The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-12-12
For the Democrat.
"REMINISCENCES.
NUMBER FIVE.

In the third line ri our last article the
reader will please read - Mrs" instead of
" Mr." Pomeroy.
In number one of our "reminiscences thc I
reader will recol!ect that We referred to
the county being divided into three town
ships, which were named North go. i, I
Center (No. .: and Green Go. -. In
1888 John johnson was appointed assessor
for the whole county; in 1889 he was ap-
pointed assessor for district No. |, James |
Nash for No ,, aud Elias Dickson for No
3.
In 1883 there were six miles struck of
the east end of North township, and or
gained into civil township, which was
named " German from the fact that the
larger portion Of the inhabitants at that
time were Germans, or spoke the Ger
man language In 1912 the western boan-
dairy was extended west to the line dividing
ranges two and three east, making the
township nine miles cas- and west, by
seven miles north and soath, containing
sixty-three square miles two sections, to-
wit: ID ard 20, t3i, mrs e, have since
been attached to Center township. Among
the first settlers Of that township were
John Steele, John y. Lashbaugh, iona
than Smith, Abraham and Henry Angus
tine, y. b. Ellis. - Yockey, George
Metcalf David Brothers, James Huyhs.
and John a. Lcper, many Of whom are
gone to that ''bourne from whence no
traveller returns
In the year 49, the county commissions
ers CD petition struck three miles of from
the east part of said township and organi-
zed it into civil township which they
certained that it would be m ,re convenient
and less expensive to have but one town.
ship, consequently the territory out of
which the new township was composed was
sat back to German.
a village was laid out III 1887, by Tay-
Tor and Augustine at the crossing
Of the roads leading from Peru to
Mishawaka and from Plymouth to Goshen,
which they named Clayton. But few lots
were sold, aud the balance are as though
they never had been: The east part OF
the township is mostly excellent land and
first rate timber Tie southwest and
west parts are far inferior TO the east for
farming purposes, the greater portions be-
ing low and marshy, and was patented tc
the state as swamp land Should that
portion of the township be thoroughly
drained it will be excellent grass land, as
it is exceedingly rich. In the west part
of the township there is d body of water
covering probably about a section Of land
which is called the Lake of the Woods
and is regarded as a fine place for pisca
torial sporting. German is the larges
township in the county, John A. Lash
baugh was the first Justice of the peace
Bremen, a sprightly little village of sev
eral hundred inhabitants, was laid out b,
5 George Boiler in 1851.
1t is not our purpose TO institute an,
invidious comparisons, but there is NJ
question but German is the best tax-pay
ing township in the county The road-ta,
! has generally been higher there than il
the other townships, ard the delinquent
list much less. Did every township pa,
, up as well as German, our taxes might b
reduced considerably on each one hundre
dollars of taxable property.
The last assessment roll shows that Their
are 800 polls and 145 dogs in that town
ship, and that the value of persona
property for the purposes Of taxation
= SIG, 095, and that the value of real estat
r is s306,365, making total of sI52
: 400.
The citizens of this township are la
boring under great disadvantages in con
sequence of being so inconvenicnt to mar
ket Bourbon is the nearest railroa
, point, and would be their natural marke
D if they could get a good road across tn
marshes and head-watcrs of Yellow river
! but they are not able to accomplish thi
without some assistance. The bushes
men of Bourbon could easily get the bull
Of the trade from that township by lend
ing helping hand towards completing tn
road from Bremen to Bourbon,
, Nc.