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IFHow the Town Came to be Caterings,. bee hunts and other frolics, where the jog went around as freely as the laughter, would often break the monotony of their toilsome lives.Cornered—Incidents oftttfEarly Days.The big days were the muster days, when the whole country swarmed to Carlisle On these. ▼From The Indianapolis News.The story of Carlisle, a town of a thousand inhabitants in Sullivan county, has been al-days the boys would form a ring• •around the oldrevolutionary soldiers who lived in the vicinity and listen to their tales of hardfighting and heavy marching.One of these quaintly-named oldways overlooked. Though now. Handv Handlv who liesa hundred years old, it has little £ ? .’ a“*y , , y’ ° IiesJ 1 buried m the local —frecognition as being the oldest town in the State, outside ofcemetery, was one of the guard selected byVincennes and CorydoIt has I ^^kington to keep up the camp, , , . ... , fires during the night before thedeveloped slowly in the old-faeh- , '® r , ■, F j ... battle of TrentOD, m order to de-Pstioned way, and has not gambled away its certain peace by taking a long shot at “boo« ___ ji prosperity.”In 1803, Samual Ledgerwood, of Virginia, came to what is nowceive the British as to the real movements of the Americans. Students cf localhistoryalways “point with pride” that their commuties take procedure in time in matters now ofi-Haddon township Sullivan, interes,. Well. Carlislecounty, and entered a tract off^ „ f._^„lt;I(welfru(ed,(nertioiPriOffDaland one mile square. The conditions were tbat^if he should build a mill he could choose hishas a list of “firsts” for the citizen to boast of. The firstchild, a daughter of the original Ledgerwood, was born near herein 1803.eeland at any place and in any way he saw fit. After first bav-ins bis line struck straight with ^ ^ 18,5 Tha flrgtThe first regular stock of!tS►eethe points of the compass, found that he could i the most desirable tract,, sowith a freedom of the absolute«king that he was he changed the lines and ran them at an angle. .courts of the county were held ? ®.e 1DI here in 1816 under the branchesof a large beech tree that stood in the northern limits of theThe first school wasThe firsttown, established in 1823.i.d(Concluded next week.)aof fortv-five degrees, or ootth-,, , .f ’.i. «. lawyer came seven years later,east, northwest, southeast and! J Jsouthwest. All the later settlers, paralleling their 1 ne with the whole block in thisTheCA1Children’s Day Exercises:his,vicinity took that angle. d I result is that Carlisle, being aNoSt*b.part of the original Ledgerwood tract, lies today exactly at ane | angle of forty-five, the wholetown being situated diagonally.° I or cater-cornered, as it were.ieAmidst a profusion of beautiful flowers and other decorations, the annual children’s day exercises were givgn Sunday night in the Christian church. An occasion of this kind is ofoonImmigration became so rapid.N.interest to nearly everyone and long before the opening marchevery seat was taken and many that soon after this date, about had tQ gtand.up throughout theie11a 1806, a settlement was formed, e' and a little later, itown was laid out, the land being given by Mr. Ledgerwood The interest these original pioneers had in public affairs is shown by the fact that they gave the central block for public a i service. And it is interestingexercises. Drills, choruses, so-1815, the jQS^ recitations and duets were11given in a pleasing and sometimes amusing style.The program was as follows:JoftMarch.leto note that the modern schoolSong.Prayer.W elcomeAtIBFour girls.Recitations—Julia Schu, Nelliehouse now built occupies this . c , ’ „, m. « , ... Wlialeu, Helen Snapp and Nell Mc-n block. The presence of hostile L, ^ rrouno,n:el-icdienr.»nIndians made necessary the erection of little forts or block-houses, for the protection of the settlers. The four most important ones were named after theSolo,Smith.“Sweet Rose s”—HelenRecitation—Aline Allen.Rainbow exercise—Class of littletots., _ , 4 . j i Duet—Mabel Ragsdale and Gol-and they comedown to us today J ^ ^important families of the time.as the Ledgerwood, the Holder, the Lisman and the Haddon-names to conjure with here now.The Lismansocially speaking.* | blockhouse, built of logs, withr.the top layers projecting out inRecitation—Bernice McConnell. Snnshine Band—Exercise by little girls.Solo, “He Has Led Us”—Harry Alnmbangh.Gv. _ ... . Recitation, 4‘His Gift”—Katiel u“ oecopMte nugh t IdUnbetb,shoot down upon their foes, isStilla cow shed!—tha olderdBes-18Duet, “Love of My Soul”-sie Snapp and Tressie Wilson... , , . . , On to Victory-—Exercise by classfairly agape over their later-day .. -At inn 01 OOJS.LStreiTte annals of the Indian raids | _ Bacilalion, “The Ust Cn«W| (include the killing of one Dudley kef Mack, who, in company with a m I Madison Collins, was on his way home from a Shaker settlement•AJesns Reigns—Class of girls. Recitation, “A Vision”—Goldie Wier. I IJ. .. *- ■-.IllLily March and Song—Claas ofSurprised by hostile : was :r'-.'one ofh uses,Offeri ng taken—110.54.id | this -«olt; sited “Dudley■V. .«il maasacre, but this seems ^funiishedthehUtoricalbaeUf-II■j -V *’In these ernrly days, howe^fi the||in(Mn their, as well as th^HhiEHoover Estate Settled.0A final settlement of the So-adewas'.I-circuitFriday mtrator and commissioner in partition were approved and t- etermii^ti^ L ^Therb^as ;a wr mm |CEdivided a • long UJihire.y * rU.w/.i;!Or
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Carlisle News
Carlisle, Indiana, US
Fri, Jun 10, 1904
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