aniiistoIuc'mgion. TOWNS IN TUB OLD VDSTERN IICSEIIVE. Cl.l,rUn TK-lr CrntfnnUU TH. llo.uk of Many lr.l Mr.. IUr Itik lnl lln.uu lliuiil. Urn I rrrlnl llral ll.ll. Iklld DU.l ur kUrvklloo. (Special letter.) That section of country known In tarly days ru tho Weatern Hesene In Ohio and tho home of many great men In American life Is now pasting through its centennial celebrations. One by one the towna and cities within Ita borders aro beginning to arrange for suitable celebrations In honor of the colonttlng of this notable expanse of country. The city of l'alnisvllle will Boon unveil a monument In memory mem-ory ot CapLUdwanl Pnliie, Us founder. Tbe town ot Connecticut nnd tho city of Cleveland held tbolr cenlenulal cel ebrations last year Tho Utile town of Austlnburg a few days ago held fwtlvltles approprtato to tho passing ot Its 100th birthday tlenava. n town of some 1,000 Inhabitants, will celebrate cele-brate In 101, and with each succeeding succeed-ing year for several years the word "century" will have a particular significance sig-nificance In northern Ohio, One hundred years ago tho first white child born In tbe Weatern l(o-serv l(o-serv died of starvation The llral church In the section was dedicated by the breaking of a bottle ot whisky over Us steeple Among tho prominent promi-nent men bom and rslted In that part ot Ohio were James A (lirfleld, Will-lam Will-lam McKlnlov, William Dean Howells, (lidding, and Wads. Hundreds of people earh year visit tho old law offices of (llddlngs & Wade, the famous statesmen ot sntl-slavery sntl-slavery llmea, located at Jefferson, Ashtabula county. Their monuments In the Itttln Jefferson cemetery are a'so a point of Interest Scattered here and there throughout the reserve are tho old underground railroad stations which sheltered many a slsve on his way to liberty. The birthplace of McKlnley la located at Nllcs and tbe homo ot James A. Oarfleld at Mentor. William Dean lluwells set type In a printing orilco at Jefferson which la still atsndlng, and tho same paper Is Issued weekly. Kdlth Thomas, the poeteas ot nature, often went down beside the brook nt Ueneva and wrote poetry beneath the canopy ot an um brella a she watched the torrent of rain and the Dailies ot lightning lu the woods near the lake, I'latt It. I Rpenccr, the author ot Bpencerlan I penmanship, taught hundreds ot pu-1 pits tho system of pcnmsnshlp which I has become famous since then, The monument to Commodore Terry's splendid victory stands In Wade Vark, Cleveland. At Klrtland la the first Mormon templo var erected At Ashtabula Isjlocatcd the "5 3X. WIlCnE BPICN'CKR TAU011T church whoro Itobcrt O, Ingersoll attended at-tended Sunday school. These are a few ot the point of Interest to be seen In the territory which Is now celebrating cele-brating tbe date of It founding. That the first white child born on the Western Itesorve should die for wsnt of food shows the hardships which tbs first settlers endured Tho first family to winter In the Weatern Reierv consisted of Judge Kingsbury Kings-bury and wife and children, They . located at Conneant, which la situated I near the banks of I-nko Krte. Provisions Pro-visions were very scarce, and It Is said that more than onco the ludgo transported trans-ported through the wilderness on a hand sled a barrel ot heo( n distance of CO ml lei Tbe sovereat test ot tbe fsmlly csme when Judge Kingsbury I was compelled by his business Inter-fits Inter-fits to go to New York in the fall ot tbe flrat year ot their settlement at I ConneauL Tho journey was a long I one la those days,' when all who wished to travel must ride horseback or go' on foot. Arriving In New York he was taken' sick and for several I inorilhs wss unable to return to bis fsinllr A """ "" he roii'd travel he start.) at once, and fsarlng that bla wife arid little ono would havo used up the supply of provisions In his absence ab-sence bo gathered together all ha could carry, and when his horse gave out, a hundred mile from home, ho placed the load upon hi own back and continued his trip, Qa reaching lb house he bouuded linldo with his precious load of provisions. . During I bis absence another child had been bom and upon tbe cot lay he mother, nearly famished, and beside her tbe 1 babe waa dead It had died for lack of nourishment, which the starving I mother was unable to furnish. This Is one ot the ssddest storlts In connection con-nection with the settlomeut of this section. Tho tint church In the Western Itesorve li aalA to uaT I"1"1 located at AusUnhurg. lb rural town which Is soon to celebrate Its centsnnlsl anniversary. anni-versary. It 1 said tnat when the church was dedicated there wa broken brok-en over It steeple a bottle of wblsky. This wa In the day when even preachera drank whisky, and nothing I wa thought of It. The church waa afterward one of the ttrongset oppo- nenU of the liquor traffic, sad among sWaB4saBatte-AhkjBBu!iljP(HHN II members were numbered some ot M the most noted temperance workers oj H later Jears. ,HJ