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in 1817 and incorporated soon after 1840. It was named after the immortal Lexington of Revolutionary fame. New Lexington is the county seat of Perry County and is centrally located, with thirteen public roads entering it. New Lexington has steadily grown in population from about 100 in 1840 to 3,600 in 1909, and is now adding from fifty to seventy-five new dwellings yearly. New Lexington is noted as being a healthy place to live, has an abundance of good well water, and is the home of many social, charitable and benevolent societies and lodges. New Lexington has good graded schools, with twelve teachers, covering all the higher branches and languages: has an enumeration of 739 pupils, one school library and one city library. New Lexington has an additional new school building just completed at a cost of $30,000, which plainly speaks of the steady growth of the city. New Lexington is the home of St. Aloysius' Academy for females. built in 1874, which is considered the best and finest institution of its kind in the United States; pupils attend from all parts of this and foreign countries. A new addition has been recently completed at a cost of $75,000. New Lexington has a fine court- house, built of red stone at a cost of $145,000, and a substantial county jail and sheriff's residence and barn. New Lexington has three banks, eight churches and two florists. New Lexington has five dry goods stores, two combination dry goods and grocery stores and one general and a five- and ten-cent store. New Lexington has eight gro- ceries, three drug stores, four mil- linery establishments, one fruit and ice cream store and one candy kitchen. Also has a wholesale drug house. New Lexington has six merchant tailors, three meat markets, five barber shops, four blacksmiths and two marble and monumental works. New Lexington has one opera house, one city hall, two nickel the- atres, two good hotels and a nicely ar- ranged post-office. New Lexington has four restaurants, two bakeries, two liveries and con- ducts a stock sale on the first Tuesday of each month.. New Lexington has one jewelry and book store, one shoe store, two shoe shops and three photographers. New Lexington has five physicians, three dentists, ten lawyers, one tele- graph and two telephone companies. New Lexington has one tin and one harness shop, one harness shop and hardware and two hardware stores. New Lexington has two furniture stores, two undertakers and one wall- paper store and steam laundry.

New Lexington has one wholesale grocery and one wareroom furnishing all kinds of building material. New Lexington has one planing mill and lumber yard, three grist mills and one saw-mill. New Lexington has one foundry, one ice plant and one mineral water plant. New Lexington has the county Or- phan's Home, a fine new County In- firmary and the county Fair Grounds. New Lexington has two seams of coal. Coal and natural gas are fur- nished to consumers at reasonable rates for heating, also has the benefit of an electric light plant for lighting streets, homes and business places. New Lexington has two real estate and several fire and life insurance agencies. New Lexington has seven paved streets. New Lexington has two job print- ing offices, two newspapers, a fine and commodious armory building, a public

New Lexington has vast and inex- haustible quantities of the finest and best clays anywhere to be found for the manufacture of pottery-ware, sewer pipe, tile roofing, press and fire brick and has seams of first-class grade of moulding and plastering sands. New Lexington has the New Lex- ington Press Brick Company using her clay. The superior quality of bricks made by this company speaks for itself in competition anywhere and they are used and shipped to all parts of the nation. New Lexington has the Ludowici Celadon Co., located here and using her clay for the manufacture of tile roofing. The product of this plant is one of the best made in the land, and shipped to all parts of the United States, Mexico, Canada and Europe. This is the largest plant of its kind in the world. New Lexington is the home of the New Lexington High Voltage Porce-

The city draws trade from Junction City, Moxahala, Corning, Rendville, McLuney, Bristol, Gosline, Crooks- ville, McCuneville, Shawnee, Reho- both, Saltillo, Somerset, Mainsville, Hemlock, Sayre, and Porterville, all within a radius of ten miles, besides the trade of farmers for ten or fifteen miles in all directions. For specific sketches and illustra- tions reflecting the individual life and spirit of New Lexington to-day the reader is referred to subsequent pages.

Every live town and city in the United States boasts of, and enthusi- astically supports, a board of trade or chamber of commerce. New Lexington is not behind the times in this respect and possesses such an organization, which is composed of the leading citizens and business men of the town. The New Lex- ington Board of Trade was incor- porated under the laws of Ohio, March 25, 1908, and has accom- plished considerable good toward the advancement of the town since that time. The directors and officers of the Board are as follows: Hon. Mau- rice H. Donahue, Judge of the Cir- cuit Court; J. T. Pyle. Common Pleas Judge; Charles C. Chappel- ear, Mayor; John A. Ward, cloth- ing and shoes; C. P. Thacker, president Commercial Bank; J. Donald Hynus, Deputy Probate Judge; F. P. Childs, contractor; John A. McGonagle, bookkeeper Snider-Flautt Lumber Company; B. F. Rodgers, president New Lex- ington Press Brick Co.; James G. Hayden of the Ohio Fuel Supply Company; J. O. Cullen, dry goods and clothing merchant; T. J. Tracy, proprietor of Tracy Ice Co.; William Johnson, president Perry County Bank; Edward Howerth. dairyman; John McDonald, foreman New Lex- ington Press Brick Co. The present officers are J. T. Pyle, president; Hon. M. H. Donahue, first vice-president; C. C. Chappelear, second vice-presi- dent. and James G. Hayden, treasurer. FRATERNAL SOCIETIES New Lexington Lodge. No. 250, F & A. M.---Charles A. Beard, W. M.; LaBert Davie, S. W.; Geo. T. Els- wick, J. W.; John W. Fry, Treasurer; Rudd B. Gue, Secretary; Chas. H. Kennedy, S. D.; Paul Gordon, J. D.; Geo. R. Smith, Tyler; Herman F. Acker, Chaplain; Geo. E. Garlinger,

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park and band-stand and a brass band consisting of twenty-two pieces. New Lexington has the most beau- tiful cemetery in the whole country, and is the burial place of Januarius Aloysius MacGahan, the "Liberator of Bulgaria." New Lexington had her first rail- road train in 1854 and now has excel- lent railway facilities, being located at the junction of the Ohio Central and Pennsylvania railroads, and has en- tering and leaving daily twenty-eight passenger trains from the Union Depot. New Lexington's original town plat consisted of sixty-four lots. There have been twenty-four additions thereto, and at the rate of growth it will soon be necessary to make new additions.

lain Company, being one of the three institutions in the world manufactur- ing high voltage insulators. The com- pany manufactures a high grade ware and ships it to all parts of the Union. New Lexington has the New Lex- ington Sand Company, which produces a first-class grade of moulding sand and ships the same to all points. Here is located the Star Manufactur- ing Company, makers of the famous "Star Feed Mills," mine car and gas engines. The product is shipped to all parts of the world. New Lexington is fifty-three miles southeast of Columbus, one hundred and forty-seven miles northeast of Cincinnati, thirty-four miles north of Athens, twenty-two miles southwest of Zanesville, and twenty-one miles east of Lancaster.

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in 1817 and incorporated soon after 1840. It was named after the immortal Lexington of Revolutionary fame. New Lexington is the county seat of Perry County and is centrally located, with thirteen public roads entering it. New Lexington has steadily grown in population from about 100 in 1840 to 3,600 in 1909, and is now adding from fifty to seventy-five new dwellings yearly. New Lexington is noted as being a healthy place to live, has an abundance of good well water, and is the home of many social, charitable and benevolent societies and lodges. New Lexington has good graded schools, with twelve teachers, covering all the higher branches and languages: has an enumeration of 739 pupils, one school library and one city library. New Lexington has an additional new school building just completed at a cost of $30,000, which plainly speaks of the steady growth of the city. New Lexington is the home of St. Aloysius' Academy for females. built in 1874, which is considered the best and finest institution of its kind in the United States; pupils attend from all parts of this and foreign countries. A new addition has been recently completed at a cost of $75,000. New Lexington has a fine court- house, built of red stone at a cost of $145,000, and a substantial county jail and sheriff's residence and barn. New Lexington has three banks, eight churches and two florists. New Lexington has five dry goods stores, two combination dry goods and grocery stores and one general and a five- and ten-cent store. New Lexington has eight gro- ceries, three drug stores, four mil- linery establishments, one fruit and ice cream store and one candy kitchen. Also has a wholesale drug house. New Lexington has six merchant tailors, three meat markets, five barber shops, four blacksmiths and two marble and monumental works. New Lexington has one opera house, one city hall, two nickel the- atres, two good hotels and a nicely ar- ranged post-office. New Lexington has four restaurants, two bakeries, two liveries and con- ducts a stock sale on the first Tuesday of each month.. New Lexington has one jewelry and book store, one shoe store, two shoe shops and three photographers. New Lexington has five physicians, three dentists, ten lawyers, one tele- graph and two telephone companies. New Lexington has one tin and one harness shop, one harness shop and hardware and two hardware stores. New Lexington has two furniture stores, two undertakers and one wall- paper store and steam laundry.	New Lexington has one wholesale grocery and one wareroom furnishing all kinds of building material. New Lexington has one planing mill and lumber yard, three grist mills and one saw-mill. New Lexington has one foundry, one ice plant and one mineral water plant. New Lexington has the county Or- phan's Home, a fine new County In- firmary and the county Fair Grounds. New Lexington has two seams of coal. Coal and natural gas are fur- nished to consumers at reasonable rates for heating, also has the benefit of an electric light plant for lighting streets, homes and business places. New Lexington has two real estate and several fire and life insurance agencies. New Lexington has seven paved streets. New Lexington has two job print- ing offices, two newspapers, a fine and commodious armory building, a public	New Lexington has vast and inex- haustible quantities of the finest and best clays anywhere to be found for the manufacture of pottery-ware, sewer pipe, tile roofing, press and fire brick and has seams of first-class grade of moulding and plastering sands. New Lexington has the New Lex- ington Press Brick Company using her clay. The superior quality of bricks made by this company speaks for itself in competition anywhere and they are used and shipped to all parts of the nation. New Lexington has the Ludowici Celadon Co., located here and using her clay for the manufacture of tile roofing. The product of this plant is one of the best made in the land, and shipped to all parts of the United States, Mexico, Canada and Europe. This is the largest plant of its kind in the world. New Lexington is the home of the New Lexington High Voltage Porce-	The city draws trade from Junction City, Moxahala, Corning, Rendville, McLuney, Bristol, Gosline, Crooks- ville, McCuneville, Shawnee, Reho- both, Saltillo, Somerset, Mainsville, Hemlock, Sayre, and Porterville, all within a radius of ten miles, besides the trade of farmers for ten or fifteen miles in all directions. For specific sketches and illustra- tions reflecting the individual life and spirit of New Lexington to-day the reader is referred to subsequent pages. Every live town and city in the United States boasts of, and enthusi- astically supports, a board of trade or chamber of commerce. New Lexington is not behind the times in this respect and possesses such an organization, which is composed of the leading citizens and business men of the town. The New Lex- ington Board of Trade was incor- porated under the laws of Ohio, March 25, 1908, and has accom- plished considerable good toward the advancement of the town since that time. The directors and officers of the Board are as follows: Hon. Mau- rice H. Donahue, Judge of the Cir- cuit Court; J. T. Pyle. Common Pleas Judge; Charles C. Chappel- ear, Mayor; John A. Ward, cloth- ing and shoes; C. P. Thacker, president Commercial Bank; J. Donald Hynus, Deputy Probate Judge; F. P. Childs, contractor; John A. McGonagle, bookkeeper Snider-Flautt Lumber Company; B. F. Rodgers, president New Lex- ington Press Brick Co.; James G. Hayden of the Ohio Fuel Supply Company; J. O. Cullen, dry goods and clothing merchant; T. J. Tracy, proprietor of Tracy Ice Co.; William Johnson, president Perry County Bank; Edward Howerth. dairyman; John McDonald, foreman New Lex- ington Press Brick Co. The present officers are J. T. Pyle, president; Hon. M. H. Donahue, first vice-president; C. C. Chappelear, second vice-presi- dent. and James G. Hayden, treasurer. FRATERNAL SOCIETIES New Lexington Lodge. No. 250, F & A. M.---Charles A. Beard, W. M.; LaBert Davie, S. W.; Geo. T. Els- wick, J. W.; John W. Fry, Treasurer; Rudd B. Gue, Secretary; Chas. H. Kennedy, S. D.; Paul Gordon, J. D.; Geo. R. Smith, Tyler; Herman F. Acker, Chaplain; Geo. E. Garlinger,
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	park and band-stand and a brass band consisting of twenty-two pieces. New Lexington has the most beau- tiful cemetery in the whole country, and is the burial place of Januarius Aloysius MacGahan, the "Liberator of Bulgaria." New Lexington had her first rail- road train in 1854 and now has excel- lent railway facilities, being located at the junction of the Ohio Central and Pennsylvania railroads, and has en- tering and leaving daily twenty-eight passenger trains from the Union Depot. New Lexington's original town plat consisted of sixty-four lots. There have been twenty-four additions thereto, and at the rate of growth it will soon be necessary to make new additions.	lain Company, being one of the three institutions in the world manufactur- ing high voltage insulators. The com- pany manufactures a high grade ware and ships it to all parts of the Union. New Lexington has the New Lex- ington Sand Company, which produces a first-class grade of moulding sand and ships the same to all points. Here is located the Star Manufactur- ing Company, makers of the famous "Star Feed Mills," mine car and gas engines. The product is shipped to all parts of the world. New Lexington is fifty-three miles southeast of Columbus, one hundred and forty-seven miles northeast of Cincinnati, thirty-four miles north of Athens, twenty-two miles southwest of Zanesville, and twenty-one miles east of Lancaster.