The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-03-21
LOOKING BACKWARDS.
Canton in 1845 as Revealed by an
Old Copy of the Stark County
Democrat,

Canton, in 1s45, las revealed by the Stark
County Democrat, yellow with age, four
pages, six columns TO the page dated July "a,
1si5 edited by Daniel Gotshall, lies before us.
The subscription price of the weekly is 50 a
year, or $3.50 if paid within six months.
Quite lively advance over the present price
of 81 for paper about five times as large.
Cantons population was 1900.
The first thing in the paper is three columns
of sherifi's sales all of them signed by John
Brandon, sheriff. The parties to the action in
these cases were respectively Marshall d. Well
man vs. j. t. De La Place; Martin Traester VS.
James Sawyer; Adam Kimmell VS. John S.
Sbdger; Joseph Reinghl VS. Elizabeth Brey-
sacher; Roswell Marsh VS. Peter Akey; Bank of
Massllon VS. Elizabeth Miller, and Martha
Foster VS. Robert Foster.
There is a master commissioners sale signed
by s. Meyer, and marshal notice setting forth
that the Canton council has levied a tax of
twenty cents on each hundred dollars of valu-
alton, signed by William Barber, marshal.
On the editorial page is an elaborate engi-
neer's report addressed to Harmon Stidger,
Simon Perkins and others, commissioners for
the Canton & Akron railroad. In this report
missioners with maps, profes, plans and esti
mates for the proposed railroad from Canton to
Akron, The estimate of the total cost is
S71, ,9i1.95.
In report of the Stark County Temperance
Society the names of the following men are
mentioned: John Danner, Isaac N. Doxsee,
g. W. Huntington, Isaac Mathews, j. B. Col
Inns, George Miller, Willis Griswod, John
Wertzenberger, Arvine Fox and b. Raser
In the editorial columns the editor records
the hope that the democrats will secure such
victory in the coming campaign, as to be able
to wipe out the Whig gerrymander.
In another editorial he endorses the new
scheme of making democratic nominations by
the popular vote system, already tried in
Columbiana county, instead Of by convention,
the method always adopted up to that time.
In an article on the fees due the county
sheriff, clerk and recorder, the interesting fact
is published that the sheriff that year had
claimed $4,000 in fees for himself, and $3.50. 90
for each his two deputies, 81, ,23O in all. Out
of this sum he received S3s6.OO orl::about..ione.
fourth what the law allows him for one year
The editor says the clerk is allowed $500
year for himself, deputy at $500 and an as
sistant at $3.50, making sl,25Oa year. OF this
sum he actually received s71717. At this rate
one deputy received less than 50 week and
the other little less than So. The recorder
for nine months and twelve days received
S374 62, which the editor says was about his
proportion according to the retrenchment law
The republican paper is raped pretty Sc
verely for complaining of the increased ex-
pense of maintaining the county Infrmary,
this increase amounting to s36.46 for two
years.
William Shannon was then governor of the
state and the editor announces that the Balti
more e. Ohio railroad has now secured the
right of way westward as far as the Ohio
river. He indulges in little bragadocia in
the matter Of the annexation of Texas and
says "Mexicans are very valient on paper, so
are their friends, the anti-annexationists in
this country, and the people of the United
States are not to be alarmed even if John Bull
should be thrown into the scales to make
weight"
An interesting report is published by which
we learn that in 1S45, wheat in Canton was
worth 20 cents bushel, flour a, oats 25 cents,
corn so cents, butter and 8 cents a pound,
eggs and cents per dozen, potatoes IS and
25 cents per bushel.
A bank note list is published containing the
names of "a banks of issue. The notes
Of about one. half ofthese are quoted at par, the
other half run from to so per cent discount,
a serious state Of affairs that il is hard to APP
preciate in these days Of stable currency.
In the notice for taxes r. H. Mccall,
treasurer for Stark county, puts the total tax
of the different townships at about .O13 on the
81, the valuation of the lowest township,
Washington, is .O12, and the highest Law
renee, is .0151
THE average rate the past year, 1894, was IS.
The lowest, Nimishillen township was 13,
and the highest, Massillon city 20 $40. Can.
ton was 2s 2-10. Canton township 13 1-lO.l
The signature to an ordinance published
shows that Y. Snow was mayor and J. A.
Snyder, recorder.
We notice among the attorneys then at the
bar the names of Belden & Shaefer, u. Snow,
Dunbar & Meyer, Lain & Armstrong and John
Mcdonald
Among the business advertisements appear
the names of David H. Harman, coppersmith;
Di' iNopSie 'Sop'Pt phJoiSidh
Louis Vail, notary public; John Shorb, miller;
G. M. McCully, general store, Shorb's corner
Nicholas Bour, tailoring; Tharp's Silver Plat.
ing Mfg company; Buckius & Koons,
machine and engine shop; G. G. A. Whiting,
drug store Daniel Risher, gunsmith; William
Beals, saddler; Booze & Wertenberger, chair
factory; George Faber, woolen factory.
The list of hotels, as evidenced by this
paper, are the Franklin House, by Hiram
Myers, west of the court house; Our
House, by Jacob Flohr, two squares west of
Court house; American House, by Samuel
Slower; and the Washington House, Carrollton,
by John Atkinson, Jr.
Shorb's Corner Grocery advertises for 20, 900
pounds ofbutter at and cents pound.
DEPOT BURNED AT FULTON
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