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HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 107
conducted it for several years. The first modern school building, a brick
structure, was built in 1886, at a cost approximating $20,000.
Prominent among the early papers of the Reserve was the Commercial
Advertiser, published in Huron. It began in January, 1837; was
burned out in 1838, resumed in 1839, and discontinued in 1842. It was
a four-page paper, six columns to the page, and largely made up of clippings.
The markets Avere reported, and some effort was made to keep
up Avith local port entries and clearances, but the present style of general
local news Avas almost entirely wanting. One number contains an account
of the appearance of a wolf on the ice in the harbor, and the
efforts of hunters to capture the brute. Among the literary clippings is
an account of General Santa Anna's visit to Louisville, Kentucky, and
the statement by a Cincinnati whig correspondent that an irate citizen of
Cincinnati went gunning after the distinguished Alexican, but failed to
PART OF THE OLD SHIP CANAL BETWEEN MILAN AND HURON
get him because of a change of route, occasioned by an ice gorge in the
river. Under "Late and interesting neAvs from Texas," this journal
tells eight days after the occurrence, of the interment of General Austin
; it also mentions indications of a rumpus betAveen Alexico and the
United States over affairs connected with the Republic of Texas. The
issue of February 21, 1837, contains an account of a public meeting for
the purpose of preventing blacks and mulattoes from coming to Sandusky,
in violation of a statute laAV. Dr. G. R. Alorton is reported as
chairman and Albert S. Cowles as secretary; committee on resolutions,
Messrs. Wheeler, BroAvn, Cowles, Lester and Hull. A local correspondent
calls attention to the fact that Huron, while behind only one town, Cleveland,
on the lake shore betAveen Buffalo and Detroit, and while building
two and three steamers costing from $30,000 to $70,000 each, has not a
fit place in which to worship the God vouchsafing her material blessings.
The issue of Alarch 21, 1837, contains Martin Van Buren's inaugural