Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1898-12-10
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different epochs being so much alike
Their tastes, pursuits, necessities and
associations being substantially the
same now as they were rs or 400 years
ago, cause people to make history at
different periods that will read very
much tie same
In discussing the pros and cons re-
gardln the location of our new court
house we made an investigation to
see what was done at the time the
present court house was built.
In looking back through the old rec
ords of the city, we found that Mari
eta had been all torn up once before,
early in the century, over the location
of the present temple of justice.
In order to understand what we are
about to say in regard to the transac-
tion, 1t should be stated that all the
different propositions that were to
come up for action at the annual town
meeting, were announced some time be-
fore in warrant issued by the town
council to a constable who posted ''the
warrant in pubnc places" In this
way the people had time to consider
che business beforehand that was to
come up for action; and no doubt in
this way the more general fairness
and unanimity was secured than is
possible by the arbitrary methods of
our modern times. That was the old
fashioned New England town meeting
We will here give you a sample of one
on March 18th 1922, the town council
! issued the following order:
TO ep.her of the Constables of ,ue
Town of Marietta, Greeting:-
You are hereby commanded to sum-
mon the inhabitants and legal voters
of the Town of Marietta 20 meet in
said town at the Court House on We'd
nesday the 9th day of Marcn, instant,
at the hour of eight O'Clock, a. m, then
and there to do, consider and decide on
the following matters, to-wlt:
Article First. To choose a chair
man to govern said meeting.
Second. To determine if the town
\ will consent to relinquish portion of
the front part of the burying ground
| of Mound Square for the purpose of
erecting a Court House thereon.
! OF this warrant make legal service
and due return.
Given under our hands and seal at
Marietta this 18th day of March, in the
year of our Lord one thousand, eight
| hundred and twenty-five
Daniel II. Buell..
John Merrill,
| George Dunlevey,
Town Council.
You are hereby required to execute
the within warrant " posting attest
ed copies thereof at the following
places, to-wit: AT the Post Office, at
the intersection of Greene and Ohio
streets, on the ferry post on the west
side of the Muskingum river, and at
Duck Creek bridge.
Attest: Royal Prentiss, Town Clerk.
March 12th,. 1922.
Agreeably to the preceding warrant,
the legal voters of the town met at the
Court House in Marietta on Wednes-
day, the 9th of March, 1922. Daniel
H. Buell., Esq, was chosen chairman
to govern said meeting.
The warrant Icing read, the second
article was taken up, and the fonow-
ing action, viz: Resolved by the town
of Marietta, in town meeting assem-
bled that the .own do appropriate so
much of the West side of Mound
Square as will be equal 20 the guam
tity of land at present owned and oc-
cupied by the county at and near the
present Court House, for the purpose
of erecting the county buildings there
on.
The votes being counted, they were
found to stand IS for the resolution
and 116 against it.
Adjourned.
-ANIEL H. BUELL., Chairman.
Attest: Royal Prentiss, ERIK.
No ether article being inserted in
the warrant that the citizens could le-
galy act under OH the subject of locat-
ing the Court House on the LIgh
ground on Fifth street,it was proposed
that the citizens should not disperse
after the adjournment, but that a
proposition would be made to the cit
izens Immediately after lie adjourn
r mt. They ware requested to wait
and decide the subject for which the
meeting under the warrant was in
tended to be called. The minutes of
the meeting were as follews:
At a meeting of the citizens of the
town of Marietta at the Court House
on the 27th instant, Daniel H. Buell.
was chosen chairman The following
motion was made by William r. Put
nam, Esq:
Resolved, by the citizens of Uhe town
of Marietta, met at the court House
on the 27th day of March, 1922, that
in their opinion, the southaesterly end
of the square opposite the house of II.
P. Wilcox, on Putnam street, known
as the Theirry lots, is suitable site
and location for a Court House. etc,
and that the same be recommended to
the County Commissioners for that
purpose, provided a satisfactory title
for the same can be made to them for
the use of the county; which was
adopted by vote of 30 to go
voted TO adjourn.
DANIEL II. BUELL., Chairman.
We understand that the Wilcox"
property above referred to, is now
owned and occupied by John Mills and
w. w, Mills; and the property recon-
mended by this resolution as the site
for the Court t4ouse is that enclosed
between Whites Road, Putnam street,