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Mrs. Katie Hermann MusesM* IHammond▲• fBy EDNA CAMPBELLStar Society EditoruHammond was a tiny place when 1 came here with my parents as a child, said Mrs. Katie Hermann of 203 NorthCherry Street, Hammond.There were vacant lots andblocks and we cut across themas we walked to school”, sheadded.l(The changes are great said Mrs. Hermann, and it would beimpossible to name all of them at one time.” In continuing she added, “The first public schoolhouse was aneight-room structure located where the present Annie Eastman building is today. The city fathers thought we would never had need for allthe 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 hailedfrom Iowa where they had spent about six years before coming to Hammond. They were natives of Denmark. Theold family home was the setting for the wedding of Katie Hermann and NickHermann. This place centered the large tract of land where Mr. Crouse operated one of the largest dairy farms of the times. Mrs. KathleenMcAlister’s home is now builthere.Mr. and Mrs. Hermann moved to their home on Cherry street, and his businessa r*pau diop wav.Qp. th, adjoining lot.Mrs. Hermann hasrecollections 6f 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 builtWaythe large sanctuary Charles Street.Thepurchased the property to build their church house.Property was purchased on thesame block through the F. W. Reimers family for Reimers Memorial building. 1 Mrs. Hermann said sheMemorialattendedEpiscopalGrace Churchin hergirlhood an Episcopal minister, but in later life joined the Christian church where she hasremained one of the faithfulmembers.Among her neighbors were the M. Seibs whose home isstillowner 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 the mecca for Hammond’s best dressed menthewho treked to establishment regularly to pick up their stiff-starched shirts and collars.Ican drugstore, Hermann thisrecall only one added Mrs.street from the Central Drug Store, and operated by Dr. J. E. Robinson, who was also a doctor. Reiteratine theReiterating changes in business section, she told of the small bankbuilding in the middle of the third block of East Thomasstreet, later this building was remodeled and housed thepost office too. The Bert Baltzell store building rates as being the first all brick structure, and the Morrison building began in a woodenbut later was ofbuildingbrick.Churches die remembers are'igrace Memorial Episcopal5VFirstenth Dayshared theif iahSunday with the Baptists. There 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 homethroughadvertisement.an■ t.y.'S:k**'.mi'A *A*.\V•s.-:'MWft*m•■Vvn */;i: amMIMrs. 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.J v%MM:mi■■'mm
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Hammond Daily Star
Hammond, Louisiana, US
Wed, Sep 08, 1971
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