. 14, 1846.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja4U_yoRLr0r54-BYPJWlOxjkqSLTsDULXhUQ1MYgqTetAW_xzrZqee5w62zPpmM-mGGvsdTXRxHUEyxuXsnlnhLgtSDcDvWmBA3wW65462PqwAS_1JbZZaSDz5YqiZZOTCu0ZhyphenhyphenbQGHxDG36v79skF0EbwoIR0reWgfjh8gGPPrteuC9VcI3B4ja286c/s2434/1846-10-29_TheMariettaIntelligencer_p3_MillinerAndMantuaMaker.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2060" data-original-width="2434" height="339" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja4U_yoRLr0r54-BYPJWlOxjkqSLTsDULXhUQ1MYgqTetAW_xzrZqee5w62zPpmM-mGGvsdTXRxHUEyxuXsnlnhLgtSDcDvWmBA3wW65462PqwAS_1JbZZaSDz5YqiZZOTCu0ZhyphenhyphenbQGHxDG36v79skF0EbwoIR0reWgfjh8gGPPrteuC9VcI3B4ja286c/w400-h339/1846-10-29_TheMariettaIntelligencer_p3_MillinerAndMantuaMaker.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>Old Marietta Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642102606711358964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855721462779862559.post-84526583122921711692024-01-24T05:58:00.001-05:002024-01-24T05:58:00.133-05:00The Barque "Muskingum"<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Marietta Intelligencer</i>, January 30, 1845</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Barque "Muskingum," a single deck vessel of 250 tons burden, Custom House measurement, was launched from the Marietta Ship Company's Yard on the 24th Inst. The Muskingum is a beautiful modeled vessel, nearly one hundred feet in length, twenty-five in breadth, and twelve feet hold. She is built of the best quality of white oak and black locust timber. Her plank are of clear white oak, & her ceiling is also entirely white oak, three inches in thickness. Her wales &c. are of white oak, four by seven inches, sixty feet in length. Her treenails are locust, and she is very heavily copper fastened. The deck floor is of clear white pine. The three lower masts are of white pine, eighteen inches through, and her spars of hard pine.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The master builder, Capt. Ira Ellis, of Portland, Maine, was employed by the day, and his instructions to have her equal in strength and finish to <i>the best</i> vessels built at eastern ports, he has endeavored faithfully to observe. <i>All</i> the men employed in her construction have been hired by the day, and thus all temptation to slight any part of the work has been removed. The manner in which their work has been done, given gratifying evidence of their skill and fidelity.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Her riggers are Messrs. Francis & William Lowe of Boston. Her rigging is of the best domestic hemp, spun at Marietta and Pittsburgh, steamlaid.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The "Muskingum" will leave Marietta about the first of March, under command of Capt. William R. Wells of Portland, Maine. She will be freighted at Cincinnati for either Liverpool or Boston. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The vessel is owned by some half a dozen business men of Marietta, and so flattering is the promise of a profitable return for their enterprize, that the Company contemplate building more, and perhaps larger vessels, during the present year.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>Old Marietta Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642102606711358964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855721462779862559.post-36064644987212943352024-01-17T06:37:00.001-05:002024-01-17T09:50:22.474-05:00Snowball Fun<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Marietta Intelligencer</i>, January 13, 1857</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">We witnessed a scene in front of our office this morning, which recalled most vividly our boyhood's days in the long snowy winters of New England. Invited by the mildness of the morning and the peculiar adaptedness of the snow for snowballing, an editor and a couple of merchants tried their hands at this sport and made a target of each other's heads. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The doors and shops and sidewalks were soon filled with eager spectators of the sight. The excitement rapidly increased; one, and then another, and another entered the lists, until very soon the street was full of men turned boys again, each one fighting on his own hook.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Here was a hardware dealer disputing his ground manfully with the man of leather and prunella; there a jeweler pouring in the grape, cold, but heavy, upon the head and shoulders of his neighbor of the "fancy goods" trade. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Yonder, Mynhear Editor, bare-headed, sustaining a shower of balls that made his raven-like hair as hoary white as if frosted with three score and ten winters, while he in turn filled every orifice of his adversary's caput with the pasty snow. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Here again was the vendor of pills and patent medicines in close embrace with his friend of the Furnishing Depot, rolling each over and over in the snow, and each anxious to wash the other's face as he came uppermost in the tussle. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">There a Democrat and a Republican pitching into each other "like a thousand of brick," throwing heavier balls and with more effect in this mimic fight than in the real battle of November last. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">And thus the fight raged for half an hour, when, exhausted and breathless, the forces drew off to repair damages and recuperate their wasted energies. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">It was a rich scene, the like of which we have not witnessed for many a year, and which in all probability will not be repeated during our lifetime.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">About six inches of snow fell last night. The weather is quite mild to-day, cloudy and threatening rain. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>Old Marietta Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642102606711358964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855721462779862559.post-23847140296316855812024-01-10T05:52:00.001-05:002024-01-10T05:52:00.148-05:00A $6,000 Performance<div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Marietta Daily Times</i>, October 9, 1913</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Admitting that it is unkind to call attention to the city's experience with the late lamented pontoon bridge when the city administration, particularly Director Meisenhelder, is trying so hard to let the public forget it, our excuse is that it cost the people $6,000 and they are interested in it to that extent.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The bridge disappeared almost before the public had become familiar with it. In the first place, the apron at the west approach was so arranged that when a heavy rain came, water ran down the approach and into the boats, sinking a section of the bridge. Then a real storm came during the night. For three or four hours after daylight the following morning there was opportunity for making the bridge secure, for the water came up gradually. But nothing was done until the river was a raging torrent Then there was no use in attempting to do anything. The bridge was carried out and dashed to pieces.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">If there was any other responsibility for this than his own, Director Meisenhelder has never taken the public into his confidence, and consequently the people hold him responsible, for he is the head of the department.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This is a sample of the sort of management the city has had for the past three years. The men who have been performing such $6,000 disappearing "stunts" for the people are working energetically for the election of Col. Riley. They seem to think they know where they will be after the election if he is elected. If the people want a change they can get it by defeating Riley by voting for David Okey.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkkgueWuQhtqfpIlPwZdIMKrpGsDGvWIMZc6wxkwooSVUMX7TNnLTX-tVGH7t2YLfU0onlYOPHmDcn9lyFe0onjkOlslmt0Dk7NWFfz-qnykLUKdPcOCYtLiF5uAMdcpzCcCMWLhexhnxDOXbyRHttT3bdhyphenhyphenYN_fpGAmQuwn1uqq4Pt0pu7xtO-W_YARc/s714/Pontoon%20Bridge_1913.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="543" data-original-width="714" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkkgueWuQhtqfpIlPwZdIMKrpGsDGvWIMZc6wxkwooSVUMX7TNnLTX-tVGH7t2YLfU0onlYOPHmDcn9lyFe0onjkOlslmt0Dk7NWFfz-qnykLUKdPcOCYtLiF5uAMdcpzCcCMWLhexhnxDOXbyRHttT3bdhyphenhyphenYN_fpGAmQuwn1uqq4Pt0pu7xtO-W_YARc/w400-h304/Pontoon%20Bridge_1913.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Following the destruction of Marietta's Putnam Street Bridge during the Flood of 1913, a temporary pontoon bridge was built across the Muskingum.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div>Old Marietta Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642102606711358964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855721462779862559.post-23871069205879745052024-01-03T05:41:00.002-05:002024-01-03T05:41:00.260-05:00Attempt to Swindle<div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Marietta Intelligencer</i>, January 2, 1845</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A few days since a stranger called at the Grocery of one of our citizens, Mr. Lindner, and pretending to have a large quantity of counterfeit coin in his possession, offered to dispose of it at a low rate. Mr. Lindner, wishing to detect the rogue, affected to be willing to buy the coin, and an agreement was that the transfer should be made of $250 of good money for $500 of the counterfeit at Belpre in this County on a subsequent day.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Mr. Lindner after advising with Justice Browning of Belpre agreed that a seizure should be made of the Coin and the villain, in the very act of transfer. He was accordingly arrested with an accomplice, and a box, which was in appearance like a box filled with specie, was discovered hidden under the bank of the Ohio. On examination however it appeared that instead of being filled with counterfeit money, it contained nothing but some old iron and sand. T</span><span style="font-family: arial;">he plot undoubtedly was to induce Mr. Lindner to bring a large sum of money, and if possible persuade him to buy the box as containing the specie, but if he should refuse to do so, to take his money from him by force. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">They were committed to jail, but being brought up before the Associate Judges of the Common Pleas were discharged - they having done nothing which under the defective provisions of our Laws is punishable.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The oldest of the two calls himself Simmons - sometimes James and at others William. He is a man of some 50 years of age, with prominent features, and of a rather repulsive appearance. The younger is about 25 or 30, and calls himself Joseph Wright. We advise people to be cautious, as they will probably attempt to swindle in other places. They represent themselves to be from Guernsey County.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Old Marietta Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642102606711358964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855721462779862559.post-7319673651621334522023-12-27T05:47:00.002-05:002023-12-27T22:24:00.914-05:00Business Stands<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Marietta Intelligencer</i>, December 22, 1852</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Probably most of the merchants on Front, Greene, and Ohio streets are of opinion that "the point," is <i>always</i> to be the principal goods-selling part of the town. They know that now and then a new grocery is started "above the run," but have no idea that any Dry Goods houses will ever be established off from the three or four squares now mainly occupied by stores.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It may be so: but we think that in ten years from this time there will not be as many Retail Dry Goods stores on the point as there now are. We believe that the best locations for fine and fashionable sale stores will be in the Second Ward.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The manufacturing business will much of it be at "the point." The business necessarily connected with the river and the railroad will be in the lower ward. The warehouses will be there, and the heavy grocery and hardware stores - wholesale and retail. But fancy and domestic dry goods business will not be done where the manufacturing and wholesale grocery business is, where drays are constantly moving, and where there is so much "noise and confusion" as we hope there will be at the point in the course of two or three years.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Not all the world, not even all of this <i>Marietta</i> world, lives "down town." A large majority of the population of the place is even now in the second ward; and the custom from the Muskingum and from Duck Creek must all come through there.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The general idea is that, as time past, all business must center at the point; but let a good store-room (and a really <i>good</i> sales-room is a rare thing in Marietta) be built on a good site in the Second Ward, and a good assortment of fancy and domestic goods to be opened there, & - "we shall see what we shall see."</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></div>Old Marietta Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642102606711358964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855721462779862559.post-59040050088843725742023-12-20T05:33:00.001-05:002023-12-20T05:33:00.143-05:00New Record Hung Up at Post Office<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The Marietta Daily Times</i>, Tuesday, December 23, 1924</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Fifty Thousand Letters and Cards Cancelled on Monday.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Receive Nearly 2,000 Parcels.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Fourteen Truck Loads of Packages Delivered in City.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Fifty thousand letters and cards were sent through the cancelling machine at the post office on Monday, which was in all respects the largest single day the Marietta office has ever had. This new record for the number of letters and cards stamped makes the previous high record of 38,100 hung up during the Christmas rush of 1923, seem like the usual Monday rush.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Thirty-nine employees at the Marietta office and eight rural carriers working out of this office were pushed to the limit on Monday.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Parcel post packages to the number 18,025 were delivered. In addition, 150 C.O.D. packages were delivered and the money collected. It took 14 large truckloads to get out the parcels on Monday afternoon and the boys and men handling this mail were kept on the jump.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Postmen starting on their regular routes from the office had all the appearance of so many Santa Clauses except they were minus grey whiskers and red and white uniforms. Their pouches were loaded to the guards and they were backed up and forced to make several trips.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The large work room is the scene of intense activity. The parcel post packages were piled half way to the ceiling during the morning, letters and cards were packed here and there in masses and the clerks were working swiftly to again see light.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">During the morning the letters and cards were coming through the slots so fast that it was necessary to keep two men at the counter in order to sort them. The stamp cancelling machine was kept running at capacity for a time, but because it takes longer to sort and place them to cancel, the machine was never going at its best.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Post office officials stated that it is impossible to tell yet just what the receipts for Monday were, but it is evident that they were larger than they had ever been before.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Tuesday started out like another record breaker. The indications are that this will be another big day and may surpass Monday.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">While everything was being handled in an orderly and systematic manner, a good way to cause a riot on Tuesday morning would have been to stick your head in a door leading to the large work room and yell a "Merry Christmas."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>Old Marietta Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642102606711358964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855721462779862559.post-25830336009203507852023-12-13T06:17:00.001-05:002023-12-13T06:17:00.144-05:00Property Transferred<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The Marietta Daily Times</i>, February 3, 1912</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Marietta Township gets part of old Muskingum</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Formal transfer of an irregular strip of territory, formerly in Muskingum Township, to Marietta Township, was made in the office of County Auditor Burton this morning, and hereafter the property will be taxed as a part of Marietta Township.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The boundary line was changed when it was found some time ago that Muskingum Township had never been legally constituted, and steps were taken to remedy this condition. The property affected is on the edge of Marietta city and consists of 43 parcels of land. The people living there will now vote at Mile Run and Fultonburg instead of in Muskingum as they have done heretofore.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></div>Old Marietta Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642102606711358964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855721462779862559.post-40410470498577640052023-12-06T05:16:00.001-05:002023-12-06T05:16:00.139-05:00The Stockade - Campus Martius<div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The Marietta Leader</i>, August 30, 1890</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">To the Marietta Leader:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The size and location of the "Stockade" built by the Ohio Company at Marietta and called by them "Campus Martius" is thus defined by Dudley S. Nye, Esq., in presenting the Woman's Centennial Association with a section of one of the picketts which were placed around the fort for its greater protection during the Indian War.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Mr. Nye writes, "The 'Butt' or piece of wood now in possession of your Society presented by me for preservation through you, is the butt or lower end of one of the picketts in the outer wall, or protection around the 'Stockade' or 'Campus Martius', (so called by the Ohio Company), situated between Second and Front, and Washington and St. Clair streets in Marietta, Ohio.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The 'Stockade' or Fort was about 200 feet square. Outside of Corner Block Houses (and settlers houses between), there was around all a row of 'picketts,' made of trunks of trees set in the ground, close together, upright, and about 12 to 14 feet high and from 12 to 15 feet from the buildings.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">When Washington Street was being widened and graded, or the wagon way widened by digging down the hill, 1843-44, I saw distinctly in the face of the cut the line of the picketts, the butts of which had been left in the ground (when cut down at the close of the Indian War) all so decayed that they would not hold together, except this butt which I took from the earth nearly opposite the Ohio Company's Land Office (on the opposite side of the street, owned and occupied by my father, Arius Nye, as a Law Office) and near the middle of the Southeast front of the Stockade. The butt has been in my possession ever since."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Mr. Nye lived from childhood to manhood in the General Rufus Putnam house, corner of Second and Washington streets, owned by his father. He is perfectly familiar with all the ancient landmarks of Campus Martius, now nearly all obliterated, and is probably the only person in Marietta who can define them from personal observation.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>Old Marietta Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642102606711358964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855721462779862559.post-8927709558323066452023-11-29T06:11:00.000-05:002023-11-29T06:11:00.163-05:00Road Building in Marietta and Washington County, Ohio<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The Marietta Register</i>, November 30, 1923</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Building Roads From Beginning to Present Time</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">The evolution of the road and transportation question in Washington County is one covering many years and there are many angles to the story. From the unbroken, uncharted dirt road of the Pioneers in 1788 on down through the coming of the waterway age, the steam cars, the electric lines and then the hard surface highway, is told in the many stories that are told in this Good Roads edition of <i>The Register</i> and it is needless to tell them again in a recapitulation.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">From all sections of the county we have been favored with sketches of the vicissitudes incident to road building from the time that the citizens worked out a road tax in a haphazard way with the result that the roads were impassable much of the year, to the opening of the new Marietta-Cleveland highway.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">All along the route, covering more than a century and a quarter of time, the work has gone on and with every year there has come an approach nearer the goal - now one all-the-year-round road leading out of the city and connecting with the outside world. And work is well on its way to the road to the west which will lead to the state capital</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">It's a long, long story and it will require the reading of the entire paper to get even an inkling of just what it has taken in time and money to accomplish the work thus far acquired.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Oldest Paving in United States at Marietta</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Marietta is a pioneer in the street paving business and well toward the first line of the cities in the nation that took to improving their public ways by giving them a real hard surface. And while it was among the first, it also soon dropped back into inactivity and other towns passed her as she pointed the way to the improvement of the county roads.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">It is not generally known, a fact however, that the oldest piece of brick paving in the United States still laying as first put down is the Front Street paving from Greene to Putnam streets and the square on Greene to Second and the one on Putnam to Second.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">This work was completed in 1891. J. P. Hulbert was the City Civil Engineer. Council, however, employed E. Frank Gates and A. F. Cole as his assistants, and it was these boys, each one of them now having arisen to high estates in the business world, that Marietta owes the honor of possessing a piece of street paving that has withstood the ravages of time and tide - many floods having covered it - and today points to the work with pride as the first step in the labors of pulling the city and the county out of the mud.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">From step to step, street to street, the work was carried on till the city has today as good system of paved streets as is enjoyed by any in the nation.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">And this was the forerunner of the paving that reached out into the country and from it the ceaseless work of getting the county roads in to an all year round condition the labors have continued.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">The story of the county paving began with the year 1908 and the story is told in a most able way by County Surveyor C. M. Weeks in this issue of the paper.</span></div></div><div><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>County Paving as it Came With the Years</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">By Charles M. Weeks</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">When the pioneers made the first settlement in Ohio they selected the confluence of the Muskingum and Ohio rivers, because these two large streams afforded ready means of transportation. As the settlers began to push out into the wilderness they made paths near the banks of the streams. These to begin with were mere trails blazed through the forest but were soon widened sufficiently to allow the passage of ox-cart and sled.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The first road of record in Washington County was surveyed in 1793 and followed the bank of the Ohio River through what is now the Village of Belpre. Others followed in rapid succession and by the year 1810 almost all parts of the county were accessible, at least by horseback. These early roads followed the banks or in may places the beds of streams and the dividing ridges between watersheds where little or no grading was required.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">From the years 1830 to 1845 many so-called "State Roads" were established, any road passing through more than one county being so designated. During this period the public funds were insufficient to meet the demand and private companies were organized to build roads and bridges, the stockholders to be reimbursed from tolls collected from the traveling public. The Marietta and Newport Turnpike Company and the Marietta-National Road Plan Road Company were notable examples. These roads were eventually taken over by the county commissioners and the toll gates removed.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">During the later years of the nineteenth century many miles of road, especially along the rivers, were graveled and much so-called "Stoned Road" was built. These roads were temporary, inexpensive affairs and there was no adequate system of maintenance but they helped to get the people out of the mud and some evidence of them still remain. Viewed from the present day, perhaps their chief value was educational.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As there developed in the people a desire for a better type of road and in a real sense paved the way for the present hard surface highway.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In 1904 the Ohio legislature created the State Highway Department and appropriated for salaries and running expenses $7,440 and for state aid in building roads $10,000 - which was to be apportioned among the counties making request for it before the following January.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It was not until the season of 1908 that Washington County received any part of the State Highway fund for road construction.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">During that year the brick road from the north corporation line of Marietta, through the Rathbone Addition to the Mill Creek Road, was built. This was the first step in paving the main roads leading from the county seat to the rural communities. The same year the Newport Pike was paved to the Duck Creek bridge, and Virginia Street was extended to the railroad crossing at Mile Run. These two projects were financed by the County Commissioners, as was also the paving of 1.25 miles on the Watertown Road the following year.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The second state aid road which was also built in 1909 extended out Greene Street from Phillips Street to the upper Duck Creek bridge. This section is 1.14 miles in length and is also of brick; the contract price was $15,490.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The residents of Waterford Village and vicinity were the first outlying community to petition for an improvement, and in 1910 work was begun on one mile of brick and macadam pavement leading from the Muskingum River toward Watertown and the west end of the county. In 1911 the contract was let for 1.21 miles of brick on the Newport road beginning at the Duck Creek bridge. Up until this time the brick pavement was the only type given serious consideration. But in preparing plans for this section estimates were made for both brick and concrete. It was found that 1.57 miles of concrete would cost $500 less than 1.21 miles of brick, even though the brick was to be laid almost directly on the old roadbed. In the meeting of the commissioners when the type of pavement was to be selected, both the county and state engineers advised concrete but the brick association had representatives present who won the decision for their product.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Such was the power of the Brick Association in those days that soon after his stand in favor of concrete pavements, this representative of the Highway Department lost his position. However, the concrete road was soon to come to its own in Washington County, where both the Ohio and Muskingum rivers abound with excellent concrete materials. In 1912 one mile of this type of pavement was built south of New Matamoras. The contract price including grading - pavement and bituminous wearing surface was $12,125.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">From this time concrete pavement has been the dominant type on state aid roads in Washington County, the only exception being the brick section through the Village of Beverly and the macadam sections above Beverly and at Bartlett.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In the year 1911 the State Highway Department in cooperation with the officials of the various counties designated a system of Inter-County Highways and from this on all state funds were expended on these roads. These highways are the most important routes from County Seat to County Seat and the plan was developed with the idea of finally getting a system of improved roads covering the whole state.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Even with this restriction on the location of improvements, the County Commissioners continued to pass out the state road improvements as sort of political plums or memorials to their terms of office. During the years from 1912 to 1918, sections of pavement, each one mile or a little more in length, were built at Newport, Grandview, Lowell, Beverly, Bartlett, and Belpre, while the Newport Pike was extended through Reno, the Lowell Road through Unionville to near the foot of March Run hill, and Pike Street to Westview.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Up to the close of 1918, miles of road had been improved by state aid, out of __ miles of the Inter-County System in this county and while the showing seemed small the educational stage was passed, the automobile had become well night universal and the people were ready to pay for good roads, even at prices three times the cost of ten years ago.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In the meantime, other section of the state with more funds available and level country to build over had built continuous roads and the demand in Washington County became insistent for a way out. The State Highway Department refused longer to permit its funds to be used on isolated sections, but insisted not only that each county build on one road until its completion, but that the adjoining counties should also build on the same main line. This policy adapted about 1918, together with the fact that Federal funds were available only on certain roads, tied Washington County up to the building of the Marietta-Caldwell-Cambridge Road to its county line.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Every effort was put forth to complete it in record time and those who have recognized the difficulties in the way are satisfied with the results attained.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Those in charge of this department of the county's activities have not been content to rest on the record thus made, but even before the completion of the Cambridge road, work was well underway on the Marietta-Athens road via of Barlow and Bartlett, and the grading and drainage structures on__ miles of this road is already under contract. While plans are being prepared for the remaining portions to the county line.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>A Pioneer in Ranks of Local Road Boosters</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">By N. N. Thorniley</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Being asked as a pioneer good road enthusiast to write a short article on the early road building in Washington County, I would say that the Valley Farmers' Club played an important part in the beginning of brick road building. Commissioners Ballentine and Cutter attended a club meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. O. Scott, April 21, 1906, and they had a proposition to offer regarding the building of a miles of macadam road.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Being president of the club at this time, and familiar with conditions in the location, I was very much opposed to a macadam road on account of high water and with the loyal support of the club pointed out clearly that such a road could not be a success on account of the cross currents caused by floods, as this was the lowest, boggiest piece of road in Washington County.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">So at the next meeting of the county commissioners, arrangements were made for a levy sufficient to build a brick road from the westerly end of Duck Creek bridge to the corporation line, 1540 feet of this road to be 16 ft. wide and 1166 ft. along car line to corporation to be 24 ft. wide.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This road was build of Marietta brick on sand foundation and sand filler, at a cost of $16,781.10 or 90 cts. sq. yd. for paving and 30 cts. a foot for sand stone curb. It is the best piece of brick road in Washington County today and in seventeen years has not had one dollar repair.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This road was built of Marietta material, Washington County labor, under Washington County superintendency, with Washington County capital entirely, as it was built without state aid.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The next piece of road built was Virginia Street or Mile Run road, which was built of Marietta brick at a cost of $1.04 per sq. yd. and 32 cents for curbing.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This road was followed by the first mile of the Marietta-Watertown road, built in 1908, with Marietta brick with brick curb, and never proved satisfactory. These roads were followed by state aid roads, the Muskingum Drive, Beverly road, Watertown, and Newport-Matamoras roads, all partially built by state aid, and as these roads will be discussed by others, I will not dwell upon this feature.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In 1910 Capt. Cutter came to me and asked me to talk before the Good Roads Association on bonding the county for $1,000,000 for road building. I declined for two reasons - first, I am not a speech-maker, and second, I did not know which side of the subject I was on. But at the Good Roads meeting, Hon. C. C. Middleswart made an impressive speech on this subject showing that $1,000,000 would build 150 miles of hard surfaced road at this time and also showed by blackboard illustrations the different roads intersecting the county both north and south, east and west, that would be so improved. Before Mr. Middleswart was through with his talk, I was positively sure which side of the subject I was on and I still think it would have been a wonderful thing for Washington County if we had grasped the opportunity and built these roads at this time when material and labor were both cheap. But the good roads movement was then in its infancy and there was a great deal of opposition to this bond issue throughout the count, so the opportunity of building the maximum amount of roads for the minimum amount of money was lost.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Lower End of County Getting Out of the Mud</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">By H. P. Curtis</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The main highway of Belpre loop which connects Marietta and Parkersburg with Athens is now being graded and gravelled by the combined efforts of the county and the State Highway department. This is an important and long-needed piece of work which will eliminated the stretch of mud from one of the main outlets of Ohio to the eastern states. It is the only mail road to carry traffic out of central and southern Ohio across the Ohio River between Wheeling and Portsmouth.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Northwestern pike from Parkersburg to Clarksburg, W. Va., will soon be completed and then another route from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River and points west will be open for the use of autos, trucks, and bus lines that will be an important artery both for commercial work and touring purposes.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The improvement of this road will remove the mud stain from the lower end of Washington County for people wishing to come through this section of the state and will also mean that residents in this part of Washington County will be able to reach markets in Marietta and Parkersburg at all times of year with whatever products they may have to offer.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It is also a step nearer the completion of the proposed Cincinnati-East Liverpool road along the Ohio River..</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This road now being gravelled joins the Athens County paving job from Coolville east to the county line. The culvert and bridge work on the Athens County job are now complete with the largest part of the grading done so that another winter should see the most of the brick in place and an additional four miles of good road open to travel</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This Belpre Township road has meant a great deal to the development of the southwestern part of Washington County by providing a means of travel for the residents of the township back from the river as well as for the people living near it.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">During the Indian war of 1791-92, the redskins doubtless followed the general location of this road through lower Rockland, keeping watch on the settlers gathered in "Farmers' Castle," located on the riverbank below. This same soil which served as a hunting ground for the white man and a hiding place for his foe now produces garden truck and vegetables in abundance and will become still more valuable property with the completion of the road improvement now underway. Later as the land was cleared and the danger from redskins removed, the oxcarts creaked along the road hauling material to erect houses - several of which were considered mansions in the early days - and some of which are still standing in good repair.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">By this road travelled the pioneer men on their way to the salt springs south of Chillicothe to bring back this precious necessity in the early years of the nineteenth century and to visit the grist mill on the banks of the Little Hocking River which was completed at the close of the Indian war. This mill has long since disappeared and little grain of any kind is milled in this section, but the improvement of the highway will bring the delivery of food stuffs to the very door of those who live along the route with the same convenience and ease that places the groceries in the kitchen of the city housewife.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The footpath, the ox-car trail and the mud wagon road have all served their generation on this thoroughfare and the eternal wheels of progress demand some better form of roadbed upon which to carry the commerce of this part of Washington County.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Good roads spell economy and speed in transportation - whether by motor or horse power - and time of handling a given product is a large factor in determining the profit or loss of the transaction.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The gravel which is now being applied will not make a job as permanent as hard surface, but it is being put on at a moderate cost by using native material already on hand and will go a long ways toward making it passable winter and summer.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">There is a little piece of work below Little Hocking that has surely stood the wear and tear of time. An impassable mud hole was repaired by using a foundation of large sandstone with a top covering of gravel, fifty years ago last spring. This piece is about fifty yards long and has carried the traffic high and dry without repair until torn up by the grading before the gravel was applied this summer.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The western half of Washington County has long floundered in the mud, while the eastern half has been more fortunate along the road line for some years past. The life and prosperity of any community is largely determined by the quality of the rods that pass through and connect that community with its outside neighbors. Good roads are worth all they coast - when economically constructed - and will more than pay for themselves, not only by increasing the value of the land along these highways, but also in the greater comfort of travel, the higher respect of a community for itself, and the ability to move larger loads both to and from market in less time. Poor roads are dear at any cost.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The start is made in the western part of Washington County and the improvement of more roads should be pushed as rapidly as possible.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Dudley Gap Was Closed Turkey Day</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The finished hard-surfaced road between Marietta and Cambridge will be open for light automobile traffic December 13th, a week from next Thursday, according to the present plans of the contractors and those in charge of the work.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The last gap in the concrete between here and Caldwell was filled at 3:30 Thanksgiving afternoon after a stretch of thirty-six consecutive hours of work by the sturdy crew of men on the job. The light rain that fell practically all day Thursday did not hamper the work. They went right ahead and accomplished their objective - closing the gap on Thanksgiving Day. The joint was made just at South Olive.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Representatives of the civic clubs of both Marietta and Caldwell were present when the last foot was poured, but the honor of laying the final concrete went to the workers who had staid on the job through daylight and dark, rain or shine, to get the gap closed.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">To Open in Two Weeks</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">While it is not customary to open a new concrete road for traffic for three weeks after the last concrete is poured, the contractors are planning to "hunch" a little bit and let pleasure cars through on this new bit two weeks after the finish instead of three. Heavy trucks will be barred until the full three weeks period has elapsed, but those in charge of the work are sure that no harm will be done to open the road earlier to lighter traffic.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The closing of this gap completes the hard-surface road to Cambridge with the exception of a short piece at Tunnel Hill beyond Caldwell in Noble County, which will be paved in the spring. The grading has been done and there will be a good surface to drive over during the winter months, however.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Workmen Deserve Credit</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The achievement of linking Cambridge and Marietta within the past two days was made possible through the extraordinary efforts put forth by the State Construction Co., who worked ceaselessly to complete the job. Credit is also due the Marietta civic organizations, which at the last minute furnished the contracting company with two carloads of cement, when the supply ran low, in order that last of the concrete might be poured Thanksgiving Day.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It is probable that a program celebrating the event of completing the inter-county highway will be arranged as near as possible to the date set for the official opening.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Washington County Has Entered Road Building Epoch, Engineer Carr Says</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">By George E. Carr</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Washington County just entered the road building epoch. This great movement started in a major way in 1918 with the award of the contract for the construction of three miles of hard surface highway known as the Second Creek road. This movement has been gaining momentum as the intervening years have passed and no one would care to predict just when the peak will be reached or what it will mean to the citizenship of the county when this epoch will have become history.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The coming of the automobile created the demand for a highway connection with the outside world. It was not a matter of the greatest importance, by just what route, this connection be made, or what type of pavement be used in its construction. The Marietta-Cambridge road, due to its geographical location, was during the late war, designated as a part of the Primary Federal System of Highways and was therefore eligible to receive Federal Aid money in its construction. It was also a main market as well as an Inter-County Highway. Since this was the only route in the county upon which the State Highway Department could appropriate funds from all three sources, namely: Federal, Main Market, and Inter-County Highway, it seemed logical that the county should spend her efforts along the route upon which she could receive the most support from the state.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Road Cost $920,000.00</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Marietta-Cambridge road in Washington County, approximately 21 miles in length, was built at a cost of approximately $920,000.00. This sum was divided as follows: $500,000.00 for pavement, $280,000.00 for grading, and $140,000.00 for bridges and drainage structures. Of this sum the federal government contributed $190,000.00, the state $270,000.00, and the county $460,000.00.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">We realize that this is an enormous amount of money. But time and experience have proven the false economy in building a road for today which we expect to be using five years hence. Only those who are familiar with the enormous tonnage carried by our main arteries of travel can conceive the magnitude of travel on this main thoroughfare leading from Marietta and Washington County.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The highest type of construction has been used on this road because it was realized that this would be the one route which would carry the heavy tonnage to and from Marietta. The work in Washington County has been inspected by federal and state inspectors and is claimed to be the best piece of construction on the entire route from Marietta to Cambridge. Those in charge of the work took the attitude that only the best workmanship possible was good enough for Washington County and the results are self evident.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Enter Upon Second Project</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">This work completed, we have immediately engaged in a second project almost as great in magnitude, the Marietta-Bartlett-Athens road. Probably no highway leading into Marietta is of greater local importance than the Marietta-Athens road, since it taps the great agricultural and fruit growing section of the county, which has no other means of transportation except that provided by this public highway.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Since September 1st, 1923, 13 miles of this road have been placed under construction, and there is no reason to doubt that the remaining eight miles to the Washington-Athens county line will be under contract by April 1st, 1924. Placing under contract in the short space of a few months, 21 miles of continuous construction is an achievement of which the county and state may well feel proud. This route has been established as a secondary federal aid road, and may receive federal funds to the extent of $15,000 per mile. The Federal government is interested in just such projects as these, and there is every reason to believe that the county will receive liberal appropriations from federal funds. It is expected that the unimproved part of this route in Athens County will be under contract early in the coming year.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Monument to be Erected on Highway</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Reno G. Hoag and his son, S. Durward Hoag, of Hotel Lafayette will erect a marker at point on Marietta-Cambridge Highway near Elba where Gap was closed, "Getting Us Out of the Mud."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Sentiment throbs often times among strange people and under peculiar circumstances. Even hotel men are not "immune" from the malady.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">There has been chronicled in these columns how Reno G. Hoag had the honor and glory of shoveling in and smoothing down the last few shovels-full of concrete at the place where the gap was closed so far as Washington County is concerned upon the Marietta-Cambridge Highway.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Yesterday the two Hoags, father and son, made arrangements with Mrs. Amy Alban, who owns the farm property adjacent the spot where the event took place, and leased for a term of years, the privilege to erect there on the hillside a monument or marker, designating time and place.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The exact spot is in section 27, Aurelius township, about 1/2 mile this side of Elba, toward Marietta. The space is rather an open one upon the hillside, the road at that point running close to Duck Creek.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Here, upon the bank there will be erected some suitable design by the Hoags, with wording to the effect that it was here the great event in road building took place, with date, etc.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">As yet the parties interested have not decided what style of marker or monument will be erected, but it goes without saying it will be in keeping with the idea. This will be perpetuated for a least ten years, and it is hoped to have some illumination at night so those "who run may read" at all times. Of course it will be natural to expect that the two hotel men will ring in the "Hotel Lafayette" thus mixing business with this sentiment, but even at that we consider the matter a very laudable one, along the lines of progressiveness which the father and son exhibit at all times for Marietta and the county.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Old Marietta Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642102606711358964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855721462779862559.post-16724038832455680662023-11-22T06:03:00.001-05:002023-11-22T06:03:00.143-05:00Accuse Two of Whiskey Manufacture<div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The Marietta Daily Times</i>, November 21, 1927</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Two affidavits charging manufacture of liquor were filed before Judge David H. Thomas in common pleas court on Monday. They are signed by the sheriff and the men accused are William Devore of Marietta and Clarence Barnes of Beverly. Devore was arrested by the police on Saturday evening. Barnes is in the custody of the sheriff and will appear in court on Tuesday.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Devore was arraigned before Judge Thomas on Monday. He pleaded not guilty and waived examination. He was held to the grand jury and his bond was fixed at $500. He was trying to find bondsmen on Monday.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Barnes, who is employed by the traction company, was detained at Lowell on Monday but agreement had been made for him to appear in court by 9:30 o'clock on Tuesday morning.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">These arrests follow a raid made some months ago by the sheriff's men in which they found a whiskey-making plant hidden in a barn on a farm owned by Barnes near Stanleyville. Ed Butcher already has been arrested as the operator of the plant and is held to the January grand jury. It is charged that Devore and Barnes were partners in the enterprise.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The still had been arranged under a "tin house" that had been built in the barn and over which a lot of oats straw had been piled. A cleverly arranged trap door led into the distillery from the barn basement.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>Old Marietta Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642102606711358964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855721462779862559.post-42056844530989611322023-11-15T05:54:00.000-05:002023-11-15T05:54:00.130-05:00John Malster<div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Marietta Register</i>, November 16, 1889</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">John Malster of Waterford died at the residence of Moses Malster in Waterford Township, Wednesday, and was buried at the Palmer cemetery yesterday, November 15.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">He was the son of Christopher Malster who came to Palmer Township in 1795, tow years in advance of his wife who made the journey from Pennsylvania with a two year old child on horseback. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">John was born in Palmer, September 2, 1800, and was therefore past 89 years of age. His life has been spent in this county and through all his active years was one of hardship. As early as 1822 he made a trip south on a flat boat and had he been at the recent reunion would have outranked James Stowe and Christopher Greene in years and ante-dated them as flatboatmen.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">He was a farmer and stock-raiser, though a man of a business turn of mind. He sold goods in Palmer for Col. Stone 55 years ago and afterwards clerked for Chapin and Fearing in Beverly.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In his diary he noted that he "had raised and bought wheat and made twenty-five barrels of flour which he sold to Col. Stone at $2.50 a barrel and trusted him six months without interest. I have bought and sold wheat for 28 cents a bushel and oats for 12-1/2 cents and hauled them to Harmar."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">He never married. He was a genial and kind-hearted man. A supporter of his county paper and quite a reader. Since the announcement of the Tri-Weekly, his letter was received at this office asking for this edition. He was scrupulously honest and thoughtful in business matters and allowed no debts to stand against him. In his death a pioneer and old-time citizen is gone.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>Old Marietta Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642102606711358964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855721462779862559.post-42608362523606457472023-11-08T06:12:00.000-05:002023-11-08T06:12:00.133-05:00Last Car on Muskingum Line Oct. 31<div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The Marietta Daily Times</i>, October 25, 1929</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Last car over the Muskingum division of the Monongahela West Penn lines will leave the court house at Marietta on Thursday, October 31, at 10:45 o'clock. It will make the regular run to Beverly, arriving there at 11:30 o'clock, then will deadhead back into Marietta and service so far as the public is concerned will be done.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Ohio public utilities commission granted permission more than six weeks ago to discontinue service on the line which has been a losing venture for years. Expansion of the automobile industry and building of good roads has spelled ruin for this division.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Beverly line was completed and the first car was run into the northern terminal more than 20 years ago. Sam Brittigan of Marietta was motorman on that first car. If he so desires he will be permitted to bring the last car out of Beverly next Thursday night.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The company has not decided as to what it will do with the line that it is abandoning. It will either put its own force of wreckers to the task of removing it or will sell it outright to a wrecking company that will take it up.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Second Street spur from Second and Montgomery streets to the fairgrounds will be left in place for periodical operation. In regular service, however, no cars will operate beyond Montgomery Street after next Thursday night.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>Old Marietta Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642102606711358964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855721462779862559.post-44479725666858166052023-11-01T05:08:00.001-04:002023-11-01T05:08:00.146-04:00Old Families Still Factors Here<div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The Marietta Daily Times</i>, November 9, 1934</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Three descendants of soldiers of the War of the Revolution, who later became early pioneers of this section, were candidates for election to Washington County offices at the election on Tuesday. This interesting and perhaps unprecedented fact is called to our attention by Mrs. E. W. Hill, Sr. Evidence that the militant and pioneering spirit has persisted down through the generations since the settlement of this area is furnished by the fact that two of the three members of these old families were successful at the polls.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In historic Mound Cemetery may be found this inscription: "General Rufus Putnam, a Revolutionary officer and leader of the colony which made the first settlement in the Northwest, April 7, 1788. Born April 9, 1738. Died May 4, 1824. The memory of the just is blessed." Arthur D. Mackey, who led the Republican ticket in the number of votes received and was elected sheriff by an overwhelming plurality, is a descendant of General Putnam, who has been called the "founder and father of Ohio."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">On another stone is this inscription: "Colonel William Stacy, Revolutionary soldier. Born in Massachusetts, 1730. Came to Marietta, 1788. Proprietor in Ohio Company. Foreman of first grand jury in Ohio. Died in Marietta, Ohio, in 1802." Colonel Stacy was a prisoner of Indians for four years and was saved from being burned at the stake by giving an Indian chief the Masonic sign. Lloyd S. Stacy of Adams Township, who was chosen to represent Washington County in the lower house of the General Assembly, is a descendant of this brave soldier and pioneer.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Another marker in the cemetery bears this inscription: "In memory of Colonel Robert Taylor, who departed this life September 30, 1801, in the sixty-fifth year of his age, being the first interment in this burying ground." This Revolutionary War soldier and early pioneer here was one of the ancestors of Ezra Racer Miller, who was candidate for county auditor on the Republican ticket.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>Old Marietta Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642102606711358964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855721462779862559.post-45880756120115955532023-10-25T05:33:00.001-04:002023-10-25T05:33:00.145-04:00Hallowe'en Wild Night in Marietta and Lawlessness Results in Many Arrests<div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The Marietta Daily Times</i>, November 1, 1929</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Marietta police declare that Thursday night was the wildest they have experienced in many years. Dozens of calls were answered in nearly every section of the city. Numerous arrests were made and a busy session of court was held by the mayor on Friday morning.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Destruction of property was reported in many parts of the city. The boys and young men celebrated Hallowe'en and they failed by a wide margin to confine their energy to harmless things.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">One of the favorite diversions seemed to be the breaking of electric lights. Porch lights were knocked out at many points and even the street lamps suffered. The usual trick in the case of a street light was to untie the rope and let the light crash to the street. Lem Hess, city electrical superintendent, estimates the damage in his department at $75.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">One of the worst outbreaks occurred on Phillips Street, where five boys bombarded the Carl Wunderlich automobile with pumpkins. The car, a new one, was damaged considerably. From that stunt the boys turned their attention to the home of W. M. Jones, where they smeared up the porch and plastered the front lawn with chicken feathers.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Jones chased the boys down the street, firing a 38-calibre revolver at them. The police brought the boys and Jones to headquarters. Earl Steed and Raymond Stegner were placed in jail while their three companions, Lewis Klein, Denver McCain, and William Becker, were ordered in on Friday. Jones also was ordered to come before the mayor. On Friday morning the case was certified to probate court.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Another outbreak occurred on lower Putnam Street where Hugh Smith and Roy Barnes engaged in a fight. They were under the influence of liquor, according to the police, and the battle was a vicious one. Both were arrested. Barnes' wife later secured his release by posting a bond of $100. The pair pleaded guilty on Friday to fighting charges and each was fined $15 and costs. Barnes paid both fines. Smith, it developed Friday morning, had sustained a broken shoulder in the fight.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Lat Thursday evening Mrs. Nellie Baker called for the police. She reported that Hugh Perry had attacked and beaten her in front of the post office property. Perry was arrested. He was fined $5 and costs on Friday and paid.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Elmer Lang, arrested in the city park, demonstrated to the world that he has one faithful friend - his dog. When Lang went behind the bars his dog raised such a commotion that he too was allowed to enter the jail and he slept on one of the iron cots along with Lang. The latter was fined $5 and costs on Friday.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></div>Old Marietta Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642102606711358964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855721462779862559.post-29649460854326873952023-10-18T05:01:00.001-04:002023-10-18T05:01:00.150-04:00A Live Man Dug Out of Marietta Mound<div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The Marietta Register</i>, April 23, 1886</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Such was the startling statement made in all the dwellings and on the streets of the little town of Marietta sixty-five years ago. Some believed it, many doubted it, but all were anxious to know the fact. The unbelieving were referred to as truthful a man as lived on Fifth Street; he said "it was true that he had aided in the work."</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">To make my story short, Father G., who was the grave-yard sexton, had a flock of sheep which were allowed to roam among the tombs, watched by his three sons. Weary of the monotony of looking after the flock by night, the boys with shovel and hoe determined they would to their minds unsolve the mystery of the great mound.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">When darkness had spread over the earth, they began their work on the top of the elevation and almost noiselessly put down a hole six feet deep. The elder was below, arranging for further work, when in a moment the sides began to give way and before he could be rescued the dirt fastened him. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Quick haste was made by one of the frightened boys with the news to his father. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Armed with bottle of spirits and a good raw-hide, the old fellow climbed the fence and up the sides of the mound to its summit. With great industry, but more noise, the earth was pitched away and the youngster was relieved from his prison confinement only to feel the rod as soon as he recovered, for thus violating the sacred place and making a town talk at the expense of the family. In the <i>Mound Annual</i> can all this be found, and much more.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Some people say that 1,000 years ago this country was more densely populated than now. I have not time now to give my views on this subject, but I must tell you about one of their burying places. On the top of the hill back of the old Platt place, northeast from the Court House about one mile, from the beginning there has been a heap of earth rising above the surface of the ground about seven feet, thirty-five feet long and at the broadest place about fifteen feet wide. Some have supposed it natural, others have supposed it the work of the Mound Builders.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">With the support of the owner of the land, Mr. Adam Brown, on the 20th day of this month (that is Tuesday of this week), Capt. Sayre and myself, with excellent assistants, began the work of discovery. After going down with a hole six feet square for four and one-half feet, we came to a flat rock six feet long and three feet wide and five inches thick, evidently brought from a distance and placed with a purpose where it was. Underneath this we knew was the treasure, perhaps something that would tell us when and by whom all these works were made.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The long stone was with difficulty and great care removed. Underneath it - <i>Oh what a find. We were not sold. You will not be sold </i>if you pay your quarter and <i>see all</i> the interesting things we unearthed, exhibited as they will be on Thursday and Friday evenings of this week at the Presbyterian Fair in the Clarke house on 4th Street.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">W.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoj-6kL8-pbfbJ-tXTcbBRE9P7IgubJSXt5hhAJGJawPpdDw9krJ-yJ8pgO9FY6JWvJ_-x4gfMLyT_xs97LbeS4tGlCnXLqaKyFgqsr68jPpt2OJmALjSZtzuhmCt0LsekafMYeX6SpAVBkITg6UwsxR9PE-eSyHWrOQ7yMU2KFaZ2YU2rqH4t7xB4LMw/s1191/moundcemetery.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="819" data-original-width="1191" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoj-6kL8-pbfbJ-tXTcbBRE9P7IgubJSXt5hhAJGJawPpdDw9krJ-yJ8pgO9FY6JWvJ_-x4gfMLyT_xs97LbeS4tGlCnXLqaKyFgqsr68jPpt2OJmALjSZtzuhmCt0LsekafMYeX6SpAVBkITg6UwsxR9PE-eSyHWrOQ7yMU2KFaZ2YU2rqH4t7xB4LMw/w400-h275/moundcemetery.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">* * * * *</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The Marietta Register</i>, April 30, 1886:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">That Mound Story</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Mr. Editor: In the Register of April 23d someone over the signature of "W." tells a great cock and bull story about a live man being dug out of Marietta Mound. He commenced by saying, "such was the startling statement made in all the dwellings and on the streets of the little town of Marietta sixty-five years ago. Some believed it, many doubted it, but all were anxious to know the fact. The unbelieving were referred to as truthful a man as lived on Fifth Street. He said, "it was true that he had aided in the work." To make my story short, Father G., who was the graveyard sexton, had a flock of sheep which were allowed to roam among the tombs, watched over by his three sons . . .</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Now, in regard to the above statement, I am prepared to say from personal knowledge, that not one word of the essential points in the same are true. The whole story was a fabrication from beginning to end, put forth as one of the wonderful events that took place in the early days of our pleasant little town. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It so happens that I was well acquainted with "Father G." as referred to above. I am his eldest son and happened to be 15 years old at the time this event should have occurred. My father was sexton at the time and for some years after, but never dug a half dozen graves in the graveyard during his life time. Myself and grandfather, Jimmie Hill, dug nearly all the graves from 1820 to 1825. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">I was intimately acquainted with all concerned about the Mound Cemetery from my early boyhood days until I was a man grown, and know that there never was a hole of any kind or at any time dug in the summit of the mound in question. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It is true that "Father G." had a large family, that I am the eldest son, that at the time of this event I had one brother who was a boy some 12 years old, the third boy spoken of was dead at the time, the fourth boy happened to be a girl. So that there could not have been more than two boys able to operate at the time. We had sheep at the time that were allowed to run at large, as did others. There was but little or no fence around the cemetery at the time, to prevent our sheep or others from feeding there, and the idea of watching our sheep at night is far fetched and untrue.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">My father was a poor mechanic who raised a large family by his industry; he was an honest, industrious and truthful man. His boys wore linsey and went barefoot in the summer, but they were honorable and upright. A raw-hide was an article never used or kept in the family to my knowledge. There was no town talk about the event at the expense of the family.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">What he calls "Mound Annual" I confess to be a document that I have never seen, but should like to do so. However, no odds for the Mound Annual, I know that the whole story is false as to the event, not a syllable of it is true. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I do this in self-defense, as I happened to be a live boy at the time of the great event, and thank God that I am alive yet and in good condition, and surrounded by a few old residents that lived in that day to whom I can appeal for my truth and veracity.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">William Glines</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>Old Marietta Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642102606711358964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6855721462779862559.post-67334125864160573402023-10-11T05:38:00.001-04:002023-10-11T05:38:00.145-04:00Covered Their Ears<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The Marietta Daily Times</i>, April 10, 1905</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Women On An Inter Urban Car</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">John Romire, who makes his home at Marietta and Parkersburg, created a scene Saturday afternoon on the Inter Urban car which left here at 2:30 o'clock.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The conductor had trouble in getting his fare after the car had reached Williamstown. When the fares were collected at Central, Romire was asleep and when awakened he refused to pay, and it is alleged called the collector of fares all kinds of indecent names. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Among the passengers were about 25 women and they held their hands over their ears to keep out the sound of the oaths uttered. The conductor took Romire by the neck and ejected him from the car.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">He continued his utterances and Policeman Noland placed him under arrest. His hearing was set before a Justice of the Peace at Parkersburg this morning.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>Old Marietta Ohiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09642102606711358964noreply@blogger.com0