Montpelier High School - Mirror Yearbook (Montpelier, OH)

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PAGES FROM CALENDARS OF THE PAST PROVE INTERESTING AND COLORFUL Reminiscences of Other Days Let's pllt another log on the fire. pull up our chairs and with the help of a few old-timers -turn back the pages of Time. Time does march on-swiftly, si- lently, steadily and we are forced to go along with it. Nevertheless-it's pleas- ant to sit down and talk to someone who knew Montpelier 50 years ago, when it was just .1 small village of some nine or ten hundred people. There were no side- walks then, but board walks put in their appearance a little later. According to Mrs. N. G. Lash, her door yard reached from the alley next to her house to the next one west with only a small cabinet shop between. A grist mill stood across the street from her home. Later it blew up, killing one man and blowing the dome across to where Louden's now have their Department Store. Southeast of town, where the old graveyard now is. was lo- cated a Cranberry Marsh and that is where Cranberry Run gets its name. Mr. and Mrs. Henry W'ingard can recall when: There was a watermill out by the Cfcflfrlcfy. Denmanls owned a dry goods store and john Mercer and Oliver Williams each meat markets. A postoffice and a drug store were lo- cated where what is now the south part of Main Street between Monroe and ilonesville Streets. The foundry was where Bungalow Court now is. A saloon was located on the corner of Main and Monroe streets. Dr. Hagcrly's office was where Guil- inger's garage now stands. Mrs. Owens owned a big hotel on the site of The Farmers Supply Co. N. G. Lash had the First car. An amus- ini ing incident is recalled about this car with the steam engine. It seems that on one 4th of July, Mr. and Mrs. Lash were leading the parade with their car, They were representing Uncle Sam and Lady lui kxou Bliilifing Sli'i'i'f SUFIIA' The Om' Hom' Slmy qv.. . t 4. F 'vs

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a farm across from it, the road from Bryan came angling down through where Boone's Mill now is, by the river and down to a hotel where the Chevrolet Garage now stands. An ashery was down by the river. There was a little store northwest of the town hall, Mr. Wingard's father owned a garden spot where the First National Bank now stands. On the site of the Johnson Gas Sta- tion, stood an old Opera House. Montpelier as it is today presents an entirely different picture than the one just painted for us as it was fifty years ago. With its thriving downtown busi- ness section, beautiful residential districts, paved streets, lighted and equipped by the latest in electrical appliances, modern schools and churches, fully equipped fire department and adequate police force, busy railroad shops-it truly is a pro- gressive little city. Montpelier now boasts a population of approximately four thousand people and it is slowly but steadily growing. Father time has been more than gener- ous in bestowing his gifts upon Montpe- lier. A comparison of it fifty years ago with the community it has grown to be today, clearly shows us how proud we should be of our little city. Montpelier today stands as a living Mrs. Sazzmferx, our music friend um! t'ln'rixlu-if colnpaniun has for 50 'wars mir1ixli'n'i1 fo the ai'sllJetir nerds Uf.Y0llfhfuI'N1il11lS. mi Iwo llllhmf monument to those who have passed on -and to those few who are now living and can remember back when -it must mean a fulfillment of their fondest dreams -a seed they planted years ago, and which, with their diligent toil and kindly care, has now blossomed into a beautiful plant which we call i'Our Montpelier. What a pleasing memory this must be to those people who during the past fifty years have watched Montpelier grow to its present size and population. Mont- pelier today with its numerous changes in appearance and in its modern ways shall in the future progress as it has in the past. To those people who laid the first site of Montpelier we owe everything. Our modern school system with its many ad- vantages and opportunities is only one of the many things which the passing generation has handed down to us. XVell, well-our fire is getting low. Time passes swiftly even while we've been reminiscin' and we haven't told near- ly all that we might have about Montpe- lier's SO years of Progress -but just the same, hearing these few facts has brought back many pleasant memories, and it was time well spent, wasn't it? -Leo Hilla rd IFA I 651, ?f is j 1- ' I '- fr 'Z'-,.-,J gn, . h, ,, .,.,,,j ., . I