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The Peoples' Bank, of Newport, was organized August 19, 1875, with a capital stock of fifteen thousand dollars. The officers then were Dr. J. E. Singer, president, and W. S. Riekenbangh, cashier. The first directors were P. M. Kop- ner, IT. C. Lewis, John Bair, Jerome Hetrick, Charles K. Smith and Joseph B. Leiby. In 1886 the officers are John Bair, president ; P. K. Brandt, cashier. Directors in 1886 are John Bair, P. M. Kepner, II. C. Lewis, Charles K. Smith, William Wertz, Jas. B. Leiby, P. K. Brandt.
G. A. R. Posr .-- Lientenant Arnold Lo- bangh G. A. R. Post, No. 297, of Newport, was instituted on the 18th of Jannary, 1883, with the following charter members: Joshua Sweger, D. J. Klinepeter, A. Frederick Keim, Elias Beaumont, Samuel Clay, Josiah Ziegler, John Anderson, HT. Clay Jones, Daniel K. Smith, Samnel Graham, Nehemiah Arndt, I. M. Etter, John M. Barrick. Number of members at the present time ninety.
Thaddeus C. Reider Camp, S. of V., U. S. A., of Newport, was instituted on the 8th of April, 1884, with the following charter members: F. A. Fry, C. P. Brown, Elton II. Wallace, T. O. Fleck, F. P. Whitmer, S. E. Whitmer, W. II. Sailor, Jno. L. Crist, C. B. Crist, W. II. Wertz, I. T. Toland, I. M. Wolf, F. D. Tate, T. J. Hopple, J. M. Lemey, W. E. Lemey, G. F. Wright, I. M. Cook, 1I. E. Cook, II. B. Eby, W. It. Fleurie, L. J. Crist, H. Brown, HI. II.
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Frank, I. J. Frank, F. Flickinger, C. B. Gantt, C. E. Tromp, E. D. Klinepeter. Number of members at the present time thirty-three.
Newport Lodge, No. 102, of I. O. of (). F., of Pennsylvania, was instituted on the 18th of March, 1815, with eight charter members. There are sixty members at present.
Newport Lodge, No. 881, A. Y. M. was instituted in 1867 with eight charter members, The members at present time mumber thirty- six.
Newport Chapter, No. 238, R. A. M., was established with ten charter members.
CHAPTER XXIV.
OLIVER TOWNSHIP.
OLIVER township borders on the Juniata River for about six miles, from the southern line of' Tuscarora township to the great bend between Newport and Bailysburg. It is bounded on the west by Juuiata and Centre townships, and on the south by Miller, and its entire area does not. exceed twenty square miles.
Excepting the margin of the river, where some flat and alluvial land occurs, the whole surface of the township is hilly and much of it wooded. No heavy timber exists, the demands of the charcoal furnaces in years past having caused its destruction.
Limestone Ridge, extending from Centre town- ship, passes through its southern angle and af- fords the only supply of limestone of any value that is contained within its limits.
The Buffalo Hills run parallel and a short dis- tance north of Limestone Ridge. They are not continuons, but broken by deep passes or gaps. There is consequently no gathering ground of sufficient extent to produce a considerable stream. All the runs that issne from the springs among the hills find their way through one or another of these gaps into the basin on the north side of the range.
Middle Ridge and Limestone Ridge form the northern and southern boundaries respectively of the basin of the Little Buffalo Crock, which
falls into the Juniata at Newport, and is there used to supply mill-power and ice.
In the northern part of the township the western bank of the river is fenced in by high cliff's close to the water, while the bank on the other side is comparatively low. The reverse is the case just above Newport .?
FORMATION OF TOWNSHIP .- A petition was presented to the court of Perry County, at the January term of 1836, signed by eighty-nine persons, as follows:
" The petition of the subscribers, inhabitants of the townships of Buffalo, Juniata and Con- tre, in said County, respectfully represents that they labor under great inconvenience in many respects for want of a new township to be eree. ted ont of the townships of Buffalo, Juniata and Centre, and therefore pray the Court to ap- point persons to view and lay out the same ac- cording to law, and the boundaries of the Gen- eral Election District of Newport, which are as follows, to wit :
" Beginning at the Juniata River at the line between Centreand Wheatfield townships; thence across the Juniata River at the line to Buffalo township; thence up the said river to the house of James Shield, including the same ; thence a northern course to Thomas Boyd's, including his house; along the line of said Boyd and Swift north, till they intersect the line between Buf- falo and Greenwood townships; thence along said line to the Juniata River; thence up the same to the Rope Ferry ; thence across the Jun- iata River to the house of Abraham Reider, in- eluding the same ; thence a through course to the house of Samuel Murray, including the same; thence a straight line to the house of Peter Werts, including the same; thenee a straight southerly line to the house of John Bressler, and including the same ; thence a south course to the top of Limestone Ridge in Cen- tre township; thence an casterly course to a saw-mill, known as 'Stengle's old saw-mill;' thence the same course till it intersects the line between Wheatfield and Penn townships; thence along said line to the place of beginning. And we, as in duty bound, will pray."
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In accordance with this request, the court, on Jaumary 6th, appointed William West, Esq., Andrew Linn, Esq., and Robert Irvine the viewers. No report was made until the No- wember session in 1837. The report was signed by William West and Robert Irvine, und was in favor of the erection of a new town- -hip with substantially the boundaries suggested m the petition. The report was confirmed by wurt November 11, 1837, and the township mumed Oliver, after Oliver Hazard Perry.
EARLY LAND-OWNERS AND THEIR LOCA- Hoss .- David English took up fifty-two acres on Juniata River for a fishery, which was sur- veyed to him in 1788.
William Darlington took up a tract of two hundred and ninety-two acres on the Juniata River and Big Buffalo Creek, adjoining Wil- liam West, on warrant issued May 11, 1755. This tract was soon after taken in the right of Darlington by David English. David English also took up the following tracts: Two hun- dred acres above on same creek, two hundred and twenty aeres and two hundred and thirty- five acres on order of October 23, 1766, one hundred and ten acres on warrant of 1774, two hundred and nineteen acres on warrant of 1766, four hundred aeres on warrant of December 14, 1785, two hundred and thirty-six aeres on order of June, 1768.
Adjoining the lands of David, John English had eight hundred and three acres, of which, for two hundred and fifty-two acres, the order was issued in September, 1767. The tract on which Newport was built was taken up on three warrants, which were issued to David English, and dated May 14, 1755, December 30 and 31, 1762, respectively, for one hun- dred and forty-four acres, two hundred and thirty-eight acres and one hundred and fifteen acres -total, four hundred and ninety-sevenacres, -and was surveyed on the 21st of October, 1765. These tracts have a frontage of two hundred and thirty-eight rods on the Juniata River, from the mouth of Little Buffalo Creek to the mouth of Big Buffalo Creek.
INDUSTRIES.
In June, 1875, W. R. S. Cook purchased a
plot of ground in East Newport, Oliver town- ship, from Dr. J. E. Singer, on which he placed a twenty-five horse-power steam portable saw- mill, the capacity of which was ten thousand feet of lumber per day. Soon after the erection of the saw-mill a shingle-mill was added. In 18SI Mr. Cook bought more land from Dr. Singer and built on the site of the first mill the two-story building still in use. In 1885 another building, forty. two by sixty feet, was erected near to the saw-mill and a planing-mill was started. The capacity of the several mills belonging to the firm of W. R. S. Cook & Co. are as fol- lows : Saw-mill, eighteen thousand feet per day ; shingle-mill, ten thousand feet per day ; lath-mill, fifteen thousand feet per day ; plan- ing-mill will dress twenty thousand feet in a day.
Four million feet of Inmber have been out and shipped from the mill in one year. The logs are taken ont of the canal, in which they are towed from the Susquehanna to one end of the mill, while a private railroad siding is at the other end, where the cars are loaded with Inmber for shipping.
The saw-mills, when in full blast, give em- ployment to twenty-five men and boys, and the planing-mill requires ten additional hands. A fifty horse-power engine furnishes the motive- power for this machinery.
MARSHALL FURNACE .- The land for the Marshall Furnace was purchased from Elias Fisher, of Habecker Town. The furnace was built in 1871-72 by Egle, Phillips & Co. Wil- liam Houck, of Lancaster, was the contractor. The Marshall Brothers are the present propri- etors and the firm is known as " The Marshall Iron Co." Major P. Hiestand is the superin- tendent and George Keller is the foundryman. This furnace, when first started, made from twenty to twenty-five tons of iron per day of twenty-four hours. The stock now consumed per mouth is three thousand tons of iron-ore, one thousand eight hundred tons of coal and coke and one thousand tons of limestone. It gives employment to forty-two hands.
GLUE-FACTORY .-- A two-story building, fifty-one by eighty-four feet, was erected on a lot of two acres of ground situated between the furnace and lot of C. Ripman, in 1881, and
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the manufacture of glne commenced and has been continued by the proprietor, James Mor- row. The annual production of the establish- ment is one hundred thousand pounds of glue and eighty thousand pounds of grease ; the ghie is shipped to Philadelphia, Baltimore and Pitts- burgh. In the manufacturing operations of this establishment seven men are employed. 'The materials for these products are obtained along the Pennsylvania Central and the North- orn Central railroads and in Chicago.
BECHTER'S TANNERY .-- In 1872 Jomm A. Bechtel & Son purchased about three acres of land in Oliver township, just outside of the borough limits, at the end of Second Street and extending to Water Street, on which they have erected the following buildings: A two-story stone, two hundred and twenty-five by fifty-five feet ; a one-story stone, one hundred and forty by thirty-five feet ; a one-story stone, fifty by thirty-five feet; a one-story office, twenty by thirty feet ; and three bark-sheds each two hun- dred by thirty-five feet.
In 1875 John A. Bechtel died, but the bns- iness has been contioned under the original firm- name by H. Il. Bechtel, the junior partner.
The annual consumption of bark is from four thousand five hundred to five thousand tons, which is used in producing so fine a qual- ity of oak sole-leather that it finds ready sales in the principal cities of this country and Eu- rope. The receiving and shipping is facilitated by a railroad siding. The operations of this mannfactory require the services of about fifty men.
A HENNERY .- On a two-aere lot in East Newport, Hursh & Fulton have erected two buildings, attached ; the one called the coop is ninety-six by ten feet in size, with windows on one side ; the other is two-story and is twenty- four by fourteen feet in size, and is called the hatching and brooding-house. The proprietors purpose putting in four incubators, having a ca- pacity of two hundred eggs cach.
The stock at this time numbers four hundred fowls of mixed breeds. Blooded stock will be made a specialty.
ESHELMAN'S MILL .- The tract of one hun- dred and eighty-five acres of land on which the | ground.
grist-mill was built was warranted JJune5, 1772, to William West, Jr., who sold to David Eng- lish, September 8, 1772, and on the 224 of April, 1790, the sheriff sold the land and grist- mill to Christopher Myers, of whom Dr. Daniel Fahnestock, of Warrington, York County, Pa., bought on the 7th of December, 1790.
In 1811 this mill and property thereunto belonging was assessed in the ownership of Joseph Zinu. The original building was of stone and in size sixty by fifty feet.
In 1873 1. Overholtzer was the owner, and built the brick part on top of the stone and added to the machinery. The present owner, M. B. Eshelman, added the pla-ter-mill. The saw-mill belonging to the property does a custom business.
These mills are all driven by the water-power of Little Buffalo Creek.
EVERHART'S STEAM-MILL .- In 1881 James Everhart, Jr., & Brother erected a steam grist and saw-mill, on the New Bloomfield road, about a mile from Newport.
After about a year's trial of burrs it was con- eluded to refit the mill and furnish it with rollers. This was done and it was given a manufacturing capacity of twenty-five barreh of flour per day. This is the only roller-mill in the county, and it is taxed to its full capacity to supply the demand for the flour.
The Messrs. Everhart have begum the erec- tion of a warehouse near the mill, which, with their tenant-houses along the road towards their farm building, point to a village of considerable size at no very distant day.
Across the creek from Everhart's is Fleurie's brick-yard, and a few rods west and across the ercek again is the grove, in which for the last two years the colored people have held a camp- meeting.
WEST NEWPORT.
West Newport was never regularly laid out, but contains a population of about one hundred and eighty, who live in houses built between the Pennsylvania Railroad and the extension of Water Street, in Newport borough. It is also called Singertown, because many of the houses were created by Dr. J. E. Singer, who owned the
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Mrs. M. B. Eshelman, has a greenhouse, from which she furnishes ent flowers at all times, and garden and house plants in season.
W. F. B. Garber, grain and commission mer- chant in East Newport, is at the corner of Fourth Street and New Bloomfield road.
Theo. Buttarf, beer bottling and ice, and II. Shope, dealer in butter and eggs and poultry, are in the building near the warehouse.
EAST NEWPORT.
The land of the original plot of East Newport was purchased and laid out by J. B. Habecker in 1866, and has now a furnace, gluc-factory and hennery, of which description has been given, and William Wertz's and Elias Fisher's groceries on Fourth Street. The population is abont two hundred.
Seuoons .-- The first public school-honse erected in the limits of Oliver township was Mount Fairview, in 1839. It was built on a lot containing four square rods, for which Abra- ham Deardorff gave deed, for the consideration of five dollars, to Director William Howe, Abraham Zeigler, I. Reider, J. Loy, G. Frank and B. Horting.
The present brick building is the third on the ground, and when built in 1873 an addi- tional half-aere was purchased which was added to the school grounds. James Rooney was the first teacher in this house.
In 1841 part of the district was deprived of school, having no snitable building. This caused the building of " Evergreen " school- house, occupied first in 1812, with Dr. R. S. Brown as teacher.
The first places of instruction in Oliver were subjected to many changes, owing to the fact that the same old shop or part of a dwelling could not always be secured for successive terms. The first school was tanght at the pres- ent residence of Josiah Fickes by Josiah English in 1812. His successors in the same building were David McConanghy, Richard Henry Swayne, Thomas Butler, Valentine Varnes and Jonas Schofield. Varnes had a disabled arm, emsed by trying to effect an entrance in a school- house in Millerstown during a " barring out " milic. This school was next moved to the res-
idence of Henry S. Smith, and was taught one terin by Jonas Schofield.
After this the school was moved and regular- ly kept in the Reider school-house, which will be described and located in describing the schools of Newport. Prior to 18:30 there was a school house at the residence of Harvey L. Troup. This school was attended by pupils from the other side of the river, in Greenwood township. Hliel North was the first teacher here. Afterwards this school was moved to the residence of David Mitchell, and taught by James English in 1830. In 1831 the school was taught by John Jones where B. Baltozer lived. In 1832 it was taught by A. W. Mon- roe at the residence of John Deardorff. In this school was taught surveying in addition to the common school branches of the times. In 1834 the school was taught by Henry Beatty in a honse where Mr. Barstow resides.
From this time until Newport became a borough, in 1840, the pupils of this neighbor- hood were permitted to attend school at the old brick school-house on Second Street.
On the 19th of December, 1839, the school board articled with C. P. Barnett to teach at Deardorff's school-honse for a three months' term, at the rate of eighteen dollars per month, In 1812, John McCullongh taught a three months' term at sixteen dollars per month.
In 1841-45, Joel Lobaugh taught for the same length of term and a like salary per month. In 1846, Geo. W. Bosserman, and in 1847, Ezra Patton, and in 1850, A. M. Gantt, were the teachers in this house, for the same salary and the same length of term as before.
In 1816, Abraham Ziegler and wife gave deed for one-tenth of an aere of ground, on which the school-house was erected. In 1872 the directors purchased one hundred and three and a half perches of ground for seventy dollars, near the old site, and on it erected a brick building; this was afterwards remodeled and another story added to it for two schools.
The third house, known as "Loy's," was erected in 18.11, on one-tenth of an acre, for which a deed was given by Jacob Loy and wife for five dollars.
Arnold Lobaugh was the first teacher in this
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honse. In 1870 the directors purchased an acre of land from John Aker, and on it erected the brick house known as "Akor's."
The fourth school-house was built in 1871, on a lot of five thousand one hundred and eigh- teen square feet, purchased for one hundred and fifty dollars from William Morris and wife. Miss Sne Myers was the first teacher in this honse.
In 1885 the school-houses are (Fairview near the site of the Deardorff's), Evergreen Graded, High and Primary and East Newport Graded, High and Primary. The term is five months, and the wages thirty dollars per month.
CEMETERY .--- On March 31, 1863, Henry L. Smith and Mary Ann, his wife, of Oliver town- ship, gave deed to Samuel Bressler, George Fleisher, Philip Bosserman, trustees of the New- port Cemetery Association, for three acres, and six perches of land in two lots, known as lot- Nos. 1 and 2.
On the 26th of January, 1863, prior to the purchase of the ground, an organization had been effected with George Campbell, president ; J. Don 1. Gantt, seretary; and Captain A. C. Clempson, Henry L. Smith, Watson L. Gantt, Dr. J. B. Eby, Jacob Miller, Win. T. Fickes and Benjamin Fickes as trustees.
On the 2d of January, 1875, Henry L. Smith sold three or four more acres of land to the as- sociation. This is a regularly chartered con- pany and the cemetery is the best cared for in the county.
OLD VOTING-PLACE .- The old "English Mill" standing above the crossing of the public road, on the cast bank of Big Buffalo Creek, about a mile and a half west of Newport, was made the voting-place for the Sixth District, consisting of Rye and Greenwood townships, by act of September, 1787. This old mill was torn down when the forge was built by Reaves & Co., below the road near to this place.
Mr. J. B. Habecker was superintendent of the forge. It has long been abandoned.
Colonel John Mitchell came to Lancaster County from Ireland between 1750 and 1770, and from thence removed to the George Barnett farm, at New Bloomfield, prior to 1800. His coming to America was no doubt hastily decided
upon. A friend of his had been elected a mem- ber of Parliament, and voted against a measure for which he was pledged; this so minch dis- pleased Mitchell and roused his Irish blood, that, meeting him on the London bridge and failing to receive satisfactory reasons for hi- infidelity, he at once and there proceeded to ire his cane. After the heat of passion had passed he saw his mistake, and that the punishment for what he had done was cither decapitation or leave for America. He chose the latter, and located first in Lancaster County, and, after the close of the Revolution, moved (with his son David Mitchell) to the farm known as the Bar- nett farm.
The letter here given is of interest in conner- tion with Colonel Mitchell's military career :
" IN COUNCIL, September 2, 1780. "Sir : His excellency the President of the Site, having received orders from General Washington to dismiss the militia for the present, but to hold them- selves in readiness to march at an hour's warning ; We hereby direct you to discharge the Cumberland Militia now under your command at Lancaster on the conditions above expressed. At the same time expressing our warmest acknowledgments of the readiness with which your militia have turned out on this occasion and make no doubt, but on every future call, they will manifest the like zeal in the cause of the country.
" Your Most Honorable Servant, " WILLIAM MOORE, Vice- President. " To COLONEL JOHN MITCHELL,
" Commanding the Cumberland Militia at Lan- caster."
As an evidence of the exactness with which Colonel Mitchel transacted business, the letter bears the following endorsement : "Ree. this letter on the 5th day of Sept., at 3 o'clock P. M."
Colonel John Mitchell died, at an advanced age, a few years after, and was buried in the old Poplar Hill burying-ground, on the Me- Kee place. David Mitchell sold his improve- ment right to Thomas Barnett, who, in 1785, took ouf a warrant for the land. After leav- ing the Barnett farm David Mitchell moved to Raccoon Valley, and from theuce to the well-known Mitchell's place, on the Juniata, in Oliver township. From the best information now extant, David Mitchell, the father of Rob- art. Mitchell, who was a member of the Legisla-
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ture from Cumberland County for more than tarnty years, was a brother of Colonel John, sho lies buried in the old Poplar Will burial- place, one and a half miles northwest of New Bloomfield, on the MeKce farm.
The writer interviewed Robert Mitchell (in 172), who was one of the first board of community onmai-zioners, and obtained from him the fol- lowing items of interest: "I am now in my ninetieth year ; was one of the first board of wanty commissioners in Perry County; have lived on this place since I was three years old. I remember when the deer were so plenty that, from September to January, thirty-seven were riven into the Juniata River below the rope ferry."
CHAPTER XXV.
MILLER TOWNSHIP. 1
This township occupies the great bend of the Juniata from the border of Oliver on the north, to that of Wheatfield on the sonth. It touches C'entre for a short distance on the west, but its longest boundary is the Juniata River. It oc- cupies a greater length of the bank of this river than any other township in the county.
" Four distinct parallel ridges traverse Miller town- ship from east-northeast to west-southwest and deter- mine the main features in its physical geography- Buffalo Hills, Limestone Ridge, Mahanoy Ridge and Dicks Hill. No stream of any importance is found within its limits. The largest is Losh's Run, which drains its southern portion and of which one arm forms its dividing line from Wheatfield township. The basin of this stream is bounded by Mahanoy Ridge and Dick's Hill. Another stream of smaller size, Bai- ley's Run, drains the narrow basin between Mahanoy Ridge and Limestone Ridge, and falls at Bailysburg.
Miller township is divided into two parts by the triple ridge that traverses it as mentioned. Its three puts diverge, from the central knob or focus at Pine Grove and Bailysburg." 2
Miller township was named after David Miller by Hon. Joseph Bailey. An act of A-embly of March 11, 1852, creating the township was as follows :
"That all that portion of Oliver and Wheat-
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field townships in the County of Perry, begin- ning at the Juniata River; thence along the lines of Joseph Trimmer and AAlexander's heirs, and between said Trimmer and David Smith and Bosserman's heirs to the middle of the back road; thence in a straight line to a hickory free, a corner between the lands of Joseph Bailey and Catheart and Deweese, on the top of Buffalo Ridge; thence westwardly along the top of said ridge to a point one-half mile west of the State road ; thence in a straight line to the top of the Limestone ridge where the line dividing Oliver and Centre townships crosses said ridge; thence southwardly along said town- ship line to a corner of Wheatfield township; thence eastwardly along the top of Dick's Hill to the castern termination of the same; thence in a straight line to the nearest point on Polecat Creek ; thence down said creek to the Juniata near Losh's saw-mill; thence np the middle of said river to the place of beginning."
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