Claryville News 1883
The Daily Commonwealth, Tuesday, June 19, 1883, page 1
CLARYVILLE-Our pleasant little village is located at the present terminus of the OS& R turnpike, fifteen miles south of Newport. It contains two stores, two blacksmith shops, one wagon maker's shop and some very clever people.
Farmers are very busy just now as the wet weather is bringing all our work once. Clover harvest is now here and not one acre of corn in ten has been worked over yet. Berries have been reasonably good and have brought a paying price, say $5 a stand. Peas have not been a good crop but have brought a good price. Our harvest from present appearance will be the lightest in years both grain and hay; apples are scarce and peaches about half a crop; plums very scarce.
The people here are putting out considerable tobacco and owing to so much wet weather they are having no trouble getting a stand and are now nearly done setting. About the only permanent good the tobacco crops are doing for us is they are furnishing the means to build a goodly number of barns which our farmers needed very much.
Geo Brauntz's saw mill which has been here for several months and which has sawed thousands of feet of timber into fencing, lumber posts and the like, will leave us in a few days to go to a yard down on the Licking River.