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C. P. WOLFE, PUBLISHHAS OWN COFFIN.Interesting Story of New Harmony Lady Who Has Had Casket For Many Years.Occasional we are startled by reading in the newspapers that someeccentric person has purchased their coffin, and the gruesome object is stored away in some dark corner until death shall claim ^them for his own. Life is too full of problems, for us to give such a far away item muchthought bull wonder how many of you know that right here in our own little community we have a woman who has In her possession her own coffin. Inone of Church street’s comfortable*homes lives an estimable elderly lady, Mrs Margaret Kb lie. She is a lover of flowers and people, and you will always And her a hospitable hostees. In a serious way' she will tell you about her casket and ask you if you wish to see it. You hesitate, and a few cold shivers chase each other up and down your spine and you long for a way of escape. Not wishing to berude and prompted by tj?e bit of» — '•Curiosity Mother Eve bequeathed to us all, you timidly answer *‘yea”. Whereupon she goes to a, closet, opens the door and while you sit spell bound, cot knowing what to expect, produces from its depths—-a box and with a twinkle in h9r eye lays it in yodr lap. You look at it and then ather and the tension is relieved by your laugh, for you feel you have been the victim of a practical joke.This box is 21 inches long and 13 inches wide. Made of thin wood, rounded at the corners and fastened together with cane, woven in and out of boles bored in the wood. It. is painted an olive green, decorated a-round the sides with a wreath of roses in pink and lilac shades. On the top of the lid is a landscape, a house set in a clump of trees.Wonderingjy you listen to the story and the humor changes into pathos. Mrs. Kolle’s parents left Bremen, Germany, in April 1852, with an older child and the tiny Margaret, then but six week9 old. The mother, fearing the young and delicate baby, could not'survive the long voyage across
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New Harmony Times
New Harmony, Indiana, US
Fri, Jan 23, 1920
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