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Buy eatables at The Busy Store.Gocd wood house for sale. Enquire of G. S. Rheubottom.The Ladies’ Aid meet with Mrs. Jerry Bechtel this (Thursday) afternoon.Shoe repairing promptly done by Roseberry, in Maurer’s corner building.Get your clothes cleaned and pressed by Roseberry, in the Maurer building on the corner.Simplex Electric Vacuum Cleaners, price $19.00. See them at Busy Store. A. C. Lehman.Cal Lienhart and wife and Lloyd Stewart and wife, were Elkhart visitors Sunday evening.Hart. Schaffner Marx suits, the limit in clothes making. See them at The Busy Store.A. C. Lehman.William Reese. Merl Yoder and the Misses Fisher and Hess, were in Elkhart Sunday afternoon.We have a letter at this office from J.E. Enders a former Wa-near where the M. E. church now stands. Our minister’s name was John Thomam in 1858, and about two years later Fletcher Thomas was the minister of the U. B, denomination. We had Sunday school during the summer, when we could get some one to teach it. Our school house was built of logs, with three windows, which instead of being upright, were crossways. We had four desks and the rest of the seats were made in long benches, some of them out of slabs.There was no church house at what is now called the Olive church, and only a few were hurried in the cemetery near by. (Will some one inform us through the Tribune what year the Olive church house was built, as I would like to know.)The neighbors would visit each other nights, and have supper at midnight; tell bear and panther stories, and when they went home they w ould make a torch out of bark to light them on their way, and actually had told so many bear stories they could hear the brush crack all the way home through the woods; somekarusa boy. telling about the great fruit country of Oregon. uand next week will probably pub- j ho.I5® throuoo the woods; s lish it. He has charge of the or-; a,d ltL made their hair stand UP-chards that Mr. J. J. I/ynett, is I Log-rollings were numerous in j offering our people. Bv the I the spring-time and fall, and in M letter it is plain that Mr. Lvnett I early winter there were wood-| is not^ offering our people “gold i choppings.brick” as Mr. Enders advises his 1 Well, my first move from myi friends tc invest.■j* little pioneer historyi father’s home was about thirty ! rods across the corner of his ! farm, into a two-room house.: That was in 1S62, and we did not i take the mudboat, but a wheelbarrow, to move rny belongings : from my father’s home: but we had our iurnitm-e all bought and in the house before we left thej I have lived my entire life I in Bingo and Olive townshios.; and am now srventy years old.: my first recollection of where I , lived my mothf-r taught me to : Parental root.: ropcat. “I live in Olive township. ; Well, this nnv not be interest-; Elkhart county, Indiana:” also ' ing, so will leave off, hoping toI (aught me my name, which was ! hear from cf her pioneers.i , Mahala Richardson. My fi * | recollection of what transpired,!: was when my father built a new ; g-ghewed log house, and we madej V y e 1 i« ?, a bee line to go and see this i - ! what we thought a mansion, with t ; one room below and one above j and a ladder to go up stairs; with . I one little window with four glass 1 j in it. Well the next in rotation ;! was a little lot in which to turn j our horse and cow, and also a ^ j log stable. Our road was called V the Old State road, which was 3 j made corduroy. Our neighbors 3 j were closer to us than Mrs. Hol-j deread’s were. We saw plenty t of deer in the woods, which was i ! all around us, and could hearth0 ?! wolves howl; sometimes heard ! stories about wild hogs. Our , i towns were Elkhart and Jim town. Jimtown then had two stores, a grist mill, a saw mill and a plaining mill. I well reMaiiala Moyer.S. Notes.BY A SENIOR.gets ourThis warm weather goaf.”The high school base ball team certainly redeemed themselves last Friday, when they defeated Jamestown high school to th tone of 12 to 2. It is reported that “Baby .Jumbo” proved his wonderful ability as a twirler. Everyone seemed to be on their toes and played a snappy game. The boys have a game scheduled with Walkerton for Friday, Apr. 211 ond one with Miilersburg on April 30. Both games are to be played here.If it rained hard on Saturdaymember the old gristmill, which | night. I wonder if Miss Fisher then was standing idl° and on ;would g° “Fording” on Sunday.the collapse. Elkhart had three _......i stores but no railroad at my first i April 30. recollection. I cannot tell the date, but do remember the firstDo not forget the Exhibit Day,As yet Clio Doering, RalphUdIt., UUl UU X clilcu 1 Ucl LlivJ HI oL i t rPl 13 Tr ) I 11railroad that was built through !fuulP,and TJlalt;:Td*VS K“'b are. aJ'Elkhart, and what a wonderful thing it was for us kids, and not only kids, but old people, to hear the whistle of the cars, and especially one old German lady, who would say: “Hark! the bul-gine’s coming,”Before the railroad was builtthat have their themes accepted.The juniors say that high school grammer is the most profitable and interesting subject they have and we are glad they think so.Last Friday a number of the botany class, including the in-there were steamboats on the j structor, Mr. Beeson and Miss St. Joe river, and I had the Fisher, to an excursion to thepleasure of seeing one, which J woods, was as wonderful a sight as the air ships are to me now.Mabel Searer wrote the class ,T. T , , , song lor the seniors and MarvWell I cannot say we had no Freed set themusic to it. It willshoes for my father used to make J probabiy be sung both at us children shoes. Bought leath- mencemer,t and class play, er by the whole hide. My mother spun and wove flannel for ourThe manual training boys' aredresses, also spun some flax for ! preparing a number of articles bedticks and towels, and when I: f°r the exhibit, April 30. Youwas sixteen I had mastered the i can show your interest in such spinning of wool and flax, and 11 work by your presence.have today pieces of linen of i The baccalaureate sermon willwhich I spun the yarn. We ! he preached at the M. E. church knew nothing of carpets until I j Sunday evening May 16, by Revwas about twenty years old. j s. B. Stookey. All are invited when people began to cut up ! to attend this service.worn oat clothing and nave carpets made. We children thought it quite a sight to see a carriage, or even see the track of one, back in the thick woods where we lived. I will just recall a certain time when a Mr. Richard ! In wood came to see his brother ! James Inwood, our neighbor, in j his carriage, which was the first ! we had ever seen. That was | about 64 j ears ago.My father had one horse and an ox team, which he would go to town with. It took all day and sometimes until after dark before he got home. We could hear the sound of the wagon a longtime before he got home — we could hear it bumping from one log to arother. He made good use of his oxen in rolling logs in heaps to burn when he was clearing hs land and also in plowing his land. It took a long time before he had his land all cleared and ditched so he could farm it.As for money; it was scarce. He would take a load of wheat to market and hive to take half trade ’at 50 centsa bushel. There was no market fcr produce. Butter you could sometimes get 8c a pound for, and eggs we sold for 3c a dozen by taking trade. The stores sold all kinds of merchandise, dry goids, groceries, hardware, with the postoffice in the same room.Our church-housi at Jimtown was built of round 'ogs and stoodIt is reported that Wm. Reese had trouble with his “spark” Sunday while motoring.The seniors are working hard on the “Touchdown.” It will be given in the H. S. Auditorium Wednesday and Thursday nights, May 19 and 20. Tickets can be purchased next week from any member of the Senior class. Buy your tickets early and avoid the rush. Admission 25c.Do not forget Commencement at the Christian church Friday night. May 21. The speaker for the evening will be Dr. Geo. Grose, president of De Pauw University and a member of the State Board of Education. Much care was taken this year in choosing a speaker. Dr. Grose comes highly recommended as a good speaker and a very good educator. Come and hear him. Tickets will be on sale soon.DEAR AT THAT.Whether store bread is five or ten cents a loaf it is dear at any price. Get a reliable receipt and make your own bread out of the always reliable Blended Flour GERBELLE, and your family will rise up and call you blqssed. Made by the Goshen Milling Co., Goshen, |nd.FOLEYSnONEMCARfor children; cafe, cure. Ifo opiate*
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Wakarusa, Indiana, US
Thu, Apr 22, 1915
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