The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-12

i ever been elected since. The last Ii
cense ticket that was put up was in
1881, when there were two no-license
tickets in the field. At this election
the highest vote cast for any license
candidate was 81 and the lowest for
any no-license candidate was l27.
There was more or less vigorous
fighting for saloons until 1872 when,
under Prof. Freeman as Mayor, and
]. w. Allaben as City Attorney, and
M. E. Schuyler as Alderman, the il
licit sales were made so costly that
no man would invest capital in booze.
In 1865 the Band of Hope" tenn
perance organization of the children,
was formed and continued until Sue
ceeded in 1873 by the Youths Tenn
perance Alliance, which is still hold
ing monthly meetings in the several
churches of the town.
Now as to Results
Polo today has eight churches
Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran,
Brethren or Dunkard, Evangelical
Alliance, Christian, Roman Catholic
and Christian Science, whose COM
bined property is estimated at $l72,-
900.
Po1o's school property could not be
duplicated today for less than $4,000
to $4,000. The school has 10 teach
ers and has graduated pupils from its
high school every year since 1872.
classes averaging probably not less
than Is. Last year the high school
had Isl pupils In 1899 three-story
limestone building was torn down to
give place to the present building.
The town OF Buffalo has a town
hall in Polo rebuilt last year at
cost of about $4,000.
The Odd Fellows own, clear of
debt, their building worth $4,000 and
have besides cash on hand of $4,000.
The Masons own their building and
lot valued at $500.
The two banks have deposits esti-
mated at million to a million and
quarter dollars. Farming lands in
the territory tributary to Polo are
held at from 5000 to $500 per acre ac-
cording to Improvements and distance
from town.
Polo has two railroads, the Illinois
Central, finished in 1855, and the c.
B. & Q. branch from Chicago to St.
Paul, since 1886. The town of Polo
has a population of about 2,l00. 1t is
purely agricultural 1t has system
of waterworks and purifying plant
paid for, the cost of which has been
probably not less than $4,000. 1t has
sewer system nearly paid for which
cost $4,000 and is spending more
than $4,000 this season in laying
brick pavement on the leading bust
ness street and will soon have boule-
ward lights on this street.
The city has probably seven miles
OF macadam streets and eight to ten
miles of cement walks.
In 1871 the citizens established the
Polo Library as a stock company.
Twelve men and firms gave 500 each
to purchase a lot and enlarge the
building. 1t was so run until 1890.
when the stockholders gave the IL
brary, building and grounds to the
town OF Buffalo, and since then it has
been sustained by a one-mill tax on
the township of which Polo is a part.
The library is now housed in a brick
building for the erection of which Mr..
Carnegie contributed $4,000 and to
which citizens contributed. The prop
erty is now valued at about $4,000
1t has between five and six thousand
volums and is we'll patronized by the
citizens and the schools.
The Polo postoffice is in second
class and supplies eight rural routes.
In 1908 Buffalo, and the adjoining
towns of Lincoln, Pine Creek and
Woo-sung were voted dry territory.
intellectually and morally Polo will
compare favorably with any town in
the state. Six or seven years ago a
writer who had investigated the rec
ord of the high school found that 2lO
of the graduates had pursued further
studies in higher institutions of learn
ing.