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This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. ******************************************************************* (cover) ==================================================================== VAN BUREN CENTENNIAL and HOMECOMING PROGRAM AND HISTORY 1833 . 1933 NOVEMBER 3, 4, 5 1933 KANE'S CLOTHING - FINDLAY ==================================================================== (inside front cover) ____________________________________________________________________ With Our Compliments and Best Wishes REV. and MRS. CLAYTON S. STRAWSER Pastor, Van Buren United Brethren Church ____________________________________________________________________ Fretwell's Home Store North Baltimore Ohio Efficient--Courteous Service A GOOD PLACE TO TRADE _____________________________________________________________________ Flora's Beauty Shoppe PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AT REASONABLE PRICES Phone 77-R 125 1/2 S. Main St. North Baltimore, O. _____________________________________________________________________ Compliments J. B. George DE LAVAL CREAM SEPARATORS Findlay Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ (Page 1) ______________________________________________________________________ School Program FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1933 9:00--12:00 Regular classes held to which public is invited 1:00--2:00 Chapel Program 2:15 Football game--Van Buren H. S. vs. McComb H. S. 8:00 A Three-Act Comedy drama presented by the Public Speaking Class CAST Daniel French, from the city.............................Ralph Silveus Lester Van, Daniel's chum..............................William Coleman Wade Carver, an unwelcome suitor.........................Calvin Errett Orpheus Jackson, a native Romeo..........................Lyle Duffield Old Joe, "Dat's a fac"...................................Thomas Decker Rose O'May, Mammy's Lil' Wild Rose......................Helen Duffield Mammy Celie, a black treasure..........................Pauline Showman Hester O'May, Rose's maiden aunt...........................Carol Beard Peggy French, Daniel's sister........................Marguerite Horner Letty Van, Peggy's chum....................................Treva Baney Babe Joan, a mountain charmer..............................Helen Stahl Mrs. Courtvane, a lonely woman............................Doris Wagner SCENE--The entire action of the play takes place in the cabin door- yard of Uncle Joe and Mammy Celie in the mountains of Virginia TIME--The present ACT I The cabin dooryard of Uncle Joe and Mammy Celie in the mountains of Virginia. An afternoon in early summer ACT II The same scene. The opening day of the fair. An after- noon a month later than Act I ACT III The same scene. Fourteen months later than Act II. Music Furnished by the School Band - Directed by Mr. Hodd Smith CHAPEL PROGRAM PAGE 16 ______________________________________________________________________ Compliments of Ohio and Michigan Paper Co. TOLEDO OHIO Representative Arthur C. Buck, Van Buren, O. ______________________________________________________________________ (page 2) ______________________________________________________________________ Compliments of Findlay Savings & Loan Co. 216 South Main Findlay, O. ______________________________________________________________________ The Ohio Pipe Company Jobbers of NEW AND S. H. PIPE AND FITTINGS ENAMELWARE AND PLUMBING SUPPLIES Findlay Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ WITH CASH you may buy the things of your choice--when you will--where you will and how you wish. Just try having money to use as you need it LIBERAL IDEAS OF SERVICE LIMA LOAN COMPANY Rm. 12, Jones Blk. Cor. Main and Crawford Sts. Findlay, O. ______________________________________________________________________ SCOTT BRYANT'S SHOE STORE STARR BRAND and Poll-Parrot SHOES For All the Family --You Bet They are All Leather-- ______________________________________________________________________ (page3) ______________________________________________________________________ Program SATURDAY, NOV. 4th 10:00 A. M. PARADE--MAIN STREET 2:00 P. M.--SCHOOL AUDITORIUM Music--Pythian Home Band Reading--History of Van Buren--Mrs. L. M. Cramer Address--W. D. McCaughey, Findlay, Ohio Accordian Solo--Mrs. Bertha Canfield Reminiscence Remarks--by L. M. Cramer and older residents Music--Pythian Home Band 7:30 P. M.-SCHOOL AUDITORIUM Music--School Band Reading--Ruthanna Brinkman Music--Lester Bernard and Glen Moorhead Address--Attorney A.G Fuller, Findlay, Ohio Reading--Rebecca Wyrick Music--School Band ______________________________________________________________________ F. S. Pendleton Lumber Co. Lumber - Builders' Supplies EVERYTHING FOR THE BUILDER Prices Reasonable LUMBER CEMENT BLOCKS ROOFING HARDWARE COAL Phone No. 9 McComb, O. ______________________________________________________________________ (page 4) ______________________________________________________________________ DAVIDSON-HARRINGTON For Economical Transportation ____ ___| |___ / CHEVROLET / ----| |--- ---- SERVICE WITH A SMILE 215 West Main Cross Phone 117 FINDLAY ______________________________________________________________________ The SAN-A-PURE DAIRY CO. Manufacturers of San-A-Pure Butter COMPLETE DAIRY SERVICE Milk Cream Butter Buttermilk Cottage Cheese 216-218 Beach Avenue Phone 613 Findlay, O. ______________________________________________________________________ 2 SERVICE CARS-CALL MAIN 5 COOPER SERVICE Gasoline, Oils and Greases Alemite Greasing Service Tire Service Brake Service Battery Service Car Service South Main at Hardin Findlay, O. ______________________________________________________________________ COMPLIMENTS OF FINDLAY CITIZENS BUDGET CO. West Crawford Findlay, O. ______________________________________________________________________ (page 5) ______________________________________________________________________ Program SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1933 Centennial Service VAN BUREN HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM MORNING SERVICE--9:30 Sunday School and Worship Service Combined Opening--Hymn Prayer Hymn Class Discussion Announcements Hymn Report Special--Choir Scripture Lesson Prayer Solo Offering Special--Choir Sermon Benediction NOON HOUR--11:30-1:30--Basket Lunch at School Dining Room AFTERNOON SERVICE--1:30 Call to Worship--"Come Thou Almighty King" Prayer Quartette Remarks by Visitors Quartette Scripture Hymn Address--Dr. Clarence LaRue, Toledo, Ohio Closing Number Benediction ______________________________________________________________________ N. S. GATES & SON WISE AND FARQUAR FURNACES Lennox Air Conditioning Systems Sheet Metal Work 201 North Main St. Main 412 Findlay, O. ______________________________________________________________________ (page 6) ______________________________________________________________________ Established 1892 Floyd E. Brinkman Phones--Office 413-W; Res. 2502-W Hatchery JAMES SHEA Artistic Granite Supreme Quality Memorials Baby Chicks A Large Stock of Finished Work CUSTOM HATCHING on Hand Salesroom and Factory 137 N. Main Phone 1602 Findlay, O. Findlay, O. 1300 North Main ______________________________________________________________________ Established 1912 Our Motto- SAFETY AND SERVICE PLUS A REASONABLE EARNING HANCOCK SAVINGS AND LOAN First Door South of Court House Findlay, O. ______________________________________________________________________ Compliments Compliments of Gohlke's Bakery ARNOLD SHOE Bakers of CO. Honey Boy Bread, Cakes and Doughnuts Findlay, O. Findlay Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ We specialize in Cleaning All Switzer Bros. Kinds of Dresses and Suits Hughes Good Bakers Dry Cleaners Since 1895 112 West Front Findlay, O. Findlay, O. Phone 18 532 South Main ______________________________________________________________________ (page 7) ______________________________________________________________________ History of Van Buren This year, we as a nation will celebrate a Century of Progress. This week, we as a community celebrate a century of development of the natural resources of this part of Ohio and our own "Home Town," Van Buren. A little over a hundred years ago, the Wyandot and Ottawa Indians roamed at will through this section, which was then an unbroken forest. To the north was the great Black Swamp. The only road was a trail cut out by Hull's army on its march to the Maumee during the War of 1812. This road was called "Hull's Trace" which went directly through Van Buren, and was merely a trail made by the cutting dowm of trees and brush to allow the gun carriages to go through. Colonel Cass was sent to cut the trail to Maumee and it is said the engineers of this day could not have done a more complete job. The trail struck Allen Township just south of Van Buren and passed through what is now the S. D. Spitler, Jacob Kempher heirs, H. O. Burrell, J.D. Burrell and Lewis Lyon farms on the west side of the Portage river thence into Wood county. Allen township was the last township to be organized in Hancock county, being formed in 1850 from territory embraced in Portage and Cass township, taking 12 sections from each. It contains an area of 24 square miles or 15,360 acres. It was named in honor of General Ethan Allen. Nathan Frakes was the first settler in this township to build his cabin in this unbroken forest. In 1827 he purchased of John Gardiner the west half of the north east quarter of section B on which Van Buren was built and at once erected a log cabin on what is now the S. D. Spitler farm. He sold his holdings in this section to Isaac Miller. John Trout came to Hancock county in the summer of 1828, selected land and erected a double log cabin on the site of Van Buren. He returned to Perry county for his family, arriving here in December, 1828. The trip was long and arduous--fording rivers, swamps and streams and cutting their way through forest and thicket, the sturdy parents with their five children trudged many a weary mile, and on December 15, 1828 they took possession of their cabin. A daughter, Eliza, afterward married Elisha Beesoon, which was the first marriage in the settlement. In 1831 Christian and Rebecca Barnd with their four sons and four daughters came from Perry county and took possession of the cabin in Section B previously occupied by Isaac Miller. The year 1832 brought in quite a number of settlers, among whom were John Barnd, George Ensminger, Michale Ensminger, Charles Baker, Hugh Gilchrist. John Barnd located on the east half of the south east quarter of Section 13. He was the first justice of the peace of Allen township and served continuously from 1850 to 1880. George Ensminger settled on the east half of the south east corner of Section 12 and the following year he and John Trout laid out the village of Van Buren, December 28, 1833 on Section 12 and 13 and originally comprised 53 lots surrounding a public square. This plat extended north to the alley north of John Smith's present home east to the alley between the properties of Mrs. Mary Carr and Madison Lloyd, west to the alley between the properties of Fred Males and L. M. Cramer and south to a line between John Poole's and the Dilts properties. The town was named in honor of Martin Van Buren who at that time was one of the eminent public men of the nation. It was incorporated in June, 1866. Among the early settlers was David Dorsey who came from Bedford county, Pa., in 1833 and settled near the site of Van Buren. He reared a family of seven children. Allen Dorsey, whom many of us remember, was the first white child born in this section. A sister, Cordelia, was the mother of (continued of page 11) ______________________________________________________________________ (page 8) ______________________________________________________________________ Service with a Smile Modern Homes Burn Gas The Arlington Natural Gas Co. SAFETY -- DEPENDABILITY -- CLEANLINESS County 975-F-4 Van Buren, O. J. D. POOLE, Mgr. Serving Arlington, Van Buren, Mt. Blanchard, Portage and Kirby ______________________________________________________________________ Lauer Restarant Goodyear Tires and Tubes Van Buren Ohio GAS SHORT ORDERS SUNOCO Lunches -- Sandwiches OIL Candy and Cigars Tire Service -- Greasing The Big Glass of Beer, 5c T. S. TEDROW, Mgr. Van Buren Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ Van Buren Compliments Service Co. RUSSEL COAL STANDARD GASOLINE CO. AND OIL QUALITY COAL Automotive Repairing and and Parts SERVICE GERALD E. PRICE, Mgr. Give Us a Trial ______________________________________________________________________ (page 9) ______________________________________________________________________ C. W. DeRodes General Store Dealers in Meats. Groceries, Dry Goods, Shoes and Notions CENTENNIAL SPECIALS 2 Large Cans Rosedale Peaches......................................29c Shredded Wheat Biscuits............................................11c Large Corn Flakes..................................................10c Van Buren, O. Both Phones ______________________________________________________________________ Compliments Van Buren Hatchery QUALITY CHICKS GUARANTEED Poultry Supplies -- Equipment and Feed First Hatch, Feb. 15, 1934 Place Your Order Now Hess and Connell, Props. ______________________________________________________________________ Van Buren Mutual Dependable Telephone Co. Local and Long Distance Telephone Service LINCO ______________________________________________________________________ Ladies, Gentlemen, Children's HAIR CUTTING Motor Oil and B. A. Griffith Gasoline Barber Van Buren Ohio Tires * Batteries ______________________________________________________________________ Try G. O. D. Koons Barber R. B. WRIGHT, Mgr. Ladie's, Gents and Children's Hair Cutting Van Buren Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ (page 10) ______________________________________________________________________ Compliments of First National Bank North Baltimore Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ Compliments of Ross & Snyder Fleckner's Sign Co. Dept. Store 211 North Main North Baltimore Ohio Findlay Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ Tarbox-McCall Stone Co. Compliments of CRUSHED STONE A Friend SAND STONE Findlay Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ Compliments of Barnhart Funeral Home Emergency Ambulance Service Phone 185 Findlay, O. ______________________________________________________________________ (page 11) ______________________________________________________________________ Miss Emma Adams. Cyrus Hart located here in 1836 and Abraham Kempher, John Beeson and Samuel Huntington in 1837, Samuel Spitler in 1840, Hugh McMurray in 1840. The Overholt family came here in 1853, and John Cramer in 1859. The May family came in 1842 and the Frick family in 1856. The Mummert family came in 1860. SCHOOLS The first school house in Allen township was a small log structure built in 1836 at a location near the Whetstone farm, afterward known as the Thicket school. It was built of round logs covered with a clapboard roof, had greased paper windows and a huge fire place at one end. The first school house in Van Buren village still stands and is now owned and used as a dwelling by Mrs. De Bouver. At this school Peter May, L. M. Cramer, Richard Crawford, Elizabeth Crawford-Wise, Cyrena Bushong-Baker, J. B. Bushong, Ermma Bushong, Ola Mummert Gilmore and others learned the three "R's" taught to the rule of a hickory stick. Some of the early teachers were Joe Kagy, Sadie Cumerine and Arch Dillinger. About the year 1870 a two-room brick building was built on East Market street. This building was later condemned and the four-room school which still stands, was erected and used till 1917 when the schools of Allen township were centralized and the present school building was erected. The school district was later enlarged to take in parts of Cass ands Portage townships. CHURCHES The two Presbyterian societies, Pleasant Hill and Ebenezer, organized in Portage and Cass townships respectively, united Sept. 1, 1843, as West Union Church of Van Buren and put up a frame church in Van Buren about 1855 which was the first church erected in the township. Rev. George Van Eman was the earliest pastor of this congregation. This church was located on the east side of the railroad. It was removed to the D. B. Kagy farm where it is now utilized as an implement shed. About 1860-61 the congregation built the present structure, which has been remodeled twice. The Baptist church in Van Buren was the successor of a society organized on Ten Mile creek and reorganized in 1855. The present building in Van Buren was erected a little later and which is now used. In the winter of1867-68, Rev. Peter Flack of Milgrove, assisted buy Rev. L. J. Osborn and Rev. Temple, held a meeting in the Presbyterian church. The weather was mild up to the first of the year, the roads being hard and dry; then came a big snow storm, making delightful sleighing and the people came in sled loads for miles around to the meetings. This meeting lasted for eight weeks and resulted in a great revival with 180 conversions and the organization of the United Brethren church. The lot on which the present church stands was purchased. Rev. Flack moving to town and superintending the building. Most of the labor and material was donated. Men went to the woods and hewed out the timbers which were hauled to town by ox teams. The new church was completed and dedicated in August 1868. In 1904, during the pastorate of Rev. J. H. Arnold, the church was moved away and the foundation laid for the present structure which was completed and dedicated April 9, 1905. The German Lutheran and Reformed churches purchased and fitted up the old school building and used it for their services for a number of years but these congregations were disbanded. 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Roofing HARDWARE STOVES Phone 266-L FURNITURE and MACHINERY North Baltimore Ohio North Baltimore Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ Dependable Service H. R. RIPPETH FUNERAL HOME North Baltimore, O. Phone 12 ______________________________________________________________________ (PAGE 13) ______________________________________________________________________ LODGES Among the lodges that spread friendship and good will are the Knights of Pythias, organized March 5,1891; the Pythian Sisters, organized in 1907, which are the only two now having active memberships. The Odd Fellows was a strong organization here for a number of years. They are now affiliated with the Findlay lodge. The Rebekahs joined with the North Baltimore lodge. The modern Woodmen, the Maccabees and Lady Maccabees, who flourished for many years but are now extinct, although a few Maccabees hold their membership in the organization. POST OFFICES The first Post Office in Van Buren was established in 1837 when the mail was carried weekly on horseback between Bellefontaine and Maumee over the old Hull Trace. The present Post Office building was erected in 1927 with money left to the town by the will of Glenna Trout-Day, great grand daughter of the founder of Van Buren. The postmasters who have held the offices are as follows: Dr. George Springer, John Zarbaugh, S. M. Heller, C. S. Wilkinson, Lewis Michaels, Dr. E. C. Wells, Daniel Frick, L. J. Hissong, Solomon Zarbaugh, H. C. Hartman, John Lee, Mrs. Elizabeth Wells, E. C. Showman, C. E. Hanna, Charles Roberts, G. S. Brushwood, Frank Van Eman, Arby Barnd and C. A. Alexander, the present incumbent. INDUSTRIES In the early part of the century many industries were carried on in Van Buren. There was a tannery on the ground where the U. B. church now stands, run by Joe Osthimer. A cabinet shop and undertaking establishment with John Zarbaugh, grandfather of Miss Bina McMurray, as proprietor, located where Miss McMurray's present home now stands. Mr. Zarbaugh made the coffins himself and often carried them through the swamps on his shoulders, for miles. When the old building was torn down the rafters in the attic were found full of measuring sticks for coffins with each person's name on them. Few of our inhabitants know that there was a distillery in our town, this being operated by David Frick on the west bank of the creek north of the present bridge. There were several asheries where potash was made. A brick yard was operated by Sam Howard on the ground on the east side of the creek, south of the bridge. The brick for the Presbyterian church and for the house now owned by O. M. Dilts was made in this yard. John Burman built a mill on the creek east of Van Buren which was the first built in the township but, as it was propelled by water and the water being so low in the creek as not to furnish power the mill was not of much benefit. Beginning in 1859 Dan Frick and John Cramer owned and operated a steam grist mill on the banks of the creek northeast of the bridge. To this mill grist was carried from Bowling Green and all surrounding territory. The mill was later dismantled and taken to Fostoria. On the bank northeast of the grist mill was the saw mill owned by C. Fauble which was later owned and operated by Andrew Bushong, father of Mrs. M. R. Hess. This mill was burned about 30 years ago. Peter May, Sr., ran a wagon shop. There was a cooper shop in a log building where Dr. George's office building now stands. During the oil boom in 1886-88 a sucker rod factory was owned and run by Philip Rupert and Adam English which employed a number of men. In 1870, Van Buren had a population of 170. It had two general dry goods and grocery stores, a shoe shop, two blacksmith shops, a wagon shop, a steam saw mill, a hotel, a saloon, and one physician, Dr. Edward George. In the early thirties a road was surveyed, called the Bellefontaine (continued on page 15) ______________________________________________________________________ (page 14) ______________________________________________________________________ DILLER'S Compliments of FINE FURNITURE and RUGS GLOBE HEATERS Limmerbrock Bros. PHILCO RADIOS Meat Market McComb Ohio North Baltimore Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ The Hall Hardware Co. McComb Ohio GENERAL HARDWARE AND IMPLEMENTS Specialists in Rural Water Supply Systems And Plumbing Johns-Manville Roofing -- Sherwin-Williams Paint ______________________________________________________________________ GOOD LIGHT..... A benefit to children Children need good light fot the protection of their eyes. Poor light causes eye-strain, the effects of Which are often permanently harmful. __\|/__ Central Ohio Light & Power Co. ______________________________________________________________________ (page 15) ______________________________________________________________________ and Perrysburg road, which went through the public square of Van Buren. This road, which is now our beautiful Dixie highway, was at the time and for a number of years a corduroy road which was made of logs laid crosswise and covered with dirt, On either side were deep, open ditches for drainage. The Ridge road was laid out in 1832 from Risdon, now Fostoria, to Van Buren. The first train on the T. & O. C. railroad, now the New York Central, was run Feb. 7, 1883, thus opening shippping facilitiets to the outer world. Mr. Brown superintended the construction of the road and he with his force of workmen boarded with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hanna, who owned and lived on the farm where O. M. Dilts now lives. The electric line which was laid about 1902 was abandoned two years ago after 30 years of service. In 1886, following the discovery of oil and gas in Hancock county, Van Buren took a new lease on life. The great Kagy gas well on what is now the D. W. Frick farm drew attention to the town and oil men came in large numbers from the East and Canada. Some of those who settled in Van Buren were Peter J. Poole, Daniel Hiestand, W. A. MacGeorge, J. C. McFayden, James O ' Leary, Philip Rupert, E. S. Gilmore, John Huston, King Huston, John Shaffer, Edward Campbell, P. H. Bronson, James Umphress, S. O. Gretter, Tom Gavin, Tom Wesley, Hugh Holland and a number of others. A number of new dwellings were erected, among which was the large house, now the Shaffer property. Mr Hiestand also built the store building occupied by C. W. De Rodes and the Knights of Pythias. The Toledo Gas station was erected just east of the railroad, the property being owned now by William Umphress. Later in 1892 the North Western Gas station was built one mile east of town and was rebuilt in 1913. Van Buren and Allen township never have faltered nor failed when called upon for defenders of the flag. In all the wars this township gave fully of her best men. In the Civil war many of our pioneers fought for the preservation of the Union, taking all the younger men, In the Spanish-American war she gave her quota. When war was declared on Germany in 1917 President Wilson asked for volunteers and selective service men, nobly did our young men respond. Among those from this village who answered the call were Alvin Dove, Elmer May, Elmer MacGeorge, Earl May, Roswell Hartman, Edgar Atee, Glen Shaffer, Alfred Clements, Rudy Clements, Wyant Connel, Ross Van Eman, Lester Exley, Ross Kuhlman, Harry Farmer, Fred O' Leary and Marion Stevens, Glen Stough, Joe Knoke and one nurse, Miss Ethel Keeran. While our boys were abroad and in camp the women of the village responded nobly to the call of the Red Cross. The village had a branch of the Red Cross with Mrs. L. B. Corbin as chairman and Ardinelle Poe as secretary. Organizers were Mrs. W. A. MacGeorge, Mrs. L. M. Cramer, Mrs. P. G. Poole, Miss Bina McMurray and Mrs. S. D. Spitler. A sewing room was established in the new school building with Mrs. L. M. Cramer and Mrs. MacGeorge in charge. Here the women met and sewed on hospital garments, knitted sweaters, socks and helmets. The business men as they now stand today are C.W.DeRodes, general merchandise; T. E. Hissong, restaurant; Paul Laurer, restaurant; Hess and Connell, hatchery; M. R. Hess, blacksmith; Glen Coons, barber; B.C. Griffith, barber; Tom Tedrow, Service Gas station; Richard Wright, Linco Gas Station; Gerald Price, Gas station and garage. At the present Van Buren has a population of about 300 people, 80 families; ith three-fourths owning their homes. ______________________________________________________________________ (page 16) ______________________________________________________________________ Chapel Program Song, "America the Beautiful".................................Audience Devotionals.............................................Rev. Strausser Song, "Faith of Our Fathers"....................................School Folk dance.................................................First Grade Operetta, Children of Spain...............................Second Grade Chorus..............................................Junior High School Minuet, "When Grandmother Was Young".................................. ................................................Third and Fourth Grade Reading...................................................Rex Moorhead Coronet Solo..........................................James Huntington Folk Dance.......................................Fifth and Sixth Grade Chorus...............................................High School Girls ______________________________________________________________________ This book made possible through our advertisers. Please patronize them. >--X--< Mrs. L. M. 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