Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-01-06
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and vicinity to their own surroundings
and the condition of the village, and
ask that we all stop and think who we
are, what we are, and what we might
be. 1t is not pleasant to be poor, nor
to feel that others are better and more
advantageously located, but it some
times becomes necessary for us to feel
our poverty in order to enable us to do
the necessary hustling to overcome it
and put ourselves where we should
like to be.
We are located at the head of navi-
cation on the beautiful Maumee river,
being within sight Of and amidst the
most beautiful natural scenery to be
found in this part of the great and
glorious State of Ohio; among and ad
jacent to some of the most sacred and
historic grounds that any State holds
within its limits, and while we know
few, perhaps) outside our corporate
limits, who really know it; and if we
continue to live as within the past,
who will know it any better during the
next generation?
What is our position today, com
pared with 80 years since; where is our
wealth and Importance OF 30 years ago;
what are we now in comparison with
our condition in 1860 or earlier? There
are many men living here who will tell
us at that time our town was OF vastly
more Importance than to-day, and that
in those carly days the greatest states
men of the country visited this place
and pnLrcd forth their eloquence to II
grateful people who came from far and
near Ia hear them, but now all is
changed, and there is Il cause for this
change, but ii is not wise to hunt for
the cause. All can see the past much
more easily than the future, and 1t is
better to use our energies in hunting
some means to improve that future and
let the past remain, and the JOURNAL
is of the opinion that the people be-
lieve there is hope for the future and
are anxious to make the change, and
not satisfied to live through another
generation as through the past.
The JOURNAL believes the time is
here and the opportunity about to be
offered whereby If all will take hold,
Perrysburg will be made, in five years,
one of the most beautiful suburban
cities in the State of Ohio, and one
lo
and visits of our greatest men, but
tempt the poet and historian from
their hiding places, to sing of Our
beauties and record again the deeds
of valor of our historic forefathers, who
fought and died upon our sell; and will
not only teach of the deeds done and
performed, but will erect monuments
and beautify those sacred grounds that
now are but little better than waste
ground and pasture.
What have we to build upon? Let
us see. Nature has been very generous
to us; she has given us the most beau
between this place and Toledo, of any
city within the Northern States. She
has placed us at the head of navigation
upon banks that are just lofty enough
go to foreign countrys, travelling thous
ands of miles at a great expense to SEE
and enjoy, and none of which excel oui
own Maumee during the Spring, Sum
p,orand Autumn mnnthS
The government in her generosity
made no mistake in giving us our beau
tiful wide streets, and our position as {
large city or beautiful and large sub
urban town was evident to them a
that time. and the JOURNAL still be
lieves such possibilities within oui
reach. Our people would certainly b,
pleased to see our wide streets paved
our wide walks filled with people; ou
churches filled with attendants; Ou
schools overrun with pupils; ou
streets lighted with electricity, and
fine system of water works carryin.
pure water through every home, and {
possibility of visiting our younger cit
that has SO rapidly outgrown us at al
most any fifteen or twenty minute
time during the day. This is all pos
sible within the next five years, an
much of it within one year.
The reader will probably say-wha
is TO be done to bring about thi
change; we haye made several effort
and all have proved largely abortiy
and we are now poor; this change COZ
templates many thousands OF dollar
and were we to spend our very all "
could not accomplish it; all OF which
true, but there are times in the even
of cities as well as of men, # we tax