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at wofien,lyevicUa“I recall the town of LaGrange when : 0Cj its business interests were on the j no; square east of the court house. The |le old Forest hnte! was the acme . architecture !.*• my early youth. The uv long Li:', .ling with its parches in frontiv ttrat aril U »ors, wore ' li;.iststro points from wloch scene* of the m; he j street were all visible. The office {then ' ru t0 j designated as the bar room, although ri0I d» not recollect that liquors were wi•sold) was a capital place for the email rt, bay to hide himself, especially in win-; nt ter, for there was alwa\s a w.*a:lh of' W: Uuifafo robes co tempt one to rest, and ' ihen, when Uncle Sam I? »yd played his {»k. | li idle it was a room of ideal enjoyment. ' pj: -wt! A little further south was a one-story ft ^ 5 frame building, occupied by the post-' jr( ‘ office and a grocery store'conducted by di?i:ewI' Cliarley Holmes. Ronsallear Rheubol- tp, \ i tom was the postmaster. Nor'ri of the e|tForest hotel stood the Sinurr House, a to ^ ! little structure occupying the present be ^ • site of thtj Rurick opera house. Still fa *1 farther north a store roo.-n was built by 1 e]Ln-!ckB-beHubbard Ruick as a merchantite jet ^ j establishment Later came the King pa Cummings block and the Mammoth ca: block, the last built by John Will and Frank Clugston. It was something selt;out of sight and a matter of commendable pride to the community. The site of this building is remembered by ' wi me aB a pool of standing water, and one Th of the pussies to me to this day is what tei became of that pond—a pond which hii extended even to the court yard. I know it was there, for 1 waded in it in summer and skated on its ice in win* ter. There was a tannery on the BanksrsB-mgertfretasatnderenhen,■yWiof Fly creek. 1 also remember the re Garmire cabinet shop and a paint shop AiaB*n,ty.owned by Andrew Emminger. William til Rheubottom and James Devlin had m blacksmith shops at the extreme north If and south ends of Poplar street. Both a!lt; were good friends of mine and I think islt; of them with* tenderest recollections. silt; Thera were several sawmills south of th town, two of which were well known in to me. One in the vicinity of Valen* m tine was built and owned by my father, ta The other was the mill of Timothy and th William Hudson, locatad on the Haw- th patch, at what was known a* Slabtown,' th now the village of Toptka.’* ' «i|
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Lagrange Democrat Call
Lagrange, Indiana, US
Wed, Jun 30, 1920
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