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The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-08-24
THE HANCOCK COUNTY PIONEERS.
BY ". MCNGEN.

Air-John Anderson my 10.
Let every Hancock Pioneer,
As well as all their friends,
Join in with voices loud and clear,
While praise on high ascends!
Let memories fond 90 back again
To good old days of yore,
When Pioneers Were with us then
Who're nov on heavens shore,
CHORUS
Those Pioneers, worthy band,
Good women and brave men.
Wen meet them in that happy land,
And never part again!
'Tis sweet to think upon those days,
Ere broadclOth came in style;
Ere silkcn gowns, or diamonds blaze,
Made Women proud, the while;
When linsey pants and wooden shirt
Were good enough, and when,
If clothes were whole and free from dirt
The folks were well dressed then.
Chorus: Those Pioneers, a worthy band, 81
Oh, good old days, when Pioneers
Did in log cabins dwell;
Of course they had their joys and tears
They bore their trials WE'LL
And honest hearts were in each breast
Their hands worn hard by toll;
And all the settlers did their best
To clear and till the soill
CA"rus: Those Pioneers, worthy band, &,
Findlay, Ohio, Aug. 13, 1871.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-08-24
A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE EARLY
SETTLEMENT OF WASHINGTON
TOWNSHIP. IN HANCOCK COUNTY,
OHIO

In the spring OF 1881, my father, James
G. Wiseman, settled in Washington town
ship, p,having emigrated from Perry county,
in this State. | was then thirteen years
of age, and | remember we were fourteen
days on the road. After crossing the
Sandusky river, in Seneca county, we
stayed over night with Charles w. Foster,
who then lived in the woods near Wolf
Creek, and | remember Of dancing on my
knee the boy Charles, who was then two
years old. and who is now the honored
representative of this district in Con-
gress.
When we left Tiffin for Washington
township, We followed blind road, or
Indian, trail, to near the eastern boundary
of where Fostoria is now located. From
there all trace of road or trail was lost,
and we had to cut our way through to
the county line, where we camped tor the
night in the woods, where We were sere-
nsded by the wolves from dark until day.
light and from the noise there seemed TO
be a grand chorus of over one thousand
voices. In the morning we again took up
our weary march, and during the day
reached the land located for our future
home, where my father lived until few
years ago. when he departed to his home
on high. We were the fourth family in
the township. three others having preced-
ed us. My sister Eliza, who is still living,
was the first white child born in Wash
ingtOn township, the date being March
4th 1882. Liverton Thomas was the first
justice OF the Peace in the township, who
now lives in Fostoria, a trembling old
Pioneer and an honored citizen. We
suffered many hardshps and privations
during our Pioneer life, but the writer has
lived to sec the bowling wilderness of
1881, transformed into the beautiful, fer
tile farming lands of the day At each
annual session of the Pioneers Of the
county. We find their members growing
less, and ere long we will all be called to
our home on high. But while we live,
let us often meet together, and talk over
the old back woods scenes of the Pioneer
days, of our beautiful and prosperous
county, in our beloved County Seat, that
nestleS on both sides of the placid waters
of the river Blanchard"
Aug. 10th II. ANDREW WIsEMAN.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-08-24
MANY WHO ARE suEFERING

from the effects IF the warm weather and are
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are particularly evident when taken by
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change of water and diet. No person should
leave home without taking a supply OF these
safeguards along For sale by a | Druggists.
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The Democracy having failed while
in Convention to take any position
upon the labor question, although the
strike was in full tide when it was in
session, are now striving to make up
for lost time through their journals by
such plants as this.-which we find in
the Northern Ohio Democrat:
The Republican papers generally, af.
Ter having supported the policy which
has ruined the country, prostrated all
its industrial interests, and pauperized
the laboring classes, propose to shoot
and imprison working men for striking
to save themselves and families from
starvation. The London Times en-.
dorses the opinion OF the Republican
papers of this country, on the labor
question and the strike.
The Republican papers are doing
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-08-24

THE workingmen of Columbus call
ed meeting one night last week to
orge nize political party, and place in
nomination a County. ticket. The
machine men of the Democracy at
tended the meeting, got control of the
offices, passed resolutions pledging
the working men to vote the Demo
cratic ticket, and then adjourned.
Democratic papers are now publishing
those resolutions as the platform OF
the workingmen's party. But the
workingmen, when they found that
the "Assyrians" had come "down like
a wolf on the fold," abstained from
taking part in the meeting, but after
the Democratic managers had with
drawn they organized, adopted their
own platform and put in nomination
a county ticket. The workingmen are
rot in sympathy with a party which
feared 10 place itself on record on the
labor question, at the recent State
Convention.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-08-24
PIONEER DAYS OF AULD LANG SYNE

EY ". NUNGES.
iir-Auld Lang Syle
Those Pioneer of auld lang syne
Remembered well should be:
Their virtues ever borne in mind
And thought, by you and me.
CHORUS.
Oh, good old days when Pioneers
In their log cabins dwelu
When neighbors had their joys and tears
They were by neighbors felt.
Should early days be now forgot.
And never brought to minde
Those days which tried the heart should
In memory fall behind. mot
CHo.-Oh, good old days, &c.
How foIdly now the mind runs hack
To times and days Of old,
When men the forests did attack
With nerve and courage bold,
Cno.-Oh, good old DAYS. &c.
The Pioneers of those Old days
Worked nObly, and most true,
We give their memories our praise
For surely It's their due.
CHo.-Oh, good old days, &c.
Then here's to days OF aud lang syne,
. Those pioneer days of toll
When hands and honest hearts did Join
To clear and till the soil.
CHORUS.
Oh, good old days when Pioneers
In their log cabins dwelt,
When neighbors had their joys, or fears,
They were bv neighbOrs felt
Findlay, o., Aug. IL 1877.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-08-24
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The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-08-24

THE Columbus workingmen are
kicking the poor Democratic party
badly. Citizen Lewis, who is one of
the party, has written sharp letter to
the Statesman, in which he scores the
Democracy for forty years neglect to
do anything for the working men
while they had the power, and insists
that the scheme to make the new par
ty a tail to the Democratic kite will
signally fail.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-08-24
FOUR State Tickets now aspire fol

FOUR State Tickets now aspire fol
the suffrages of the Ohio People,
Republican, Democratic, Greenback
and Workingmen. And still the Demo
Gratis are not happy. Had the green
hackers only been added, they would
not have felt so badly, but to have the
workingmen,-whom they thought
they owned body and soul, as the
Shareholders used to own their chattels,
rise up against them, was the "un,
kindest cut of all" especially as they
now remember how easily commun'
istic plank could have been inserted
in their platform.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-08-24
NOTICE.

N1ELVINA LORETTA FULLER, whose
wi place OF residence is unknown, but who
once resided in Medina County. Ohio, is no.
titled that ALBEIT Fuller. on the 10th day oi
August. A. ID. 1877, fled his petition in the
office OF the Clerk OF the Court Of Common
Pleas, within and for the County OF Hancock
and State OF Ohio, charging the said Melyina
Loretta Fuller with gross neglect of duty
and wilfui absence Tor more than tbree years
last past, and asking that he may De divorced
froIn the said Melvina Loretta Fuller, which
petition wilt stand for hearing at the neXt
term of said Court.
ALBERT FULLER, Petitioner.
August 10Th lS77. 10 ~
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-08-24
PIONEER BAYS,
BY W. MUNGEN.
Air-HOme Street Home

Air-Home, Street Home.
We've met here to-day to think of the past
OF the old Pioneers vino have gone 10
thei- rest;
OF those days which were happy, though
crowded with toll:
When the axe cleared the woods; plows
first broke the soil
CHORUS
Oh happy, pioneer days!
Speak kindly of them! let all sing their
praise!
We think of the times when the cabins
were raised;
When the fences were built; and the old
log heaps blayed;
When HeightOrs we're Jriend,; when each
pioneer
Was ready TO lend 10 those far and near.
Chorus-Oh happy, &c.
But times now have changed, and the old
cabin home
Has had to give place to the grand dwell
ing's dome;
But kinder and truer hearts ne'er will be
found
Than those pioneers had, while earth goes
its round
Chorus-Oh happy, &c.
Findlay, Ohio, Aug. IL, 1877.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-08-24

DANIEL L. JUNE, of Fremont, has
been nominated for State Senator by
the Republicans of that Distrit. Ow
ing to unfavorable nominations for the
two previous terms, the District was
carried by Hudson, for the Democracy,
"Uncle Dan" is numerous" worker,
is well known throughout the District,
has always carried a large vote when
a candidate in his own county, and
will no doubt do as we'll this year as
formerly. If the Republicans in the
other counties poll their full vote, as
they should do, "Uncle Dan" will car
ry off the prize.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-08-24

THE campaign, on the part of the
Republicans, will be opened at Athens
on the 25th, when Judge West, Gener
al Garfield, and Stanley Mathews, viii
address the people. Mathews also
speaks at Marietta, Pomeroy, Galliop.
oils, Ironton, Portsmouth, Jackson
and Chillicothe on successive days to
September LIST, and Garfield at Cald
well, Cambridge, Barnesvile, ..Belleair,
Steubenville, Canton and st. Clairs
vile, up to the 3Oth. Hon. Milton
Barnes, Hon. G. K. Nash, and Gen
c. II. Grosvenor are also announced tC
speak at various points.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-08-24

Hon. H. B. Payne, of Cleveland was
to open the campaign for the Democ-
racy, on the 21st, out H. b. is at the
bottom a hard money man a kind ot
Jackson Democrat in this respect, you
know, and so he would not answer
The Democratic Central COMMITTEES
set him aside, and have substituted
Geo. II. Pendleton, for Columbus and
Gen. Ewing for Lancaster to illunine
the benighted on the beauties ofpapel
money. To-day CThursday) they are
to illumine the intelligence of those
localities.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-08-24

observation-disclosures STANLEY MA
THEws combination of Toldeo, are
doing their level best to secure the re-
nomination of T. p. Brown for State
Senator. the said Brown being under
stood to favor the election of the said
Stanley Mathews as United States Sen
ator.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-08-24

THE evidences now are that the
Russians, checked by the Turkish
successes, are now preparing for
long war. They never commence to
fight in earnest ill they are whipped
severely, and that seems to have been
the fact in the the recent encounters.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-08-24
NOTICE.

DATRICK HASSETT, whose place OF resi-
il dence is unknown, is notified that Eliza
Jane Hassett did. on the 10th day of august,
A. ID. 1877, file her petition in the office OF
the Clerk. of the Court of Common Pleas,
within and tor the County of Hancock and
State of Ohio, charging the said Patrick Has
sett with willful absence for more than three
years last past, and asking that she may be
divorced from the said Patrick Ha sett,
which petition will stand Tor hearing at the
next term of said court
ELIZA JANE HASSErT, Petitioner.
August TO- 1871. l520
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-08-24
Republican State Ticket.

For Governor,
VIM. II. WEST, Of Logan
For Lieutenant Governor,
FERD. VOGELER, Of Hamilton.
For Supreme Judge,
W. W. JOHNSON, Of Lawrence.
For Treasurer,
]. MINOR MILLIKEN, Of Butler.
For Attorney General,
GEO. K. NASH, of Franklin.
For Clerk Of the Supreme Court,
DWIGHT CROWELL, Of Ashtabula
For School Commissioner.
JOSEPH F. LUKENS, of Portage.
For Member of Board of Public Works,
A. w. LUCKEY, of Ottawa.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-08-24

THE financial Speech of Secretary
sherman, for which the country is
waiting will be found in this issue in
a supplement. Read it. 1t has the
Jingle of the proper metal.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-08-24

DR.. s. ID. Howe's Arabian Milk Cure,
If used in connection with the Arabian
Tonic, goes farther towards curing con-
sumption than any other preparation the
world ever saw. Try it on hard cough
and see how quick it will cure it.
Sold by J. II. Decker, Druggist, 50
Main Street, Sole Agent for Findlay and
Mt Blanchard, Ohio. 10
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-08-24
NOTICE

"a dence il unknown, is notified that SO
phia Dennis did. on the I7th day of August.
A. D.. 1877, Iiie her petition in the Office OF
the CLERK OF the Court of Common Pleas,
within and for the county OF Hancock and
State OF Ohio. charging the said Abraham
Dennis with willful absence for more than
three years last past. and asking that she
may be divorsed from the said Abraham
Dennis, which petition will stand tor hear.
ing at the next term of said court.
SOPHIA DENNIS, Petitioner.
August lSh, 1877, l5-2O.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-08-24
Robinson & PGldlotOl,
MANUFACFURERsO Of
DRAIN TILIN C,
Oak Ridge, Hancock County, o.

re- The prOprietOrs invite an inspection of
their works, and a comparison Of their tile
with the tile of any factory in Ohiu, or the
United States. They claim Tor their tile
superior solidity, fineneSS of material. less
warpIns and cracking and are more suitable
in every way for the purpose OF those desir-
ing good drainage.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-08-24
Grading and Matchmaking.

- EALED proposals for grading and Me-
- AdamiZing one half mile OF turnpike
on the Findlay and Lima state Road Will be
received at the Office of the Clerk of Findiay
township up to 2 o'clock Sept. Sth, n, at
which time the bids will be opened and the
contract awarded to the lowest responsible
bidder. the trustees reserving the right to
reject any or all bids
Plans and specifications will be found on
file in the Clerks Office after Aug 18th ~.
By order of Trustees.
HENRY II. LOUTHAN tn. Clerk.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-08-24

The tri-State fair will be held in
Toledo September oath to 29th inclu-
siye, and it now looks as if the thing
would be q success.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-08-24
THE PIONEERS.
'The Best Laid Schemes OF Mice and
Men aft Gang Agleep'

And that's just what ails us on this
occasion. We had prepared to give
our readers full and verbatim report
of the proceedings o. the "Pioneer
Pic MIC" in this weeks paper, knowing
the articles prepared would be read
with interest and treasured fors the
"reminiscences recalled. Several of the
papers were verv valuable; but the
rain has spoiled il all, and dampened
our enterprise, though it moistened
the earth and did ''power o. good" to
the agricultural interest. The meeting
had to be postponed in consequence of
the storm, and will not now take place
until THURSDAY, SEPT, 9Th, when it
will certainly take place, as picnic
in the grove already assigned, and
where a stand and seats had been pro-
vided; or, should the weather again
prove unpropituious, the meeting will
take place at the Court House. Re-
member it, and bring your baskets
well provided, so that whether the
''sun shines bright, or the clouds low,
err" the meeting will take place.
Those Pioneers of the immediate
neighborhood, who were very much
interested in the coming meeting were
considerablydisappointed, among them
none more so than Mr. Richard Dukes.
Col. Mungen (who, by the way. as an
impromptu poet excels,) noticing his
depression, said lie would write him
something to cheer him up. Here it
is:
Written for Richard Dukes, on the morning al
August 23d, ls57-hy W, Mungen:
How tedious and cherries the hours,
With rain pouring down all the day.
The Pic mic, lis baskets and flowers,
And pleasures have al passed away
No bright summer sunshine now sheds
Its brilliance and lustre around;
But rain pours straight down on our heads,
And vets, and makes muddy the ground.
The birds have ceased singing each song;
The Pioneers faces look sad;
They think that such weather is wrong:
And some OF them, even, feel mad
But Others more cheerful do smile
ut cannot rain always, they say,
Fair weather will come in while;
Wen have our sport some other day
'Tis no Use To cry for split milk,
For what can't be helped. TO feel sore.
Because we can't all dress in silk
And broad-cloth, we should not feel poo:
Then let us take times as they come.
Meet fortune, stare fate in the face
II helps not TO frOwn and look glum,
Let's meet disappointment with grace!
Following we give some songs writ
expressly for the occasions, which the
old pioneers may learn to sing so as to
swell the chorus. Also, an article on
the early settlement of Washington
Township, and an Obituary by one
of the early settlers. Remember the
9th of September, and be on hand.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-08-24

PRESIDENT HAYES was at the Tip
Top House, Mt. Washington, on the
20th.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-08-24

Must be Done, Can be Done, And Viii
be Done.
| will sell to any party for cash.
a S275 organ with sub-bass, 8
sets reeds, on trial 5 days, for S125
A $3.50 organ q set reeds at .S12O
A $500 organ 2 set reeds. high
top, at slOO
A S175 organ 2 set reeds, high
top, at ) S5
All with high mirror top Iwih send
out on approval, warranted 6 years.
G. ". WALTERS, State agent.
2w Findlay, o.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-08-24

ONE hundred and eighty thousand
Russian reinforcements are marching
to the front.
The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-08-24

JUDGE VESTS speech in this weeks
paper, will be read with pleasure.