The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1906-11-13
Wreck And Ruin.

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business. aud eigbty thousand dollars
worth Of trade in beer aud wbiskcy had
20 be diverted into otbes channels
Thirty days earlier the appeal had been
uado to the highest tribunal known
to free pcople-tho ballot box /
that verdict by dlcar majority had
declared for the next two years at
least. intoxicating liquors should not
be legally sold within the corporate
liml's o. the town
There were people who got his,cr-
zeal and declared that the fanatics hal
ruined the town Even some good
lovel-hcadcd people doubted the pro-
Ipriety of voting the town dry. A
dry town is dead town, some ofthcm
said and declared thoro was nothing to
d. but board the corporation up.
white wash orc fonoc, and pronounce
the obseqaies
Well, here We a'c q. the end of the
first year, and there is not man so
wet but what will aIaii that we arc
the "ivehest corpse in Tuscarawas
Valley
Not wheel has been stopped, not
shovel brown iuto the scrap pile. pc
cause the liquor traffic was eliminated
from the town. Mt an able bodied
man within the oorate limits who
cannot get employment at fair wager
right away If be wants to do 60.
Listen. The pipe shops are the lar.
eeSt employers Of labor In the town.
they have been in operation here for
eleven years There never was
time IN all these years when 90 many
men were employed at these works as
now.
Listen again There never was
time whom the wages paid at these
works were as high as right now
Within ten days past, w. Il. Glow
has said that the output of this big
plant must be greatly increased
employ every man you can" are
bis orders. If these men emit be
obtained in New Comertown and
the Tusbarawae Valley, 60 to Chicago
Go to Birmingham, Ala, But gctl
the men? Does that sound like q
dead town?
Listen again: Is the Pennsylvania
Railroad, or the Globe Clay Works,
or the Novelty Coal company en-
ploying a man less than they did a
year ago? And is there man in
those hives of Industry whose wages
have been reduccdI
Listen again: The oroakcr said
"Notc your town dry and the farm
ers will not bring their trade here
Thew will go where they can tank
up. They will never go to a Sunday
School town to do business - What
are the facts? Oxford township in
COshocton county, Oxford in Tuscer-
awas, Wheeling IN Guernsey, Salem
IL Tuscarawas, and Adams in Gosh
octon, are the townships which large
ly supply the country produce of
New Comers'own Did these town
ships quit coming here when the town
went dry? Nay, verify. Every one
of them took a shy at local Opt \.
and every last one of them won't dry
By a bigger majority than did New
Comorstown Take wall. mex
Saturday over on slain street. or
back on Ncighbor, OF along Canal, or |
down on River street, and then tell Us
if the farmers have quit trading at New !
Comersiown
The facts orc, New Cornerstone /
laboriug men are better employed /
this year than for years past; IN many |
cases arc receiving u substantial 10
crease over Las; years wages Their
families are haPPy and oontentod. and |
there Is plenty Of work for everybody. |
The $50. 0GO which went over the
bars Of New Comcrstown last year.
arc this year clearing Of mortgages
and buying comforts for Betty AMI
the baby.
Let us all rejoice together on this
fret Anniversary The New Corners
town, Ohio, IGdcx.
Accbording 20 au estimate based
upon authentic returns where they
nave been received, qu q estimated as