The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-09-19


,ffense to sell any article of provision
IN those days and between those hours
1t any other place than at the mar
xet house. When this market house
was abandoned or torn down, can not
now be ascertained with certainty /;
but 1t is tradition that 1t fell into dis
use and became the shelter at night
of sheep pasturing during the day
time upon the neighboring commons.
From the record of this corporation,
30 far as 1t can now be found, the
town would seem to have been an or
derly one, as but few prosecutions are
shown, and these are chiefly for VIC
lating the ordinance against shooting
within the corporate limits, being
shooting matches for turkeys and
other prizes, and constituting the OF
fepse as described in an early indict
ment. of playing at game called
shooting at mark"
We find no further record of this In
corporation after March, 1919, so that
It would seem to have been maintain
ed for about three years only; and
from that time to have been abandon
ed, and the act was repealed In ls42
The town was incorporated again II
ls4s, when the present system of mu.
nicipal Cover. ment was adopted.
The leading manufacturers OF that
day we're tanners, hatters and cabi'
net m akers. There was one tan yard
at the southwest corner of Beech
and East streets, one where the elec
trio light plants now stands, and ont
on the site of The Hillsboro Hardware
Company's Building.
A hatter's shop stood on Beech
street where DR.. Dolph Rogers now
lives, one where Roush's livery stable
is now located, another on Court
street opposite the present jail, and
fourth on the south cast corner oi
Walnut and High opposite the pres
ent Town Hall, while on the site OF
the Hall stood cabinet makers shol
and another on the lot where Mrs. J
w. Pence now resides.
Improvements in machinery ant
other changes in conditions have Ions
since driven these industries from ou1
midst and others have taken theil
place, but in their day they we're O.
great Importance to the community
as a means of employment to man'
and a source of profit to their owners
A wooden mill operated by horse
on tread wheel, and where Mr.. Har
ry Richards now lives on West street
and in addition to its other useful
ness, furnished entertainment to the
boys while riding on the wheel.
But all this was changed by th'
opening of the railroad on September
%, 1852 On that day thousands were
here from the surrounding country
most of whom had never seen loco
motive or heard its whistle before.
The whole village was alive with
excitement, and when the first trair
pnlled in, having aboard the council
and leading citizens of Cincinnati
with fat car bearing a small bras
cannon from which salute was fired
the excitement was intense and the
cheers of the multitude beyond de
scription.
The visitors we're met by the of
fcials of the town and railroad, and
escorted by the Highland Guards,
finely drilled military company under
the command of Captain McMullen
driven in carriages to the public
square, where a speech of welcome
was made by the Hon. Nelson Bar
rere and ex-President Hays, then
young lawyer of Cincinnati, was one
of the speakers of the day.
A dinner had been prepared and
tables spread near where the B. IL o
round house now stands, and in the
midst of the ceremonies up town, the
word came that the crowd out there
had broken through the lines and was
helping itself to the meal reserved
for invited guests, and Captain Nc
Mullen was obliged to double quick
his men to the ground and defend the
edibles at the point of the bayonet.
This was, indeed, red letter day In
our history (; and its importance car
hardly be overestimated.
1t divides almost evenly the century
of our existence, and marks the
change in methods of business and
style of living, from the provincialisu
of the country town to the advanced
civilization of the modern city.
While making this growth and i'm
provement in material way, we die
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