HOMETOWN History Jan. 30 - Feb. 1, 2019

150 Years Ago There is no difficulty whatever in managing the finances of the government, provided Congress and the Secretary of the Treasury act as practical businessmen act in similar circumstances. Nothing should be attempted which cannot be done safely and surely. The government should be in a condition to defy all combinations of speculations, and all oppositions from any quarter. It won’t do to make experiments; neither will it do at all to follow any precedents furnished by other nations. Trouble would be the immediate result. Those men who are very difficult in choosing wives seem as if they would take none of Nature’s ready-made works, but want a woman manufactured particularly to their order. February 1869

125 Years Ago The McCammon Piano Company apparently is not feeling the effects of the prevailing hard times. The factory is running on “full time” – ten hours per day – and the work force has been gradually increased as the orders have become more numerous. We learn that the output for January will exceed that of the previous month by twenty per cent. The company is now getting out a handsome new catalog which will be ready for distribution next week.