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“Td raLiter laugh a bright-haired boy Thau roign a gray-bearded king!’Ono or the first persons wo met on the sireet in our walk about town was George EarliarL None of our reader:* Know him, but bn svas one of the boys In the way bask ami often took part hi ‘ns boy's’ circusra. He la now a veteran of the civil war anil r?i)o of the commissioners to build the soldiers’ monument on the site of Kurt lluirJlion, which, when completed, will be one of the finest monuments in Ohio. Jt ifi to serve the double purpose oT a monument to the soldiers of the war and the pioneers of the Miami Valley. It uiarks (he spot where ‘Mad Anthony’ Wayne and SI. Clair started on their famous march, which respited in the death of Teeumseh and freeing the then Northwest territory from iho grasp of the ravages.“After mutual gI,cctings1,■,MliV“13hl,-Hnrt said: 4Here is something I have heun saving for yon/ and, opening a bilbbonk, ho took out an order, which had ?iever been folded—nor paid. K was an order on the Treasurer of the Hamilton and Rossviiic Hydraulic iCompany for 560, payable to W. -C.! Howells, dated November IS, 18-13, laud signed by William Debb, Fresh jdeiit, am; 1-. D. Campbell. Secretary, i Mr. Bcl;h was elected Governor of Ohio in 184G, and ’Cow’ Campbell, alter being bon ten three times for Congress by John 11. Welter, was by cliango of district elected for I wo icnas—JS-ID-ol. Henry Barhart, father «f our friend, was Treasurer bt the company. The order had been drawn in favor of the writer’s father fifty-nine years years ago, for printing done for (lie company, but as there wire no funds at. the Lime in the treasury, it was not paid, and. in- fact, never was paid. -We. figured, up tlio iii'orosi iiml find that if iby father had got the money and loaned tt out at fi per cent, and re loaned it each year wiili accrued interest, up to this time we would* lmvc a little over . $1,700 to iho good, But it is just as well that lie- never got it, for he would have npont i7. 'paying the hands' or 'paper hills/ and would not have put it out at interest under any eireunistau-i
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Hamilton Weekly Sun
Hamilton, Ohio, US
Thu, Sep 11, 1902
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