125 Years ago
From the April 27, 1895 edition of the Silverton Standard:
OLD TOWN HALL JUST AN EYESORE.
The old rickety town hall reminds the casual visitor of a charnel house that one couldn’t see the light of day in save by smashing the entire rear end out. The structure was put up some nine years ago, and has been an eyesore and a marrow-freezer since its construction and in fact is a blot…