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LIijaeemsto me like a Uream of enchantment to remember the many changes that have taken place. Hardly one bun-Hdred acre* of land under improvement.Th**re was not a road, bridge or a frame,jstone or brick house. The tiretaod has budded and blossometl like the rose. The wilderness has been cleared away by the crowd of a new generation. There had been no improvement in the velocity of travel for more than four thousand years and but little in the improvement agricultural implements ad machinery. But the time has c me when % the mind and hand of the childgenius went to workTh*'n inventions came that haveforest once the home, the birthplace, the bridal chamber and the sepulcher ofunnumbered thousands of the human race, whose history has long since and forever been swept away bythe hand of ‘blivlon. November 31, 1MM. was my eighty-thirdanniversary :iofiUftogetherrie county, It was an ideal day with ail of that beauty of ajClear blue sky and bracing air and of the tender touch of the dying year. The autumnal beauty s last passing away before the approaching snow storm of January, 1895.Bogart, April feth, 3805,jishaken the wlt;r!lt;cars.. The steamboat was ?jinvented and now we can cross the At-tllantic in six days instead of nine weeks s I with ahip and sail Then came the locomotive and railroad with its palaceseats cushioned with velvet in el which we can now rule at the rate of forty to sixty miles an hour. Instead of the scythe, the sickle and flail we have the self-binder,the mower and the steam thresher. Less than eighty years ago dlthe most of the (Ireland was covered withof native forests, oakThe World s Fair Testsshowed no baking powder so pure or so great In tcav» ening power as the Royal.yThere are said to be 530 lady phyai clans practicing medicine in the cities of the United States.Women are naturally more insanity than are men.prone to:growth11\raddO.d,nIVa heavyopenings and undulating prairies.Around the margin of timber and prairiein some places there were large quantities of wild fruit, crabapples, plums, Jgrapes, blackberries, raspberries, gooseberries and strawberries, in the lowlands were huckleberries and I cranberries. The prairies supplied] e! settlers with pasture and hayfor w^ter. 'I he mothers hadnot learned the art of canning fruit inthe early days, so they lasted but a few weeks. In a country thus plentifullytjsupplied with woodlands aud where the first ami most difficult labor of the settler was expended in the clearing of a por* jtion of this superfluous growth to make 'room for cultivation,it is surprising not to find any one who could see much in a tree, unless its fitness for rail or building timber. Fy chance the borders of his fields along the roads and line fences show a row of trees that from a distance have the appearance of having been planted.These trees were nothing but a chance growth that had sprung up without cultivation or care. The neatly planted av enues seen along the highways or on the streets of villages and the beautiful little groves that often make a rural homeso charming are for most partdue to the careful planting of a younger class who did not share in thei hardships of pioneer life. When 1came to Erie county and settled where Bloomingville now stands it was six years before the first house had been j erected in Sandusky. Then the south side of the bay was dotted with the Indian wigwam. The inhabitants who still remained in the village were govern-jed by Ogontss as their chief. lie with others visited the vicinity of my parents’ home. As my father was a silversmith he brought with him a good supply of brass and silver ornaments to trade with the Indians aud in this way the family | was well supplied with venison and wild igame. When I came to Bogart in the . winter of 1818 there were but two buildings in Sandusky which hadbeen erected the fall before.the following season several erected. As soon asMany of Sandusky's best ladies will testify to the above. For sale atII. K. IIENK ELM AN'S.MELVILLE BROS.,W. A. GRAHAM, and atMRS. B. HERSKY S.218 Fulton StOFDehnel9NewStoreTuesday, Wednesday ThursdayJ10 andABEAUTIFUL DISPLAY OF,Duringmore wereNoveltiesEverybody Invited
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Sandusky Register
Sandusky, Ohio, US
Wed, Apr 10, 1895
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