c inl y ass ssinati n stunned ar a By Dale E-. Shaffer Slowly it passed through the lines of waiting people, increasing speed as it progressed through HILE ATTENDING THE PAN American the 1iving lane of humanity.· As the train passed, a W Exposition at Buffalo, President William beautiful wreath of green leaves, with a fine bow McKinley was shot in the chest and abdomen by of purple ribbon bearing the inscription "Byron's Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist who had a small pistol Love," was handed to Abner McKinley on behalf hidden in nis scarf-wrapped hand. McKinley died of B. S. Ambler of Salem. eight days later at Buffalo, the third president to be The mortuary car was the last one and it con­ assassinated. tained Mrs. McKinley. Named the Olympia, it was During the night of Sept. 13, people here, like the president's favorite private car. At the rear was millions of others throughout the country, kept a the observation compartment, where the flag­ solemn watch in sympathy of their dying presi­ shrouded black casket rested amidst palms, ferns dent. The news of his death was received with ·pro­ and floral offerings. At each comer of the platform found sorrow. City hall bells were tolled and flag which was draped in black a soldier and sailor whistles blown. Church and school bells joined in. stood gliard. . Flags atop city halls and manufacturing plants People got only a brief glance of the black ca5ket, were lowered to half mast. draped flag, banks of flowers and inflexible In Salem, all social affairs were canceled. A guards. Then the train was gone. A great sob dance scheduled by the Calumet Club was post­ seemed to burst from the hearts of 5,000 people as poned until Sept. 20, and the Euterpean Dancing they turned away, their last farewell having been Club called off its dance for Saturday evening. said. In downtown Salem the windows of stores and But Salem also played a part in the funeral. In busine·sses were draped in black. Pictures of Presi-· 1896 Frank F. Trimble bougbt a large 7 by 9-foot dent McKinley were draped in crepe. The five rur­ flag. It was carried through President McKinley's al mail delivery wagons leaving the city on Satur­ two campaigns and formed a conspicuous part of day morning were appropriately draped in black, many parades. On Sept. 19, 1901 that flag, which as was the front of the post office. Stores were was used to celebrate many happy occasions was unable to meet the tremendous demand for crepe sent to Canton (upon request) to be used in drap­ and mourning goods. . ing the receiving vault and tomb of the president. At Leetonia, whistles were blown and bells rung. It was later returned to Mr. Trimble. With it In Sebring the city was draped in black. At Lisbon The assassination of President William McKinley~~. came a white satin ribbon containing the following the courthouse bell was tolled and business in the inscription: "Canton, 0., Feb. 10, 1902. This flag county offices was suspended. crowd back from the tracks. At the different cross­ was loaned and used to drape the receiving vauft President McKinley had visited Salem many ings, many rigs and teams of horses were drawn and tomb of Pres. McKinley from Seft. 19, 1901 to times and knew a lot of people here. After being up,_Yery little open space was available. February_ 1902, and the thanks o West Lawn elected, he had his train stop on its way back to At 10:30 a second special train, composed of nine Cemetery are hereby tendered to Mr. and Mrs. Washington. Over 5,000 people, including school Pullman cars, came through. It was fi)led with the Frank F. Trimble of Salem, 0., who loaned it. This children, gathered at the depot to hear. him speak a army and navy officials serving as escorts, sena­ ribbon is from the grave of Nancy Alison McKin­ few words from the ba.i:k platform." It was only to tors, congressman and other dignitaries. Next ley, the mother of the President. William Rank, be expected, therefore,'·that Salem people would would come the remains. Sec'y & Supt. of West Lawn Cemetery." In 1902 the turn'out in great numbers to view his funeral train Workmen streamed out of the manufacturing flag was displayed in the front window of The as it passed through the city on Sept. 18, 1901. plants to join the crowd. Loving hands strewed Salem Daily News office. For hours before its arrival, thousands of men, beautiful flowers along the track for a distance of Little time was wasted in carrying out the execu­ women and children came from miles around to 200 yards. Hundreds oI pennies were placed on the tion of McKinley's assassin. At that time, there was gather along the railroad tracks. As far as the eye track to be crushed by the wheels of the car bear- no 10-year appeal process. Leon Czolgosz ·was could see, people were lined up and down the . ing the body. scheduled to die in the electric chair at Auburn tracks. At 10:55 the train, drawn by engine No. 66 and Prison in New York on Oct. 29, 1901, only 53 days The scheduled time for arrival of the funeral operated by Henry Hukill and Frank Powers, came after he had shot the president. Great effort was train here was 10 a.m., but an announcement was into view. The cab, hand rail, bell and pilot were made to assure that he not receive notoriety in any made stating that it would be an hour late. At heavily draped. Following were the president's form while he was alive or after he was dead. about 10 o'clock a pilot engine and baggage car, favorite Pullman C(lrs containing Mrs. McKinley, Immediately after the execution his clothing and sent ahead to see that the track was dear, went President Theodore Roosevelt, the cabinet, relatives through slowly. Police were busy keeping the and close friends. Turn to McKINLEY on page 4 ®~-r Ohio's favorite son By Lois Firestone Although he was born in Niles, William McKin­ ley's roots were embedded in Columbiana County. His grandfather David, an early settler in the vil­ lage of New Lisbon, taught in the one-:room log cabin the townspeople built for a school along the Market Street hill. His mother· Nancy grew up in East Fairfield and his father ran a foundry there before the family moved to Niles. People in the county pointed with pride to "Ohio's favorite son" during and after his rise to power. McKinley never forgot them, either - in one of his speeches he said, "I cannot forget that, when I was first a candidate for Congress, it was the splendid majority of rock-ribbed Columbiana County which assured my election." McKinley was teaching school when the Civil War broke but and he quit his job to enlist as a private in the 23rd.Regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Repeated promotions followed; by the war's end he had risen to the rank of major. In his early 20s, McKinley moved to Canton where he studied law and opened a practice there in 1871. Five years after he settled there he was elected to the U. S. Congress - and re-elected three times, serving four terms. McKinley became popular with the county's pot­ ters who were suffering financially because of· tariff-free imports coming from European earthen­ ware and china makers. Their plight led him to study closely the protective tariff system. This resulted in the "McKinley Bill" which called for a 55 to 60 rrcent tariff on imported pottery. Photo courtesy of the Salem Historical Society In 189 , McKinley_was elected governor of Ohio, and in 1893 he was re-elected by a plurality of over 80,000 votes - his dedicated stance as a protec­ Columbia Street School was built in 1881 and, sadly to the hlfn~reds of people. who attended clas~es and tionist gave him overwhelming popularity and spent hours during and aftG.r schoo! on .the playground, the buzldzng was razed zn 1953. The schools huge strength. He easily won the nomination for the bell is preserved in the Salem Hzstorzcal Museum. presidency at the St. Louis convention in June 1896. His popularity and the prosperity of the country led to his re-election in 1900. Six months after his second inauguration he was felled by an anarchist assassin's bullet. 1 McKinley is buried in Canton where a national memorial in his honor was raised along 800 Serving Salem McKinley Monument Drive. The McKinley Museum of History, Science and Industry is there, iiiiiiiliii with Pride too, and includes a McKinley Gallery, Historical Gallery, and research library. The Hoover-Price llS'E~NfJlllBill~·:. :·:··lllt:::.:= Planetarium and the Discover World science center ··:·:·:· , ::::·:.,:-:::,,::::,,,, .. are situated in the complex which is open every :.:,.:::::;:,/:·,:::,:,:,,:,::::::;:;::=:=::,,,:,:!!~~,,,;'~~Vision day. Summer hours are Monday througn Saturday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 7 Manufacturers and Designers of p.m. Injection Molded Plastics

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Pictured are: Barb Branton, Frank Zamerelli, Devon Graham body to Cleveland risked mutilation and undesir­ able consequences. There were a lot of angry Americans out there. The day before the execution two letters had been received - one from a museum director vast accumulation of mail sent to him were to be offering $5,000 for either the body or garments, burned. Officials wanted to prevent the exhibition and the other from an OIAmer of a kinetoscope offering $2,000 for permission toe take a movfrag of relics by those who pandered to the morbi~. The superintendent and warden were deter- picture of Czolosz enterJng the death chamber. Both offers vvere refused. ~ninecl. t? .avoid even the appearance of sensati~nal: In the assassinr s last intervievv with farrdl,.r mem- ism m t.h1s case. One of the doctors who exarmned bers, he was asked them; "VVe wish you would ~zolgosz ~~n~ pronounced ~bdm san.e wanted to ta~ke tell into this scraoe:., His the executed assassir~1 s tor to d0 'tArith_ it and microscopic \N·as cie:nied, Instead, to examine the

The day before the executior~ a reporter ir~ter­ vie1Ned Czolgosz1 s \!Vhen asked what he l=-=f e a.]so don't do had to to his condemned son, the old man's any praying over rn_e v1hen I 1 m (lea·d. I ~tA.rant eyes with tears as he replied: "Tell Leon that any of your damned religion." I hope he may rest in peace; that he will be recon­ His father was in Cleveland that night. 1/IJhHe on ciled to God and wm meet his end bravely. Tell his vvay home from the police deyartment, the old him that as much as I and all of our family regret man was confronted by a newsboy who jumped his mo:St unhappy plight, that we can do nothing onto the car and cried out headlines of the evening to interfere; that he alone is responsible for his newspaper. His words were about the upcoming unfortunate position and that he must meet his execution, and he spoke directly in front of Czol­ punishment as a consequence." gosz. Not being familiar with the En~lish language, At 7 a.m. the next day the murderer of President and probably not understanding the words, the William McKinley was electrocuted. His brother sad father simply stared into space. When he Waldeck and his father both gave the superinten­ dent and warden permission to bury the body in Tum to next page ~ the cemetery attached to the prison. Taking the Leon Czolgosz, assassin of President McKinley

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President McKinley being placed in an ambulance after being shot Mrs. McKinley bidding her husband the last farewell Revolver which Czolgosz used to shoot the president ~~,. (,,~ ~(f.j· J' l I ~ , is~ .'?":}. ''~Lt~~~ Continued from page 4 {f:.Y't} A typical A & P store in the 1920s. Every Monday morning the window display was changed. Canned ••·11. \·, .• .....'0.'/ ~"y""'- (' goods were stacked on one side and fresh produce on the other. Invariably an orange was placed in the center with other colorful fruit surrounding it .. Signs were written on Jhe window using a white paste arrived home at 9 p.m., he found family members created from a mixture of Bon Ami and water. . already in bed. They had to be awakened to let him in. Americans shed no tears over the execution of Leon Czolgosz. They hated him for killing their Food prices, people and events from 1947 ·president. For whatever reason he had for the mur­ der, he received no compassion or notoriety for are highlighted from pages of.Salem News commiting the act. Officials were so successful in silencing publicity about this man that few Ameri­ , By Bekkee Panezott · cular buy, a one-pound package of Spic & Span for cans even remembered his name. This was not 21 cents. Compare these prices with those of today always the case with other assassinations occuring I'll bet just about everybody in the Salem area and you'll be amazed. throughout history. · shopped at the former A&P store which had 10 I will give equal billing to another supermarket, locations in Salem during the years. The Atlantic the former Kroger's, which was located at the site and Pacific Tea Company, founded in 1859, came of the newly-built Amoco gas station and food A YEAR for a. REL!­ to Salem in 1918 and dosed by Feb. 22, 1986. The store. Kroger's offered two 20-ounce loaves of ' ABLE :S'C'SINESS MAN. store's last two locations were at 761 E. State St., in bread for 25 cents, a case of 12, 24-ounce bottles of $ 2 0 0 0 a lot west of the Memorial Building, where it oper­ their brand of root beer, orange soda, ginger ale or in ench county. :Kew business.• T. lL Chap­ ated until 1953, at which time the company built a man, 7;3 West street, l\laclison, Ind. cola for only 89 cents, and Spam1 which is still new store at 423 S. Lundy Ave., the current site of available, at 39 cents for a 12-ounce can. Sparkle Market. Advertised specials at the former Isaly's along ELEGA:ST VISITIXG CARDS for 10c. A few bargains which they advertised in the East State Street included fresh peach or lemon 25 Agents wanted. Outfit 13c. Agents Salem News for the week of Aug. 26 included custard ice cream at 23 cents a pint or 65 cents a cnu make money. E. E. RETTIG, Seymour, Ind. w,atermelon at five cents a pound, their famous quart, longhorn cheese at 49 cents a pound, or their Eight O'Clock Coffee at 37 cents for a one-pound bag or a three-pound bag at $1.05, and this specta- Turn to 1947 on page 6

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By Dale E. Shaffer . In this final decade of the 20th century, the beau­ tiful tones from large bells hanging in steeples are a vanishing sound-. Only a small percentage of even churches now rely on real bells. Electronics have taken over. Most towns have several old bells, but few are actually rung. Only because they once had an important effect on people's lives are certain bells preserved as historical artifacts. Salem's four historic bells are large ones made for steeples in two churches, a school and the town hall. Their sounds were heard for miles throughout the area. Two are still communicating - the First Baptist Church bell and the Fourth Street School befl. The other two from Salem's old Town Hall and United Methodist Church have been preserved as reminders to future generations of the imrortant role bell-ringing once played in the lives o Salem residents. First Baptist Church bell This bell is still in use, continuing to delight the people who hear its tolling with some of the most beautiful sounds any bell could produce. Its tones are especially sweet because of the silver it con­ tains. Sarah Tift, back in the late 1870s, collected silver coins and objects from the congregation and friends of the church, and had the metal melted down for inclusion in the bell. This addition to the copper and tin gave the bell a sweet sound. Many area residents will remember the old Bap­ tist Church located on the southeast comer of East State Street and South Lincoln Avenue. It was built in 1867, later remodeled, and eventually had its spire and upper part of the tower removed. Then, on ~pril 5, 1947, a fire broke out during a severe electrical storm and destroyed its interior. Th.e bell was saved, removed, repaired and finally placed in the belfry of the new church at 1290 East State St. . I. recently h~d the opportunity to view this mag­ mficent bell m the church belfry. The following words are inscribed on its broad waist: "Bequeathed to the Salem Baptist Church by Sarah Tift, 1879. 'Let Him That Heareth, Say Come.' Made by the McShane Bell Foundry, Henry McShane & Co. Baltimore, Md." ' McShane, incidentally also made Salem's Town Hall bell. Other beautiful sounds coming from the Baptist The clock tower wh. ere the historic bell once hung is silhouetted against the skv in this photo taken of the Church are produced by organ chimes installed Salem Town Hall in the 1940s. The too-weighty bell was removecf in 1933 anrf the building itself razed in Oct. 6, 1949. They were given by Mr. and Mrs. 1952 after being condemned in 1941. W.B. Sproat in memory of their son. Pfc. Robert Lee Sproat, who was killed in an air crash on Kridler. March 30, 1949 at Edgar Springs, Mo. Lee Sproat, a ,,.{_fjj~~D. Robert Chappell, also a World War II veteran, classmate of mine, graduated from Salem High ,,~~~ (5\ was named first vice commander and other officers School in 1947. ·,_~:~@~'Continued from page 5 l.·~t~· included John Herman, second vice commander; United Methodist Church bell ··:?·'-"'1 ' r.:~.~-''"p ~ ~ William Schaeffer, treasurer; and Walter H. Hun:.. Most Salem residents are aware of this old bell ston, adjutant. Kridler was also named a trustee for which has been on display since 1976 at a location_ delicious potato salad at 35 cents a pound or baked a three-year term. north of the church a1ong South Broadway. The beans at 29 cents per pound. They also advertised The sports pages that week revealed that Mrs. first church bell in Salem, it was hung Nov. 10, their "lucky" Klondike ice cream bars for six cents Vincent C. Judge won the Women's Day match 1865 and rang from Salem's first church steeple - each - "lucky" meaning that some of the sticks play against par, full handicap, tournament at the 154 feet from ground to top - which was com­ were marked to entitle you to a free one. Salem Golf Club with a 44-4, net 40 score. Second pleted Oct. 1, 1858. The former Sears, at 545 E. State St., offered place went to Olive Ramsey and Mrs. Eugene The bell was cast by the A. Fulton Co. of Pitts­ some pretty good buys on motor oil and batteries. Young. Mrs. Leon Colley tied for third place, both burgh, Pa., the same foundry that made the Fourth The sale price listed for Allstate premium quality being four down to par. Street School bell. Fulton was a brass foundry motor .oil was 19 cents plus tax per quart. Dr. Dick Harwood and Bob Buckholdt, two of founded in 1832, and made a lot of bells for Although you had to furnisn your own container, the Salem Golf Club's top golfers, combined talents riverboats. it was still a good buy. They also advertised an to score a 157-5, net 152 and walk off with the first­ The Methodist bell, which cost about $480, Allstate battery, which they would install, featur­ place honors in the twosome medal play with one weighs 1200 pounds and has a 38-inch diameter ing a 24-month guarantee, for only $9.15 plus an half combined handicap tournament Second were and is 28 inches high. The dapper has a diameter exchange. Clyde "Wink" Miller and his partner Eddie Pukals­ of 412 inches and is 44 inches long. I also came across an item stating that Jean ki, combining talents and handicaps for a 166-13, All large bells are engineered for a certain tone Headrick, a 1947 graduate of Salem High School, net 154. Miller's 84 gross was one of his best 18 of or ring. The clapper strikes its primary note at the has entered Illinois State Normal University in the season. bottom edge of fue bell. This is the sound that is Normal, Ill. She was the editor of the Quaker annu­ Bob Buckholdt and Dr. Fred Crowgey captured most prominent. But as the vibrations set the al publication and an honor graduate. the Labor Day flag tournament at the Salem Golf whole mass of metal throbbing, other notes are In 1947 Wade A. Loop, a veteran of World War Club in the Class A and B flights, respectively, as also sounded up through the shoulder. The result II, was elected commander of the Charles H. Carey heavy activity marked the three-day weekend Post American Legion. He succeeded Chester tournament. Tum to next page ~· The Fourth Street School bell rang until 1926, Salem's Town Hall bell served the town for 70 when the huge tower was torn down. The bell was years, from 1882 to 1952. The McShane Bell taken to Reilly Field where it was tolled when Foundry, one of the oldest American bell makers Salem High School's football team scored a victory. still in existence. istory of bells dates back to The United Methodist Church bell was hung in 1865, the first church bell in Salem. The mounted~ bell now stands north of the church. - ancient Chinese pottery sphere

By Dale E. Shaffer so people could properly date their diaries before retiring. Bells go far back into history. About 2800 B.C. Town hall bells were also rung for town meet­ the Chinese put little balls inside spheres of met­ ings, for people to assemble in the square, and is a coll'.bination of sounds. When properly struck, al or pottery and called them "tings." Soon, bells for calls to court. They rang for executions, great a bell will produce a perfect chord. began taking on a religious significance when events, and for emergencies such as fires, floods Every bell has a distinct tone which is deter­ people started believing that the sounds kept and hurricanes. These were sounds that every- mined by its size, shape, thickness, and the propor­ away evil spirits and placated their gods. Even­ body understood. . tion in which the metals are alloyed. Generally, the tually, bells became what some called the "voice The early American church bell tolled for larger the bell, the lower the tone; the smaller the of God." · . other reasons. When its tolling awakened a bell, the higher the tone. The heavier the bell, the It was about 400 A.D. ~hen a bishop put the town's residents, it was called the "Gabriel Bell." th!cker it must be; the lighter the thinner. A bell is first bell on a church roof in Campania, Italy. When it signaled that church services were thtekest at the sound bow where it is struck. If a From this comes the word "campanology," about to begin, it was the "Sermon Bell." When bell had uniform thickness throughout it would which is the art of bell ringing. rung during prayers as a sign of forgiveness, it sound dull; there would be little resonance. By the beginning of the sixth century, bells was the ''Pardon- Bell." The ''Pudding Bell" noti­ .Fourth Street School bell were being cast in bronze and hung in Christian fied cooks that services had ended and Sunday Salem's oldest bell was purchased by the Salem churches throughout Europe. They were rung to dinner should soon be on the table. When a local School Board on Feb. 10, 1862 from the A. Fulton dispel storms, to stop the spread of disease, to citizen passed away, the "Passing Bell" was . Co. of Pittsburgh, P~. It weighs 801 pounds and put out fires, and to ward off human and spir­ rung. cost $261.30 (30 cents per pound). itual enemies. Th!s bell is 89 percent copper and 11 percent tin. To assure that church bells truly "spoke for When someone died - no matter what hour Its diameter is 36 inches, height 26 inches, and the God," they were blessed. Prayers were said of the day or night - church bells announced clapper is five inches in diameter. On certain days while the metal was poured into the molds. the passing. They rang in slow measured when the air was cold and still this bell could be M_any bells were beautifully inscribed with pray­ strokes, tolfing the person's age. For an older heard as far away as Lisbon. er or verse. The ceremony was similar to bapt­ person, this may have taken a half hour. During When the first Fourth Street Union School build­ ism, with a white christening robe covering the the funeral, as the body was taken to the church ing (1860) was torn down in 1896 the bell was re­ bells. Psalms were sung, and the bells were in a wagon, the bells would ring until the body hung in the huge tower of the new facility washed with salt water to render them demon­ was in the church. Then the organ music woulo proof. The priest anointed them with sacred oil (1897-1974). For three decades the bell was rung begin. three times in the morning and afternoon of week­ and performed consecration rituals. Finally, days to call children to school. Frank L. Probert there was thanksgiving and rejoicing. The pleasant sounds of bells ringing in Ameri­ early custodian, was the first person to ring th~ By the 12th century, parish bells regulated ca are not as common as they once were. They bell. almost every activity. Tney rang to open city no longer are an important part of society's com­ In 1926, when the tower was removed, the bell gates, shops, end daily work, close taverns ana munication system or -the individual's everyday was taken inside the building and stored. Forty announce curfew. One ordinance required that life. No longer are they indispensable chroru­ years later - 1966 - it was dedicated as Salem every night, by the ringing of the bell, all fires in clers of each passing day. High School's "Victory Bell." It is now preserved homes had to be covered and all lights extin- . and used at Reilly Field. Perhaps we are poorer because of the loss of guished. The word "curfew" in Old French these beautiful sounds. Unfortunately, they have , Old Town Hall bell means "cover fire." This historic bell is Salem's largest, with a been replaced with ultra-loud car stereos blast­ diameter of 40 inches, a height of 35 inches and In 18th-century America, town hall bells did ing out beavy-metal rock "music" that now Pol­ weight of 1600 pounds. It was cast of 80 p~rcent not customarily strike the hours. But they did lute wide areas of practically every American copper and 20 percent tin in 1882 by the McShane strike three time a day - at six in the morning, city. Without question, the daily sounds of Bell Foundry of Baltimore, Md. Mayor Joseph Faw­ noon and at nine in the evening for curfew. Salem's historic bells of the past were more plea­ cett ordered the bell at a cost of $2600. Often curfew was followed by a "count-strike" surable to the ear and soul. The bell once hung in the dock tower of the old Town Hall on East State Street in downtown Salem. It served for 51 years, from 1882 to 1933. by order of the Ohio Department of Public Inspec­ Two years later, the bell was mounted for dis­ The hour was struck by a 1700-pound weight sus­ tion. John Auld received $350 for taking it down. play at the entrance to Centennial Park on East pended on a steel cable. A striker used for sound­ In 1941, after standing 105 years, the Town Hall ?t~te Street. The Salem Historical Society dedicated ing fire alarms weighed about 2200 pounds. building was condemned as a fire hazard by the it m memory of Mrs. Alice MacMillan in June uf Removal of the bell took place on Aug. 9, 1933 fire marshall. Demolition came in 1952. 1956 during the Sesquicentennial. An early photo of Martha and Benjamin Stanton's home at the corne-r of North Broadway and East Second Street, now the Bank One parking lot. The home was a refuge for fugitive slaves on their way to Canada. Dr. Stanton was Salem's first physician, settling in the town in 1815. Benjamin Stanton was Salem's first doctor

R. BENJAMIN STANTON LEFT North first person he saw for a tavern, was directed to peculiarity which might tend to give him know­ D Carolina in 1815, heading west to Ohio the west end of the village, where stood a small ledge of those with whom he was surrounded. and the territories, and was welcomed to the Salem framehouse before which hung a sign on which There were those with open countenances, whose settlement because until then the town had no was painted a rude figure of a buck, and beneath it lives had never belied tfie Christian simplicity of physician - the closest was Dr. Potter in New the name of Wm. Heacock. Here the pilgrim their appearance. There were the smooth-faced Lisbon. rested, and after having done justice to a breakfast hypocrites with broad brimmed hats, yet not broad Soon after his arrival, he met the local school of ham and fried eggs, prepared by Aunt Polly, enough to cover their hypocrisy. And there were a teacher, Martha Townsend~ and the two were mar­ was ready for observation. One of the first things lot of Quaker girls with their white silk bonnets ried. His office was in the brick home he built at which attracted his attention was numerous per­ made by orte pattern _, and all parts of their habil­ the comer of North Broadway and East Second sons coming toward town from various directions, iments to correspond. All met to witness and take Street. The house was razed several years ago and so~e on horseback, some on foot, slowly wendi!'g part in a Quaker wedding. You may think as you the Bank One parking lot is on the site today. their way along new and muddy roads beset with please about the amount of divine worship which During his 50 years of practicing medicine in stumps and roots, over which no pleasure carriage, might accompany such a ceremony. Salem, Dr. f)tanton taught numerous medical stu­ buggy or calash had evey ventured; and on inquir­ So much for an introduction to Salem in 1815. dents under the apprenticeship system, including ing the cause of the assemblage he was informed Until about the year 1815 the village of Salem his four sons. One son, William, left the medical -that it was the Friends gathering to meeting, and was confined to the old plat. west of Range (Ells­ profession to study law under his cousin, Edwin that a wedding was to take place at said meeting. worth) street. It consisted of about sixteen dwelling Stanton who later became Secretary of War in He followed the throng to the meeting house houses holding about the same number of families, Abraham Lincoln's administration. which was a brick house, capable of holding sever­ with the addition of four or five small dwelling About 1847 the dodor wrote the foliowing essay, al hundred persons, situatea on the south side of houses on the south side of the road leading east­ "Salem in 1815," to be read before members of the the road, now Main street, near what is now the ward from the town. Literary Circle: center of the village. Sixteen 'years had elapsed since the first white It was the only meeting house in the village. It men - a few energetic pioneers - had erected Late in the fall of 1815, a young man might have was the only church or meeting house within five their cabins in the vicinity amidst the primeval been seen winding his way northward - until he miles of the village, and here assembled nearly all forest which spread from the Ohio river to the arrived at the spot where Lisbon street leaves the the inhabitants for the purpose of worship. What a lake. main street in the town of Salem. He rode up front­ field for observation for the witness seated in The red man of the forest still lingered around ing a guide board pointing westward, with the silence, in a multitude, not one of whose faces he the grave of his fathers, and extended a friendly inscription, ~ mile to Salem. Obeying the dictates had ever seen. but among whom he was resolved hand to those intruders upon his native home, of hunger and fatigue, having ridden from New to cast the die of his future destiny. With extreme whom he had not been able to repel bv the force of Lisbon before breakfast, he turned toward the vil­ eagerness did he strive to read the features, the lage of which he was in sight, and, inquiring of the countenances, the dress, the every characteristic Turn to DOCTOR on page 13 K~~~~-~~~-· ,__. ~-(Yesteryears ~!:J.;J-" ·'l -~ co/::J ~~· ~~. 9vlmufay, Jlugust 26, 1991

Photo courtesy of Mrs. George Rogers The Dry Street Friends Church meeting house which Dr. Benjamin Stanton m_!ntions in his 1815 memoir which appears on page 10 of this issue. Ethel Rogers attended the church as a child; the entry to the Sunday school was at the right and the church entrance was through the door at the left, she recalls. The meeting house was built in 1807 at a cost of $1,421.77, "including the extra cost of $27.60 interest for want of subscriptions being punctually paid." The lot extended to Depot Street and was entered by two gates from Main Street and another on the west side. Horse sheds were on three sides. The church was later torn down and a new building put up in 1845 - the new edifice was pa¥ for with the $3,000 the church garnered from the sale of the church's lots along Main Street.

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/)~/\.., those days usually made the coats of their hus­ sions of the constitution of which was tliat no ,A'f{ Doctor ·"'\E~:-. bands. The store houses were about fourteen feet deistical or atheistical book or work of fiction 1:~"- r ,--~.1. ''\{'~'.~ ":·~~,, square, and other things in like proportion. In that should be permitted to profane its shelves. .;b;,l..,· Continued from page 10 .~·,/ year the first physician settled here (Dr. Stanton "l:)'-..._ - - /~~)' ~ ~ ~- himself) and was the only one within a circuit of The appearance of surrounding objects was not ten miles. then as now. The traveler who passed the streets his arms. The wild deer and wolf still wandered in The cotton factory and a store were conducted had variety in the change of the corduroy bridge to herds in the forest and prowled through the thick­ by one of those ephemeral, incorporated compa­ the downy softness of mud up to his horse's knees. ets. But the brand and axe of the woodman made nies which sprang up during the war with Great the fields were beset with stumps and the seared rapid progress in changing the appearance of the Britain, and, like many other similar institutions, and burnt trunks of gigantic oaks, which stood like western wilds. With the increase of population the the ideas of whose founders were visionary as grim specteres of deaa renown speaking in mute wants of community increase - the need of mer­ South Sea dreams, it was crushed at the conclusion but melancholy language of the past beauty and chants and mechanics was soon felt amongst the of peace, by the introduction of foreign goods - magnificance. Ye vast, ye beautiful, ye majestic forests of Ohio, and consequently villages soon but not without leaving some cause ·for its forests of Ohio; where are ye now? Riven and began to spring up for their residence; and rememberance. · destroyed by the axe, and the brand, and none amongst others Salem was located, about the year There was a school house, too, in Salem. The shall see your like again. The lively chirp and the 1806, by J. Straughan and Zadok Street, and at the Society of Friends at that day, careful of the educa­ tap of the woodpecker that animated your boughs time referred to, 1815, contained two stores, two tion of their children, had procured a lot and by day is succeeded by the noisy prattle of children smith's shops, one saddle and harness maker's erected a log house where their own and those of in the streets; and the owl, .whose solemn hoot shop, one cotton factory, two shoemakers and one resounded through the evening shade, has passed tailor who, though capable of making about one other denominations were taught under_J;he super­ away, and is succeeded by the curfew of the vil­ coat a week, was amoiv sufficient for all the work intendence of the Meeting of the Society. There lage bell that shall soon toll the funeral knell of us · in his fine that was demanded. The good dames of was, likewise, a public library, one of the provi- who have survived you. ~

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These were members of the Salem Athletic Club who played semi-pro football as the Salem Browns in 1915. First row: James Litty (lineman), Verner Rich (center), Harold Lowry (end); Second row: Frank Huff (lineman), Bill May (lineman), Morrell "Ike" Moore (quarterback), Gus Sechler (fullback), (Burt Capel (guard, tackle), Herb Shoe (guard, tackle); Standing: Everett Rich (end), Wally Ormsb}f,. (left_ tackle and later team doctor), Paul "Pat" Dean (fullback), John Litt~ (fullback and tackle), Fred Rich (not play), Earl Long (played one game), Frank 'Pat' Bolen (quarterback). Other club members not pictured were: Carl Hu (quarterback and end), Bernie·Huff (played one game and joined Salem Pros), Arden "Shorty" Glass, (tackle), Bill Glass (end and halfback), Alfred "Finky" Fin (lineman), Kenneth Tinsley (halfback and fullback), Jack Hendricks (halfback), Louie Wiegand (end), Alvie Nicklason (tackle), Cnance May (not play), Curlie Fisher (end and halfback), Harold Hise (tackle and guard).

By Dick Wootten "Sometimes the team would get a total of $100, by, "We were a bunch of fellows in our teens, poor HERE'S AN OHIO TEAM called the Browns or maybe $50 and a free meal," recalled John Litty, as the devil, who got the idea to start an athletic T that plays for big money these days. But there 96, who used to play fullback and tackle. Wally club. We rented fofts above downtown Salem was an earlier Ohio football team named the Ormsby, 93, the only other surviving Browns play­ stores. One fellow would bring in an old rug, Browns that few remember. They were the Salem er, added, "Sometimes we'd collect enough money another an old chair. I remember one room where ·Browns who began using that name in 1915 in a season to have a couple of banquets. But that we could look out the window and see men in the because the players all bought brown pull-over was about it." chamber of commerce room across the street play- sweaters. They played for money too. 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"Sometimes berton guy kicked him in the tail and knocked him 7~;,.;-> 01.T over the goal line." <~~~ Continued from page 1S %.~~·'' you'd go'to drop kick in the stubble and miss the ball." Money was always a problem. Ormsby said in ~~~p Also, when a runner was tackled near the side Barberton, the team stayed on the second floor of a line, the next play would originate at that point - second-class hotel next to the police station. "An ing poker. Our room was a place to loaf. Some­ the ball would not be brought in towards the cen­ old lady charged 25 cents for each of us. We had 15 times we boxed there or somebody would bring in ter of the field. Players frequently played the whole or 20 guys who didn't play but came along with us a hoop and we'd play basketball. game, playing both offensive tlnd defensive to watch. We didn't figure on paying for them. "We'd practice football on the lawn of the high positions. ' After the game the players would dean up by school on Fourth Street or at Centennial Park The ball was rounder then ("It looked like a pre­ standing in the bath tub, three at a time. We There were a lot of semi-pro teams around then. gant pig," said Ormsby). Today's thinner ball started to sneak out of the hotel without paying for Everyone admired the Canton Bulldogs. Jim began being used apout 1927. "You had to lay the those extra guys and the old lady locked three Thorpe played for them. The Bulldogs was a team ball on your hand and heave it," explained Orms­ players in the bathroom and called the cops. We that made a name for itself." by. "The only fellow in town who could really had to go back and pay up." Litty recalled that the Salem Browns was first throw it was Turkey Sutton, a tall ski~ny colored Ormsby said he only played a few games as left called the Salem Athletics for several years before janitor at the Frank Moff Saloon on Mam Street. He tackle and then became the "team doctor," carrying changing its name. "We were the second team in had hands the size of tennis rackets and could a medicine bag to games. "I wore a derby hat and town. The first team, the Salem Pros, could have throw it 60 yards. He'd come out at half time and went to the games with bandages, a pint of whisky swallowed us whole." throw the ball_ around. We seldom played a team and a bottle of Sloan's Liniment in the bag. We'd Ormsby added, ''We were really terrible - we that had any colored players. So many of them always ru~ out of whisky because at the end of the couldn't have beaten the Little Sisters of the Poor. were small, undernourished and underprivleged game there were always two or three players lying We actually were the champions of our league in then." on the field with their eyes shut and their mouths 1915, but we only won the championship by one The Salem Browns' season usually consisted of open. We'd use up that pint every game. I remem­ point against a team that was as awful as we about 7 or 8 games in September and October. ber a pint costs 50 cents." were." However he agrees with Litty that their Team members would take the interurban trolley He also recalls putting Sloan's Liniment on a team probably won as many games as they lost. or railroad train to such places as Niles, Girard, gash on Litty's face. The result was Litty chasing Litty said he never owned a helmet. The team Massillon, Barberton, Washingtonville, Leetonia or Ormsby around a hotel seeking revenge. · played in stocking caps. Padding was minimal. to Alliance, where the team was called the Goat Ormsby said that baseball was the really popular Some players had shin guards. "The pants looked Hill Gang. sport in those days and the Browns players were like bloomers with bamboo stays around the legs Bob Capel of Salem, whose late father Burt Capel not really the heroes of the town. But Ormsby did as padding," said Ormsby. was on tfie Browns team, recalls his father telling his best at times to line up dates for team members Both recalled making their own cleats out cf him that when they played Leetonia and won, the with good-looking girls who would watch a game. thick squares of leather that they nailed to the bot­ Salem team would be run out of town. Ormsby Sometimes the crowd would number as much as tom of their old work boots. added, "Yeh, those damn fools in Leetonia all 100 at a game. The rules of the game were different then. The worked at the pig iron furnace. I remember once Litty and Ormsby think the Salem Browns con­ goal post was rigfit on the goal line. Ormsby they played against us wearing baseball cleats on tinued playing into the 1920s. They both left town explained that a runner with tbe ball headed for their shoes. We quit after the first half." and lost track of the team. · the goal line would aim for the goal post area Tempers would flare at games too. Ormsby However, the photo of the team on page 14 can because where the ball was touched down inside recalls rocks being thrown at them in be seen at the Football Hall of Fame in Canton. the goal dictated the area of the field from which Washingtonville. Ormsby now lives in Williamstown, West Virgi­ extra points could be drop-kicked. If the runner "Barberton beat us 40 to 6. Their players each nia and Litty lives at Hutton's II in Salem. The):' crossea the goal near the side line the angle from outweighed us by 40 pounds. We got the six points consider each best friends - despite the Sloan s the kicker to -the goal post would be difficult. when one of our fullbacks got the ball, put his Liniment.

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