Columbia City Commercial Mail ~ Friday, August 25, 1905
C. H. Creager, one of the first settlers of Whitley county, celebrates his 84th birthday today, the day before the Old Settlers meeting. He was born in Montgomery county, Ohio, Aug. 16, 1821, and came to this county with his parents in 1836, when the roads were Indian trails and almost impassible from mud. On their way to this point the Creagers were obliged to abandon one wagon in the north part of Huntington county and our subject, in seeking for help lost his way in the woods and spent his first night in this county in open air, without even a fire and with two inches of snow on the ground. Mr. Creager first settled in Cleveland township and for fifteen years worked out and then bought a farm for himself, which he worked and ran a saw mill at the same time. In 1860 he was elected county commissioner and re-elected in 1863, being the only candidate elected on the democratic ticket. Mr. Creager has been a continuous resident of Whitley county for sixty-nine years and may be present at the Old Settlers meeting tomorrow.
Sunday, September 9, 2007
Saturday, September 8, 2007
Big Onion Crop in South Noble County (1905)
Columbia City Commercial Mail ~ Friday, August 25, 1905
Rufus Barcus who resides near Big lake in Noble county was in this city Tuesday and made this paper a pleasant call. Mr. Barcus is an onion farmer and has a field of four and one-half acres of this valuable plant growing this year. He reports the crop in fine condition and says experienced onion raisers have told him that he will have a yield of at least eight hundred bushels per acre. Mr. Barcus reports the onion crop looking well in south Noble county.
Among the extensive onion raisers in that section are: Green Cole, Chas. Herron, Bruff Cole, Otho Quinn, John Fruchey, John Quinn and John Berry. These men have all the way from four to twenty acres of onions each. Green Cole having a twenty acre field. Blight is reported in only a few instances and for the most part it cannot be said that there is any blight at all this year. A few patches of onions are drying up but in many of these cases the cause is not from blight but is the result of using too much fertilizer or a poor quality of fertilizer or a poor quality of fertilizer. Take it all in all, the onion crops of southern Noble county this year will be a good one and the yield more than an average crop. True, some patches drowned out but this will affect the aggregate yield but little.
Rufus Barcus who resides near Big lake in Noble county was in this city Tuesday and made this paper a pleasant call. Mr. Barcus is an onion farmer and has a field of four and one-half acres of this valuable plant growing this year. He reports the crop in fine condition and says experienced onion raisers have told him that he will have a yield of at least eight hundred bushels per acre. Mr. Barcus reports the onion crop looking well in south Noble county.
Among the extensive onion raisers in that section are: Green Cole, Chas. Herron, Bruff Cole, Otho Quinn, John Fruchey, John Quinn and John Berry. These men have all the way from four to twenty acres of onions each. Green Cole having a twenty acre field. Blight is reported in only a few instances and for the most part it cannot be said that there is any blight at all this year. A few patches of onions are drying up but in many of these cases the cause is not from blight but is the result of using too much fertilizer or a poor quality of fertilizer or a poor quality of fertilizer. Take it all in all, the onion crops of southern Noble county this year will be a good one and the yield more than an average crop. True, some patches drowned out but this will affect the aggregate yield but little.
Friday, September 7, 2007
Brenneman Boys Arrive From West (1905)
Columbia City Commercial Mail ~ Friday, August 18, 1905
Russell Brenneman, who has been at Kodiak, Alaska, for several years and Lawrence Brenneman of Denver Colorado, arrived in this city Thursday evening to visit their parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Brenneman and their brother, Dr. J. F. Brenneman and wife. Judson Brenneman, who has an excellent position with the Leibhart Commission Co., of Denver was unable to accompany them as it was a very busy season of the year for him. Judson had visited here during the winter but it had been six years since Russell left Columbia City and over three years since Lawrence had visited here. Lawrence Brenneman has been located in Denver for almost seven years. He was formerly a partner with his father in the grocery business in this city but decided to go west. He entered the employ of the Hurlbet Grocery Co., of Denver and has been with the firm ever since, now being employed at a handsome salary as buyer for the firm.
Russel Brenneman was a member of Co. G during the Spanish-American War and after a short visit on his return from Cuba, he left for the west. He stayed a short while in Colorado and from there he went to Alaska where he spent five years. A few weeks ago he found a hundred and fifty-eight pounds of a substance which he and his companions supposed was ambergris on the shores of a small island north of Kodiak. With their saws and hatchets they constructed a rude wheelbarrow and wheeled it to their camp and finally got it to Kodiak, and shipped it to Seattle, Washington. A piece was sent to the Smithsonian Institute at Washington, D. C. for analysis where it tested practically valueless, being only a parafine compound thrown off by a whale. Had it been ambergris it would have been worth from fifty to sixty thousand dollars. At Kodiak a miner thrust a thousand dollars in Mr. Brenneman's face and tried to purchase a one-fifth interest in the find but the latter would not sell.
It was a great disappointment to Russell to learn that his find was valueless but after a two weeks visit here, he will return to Denver with his brother Lawrence and on Sept. 14th, will sail from Seattle, Washington, for Kodiak and try it again. He has valuable holdings at Kodiak which demand his return almost immediately. Mr. Brenneman owns quite large interests in some valuable oil lands and also in a quartz claim which has already been tunneled fifty feet. He likes the county and is determined to make his fortune there.
Russell Brenneman, who has been at Kodiak, Alaska, for several years and Lawrence Brenneman of Denver Colorado, arrived in this city Thursday evening to visit their parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Brenneman and their brother, Dr. J. F. Brenneman and wife. Judson Brenneman, who has an excellent position with the Leibhart Commission Co., of Denver was unable to accompany them as it was a very busy season of the year for him. Judson had visited here during the winter but it had been six years since Russell left Columbia City and over three years since Lawrence had visited here. Lawrence Brenneman has been located in Denver for almost seven years. He was formerly a partner with his father in the grocery business in this city but decided to go west. He entered the employ of the Hurlbet Grocery Co., of Denver and has been with the firm ever since, now being employed at a handsome salary as buyer for the firm.
Russel Brenneman was a member of Co. G during the Spanish-American War and after a short visit on his return from Cuba, he left for the west. He stayed a short while in Colorado and from there he went to Alaska where he spent five years. A few weeks ago he found a hundred and fifty-eight pounds of a substance which he and his companions supposed was ambergris on the shores of a small island north of Kodiak. With their saws and hatchets they constructed a rude wheelbarrow and wheeled it to their camp and finally got it to Kodiak, and shipped it to Seattle, Washington. A piece was sent to the Smithsonian Institute at Washington, D. C. for analysis where it tested practically valueless, being only a parafine compound thrown off by a whale. Had it been ambergris it would have been worth from fifty to sixty thousand dollars. At Kodiak a miner thrust a thousand dollars in Mr. Brenneman's face and tried to purchase a one-fifth interest in the find but the latter would not sell.
It was a great disappointment to Russell to learn that his find was valueless but after a two weeks visit here, he will return to Denver with his brother Lawrence and on Sept. 14th, will sail from Seattle, Washington, for Kodiak and try it again. He has valuable holdings at Kodiak which demand his return almost immediately. Mr. Brenneman owns quite large interests in some valuable oil lands and also in a quartz claim which has already been tunneled fifty feet. He likes the county and is determined to make his fortune there.
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
David Shoemaker Returns From the West (1905)
Columbia City Commercial Mail ~ Friday, July 28, 1905
David Shoemaker, a former resident of the city, arrived here from the west early Friday morning, to visit with his son, Ira Shoemaker and family and his many friends in the county. Mr. Shoemaker was formerly engaged in the business of moving buildings with his son but left five years ago last January for Rockyford, Colorado, where he joined his son-in-law, E. C. Purse and family. For the past four years he has been conducting a large ranch which he and his son-in-law purchased forty-five miles north of Rockyford.
He likes the country very well and the climate agrees with him but he has been working hard and thought he would return to Indiana for both a rest and visit. Mr. Shoemaker is well and hearty and looks almost the same as he did when he departed for the west. He says that Amos Reece formerly of this county, is doing well at Rockyford.
Mr. Shoemaker will make quite an extended visit and intends to return to the west between the fifth and tenth of September.
David Shoemaker, a former resident of the city, arrived here from the west early Friday morning, to visit with his son, Ira Shoemaker and family and his many friends in the county. Mr. Shoemaker was formerly engaged in the business of moving buildings with his son but left five years ago last January for Rockyford, Colorado, where he joined his son-in-law, E. C. Purse and family. For the past four years he has been conducting a large ranch which he and his son-in-law purchased forty-five miles north of Rockyford.
He likes the country very well and the climate agrees with him but he has been working hard and thought he would return to Indiana for both a rest and visit. Mr. Shoemaker is well and hearty and looks almost the same as he did when he departed for the west. He says that Amos Reece formerly of this county, is doing well at Rockyford.
Mr. Shoemaker will make quite an extended visit and intends to return to the west between the fifth and tenth of September.
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Some Big Times at Loon Lake Resort (1905)
Columbia City Commercial Mail ~ Friday, July 28, 1905
Gay doin's at the lake last evening. Everybody enjoyed an old fashioned square dance. Mr. Weeks was the whole orchestra, making music on the violin. Frank Quinn was floor manager. Among those from this city (aside from those in camp) were the following: Dr. D. S. Linville and wife, Mabel Lee and mother, Maggie Strauss, Scott and Billy Brand, J. C. and Harry Miller and Jeff Pincheon. Those who did not participate were interested onlookers. Everybody had a good time.
Jule Leininger's, Mrs. Ray Eisaman and Lizzie Leininger spent the day at Loon Lake. Mrs. Will Humbarger and son Nova and Ira Hively were guests of Sam Bowers at Idyll cottage yesterday. Mr. Goodrich caught a nice string of fish yesterday.
The lawn tennis court is quite an attraction, being used continuously. Croquet is also a means of amusement to the numerous guests at the resort. Camp Swihart had visitors yesterday. Ed Lillich, Chas. Dew, Geo. Harter and several others spent Wednesday afternoon at the lake.
Huntington parties are encamped in the Whitelock cottage. Parties from Markle and Marion are booked for next week. Quite a number will break camp Monday. All regret not being able to stay longer. Reilly Ferguson's band is to spend Sunday at the lake. They are all artists of great merit.
Quite an excitement reigned in camp last night for a short time. In lighting the big gasoline lamps to illuminate the club house for the dance a leakage or something, caused the oil to ignite and drop on some oakum lying on the floor. The flames flashed up in Esta Goodrich's face, for a moment blinding him, and had it not been for Dr. Grim's cool headedness and prompt action a conflagration would have been inevitable. The doctor's hands were severely burned in a couple of places. Esta's eye lashes were singed but aside from this no great damage was done.
Claremont W. Hess and Miss Margaret Alexander, of Michigan, are guests of Miss Eileen Goodrich at Loon Lake. Clare has grown quite a beard since we last saw him, but is looking well. He says he suffers considerably from muscular rheumatism contracted in Korea. He contemplates going on another trip in September.
Gay doin's at the lake last evening. Everybody enjoyed an old fashioned square dance. Mr. Weeks was the whole orchestra, making music on the violin. Frank Quinn was floor manager. Among those from this city (aside from those in camp) were the following: Dr. D. S. Linville and wife, Mabel Lee and mother, Maggie Strauss, Scott and Billy Brand, J. C. and Harry Miller and Jeff Pincheon. Those who did not participate were interested onlookers. Everybody had a good time.
Jule Leininger's, Mrs. Ray Eisaman and Lizzie Leininger spent the day at Loon Lake. Mrs. Will Humbarger and son Nova and Ira Hively were guests of Sam Bowers at Idyll cottage yesterday. Mr. Goodrich caught a nice string of fish yesterday.
The lawn tennis court is quite an attraction, being used continuously. Croquet is also a means of amusement to the numerous guests at the resort. Camp Swihart had visitors yesterday. Ed Lillich, Chas. Dew, Geo. Harter and several others spent Wednesday afternoon at the lake.
Huntington parties are encamped in the Whitelock cottage. Parties from Markle and Marion are booked for next week. Quite a number will break camp Monday. All regret not being able to stay longer. Reilly Ferguson's band is to spend Sunday at the lake. They are all artists of great merit.
Quite an excitement reigned in camp last night for a short time. In lighting the big gasoline lamps to illuminate the club house for the dance a leakage or something, caused the oil to ignite and drop on some oakum lying on the floor. The flames flashed up in Esta Goodrich's face, for a moment blinding him, and had it not been for Dr. Grim's cool headedness and prompt action a conflagration would have been inevitable. The doctor's hands were severely burned in a couple of places. Esta's eye lashes were singed but aside from this no great damage was done.
Claremont W. Hess and Miss Margaret Alexander, of Michigan, are guests of Miss Eileen Goodrich at Loon Lake. Clare has grown quite a beard since we last saw him, but is looking well. He says he suffers considerably from muscular rheumatism contracted in Korea. He contemplates going on another trip in September.
Monday, September 3, 2007
Gypsies Are Ordered Out of This County (1905)
Columbia City Commercial Mail ~ Friday, July 14, 1905
The large band of gypsies, which camped yesterday and last night along the road near the Foust woods just east of the city were told to hike this morning by Sheriff Logan Staples and deputy John Clapham and after a great deal of bustling around finally moved on west. The sheriff arrived at the camp at about eight o'clock and ordered them to leave before nine. the leader of the gypsies immediately remonstrated and said that one of the gypsy women was about to give birth to a child. The sheriff told him that one or two wagons could stay and take care of her but the rest of the party would have to move on.
The gypsies were very slow hitching up and getting ready to go and exceeded the time by forty minutes. Meanwhile the woman, who was in the woods at the side of the road, lying on the grass, surrounded by the rest of the women of the camp, gave birth to a baby boy. The baby was rolled in the grass and received its first and probably last bath in the morning dew. It was then bundled up, the wagon drove to a position near the mother, who got up and putting her foot on the hub of the wheel climbed onto the seat without any assistance from her husband, who say hold the lines over a team of crow-baits, that were almost immovable. The gypsies were part of the band of thirty wagons driven out of Allen county by Deputy-sheriff Huguenard, Thursday. There were only eleven wagons in this party and the band has evidently divided up.
The nomads had two or three dozen poor looking horses, as many dogs, several coops of chickens, bicycles and other odds and ends. They were very insistant [sic] on telling everyone's fortunes, for dollars, quarters, dimes, knives, smoking tobacco or any commodity. A number of the women made a canvass of the city Friday but in the evening night watchman Isaac Swigart ordered them to stay in camp.
Several small things were stolen from residences but nothing was taken of great value. One of the gypsies told the fortune of Fred Shaw, who resides in Union township, and then stuck her had down in his pocket and got two dollars but was persuaded to give them up again. George W. North found seventeen of their horses in his field of oats just east of town early this morning but they were driven out before much damage was done. The band claimed that the animals got in accidentally.
The gypsies are the real thing and many of them can talk very little English. they came originally from Austria and are on their way to Chicago. They wear a large quantity of Austrian silver coins bearing the likeness of Emperor Joseph. Deputy Clapham told the leader of the party that the road to Chicago turned south at the edge of town and the band left this vicinity going in the direction of Huntington.
The large band of gypsies, which camped yesterday and last night along the road near the Foust woods just east of the city were told to hike this morning by Sheriff Logan Staples and deputy John Clapham and after a great deal of bustling around finally moved on west. The sheriff arrived at the camp at about eight o'clock and ordered them to leave before nine. the leader of the gypsies immediately remonstrated and said that one of the gypsy women was about to give birth to a child. The sheriff told him that one or two wagons could stay and take care of her but the rest of the party would have to move on.
The gypsies were very slow hitching up and getting ready to go and exceeded the time by forty minutes. Meanwhile the woman, who was in the woods at the side of the road, lying on the grass, surrounded by the rest of the women of the camp, gave birth to a baby boy. The baby was rolled in the grass and received its first and probably last bath in the morning dew. It was then bundled up, the wagon drove to a position near the mother, who got up and putting her foot on the hub of the wheel climbed onto the seat without any assistance from her husband, who say hold the lines over a team of crow-baits, that were almost immovable. The gypsies were part of the band of thirty wagons driven out of Allen county by Deputy-sheriff Huguenard, Thursday. There were only eleven wagons in this party and the band has evidently divided up.
The nomads had two or three dozen poor looking horses, as many dogs, several coops of chickens, bicycles and other odds and ends. They were very insistant [sic] on telling everyone's fortunes, for dollars, quarters, dimes, knives, smoking tobacco or any commodity. A number of the women made a canvass of the city Friday but in the evening night watchman Isaac Swigart ordered them to stay in camp.
Several small things were stolen from residences but nothing was taken of great value. One of the gypsies told the fortune of Fred Shaw, who resides in Union township, and then stuck her had down in his pocket and got two dollars but was persuaded to give them up again. George W. North found seventeen of their horses in his field of oats just east of town early this morning but they were driven out before much damage was done. The band claimed that the animals got in accidentally.
The gypsies are the real thing and many of them can talk very little English. they came originally from Austria and are on their way to Chicago. They wear a large quantity of Austrian silver coins bearing the likeness of Emperor Joseph. Deputy Clapham told the leader of the party that the road to Chicago turned south at the edge of town and the band left this vicinity going in the direction of Huntington.
Sunday, September 2, 2007
Rain and Floods Galore (1905)
Columbia City Commercial Mail ~ Friday, June 23, 1905
Hurd Party Has Wet Time Out in Iowa. Luther Shoemaker Writes Interesting Letter of Trip to His Sister. Rain and Floods Galore.
Luther U. Shoemaker, a member of the John Hurd party leaving this county May 17, on an overland trip to California has written his sister, Miss Nettie Shoemaker, an interesting letter, narrating some experiences of the party, which through Miss Shoemaker's kindness we are permitted to publish. The party which is traveling in a prairie schooner is composed of Mr. and Mrs. John Hurd, Miss Clara Cole, Bertha Miller, and Luther Shoemaker. The letter is as follows:
Keokuk, Iowa, June 10, 1905.Dear Sister: I am as well as common, eat whenever meals are ready and go to bed when I get ready, gut up about 4 o'clock, and we start out on our journey about 6:30 to 7 a.m. when we are not detained on account of water. We are not traveling this afternoon. The reason is Friday about 3 o'clock we stopped to fish along the Des Moines river. Tried fishing but failed to catch any fish, so it was too late to go on our journey any more that day. So we stuck our tent for night. It was thundering when we went to bed. We were about 60 ft. from the edge of the river water.
Gee Whiz! it rained during the night. The women had light in camp tent till 12 and about 5 they awoke us men and said the river was about to swallow the tent. Well just as sure as God made little green apples, the water had raised 15 ft. I like water but it was too much this time. I got up went in the tent and the water was just ankle deep, all over the ground and it was still raising to beat the band. John Hurd and I commenced to pull stakes. We packed everything in the wagon as quick as possible. The water was 8 to 12 inches any place on the ground. In less than 12 hours the river raised about 10 ft. The bridges are all out and here we are. We saw four large bridges and some house roofs and other things going down the river. Some people say here the river has not been higher in 30 years. Lots of railroads are washed out.
June 14th - - Will finish my letter tonight. May be some more news. Have been traveling since I commenced this letter. Well it rained some today. We are camping at a school house at present. We went through a town yesterday by the name of Farmington. There I was and talked with a man that was born in Roanoke, Ind., and once lived in Columbia City. He left there when he was 11 years old. His father was a doctor, Dr. Rockwell.
Well the roads are no better and the bridges are all out and we had to ford and when we could not ford we would turn around and go some other road. We only went 12 or 13 miles today. We crossed the Des Moines river at Farmington Iowa. Some men told us the water raised 4 ½ feet in 35 minutes but 20 ft. altogether. There are about $50,000 worth of bridges out.
Today we stopped at a place to get some corn for the horses and potatoes for ourselves and the woman sent me in the cellar to get the spuds. She asked me if I would do her a favor before going down cellar. By the way the cellar was 8 inches deep in water. She wanted me to bring her butter out from the cellar. So I pulled off my shoes and took it barefooted and while I was getting the potatoes, she tied up a lump of butter, enough for two meals. She said I should tell how I had to do to earn the butter.
June 15th - - I'll bet I'll make somebody tired before getting this read. I guess we are over the worst bridges for this time. We crossed over one today that we had to unhitch and run the wagon over by hand. There are hundreds of acres flood and some lives lost, one man lost 150 sheep. The mail carrier just went by and he told us the river at Keokuk and down to Quincy was 8 miles wide. A wealthy farmer lost 100 head of large steers.
If you see Foy Hull tell him his dog Pomp is holding out fine. Tell everybody we are having a good time and wish you all the same.
Love to all, Luther U. Shoemaker
Hurd Party Has Wet Time Out in Iowa. Luther Shoemaker Writes Interesting Letter of Trip to His Sister. Rain and Floods Galore.
Luther U. Shoemaker, a member of the John Hurd party leaving this county May 17, on an overland trip to California has written his sister, Miss Nettie Shoemaker, an interesting letter, narrating some experiences of the party, which through Miss Shoemaker's kindness we are permitted to publish. The party which is traveling in a prairie schooner is composed of Mr. and Mrs. John Hurd, Miss Clara Cole, Bertha Miller, and Luther Shoemaker. The letter is as follows:
Keokuk, Iowa, June 10, 1905.Dear Sister: I am as well as common, eat whenever meals are ready and go to bed when I get ready, gut up about 4 o'clock, and we start out on our journey about 6:30 to 7 a.m. when we are not detained on account of water. We are not traveling this afternoon. The reason is Friday about 3 o'clock we stopped to fish along the Des Moines river. Tried fishing but failed to catch any fish, so it was too late to go on our journey any more that day. So we stuck our tent for night. It was thundering when we went to bed. We were about 60 ft. from the edge of the river water.
Gee Whiz! it rained during the night. The women had light in camp tent till 12 and about 5 they awoke us men and said the river was about to swallow the tent. Well just as sure as God made little green apples, the water had raised 15 ft. I like water but it was too much this time. I got up went in the tent and the water was just ankle deep, all over the ground and it was still raising to beat the band. John Hurd and I commenced to pull stakes. We packed everything in the wagon as quick as possible. The water was 8 to 12 inches any place on the ground. In less than 12 hours the river raised about 10 ft. The bridges are all out and here we are. We saw four large bridges and some house roofs and other things going down the river. Some people say here the river has not been higher in 30 years. Lots of railroads are washed out.
June 14th - - Will finish my letter tonight. May be some more news. Have been traveling since I commenced this letter. Well it rained some today. We are camping at a school house at present. We went through a town yesterday by the name of Farmington. There I was and talked with a man that was born in Roanoke, Ind., and once lived in Columbia City. He left there when he was 11 years old. His father was a doctor, Dr. Rockwell.
Well the roads are no better and the bridges are all out and we had to ford and when we could not ford we would turn around and go some other road. We only went 12 or 13 miles today. We crossed the Des Moines river at Farmington Iowa. Some men told us the water raised 4 ½ feet in 35 minutes but 20 ft. altogether. There are about $50,000 worth of bridges out.
Today we stopped at a place to get some corn for the horses and potatoes for ourselves and the woman sent me in the cellar to get the spuds. She asked me if I would do her a favor before going down cellar. By the way the cellar was 8 inches deep in water. She wanted me to bring her butter out from the cellar. So I pulled off my shoes and took it barefooted and while I was getting the potatoes, she tied up a lump of butter, enough for two meals. She said I should tell how I had to do to earn the butter.
June 15th - - I'll bet I'll make somebody tired before getting this read. I guess we are over the worst bridges for this time. We crossed over one today that we had to unhitch and run the wagon over by hand. There are hundreds of acres flood and some lives lost, one man lost 150 sheep. The mail carrier just went by and he told us the river at Keokuk and down to Quincy was 8 miles wide. A wealthy farmer lost 100 head of large steers.
If you see Foy Hull tell him his dog Pomp is holding out fine. Tell everybody we are having a good time and wish you all the same.
Love to all, Luther U. Shoemaker
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Larwill Items (1873)
Columbia City Post ~ Wednesday, March 23, 1870
- Sugar making has begun in earnest. Mud in the streets is not more than five feet deep.
- David Kerr, Esq., formerly a resident of this place, is here on a visit. The old gentleman looks younger than ever.
- Martin Mann, Esq., has sold his farm of ninety acres to John Tompson, Sr. Mart. contemplates embarking in trade in this village.
- We heard, the other day, that certain people would be waked up for obstructing streets and sidewalks with wood. A word to the wise is sufficient.
- The sidewalks in many parts of town are sadly out of repair, and in some places no sidewalks exist. Would it not be a good plan to give this matter a little more attention? Good sidewalks are the glory of a town.
- Messrs. John Maynard, Wm. Harrison, and Jno. Smith, have returned from a trip to Missouri and Kansas. It will be remembered that they went on a trip of investigation several weeks since. they visited Chilicothe, Mo., where they found some Whitley County boys. The same at Kansas City, Carthage and Seneca City, Mo., and Columbus, Kansas, as well as many other points, meeting with many old acquaintances, and enjoying themselves remarkably well. they left C. W. Hayden, Jeremy Franklin and Justes Burns there, where in due season they will settle, and we hope meet with good success. Judging from the remarks we overheard, they did not find Paradise or a land flowing with milk and honey, but rather returned satisfied that Northern Indiana is not the worst place in the world.
- A railroad is talked of running from Etna to Springfield, and passing through our village. It is thought that it will be let soon. It is to connect on the south with the D. & E. R. R. R. and northward with a line of hacks running weekly to all parts of the country, and eventually to be extended to Sitka, Alaska Territory. A number of persons are already preparing to emigrate to Alaska, to embark in the seal traffic.
- Harlan Rogers, the jolly, good tempered and thoroughly accomplished little jeweler and watchmaker, who has been occupying a window in the Drug Store of Kirk & Co., has taken his departure to Bourbon, where he is to embark in business. Sorry to see him go, and wish him success, and as many friends as he deserves, which is not a few.
- A good many people attended the quarterly meeting of the M. E. Church, at this place on Saturday and Sunday. Let it here be remarked that there is a screw loose somewhere in the machinery by which the concern is run. The powers that be complain of a deficiency at this point, which is doubtless true, but when it is remembered that the people here receive but about seventeen sermons in a twelvemonths, and are assessed for about one-half the whole salary due to priest and prelate, it is not a matter of so much surprise. Another fact to be taken into consideration is that the people have just built an expensive church, for which they are even now economizing and saving in order to pay; and it does not seem to set well upon the stomach of some of them, to be told that with all their liberality they have failed to give enough, and must, in consequence, put up with an inferior sermon during the years to come. If this be treason make the most of it.
- E. C. Cady left for Kansas and Missouri yesterday, where he hopes to find a "home in some vast wilderness" and carve out a fortune.
- A new saddler shop in town. Sign of the saddle. Make his acquaintance and give him a trial.
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Horse Scared at Auto (1906)
Columbia City Post ~ May 9, 1906
Sunday afternoon while George Parkinson and his son, Frank and wife, were on their way north to their farm, their horse which was hitched to a one-horse wagon, took fright at an automobile near the Ben Yontz farm and ran away.
The machine passed by them going north, frightening the horse considerable as it passed, and when it came back the horse turned squarely around in the road, upsetting the wagon, throwing the occupants to the ground and smashing things up in general. The horse ran clear back to town and its legs were badly bruised and skinned.
Mrs. Frank Parkinson’s arm was badly bruised while George sprained his ankle and was hurt in the side. Who the owner of the machine is not known. It is claimed that he did not slow the machine down either time but rushed on by.
Sunday afternoon while George Parkinson and his son, Frank and wife, were on their way north to their farm, their horse which was hitched to a one-horse wagon, took fright at an automobile near the Ben Yontz farm and ran away.
The machine passed by them going north, frightening the horse considerable as it passed, and when it came back the horse turned squarely around in the road, upsetting the wagon, throwing the occupants to the ground and smashing things up in general. The horse ran clear back to town and its legs were badly bruised and skinned.
Mrs. Frank Parkinson’s arm was badly bruised while George sprained his ankle and was hurt in the side. Who the owner of the machine is not known. It is claimed that he did not slow the machine down either time but rushed on by.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Two Weddings December 31st 1919
Columbia City Post ~ January 3, 1920
Two couples were married December 31st at the home of Rev. L. A. Luckenbill in this city when Elmer Ellsworth Miller and Erna Lucille Gable and Chauncey Hurd and Dessie Householder took the solemn vows.
Mr. and Mrs. Miller were granted a marriage license Tuesday afternoon by Former County Clerk Otis Plattner. Mr. Miller is a progressive young farmer and is a son of Henry C. Miller of Southwest Columbia township. The bride is a very popular young woman and is a daughter of Sheridan Gable, a well known farm residing north of Wynkoop. They will reside on a farm near this city.
Riverside Dairy Man Married. The last official act of Otis Plattner as county clerk, Wednesday, was to issue a marriage license to Chauncey Hurd, manager of the Riverside Dairy, and Dessie Householder. The license was granted shortly before eight o’clock. The couple then went to the home of Rev. L. A. Luckenbill where the marriage ceremony was performed. Mrs. Heber Mosher was a witness of the marriage. Both parties have been married before, the marriage in each case being dissolved by death. The bride formerly was Dessie Anderson, daughter of Jessie Anderson. After a short wedding trip they will reside in this city.
Two couples were married December 31st at the home of Rev. L. A. Luckenbill in this city when Elmer Ellsworth Miller and Erna Lucille Gable and Chauncey Hurd and Dessie Householder took the solemn vows.
Mr. and Mrs. Miller were granted a marriage license Tuesday afternoon by Former County Clerk Otis Plattner. Mr. Miller is a progressive young farmer and is a son of Henry C. Miller of Southwest Columbia township. The bride is a very popular young woman and is a daughter of Sheridan Gable, a well known farm residing north of Wynkoop. They will reside on a farm near this city.
Riverside Dairy Man Married. The last official act of Otis Plattner as county clerk, Wednesday, was to issue a marriage license to Chauncey Hurd, manager of the Riverside Dairy, and Dessie Householder. The license was granted shortly before eight o’clock. The couple then went to the home of Rev. L. A. Luckenbill where the marriage ceremony was performed. Mrs. Heber Mosher was a witness of the marriage. Both parties have been married before, the marriage in each case being dissolved by death. The bride formerly was Dessie Anderson, daughter of Jessie Anderson. After a short wedding trip they will reside in this city.
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