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��others. This bank is yet doing a flonrishing business.

In 1851, E. H. Sanford started a paper in Plymouth Village, called the Plymouth Journal^ in the old "Peninsular" building, which has been for many years occupied as a photograph gallery. In 1853, he sold out to H. M. Woos- ter, who conducted it a short time, and sold out to Robinson & Locke (the latter generally known as Petroleum V. Nasby ), who changed the name of the paper to Plymouth Advertiser. In 1859, the concern was pur- chased by A. H. Balsley, now publisher of a paper in Fremont, Ohio. Balsley conducted it until Janu- arj^, 1864, when he sold out to J. M. Beelman, who afterward took his brother, J. Frank Beel- man, into partnership, and together they con- ducted the paper until 1876, when J. M. Beelman retired, and the paper has since been conducted by J. Frank Beelman.

The population of the village is, at present, something more than a thousand. The manu-

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��facturing power consists of eleven steam en- gines and one water-wheel. The secret socie- ties are the Masons, Odd Fellows, Good Tem- plars, Knights of Honor and Royal Arcanum. There are two hotels, five dry-goods stores, two clothing and five grocery stores, four millinery establishments, two hard- ware, two stove and tin, three drug, two shoe, and two furniture stores, and the usual number of me- chanics and small trades- men.

General^ considered, Plymouth is a pretty, clean, healthy village. The intelligence of its citizens is of a high order, and the society excellent. There are an unusual number of old people living in and near the village, which speaks well for the healthiness of the locality. It be- longs properly- to the \Yestern Reserve, of which the lamented Ba3-ard Taylor, the greatest of American travelers, once said that no other place on the globe of equal extent could equal it in intelliarence.

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