The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-08-05
LoU1sv1LLE "REMINISCENCES.
What a Returned Resident Saw and Felt
During His Visit.

What a Returned Resident Saw and Felt
During His Visit.
EDITOR DEMOCRAr:-Yourc correspond
enJ used to be a resident of this quiet
little burg, In fact was born here, and
the old place Is dear to him by many
ties that time and distance cannot
break. In visiting the home of ones
youth and looking over the familiar
landmarks that we're old when we were
Young, and which no doubt have stood
'be encTOachments of time far better, |
hope, than we, feeling of sadness will
uncOnsciOusly steal over and arOUnC
person, and ere he becomes aware OF
he TACT there is a lump In his thrOa
much larger than can conveniently D.
swallowed. There stands the old school
house where we have sat under Gas IL
were, GamalieD, and received instruc-
tiOn of the following teacheEs: Messrs.
George Livingston, George ViOlsnd, ia
cob KerstetteT, ST., and Miss Ella Nc
GregOr (nOw Mrs. Schilling), Adeline
SaVageOut, Pheb Dlvana, VIM. Sluss,
Joseph Vaughn, the latter two In the
new school building. OF the boys who
attended school in those good old days,
there are good man about the city. Mr..
j. Nj. KerstetteT, who is at present prin
cipsl of the Union school. He married
Miss Ella Z. Frank, of Tifin, o., James
BruDer married Amelia Bates, and re-
sides at Council Bluffs, la. Some OF the
boys were Edward and Robert Bates,
Bob. Hyatt, Charles HOlwick, Geo, Venler,
Washington Irvine. These are only
few of the crowd Of our schOolmates
which memory brings up. David M.
Slnss (Mayor), and Julius Thurin still
run the dry goods stores, and are at
their posts as In the days Of
old. Many improvements have
been made. Beautiful dwellings
have been erected, and also large brick
business houses, which speaks we'll for
the place, indeed The sidewalks are in
better condition than they wer6 twenty
| years ago. But as one passes the old
college building and follows Wall
street on out by the WOOlen Mills, he
almost imagines he Can hear the old
upright saw, with PRumier at the lever,
! 20 NJ and down as In days Of old. The
| old mill is almost a complete wreck
now. In order 10 get slight idea OF
the changes wrought by time it Is neces
sary to visit the pleasant and neatly
kept cemetery of the U. B. Church and
other burial places. We viii go back
only a few years and see who nave
passed away that in our bOyhOOd days
were our relatives, companions
and friends. P. +. DsVauX, Sr.
and Jsney DeVaUx, DR.. j. P. Schil'
ling, ST., and Matilda Schilling, Hiram
Meffort and son Fremont, BOniface Det
Wiler, B. Lesh and daughter Ala, r
RothTock, Tobias Miller, Mrs. Rev. j. &
Shepler, Mrs. Louis Matthias, Mr.. Henry
Matthias, G. Bates, Daniel Gantz, Amelia
Warner, Lizzie Warner, and Others
whose names do not come up, all lie an(
sleep on, no doubt far more at ease, ant
as we'll off as those Of US who continue
to struggle on up the hill Of life. Spac
fOrbids writing much more. Many
many chan ges have taken place abou
Louisville. Many thanks to the peopl
of the above named place for kindness
manifested towards the writer while OF
visit to the city. M. W. DEVAUx,
TidiOute, Pa.