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Mrs. Katie Hermann Muses*. • rHammondBy EDNA C AMPBELL Star Society Editor“Hammond was a tiny place when I came here with my parents as a child, said Mrs. Katie Hermann of 203 North Cherry Street, Hammond. There were vacant lots and blocks and we cut across them as we walked to school”, sheadded.“The changes are great said Mrs. Hermann, and it would be impossible to name all of them at one time. In continuing she added, “The first public schoolhouse was an eight-room structure located where the present Annie Eastman building is today. The city fathers thought we would never had need for all the rooms, but as time went by it became necessary to build an annex adjoining the main center. In later years the Hammond Elementary School was erected on east side, this was considered ultra modem, then.”Mrs. Herman recalled her childhood days spent on the homesite in Pleasant ridge subdivision, which at that time was the property of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Crouse. The Crouses hailed from Iowa where they had spent about six years before coming to Hammond. They were natives of Denmark. Theoldfamily home was setting for the wedding of Katie Hermann and Nick Hermann. This place centered the large tract of land where Mr. Crouse operated one of the largest dairy farms of the times. Mrs. Kathleen McAlister’s home is now built here.Mr. and Mrs. Hermann moved to their home on Cherry street, and his businessa repair *op ,w»V}n.thf adjoining lot.Mrs. Hermann hasrecollections df changing scenes in her neighborhood. The First Christian Church, where she is a longtime member, was then the site of the North Methodist Church, a small frame churchouse. The Methodists first moved to a location on Cypress and Robert, and in later years builttheWaythe large sanctuary on East Charles Street.The First Christian Church purchased the property to build their church house. Property was purchased on thesame block through the F. W. Reimers family for Reimers Memorial building.Mrs. Hermann said she attended Grace Memorial Episcopal Church in her girlhood, and was married by an Episcopal minister, but in later life joined the Christian church where she has remained one of the faithful members.Among her neighbors were the M. Seibs whose home is still a reminder. Mr. Seib was owner of a store of novelties, “Noah’s Ark.”She remembers vividly the Chinese Laundry and the native clothing and ques of the proprietors. The small laundry building was themeccafor Hammond’s best dressed men who treked to the establishment regularly to pick up their stiff-starched shirts and collars.'iI can recall only one drugstore, added Mrs. Hermann this was across the street from the Central Drug Store, and operated by Dr. J. E. Robinson, who was also a doctor. Reiterating the changes in business section, she told of the small bank building in the middle of the third block of East Thomas street, later this building was remodeled and housed the post office too. The Bert Baltzell store building rates as being the first all brick structure, and the Morrison building began in a wooden building, but later was of brick.Churches she remembers are Grace Memorial Episcopal Seventh sharedDaytheif ^ n44with the First ThereSundayBaptists, mere was no Catholic church building, the Catholics first worshipped in a warehouse owned by the Neelis company.Mrs. Herman’s parents were attracted to their Hammond home through an advertisement.WEDNESDISugar and curry or evei Englishgranulated : ginger t freshly-cut iiMrs. Katie Hermann, has seen many changes in Hammond since she came south from Iowa with her Denmark born parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Crouse in the fall of 1894.It’s easy tlt; taste b i cooking-out duck bone vegetables i little sugar same amou much woi broth, but it individual meld them sPrudtntiLife Healtl 'Own a Pi• ]1J\I » JI 111974VWIrrrtyiGILLETTE FOAMfRIGH'Tguard11-OZ. Limit 1Reg. Menthol or Lemon LimeREG7-OZ.REG. $1.19PHISOHEX16 02.REG. $243Limit 1♦ *GET80Z., RegREG._LiiMYLANTA LIQUID) HeadSuper120Z. AntacidSL47.... it Limit 1 ,¥ WLimit 1rtair5 OR. 100's29*Limit 1n fiv eve bMAKE-UP 11byXn\iSs-/7)AMPLONwPANTY HOSEMegne
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Hammond Daily Star
Hammond, Louisiana, US
Wed, Sep 08, 1971
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