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An Indiana towntime, but there always comes a day

when it wakes up; and Plattville had wakened in August when the "Herald"

became a daily and Eph Watts struck oil It was then that history began to

be made The "Herald" printed News, and the paper was sold every

at stands in all the towns in that section of the State Its circulation

tripled Parker talked of new presses; two ht from Rouen to join Mr Fisbee The "Herald"

boomed the oil-field; people swarers becaht the whole

north side of the Square to erect new stores, and the Carlow Bank began

the construction of a new bank building of Bedford stone on Main Street

Then it hispered, next affirmed, that the "Herald" had succeeded in

another of its enterprises, and Main Street was to be asphalted That was

the end of the "old days" of Plattville

There was a man who had laid the foundation upon which the new Plattville

was to be built; he who, through the quiet labor of years, had stamped his

spirit upon the people, as their oas stamped upon him; but he lay sick