The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1893-11-09
The Logan Landmark.
THE COLLINS AND MOORE
CORNER.
The Store a Type Of The Pro
gress Of Logan.

III is an eStaOllSneu Jaw Ill udtuie !
that all things will gravitate, and
revolve, about 4 common center.
Just as master mind Will have
its satellites, and caterers; and as the |
sun is the center of planetary at
traction; 90 great and famous city
will be the terminus of railroad
lines, the center around which all
things and people will gather, to
look after their private intrests. As
New York is the great commercial
center. Washington the political
center, and Boston the center of
learning. in the United States; each
consequently attracts to itself, as
center, all things pertaining to its
specially. Columbus, being the
mind from which inmates the gov
eminent of our state, is naturally the
center around which cluster all our
hopes, ideas, and realIzations; and
as all Ohio looks to Columbus, 80
all of Hooking County looks to Lo-
gan. In Logan is centered the pride,
hopes, and fears of all Hooking Co.
Even Logan has center which
has always been confined to one
place. and that, the corner opposite
the court house.
This corner was originally own
ed by Governor Worthington and
was purchased from him by George
Lenard, who erected upon it a log
building in which Iloratlo Hatches
carried or Dry Goods and Grocery
business, a typical traders cabin it
was then. The property was pur
chased by W. G. Rippey, and the
firm of Rippey and McCraken then
carried on the same business.
This firm desnlved, and a new one
of Rippey Collins aud James, was
formed.
This corner had, from Its earliest
days been the farmers emporium. A
meeting place in which they could
talk over their farm prospects, the
current prices of farm products, the
latest improvements in farm nipple
merits, where the farmers wives
could greet each other and decide
upon the prices of butter and eggs
generally conceded to be the espec
ial property of the farmers wife,
could talk over family affairs and
collectively sympathlse with sor
rowing neighbor; where the young
people might collect and discuss the
last spelling bee, the pleasures Of
the last nights corn husking, and
the happey coincidence of the twt
who chanced upon the red ears.
Mr.. Rippey, retireing from the
firm left Collins and James. A new
building was erected, the old logs
were moved back and two story
frame took its place in 1870.
Mr.. James retireing, left alone j.
L. Collins. who afterwards took into
the firm M. D. Moore, and the firm
of Collins and Moore built, IN 1885
A, handsome, substantial two
story brick, and the same old busi
ness principals were carried on.
1t was as of old, the common cen
ter and meeting place of all the coun
ty. During the day of the homes
farmer, when every mans word wa
as good as his bond,, the firm pros
pered, but the later day of the hare
ar gain driver and relentless credito
uprooted the old tree and 1t fell.
Our little city has passed through
mlsfortunes that no other town ha
ever lived through, and she raises
her proud crest still. The periods O
fire, flood. pestilence, and financia
panic, have left her battle scared ani
lame for time, but she is about e
throw off the effects of even the las
and greatest misfortune.
Her business men are financially
the strongest of any, in the Valley
| She has to back her, the mos
substantial moneyed men in OHIO
Through 1t all, Logan's greatest en-
emy has been the calamity bowler
who exists in the shape of old croak
ers who sit around the stove in some
one horse grocery, squirt tobbace
juice, and cry down every new ven
ture, cry down every man connected
with any thing for the towns benltit
| If fellow citizen is in business
difficulties, they haul out all his
family skeletons, range them in line
for the inspection, and jeers of out
slders and non supporters of the
town. If this calamity bowler was a
tax payer, was even an intelligent
citizen, we could tolerate, and cover
up some of his spiteful and untruth
fui assertions; but he fights with
tooth and toe nail every motion and
every person that tends to the eleva
tion of the town.
Recurring to our subject, tht
same old corner changing from th'
rough log cabin to the more polished
side boards, where the farmer anG
laborer brought the fruits of thei
toll, in the shape of wheat, turnip'
corn, etc. to exchange for calico,
sugars, and products not within
their reach; from the frame t
the brick, still advancing as the
civilization progressed, until it has
reached its ultimatum in the shape
of handsome bank. where ths
farmer, the laborer, and the busines.
man, can bring the fruits of hil
toll, not in Its oiigional state, but
after it has developed and centeret
into the bright round dollar.
He takes his whole yeals toll II
this shape and brings it to the same
old corner that the farmer, his ances
tor, brought his heads of cabbage
and sacks of wool.
The new bank IS to afford, as W,
understand it in connection with Its
banking business. the same oppor-
tunities for the farmer, and the bus
;no.c mon to ,ponf ouua1s and or.