Hicksville - How Things Have Changed! 1909 - 2024

(A glimpse of the village in 1909...)

 "Fifty and Six Facts About

Hicksville, Ohio

• Three large handle and lath work mills with a combined value of $90,000 employing a large force of men.
• Three large planing mills and lumber yards
• A five thousand dollar stave and heading plant
• A ten thousand dollar tile, brick and clay works
• A ten thousand dollar furniture ad fine inside finishing mill
• Three cement, brick, tile, and block manufacturing firms
• Two grain elevators with a combined value of $30,000 which handle hundreds of thousands of bushels of grain and seed annually
• A twenty-five thousand dollar milling company housed in a four story brick building, with a capacity of 100 barrels output daily

• A thirty thousand dollar city water system serving the people at a very low cost for water privilege, and water from artesian well and direct pressure
• One first class telephone system with exchange and direct connection with both Bell and Independent long distance lines
• Four up-to-date drug stores carrying heavy lines of all kins of drugs and kindred merchandise
• Four large up-to-date hardwares
• Three large department stores carrying everything needed for the home and farm with a combined stock value of $150,000

• Two National Banks with combined capital and surplus of $100,000, and deposits aggregating about one-half million dollars
• Situated on one of the largest and strongest trunk line railroads with double trac and twelve passenger trains daily.  Unexcelled shipping facilities and low freight rate
• A thirty thousand dollar public school building
• A poultry and stock manufacturing company
• A glove and mitten factory
• A $40,000 modern up-to-date opera house
• A patent photograph printing cabinet manufacturing company

• Two large job printing companies with mechanical type setting machines
• Two modern up-to-date weekly newspapers
• A twenty thousand dollar modern hotel
• Nine churches and Sunday Schools
• Two large poultry and produce packing firms handling all kinds of country produce
• The finest agricultural country to be found anywhere, producing all kinds of cereal and fruits to be found in this latitude
• Two large harness and saddlery companies

• Three large implement dealers handling all kinds of farm machinery
• Three modern up-to-date meat markets
• Two bakeries
• One modern electric power machine shop
• With a population of 3000 live, up-to-date, energetic, wide-awake people
• One and a half miles of brick pavement
• Home Building and Loan asset $35,000
• Two large garages caring for the 40 local automobiles
• Five good restaurants and one good $1 per day hotel and boarding house

•  Three grain, seed and feed stores
• Three up-to-date jewelry stores
• Three novelty and bazaar firms
• Five shoe stores
• Two clothing stores
• One foundry
• Agricultural society with 40 acres of ground with fine buildings and track used as a public park
• A pickle packing station of Lutz & Schramm of Allegheny, Pa.

• One scroll work and cistern plant
• Abundance of natural ice at a very low cost
• Two telegraph companies
• Cheap labor, fuel and power
• Richardson's famous poultry farm
• First grade to High School, diplomas from which admit owner to college and universities without examination
• Home office of the Tri-State Elevator Company
• 3600 cars of freight shipped in and out annually
• Plenty of room for hustlers and wide-awake people
• A warm welcome and hearty support for any and all legitimate enterprises
• Is a live town, for live people, bustling with life and activities
• Splendid climate fine roads and inhabited with American people; no labor troubles or strikes
• Excellent advantages for manufacturers for skilled and common labor

For further information address W. H. Blakeslee, Sec'y, Hicksville Commercial Club"

The Hicksville Tribune, 15 July 1909