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Why Borrow of the Peoples' Savings and Loan Association Company, of Lisbon, Ohio.
1. It is now, and since its organization, has been the most liberal in its terms and con- ditions of any financial institution in the city.
2. It is now offering loans from $100.00 to $10,000.00 at a straight rate of six per cent, per annum, payable semi-annually, with the privilege to borrower of reduction, or full payment every six months.
3. Its installment loans are very popular, and can be paid in full at any time, withont penalty or additional interest. It is charging twelve cents a week on each $100.00 of the loan and CREDITS DIVIDENDS on the borrower's required weekly payments, thus making the rate per cent abont six.
4. It distributes over $10, 000. 00 interest anually among its members, thus benefiting the borrower, his friends, neighbors and relatives.
5. Borrowers do not always intend to be borrowers (as seven-tenths of them were under the old plans), but when their indebtedhess is paid, to invest their surplus in this Company and get dividends on it.
6. It has aided more wage-earners to procure and own their own homes, since its organization, than all other financial institutions in the city, and will gladly help you if you will take the pains to investigate its plans.
7. It dose not sell and transfer its loans, so that a borrower may be called upon, sud- denly, to pay the whole amount to some stranger, and perhaps compelled to sacrifice his home.
8. If the rate per cent on Loans should become less, "The Loan" will be the first to permit its borrowers to refund their Loans at the cheaper rate.
9. Since borrowers can have all these advantages, why hesitate to investigate its plans ?
We Solicite your patronage.
THE PEOPLES' SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION CO.,
S. E. Cor. Puplic Square, Lisbon, Ohio.
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CHESTNUT STREET SCHOOL.
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been contained in a common dry goods box. Evi- dently "roots and yarbs" were the panacea for most of the bodily ills of that day, and what are now scoffed at as "old women's remedies" served to keep the pioneers in good health.
The first grocery store was conducted by George Graham at an early date. The Columbiana Bank of New Lisbon was the first bank organized in the county. The first meeting for the election of di- rectors was held March 7, 1814, and Thomas Gil- lingham, Thomas Moore, James Craig, William Harbaugh, Holland Green, Alexander Snodgrass, George Endley, Horace Potter, Martin Helman, Joseph Richardson, John Street, Elderkin Potter, and Gideon Hughes were elected directors. Martin Helman was appointed President ; Elderkin Potter, Cashier, and Fisher A. Blocksom, Attorney.
New Lisbon post-office was established about 1809 and William Harbaugh, who was the first post- master, kept the office in his saddler's-shop-a small log house which stood on East Washington Street near the site of the shops now owned by John Scott. Soon after, his partner, Capt. Thomas Rowland, was appointed, and kept the office at the same place. When Capt. Rowland went into the army in 1812, Fisher A. Blocksom was appointed deputy and re- moved the office to a small building on Market
Street, where it was kept for a few years. George Endley became post-master in 1815, and kept the office at his store on Walnut street. David Begges succeeded him and removed the office to his store of Walnut street.
The first newspaper, as has already been noted. was The Ohio Patriot-or, to be more accurate, Der Patriot am Ohio-a small German sheet published in the latter part of 1808 by William D. Lepper, a native of Hanover, Germany. The publication of the German newspaper was soon discontinued, but early in 1809 Mr. Lepper began the publication of The Ohio Patriot, in English, and continued its issue until 1833. It was quite small in its early youth, being only a four-column sheet in the beginning, but it had been enlarged to five columns when it was sold to Joseph Cabell, who made a further enlarge- ment. From 1835 to 1839 the office was owned and the paper issued by Hetzel and Gregg, who sold it to William D. Morgan. Mr. Morgan continued as editor and publisher until 1852. In that year Will- iam H. Gill became the owner of the paper, and soon enlarged it. Matthew Johnson became the owner in 1857, and, early in 1858, he was succeeded by Thomas S. Woods, who conducted it for nearly ten years, until his death in 1867, when his brother, Rob- ert G. Woods, took the paper and continued its
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The Editor.
THE OHIO PATRIOT
(Semi-Weekly)
Established in 1808.
THE OHIO PATRIOT is the oldest newspaper in the State bearing the same name continuously. It was founded by Wm. D. Lepper, a german of learning and character, and has passed through many hands since. It is an old friend in the homes of nearly 4000 patrons.
The Daily Patriot. Established in 1898.
This little daily is devoted to home news largely, and is read by four-fifths of all the families in town.
W. S. POTTS, Editor and Proprietor, LISBON, OHIO.
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publication until his death in 1873. From that date it was controlled by George H. Vallandingham and others for a year or two, when it became the prop- erty of Wilson S. Potts, who has continued its pub- lication until the present time.
The next newspaper published in New Lisbon was the New Lisbon Gazette, first issued by Robert Fee in 1826, but its existence was brief, continuing only about six months, when its publication ceased.
The Columbiana County American and New Lis- bon Free Press was the somewhat long name of the next venture in journalism in the town, having been established by William Campbell in June, 1827. Daniel Harbaugh became the owner of this paper in 1828, and John Watt was employed as editor. Mr. Watt changed the name to The Western Palladium and continued as editor until 1835, at which date Nathaniel Mitchell purchased the paper and pub- lished it until G. W. Harper and S. Corbett became proprietors in 1839. In 1842 they disposed of the paper to Joseph Wilkinson, who issued it until 1854, when it was absorbed by the Buckeye State.
In 1848, The Ocean Wave, a small temperance paper, was published for about six months by H. C. Trunick, and in March, 1832, John Frost began the publication of The Aurora, an anti-slavery and tem- perance paper which was discontinued in 1856. It
was a very positive sheet and the editor did not hesi- tate to publish his convictions.
OLD VILLAGE HALL.
A young lawyer of the village, R. D. Hartshorn, began the publication of The Buckeye State in 1852. Two years later he purchased the Western Pallad- ium and merged it into the Buckeye State, and in
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THE BUCKEYE STATE Official Paper of Columbiana County. Established 1852. $1.00 Per Year. LISBON, OHIO.
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1856 he sold the whole outfit to Robert C. Wilson, who continued the publication until his death in 1863. His son, James Wilson, then conducted the paper until he also died, in 1866. G. I. Young next became editor and proprietor and issued the paper until his death, in 1871, while he was a member of the State Legislature. The Buckeye State was then conducted a few years by his widow, who disposed of it to Ed. F. Moore and P. C. Young. In 1875 Mr. Young disposed of his interest in the paper to his partner, Mr. Moore, who continued its publica- tion until 1901, when it was purchased by The Buckeye Publishing Company, by whom it is now issued.
In 1865 J. D. Briggs commenced the issuing of The Merchants' Journal, a paper devoted to business interests, but the publication soon suspended. James K. Frew launched The New Lisbon Jorunal in April, 1867, and conducted it for many years successfully, when he retired from its management and was suc- ceeded by his son, D. Howard Frew, who afterwards sold the paper to Hinchliffe and Moffatt. After a brief time Hinchliffe disposed of his interest to Moffatt, and he in turn sold again to D. H. Frew. The Journal was finally consolidated with The Buck- eye State under its present management and went out of existence as an independent paper.
In 1892 The Republican Leader was etablished by John J. Kirk and others and later was sold to Geo. Redway, who conducted it until 1898, when it was discontinued.
Other small sheets in the interest of churches, temperance, and education have been published in the town for brief periods.
A short time after the war of 1812 a market house covering a considerable plat of ground was built in the public square, opposite the front of the present court-house. The original market house consisted only of a roof supported by two rows of brick pillars. and market was held there twice a week, in the morning. About 1830, a more substantial and artis- tic structure was erected on the same spot in place of the old building, and William Hillman was appointed clerk and weigh-master, and for many years served in that capacity for the very remunerative salary of eight dollars per year. In 1812 or 1813 a man named Hollingsworth set up a carding machine, im- mediately north of the Canton bridge, and near the same place Caleb Whitacre erected grist and saw mills, the site of which was afterwards occupied by Matthew Elder for a fulling mill and carding machine. These were destroyed by fire many years ago.
In the early days Edmund Hays erected a grist
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WILL HOLLINGER MERCHANT TAILOR N. E. COR. PARK AVE. LISBON. OHIO.
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mill, which was destroyed by fire in 1845, while owned by Daniel Harbaugh. It was rebuilt by him some years afterward and in 1870 was purchased by John S. Hunter and is now in operation, being owned by Hunter & McCord. Adjoining the cor- poration on the northeast William Harbaugh also erected a grist mill, perhaps about 1815 or 1820. This mill was afterwards converted into a distillery.
That it was not all work, worry and warfare with the pioneers of New Lisbon is shown by the fact that as early as 1813 it is recorded that the village had a band of musicians. The members were William Hillman and John Clapsaddle. violinists ; John Crafts, flutist ; while William D. Lepper plaved the piccolo and Dr. John D. Gloss the triangle. This in- strumentation will appear very odd to musicians of the present day. as will the collection of instruments in the next band organized in the village in October. 1832. The members with their various instruments are given as follows : Leader, Joseph Way, clarinet ; David Schultz, C. F. Helman, A. T. Begges, William Collier, John Beaumont, and Hiram Medill, clari- nets ; Ed. F. Lepper and Frank Richardson, bugles ; Robert Hanna, Jacob Ewing, Adam Endley and Ed. Collier. flutes ; James McElroy and J. Casper, bas- soons : William A. Hoover and Matthias Nace, vio- lins : Thomas Small and Thomas Beaumont, French
horns ; William Till, trombone; Samuel J. Hoover, ophicleide, and Pat Murphy, bass drum. This com- bination of sound producers almost equalled the "band" which accompanied the first elephant exhib- ited in New Lisbon, in 1820. That musical aggrega- tion consisted of a violin and tambourine. It is re- lated that "large numbers flocked into the village to see the show," evidently attracted by the beast and not by the music.
The earliest settlers were principally of the Pres- byterian and German Lutheran faith, the former being the first religious society to effect an organiza- tion here, which appears to have been done in 1806. As has been stated, Rev. Clement Vallandingham became the pastor in 1807, and services were first held in the old log court-house, and in fair weather a preacher's tent was used in the grove near the creek. In the month of September, 1807, appears the first record of a baptism, that of James, son of Davidson and Agnes Filson. The first church edi- fice of the congregation was erected in 1814, nearly west of the present jail. It was a large, plain, un- comfortable, one-story building, in which the seats were high and the aisles were paved with brick. In 1836 the congregation was incorporated and about 1841, a new church was completed on the lot where the present church building stands and was occu-
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pied until ..... when it was damaged by fire so that it became necessary to raze it. The present com- modious church was erected in . . .
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LUTHERAN CHURCH.
The German Lutheran and Reformed Societies, while having an organization here at an early date,
did not erect a house of worship until about 1833. having atended divine worship in the old court- house before that date. Their earlier records were long ago destroyed, so not much information can be gleaned concerning them, but in or about 1833 they erected the brick church on Washington street. Many of the members residing in the country, they became attached to the churches north of town, and regular services were not held in the town church.
About 1813, the Society of Friends, or Quakers, began to hold meetings in a dwelling, but about 1816, a small meeting house was built on Jefferson street, which is still standing. Here services were kept up as long as any were held by the Friends in the village, but their existence as a religious organ- ization in the place terminated long ago.
Some time after 1812, the Calvanistic Baptist church was organized, and about 1815 they built a frame meeting house on the corner of High and Jef- ferson streets. This house was used by the Baptists and their successors-the Disciples-until 1841. The Baptist Society ceased to exist in 1827, and the mem- bers merged with the Disciples, and the present house of worship was built in 1841.
The Methodist Episcopal church was not fully organized in New Lisbon until about 1822, but for a number of years prior to that date Methodism was
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established in the village, and in 1818 the place was recognized as a regular appointment on the Beaver circuit, and services were held about once a month. The first place of meeting was a small frame house a
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METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
little west of Arter's tannery. About 1826, a plain brick edifice on the hill half a square east of Market street was provided, and was used until 1838, when the church was erected on the southwest corner of the square. This building was used until . , when
the present attractive structure was occupied.
In 1829. the congregation of the West Beaver United Presbyterian church had five members resid- ing in New Lisbon, who were occasionally supplied with preaching in the old log school-house. On April 28, 1839, the congregation was formally con- stituted in the village and purchased the old brick Methodist house of worship on High street, and on January 1, 1860. the new church building on Walnut street was completed and services have been held there sinse that date.
The Protestant Methodist church began to hold meetings in the village in 1831, in a small brick house on Chestnut street, but about 1837, they erected a new building on the northwest corner of the public square, which became known as the "White church," but in 1848 the society became ex- tinct. The Wesleyan Methodists also held meet- ings in the village about 1842, but never formed a permanent organization.
The services of the Protestant Episcopal church were held in New Lisbon as early as 1847, and at later periods, but no organization was effected until 1863. The meetings were first held in the German church and then in the court-house until 1876, when a neat chapel was erected on Walnut street. The Roman Catholic church numbered a few members
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OLDEST MUTUAL COMPANY IN OHIO.
THE COLUMBIANA COUNTY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
INCORPORATED MARCH 2, 1837. CHARTER PERPETUAL. NEVER FAILED TO PAY A LOSS.
GOOD RISKS WRITTEN AT REASONABLE RATES ON CITY, TOWN AND COUNTRY PROPERTY. OFFICE: LISBON, OHIO.
WM. M. HOSTETTER,
SECY .- TREAS.
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in the place for several yars, but no building was erected by that denomination until 1887, when the present structure on West Chestnut street was built.
Several celebrated ministers of the gospel preached in New Lisbon at various times, among others being the eminent but eccentric Lorenzo Dow, who, in 1817, preached to vast audiences in a beauti- ful grove of sugar trees near the foot of Market street.
The march of improvement went on and progress was made in all lines in the village, most of the citi- zens believing no doubt that it would become one of the important inland cities of the nation, and when on January II, 1826, The Sand and Beaver Canal Company was incorporated, visions of commercial greatness in the near future loomed up before the people. The act incorporating the company was amended March 9, 1830, but work was not formally begun until November 24, 1834. Elderkin Potter, a prominent lawyer of the village, with his own hands performed the ceremony of "breaking ground" for the enterprise, near the old Hughes furnace in the presence of a large concourse of people who had as- smbled to witness the imposing ceremony, after which he made an eloquent speech to the multitude present, in which he set forth, in glowing terms, the great future of New Lisbon and Columbiana county,
which would grow out of the canal project. The canal extended from the mouth of Little Beaver, on the Ohio river, to Bolivar, on the Ohio canal, fol- lowing Little Beaver and the middle fork of the
ST. GEORGE'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.
same to New Lisbon, thence crossing to a point near the head waters of the west fork, following that sev- eral miles, and then crossing the water shed to the upper waters of a branch of the Sandy, thence with the course of that stream to where it flows into the
Residence of WM. M. HOSTETTER, East Walnut Street, LISBON, OHIO.
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Tuscarawas river, and there connecting with the Ohio canal, thereby securing canal connection with Portsmouth and intermediate points to the south, and Cleveland and intermediate points to the north. In following the streams and crossing ridges the canal had many curves which increased its length. The distance between its terminal points is about forty-five miles on a straight line, while the canal is over sixty miles long. After the first breaking of the ground in 1834, the work of construction was prosecuted with vigor until the financial panic of 1837 caused a suspension of the work and it was not completed until 1846, the first boat from the east, under command of Captain Dunn, reaching New Lisbon on October 26th of that year. The arrival was hailed with great rejoicing, a jubilee meeting was held at Hanna's warehouse, at which New Lisbon's most eloquent attorney made an ap- propriate speech on behalf of the citizens. to which Dr. Leonard Hanna gave an earnest response on behalf of the directors of the canal corporation. The day's celebration closed with an exhibition of fire-works, and a supper and ball at the Watson House. One of the many packets which traversed the canal between New Lisbon and the river was the "David Begges," commanded by Captain George Ramsey. The east end of the canal, from New Lis-
bon to the Ohio river, was kept up and used for some years, but the middle division, from New Lis- bon to Minerva, was used only a very short time. The Sandy and Beaver Canal was one of those pub- lic improvements which, during its construction and for some years thereafter, distributed capital, gave employment to many workmen at good prices, fur- nished a market for the products of the fruitful farms along its course, stimulated the spirit of en- terprise, increased the value of real estate along its entire length and for quite a distance on either side, and in many ways was a factor in the development and progress of the country, but its early failure was a disastrous blow to New Lisbon. Several of its most enterprising citizens removed to other fields of labor and expended their wealth and energy in other cities, and the construction of the Ohio and Pennsylvania railroad, afterwards called the Pitts- burgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago, about 1852, along the northern border, and the Cleveland and Pitts- burgh railroad about the same time along the south- ern border of the country, left the village between them without any direct communication with other places of importance except by means of the com- mon public roads, so that, except for the several terms of court, the county fair, and such other mat- ters as occasionally attracted the people from the
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FOR OVER HALF A CENTURY
The name of MORRON has been identified with the business inter- ests of this, the Centennial City of Ohio ....... Old residents, as well as new, will find WILL engaged in the GRO- CERY and PROVISION business on SOUTH MARKET STREET,
Trying as in years past to give the people of Lisbon and vicinity value received, for the good hard dollars left with him. While in the City make our store headquarters, We will try and make it pleasant for YOU .......
WILL MORRON, THE UNION GROCER, 'PHONE 44. MORRON BUILDING, S. MARKET ST.
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surrounding country and neighboring towns, a seem- ing state of lethargy prevailed in the village for a number of years. But during this period of re- tarded progress and commercial inactivity the town kept pace with the rest of the world in many other ways, and when the faint rumblings of an approach- ing storm were heard in the years 1859 and 1860, the citizens were alert and watched the signs and portents with feverish anxiety, and when the clouds gathered and broke in the great civil war in 1861, the people of New Lisbon were as patriotic and ready to defend their beloved country as were their forefathers in the dark and trying days of 1812.
The condition of National affairs immediately following the spirited political campaign of 1860- the fact that a president of the United States was obliged for his own personal safety to enter the cap- itol of his country secretly and by night, furnished the theme for many anxious discussions among the citizens, but when on that bright April morning in 1861, the first gun fired on the American flag by American citizens on American soil caused its re- verberations to echo throughout a continent, a dazed feeling took possession of the entire population. Workshops were closed, labor was suspended, neigh .. bor hurried to meet neighbor, anxious eyes peered into others which reflected the same expression, and
with bated breath and beating hearts was the inter- rogation propounded "Have they dared to do it?" The further news from Fort Sumpter but confirmed the first report, then a reaction took place and the feelings of doubt and suspense gave way to that of indignation. The newspapers were eagerly scanned and all were anxious to learn the latest news from the seat of war. The war was actually in progress and the fate of Col. Anderson and his brave band within the walls of old Sumpter enlisted the liveliest interest of every one. On the 15th of April, just three days after the first gun of the rebellion had been fired, President Lincoln issued his famous pro- clamation calling for the services of seventy-five thousand men to aid in putting down armed resist- ance to the lawful government of the United States. The shrill music of the fife, the rattle of the drum. the glare' of the bonfire at night meetings, the elo- quent appeals of the orators, all combined to excite the patriotic ardor and enthusiasm of the people. Young men who had from infancy been taught the lesson of faith in and fidelity to America and an undivided union, and old men whose silvered locks had many years been blown about by the same breezes which unfolded to their view the starry ban- ner of the great republic, vied with each other in placing their names upon the roll of their country's
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JOHN W. SCOTT, Florist,
West Walnut Street, Lisbon, Ohio.
Cut Flowers and Plants. Wedding and Funeral Designs made to order. Carnations a Specialty,
Col. Co. 'Phone 98.
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defenders. Immature youths who could not obtain the consent of their parents to join the army, stealth- ily left the old homestead, and even went into other states to enlist, and thus avoided their recall by their fond parents. Husbands, leaving the home fireside in the evening to purchase provisions for the fam- ily, came home an hour later, enlisted soldiers, ex- pecting orders to march. Fathers leaving the cares of the household and business to mothers and the children, forgetting their age and many infirmi- ties, promptly and proudly placed their names upon the muster roll, nerved with the memory of many happy years of peace and prosperity under the best government on earth, and sustained by the hope that after a brief conflict, the smoke of battle would be dispelled, and the white-winged angel of peace would soon spread her broad pinions over all our land without one state lost or one star dimmed in the constellation of our flag. But while the fire of patriotism burned high in the breasts of the men of that day, what shall be said of their mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters? Most glowing and deserved eulogies have been pronounced, praising the valor of those brave men who sundered the ties that bound them to home and loved ones and went forth boldly, to die if need be, for their coun- try ; but what has been said or written in encomium
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