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Directors elected December 31, 1900.
Original of first board as follows, to wit: J. M. Martin, R. E. Niven, Ben. C. Booher, J. P. Staley, W. C. Jaques, Frank C. Phillips, W. T. Hooton, J. M. Brendel, Anthony Kincaid.
Officers elected December 31, 1900, as follows, to wit: J. M. Martin, president : R. E. Niven, vice-president; Isaac P. Hooton, cashier; W. T. Hooton, assistant cashier ; Bert Cook and Alta E. Martin, bookkeepers.
Capital stock increased April 23, 1902 to $50,000.00.
Capital stock increased April 18, 1906, to $100,000.00.
List Original Stockholders-R. E. Niven, Brendel & Harvey, A. P.
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Fitch, Charles A. Gochenour, B. F. Simmons, James M. Nicely, Frank C. Phillips, James A. White, W. C. Jaques, Ben. C. Booher, James P. Staley, J. M. Martin, John Aldrich, J. W. Jones, B. F. Ratcliff, Charles J. Stewart, C. O. Brown, W. T. and I. P. Hooton, Martin McBroom, Anthony Kincaid, Frank LaFollette, Margaret Cunningham, M. F. Campbell, B. F. Hawkins, George T. Young, H. P. Stephens.
Present Officers-J. M. Martin, president, elected December 31, 1900; J. P. Staley, cashier, elected March 1I, 1902 ; J. E. Morrison, vice-president, elected January 2, 1908; John L. Wade, assistant cashier, elected September 20, 1907; Homer Dale, assistant cashier, elected October 4, 1909; Alva L. Martin, teller; Ray Potts, Chester Johnson, bookkeepers.
Statement of condition at the close of business October 31, 1914:
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RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts
$390,185.28
Overdrafts
4,557.74
Banking House
40,000.00
Furniture and Fixtures
4,112.50
Other Real Estate.
948.95
Due from Banks and Trust Companies.
23,000.63
Cash on Hand
20,975.48
Cash Items
495.96
Current Expenses
3,237.88
Interest Paid
1,565.77
Total Resources
$489,080.19
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock Paid In
$100,000.00
Surplus
45,000.00
Undivided profits
2,000.00
Exchange, Discounts and Interest
9,617.52
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I, John L. Wade, assistant cashier $213,- 006.04; demand certificates, $65,719.12; time certificates, $21,800 300,525.16
Due to Banks and Trust Companies 11,937.51
Bills Payable 20,000.00
Total Liabilities
$489,080.19
BOONE COUNTY STATE BANK, LEBANON.
Boone County State Bank was organized October 14, 1911, and has been in operation over three years.
Statement of condition at close of business October 14, 1914:
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts
$154,150.46
Overdrafts
2,699.91
Bonds
960.00
Furniture and Fixtures
7,350.00
Cash and Due from Banks
38,816.13
Premiums
Expense
48.41
Interest Paid
309.34
Total
$204,334.25
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock
$50,000.00
Surplus
5,380.00
Discount and Interest
535.79
Deposits
148,418.46
Deposits, Time
Bills Payable
Total
$204,334.25
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Present Officers-Morris Ritchie, president, B. F. Herdrick, vice-presi- dent ; George E. Adams, cashier; Charles M. Forbes, assistant cashier. Di- rectors : Morris Ritchie, B. F. Herdrick, Elbert Perkins, Pat Shahan, R. S. Stall, George E. Adams, F. E. Hutchinson.
CITIZENS LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY.
This company was organized in 1899.
Statement of condition at the close of business September 14, 1914:
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts
$227,000.00
Due from Banks
23,000.00
Cash and Expense
12,000.00
Other Resources
7,000.00
LIABILITIES.
Capital
$25,000.00
Undivided Deposits
216,000.00
Savings Deposits
37,000.00
Trust Deposits
37,000.00
The present officers are as follows : A. Wysong, president ; W. J. DeVol, vice-president ; W. T. Hooton, secretary-treasurer ; J. A. Coons, assistant sec- retary-treasurer.
THE CITIZENS STATE BANK, JAMESTOWN.
This bank was organized July 1, 1903, with a capital stock of $25,000 and succeeded the Piersol & Roberts Bank, a private institution. The capital stock was increased from $25,000 to $30,000 on July 1, 1910. The first of- ficers were, Charles F. Martin, president; Marion Bailey, vice-president; George W. Piersol, cashier; Marion H. Roberts, assistant cashier. The first directors were, Americus C. Daily, Mat Martin, Daniel Feely, Charles F.
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Martin, Marion Porter, Marion Bailey, Nathan A. Tucker, James O. Graves, David H. Shockley.
The present officers are, Charles F. Martin, president; Marion Bailey, vice-president; George W. Piersol, cashier; Marion H. Roberts, assistant cashier ; Granville Wells, assistant cashier. Present directors, Charles F. Mar- tin, Marion Bailey, George W. Piersol, Marion H. Roberts, James T. Leak, Nathan A. Tucker, Mat Martin, Richard Miller, David H. Shockley.
The capital, surplus and undivided profits at this time are $40,000.00. This bank carries average deposits of $175,000 and average loans of a like amount.
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STATE BANK OF JAMESTOWN, INDIANA.
Statement of condition at close of business November 6, 1914:
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts
$189,003.08
Other Items Making Total of. 239.785.50
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock
$30,000.00
Surplus, Undivided Profits 9,000.00
Deposits and Certificates 149,024.76
Other Items Making Total of
_$239,785.50
GEORGE W. PIERSOL, Cashier.
STATE BANK OF ADVANCE.
This bank was established in 1901 and has had a steady growth from the start. The following is a statement of its condition :
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts
$82,000.00
State and M. Bonds
2,000.00
Due from Banks
95,000.00
Cash and Exchange.
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6,000.00
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FARMERS STATE BANK-LEBANON.
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LIABILITIES.
Capital
25,000.00
Surplus and Profits
7,000.00
Deposits
177,000.00
The present officers are W. J: DeVol, president, J. S. Wilden, vice-presi- dent ; H. C. Epperson, cashier ; Fred Thompson, assistant cashier.
FARMERS BANK OF ZIONSVILLE.
This is a private institution on a firm basis of a capital of $25,000 and was organized in 1882. It is abundantly qualified to accommodate the bank- ing interest of Eagle township and community. The individual deposits amount to about $100,000 and the total business of the bank will average about $125,000. The present officers are J. W. Brendel, president, M. D. Harvey, cashier, E. Harvey, assistant cashier.
CITIZENS BANK OF WHITESTOWN.
This small banking house in this village, the capital of Worth township, is amply able to accommodate all banking demands. It was organized in 1901, and at present has a capitalization of $10,000 and an average deposit of $100,000. This bank and the Farmers Bank of Zionsville compose a monetary for the southeast part of Boone county, including Union, Eagle, Perry and Worth townships. The officers of the Citizens Bank are, P. Smith, president ; Benjamin F. Hawkins, vice-president ; Roy C. Smith, cashier.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF THORNTOWN.
This bank was the first regular banking institution and was organized soon after the Civil war and continued in business during the time of its char- ter when it closed its business and was succeeded by the State Bank of Thorn- town in 1890, with a capital stock of $30,000, afterwards increased to $40,000.
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STATE BANK OF THORNTOWN.
Statement of condition at close of business November 6, 1914:
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts
$196,856.80
Overdrafts
1,195.16
Other Bonds and Securities
353.10
Cash and Dues from Banks
72,738.88
Total
$241,143.94
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock
$40,000.00
Surplus
10,000.00
Undivided Profits
5,599-55
Deposits
180,544.39
Bills Payable
5,000.00
Total
$241,143.94
HUGH NIVEN, Cashier.
HOME NATIONAL BANK, THORNTOWN.
Statement of condition at close of business November 10, 1914:
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts
$119,488.92
Overdrafts
677.57
Unpaid Bonds 30,000.00
Bonds, Securities, etc. 4,260.00
Banking House and Fixtures
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11,340.00
Due from Reserved Agents.
23,800.68
Checks and Cash Items
398.73
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Notes of Other National Banks
90.00
Nickels and Cents.
76.37
Lawful Money in Bank.
6,899.00
Redemption Fund U. S. Treasury
1,500.00
Total
$198.521.27
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock
30,000.00
Surplus Fund
7,000.00
Undivided Profits
1,455.66
National Bank Notes
30,000.00
Dividends Unpaid
320.00
Individual Deposits
102,950.03
Demand Deposits
22,695.68
Bills Payable
5,000.00
Total
$198,521.27 HUGH WOODY, Cashier.
CHAPTER XVI.
CITIES AND TOWNS OF THE COUNTY.
LEBANON.
Lebanon, the county-seat of Boone, is situated in the center of the county. The court house is located on the second meridian line, and five hundred and fifty-five feet north of the half section lines of section 36, town 19 north, range I west, and section 31, town 19 north, range I east, being in longitude 86" and 28' west, and latitude 40° and 4' north. Its elevation above sea level is 950 feet. It is over 200 feet above Indianapolis, and 100 feet above Frankfort and Crawfordsville. In this section of the state of Indiana, it is indeed the Lebanon in altitude when compared with other towns and cities. It was staked out in the woods and bogs on Prairie creek, about twelve miles from its confluence with Sugar creek at Thorn- town.
Abner H. Longley has the distinction of driving the first stake for a home in its limits. It will be of interest to know how he reached the point. In the spring of 1832, as he came creeping along the state highway that was marked out from Indianapolis to LaFayette. he stuck in a swamp southeast of his destination in the crossing of Prairie creek, a mile and one-half southeast of Lebanon. He had to hunt around through the woods to get someone to help him out of his difficulty. He finally found Benjamin Dunn. who resided on the same road three miles northwest of Lebanon. He had a large pioneer heart, and cheerfully yoked "Buck and Bright" and accom- panied him to the place, where he had left the wagon in the swamp, and thus kindly assisted, they brought the wagon and its contents into the port of Lebanon without "steam or sail." Mr. Longley having secured a lot on the southwest corner of the public square, erected the first house in the prospective city, a rough, one-room log cabin, and into this log cabin he and his family of ten persons, consisting of his wife and six children, his wid-
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owed mother and his sister, lived. In front of this cabin the first veranda was constructed. It was built by setting some rude posts into the ground and placing overhead the green, new cut branches of the trees. It made a delightful shade and was considered a luxury in its day. It was distin- guished by being occupied as the first justice hall in the city of Lebanon. Here the first session of the circuit court was held. When Judge Morris. William Quarles and Calvin Fletcher, Esqs., arrived for the purpose of holding the first court they remarked, "Well, here is Lebanon, but where are the houses?" Mr. Longley was the entire town at that time. Home, school, church, court and the whole shop was under his hospitable roof. John Patterson has the distinction of being the second settler, and built the second log cabin in the flourishing city. The next year, 1833, William M. Smith swelled the population with his family, and erected the third log cabin. His home has the distinction of coming up by the first log-rolling ever held in the growing city. Soon after this the town had a boom, and S. S. Brown, J. S. Forsythe, J. C. Lane, Jonathan H. Rose, the first doctor, Levi Lane came, followed by many others. During the winter of 1835 the trees on the public square were felled and cut into logs, rolled into heaps and burned. The great portion of the town plat was yet in the woods. These few cabins were surrounded by tall trees, if they were not the cedars of Lebanon. Hickory, oak, maple, walnut and others of gigantic growth of over one hundred feet in height overshadowed their homes. The first court house was built in 1835. It was a hewn log structure. It stood im- mediately north of the public square and just west of the present jail. It served as a hall of justice for five years, when a brick building of two stories was erected on the present site, which cost our fathers at that time the enormous sum of four thousand dollars. This second house served until 1855, when the third house was begun and finished in 1857, at a cost of forty thousand dollars. The third house was razed in 1910 and rebuilt in 1911, at a cost of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. This growth and development of court houses is an excellent index of the growth of the county-seat, and it in turn of the wonderful advance of the county from an almost impenetrable wilderness to the beauty, wealth and luxury that we behold on every hand today. To have a good idea of what has been wrought by our people in less than seventy-five years, look at Lebanon in its beginnings, and its court house of this date. All other interests of the people
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have kept pace in homes, churches and schools. This great change did not all come in a day. It was of slow growth. The old citizens can remember when the city was still in the bogs. In 1840, when the first brick court house was built, it was surrounded by modest frame buildings. It was in- teresting at that time and even at a much later period, to know how the people got about in times when Prairie creek had possession of the town. There were a few plank walks set on blocks sawed from trees and set on end and planks laid endwise. In times of flood they became rafts and it took some art to walk on them. Often the pedestrians would be derailed and have to swim or wade owing to the depth of the water. Later, travel was by mud boats or plunging into mud from the ankle upwards. Back in those days they got it out on the Lebanonites that they were "web-footed," and the name went to all Booneites and stuck to them until they got out of the mud and water. It was this "guy" that goaded them into activity, and hastened the system of ditching and road building.
If one would look into Lebanon today, with its handsome homes, its modern public buildings, its paved streets and beauty, it would be difficult to convince him that a few years ago it was what our fathers say of it. If we could only see the town in the forties and the fifties, and behold its beauty and luxury of today, it would aid us in appreciating what our fathers en- dured for us. It gives some conception of the toil and hardships that they underwent to secure for us this rich heritage. They planted in the muck and the mire out of which has come the beauty of the lily of our day. They were the hewers of wood and the drawers of water, the very mud sills of our civilization. If they had not wrought and sacrificed we would yet be in the woods and wading in the swamps. We pause to give this picture of the beginnings, that we may know from whence we came, and to enable us to better appreciate the high privileges that have come to us as a heritage from our forefathers.
The town dragged heavily through the mud and made very slow prog- ress. Ten and twenty years passed in this way until many that started to build wore their lives out in the effort, passed away or moved to a more healthful clime. It would make an interesting book to tell the story of the first twenty years of the struggle of this county-seat in the mud and woods of Boone county. The story will never be told because the participants are all gone. Now and then the curtain is drawn and a glimpse of the toilers is caught.
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James Samuel Strong was born in Ohio in the year 1805. Four years later, on June 8, 1809, in the Miami valley, Miss Temperance was born, daughter of George Weller and Sarah Bell Crist. Her father moved to what is now Union county, Indiana, in 1812. Samuel Strong, as a young . man, came later, wooed Miss Temperance, and on April 12, 1832, they were joined in wedlock. Before the honeymoon was over the bride and groom set their faces westward and landed in Lebanon and began to build a home. As an industry he established the first tanyard. Here he reared a large family. He was postmaster and school commissioner for a term of years in the forties. By an act of the Legislature in 1852 the town of Lebanon was incorporated in 1853. It had remained as a village for twenty-three years and for the next twenty-two years was content to be called a town. In 1875 it was organized as a city, with the following officers: Mayor, Samuel L. Hamilton; clerk, W. A. Zion; treasurer, William H. Richey; marshal, Jesse Perkins; assessor, Lysander Darnall; councilmen, A. O. Mil- ler, A. C. Daily, Thomas Ailesworth, James Nealis, Sol Witt and Joseph Kelley. Note the stages of developments, first a village, next a town, now a city measuring well up with its neighbors throughout the great state of In- diana and royally wears the honor of being the county-seat of the foremost county in the state.
Lebanon is a solid city. It is not a mushroom growth. It has come up through hard knocks. If it was built in a swamp, its mud sills were laid deep and are down on hard pan. It is here to stay and grow. It is not one of the big towns of this day, but it is solid and brim full of energy and push. See its paved streets. It would be hard work to make one believe that for a long time in our history that they were almost impassible. See the beautiful homes, the graceful, commodious churches, the substantial public buildings after the latest improved designs, the magnificent school buildings with all modern fittings, the splendid business houses for manufacturing and facilitating trade, and above all the peaceful home-like spirit that pre- vails, making this a very paradise of beauty, health and quiet. When we behold all these comforts of life we want to forget all the history of the past and dwell on this picture of delight. We are not advertising, but there is no better place to live under the shining sun than the Lebanon of Boone county today. It is like all the precious things of this world, it came through toil, sacrifice and long suffering.
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ADVANCE.
This town is located in the northeast part of Jackson township and on the Midland railroad, nine miles southwest of Lebanon and five miles north of Jamestown. The place is comparatively new, springing up when the above railroad was proposed. The town contains quite a number of shops, several stores, which require mechanics, merchants, of course there are doc- tors, good schools, churches and many good residences. There is a post- office, which is a great convenience to the people of the northeast of Jack- son and surrounding country. The people possess an enviable reputation as entertainers. Some of their Sunday school conventions are passed upon as the very best held in the county, notably the one of 1908. Every interest of the community is kept thoroughly up to date.
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CLARKSTOWN.
This once thriving little town was situated on the Michigan road, just north of where Little Eagle crosses the same. It kept this name for years, when it was changed to that of Hamilton, about the year 1838 or 1839. It was first named after Walter Clark, of Ohio. It was laid out on the land of Jacob Hoover in or about the year 1833. The following were the first citizens: Frederick Lowe, who built the first house and kept public house ; Elias Bishop, John and George Lowe, the Duzans, Jacob Hoover. The first blacksmith was Critchfield. The first doctors were W. N. Duzan, George Selders, George W. Duzan. The first merchants were Jacob Hoover, John Duzan, Oel Thayer, Zachariah Owsley. Zachariah Turpin kept a grocery. The first tanner was James Sheets. The first carding machine was built by Jacob Hoover and Moses Lyons as early as 1837 and has been kept up ever since; is now owned by Paul D. Liebhardt, with a sawmill attached. Andrew Hopkins, Clinton Osborn and Allen Brook were the saddlers and harness-makers. The town has been allowed to go into de- cadence. There are only a few dilapidated houses remaining that mark the site of the once flourishing town of Clarkstown.
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DOVER.
This town was laid out in 1850 by Ariss Pauley. It was first known as "Crackaway." It is located near the center of Jefferson township, on the Noblesville gravel road and the Thorntown and Jamestown road, eight miles from Lebanon, in a fine part of the county. In 1860 a postoffice was established here and named Cason, in remembrance of Thomas J. Cason, of Lebanon. It has been for years the center or voting place for the town- ship. The first merchant was Wesley Adkins, who started a store in 1860. The first postmaster was William Goldsburgh, succeeded by Joseph S. Mil- ler. In 1851, James Stephenson built a sawmill here. The following doc- tors have practiced here: Doctors Clair, Oxly, C. Smith, Hamilton, John S. Smith, Finch, Crafton and W. H. Ware. The first woodshop was by J. L. Pyles: first blacksmith, William Goldsburgh. The names of mer- chants and mechanics are : McDaniel & Brother, merchants; Lewis Denny, blacksmith; Henry J. Frazier, carpenter; Hezekiah Kerfart, shoemaker; Robert Denny, carpenter; Lee Miles, workingman. Three churches, one school house and fourteen families making in the eighties about fifty in- habitants.
FAYETTE.
Fayette is located on Whitelick, in Perry township, and in the southern part of it near the Hendricks county line and in section ten. The town is well located on an elevated, well-drained piece of land. The town contains two stores, school house and several good private residences. Fayette was laid out on the land originally owned by Edwin Shurley and Mr. Turner. The merchants are Mr. McDaniel and Shurley; doctors, W. T. Everts and Jourden. Drug store by Josephus Dodson. Former merchants were Thomas J. Lumpkins and Thomas Fitch. Fayette is the voting place of Perry town- ship, and is the center of considerable trade, not only in Boone but also of Hendricks county. Dr. W. E. Everts, who has a fine practice, also has charge of the postoffice. Fayette contains some three hundred inhabitants, of sober, industrious habits. The settlement here on Whitelick dates back to the thirties. The town, however, is not quite that old.
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GADSDEN.
Gadsden is located in Union township, on the Midland railroad, in the center of section 31, town 19 north, range I east. It is the second station out from Lebanon, Heath being the first. A branch of Eagle creek, called Mt. Run, takes its rise and meanders slowly along between it and the school house located in the northeast corner of the section, a half mile north and a half mile east by road. Considerable trading is done at the flourishing department store here for neighborhood trade, and from out the smithy's shop, a necessary adjunct of all country places, his cheery anvil rings out early and late. With good roads the scattered farm houses in sight are within easy reach from this station for all visitors to the country. It main- tains a weekly correspondent to the county pioneer paper in Lebanon, which furnishes the country side with news of its happenings.
HAZELRIGG.
This town is located on the Indianapolis, Cincinnati & LaFayette Rail- road, six miles northwest of Lebanon, in the southeast corner of Washing- ton township. It was laid out on the land originally owned by H. G. Hazel- rigg and named in his honor. It has been a stopping and shipping point of some note since its inception. While a railroad station it has all the marks of a country village store, blacksmith shop, postoffice and the usual number of dwelling houses. The Presbyterians established a church there, but the house is used now, if at all, more as a social center. Over the store estab- lished by S. Klepfer, however, is a public hall, used for general purposes, such as lectures, meetings of a religious character, etc. Hazelrigg is located in a fine part of the county. The people here could illy do without a post- office and other conveniences such as elevators and silos throughout the neighborhood to save grain and provender. The population is steadily on the increase from eighteen souls upwards.
JAMESTOWN.
This thriving town is situated in the south part of Jackson township. in section 10, town 17 north, range 2 west. It was laid out by James Mat-
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lock and John R. Gibson in 1832. The first house built was by John R. Gibson in 1829. It was of round logs, with overlapping corners, of the pattern of the very first houses built in the woods of Boone county. If you get a view of one, you have a conception of all of that class. The style was not changed. It was the invariable rule for the construction of the round log cabin of the pioneer. Its rudeness was modified by the hewn log house that was the next style of the pioneer house, and marked an advance in beauty and convenience for a home. The boys and girls of our day can scarcely realize the style and inconvenience of the home of their grandpar- ents in this county of eighty-five years ago. The first store in the village was opened by Samuel Hughes in a log cabin on the south side of Main street. For some time he sold without opposition, but in course of time, as it is in any thrifty, growing town, competition came. John Galvin started a store on the corner, and became a lively competitor, and set business a going with such vim that it attracted trade from all the adjoining country, including traders from Hendricks and Montgomery counties, more than doubling the trade of each, and making room for others in the trade and other industries, until the village grew into a lively trade center. The town being happily located, on the state road from Indianapolis to Crawfords- ville, it soon became a stage town of first importance. There must be taverns to accommodate the traveling public. There must also be stables to keep and provide for the change of horses. In that age of our progress, a stage town was of more importance than it is now to be a railroad crossing. Any town so favored was set up and felt itself above its neighbors who were not so favored. It gave the town a boost and started it a going until railroads, trolleys and oil lines came in with the greater progress of our day.
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