Your Town: New Vienna Ohio: Southern Ohio Tool & Die (Part 3 of 5)

New Vienna, Once Buzzard's Glory Prospers Anew in Clinton County

A full page spread in the Cincinnati Times-Star, February 26, 1957  by Mayo Mohs* [Part 3 of 5]

Their Products Guard America's Skies:

Most Americans, when they hear of defense work done by the nation's plants, envision vast factories on the edges of giant cities turning out planes, armored equipment and other such needs for the Government.

Few realize that the nation's defense industry is often of the grass-roots variety – a you and I and the guy next door type of thing that makes many of us and our neighbors contributors to the safety of the country.

Such an industry is the Southern Ohio Tool and Die Co. in New Vienna.  Not large – it employees only some 25 people – the company nevertheless is vital.  Though the parts they produce are small, they eventually become part of the air fleet that guards our boundaries.

What the company makes is airplane parts for such denizens of the sky as North American Sabrejet, the Super Sabre, and the Navy Fury.

Picture Captioned:  Company Head R.W. "Shorty" Mongold, right and Shop Superintendent Harold Baker, left, look over one of the Southern Ohio Tool Co.'s many products, all designed for various aviation uses.  The part he holds in his hand is for the Curtiss "Hellcat," World War II divebomber, still in use with some naval flying units.  The company also makes farm implement products in another building.  -- Photo by Robert Lehker.

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This is the third of five posts from New Vienna, Once Buzzard's Glory Prospers Anew in Clinton County. Other posts can be found at these links:
Part 1 History
Part 2 New Vienna in 1957
Part 3 Southern Ohio Tool & Die
Part 4 Wells Mfg.
Part 5 Aerial Photo

Feb. 13, 1989-99

HH's Diary 1989-1999

Monday 1989 - Let Jean out at Dayton Library meeting, a wet day, then met her in Wilmington for supper at Frisch's. Senior citizen liver and onions is $3.25.

Tuesday 1990 - Took Orville Harner to Lincoln Day Dinner at Roberts Arena, 2 for $25. Bob Taft spoke. Sat with Hagemeyers and the Hubert Peeles [?].

Saturday 1993 - [NYC] Went to Javits Center then to _______ for lunch, $28 each, very nice, pretty pictures of the Basque countryside. Too much dessert so they wrapped it up like a basket (chocolate cake mousse) and it did taste much better that night. Went to Strand bookstore and then had supper in the room.

Sunday 1994 - [home from Newark]

Tuesday 1996 - Dow Jones hits 5600. Virginia Hildebrant in extensive care.

Thursday 1997 - [South Africa]

Friday 1998 - Dow Jones hits 8300.

Saturday 1999 - [Lake Worth FL to Valdosta GA] Had lunch at Atlantis Country Club with Roberta and Sid. Left at 1:30 and had supper at Lake City at a Mexican Restaurant, quite a crowd there. Drove on to Valdosta, stayed at Hampton Inn near a mall with a cafeteria.

Maine Library Postcards

I worked as Assistant Director of the Louis B. Goodall Library in Sanford Maine from 1973-1976.   This library was built in 1937 as a gift to the town by the daughter of Mr. Goodall.  The Goodalls were the owners of the once thriving textile mills in Sanford which were at their peak from 1880-1910 primarily producing carriage robes and blankets as well as plush fabric for upholstering railroad seats.  The Goodall mills were sold to Burlington Mills in 1954 and they closed the operations in Sanford.

As with Carnegie libraries, the upkeep and maintenance of the library was the responsibility of the town. More information is available online about the history of Sanford's Library  -- doesn't mention my name however.

There are three other Maine library postcards in my collection, two of them are of the same library at different times and it is a (unofficial) Carnegie Library.

Augusta Maine. Lithgow Library c1911 above, below c1940

Although the Lithgow Library is not listed on New England Carnegies or Wikipedia's List of Carnegie libraries in Maine, the history of the Library states "Andrew Carnegie donated $9000" in 1894 and the library was designed by Neal and Hopkins Architects of Pittsburgh.

Belfast Public Library and Methodist Church. Belfast Maine c. 1900

Not a Carnegie Library, although I couldn't find any information about the history.

Although my current collection of Maine Carnegie Library cards is zero (one unofficial), there were 18 (19) public libraries and two academic libraries built in Maine from grants awarded by the Carnegie Corporation.  Obviously I need to do more research on Carnegie Libraries and find an authoritative list.

Carnegie Libraries in Maine = 21

Catherine's collection = 1

Find more Maine library postcards at this website:  Maine Library Postcards

Feb. 12, 1989-99

HH's Diary 1989-1999

Sunday 1989 - [Peoria IL to Dayton] Went to Arcadia Avenue Presbyterian Church, then had lunch at the Raintree (Regency Hotel) [neither Raintree or Regency currently listed in Peoria], they were not busy.  Drove out to Serena's library.  Left for home, supper on 16th St in Indianapolis, stayed at Knights Inn on York Rd (Dayton North) for $26.  NVUMC attendance = 82.

Monday 1990 - Jean takes van to Dayton to get wheel chair lift put in and go to library meeting.  Roberta called, GHU in great pain, got new medicine @$117 which she thought was terrible [both the medicine and the price probably]. 

Tuesday 1991 - Clinton County Lincoln Day Dinner at Roberts Arena, $15 each or 2 for $25.  Bob McEwen spoke.  HQT, AW Hause, Ed Johnson, Stan Hannah and I went.

Friday 1993 - [NYC]  Busy day at the Toy Building.  Bruce came over for breakfast and saw most of the salesmen.  We went to the theater just off 3rd Ave on 13th to see Scapin by Moliere.  Quite enjoyable, about a belligerant father and his son getting married, a lot of audience participation. 

Saturday 1994 - [Newark] Had brunch in Granville with John and Julie and Julie's parents.  Then we stopped at the so-called Bargain Barn of Huntington Clothes, did buy a necktie for $5.  Newark was a sea of ice, much wose than NV and Shaw Drive was really bad.  John took our car in and out of the driveway.  First time in 42 years than Denison canceled classes.

Sunday 1995 - Met the Goodings in Waynesville for lunch.  $6.95.  Bob has been busy helping Jim on his "new" house.  We then went to Xenia Library.  Returned John's call, he is going to Mexico City with their minister on Thursday and returning Saturday in regard to Mission.  More zero weather though great sunshine.

Wednesday 1997 - [South Africa]

Thursday 1998 - Taking pictures at church for the new directory. 

Friday 1999 - [Florida]  Eight of us had lunch at the Breakers -- an experience.  Tip was 19% and entrees @24.95.  An interesting dessert was the 1/2 coconut filled with ice cream, etc.  Then they took the coconut back and sliced it for us.

Early Roads in Clinton County (Part 1)

From the 1985 County Seat Calendar page 7

February 16, 1850 – A meeting is held to build a turnpike from Wilmington to Waynesville.  Road is finished in 1852, with seven miles planed over low area.  Blue laws frown on Sunday commercial travel.  West of town, on a Sunday morning, a young horseman meets a deacon.  "Are you on an errand to visit the sick?" asks deacon.  "My mother is lying dead," answers rider solemnly.  Deacon waves horseman through toll gate, at which moment horseman shouts, "She has been lying dead for ten years!"

The low areas which would be planked were most likely in the Caesar Creek area which is now Caesar Creek State Park.


On the Touring Ohio Magazine Website is this picture of a former Toll House, now located in Pioneer Village at the Park.  The description reads as follows:

Unlike today, early roads were usually developed and maintained by private citizens.  To help pay for these endeavors, tolls were collected at various points along the road at toll houses.  The toll house not only collected the tolls, but they also provided food and drink, plus they sometimes provided lodging for travelers.  This toll house was located along the Waynesville-Wilmington Pike at the Massie-Wayne [Warren County] Township line.  Later it was moved across Route 73 where it became a farm granary around 1900.

Even Prior to 1850 there is a state road from Wilmington to Waynesville, however, as The History of Warren County by Josiah Morrow (1882) states that Warren County received $1000 from the state for roads in 1820 and $50 was allotted to the road from Wilmington to Waynesville.  The biggest chunk, $145, went to the road from Cincinnati to Chillicothe by John Hopkins's tavern on the east side of the Little Miami.  Col. John Hopkins, born November 5, 1786 moved to Warren County in 1804 and served in the War of 1812.

Most of the following information is from The Townships History section of the Wilmington and Clinton County's Bicentennial 1810-2010 Wilmington and Clinton County's Bicentennial 1810-2010 web page and from Pioneer Migration Routes through Ohio website.

Adams Township (Currently I-71, SR3-3C Hwy, SR380).  The Wilmington-Lebanon Road was built in 1812 as a toll road.  George Road was first named the Bull Skin Trace as early as 1687.  This Native American Trail connected the Bull Skin Trace which ran partly along Caesar Creek, at Clarksville with the Kanawha Trace (SR73).

Bull Skin Trace is now a hiking trail in the Caesar Creek State Park.  Also known as the Bullskin Road, this was the first State Road in Ohio, receiving official recognition of the state in 1807 as the Xenia State Road, traveling from the British Fort Detroit to Bullskin Landing above Cincinnati in Clermont County on the Ohio River.

The Kanawha Trace is named for the river in WV and this website shows an early 1800s mile by mile progress a settler could follow from North Carolina to Richmond Indiana, passing through Leesburg and Highland, then to Wilmington via Morgantown, a village in Green Township where College Township Road crossed Simon Kenton Trace -- south of Snow Hill.  Morgantown, settled in 1816 was abandoned in 1829 due to a cholera epidemic.

In the 1930s there was a Civilian Conservation Camp on Clarksville Rd as part of the WPA program.

Marion Township (Blanchester) in SW Clinton County had the Tar Pike, connecting Kansas/Pansy with Midland.  Other information about the history/transportation modes of Marion Township according to the Clinton County Bicentennial History website includes the 1860 location of the village of Kansas where Tar Pike mets SR730.  It had a grist mill and general store.  After building the post office, the name was changed to Pansy.

SR123 was a Native American Trail used by the Adena people 5000 years ago and connected various mounds.

In 1905 Marion Township was the only location in the county with an Interurban Traction Railroad* which went from Blanchester to Cincinnati and was built by Barney Kroger (1860-1938), who opened his first grocery, the Great Western Tea Co. in 1883.  He renamed the company Kroger Grocery and Baking in 1902 and opened 5500 stores by the end of the 1920s.

*GHU had a Traction RR almost in her front yard as a teenager.  See September 2, 1910 Grandma Takes Traction blog post for more information.

Feb. 11, 1989-99

HH's Diary 1989-1999

Saturday 1989 - [Peoria IL]  We changed rooms at motel so we could have a tub.  The three of us went out to supper at cafeteria.  Serena had jello and bread.

Sunday 1990 - Had 91 at church today.  Sermon on honesty.  Went to Wilmington to see movie "Driving Miss Daisy" $2.75 before 6pm.  Had soup at Carolyn's yogurt place for 89¢.  Mary Virginia came in to go to mission meeting tomorrow. 

Thursday 1993 - [to NYC] Flew to NYC, staying at Penington Friends House @$90/night with breakfast and supper. 

Friday 1994 - [to Newark] Met John and Julie at Granville Inn for a nice "banquet", about 60 from their church, Spring Hill Baptist.  Had "people bingo" to get acquainted, e.g. who had ridden a bike across the U.S.  Kate is really crawling and likes to tear the wallpaper at the corner of the living room and hallway.  They have put down new wood flooring in their kitchen, dining room and 1/2 bath.

Saturday 1995 - After returning lampshades to Walmart, we went on up to Fairfield Mall near Wright State, new things going up all round there.  Ate at Red Lobster.  Came down I-675 to Phar-Mor and got some 1/2 price birthday cards.  Nice book store near Phar-Mor.   Got gas for 98.9¢.  Jean got book Border Music by Robert Waller. 

Sunday 1996 - Flew home from Bermuda.  Car turned 20,000.

Tuesday 1997 - [South Africa]

Wednesday 1998 - Delayed Lions Club tonight.  Doris Caldwell spoke of the Women's Center.  Still recall her husband Floyd telling of his experience at the Columbus airport in meeting exchange student.  Two appraisals today:  Morton and Linkhart.

Thursday 1999 - [Florida]  Joe had opening of art show (27 paintings) on Lucerne Ave.  Lots of people but no buyers.  Spoke with Lorraine Marco Beneto[?, a childhood Lake Worth friend of HH] she is diabetic, travels with a non handy [hanky?] male friend.  Visited Whitehall Museum in Palm Beach.

WNJ's New Vienna Ohio History

From an article on wnewsj.com, the online presence of the Wilmington (Ohio) News Journal.  This is part of the history section of the third edition of the Clinton County Resource Guide, published in 2008.

New Vienna
New Vienna is located in Green Township, in the southwest corner of Clinton County. The first settlers in the area were Joseph Anthony, Abner Van Meter and Samuel Clevenger, who arrived around 1800. Buzzard’s Glory, established in 1827, was the original name of New Vienna. Although Buzzard’s Glory was established in 1827, it was not officially entered into the county deed books until 1835. The town was so named because in 1812 to 1813 there was a local tannery in operation, and when the animal hides were hung outside they would attract buzzards.

Buzzard’s Glory was later renamed New Vienna by Harkens T. Van Winkle. The first settlers in New Vienna were Thomas and Joshua Hussey. Joshua Hussey started the first gristmill in 1826 and the first steam grist and sawmill in 1833, and in 1829 Stephen Hussey and William Reese opened the first store. In 1829 Thomas Reese and Jonathon Haworth opened a carding mill. The first hotel was established by Girard Morgan.

The first school in New Vienna is believed to have been located in the northern part of town. Between 1850 and 1860 a two story brick school was built in New Vienna. This school, purchased by the Society of Dunkards, eventually failed. Previous to 1860 there had been another school located in New Vienna. The first school was sold to the Catholic Church, and the Dunkard building was sold to T. L. Rogers and Nathan Hussey. The Dunkard building was then enlarged and used as a school until 1878, and that same year a new school known as Whittier Hall was built. Between 1917 and 1918 a new school was built on the same site, and was used until New Vienna Schools were consolidated with Simon Kenton in 1963.

In 1908 a fire* occurred on South Street, destroying several buildings. Later another fire destroyed several buildings and homes on Main Street. Another fire in 1925 claimed New Vienna’s opera house. However, despite these setbacks business continued to thrive. The Southern Ohio Tool and Die Company was established in New Vienna in the early ’30s, and continued until the early ’80s. The Wells Manufacturing Company moved to New Vienna in 1947 and is still running.

Feb. 10, 1989-99

Notes from Dad's Diary 1989-1999

Friday 1989 - [Peoria IL]  Lions Club Pancake Supper at ECHS @$2.50/each.  Serena didn't feel like doing much, very little appetite.  We ate at Ponderosa.

Saturday 1990 - Lions Club Pork Chop Dinner, $4 and $2.50.  I was in charge of publicity and ticket committee.  Mary, Bill and I went to see GHU.  While we were there Vivian (79) and Mugs (85) came to visit also.  We ate at the Hickory House [near Hillsboro?  only ones I found were near Columbus], liver and onions $5.15.

Monday 1992 - Clinton County Lincoln Day Dinner @$15.  We took the Jacque Laymons and HQ Thornburg, about 400 present.  Mike DeWine spoke, they are expecting their 8th child, oldest is 23.  [Website says he has eight children although one died in a  car accident in 1993, and his son, R. Patrick DeWine is Ohio (Hamilton County) Common Pleas Judge.]no

Wednesday 1993 - Kroger had strawberries @99¢/pint.  Bible study wind up on Book of Acts.  Another McKay Hearing. 

Thursday 1994 - Dinner and dance for square dance group, catered by McCoys, $10/each.  Still very icy out.

Friday 1995 - Article in NYT about Berkshire Hathaway, whose stock is now selling for $24,500 a share (30 years ago it was selling at less than $20/share.  As of 2/10/2011 - one share selling at $125,830.00 according to  Google Finance.) Closing comment was that Buffett's book @$24.95 was a better buy than the stock. (Buffet's book Of Permanent Value  - publication date 1994 - is selling used for $95.00 on Amazon.)

Saturday 1996 - [Bermuda] Walked the old RR right-of-way in St. George area.  In PM went to Perfumery, nothing too exciting.  Then to ______ where we saw a lot of interesting animals and a BIG eel.

Monday 1997 - [South Africa]

Tuesday 1998 - Wayne Hagemeyer turns 77.  Finally had closing on GHU house @$70,500.

Wednesday 1999 - [Florida] Went to Lake Worth beach and had breakfast at John G's, no line at 7am.  [Roberta reported on 1/28/10 that "John G." had recently passed away.]  Out to Rob and Cindy's future home site and BIG house, near west end of Hypoluxo Rd.  Had nice visit with the Barbers who now live at 1025 North. B St.  Surprised to see North grade school leveled.  Lunch at Toojay's in Lake Worth, 419 Lake Ave.

Wilmington Ohio Map 1859

From "A County Seat Calendar 1985" page 7

Map Inscription on Calendar:  The world according to surveyor Jeff Hildebrant, 1859


February 10, 1811 - After seven months of indecision, the first commissioners change the name of the town to Wilmington.  They are looking for a name that is not already used in Ohio.  In June [1810], they name it Clinton.  In August, it is called Armenia.  By October, is is Mt. Pleasant.  The judge allows one more change:  Wilmington it is, although no one is certain why.  

According to Ohio History Central: "Many of the town's early residents were from North Carolina, and they named their new community, which was established in 1810, after Wilmington, North Carolina. The community grew quickly, attaining 1,500 residents by 1840. In 1846, the community had five churches, one high school, one newspaper, and nineteen retail stores."

Feb. 9, 1989-99

HH's Diary 1989-1999

Thursday 1989 - [Peoria IL]  Took Serena to the hospital (Methodist) for ourpatient procedure at 11am.  Had lunch in the hospital cafeteria, a good value.  We all left hospital at 5pm.  Serena had temperature of 103, we bought a new thermometer.  Stayed at Towne House Motel $27/night. 

Saturday 1991 - Vivian Hiestand called us about her two extra tickets for "harp" program.  Very good.  Also Lions Club Pork BBQ @ $4 and $2.50.  Saturday profile on John Waters (new County Commissioner). Why are a coach and a politican alike?  Because they are smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it is important. 

Sunday 1992 - Wilmington M.C. meeting at West Chester, the Salisburys took us.  NV had 9 people there.  Went to Carol S. Webster's house in Sharonville.  Bob Salisbury had just gotten back from Japan.  It was 10pm when we finally got home.

Tuesday 1993 - GHU in great spirits today.

Thursday 1995 - Had letter from Elsie Satterfield about wanting to move back to Hillsboro.  New K-Mart opened in Hillsboro.  We took Joan Gruber to square dancing and Valentine Dinner Dance.  Dan Quayle announced his withdrawal from the 1996 presidential race.

Saturday 1996 [Bermuda]

Sunday 1997 - [London to South Africa] Overnight flight to Cape Town South Africa

Monday 1998 - Lincoln Day Dinner at Roberts Arena @$15, lots of steak, green beans, baked potato, cherry pie and salad.  State Representative Ed Kasputis spoke, told story about having facts straight, but drawing wrong conclusion.  He was born in 1961, a Case Western Reserve University law graduate. 

Tuesday 1999 - [Florida] Had lunch at Cracker Barrel in Daytona Beach, near race track where car races would soon be held, arrived in Lantana and had supper at Morrison's in Boynton.  Same guest room [at MUH's] as previously.

Elizabeth and Oscar, March 11, 1957 (18-19 of 56)

"we were quite proud to have been there in person"

Monday, March 11, 1957 Uibles and Johnsons now in NYC.  After HH leaves them at Battery Park, Jean, Oscar and Elizabeth visit the Statute of Liberty and are now seeking lunch.


We walked until we came to a small restaurant called "Chock-Full-o'Nuts" where we ate very good cream cheese on Raisin Bread Sandwiches.

After lunch we [went to Trinity Church, and NY Stock Exchange, and other "important buildings"].  From the Stock Exchange we mailed several cards to our families back home.  The Stock Exchange was to pay the postage but somehow they missed the one I sent to Blanche and she had to pay the 2¢ + 3¢ to send the 2¢, so it cost 5¢ just to know we were on Wall St.

Then we took a bus and rode for an hour to reach the Hotel New Yorker where we were to meet Harold at 4pm and we just made it.  He was in the lobby and had it all fixed so we could get into the toy fair which was being held there.  The Fair covered 12 floors of the hotel so we only saw a small part which was very interesting.  Several of our friends saw it on TV so we were quite proud to have been there in person.

We drove to the Hotel Piccadilly at 227 W. 45th St at Broadway.  Here we had nice rooms on the 11th floor.  We were next to the "Morosco Theatre" where the play, Major Barbara was playing.

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Here's an ad from 1953. As you can see from the receipt, by 1957 the rates had gone up to $7.50 (tax rate of 5.1%).


The Hotel Piccadilly closed July 1, 1982 and was demolished soon after along with the Morosco, Bijou and Helen Hayes theaters. The Marriott Marquis was built on the site.

Here's a link to a wikipedia article about the Toy Fair, which unfortunately does not include any information about the history. I did learn that the TIA (Toy Industry Association) was founded on April 21, 1916 as the Toy Manufacturers of America, Inc.
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For other posts in this series see:
March 9, 1957 (1-2 of 56) New Vienna to Philadelphia
March 9-10, 1957 (2-14 of 56) Philadelphia
March 10-11, 1957 (15-18 of 56) Philadelphia to NYC
March 11, 1957 (18-19 of 56)  NYC
March 11-12, 1957 (20-27 of 56) NYC
March 12-13, 1957 (28-31 of 56) NYC
March 13-18, 1957 (31-34 of 56) NYC - CT - RI
March 18-19, 1957 (34-45 of 56) RI - MA
March 20, 1957 (46-49 of 56) MA - NYC
March 20-21, 1957 (49-51 of 56) NYC - Hershey
March 22, 1957 (52-56 of 56) Hershey PA to New Vienna

Feb. 8, 1989-99

Notes from Dad's Diary 1989-1999

Wednesday 1989 - [to Peoria IL] Jean had Womens Club lunch at Ponderosa, supper at MCL, [a cafeteria, that location now closed] in Indianapolis on 38th Ave.  Jack Perry special (small piece of meat, 2 vegetables and roll for $2.75).  Staying in Days Inn in East Peoria. 

Thursday 1990 -Went to Wilmington, got 3 estimates to repair van.  $700+.  Went square dancing, first time in a couple months.

Friday 1991 - 2nd annual Estate Planning at the Ohio Center Holiday Inn.  Saw Stu CFO [?] from Park National Bank and Tom from the Lancaster office.  Had supper at Cracker Barrel on way home.

Saturday 1992 - Lions Club Pancake Supper $3.50.  Don Liggett called about this fall Asian trip.

Tuesday 1994 - Ice storm.  Special election for children's services.  Cooper Snyder to be speaker at both the Highland and Clinton County Lincoln Day dinners.  UMW canceled because of the weather, two months in a row canceled due to weather..  Jean went with Valetta to Wilmington to work on the scroll. 

Thursday 1996 - [Bermuda] We ate with the Spencers (from Birmingham AL) at Tillingham Dept. Store in Hamilton [closed in 2005 per HH].

Saturday 1997 - [London] 

Sunday 1998 - Sermon topic, teflon or velcro.  Boy Scout Sunday, 119 present.  We went to Frisch's about 2:30 [or $2.30?].  Serena called and told us of reservation at Grove Park Inn [in Asheville NC]  for $89.  Talked to Paul and Virginia Rulon, his face seemed puffy.  Went to College Library, not much activity. Had nice email from Wendy, she's taking 13 hours in college and hopes to graduate in 2002.

Monday 1999 - [Perry GA to Amelia Island FL]  Drove out to Camellia Hdqs in Fort Valley GA -- this was their big week [flowers at peak, probably Massee Lane Camellia Garden, headquarters of the American Camellia Society].  Then to Andersonville where the Civil War POW camp was.  Had lunch in Plains GA.  Parked where Jimmy Carter would have SS.  Had reservation at Ritz Carlton at Amelia Island.  Had asked for cheapest room, $139, but got beautiful south facing ocean view, plenty of room.  Their rates go up 3/1.  Had supper downtown at Beech Street Grill.

Feb. 7, 1989-99

Notes from Dad's Diary 1989-1999

Tuesday 1989 - Got new heel and toe plates on my square dance boots $9.50.  MUH had biopsy.  Jean goes to  Mothers Club at Leona Wolfe's.  Special election for Laurel Oaks.  Headlines about Buzz Lukens "problems".

Wednesday 1990 - Got new blue Ford van at Bill Marine's.  $17,500 including tax, he had started at $21,000, list price of $24,000.  Jean went to visit the Sankers.  Lions Club program by ______ Davis (Joe's son) on his far east tour.  Jean backed into tree with van at Sankers.

Thursday 1991 - Met John at Hilton East Hotel in Columbus where we stayed overnight, $41/night + 15% tax.  We ate at the hotel, think 4 others were there. 

Friday 1992 -Went to Concourse Hotel near airport  for 7 hour legal meeting.  John was also there.  Jean met Ruth May and they had lunch at Stratford Inn in Lithopolis -- a B&B [now listed as a Tea Room and Bistro].  Ruth left her binoculars in the car so returned them and then had soup and sandwich at Yummers in WCH.

Sunday 1993 - Went with the Salisburys, Carolyn Thornburg, and Keith Rankin to West Chester.  Ate with the Baileys at Bill Knapp's [appears ALL Bill Knapp's were out of business by 2002] at King's Island.  Got book "Love is a Choice".

Monday 1994 - Administrative Board Meeting.  Jim Pinkerton is the new chairman and Jeanette Laymon is new Secretary.  Got literature from Sr Ventures, a nice spiral bound schedule of the Havana trip. 

Tuesday 1995 - Went to Wilmington and had "supper" at Taco Bell, cost $3.24.  Anna Louise brought over our lunch from the Chinese Restaurant $2.50.  Bought four lamp shades at Walmart.

Friday 1997 - [London]

Saturday 1998 - Went square dancing at Hillsboro.  Had to reload the internet program.  Got new muffler and tailpipe on '90 Honda.

Sunday 1999 - [Somerset KY, to Perry GA] Left after church, lunch at Dinner Bell in Sweetwater TN (south of Knoxville).  Plenty of food and fat people.  Stayed at New Perry Inn, Perry GA, same management for 50 years.  Had supper there.

Your Town: New Vienna Ohio 1957 (Part 2 of 5)

New Vienna, Once Buzzard's Glory Prospers Anew in Clinton County

A full page spread in the Cincinnati Times-Star, February 26, 1957  by Mayo Mohs [Part 2 of 5]

Today [1957], having survived the turn of the century migration to the big cities, New Vienna is prospering again.  

Both agriculture, the community's mainstay, and industry, its new hallmark, combine to give the town its latest push toward the spotlight.  

Cincinnati's Randall Co., producers of automobile trim, employs about 60 people in its New Vienna plant, and the Carter Tool & Die Co., the southern Ohio Tool & Die Co., the Wells Manufacturing Co., and the Nasa Tool Co. also contribute to the local economy.   [More about Wells and Southern Ohio Tool & Die in a future post.]

As a result, New Vienna is nearing its nineteenth century population mark of 1,000 rapidly, is pushing out into the country side with new homes and plans for more.  The local Lions Club, headed by Carl West, is planning a new subdivision of 54 homes and a public park, and other civic improvements are keeping pace.

Mayor James Hildebran and his six-man town council – Hurschell Lancen, Robert Sonners, Chester Ledford, Estil Irwin, Dewey Akers and Ernie McDaniel – are seeing to it that the town keeps governmentally abreast, and Police Chief Tom Green and Fire Chief Joe Rambo are caring for the "security" end of things.

Somehow, some way, New Vienna seems to have recaptured the pioneer ambition that once set its youthful ancestors to the task of promoting their town through verse.

They have all the necessities for a sound and deserved expansion.

Now all they need in New Vienna is another poet.

Yet to come is a poor quality aerial photo, Ancient Game of Jacks is Town's Young Industry, and Their Products Guard America's Skies.

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This is the second of five posts from New Vienna, Once Buzzard's Glory Prospers Anew in Clinton County. Other posts can be found at these links:
Part 1 History
Part 2 New Vienna in 1957
Part 3 Southern Ohio Tool & Die
Part 4 Wells Mfg.
Part 5 Aerial Photo

Feb. 6, 1989-99

Notes from Dad's Diary 1989-1999

Monday 1989 - Jean went to Columbus to the Book Circle Store.  Six month car insurance was $492, unleaded gas 85.9 cents/gallon. 

Tuesday 1990 - Jean has program at Mothers Club, book review on Barbara Bush.

Wednesday 1991 - Gary Kersey had program at Lions Club on the paper in the print on the Emancipation Proclamation.  Jean and Mary [MUH] went to Hillsboro to see Mother, she had been up in the wheel chair, they met Vivian.  Bill's brother Cris passed away.

Thursday 1992 - Keith Rankin here "re-gluing" the ceramic tile in the guest bathroom.

Saturday 1993 - [Lexington to home]  We went to the Target store (used to be Gold Circle), then to Darryl's for lunch.  Went to Bookstore, got Mobil Tour '93 Big City Book $15, plus Spanish book and book on Guatemala.  Then to Sam's Club, lots of people handing out food samples.  Back to Cincy, stop at Micro Mall to get chair, then to see Ed Fite at Bethesda North.  He came home sick from AZ.

Sunday 1994 - Boy Scout Sunday at church.  We met Serena at Books and Co. in Dayton (big bookstore), Arthur Frommer spoke, he started in 1957 on those $5/day books, now I think it is $60/day.  Had supper at Mark Pi's.  Jean bought shoes at Roderer's.

Monday 1995 - Mothers Club canceled because of the snow.

Thursday 1997 - [to England]  Left for London on Delta non-stop from CVG, at the Penn Club.  Delta uses North Terminal at Gatwick.

Friday 1998 - Continuing Legal Ed at Wilmington 9-3, then appointment with Dr. Lawley, had a cystoscopy exam where they put tube up penis to look at bladder -- very quick, said I was fine, just an enlarged prostate.  Jean had mammogram at CMH.  Ate at Bob Evans.  Saw Donna Cornelius there with Don ______.  Winter Olympics starting in Nagano, Japan. 

Saturday 1999 - [Somerset] Breakfast at Days Inn is kind of a joke, just 2 chairs there.  Drove over to Liberty KY and ate at this restaurant run by a children's group.  Christian got his first hair cut.

Wilmington (Ohio) Public Library

The old and the new.  Wilmington (Ohio) Public Library.

1997 addition to the Carnegie Library, main entrance now faces north, instead of west.  From this website.

According to the 1985 County Seat Calendar:  In early February of 1816, leading citizens formed a library association.  "No books to discredit the Christian religion" was their motto and thus, all novels and plays were excluded from the library collection except Oliver Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield.

February 7, 1902 - The Carnegie Foundation grants $10,000 to the town for a new library.  It opens in June of 1904, replacing the small Main Street library of the DAR who financed it partially by selling a collection of old rubber boots from school children.  There was also a bequest by Samuel Walker, which occurred during the Carnegie negotiations and resulted in a token library space set up in the Walker Building.  It is honored for years by the Rice family, which ran the furniture store and saw that an upstairs shelf always had books on it.

From the library's website: Members of the George Clinton Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, founded the Wilmington Library Association in 1899. That summer they opened with 500 books in two rooms on Main Street and were offered rent free in a building owned by the First National Bank of Wilmington.

Knowing the work of Andrew Carnegie, the association wrote a request to him in 1902. Carnegie granted $10,000 followed by an additional $2,500 asked by the association. Grant requirements included a supporting levy, subsequently adopted at $1,000 a year by Wilmington village council.

The library opened in June 1904 on the site it occupies today.

From Wikipedia: In 1899 the George Clinton Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution began a subscription library in two rooms of the First National Bank building. They raised $710 and purchased furniture, shelving, books and periodicals. Minnie Farren was employed as the first librarian. Tickets that gave the purchaser the privileges of library and reading room use for one year could be purchased for $1.00.

Members of the community donated many items and various groups held fundraisers to benefit the library. The Six-and-Twenty Club began their tradition of donating books to the library every year.
The Library Aid Society was organized in March 1900. Members donated funds at the monthly meetings. Books from the State Library of Ohio were loaned on a rotating basis.

In 1903 Andrew Carnegie gave ten thousand dollars for the purpose of building a free public library building, provided the village council should appropriate one thousand dollars annually toward the support of the library.

In 1933 the structure for library funding in Ohio was changed. Funding was to be derived from the Intangible Tax on stocks and bonds to be distributed on a county basis. A flaw of this structure was that the amount of money collected depended upon the number of local residents who owned investments. Areas with a significant tax base did relatively well under this system while areas with a small tax base were under-funded or virtually unfunded by the Intangibles Tax collection.

The Walker Annex was completed in 1938. Bookmobile service began in 1940. In 1961 a bookmobile garage was added to the south side of the building. A second level was added above that to be used as an adult reading room.

In 1979 a Friends of the Library was created. The group supports the library in many ways. There is an annual book sale to raise funds for special projects. The Friends also decorate the library for Christmas, host special events such as the 100th anniversary celebration in 2004, and assist with other events through the year.

Children visiting a bookmobile operated by the Wilmington Public Library in Wilmington, Ohio, 1941.  Picture from OhioPix: Picturing Ohio's History: Selections from theh Ohio Historical Society's Collection.

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As most of you know I collect library postcards, especially Carnegie libraries.  I do not (yet) have a card from the Wilmington Public (Carnegie) Library.  The one shown above is available for $14.95 but I'm not that desperate to add it to my collection.

The Wilmington Library also has the distinction of having employed two members of our family.  I worked there in 1965, sorting obituary clippings and shelving books until they discovered I could correctly type card catalog cards.  That was enough experience in tech services that I decided I preferred the public side of the library.  Not sure of the exact dates that Serena worked there, but early 2000s.

Feb. 5, 1989-99

Notes from Dad's Diary 1989-1999

Sunday 1989 - Church collection $1300+.  Honda turned 5,000 miles.

Monday 1990 - Put signs on Pontiac "For Sale" -- within 30 minutes had buyer, Rose Roades, asked and got $800.  Bill Donnelson (car dealer) had offered $500.  MV called us this AM, change in wedding date to 5/12/90.  Wrote Homer and Rona Thompson a note about visiting them.  They have a conflict as going to see her sister in the hospital.

Friday 1993 - [to Lexington] We left after the monthly Bar Luncheon, a stop in Lebanon at Star Printing to get corrected printing for UMC, then to Hilton Suites in Lexington.  $70 for the 5 of us.  We met MV, Don and Ginny for supper then went to their Emmaus meeting.

Sunday 1995 - Surprised to get a "beat up in the mail" resolution from Mary Kay McMillin [?] about my being Secretary-Treasurer of the Clinton County Republican party for 20 years.  It was dated 6/5/86.  She found it in going through Tom's things, said they were pack rats.

Wednesday 1997 - Lions Club Meeting.  Bob McCoy had the program, 1948 pictures of a farming operation and people leaving a service at Fairview Church.  We went to Dayton to file papers in the Helen Wilson estate.  Had lunch at Pheasant Stork [? no such restaurant currently listed], an $8.95 and $7.95 special.  Went to Books & Co., got [computer?] book on 3.1

Friday 1999 - [to Somerset]  Serena came and we left for Somerset.  Took Don's class ring back.  Ate at Mexican Restaurant.  Had reservations at Days Inn at Hwy 27 & 80, could hear trains at night.

Catherine home from hospital Feb. 1949

In early February 1949 Jean and Catherine were released from the hospital.  These pictures were taken outside of the Uible apartment at Lakeview Terrace in Cleveland.  The Baby Buggy is the same one  that I remember the rest of my siblings also using and when it wasn't being used was stored upstairs at Wells.  People often told Mother she should bring it into the Church when she "parked" it outside the front door.  She said "If someone wants it that badly they can have it."  It was definitely showing some wear and tear by the time MV was the passenger.

I'm fortunate that my only other hospital stay as of 2011, was in ~1955 when I had my tonsils removed at the old Hale Hospital in Wilmington.  Lots more pictures of Wilmington at this website

Feb. 4, 1989-99

Notes from Dad's Diary 1989-1999

Saturday 1989 - Went to Hillsboro with Rev. Ed Johnson to church meeting on Unquenchable Fire.

Sunday 1990 - Took Salisburys and Carolyn Thornburg to UMC meeting at Williamsburg.  Good program on conflicts.  Had supper at Lake Manor Restaurant, south of Mt. Orab on 68.  The bakery had 1# loaf of apple walnut bread for $1.89.  Fannie Moore is 93 [probably she is 94, as on 2/3/91 is the celebration of her #95 birthday.  Think she was trying to seem younger?]

Monday 1991 - Got a call at 11AM that Mother had been discharged from CMH and they had a room (#204) at Heartland in Hillsboro.  What a hassle in getting her "out and in".  Regular rates are $77 and for skilled care $105/day.

Thursday 1993 - The Nathan Hales invited us over for supper (lamb), Betty and Jack Liggett were there, on their way back from Illinois to NJ.

Friday 1994 - Went to the Bar Meeting in Wilmington.  Jean looked at new floor covering for our kitchen, plus appliances for the kitchen.   Also looked at the Ford Taurus.  Had supper at Ponderosa.  Interesting TV show on Alaska.  Kathy Mahanes is having a going out of business sale in Wilmington.

Saturday 1995 - [Denver to home] Spent the AM at the big Tattered Cover Book Store then had a nice lunch at Sorenson's at 315 Detroit St. [no restaurant currently listed at that address, or by that name], before leaving for the [Stapleton] airport [Stapleton operated 1929-1995] which is to be replaced on 2/28/95 by the new DIA, which has had several postponed openings.  [From Wikipedia: DIA finally replaced Stapleton on February 28, 1995, 16 months behind schedule and at a cost of $4.8 billion, nearly $2 billion over budget.]

Sunday 1996 - [to Columbus] Ray King was telling me the financial problems of the church.  We leave for Columbus to meet John, Julie, and Kate at Cookers I-270 and Main St. near the big Barnes and Noble bookstore.

Wednesday 1998 - [Carlos] Achor appraisal.  Woke up this AM with snow on the ground.  Lions Club meeting canceled.

Elizabeth and Oscar, March 10-11, 1957 (15-18 of 56)

"never dreamed I would ride across it"
"I wouldn't have missed it for anything."

Sunday, March 10, 1957 Uibles and Johnsons are at the train station awaiting the arrival of Jean's sister and family.

....we drove to the railroad station to meet them, but due to a change in their plans they came by car so we missed them.  We enjoyed watching the trains come in tho, also seeing the big Station and just plain watching the people.

We knew they were to stay at the Barclay Hotel [now condominiums] so we drove there.  Jean called up to their room and we were all invited up.  The building was divided and of course we got on the wrong elevator but soon found our mistake.  They were very nice and we enjoyed an hours visit.

It was late then so we went back to the St. James for our last night in Philadelphia.  It had been a full and exciting day and by now we were feeling at home here so slept fine and awoke to a bright clear day.  We packed our things and walked out on the fire escape to view the city and realize how high up we were. [Their room was on the top, 12th floor.]

Monday, March 11
We checked out of the St. James Hotel, put our bags in the car and went to a Horn and Hardart for breakfast.  After breakfast we crossed the Ben Franklin Bridge [built in 1926, now carries 7 lanes of I-676 and US30 as well as 2 rail lines, and 2 sidewalks] and were on our way to New York City.  It was a nice ride.  It seemed to be solid city all the way so it was hard to tell just where we were.  It was quite exciting to cross the Pulaski Skyway [4-lanes US 1/9, opened in 1932 to connect Newark and Jersey City].  I had read so much about it but never dreamed I would ride across it.

Just before we got to the Holland Tunnel [first vehicle tunnel under the Hudson River, opened in 1927, now carries 4 lanes of I-78] traffic was halted.  We had a few minutes wait and then we were on our way again and into and thru this famous tunnel.

Harold drove us down to the Battery and from here Oscar, Jean and I took a boat out to the Statue of Liberty while Harold went on to the toy Fair.

There were only a few people on the boat so we had a choice of where we wanted to sit or stand to get the best view of both the Statue and the New York skyline.  There were several other boats in the Harbor and Oscar took several pictures.  When we landed we went straight to the Statue and rode up 10 stories and then walked up 168 steps to the head of the Statue.  The steps were very small and steep and I was plenty tired by the time we got back down again.  It was well worth the effort and while I have no desire to go back I wouldn't have missed it for anything.

We walked back thru Battery Park and past the Steam ship offices and went into some of them and looked at the Ship Models.

Oscar and Elizabeth at Old Swedes Church March 10, 1957

Oscar and Elizabeth at Swedish Museum, March 10, 1957

               ....stay tuned for lunch and more NYC touring
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For other posts in this series see:
March 9, 1957 (1-2 of 56) New Vienna to Philadelphia
March 9-10, 1957 (2-14 of 56) Philadelphia
March 10-11, 1957 (15-18 of 56) Philadelphia to NYC
March 11, 1957 (18-19 of 56)  NYC
March 11-12, 1957 (20-27 of 56) NYC
March 12-13, 1957 (28-31 of 56) NYC
March 13-18, 1957 (31-34 of 56) NYC - CT - RI
March 18-19, 1957 (34-45 of 56) RI - MA
March 20, 1957 (46-49 of 56) MA - NYC
March 20-21, 1957 (49-51 of 56) NYC - Hershey
March 22, 1957 (52-56 of 56) Hershey PA to New Vienna

Feb. 3, 1989-99

Notes from Dad's Diary 1987-1999

Tuesday 1987 - [Phoenix to home] Left Phoenix, flight 8:55AM-2PM.

Saturday 1990 - John called, thinking of leaving the Bank and joining Campus Crusade.

Sunday 1991 - Had SS lesson, Matthew 26.  Open House for Fannie Moore's 95th birthday.  Mother seemed better tonight.  Daniel 5-6 at Bible Study.

Monday 1992 - [Home from Newark]  Left Newark, spent an hour at Lithopolis Library where they are building a large addition.  Lunch at Terrace Lounge in WCH [2011: John reports they went out of busines about 8-10 years ago, building is still there on Rt. 62, north side of WCH], soup and salad bar $3.50.

Wednesday 1993 - Lions Club, gal from Southern State spoke re displaced homemakers.  Betty Terrell called re gal that worked for her and stole things.  She's hard to get off the line.

Friday 1995 - [Leaving CO Elderhostel] Left the Y and drove around Kremmling and Breckenridge, what a small public library.  Lunch in Frisco at Claim Jumper [not part of the chain].  Toured the Coors Brewery in Golden.  They passed out different labels of their brand to separate the tour groups.  A big place.  Room 716P at Loew's Georgian Hotel [now Loew's Denver Hotel], a 4-star hotel @$89.  Very nice, covers on toilet paper rolls, goodnight chocolate kiss on our bed, terry cloth robe.  (Two robes at Brown Palace.)  Ate in their restaurant "Tuscany" 3-stars, $41.  Servings were more than we could eat.

Saturday 1996 - Wilmington City budget in the newspaper.

Tuesday 1998 - George & Imogene Shaffer in Phoenix, saw Roberta and Catherine.

Wednesday 1999 - Great night at Lions Club, had 15 guests.  I took Duane Terwilliger, he is Asst. Manager at a heavy equipment place in Mason OH, has the big brick house on the corner.  Talked to Charlie Ely who starts work at 2:30AM.  Got international driver's license, $17 in Hillsboro.  On our recent visit to Columbus PL they were advertising how they were #3 in US as far as Public Libraries.  #1 was Naperville IL PL and #2 Johnson County Library in Shawnee, KS.

Your Town: New Vienna Ohio: History (Part 1 of 5)

New Vienna, Once Buzzard's Glory Prospers Anew in Clinton County

A full page spread in the Cincinnati Times-Star, February 26, 1957 (p.15)  by Mayo Mohs [Part 1 of 5]

Come ye mechanics from afar
And lend a helping hand.
From selling we will not debar;
Come settle fertile land.

Yea, Buzzard's Glory is the place
Where happiness doth reign.
Come, come mechanics don't delay!
We invite you again.

The invitation is to all
Ye Sons of Freedom, come!
If you pass this way, I hope you'll call
And make this place your home.

Where oil doth run so clean and bright,
And the steam engine plays
If you were once to see the sight,
Our noble works you'd praise.

It takes more than verses like these to make a poet, or for that matter, to build a town.  But in 1830 the lines sounded as clear and as liquid as a wilderness brook, and the thought they conveyed was the ambitious vision of a new and growing nation.

In the sophisticated parlors of literary Massachusetts they may have been scorned and ridiculed, but in New Vienna, O., they knocked 'em dead.

For James Johnson and Ellis Nordyke, the young men of early New Vienna who wrote the verses, their frontier town was something of which they could really be proud, and in the exuberance of this wholesome pride, they set their thoughts on paper.  Today, when we read them, we may only notice their archaic flavor, and forget the far more important thing – their spirit.

It was the spirit, after all, not the verse, that would in time build the town, and the nation.

From the start, when it was founded in 1827 by Thomas Hussey, New Vienna was a thriving community.  At what time it changed its name from "Buzzard's Glory," the name it bears in the poem – or if, indeed, the latter title was only a casual nickname, the history books do not record.  They do record that by the 1880's just a bit more than 40 years later, New Vienna boasted a population of more than 1,000 people of "industry, economy, and thrift."  --to be continued....

The Clinton County Timeline lists the following about New Vienna:
1827 Village of New Vienna [not Buzzard's Glory] platted by Thomas Hussey
1946 Faris Implement Store opens in downtown New Vienna [many other stores must have opened in the previous 120 years but they didn't make the timeline.]
1961 Buckeye Molding moves to New Vienna

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This is the first of five posts from New Vienna, Once Buzzard's Glory Prospers Anew in Clinton County.  Other posts can be found at these links:

Part 1 History
Part 2 New Vienna in 1957
Part 3 Southern Ohio Tool & Die
Part 4 Wells Mfg.
Part 5 Aerial Photo

Feb. 2, 1989-99

HH's Diary 1989-1999

Thursday 1989 - Wilmington Walmart opened today.  Jean leaves with Jean Liggett for library meeting in Columbus.  Had flat tire on van en route to Wilmington, it's a job on the van.  The Probate Court still hasn't found Drake will.  Minor ice storm but it's really been a nice January.  Vera McFadden passed away, she worked for me before G.G.

Friday 1990 - Went to dentist, nothing except cleaning $46.  We looked at big vans.  Had supper at Frisch's.

Saturday 1991 - Sadie had the day off with Mother at CMH so we went to feed her.  She now has the 3rd roommate.  Supper at Arby's, 99¢ roast beef sandwich.  Up in the 50s, washed the car.  Cris with his parents left for Steubenville.  Bill's brother Cris is critical.  They will return tomorrow.

Sunday 1992 - [to Newark] Drove up to see John and Julie and the house at 1030 Shaw Dr that they have contracted to buy.  Julie fixed chicken with poppy seeds, broccoli, salad, rolls with sherbet and cookies.

Tuesday 1993 - Jean had Mothers Club here and Esther S. had the program on health.   Note from John regarding B&B in St. Clairsville, "My Father's House".

Wednesday 1994 - Lions Club, G.G. and Kelly were the sole chefs.  Bob Johnson spoke - part 2 on the NV School.  First school in 1812, nine one-room schools in Green Township.  In 1838, 68 pupils in township, spent $15 each on education.  The school lot was sold to the Catholic Church in 1860-65, and a new building was built in 1878 in the present location, replaced in 1917 with new building at a cost of $70M ($70,000].

Thursday 1995 - [Colorado ElderHostel]

Friday 1996 - Legal work in Wilmington in PM, we ate at Bob Evans.  Ike and Dorothy (his friend) were there and Dale Cahill [?], also Dorothy Moore and her Mother.

Sunday 1997 - Goodings came down, we ate at Highland South Restaurant in Winchester, recently reopened.  Drove through Mowrystown, then to Maple Syrup place near 136 and 62.  He had all these lines running directly from the trees into the building.  Takes 50 gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup.

Monday 1998 - Went to Dayton to start Wilson estate, then Morton estate in Wilmington.  Jean had Mothers Club meeting at Betty Thompson's.  Letter from Moana Loa Hotel hoping we had a great visit and sent rates for return visitors.  Krogers has strawberries at 1.89/quart.

Tuesday 1999 - Went over to parsonage and helped Mary Bahr and Sharon Henderson Rider help fold the church newsletter.  Dick Suttersthwaite [?] called re taxation of annuities.

New Vienna (Ohio) Environmental Hazards

Most of the following information came from different parts of Homefacts.com.  I have tried to include individual links for each "subject" listed.  Enter your own/current address to find out what's near you.

In a follow-up to yesterday's post about storage tanks I found this information about current environmental hazards in New Vienna, Ohio. Fortunately there are no Superfund Sites, or Polluters but the following are listed:

New Vienna Environmental Hazards
Educate yourself on environmental hazards in your area

SUPERFUND 0
POLLUTERS 0
Underground Storage Tanks (UST) 8
Leaking Underground Storage Tanks (LUST) 6
Aboveground Storage Tanks 0

Streber's Market
299 N.SOUTH ST, NEW VIENNA, OH UST
Streber's Market
299 N.SOUTH ST, NEW VIENNA, OH UST
Streber's Market
299 N.SOUTH ST, NEW VIENNA, OH UST
Streber's Market
299 N.SOUTH ST, NEW VIENNA, OH UST
Streber's Market
299 N.SOUTH ST, NEW VIENNA, OH UST

Shell
101 N SOUTH ST, NEW VIENNA, OH LUST

Packaging Resources
5566 NEW VIENNA RD (N OF OFFICE), NEW VIENNA, OH LUST

Packaging Resources

5566 NEW VIENNA RD (TRUCK GARAGE, NEW VIENNA, OH LUST

Orphan [Assume this means no property owner is being held responsible]
140 WEST ST, NEW VIENNA, OH LUST  [This is the current site of the Family Dollar Store, and we know who lived on that corner 60 years ago.]

At&t
RT 28, NEW VIENNA, OH LUST

New Vienna 1st Stop
ST RT 28, NEW VIENNA, OH UST
New Vienna 1st Stop
ST RT 28, NEW VIENNA, OH UST
New Vienna 1st Stop
ST RT 28, NEW VIENNA, OH UST

Green Township
10850 ST RT 28, NEW VIENNA, OH LUST [This address on Google Maps says John (and Brenda) Vergne, Fiscal Officer of Green Township.  All Clinton County Township Trustees are listed under this website of the Clinton County Engineer's Office.

Also available on this website are Criminal/Sex Offenders (7 listed with details), one former Meth Lab at 5915 Ross Road, Air Quality -- which I couldn't make much sense of, and which doesn't say where it is measured, but overall 80% of the country is better than NV.

Does the New Vienna water come from Clarksville?  And Clarksville's comes from Midland?  (rather confusing, especially since the website also says NV is in Clarksville and Clarksville is in Blanchester)  Here is the information about the Water Quality in NV:
Village of New Vienna
Water contamination monitoring and most recent reporting data for Village Of New Vienna in Clarksville OH.
7.9 OUT OF 10 [best in Clinton County]
Location: Clarksville OH
Population Served: 1,200
Test Available For: 2004-2009

Clarksville info:
Village of Clarksville
Water contamination monitoring and most recent reporting data for Village Of Clarksville in Blanchester OH.
5.8 OUT OF 10
Location: Midland OH
Population Served: 500
Test Available For: 2004-2007

Other hazardous trivia found:
296 tornadoes within 100 miles of New Vienna between 1950-2006.  On April 3, 1974 there was a Force 4 tornado one mile from New Vienna which caused two deaths and 39 were injured.  This was the date the Force 5 tornado hit Xenia.  An F-5 tornado has an estimated wind speed of 261-318mph, an F-4 tornado has 207-260mph with an average damage path of 400-900 meters (440-1000 yards).

Much less chance of a New Vienna earthquake with only 12 earthquakes within 100 miles since 1974, the highest being 5.2 magnitude 80 miles away on 7/7/80, the closest one 18 miles away on 2/2/95, 3.6 magnitude.

New Vienna crime index -- higher than the national average for property crimes, burglaries, and larceny theft statistics but negligible amounts of all other crimes.