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Author: peggykarol
Surnames: JACKSON, MADDOX
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Fort Wayne Daily Gazette, Saturday Morning, July 22, 1871
Pg ?; Col 2
NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES
Blackford County
HARTFORD CITY, July 21 - Presuming a few items from the hitherto isolated but now central
and flourishing town of Hartford City would not be uninteresting to your numerous readers,
I thought to spend a few moments in writing for your valuable paper.
Hartford City was located as the county seat of Blackford county in about the year 1837,
and up to the completion of the Pan Handle Railroad was decidedly a dull back woods
village, with little or no enterprise about its citizens. Since the completion of the
above named road, and also that of the Fort Wayne, Muncie and Cincinnati road, giving us
direct communication with the cities of Fort Wayne, Cincinnati, Chicago and all Eastern
cities, we have increased from 600 to 1,200 inhabitants, and still on the increase
rapidly. We have seven dry goods stores, eight grocery stores, two hardware stores, two
drug stores, two clothing stores, seven physicians, seven lawyers (with a small sprinkle
of pettifoggers), one large hub and spokes factory, two heading factories, two stove
factories, one flax straw factory, two grist mills, etc., etc.; in short we have a very
thrifty as well as handsome little town. As for newspapers we are only blessed with one,
which of course, is radicall!
y Democratic, edited and published weekly by Chas. F. Jackson. Something most needed at
this time in our county is some good gravel roads, which our people should turn to at
once.
POLITIC
Is at a dead stand still here. Not even Jackson, of the Democrat, with all his ability as
a writer, can succeed in getting up a breeze. About the latest sensation with him is the
latest New York riot, in which, with all their Democrats, sympathizes strongly with the
Catholics.
NEW FIRM
One Jim Maddox, a reckless fellow, who by the way gouges deep, has succeeded in inducing
an old farmer of the community to mortgage his farm and take a half interest in an old
stock of dry goods. The farmer being entirely inexperienced in mercantile trade will
evidently come out at the expiration of six months minus a good farm and nothing whatever
to show for it.
A heavy rain fell here on Wednesday, accompanied with a considerable amount of hail.
Lest I protract this communication beyond the proper length, I must close, promising
another one next week.
JARCIN(?)
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