The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-07-16
NEW
NEW STRAITSVILLE-A
SHORT VISIT TO OUR
NEAR NEIGHBOR.

NEAR NEIGHBOR.
A Delightful Surprise-A
!. Pleasant Reception.
/ After an absence of several year
we made a short visit to New
lStraitsville last week. We were
overcome with surprise and lost in
wonder at the growth. the i'm
provement, and the enterprise of
ithe town.
| We have known New Straitsville
since its birth. We bought a lot
on the day of the first sale, the
lot on which the Odd Fellows
building stands. We kept track
of the towns fortune when it was
the bustling, prosperous, most val
ued suburb to Logan; Saw its ca
lamity in the great strike; its
paralysis in the grasp. of the Syn
dictate, and heard and half believed
it was in the last stages of decay,
soon to become deserted, q waste
place in the Valley.
Imagine our surprise in confront.
ing City with metropolitan at
fractions. Better streets and
pavements than Logan; buildings
as substantial; store rooms as COM
modous and as well supplied; a
busy, earnest, Industrious people,
with not loafer in sight. We
walked along the boulevards and
were lost ON old familiar paths.
We accepted Aladdin as a realty
and believe Straitsville has his
lamp and has rubbed it to q pur-
pose.
The town is certainly the most
substantially built. has the best |
business, is making the most and
better Improvements than any
mining town in the Hooking Val
ley.
We missed many of our old time
friends: Jim Coyle. Ben Teeters. |
Johnny Roberts. Tom Pierson,
Adam Laferty, Andy MoTague,
Pat Fahy, and we might continue
the list to include about all the
Old Timers, but we happened to
have the good fortune to meet
Jimmy Stewart and Bob Curran,
links continuing from jolly past to
the busy today.
We can remember the gay old
times when Strsitsville Was the
political cauldron ,of Perry and
several surrounding counties, with
Jimmy Stewart heading the Green.
back forces and nominating the
ticket with his syndicated delega-
tion, for all the parties. Bob
Curran rests in ease and comfort in
. happy town which drove out the
niggers, who in their fight, were
flanked by Bob. then Sheriff of
Hooking, and turned from Logan,
sent down the Valley never to
appear to ''darken" the door of
Logan or straitsville again.
Johnny Harrington is doing al:
nice business on Main street oppo- (
site the depot; his voice is still
from Bryan, 16 to 1. |:
We met Ed. Marten in his trus-
tee regimentals on the street, just
fastening from the grade ON his
latest Pike to his dinner. He was
in his shirt sleeves, his pants in
his boots, his face sunburned, his
hands encrusted in dust. He is a
TRUSTEE in capital letters. He
is building pixies from Straitsville
as far as the township line, on all
roads leading from his town. He
has attached old Straitsville,
thrown a survey to Murry City, ls
will have a pike to Shawnee and {
incorporate that village as q
Straitsville' suburb, and as we
have been told has finger board {
1t the county line, at tae end Of I
his pike, with this device, "The
Logan Road"
Mr.. Marten is one of the useful :
men of the times, and to his ener /:
~ and enterprise are due much of :
The marvellous prosperity of the .
own. q
A new bank has been opened in e
handsome room, doing good {
business. Mr.. Stivison Of our a
,ity, cashier. t
A telephone war was in progress,
he Bell and the Citizen compel
ng. The Bell has line to Shaw
lee, and to show the New Straits
lille spirit of annexation, give the
people of Shawnee the Straitsville !,