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History of Carlisle and Haddon Tp.(Continued from last week)The name of the township,iHaddon, was given in honor ofJohn Haddon. The first Justicewhilewhat of a drinking man, on a spree in Carlisle, was set upon by a party of roughs, who poured whiskey over his head and set it on fire. It is needlessof the Peace was Samuel Whitt-lessey, and the first physician to locate here was his son. Dr.*ThomasChauncey Whittlessey.Holder, Sr., built the first house, after the forts or block houses, in the township, and it stood about three-fourths of a milewest of Carlisle. He also ownedthe first wagon in the township.to say that the man was nearly killed, for whiskey in those days like the present, burned in more ways than one. ■■Crippling the Old School Teacher Dr. Helms, one of the pioneer residents related a story of how the boys of a school he attended crippled for life an old schoolmaster named John B. Haywood01ISJ„ . , , - . , , ., who was extremely severe uponThe: first stock of goods brought hjs The ^to the township arrived in Carlisle in 1815.Pioneer Pastimes.In those early days the pioneers had their sports as well asdid not intend to cripple him, only to mash his toes a little. They managed to get a big back log they were rolling to fall upon1f, j ., i ,,. .the pedagogue’s foot, but it wastheir labors, and the log rollings heav7er7han they th ht andcabin raisings, bee hunts and frolics of all kinds, where thethe old fellow had to use crutch-, . , ,es the remainder or his life.jug went round as freely as fte Ume of the muscles of his footIClaughter, would often break the tad ^ ncntly injured-monotony of their toilsome lives.The big days, however, were the muster days, when everybody came into Carlisle. Upon those days the boys would form a ring around the old Revolutionary soldiers, six or seven of whomEven ^fter that the old fellow continued to teach school, andused his crutch on the boys as savagely as he had formerly used a hickory. One day when he had gotten off his horse, on a Saturday a couple of his mische-vious pupils slipped up to hisi8(lived in the township and listen,awe-stricken, to their tales of., , , , , ,,. ,, , ,. 'horse and placed beneath thehard fighting and hard marching f ,,, , , , ., , „ ,in that grand old struggle that gave to us this beautiful land of peace and plenty. All honor to those old heroes—the immortalssaddle and next to the horse’s hide, a couple of rough com cobs. When Haywood started to mount the animal and threwa'Ji-ee—one of whom, Handy Handly,lies in the old town cemetery.He was one of the guard selected by Washington to watch and keep up the fires during the night before the battle of Trenton, in order to deceive the British commander as to the realhis weight full on the back of the horse, language failed to describe the scene, The horse£scene,threw his tail into the air and started off at .full speed. Only a pale streak of a horse was dis-cernable as he made for the woods.ii!\l-l-r-mFirst Auto Delivery.movement of the Americans.Iecidents of the Times.As illustrative of the manners and customs of the dwellers of the «eneral merchandise storeiiGeorge A. Ridgway, proprietorof that name m Carlisle, hasin these parts along about 1820,, , ., „ , . ,the following instances may not Purchased a Studebaker automo-be inappropiate: A man namedbile delivery wagon and usedthat vehicle Saturday for theMcGee* a tailor, living in Carl-, isle, was charged with having firat time 40 make deliveries ofstolen some clothesfrom' a I oods. me rnacnme wasbought at Vincennes and Mr.clothes line, and although there, was no positive evidence against RWgway and family and DeweyYocum went to Vincennes Fri-him, he was taken by a mob to a ....branch north of where the depot ^aY an(^ ^)rou2ht it to this city.now stands and so repeatedly This is the first auto delivery forCarlisle.ducked in the water that he died from the effects of it The manwas innocent as the real thief was afterward discovered. The affair was a sad one, and itACard 01 Thanhs.isWe desire to thank the many friends for the flowers, kindnesssaid that justice reached the j assistance and sympathy duringthe sickness and death of ourperpetrators in various ways before they died.Several years after the abovebrother and uncle, James Cox. Henry Wallace and Family.incident occurred, a Frenchman r N. C. Hoover made a businessJ named Louis Francois, some-1 trip to Sullivan Saturday.
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Carlisle News
Carlisle, Indiana, US
Fri, Aug 14, 1914
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