"David H Hash was  born in Mansfield, Ohio March 27, 1854. He came to Seneca when a young lad and  worked at various time for Charles Stafford, Dr McKay, Ed Butt, Frank Greenwood and lastly. Dr. Alvin Snyder from whom he purchased the drug business . He died in 1917. Two hundred and fifty school children attended his funeral." Information and pictures above is from 1938 Courier Tribune This pictures and some of the  information came from the 1938 Centennial Courier Tribune as a Add from Harsh Drug store.

When I was young there were people who had known David Hash but now there are very few  of them alive that ever heard of him.  He was well thought of and people often told of how he helped them out when they needed help.

Notice the telephone number "100", this was when we had telephones you had to crank to get the Telephone Operator, we referred to the operator as "Central"  Some one would say "ring up central and get the time. You would crank the phone and when she answered, all you had to say was "time please" and then she would give you the time and  you would know if your  clock was right. I knew one person who thought that we had Central Time here because of that. . When you wanted to make a call you  give her the number and she would ring up the party and after a  short time might say "Your party doesn't answer,  shall I ring them again."  You never got a   busy signal and never had to listen to music, or had to listen to a list a recording giving a list of buttons  you  could  push   or  was told to push the pound button and then enter you account number and social security number and date of birth. Some of us really liked that way better.

 If you knew the operator you would visit with her if she was not too busy. If it was a small town she might know where this person was or when she would be back, and this  was allowed, because they had not yet invented the privacy law. You could also  call her to  hear what was new in town..

There is a story of this  person that called Central ever day about ten to twelve and would ask for the time. Finally the operator one day asked why he called ever day for the time and he  said "It's my job to blow the  12 o'clock  town whistle", and then he asked,  "And how is it you set your clock?" and she replied "From your whistle, and I am certainly glad you check to see you time is correct each day." 

Look at the building that is there today  in 2011