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Mrs, Brown Tells Stories about Massillon in the Thirtys.TRAVELING ON THE CANAL.A Journey to Cleveland Was Considered a Treat—A Barely Averted Shipwreck on Summit Lake —Kendal Society.which flourished successfully for many years. But alas ! Even in model communities there are instances where its «members fall from grace, and Massillon in the thirties was no exception to the general rule. Mrs. Brown acknowledged that she once played cards for a stake. “It was a ‘job' we put up on Noah Madison,’’ she says, “and the stake was a pound of raisins.”CARROLLTON EXCITED.Mrs. Mary Ann Brown, one of Massillon’s oldest residents has not been much atfected by the cold snap of the past week, as have been many younger and less experienced citizens. Mrs. Brown, who knew Massillon in the thirtys. andA Stock Company Formed and Oil Territory to be Developed.Carrollton people are greatly interested in the oil developments at. Scio, and are about to develop territory in their vicinity, a stock company having been formed and three test holes will be put down as soon as possible. No outside speculators are admitted into the company. The plan adopted was the issuing of fifty shares at a par value of a hundred dollars per share. In forty-eight hours all the stock was taken. The understanding was that no one man was to have more than one share About five thousand acres of land adjacent to Carrollton have been leased by the company. The territory has been laid out ia three blocks. A well will be drilled on eacheven before that time, can remember .... _spells of weather that were probably as I block. The contract has been let tocold as that which has been recently experienced;, but in those days, she says, people didn’t run around continually to look at thermometers—they didn’t have time in the first place, and anyway there weren’t thermometers in every houseMcCully Swan, and operations are to be begun at once and will be prosecuted vigorously until the three wells are completed. The contract for the three wells will be $3,500, and the last of the wells is to be finished to a depth of twelveas there are now Those were days when , hundred leet on or before June 15. A bluff old witters settled dowu upon Mas-, wejj was drilled in the vicinity several sillon in right good earnest; when the . y(,ars ago by Pittsburg parties, and some snow lay thick upon the ground for ( 0j| was fOUQ(ii hut the hole was plugged, months at a time: when the canal and a9 operators were carried away with river froze over so that sleighs could be excitement at McDonald, driven upon them; when the wealth and j fashion of Kendal seldom cared to wander very far from its warm firesides.OFF TO THE KLONDIKE.John F. Keller to Depart From Mas-and the fine leisure of long winter even- ^ings made possible many social gather-j sillon This Week,mgs which have since been superseded | John F. Keller, of Massillon, will de-by more elaborate and formal methods part the latter part of ihis week for r\f inin.o*. This and much more . Portland. Ore.. where he will ioin his
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Massillon Independent
Massillon, Ohio, US
Mon, Feb 13, 1899
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