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open until 9 or 10 o'clock In the evening. Hia eole recreation It readinghistory. H. G. Wells’ Outline of History” is his favorite book.Williams has a son, Henry Williams,, who is employed ns n bookkeeper in Akron. He is a greatgrandfather. .Women Too Extravagant.“Not much,” was his emphatic reply when he waa questioned as to his opinion of modern women.“It isn’t the bobbed hair and short skirts,” he went on to explain. “They are probably more comfortable. I know I can’t work when my hair is long anlt;T straggly. Maybe the wohien can’t. But they are too extravagant.“And the young folks! They are also extravagant. And they spend too much time. They loaf too much.Williams is a man of unusually small stature. His legs have become slightly bowed from long years which \ he has spent straddling the last.He wears an old black sweater, a cap and glasses.James Marshall, the founder of Mnrshallville, for whom the town was named, preceded Williams in settling there .by just 40 years.He la.id out the village, located in the northwest portion of Baughman Twp.. Feb. 7, 1817. He was a .sturdy member of the old Seceder church, of Dalton.In 1834 when Martin Weimer came to this place, history records there were but ten homes. They were occupied by Elijah Dancer, Calvin Brewster, James and Joseph Hogan,'Enoch Moffett, James Marshall and John Roch.Dr. Comstock was the first physician in MarshallviUc and Elllngham and Scotton the tip*, shoemakers.The settlement was incorporated as a municipality Feb. 10. 186R. Charles Schlutt wm elected the first ma/or. Hia daughter, Dora Stinson, is still living in Marshnllville, wife of D. W. Stinson, a .building mover,C. L. Gehres was elected recorder. Other officers were Martin Weimer, George Reinoehl, Benjamin Carrel, John Pfunder and WllllanrPinklejruMarshallville received its first real impetus in growth with the cotning of the railroad in 1850, just 16 years before it was incorporated.Will Pinkley ran a blacksmith shop at this time which branched out into a carriage work* with considerable business. The plant changed hands and was known us the Gerstenslager Carriage Works. It was eventually moved to Wooster which brought about a decrease in the population of Marshallville.The municipality, located on the C-A. C. railroad, now boasts of around 300 inhabitants.The main business is the Bower Sausage Factory, where 100 pigs are slaughtered every day and turned into sausage, which is delivered to surrounding towns by n fleet of motor trucks.
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Orrville Courier Crescent
Orrville, Ohio, US
Tue, Feb 28, 1928
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