56 Facts (1909)
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The Best Town in Northwestern Part of State: Fifty and Six Facts About Hicksville, Ohio (1909)
- 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 furniture and fine inside finishing mill.
- A ten thousand dollar tile, brick, and clay works.
- 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 electric light, power, and heating company which furnishes power for manufacturing as cheap as in cities of 200,000 inhabitants.
- A thirty thousand dollar city water system serving the people at a very low cost for water privilege, and water from artesian wells 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 kinds of drugs and kindred merchandise.
- 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 track and twelve passenger trains daily.
- Unexcelled shipping facilities and low freight rate.
- A thirty thousand dollar public school building.
- A poultry and stock food 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 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 county to be found anywhere, producing all kinds of cereals 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 3,000 live, up-to-date, energetic, wide-awake people.
- One and a half miles of fine brick pavement.
- Home Building and Loan Co., assets $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.
- One foundry.
- Agricultural society with 40 acres of grounds, 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 High School diplomas from which [sic] admit owner to colleges and universities without examination.
- Home office of the Tri-State Elevator company.
- Thirty-six hundred 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.
- A live town, for live people, hustling with life and activity.
- Splendid climate, fine roads and inhabited with American people; no labor troubles or strikes.
- Excellent advantages for manufacturers for skilled and common labor.