Carl West House Built 1850

Fourth in a series of articles from the Wilmington News-Journal about the New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses in the spring of 1953. A photocopy of this article was obtained from the Clinton County Historical Society. For list of other articles see links at the end of this article. Transcription follows [Notes added in bracketed italics.]

Carl West Colonial House - Wilmington News-Journal clipping 1953

Captioned:  Mrs. Carl West stands near the cherry grandfathers' clock on the stair landing in their house built in 1850.  The cherry and black walnut used throughout were taken from timber on the land and can be seen in the stair rail.  (News-Journal Photo).

New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses –

Carl West House is Colonial

Old Hand Hewn Oak, Cherry Woods Used Throughout

(Editor's Note:  The New Vienna Pilgrimage of old houses will open the county's observance of Ohio's sesquicentennial and will be held June 6 and 7.  the owners of the houses have written the histories of their properties and told some of the interesting architectural points and the furnishings and other pieces which they contain.  Proceeds of the ticket sale for the pilgrimage will go to the Clinton County Historical Society.  The following is the story of the Thomas H. Swingley residence.)

The Carl West house on Route 28 is of New England colonial style being built by James and Lucinda [Turner] McKibben in 1850.  The father of James McKibben immigrated here in 1801, originally owning 2,000 acres of land, of which this farm was a part.  At that time the Indians were so hostile, having  a camp on East Fork, that they did not stay, but returned in 1803.  Their nearest neighbors were people at Morgantown, now Snow Hill.

According to information received from the granddaughter of James and Lucinda, Mrs. Burr Johnson [Flora McKibben Johnson, 1881-1961] of Arlington, VA., the cherry and black walnut used in the house were taken from the timber on the land.  These you can see in the stair rail and closets.

The oak frame work was also from the timber here.  This frame work is hand hewn with the plates and sills running as long as 55 feet in some places in one piece.  In remodeling these old sills proved to be a problem because it was impossible to drill through them.  They are almost as hard as cement.  Wiring had to be done in a roundabout manner because of this difficulty.  The nails used were square headed and long and were made in the blacksmith shop.

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All the rooms on the first floor had fireplaces in them for heating purposes.  These have all been closed except one in the living room which has the original mantel.  The others have been cut down or completely closed.  The present china closets in the dining room were originally closets which have been closed up.  The present owners knew of this so used this space to advantage.

The red stained glass windows around the front entrance came from England and are said to have been processed with gold in them to give them their color.  Since the house has always had many children in it, it is amazing that none of these have ever been broken.

According to the family reports, the stairs were the pride and joy of the McKibben family.  They waited for months for a certain stair builder who built stairs the way they really wanted theirs built.  These stairs show today that they were built well and with a sense of artistry.

On the first stair landing is a cherry grandfathers' clock hand made in 1953 by Stanley McKenzie [1896-1969] and Roscoe E. Moore.  The works came from a clock out of the old school building in Martinsville.  The clock was copied exactly from an original by G.S.H. Bellerose of Three Rivers, Quebec, Canada in 1800, by Roscoe Moore who was aided by Stanley McKenzie in the construction of it.  Mrs. Moore stained the wood and did all the designing on the face of the clock.  The painting was done by Robert Huffman of Martinsville.

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In the dining room is a cherry mantel clock, electric works, but copied from original made by Herman Clark of Connecticut in 1810.  This clock was made entirely by Roscoe E. Moore.  The painting was done by Robert Huffman.

One of the bedrooms is made up in old style with a blue coverlet used on the bed.  The coverlet is a family heirloom of Mrs. West's.  [Harriett Hunter West 1916-2005]

The house is still the same style in the front but has lent itself well to modernization, the side porch being transformed into a modern kitchen in 1952.  Old houses in good repair can be used to advantage even in this modern day.

The house has been occupied by only three different families.  The McKibbens, Monroe Browns and the Wests!  Two families of McKibbens, James and Lucinda, his son, John Milton, and Eva; one family of Monroe Brown [1853-1921] and Mathilde; two families of Wests, Arthur [1877-1966] and Audra [Andra (?) Swearingen], his son Carl [1915-1997] and Harriett, [there may be more to this article, since this ends with a comma, but this ends the photocopy and the transcription and seems like a conclusion.  Perhaps the comma was a typo?]

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Houses in the 1953 New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses include:

• Elmer Page-Wilbur Huffman-Hause House on Bernard Rd – built 1874
• Hillyard Farm - Paul Terrell Family Home on Bernard Rd
• Swingley House on SR-73 - Built 1853 (or 1836?)
• Carl West Colonial House built 1850

Yet to be featured:

• Charles Blackburn House built 1838
• Brown Home, possibly built by Isaac Woodmansee c1840
• Christy Home, Panhandle Road, c1850

1953 Jr High Basketball Team

The picture below was taken at the end of the 1952-53 basketball season after the New Vienna Junior High Basketball team won the trophy displayed in the picture.  Thanks to Barbara Johnson Mee for the photos and the identifications.

1952-53 NV Junior High Basketball Team.  

Front Row: Charlie Huffman, Bob Wolfe, Johnnie McElwee (Mr. McElwee's son), Wendell Achor, Phil Baker, David Borden, Delbert Turner, Ossie Carey (Mr. McElwee's assistant).  

Second Row: Wendell ________, Larry West, Leland Irwin, Ruth Ann Cochran, Rosalie Ridgeway, Barbara Johnson (cheerleaders), Priscilla Blackburn (scorekeeper).  

Back Row:  Mr. (Glenn) McElwee, Tom Priest, Roger Young, Cecil Meade, Larry Terrell, Hugh Young (Mr. McElwee's assistant).

1953 New Vienna Cheerleader "V" belonging to Barbara Johnson Mee

West Street Views

West Street New Vienna Ohio looking east toward Main Street from a point to the east of the junction of SR-73 and SR-28, c1906 postcard.  Image Courtesy of Mike Whited.

West St. at northern corner of Main St. – west of small building shown at left below, uptown New Vienna, Ohio c1910?  Image Courtesy of Mike Whited.

Corner of West St. and Main, north side, New Vienna Ohio c1910 Thornhill & Neffner store on corner, Stephanie's Restaurant in 2013.  Under a magnifying glass the window of the small building next to the restaurant behind the tree is Dr. Morton's dental office.  Image Courtesy of Mike Whited.

1973 Brownie Troop 942

Clipping from Wilmington (Ohio) News-Journal, March 9, 1973

1973 Brownie Troop 942 - Leaders Barbara [Williams] Blackmore (left) and Mildred Penn.  Front Row: Linda Hurst, Sharon Kerrick, Tonya Oppy, Tonya Blackmore, Michelle Hutchins, Tammy Cain, Mary Beth Waddell, Wilma Perry, Teri Streber, Susan Myers, Peggy Milburn.  Second Row: LuGrace Faircloth, Angie Miller, Kathy Sholler, Jan Davidson, Becky Pinkerton, Becky Campbell, Anita Penn, Vicki Butler.  Back Row: Annjanette Faircloth, Darlene Linkhart, Shari Flint, Mary Uible, Dienna Miller and Jerri Mahanes.

February News from "3" Years

1883 news from the Highland Weekly News, published in Hillsboro, Ohio 1853-1886; 1893 and 1913 news from the Hillsboro News-Herald; 1943 and 1963 news from Hillsboro's Press Gazette.

Feb 14, 1883 - The remains of Thomas Grice were brought home to his mother's last Tuesday from Minnesota, where he had been braking on the railroad.  In making a coupling, he was caught between the cars and killed.  His remains were buried at New Vienna.  He was born in 1863, the son of Daniel [1828-1868] and Jemima Jane Hiatt Grice [1834-1921].

Feb. 23, 1893 - Frank Conard, one of New Vienna's most prominent citizens died on Feb. 14th.  "Mr. Conard was widely known ... through his long connection with the business interests of New Vienna and vicinity and was regarded as one of the most progressive and public-spirited citizens of that village."  [Born 1839 in Pennsylvania, he was the father of Geneva Phillips and a 1st Cousin to Dr. George Conard, 1842-1929, a New Vienna Doctor, who lived in a house where the park is now located.]

Feb. 20, 1913 - Martha Henley Turner died at her residence, Maple Shade Farm, near New Vienna, on Feb. 14, 1913.  She was born Feb. 25, 1833, the daughter of John and Matilda Cox Henley.  She married Charles Turner in 1856 and they had one daughter, Mrs. (Harriet) W.A. Teter.

Feb. 2, 1943 - George M. Neffner, former Ohio Secretary of State, said he would go to court "if necessary" to retain his position as election expert and statistician in the secretary of state's office. The new Secretary of State, Edward J. Hummel, has ordered Neffner removed from the position he has held 16 years.

Feb. 2, 1943 - Mrs. Alva (Lillian Carey) Woods, of near New Vienna, died on Jan. 30, 1943 of a heart ailment.  The daughter of Zimri Hussey and Ida Fenner Carey, Lillian was born in 1899, graduated from NV High School in 1918, married Alva Woods in 1919 and had a daughter, Georgia Ellen Vance (1922-2010) and three sons, Dale (1924-1942, NVHS'42), Faymon (1927-2012), and Max Richard "Dick" (1933-2009, NVHS'51).

Feb. 12, 1943 - Henry T. Hiestand, respected farmer of Fayette County, born in 1864, passed away on Feb. 8, 1943.  He was the uncle of Gladys Hiestand Uible of New Vienna.

Feb. 16, 1943 - Walter M. Engle died Feb. 13, 1943 in Highland County.  The son of Samuel and Mary Arthur Engle, Walter was born in 1874.  He married Anna (Leanna) Denny in 1896 and had two children, Arthur Dudley Engle (NVHS'15) and Rayburn Earl Engle (NVHS'16).  His brother Dudley, died in Oct. 1942.  A sister, (Mrs. Taylor) Carrie Martin of New Vienna, survives.

Feb. 1, 1963 - Mrs. Sylvia Burton, born near New Vienna in 1876, died on Jan. 29, 1963.  Sylvia was the daughter of William and Tabitha Hubbard Achor.  Her husband, George Washington Burton died in 1957.  She was the mother of ten children, including Hugh Burton (1905-1967) of New Vienna.

Swingley House 1953

Third in a series of articles about The New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses in the spring of 1953.  A photocopy of this article was obtained from the Clinton County Historical Society.  Transcription follows.

New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses –
Only Two Families Have Owned 117-Year Old Swingley House

Editor's Note:  The New Vienna Pilgrimage of old houses will open the county's observance of Ohio's sesquicentennial and will be held June 6 and 7.  the owners of the houses have written the histories of their properties and told some of the interesting architectural points and the furnishings and other pieces which they contain.  Proceeds of the ticket sale for the pilgrimage will go to the Clinton County Historical Society.  The following is the story of the Thomas H. Swingley residence.)

Hostesses at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Swingley, on Route 73 east of Snow Hill Country club, for the New Vienna Pilgrimage of old houses will be the three daughters of the Swingleys, Mrs. E.W. Blanchard (Lillian Swingley), Mrs. George Martin (Suzanne Swingley) and Mrs. William J. Campbell (Jennie Swingley).

The flower arrangements will be made by the Snow Hill Garden Club, and placed in the home as Mrs. Swingley is a member of the club.  Refreshments also will be served to the visitors by the club.

This Swingley home was built by Zephania Spears [1807-1898 – his first name also spelled as Zephaniah] in 1853.  [This seems to contradict the 1953 headline about the house being 117 years old.]  It was located about 200 yards from the point where Morgan Van Meter, the first settler of Clinton county found an unoccupied Indian wigwam.  Here Van Meter built a double log cabin, the only one of its kind during that time and opened it to the public as a tavern, the first on any path or road leading from Chillicothe to Cincinnati.

Van Meter's was made a conspicious [sic] point in the road guide published in the Pittsburg [sic] almanac for the information and directions of traders by land from that that town to Cincinnati.  It was said when they built the College township road, Van Meter gave the men generously from his whiskey jug to entice them to bring the road past his tavern.  He succeeded.

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GENERAL CASS in the conversation with one of our citizens, years ago, made inquiries about this early public home and said that having lain out all night in the woods a few miles northwest of the Van Meters' he was glad to find it in the morning in time for a late breakfast.

Here Morgantown, the first settlement in Clinton county was laid out and named for Morgantown, Va., [now West Virginia] the native town of the Vat Meters'.  It was plotted and laid out in 1816.  There were but few houses built and it remained but a short time and was vacated.  The Morgantown log church stood near the Morgantown cemetery which lies northeast of the Swingley residence.

Zephaniah Spears bought this farm in 1836 [117 years prior to this 1953 article] from John Van Meter, a son of Morgan Van Meter.  He lived on this farm and worked as a blacksmith 10 years before he bought the place, Snow Hill was also a part of the William Tallifano Survey, the military land grand made by President John Adams in 1794 in accord with Congress to enable officers and soldiers of the Virginia line to obtain titles to certain lands lying northeast of the Ohio river between the Little Miami and Scioto.  The land of 1,000 acres was granted to William Tallifano a lieutenant colonel of Vir- .... [Apparently a line(s) of this paragraph has been cut off.] . . . services of three years to the United States.  This document signed by the President was given to Zephaniah Spears when he bought the place and is now property of the Snow Hill Country Club.

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ZEPHANIAH Spears in 1853 built this large brick house which took the place of the Van Meter cabin.  all the brick was burned on the place.  The brick kiln was located over the knoll just north of the home.  There were also two lime kilns on the place.  All of the woodwork is of black walnut.  It took one carpenter a year to make the woodwork as it is all made by hand.  The building timber was cut on the farm and taken to Hooktown just above Snow Hill to the sawmill, brought back and dried on the farm.  The sawmill was where Russell Caplinger now lives.  It has been said that Mr. Spears hand picked all the brick for the outer surface of the house.

The walls of the brick part are four bricks in thickness.  The floors are the original oak floors sanded and varnished.

Washington Spears, son of Zephaniah, added on the farm part of the house when he was the owner.

The interior is as it was built.  The iron fence in front was put up at the same time.  Zephaniah Spears gave $12.50 per acre for this farm to Van Meter.  M. D. Swingley, the father of T. H. Swingley, purchased the farm from Washington Spears in 1898 and gave $56 per acres for it.

In the 117 years there have been just two families as owners, the Spears' and the Swingleys.

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Notes about the Swingley:  Thomas H. Swingley 1889-1980, was the son of Michael Duroc Swingley 1843-1907, and Sarah Abigail Bernard Swingley 1864-1957.  He married Florence Fenner 1891-1962, in 1911.  They were the parents of five children:

1. Lillian Lucille Swingley Blanchard Morton 1912-2006, NVHS'1929.  In 1981 she married Joe Morton (1913-1987, NVHS'31), son of former NV dentist, Lyle Morton and his wife Helen).
2. Thomas H. Swingley Jr. 1914-2000, NVHS'34
3. Sarah Edith Swingley who died as in infant in 1918
4. Susanna "Suzanne" M. Swingley Martin 1924-2008, NVHS'41
5. Jennie Carol Swingley Campbell 1926-2010, NVHS'44

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Houses in the 1953 New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses include:

• Elmer Page - Wilbur Huffman - Hause House on Bernard Rd – built 1874
• Hillyard Farm - Paul Terrell Family Home on Bernard Rd
• Swingley House on SR-73 - Built 1853 (or 1836?)

Yet to be featured:

• Charles Blackburn House built 1838
• Brown Home, possibly built by Isaac Woodmansee c1840
• Christy Home, Panhandle Road, c1850
• Carl West Colonial House built 1850

January News from the "3" Years

Old news from the New Vienna area in January of the "3" years.

1863, 1873 and 1883 news from the Highland Weekly News, published in Hillsboro, Ohio 1853-1886; 1893 news from the Hillsboro News-Herald. 1923, 1933 and 1953 Hillsboro newspapers are not available online, nor is the Wilmington News-Journal currently available online.
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January 22, 1863 - John Mathews, New Vienna, Clinton County, appointed Assistant Assessor of the U.S. Assessor's Office of the Sixth District.  His territory is composed of the following Townships:  Green, Clark, Washington, Marion, Vernon, Adams, and Jefferson.

January 30, 1873 - Dr. A.T. Johnson, of New Vienna, was in Hillsboro on Tuesday.  He says they are still looking anxiously for the coming of the Southern Ohio R.R.

January 10, 1883 - Jacob Dove, an old and respected citizen of this county [Highland] died during the night of January 2nd.  Upon retiring he was in his usual health, and was found dead the next morning.  He was 66.  [Born in New Jersey about 1817, he moved to Clinton County prior to 1840, and was responsible for the "Dove Addition" in New Vienna which ran along Pearl St, south of SR-73 and was platted in 1856.]

January 10, 1883 - Telephone connection is now complete with New Vienna, New Antioch, Wilmington, and from there to Sabina.  See previous blog post Early Telephone Service to New Vienna.

January 17, 1883 - Dr. Lindley, of New Vienna spent a couple of days here [Leesburg] looking after his business interests.

January 17, 1883 - Mr. Cal. Baum, of New Vienna, has accepted a position as traveling salesman for the wholesale notion house of Louis Wald & Co., of Cincinnati.  Mr. Baum is an excellent business man and will prove a valuable acquisition to any house with which he is connected.  [Calbert Baum, 1852-? is listed in the 1880 census as a New Vienna grain merchant.  He was the son of Henry and Elizabeth Ann Terrell Baum.]

January 17, 1883 - R.E. Porter of New Vienna pens a response to an article on "Farmers' Boys" about whether young men should stay on the farm.

January 24, 1883 - Dr. A.T. Johnson and wife, of New Vienna, intend taking a trip to Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas, visiting Hot springs and Galveston for their health, and expect to be gone about two months.

January 19, 1893 - Eight couples from Hillsboro sleigh-rode to New Vienna and enjoyed a supper and dance at the Harrison House before returning home.

1903 Jan 7 - Dr. R.T. Trimble of New Vienna is a member of a committee recently appointed at the meeting of the Associated Charities of the state, on crippled and deformed children.  "Plans and methods for the founding of an institution for the cure and benefit of this class of people are being discussed."  --The Marion Star (Marion, Ohio) 7Jan1903p3


January 11, 1953 - Gary Boldman, teacher at New Vienna school, married Donna Myers on Dec. 31, 1952, in Wilmington.  [Coshocton Ohio Tribune]

January 25, 1953 - George M. Neffner, long time merchant and resident of New Vienna, former Ohio state Statistician 1927-1940, and Ohio Secretary of State, 1940-41, died on Jan. 23, 1953. [Elyria Chronicle Tribune]  [He married Olive West c1901, and had three children who graduated from NVHS.  George Jr. in 1921, Dorothy Hayes in 1927, and Howard in 1928.  Neffners lived in the house across from the school on the NW corner of 2nd & College which was later the residence of the Bob and Joellen Rulon Streber family.]

1953 Hillyard Farm - Paul Terrell Family home

Second in a series of articles about The New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses continues in spring 1953.  Transcription follows.

Captioned:  This fine old desk, circa 1700, stands in the dining room of the Terrell residence, Hillyard Farm, and is one of the many pieces of elegance and charm housed there.  (News-Journal Photo).

New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses – 

[From the Wilmington News-Journal, Spring 1953 – copied from an undated clipping at the Clinton County Historical Society.]

Hillyard Farm Rich in Old Furniture

Terrell Family Has Owned House for 40 Years

(Editors Note: The New Vienna Pilgrimage of old houses will open the county’s observance of Ohio’s sesquicentennial and will be held June 6 and 7 [1953].  The owners of the houses have written the histories of their properties and told some of the interesting architectural points and the furnishings and other pieces which they contain.  Proceeds of the ticket sale for the pilgrimage will go to the Clinton County Historical Society.  The following is the story of the Paul Terrell residence.)

Hillyard Farm located one mile northeast of New Vienna on the highest elevation in Clinton county (1,197 feet), has been in possession of the Terrell family for 40 years, having been purchased from the Posegate family who had owned it nearly a century.  The original deeds are not recorded, but it is mentioned in one deed that the Posegate family purchased at least part of the land from the Clevenger family, who with Abner and Morgan Van Meter were considered to be the earliest settlers of this county.

Earliest records available state that Abner Van Meter and S. Clevenger resided on this land.  There have been at least three other houses on this farm as evidenced by the broken chimney brick, glass and chinaware.

An overflowing spring located at present within the farm pond, was used by wild animals as a source of water and they in turn were used for food by Indian bands.  This fact is proven by the large numbers of arrowheads and other stone implements which have been found around this area from time to time.  Many of these Indian relics are in perfect condition.

This house, like many others, is a combination of the old and the more modern.  The old Posegate house was L-shaped and the L has been filled in to make a square.  The two front rooms and the dining room are the original parts of the house.

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THE HOME is furnished with several antiques, a number of which are family heirlooms.  In this group will be found a grandfather clock which has been in the family for five generations.  It was first known to be a wall - sweep, having later been put in its present case.  The case for this clock and a large bookcase also in the home were both made out of walnut logs taken from the first Friends meeting house which stood just north of New Vienna.  The land and logs for this meeting house were donated by Micajah Nordyke, the great-great-grandfather of the present owner of the clock.  Nordyke came to Ohio from Tennessee in 1806.

Several other pieces which will be of interest to antique-lovers include chairs, drop leaf tables, chests, cherry china cabinet, four-poster bed, and an inlaid desk which several competent judges have declared to be a choice piece of early furniture.

In addition to the various pieces and furnishings to be seen at any time at Hillyard Farm there will be two collections loaned for the occasion and of surpassing interest.  Mrs. Robert Metcalf of Columbus, will bring her collection of fans to be on display Sunday.  Mrs. Frances Dobbs, of Indianapolis, will bring her collection of old and unusual ink wells and they may be seen on both days of the pilgrimage.

The following will be hostesses:  Mrs. Harold [Garnet] Fisher, Mrs. Charles [Virginia] Hildebrant, Mrs. Elmer [Eva?] Southerland, Mrs. Howard [Hazel] Penn, Miss Geneva Johnson, Mrs. Arthur McCoy [Eva] and Miss Janet Terrell, daughter in the family.  

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Another house in the New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses was posted under "Historic Hause House, built 1874," and featured a picture of Charlotte Pugsley Hause.  The Hause article, about the house on Bernard Road near Huffman Ave. could have been titled differently.  The house was owned by the Hines family from 1874-1917, the Elmer Pages 1917-1942, Wilbur Huffmans 1942-1952, and the Hauses in the 1950s.

Other houses part of the 1953 New Vienna Pilgrimage of Old Houses yet to be featured include:

• Carl West Colonial House built 1850 
• T.H. Swingley House built 1837
• Brown Home, possibly built by Isaac Woodmansee c1840
• Charles Blackburn House built 1838
• Christy Home, Panhandle Road, c1850

Early Telephone Service to New Vienna

The Highland Weekly News (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) of January 10, 1883 reports - Telephone connection is now complete with New Vienna, New Antioch, Wilmington, and from there to Sabina.  Partial transcription follows.

Telephone Talk 
Telephone connection is now complete with New Vienna, New Antioch, and Wilmington, and from there to Sabina.

Mr. Cooper expects to have the line open to Cincinnati by to-day, and also to Greenfield, by way of Lexington [Highland] and Leesburg, by next Monday.

Wilmington Station is No. 53, Cincinnati No. 54, and Greenfield No. 55.

A public telephone station has been provided for at the Exchange Office in this city, and Mr. Cooper requests all parties who are not subscribers to the Telephone Co., wishing to use the wires, to call there and transmit their messages, as subscribers will be charged for all messages sent through their instruments to points outside of this city.

The ticket books, costing $5 and $10 and containing $6.25 and $12.50 worth of coupons, will be ready some time this week.  The following is a scale of rates to be charged between the different points named.  There may be a reduction in them soon to regular customers of the telephone company.

...cash rates between all points connected by the lines of the Central, Western or Midland Telephone Companies, but will not be good to points on connecting lines partly owned by other parties, which are marked with a star.  [Cuba]

Where parties call for a connection and are unable to raise the station called for, no charge will be made, but if the station answers the call it will have to be paid for whether the party calling gets the individual he wants or not.  He will have to transact his business with whoever he gets, or pay for a second connection.

Five minutes time will be allowed for each message.

The following is the rate
....from Hillsboro to New Vienna. . . . 25[¢]
[also same rate to NV from Greenfield and Leesburg

Telephone Exchange c1910 New Vienna Ohio. Image Courtesy of Hayward Crone via Mike Whited.

* * * * * Telephone Exchange in Careytown:
 A news item in the News-Herald (Hillsboro, Ohio) of February 11, 1904 reports that in a terrific wind storm, of almost cyclonic proportion, the Careytown telephone exchange building was moved ten feet from the foundation, twisted, and will have to be town down.
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Clinton Telephone Company - Wilmington and New Vienna Ohio - Stationary 1911.  Image Courtesy of Hayward Crone via Mike Whited.  Donald Carey (married Gladys Pemberton), to whom this letter is addressed, was a member of the NVHS Class of 1913.

The letter written on the reverse side of the stationary is from a young lady (signed H.Wright) who evidently wasn't sure whether she was in love with Donald or not, mentions his reputation – quite interesting, but has nothing to do with the telephone company other than she worked there.

1973 Lions Club Youth Exchange

The New Vienna Lions Club hosted an exchange student from Brazil in January 1973.  Transcription follows.  

1973 - Lions Club Youth Exchange program hosts Angela Costa from Brazil.  Pictured are Angela and Dr. A.W. Hause of New Vienna, Ohio. - Wilmington News-Journal.  January 4, 1973.

Brazil Lions Club Flag

Miss Angela Costa of Sete Lagos, Minas Gerais, Brazil presents the flag of her fathers Sete Lagos Lions Club to Dr. A. W. Hause who is the chairman of the New Vienna Lions Club Youth Exchange Committee.

Miss Costa is one of 10 Brazilian youth who are presently visiting in Ohio under the auspices of the Lions Club.  Her cousin Yara Dias is the guest of the Lloyd Caldwell family of Martinsville.  The Harold Uible family of New Vienna is the host family for Miss Costa.

The youths will be in this area for four weeks before leaving for Texas for a like period.  They will then visit Disney World en route to Brazil.

The New Vienna Club also enjoyed seeing picture of Tiawan [sic], Vietnam and Okinawa which were shown by John Cooper whose son and wife are living in Okinawa.

The Club's February meeting will be adult male guest night and the committee in charge is Stanley Fawley, John Hughes, Dr. Hause, Raymond Smith, Jerome Walker, and Carl West.