The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-06-04
0hin--ft. Enrlr HIalbtY.

OF Franklin county, at u pichlc Ol olu set-
tiers, and published in the Ohio Statesman
ofJune 3, 1867. 1t will prove interesting
to the readers Of the EMPIRE:
"Franklin county was the fret county
organized after Ohio became state. Al
the first session uf the General Assembly,
an act for establishing Franklin county
was passed, March 30 1903. Our territory
was taken from the north part OF ltoss as
Ross had already been taken from the north
part of Adams, and It's boundaries were as
follows; Beginning at the western bound
cries of range 20 of township east OF the
Scioto river az the corner OF sections - and
y of township 0, range u, surveyed by
John MattheWss thence west TO eastern
line of Green county; thence north with
said linc to State line told Greenville treaty
limo. established by Gen. Nayne); thence
easteriy tolnorthwest coFuer Of Fairfield TO
place OF beginning, This was a good sized
county. as It included n part OF Pickaway,
all of Madison, parts OF Clark Champaign
and Logan, all of Delaware aud Union,
part of Morrow and Marion, and up the
northern boundary Of the state.
I'VE were first included In Washington Ia
17Ss. IN Adams IN 1877, in Ross in l79S, and
i'm lSO3 we attained 70 the dignity of an in-
dependent county Franklin, as you can
indge by the boundaries, has been the moth
er Of other counties, for in lSO5 Champaign
was set of from Greene and Franklin, aud,
not long alter, Clark was organized from
her. Licking was set off January 30 lSOS;
Delaware February 10, 1893; Pickaway
January 10, 1910; Madison February III,
1Sl0; and Union at later date.
AT the time the county was established,
il was ordered that the county seat should
be held in Franklmton until a permanent
seat Of justice should be established. and ON
the 18th day of April, 1903 James Fergli-
sou. Jere. MeLene and VIM. Creighton, Sen-
were appointed Commissioners for locating
the county seat. They fixed upon Frank
linton. For their services they received a
compensation of % 90 per day.
"The State was first divided into judicial
circuits In April, 1903, and Adams, Sciota,
Ross, Franklin, Fairfield and Gallla COM
posed the Second Judicial Circuit. The
militia were organized In December, 1903,
and Ross and Franklin furnished one
brigade.
lit seems as If the Importance of good
roads 90 the center and future seat OF gov
ernment OF the State was impressed upon
the minds of our early legislators, and we
find that in 1904 the Legislature appropri-
ated $675 to open road from Franklnton
to GAINESVILLE $3.50 for road from Frank
linton to Dayton; In 1906, $3.50 for Il road
from Lancaster to Franklinton, and In 1907,
S400 for road from Chillicothe to Frank
linton. In 1909 the first turnpike company
was incorporated, the Frauklinton Turn
pike Company. VIM. G. Shenck and Daniel
Cooper. Of DAYTON; Lucas Sullivant, Mat
thew Denman, David Moore, William Wells
and Jonas Stanbery, were the incorpora-
tors.
"rhe first church incorporated was the
! St. Johns Church, of Worthmgton, where
also was established the first academy, and
the first newspaper of Franklin county"
| EB-The thieves and vagabonds who in
fest our city, and are preying upon the
residences of our citizens, made another
raid on Mr.. ellis, Sunday night, but with
poor success. An NJ. z. happened tc
pass bv on the other side of the street, and
| blowing his signal whistle started to cut of
his retreat.--JOW1dt.
Bully for the VI. p, who "hdppened' to
pass by on the opposite side of the street
and blowed his ,Chistle. The thief hearing
the whistle, waited, as a matter of course,
! for the VI. p, to come and take him. Ger
tainly, why not? lfyou don't come out
of that cellar, iii come over there and
catch You. jess so. Bully NJ. P.-spoony
thief That NJ. p, must have been think
| ing of that popular song
80, whistle and m come to you my lads'
SERIOUS CHARGEs.-The Cincinnati Ga
zette says: w. w. Miller, who is on
among a number of boys employed by Mr.
ID. b. NJ. Wood, of Dayton, to sell paper
on the trains, was arrested yesterday b,
Officer Bloom, on the charge of filchinl
money from his employer, and confined il
the Ninth street stationhouse. Anothe
of the boys named John Err, is in Jail il
Dayton on the same charge. Mr.. Woo
thinks his loss by the thclts of these boys
at different times, will amount to abou
500. Both boys will be tried in Dayton
cT5- And we may say, further, that
was Mayor Kenney's first arrest under an.
system.
And we may say, further, that heretofor
the old police generally attended to tina
business. .........
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