Bits & Pieces
Hampton Recorder: Orson Reeve says that when his father's family located at Mayne's Grove in September 1853, there were the skeletons of a dozen buffalo lying near John Mayne's cabin on the farm now owned by Benson Towie. He understated that the buffaloes had been slaughtered by Mayne the previous winter and drawn up near the house for his hogs to eat. He also says that his father has often told him of killing buffaloes in this county, but he thinks that they left this vicinity in the spring, or summer of 1853, being driven out by the advancing immigration.
Because the Franklin county board of supervisors would not sanction the street paving proposition the streets have gone unpaved. Now an enterprising businessman has started a scheme that may give Hampton good streets. B. F. Billingsley, a druggist, has had several teams hauling rock on the street in front of his place of business. He then hired a large force of men and boys to break these rock and after that they were throughly scattered. A heavy covering of cinders upon the top of the rock gave the street a good appearance. It is thought many business men may take the same scheme and the result would be alost as good as paving. Billingley was one of those most in favor of paving, and volunteered to give liberally towards it. His action in fixing the street has caused much comment and made a very substantial improvement.
The Recorder says a man in Hampton in publicly accused of not only taking a five dollar bill by force from his aged father but of striking him besides. The old gentleman is nearly 80 years old and is very feeble and unable to walk without crutches and if we were dead certain that our information regarding the transaction was correct, we would publish the young man's name in full - middle name and all.
Clarion Clipper; Friday June 23, 1905
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