Banner Graphic, Greencastle, Putnam County, 28 August 1974 — Page 11

Wednesday, August 21,1974

Banner-Graphic, Greencastle, Indiana

Pag* 11

Putnam Heritage In Review Those In Financial Business Lost Interest In Budding School

Cloverdale's opportunity to become a college town ended rather abruptly in the early 1850's when most of those from whom support could be expected decided to have no more financial interest in the budding school. This seminary, which had as its object the training of teachers for common schools, was founded in 1850 by Dr. H.G. Dyer, who came to the community a few years earlier to begin a general practice of medicine. His venture lasted three years and then collapsed because a majority of the stockholders refused to be taxed to keep the school going Cloverdale Township was sort of a latecomer as townships go since it was originally a part of Warren and Jefferson. The first settlers in the area that was to become Cloverdale Township were William Hamilton and James Robinson, who arrived from Kentucky in 1823. The first child born to early settlers was Elizabeth Tabor and the first marriage was that of David Martin and Betsey Tabor. Dr Dyer is the first recorded doctor in the region and his practice extended from 1845 until some time in the late 1870’s. Thomas Evans is said to be the first school teacher holding classes in 1836. On the darker side of the

county’s history is a murder and suicide brought about by a neighborhood argument over the weight of a skein of flax which had been sold by one neighbor to another. Cloverdale was laid out in 1839 by Moses and Thomas Nelson and was first known as Clover Dale. One of its early merchants was Thomas Utterback, whose habit of delivering produce in a wagon drawn by a white horse earned his establishment the name of “One Horse Grocery.” While many stores have flourished in Cloverdale since the early days, special mention must be made of the one started by Harvey Denny, shortly after he returned from service in the Union Army at the close of the Civil War. This store remained in the Denny family for 120 years before it was sold in 1947. Among the service outlets in early Cloverdale was the mill started by Henry Horn in 1890. It remains to this day and is now operated by Poor & Sons. Not far from Cloverdale was a factory which turned out hoops for salt barrels. The county’s first authorized automobile agency was founded in Cloverdale in 1910 by Louis Morrison, whose first year sales were three Ford cars, one for himself and two to customers.

Later Dr. Jerome King and H.C. Foster came into the picture and the business continues today under the name of King, Morrison, Foster. Hotel business was good in Cloverdale as accomodations were needed by those coming from the south to parts of the midwest. Included among these lodging places were Hall House, Central Hotel and Fanny Moran House. Cloverdale newspapers of the past century included The Bee, The Herald and and The Gazette. These led to the Cloverdale Graphic, which later was moved to Greencastle as the Putnam County Graphic and is now a part of the Banner-Graphic. Cloverdale’s first bank, founded in 1892 was forced out by the financial panic of 1893 and had to liquidate its assets in 1895. For the next six years, there was no bank in the town. Theodore Laynge of the hardware which began in 1887 helped matters some by making change for the local citizenry. A second private bank was founded in 1901 by Dr. John Laughlin of Rantoul, 111. After a change of hands, this bank was chartered in 1913 as The First National Bank of Cloverdale, the institution serving the community today. While Cloverdale’s advantage of the Monon railroad contributed to its growth, it

was not the only town laid out in the township. Oakland and Horn Town, so called for a family by that name, made a beginning but failed to live to the end of the century. Founded in 1824, the Methodist Church became the first denomination in the township, to be followed three years later b> the Regular (non-missionaryf Baptists. Dates of other denominations are: Salem United Brethern, 1840; Christian and Church of Christ 1841; Liberty Regular Baptist, 1845; West Unity Church of Christ, 1850; East Unity Church of Christ, 1867; and Smyrna Regular Baptist, 1895 Founding date of the Poplar Grove Methodist Church is not recorded. Church activity ran high in the township in 1866 when ministers of the Christian and Methodist Churches engaged in a debate which lasted from March 19 to March 28. The Christian Church claimed that as a result of the debate, 70 members were added to their roll. An account of the affair in the 1879 county atlas gives no indication of how the Methodists fared. Early schools in Cloverdale and township were apparently on the subscription basis with parents paying the costs directly. There were at

one time 12 schools in the district. Cloverdale High School received its commission in 1909. Among the fraternal orders dating back into the last century are the Masonic

Lodge which was organized in Cloverdale in 185! and the Diamond Lodge Knights of Pythias in 1892. Early industries in the township included grist and saw mills and a tile factory.

With an abundance of limestone beneath the surface, quarrying became important and continues to be so. The chapter of Cloverdale Township underwent a marked change when in 1952

most of Lieber park was laid out within its boundaries. The 561 acre park which includes Cataract Lake has made tourism and recreation a vital part of the area’s economy.

Oil Gushes Throughout the Home

By VIVIAN BROWN AP Newsfeatures Writer Pliny, the Roman scholar, and Plutarch, the Greek moralist, both believed that oil could soothe troubled waters. Homes

specialists agree — if they could just get more of the stuff. “Many upholstery fabrics have synthetic materials that are oil derivative — vinyls are particularly related to the prob-

UNESCO Group Aids Americans On Continent

WASHINGTON - A thousand or more young Americans are in foreign jails today on drug charges. Many spend several months in packed cells, denied bail while awaiting trial. Those convicted spend long years prey to malnutrition, dysentery, hepatitis and other ailments brought on by the conditions of their imprisonment. Ironically, in some cases the youths were picked up on information given the police by the same person who sold them drugs, and who doubles his profits by working as both pusher and informer. Because U.S. Embassies generally are powerless to obtain the Americans' release once they have been arrested, the United States recently launched a program aimed at preventing their numbers from

growing. With funds from foundations and the President’s Special Action Office on Drug Abuse Prevention, the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO sent teams of young counselors to Paris and Amsterdam last spring. In these cities where youthful travelers congregate, they set up shop for the summer. In “rap sessions with their fellow Americans, the teams had two objectives: to help steer them off of drugs during their overseas stay, and to gain an insight into the problems of drug abuse in foreign settings. The researchers for the project. which was dubbed “Weathervane,” were drawn from crisis centers and other treatment and drug counseling services throughout the United States.

lem and the industry has been using a substantial volume of plastic components in furniture,” observed Douglas Brackett, a spokesman for the Southern Furniture Manufacturers Assn, in discussing the outlook for fall decorators. “Fortunately, the lumber problem has eased somewhat,” he went on. “Loggers have the option of cutting logs that would be used for housing or furniture, soft or hard woods. With the decline in housing, a number are cutting the woods that are used in making furniture.” Another good thing, he says, is that a large number of new styles being introduced in anticipation of the Bicentennial are the early American traditional styles that are made of pine, which is now becoming more available because of the housing situation. “A large number of firms are already into that market (Bicentennial ) but even so the early American traditional furniture normally captures a fair size, about 30 per cent, of the market. This will increase with the Bicentennial.” Designer and manufacturer of custom furniture Vladimir Kagan believes it may be difficult for small companies to maintain quality standards in the face of a wide variety of

problems in the furniture industry. “Raw materials are inferior. . .good woods are scarce. . .suppliers are cutting veneers paper thin to get more mileage out of them., .wool is expensive.. .cotton is hard to get.. .and, of course, the synthetics are in the petroleum pinch. What is available is chintzy so people may need to pay a lot more for good furniture .. The industry also suffers from the decline of good craftsmen as well as the shortage of materials, which, he says, may result in a more functional home — multipurpose or built-in-furniture. As for the carpet industry, Frank E. Masland, newly elected president of the Carpet and Rug Institute, says: “We are deoendent on the petro-chemical industry.Everything that goes into (synthetic) carpet, except for the jute, comes out of a barrel of oil. Seventy-four per cent of all carpets sold last year were nylon — about 750 million yards in a billion dollar industry." “But now world-wide inflation is nibbling at it. Then, too, the industry has become competitive. New people are in it every day.”

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