Harrison High School - Vista Yearbook (Harrison, OH)

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TIME IS A KIND FRIEND, HE XVILL MAKE US OLD The old market house occupied the City Hall lot. The hall was in the center with booths surrounding it. It was a frame structure with brick pillars supporting it. Here the coun- try people brought their produce three days a week. Eggs were sold for the great sum of four cents a dozen, pork chops at five and six cents a pound, and a nice piece of soup-meat for a penny. To those pioneers, who in the year 1850 caused Harrison to be incorporated as a village, we who have reaped the benefits of their far-sighted action pay tribute. To their memory we, the class of 1950, dedicate this volume of the VISTA. The old market house was replaced in 1877 by the present City Hall. The big gas explosion partially wrecked the City Hall in 1878. The explosion killed several and wounded many. The hall was lighted with gas made from gasoline by the machinery lo- cated in the basement. Some of the councilmen used a lighted match to locate a leak: as soon as the match was lighted the explosion occurred. We wish fo thank Miss Mary A. Curran for laistorical zmzferial used on these two pages. PAGE NINE

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WE SING OF THE SMALL TOWN Harrison has remained a little town -a town where large hearts abound, where charity and kindness are given and where friends are loyal in times of trouble. It is a place where young- sters spend a healthy childhood and where older people enjoy a life of contentment and peace. s. The building shown in this picture was built in 1880. It housed both elementary and high school classes. The first high school had been built in 1862. These classes were trans- ferred to the new building, and the first class graduated in 1881. Two years later the Alumni Association was formed. This group has the splen- did record of not missing an annual reunion since its founding. PAGE EIGHT In 1806, Jonas Crane made the first land purchase on what we now call the Ohio side of the line. In 1813, assisted by Peter Rifner, he laid out the town, the original plot containing four blocks of our present town. Its boundaries were State and Sycamore Streets and Broadway and Park Ave- nue. 1 The first school was built in 1816. It was of logs and was at the corner of Park Avenue and Walnut Street. Later on a school was held in a little brick building on Walnut Street. Still later, a building on Harrison Avenue was used as a school. Then the four room brick building on I-Iill Street and shown in this picture was used.

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TIME AND TIDE WAIT FOR NO MAN 1.1-1 Tit N ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION President DR. LORILN R. S151-'H5RMAN Vice-President PAUL RIIKIHIQNBACEH Clerk-Treasurer ROBERT B. HOI-'FNIAN BUILDING AND GROUNDS COMMITTEE PAUL RliC1HliNBACH MRS. Colm Mons SUPPLIES Crvoii SMALL ROBERT B. PIOFFMAN Tremendous responsibility rests upon the shoulders of the Board of Education. Five of I'Iarrison's civic, industrial, and professional leaders meet monthly to discuss matters of school policy. This board is constantly faced with new and trying problems which they, with vigor, conscientiously work out. The gratitude of the community and a sense of an important task well done is the reward of their labors.