Cynthiana Democrat, Harrison Co, Ky Newspaper, June 1896, Page 13 From: Edie Suttle "jsattle9@idt.net" Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 06:30:18 -0700 This one file contains all of the ten e-mail submissions of page 13. ************************************************************************ USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ************************************************************************ Cynthiana Democrat, June 1896, Page 13, Part 1 A. GOLDBERG A REMARKABLY SUCCESSFUL YOUNG BUSINESS MAN It is doubted seriously whether one person out of five would consider Mr. A. Goldberg one of our YOUNG business men. He has been working away with such energy and push since his arrival in Cynthiana in 1885, and has become so well-known to everybody in the county, that one feels like one had known him always. But Mr. Goldberg is not yet thirty-five years old. September will mark that milestone in his career, and certainly there are none who will not wish him a hundred years more of success. He was born in Poland, and since the electric light, the telephone and the telegraph people have poled the town he begins to feel quite at home. With a pack on his back this dauntless man started through the country to make a living. What he did is familiar. In a short time he saved sufficient cash to open an unpretentious clothing store on Main street near Pleasant. Rapidly his business grew, until he removed to a larger store on Pike street, and finally, a few months ago, took possession of the large three story building on Main street, until recently occupied my Mr. Alex Frazer. Mr. Goldberg now carries a complete stock of everything in the clothing, gentlemen's furnishing goods, boot and shoe line, from a Saratogo trunk to a collar button. By fair, square and honest dealing, by combining a high quality of goods with a low price, he has drawn an excellent trade and holds it with a tenacious girp. It is not good form to make a purchase in his line without first consulting Mr. Goldberg, for he has everything a man or boy needs and he sells at rockbottom prices. Just at present he has a special sale on and is marking things at actual cost. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Cynthiana Democrat, June 1896, Page 13, Part 2 R.L. SLADE The portrait of Mr. R.L. Slade, of Berry, appears on this page. He is one of the leading citizens of the thriving little town and has done much towards its advancement. Mr. Slade was born in Pendleton county in 1870. From 1887 until 1890 he was engaged in the grocery business at Falmouth, but afterwards connected himself with the W.G. Oldham furniture and undertaking establishment. In 1891 he removed to Berry where, with a partner, he established a furniture and undertaking house, and has enjoyed a large trade. Being a loyal democrat he was appointed postmaster at Berry in 1893. Mr. Slade organized Berry Lodge, No.108, K. of P., in 1893 and later, in 1895, organized Orion Division, No. 44, U.R.K.P. He is secretary of the Pythian Grove Cemetery Co. Mr. Slade in a busy man--postmaster, undertaker, furniture dealer, secretary, lumber dealer, and best of all a live correspondent for the DEMOCRAT. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Cynthiana Democrat, June 1896, Page 13, Part 3 East Bridge street, "on Clifton," live Mayor Ashbrook, Rev. J.J. Haley, Mrs. M.E. Lydick, Capt. Riggs, B.F. Martin, the Misses Fisher, J.T. Moseley, Lloyd Thompson, C.A. Webster, Rev. E.L. Southgate. This is a pretty portion of the city, situated on high and healthy ground. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The negroes of Cynthiana, while probably as thrifty as any in towns of similar size, have as a rule not provided themselves with many earthly goods. Henry Palmer and Anderson Haydn are more that comfortably fixed, and own handsome houses. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cynthiana's water power will eventually line the river with manufactories. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cynthiana is thought to be venerable because she has lived more than a hundred years--but compared to Damascus, the oldest city in the world she is a feeble infant, lisping her first lessons of civilization and self government. But, young as she is, she has her ruins, over which one may brood and moralize. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Cynthiana Democrat, June 1896, Page 13, Part 4 DELIGHTFUL REMINISCENCES OF OTHER DAYS "Of all the beautiful pictures that hang on memory's wall" none are painted in fadeless colors except those drawn when the lights and shadows of life's April played upon the canvas. An old man sees the scenes of his youth--describes or makes his listeners see them. Cynthiana has always been a political rallying point. In 1840 Will Henry Harrison and John Tyler, Whigs, ran for President and Vice President against VanBuren and Johnson, Democrats. That campaign was remarkable for its immense mass meetings and processions and novel ideas of exciting the people. Songs were sung about "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" all over this country, and finally a barbecue was appointed to take place in September 1840, on the common of Cynthiana. The day before it was to "come off" it began to rain and continued to pour down all the next day. But a vast crowd of people gathered in the town, and as many as could get in the court house assembled there to hear the speakers of the day--Gen. Thos. Metcalf (Old Sledge Hammer), and Thos. F. Marshal (Old Stone Hammer), dressed in hunting suit of buckskin, with a stone hammer in his belt. He made a sensible speech, but did not attempt to be eloquent. Marshal's speech was inimitable. A canoe was placed on what is now Northcutt's corner, and from that hard cider was served out to the Whigs. The usual number of fistfights occurred as the day advanced towards evening, but nobody was seriously hurt, and the Whig barbecue was a grand success, although beeves etc. could not be cooked in the pits prepared for them, on account of the rain. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Cynthiana Democrat, June 1896, Page 13, Part 5 CYNTHIANA A POLITICAL RALLYING POINT In 1844 barbecues were again in order. Clay, Whig, ran against Polk, Democrat. The Whigs had a barbecure at Claysville, in honor of Clay, for whom the place was named. The Democrats had their barbecue in Larkin Garnett's woods. Twenty-six young and beautiful women came from Millersburg, Ky., to attend the Democratic barbecue. They represented the twenty-six states then in the Union. They were dressed in white and all rode white horses, except a Miss McClelland, who represented Rhode Island, which was disfranchised at that time. This young lady was dressed in black but rode a white horse. There never was a more beautiful sight than these young women presented on that day so long gone by. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WHIG BARBECUES, FIST FIGHTS AND FRACASES Sometime in the same fall the Whigs had another barbecue in Cason's woods, about three miles from town. It was remarkable for nothing but the great 'swath' the 'Bourban Grays' cut --a military company, composed of very handsome young men, who came to the barbecue from Paris, Ky., and one Lear, a Whig, who got hilarious, swore that he chould whip any Democrat living. A Democrat took it up (the threat) and took Lear down by almost whipping him to death. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PERIPATETIC HALLS OF JUSTICE When Cynthiana became a town and was christened, her courts of law were movable feasts and were held in one private dwelling house and another. But Justice went wherever she was called and took her scales along with her. Before her then, as now, the lawyers wrangled in loud dispute, and sometimes made her deaf, and she being already blind made a few mistakes--such as hanging the guiltless and jailing the innocent--but she made the guilty hop and we are bound to be content, as we cannot help ourselves. The first court house was built in 1794. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF ------------------------------ Cynthiana Democrat, June 1896, Page 13, Part 6 Simplicity dwelt in Cynthiana for forty years after it was founded. Sometime in the thirties of this century a man lived here "of the name of Dunlap." He was a man of fine understanding and possessed a fund of that rare commodity, common sence. He was wont, however, to imbibe too freely of spirtus frumenti, and when he was a 'little off' he always turned philanthropist and looked carefully to the public weal. One day a man brought a churn to town that was of a revolving turn of mind and placed it on the court house square for exhibition. It was of such strange mechanism that it aroused Dunlap's suspicions and he called the wise men together that they might take counsel. After some deliberations he and they agreed that the man should be arrested for playing a faro bank on the public square and calling it a churn. They finally compromised by driving the man out of town and ordering him to take his faro bank along with him. The man went. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Cynthiana Democrat, June 1896, Page 13, Part 7 HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF Just now on the outskirts of Cynthiana, history is repeating itself. On the farm of Mrs. Mary Howk an old grass-grown road, that once led to the first Baptist church that was erected hereabout, is being reopened. When the church became dilapidated it was used for a stable, and colts froliked and nickered where Parson Webb long ago was wont to expound the Gospel to his flock--two hours at a stretch. When it became--too ruinous for even that base use it was razed to the ground. But one can stand on the hill--where songs of praise floated from its windows--and fancy the gay cavalcade of young men and women that used to travel that road to the church on their prancing steeds, little dreaming how soon their graves would be forgotten after they had come to sleep in the hillside church yard, nor how soon every trace of their having lived would be swept from the face of the earth. The church yard was a large one for its day, and contained quite a community of graves, of which now two, only, remain undisturbed. Over the other sleepers of that hamlet of the dead, the plowshare cleaves the sod spring after spring, and corn waves in its season and the sweet music it makes does whisper of oblivion, that sooner or later covers all earthly things with its impenetrable pall. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Cynthiana Democrat, June 1896, Page 13, Part 8 A little distance from the residence of the late Hon. Adam Renaker, the first Methodist church that ever was built in or about Cynthiana, once stood. Not even the foundation site of that edifice remains. But the grave yard is still to be seen, full of sunken graves and tombstones tottering to their fall, which tell: Here are gathered in their last repose many of the early pioneers of Cynthiana. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Cynthiana Democrat, June 1896, Page 13, Part 9 E.K. RENAKER Enoch K. Renaker whose picture appears in this issue is a prominent farmer and stock raiser of Berry neighborhood. He enjoys an extensive acquaintance and does a large business in his line. Mr. Renaker is a member of the Democratic Executive Committee of Harrison County. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ASBURY BROADWELL In 1813 Asbury Broadwell began merchandising and continued the business until 1848, when he died. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Kelly was a thriving merchant of this place before and after the war of 1812. Then followed John M. January and William A. Withers, Mr. Withers bought the most elegant line (I think the merchants call it) of goods to this town ever offered for sale. Wallace McIntosh, also had everything in the way of dry goods a lady could call for, from the most frail and filmy old laces to the heaviest brocade silks. His place of business was burned at the first battle of Cynthiana, June 11, 1864--Morgon's second raid. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mr. Trimnell was a merchant of Cynthiana for years and owned the business house now the property of W.L. Northcutt. He accumulated a competency before his death, which occurred in 1851. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Robert Wherritt, now of Cincinnati, succeeded Mr. McIntosh in the dry goods business and his firm was well known for years. Mr. J.T. Hedges' business house and well filled counters come within the memory of the young ladies of the present day. The dry goods house of the late David Givens was reliable and prosperous for a score of years. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Cynthiana Democrat, June 1896, Page 13, Part 10 FIRST STORE NEAR FOOT OF OLD BRIDGE On the south bank of the Licking, just at the foot of the "old bridge," on the site of Mrs. Fitzpatrick's residence, stood the first store ever kept in this part of the country. Forty years ago old people said that their grand-fathers had told them that what is now Harrison county was nothing but an unbroken wilderness full of wild beasts and wilder Indians, but that the name of the man who kept it had been forgotten." It could have been but little more than a thread and needle shop or the very ghost of a dry goods store at best, but it also had, as was the case in all early settlements, hardware, groceries, and implements of husbandry. The women spun and wove the linen for home use and the goods that made their own gowns as well as the material that made the clothes for their husbands and sons. Men when shopping in those days armed to the teeth and in large parties for safety. From what I know of women there was no peace in house for a month after the men returned with their purchases. That order of things has reversed these days. Col. Isaac Miller is said to have succeeded that first merchant on the south bank of the Licking, but that is doubtful. Col. Miller was a merchant and the most successful business man Cynthiana ever had. He began his business before 1793 and became very wealthy. He formed the company in 1809 that built the factory now the mill of Riggs, Garnett & Co. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cynthiana Democrat, June 1896, Page 13 ------------------------------