The Cordova daily times., 1922-12-29
THEY HEslTATED WHEN CORPORATE EXISTENCE
 WAS IN THE BALANCE

WAS IN THE BALANCE
 Mt. Eaton, Ohio, historic rural ham, let, was on the verge of having to "give up the ghost" To avoid taxa ton It looked as though the little town would have to yield it's corporate existence.
 Then they tethouaht themselves of the tradition of Mt. Eaton, of her for rrer "pomp and grandeur" and with a gesture which might have meant "they shall not pass," they bravely should. cred the tax burden-and Mt. Eaton remains corporate municipality.
 But the pri J.. of the villagers was something that rose up unasked by any of1icial bIGs but powerful never theless. The request for the calling of an election had hardly been made before this sentiment became so strong that the village counci! instruc- ted Mayor Wizard to call ofs the cleo tion. He lriiod 10 Wooster and sue. ceeded in stopping the printing of the ballots.
 we don't knhw just what we'll do yet" Mayor Wizard said. We may be able to reach some agreement with the county commissioners bv which the improvement will not cost us as much as some os our people think it is going to c:st."
 And that's wh.re the situation is today.
 Once O. ite City
 Mount Eaton. which, at the apex of it's prosperity, boastcd three taverns, two or three doctors, several prosper ous stores, da1tist and horse doc tor. not to mention the Lucas Hotel, which, prior to big fire ten years ago, was a much-sought eating place, especially for Sunday dinners, is just barely hanging or now
 Edward Graber, wEo has Fept the village store for years and years, IS still doing business at the old stand. The taverns vanished with prohibition, and the advent Of the automobile made the horse doctors business unproflt- able. Those same automobiles brought the village nearer to other centers of population, so the dentist and the doctors also took their departure. The towns chief boast today is Reformed Church. with d congregation Of more than 800 persons, one of the largest rural churches in Wayne County. Mount Eaton's last claim to notor- iety came some two years ago, when hold bank bandits held up the towns little bank and imprisoned the cash fer. Edmund Ruch, in the vault. Il was a daylight .oldup. Fortunately the combination on the lock didn work right, and tue first man to enter the bank released the imprisoned cashier.
 The towns history discloses that brave man named Joseph H White, II 1927. started a weekly newspaper 1T the town-the Anti Masonic Mirror l which. according to the historian "soon languished for lack of support | Had industries, Too
 Colonel William Goudy placed steam grist mill in operation there II 1881. Five years later it was burned In 1883 is was rebuilt only to be de stroyed in 1889 by an explosion O the boilers that killed four men, caus ing the most serious tragedy in tn' towns history.
 The towns historian sets forth tha cholera made it's appearance in tf town in 1883, being brought here D! a Frenchman named Benedict Brown stine. He and his family were eml grants who had a dead child-a chol era yictim-with them when they ar rived. .E
 "David Boyd an intoxicated man, recounts the historian, staggered Ill to the wagon to see how a cholert victim looked and, being attacked died the same day before sundoWn In a month twenty-six persons dlet of the scourge. Doctors Hall and Bar Der did all in their power to stay its spread, but for all that one Ill every ten of the population died. Many o the citizens fled from the village te escape the epidemic" .s