The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-03

as respects BisselTs contract I find no papers relative to it; wish you to do as you may be satisfied is right, as well as all other contracts Depend upon It l shall be with you as soon as possible
 Yours with Sincere Respect,
 JOHN YOUNG.
 Soon after our company Of traV- elers arrived in Poland the stone hotel' now standing, was completed and was opened with a grand ball, to which all the Reserve was invited, for In those days people thought nothing Of rldihg forty and fifty miles to a party. Ihis tavern was kept by Jonathan foWlet' the first settler of Poland, whose arr val in a canoe has been mentioned, ana from the writings of travellers or thaI day we learn his was considered the best hostelry in all the northwest. MT. Fowler also established the nro' general store on the Reserve ana bill dated 1895 reads:
 Blue Broadcloth.. ......$700 per yatu' Brown Broadcloth. 5l0O per yara' Elastic Cloth. ......... 1.50 per yard' Marsails Quilting. 200 yer yar9' Canbric Muslin. ........ 100 per yard. Purple ShaWls.. .......... 'bzA each' White Cotton Stockings,1.4O per par
 The year following the family au- vent in Poland school was started for Nancy. and now four, and u was full time her education was begun. A log hut was built on the village green and a man engaged ito chink ana oaup and build chimneys, lap the earth anu build the back walls for one ana ote- half bushels of rye per day
 The school-masters were pald lol many year in rye, wheat, corn ana whiskey and even the minister's SUI pend was eked out with that cosmopol- itan bearing the .name--whiskey
 Books naturally were scarce in those early days, and to people brought up in the midst of culture and earhins V must indeed have been Q great dfprlVa- tion. so it was no surprise to note as early as 1905 the beginning of a .LApra- Association" A number of Poianu men and the Gibsons, Powers, Rohbns and Lovelands of Youngstown contrlp- uted one hundred dollars. which was sent to New Haven for books as tne foundation of circulating library The list is still extant. embracing hls- tories. biographies and travels togetn- ar with Moore's "Stricture of Female Education" Adams views of Rel- gion," Burgh's Dignity of Human Nature" with only the addition ol these few volumes as light literatur ' "Rasselas," "Telenaehus,' "The vicar of Wakefield" and "Evelina'" For thirty-nine years this library, with ad- ditions from time to time, was kept m Judge Kirtland's house, and any one paving two dollars was entitled so draw the books. Many of the original volumes are still to be seen firm as the day they were bought in their coats ol leather.
 A reading room was soon after start ed and the gazettes and journals of the day were all on file.
 Poland, you see, had thus some claim to be called Modern Athens"
 [ The first regular postal service in this section was established in lSOl The route extended from Pittsburg tc Warren and the mail was carried or horseback and delivered once in tive weeks. In 1903 the population warrant \ ed a weekly delivery requiring three days each way AIproposai dated lSC' informs us: q will engage to carry the mail from Pittsburgh, Pa, via Gan field, Poland and Youngstown to War ren once a week for $S5O a year" but adds, If two riders are required thi' proposal need not be considered
 The following communication from the General Post Office presents thu picture of those early days in higf lights:
 "To the Postmaster at Poland, O.
 Sir: As the express horses are ex changed at your house, you can oper the express mail without causing de tention of the rider, and you are here by authorized to do so." tl
 The Income of the Poland office fo
 the year 1905 was $27,36 1-2
 Detroit was added to the route abou 1905, but not until 1923 Is there men
 ton of stage coaches or any vehicle fo
 the accommodation of passengers. M, father recalls hearing one of the ol
 riders. Jabez Gilbert, relate that whel
 the roads were impassable for horse
 they conveyed the mail on oxen t
 Cleveland.
 Grist mills and saw mills had bee built at very early date on the YelloV Creek, but the little stream was to b especially honored by having the frs blast furnace in this part of the coun : try erected upon it's banks. A bount , of four hundred dollars was voted b | the Connecticut Land company fo l building a furnace, and 1t was paid t
 Daniel Heaton in 1894.
 t The old stone stack still remains, un l less the vandals who are now up-root ing Yellow Creek have very recentl l destroyed 1t.
 3 The furnace was christened Hope ) we'll" and there was store and quit
 a little settlement connected with i 5 and the old road between Poland an $ Youngstown, known as the "Furnac l Road" passed by it--all now oblitera l ted by the hand of time.
 3 A letter dated 1906 from Gideon Grar ger, General Postmaster at Washing t ton, orders twelve good iron sugar ket g ties from the Hopewell to be sent m !, settlers at Jefferson, o. and promise : to pay for them when he shall visit tf I place the following spring.
 This letter written by Judge Kirtlan 5 explains itself:
 : March 9. 1906. t Henry Champion;
 s Dear Sir-Yours of January 2 can
 safe, and am glad to hear that tn
 business is likely to succeed so as to 1