Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 26 August 1899 — Page 7
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And the eyns get weake- nod need assistance. Glasses that will suit your eyeB at fifty will not suit them at sixty, and they require the services of a skilled optician to test and properly adjust them to the vision. Perfect fitting glasses are a second sight to those whose sight has'faiied, and we can suit your ejes with scientific exactness. A trial will convince you.
M. C. KI. is.
Jnweler and Optician. Opp. Court House.
-XITEMS OF INTERESTS
To You Kept By
JOE E. FISHER
A Complete Harness and Buggy Store, South Washington St., Crawfordsville, Indiana, Consisting mostly as Follows:
Light Harness. Surrey Harness, Coach Harness, Double Team Harness, Any Part of any Kind of Harness, Harness Hardware, Harness to Order, Harness Repaired, Harness Oils, Harness Soaps, Harness Dressing, Harness Saddles, Riding Saddles, Riding Bridles, Robes, all Kinds, Curry Combs, Horse Brushes, Horse Clippers, Extra Pads, Foot Mats.
Anti Rattler, Prop Nuts, Leather Washers, Whip Sockets, Copper Rivets, Tubular Rivets, Coach Oils, Axel Oils, Axel Oils, Axel Greece, Fair Leather, Harness Leather, Sheep Skins, A Smiling Face and A Clear Conscience You need Our Goods WJ Need Your Money.
Rubber Tires?
GENUINE .VICTOR.
For One Week Only. The following area few of our Bargains:
Infants' Dongola Patent Tip Burton, 2 to 6, worth 30c, our price $ .20 Child's Glove Grain Button, 8 to 12, worth 81, our price 75 Misses Dongola Button, 13 to 2, worth $1.25, our price 75 Ladies' Dongola Patent Tip, Button 2 1-2 to V, worth $2.00, our price 1.00 Youths' Calf Ball, 12 to 2, worth $1.00, our price 85 Boys' Calf Ball, 3 to 5, worth $1.25, our price
Men's Satin Calf. Congress or Lace, to 11, worth 81.50, our price 1.10 Men's Kip Boot, 6 to 11, worth $1.75, our price 1,25 All heavy winter shoes sold at actual cost. Don't forget the place.
STAB SHOE HOUSE
No. 128 East Main Street
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CORNSTALK'S annuity
was five hundred dollars a year for years from the time of the treaty of cession of their lands to the United States. Major W hitlock and his wife made a deed to the Board of County Commissioners of Montgomery county for every alternate lot laid out in the original plat of the town of Crawfordsville as the county seat. Wabash county at first included all that part of the state, in the northwest quarter of the state, and the county of Montgomery was taken out of it. Mr. Offield settled on a piece of land south of Crawfordsville, on the creek now called Offield's creek, after him, who is accredited as first actual permanent settler of the county. Uncle Abe Miller made an early settlement on the old Abe Miller farm four miles west of Crawfordsville on the east bank of Sugar creek, and carried his butcher or hunting knife in his belt, and rifle as long as he lived, in going to town or muster, and public days— always ready for game, or rencounter with Indians or ruffians. David Henry, father of Martin M. Henry late of Scott township, came out from Kentucky in the summer of 1822, and selected a location, and entered a piece of land at the Terre Haute land office—land sale July 3,1822—being the west half of the southwest quarter of section 34, township 17, north range, 4 west, in Scott township, and returned to Kentucky that season, and moved his family onto the land in the spring of 1823, and opened up a farm, and lived there till 1848, when he went the overland route to California under the gold fever, and died on the Plains this side of the Rocky Mountains. His family still own the land. Austin M. Puitt, father of Duncan Puitt, a lawyer of Rockville, bought at the same sale, July 3, 1822 at Terre Haute, the northeast quarter of same section. John Lopp bought at the same sale, July 3, 1822, two 80's in section 26—which is a part of the Abram S. Byrd farm, one 80 in section 13, and one in section 14, being quarter section known as the old Joshua Harrison farm, now owned by Depew Highton. It is said of John Lopp that he attended the land sale at Terre Haute on the 3rd day of July, 1822, in the garb of a hunter dressed in buckskin, with his rifle in hand hunter's knife in belt and that he bid off 18 or 20 pieces of land, and with no visible fneans of payment, as frequently the purchase money would be in gold and silver, or may be in United States bank bills. All kind of coined gold or silver or U. S. bank bills were receivable in payment for land, Lopp did not have any saddle bags, came on foot, no wallet, nothing but his gun, so when the day's sale was closed and payment was to be made, the bystanders wondered where Lopp had his money, but when his turn came to pay down, with his rifle in hand he drew his ram rod from its place in his gun, and with the wiping end inserted it in his gun and, twisting the rod, began to pull out one hundred dollar United States bank bills one after another till his bids were made good, and he had his duplicates for his lands much to the surprise of the land officers and bidders present. John Lopp was extensively known after that, notwithstanding his shabby appearance. His selection proved to be all choice land, and has ever since been held as first-class entries. He had carefully selected his pieces on actual inspection. The actual settler very seldom laid off more than one eighty or a quarter section, as they were generally of moderate means, only having a few hundred dollars.
Charles P. Bruce, who then lived in Sullivan county at what is called Bruceville, was one of the surveying party with Wade and Heaton, selected while making his survey, a quarter section in section 13, Scott township, and entered it September 30, 1823, now known as the John Goodbarfarm west of Ladoga. Bruce lived and died on the land.
The name and descendants of John Lopp have totally disappeared from our county, though he was the most extensive land purchaser in the county at that date. It is reported that he returned to Kentucky to continue his favorite sport of hunting and killing deer and wild turkeys, and by the
Crawfordsville, Indiana, Saturday, August 26, 1899.
year 1830 he had sold out all his purchases at a large profit. The name Rock River was first given to Sugar Creek. Raccoon Creek took its name from the Indian name of the animal raccoon, as that name of the creek first appears of record in the treaty at Fort Wayne in 1815.
On the 8th day of July, 1823, Daniel Sharp, of Kentucky, purchased a quarter section, the north-east quarter of section 14, Scott township, who was the ancestor of the Sharp family in the south part of the county. Rifle Southerland, one of a family who settled at what is known as "Southland's Springs," south of the south line of the county, entered a quarter section on the 12th of March, 1824, in section 18, Clark township, and section 13 in Scott township, lying adjoining the town of Ladoga on the west. John Southerland, his brother, entored Dec. 2,1824, the west half of the south-east quarter of section 14, Scott township. The Southerlands, four brothers, William, John, Sampson and Rifle, were permanent settlers and made farms and homes for large families, who still are well known and reputable people in Montgomery and Putnam counties. At the present location of Southerland Springs, now quite a summer resort, the ancestor of the family put up and rau for several years a copper distillery and exchanged with his neighbors during the years '26 to '40 one gallon and one quart of whiskey for a bushel of shelled corn. He made a good quality of old copper distilled whiskey that was used at many a log rolling and house raising all over this county. On the 30th day of October, 1823, Jacob Shuck entered the east half of the north-east quarter of section 31, and Christopher Shuck, his brother, entered the west half of the northwest quarter of section 32, and laid out the town of Shucktown, which is now the town site of Parkersburg. Thomas Faith entered the west half of the south-west quarter of the same section on the 9th of May, 1825, and being the first Justice of the peace in Scott township, changed the name of the place to Faithsville, and subsequently on the advent of John H. Goodbar, the first regular school teacher, its name was changed again to Summerset, and Nathaniel Parker got the 1st appointment of Postmaster, and named the Pcstoffice Parkersburg, after himself. Tii9 Shucks settled on their entries, opened farms and remained thus till the summer of 1834, they removed to the new county of Illinois, which had just been opened up for settlement, and went into the cattle business on the prairies and got to be wealthy, leaving large family descendants and connections.
Some time in the summer of 1824 David Swank, on Raccoon, east of Parkersburg entered apiece of land and put up a grist mill run by water power he constructed a dam in Raccoon, and at the north end had a mill with tub wheels, and one pair of millstones made out of Negro head stone and a hand bolt to bolt his flour. This was one of the earliest mills of the county. His sou Joshua entered 80 acres in sec. 29, Scott township, Dec. 22, 1824. The Swank family and mill was quite a help to the settlement and relieved the boys and girls from the labor of pounding corn for meal in the hominy block with an iron wedge inserted and fastened in a hand spike about 4 feet long, used as a pestle. The block was a cut off of a hard wood tree 20 inches in diameter and about 3 feet long, set on end and a round hole burned and chiseled out, large and deep enough to hold a peck of corn, which after slightly soaked with warm water was put in the block and pounded with the pestle till the hominy or corn meal was made as desired. Pounding hominy was a regular dog's business for some one of the family. The Sperry mill at Crawfordsville, though deep down in that big gully and almost inaccessible, save on horseback, was the first place good flour could be had as it had a bolting cloth run by water power. Peter Cornstalk took his corn to Swank's mill to have it ground, and had tied up in his blanket which he wore, he brought the corn on his pony like a pack an a pack saddle behind him. Joshua Ragodate tried to get him to divide his meal in two parts and put it across the horse, but Cornstalk would not hear to any such new
fangied advice. David Swank's sons and daughters settled in different parts of the country, he and his good wife lived and died of old age in their own comfortable home known then as SwanksviJle near the location now of the town of Raccoon near the crossing of the I. D. S. Railroad of Raccoon creek on the south line of the county.
Box ALDER.
OUR CITY SCHOOLS.
Some Interesting Facts About the
High School and Grammar Grad
uates for the Coming Year
The Crawfordsville high school opens on September 4th for the year. It has added to its excellent equipment one new room, a more complete laboratory and library. The excellent faculty of eight people will come to the work ready to add increased value to every department. No school will offer better opportunities to our youngpeople. In addition tothe courses in science, language, mathematics, literature and history, music and drawing will be offered. We have a teacher who is a specialist in her branch of study for each subject, and this insures excellent work. There are a few more desks, which will be given to those who apply first. The last general assembly enacted a law of transfer as follows "That if any child resident in one school corporation of the state may be better accommodated in the schools of another school corporation, the parent may ask of the school trustee an order of transfer which shall entitle such child to attend the schools of the corporation to which the transfer is made."
The latest decision from the state superintendent is to the effect that parents can make choice of the schools which their children shall attend. If they wish the better accommodations of city schools, trustees must give them the privilege. It often becomes better for the children to attend new schools. The best good for the child is the rule for us all.
By this law children can have the advantage of a long term, complete corps of teachers, and music, drawing, library and laboratory, and no tuition will be asked of them. The order of transfer should be made upon the trustee before the opening of the schools. Young people who wish to fit themselves for life, for teaching, business or college, will see the eminent conditions we present. In the higher common school grades five experienced teachers will give the instruction. The work will be in line with direct help for those preparing to teach. There is no better chance to learn the common branches.
No city offers superior advantages to Crawfordsville rooms and board are very cheap and tuition is free in all departments. Parents wishing to send their sons and daughters to excellent schools will find the opportunity at their own county seat all that they can ask. Apply to
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C. CARR,
Sec., or
G. F. KBNASTON,Supt.
All over our land in hundreds of assemblies of thoughtful people are being delivered morning, noon and night addresses crying for the higher education of all the people. It is not based on the kind of homes from which they come, nor on the line of life they expect to follow, but that all have qualities of head, heart, hand and soul that God intended should be developed. The writer heard lectures in his recent slay at the Winona Assembly on "The Utilities of the Higher Education," "Making the Most of One's Self," "Developing Backbone," "Literature, Art and Nature in Education," and these are to be followed by many more in the line of "Liberal Education and Life." All are in harmony with Carlyle's statement "that one youth should enter real life ignorant, this I consider a crime." Parents make great sacrifices for their children that do not prove for the best, but every effort to fit them to fill their spheres more richly, nobly and adequately can but redound in blessings upon all. We should do well to live and teach our children to live according to Channing's sweet symphony and high ideal: "'To live content with small means to seek elegance rather than luxury and' refinement rather than
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fashion to be worthy, not respecta-
and
wealthy, not rich to study
hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages with open hearts to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never in a word, to let the best, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common. This is my symphony."
Mary parents and }roung people are now considering the matter of the good the High School can do the boys and girls. Benjamin Franklin said: "If you empty your purse into your head no one can take it away from you. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.' Statistics show that 58 per cent, of all the places of honor and power in our country have been held by college graduates, and President Boone asserts that the graduates of our High Schools are far outstripping in the race of life those who fail of High School training. I neyer knew a man or woman who attained the elements of an education in science,art, history literature, who ever regretted the time and money spent, or who would' part with its fruits for many times its cost. It most abundantly pays in the enlarged life and enjoyment it gives, ixt the sense of increased power thafi comes to one, in the numerous doors and opportunities that are opened for gaining a livelihood and serving, others as well as for pleasure.
In this age of competition and higft, standards for success, no young matt who is ambitious to win some of tha prizes of life can afford to stop school! until he has had a High School edu-v, cation. It matters not what work or line of life a young man or woman in to follow, a High School education is indispensible. Every noble impulse thought or ambition is enhanced many fold by the High School life unless an evil heart or degrading environments overcome them. In answer to the question as to the causes of failure of so many in life struggles, five hundred brainy business men from' different parts of the country replied in the following phrases: "Lack of education," "lack of training," "weakness of mind and body," "ignorance," etc. See Craft's "Successful Men of To-day" for the entire report. In varying forms this lack of school training rings in every answer. Another set of answers from merchants and manufacturers as to the value of a good education lines of production and commerce may be classified as follows: Those educated (1.) Have more energy. (2.) They show more aptitude and skill. (3.) They do not injure body, mind and affections by drinking, using tobacco, and low vices. (4.) They are less obtuse in understanding orders andj soon becomc leaders. (5) They ara more provident, independent, mani-» fest more forecast. (6.) Make less mistakes. (7.) Waste less time and material. (8.) Need less supervision, (9.) Show more versatility. (10.) Have more ability to adapt means to ends. (11.) Invent more labor sav» ing contrivances. (12) Are mora trustworthy. (13.) Have more self respect and win the respect of customers. (14.) Have more care for errployer's interests. I wish to add they-' make better parents, better sons and daughters, nobler citizens. Thest area few cf the reasons why oui. youth should fill our High Schools this fall. Do you want to do the besfe for your children? Put them in tha best school you can find. Schools with teachers who know the besfe modern materials, methods and means of real education schools where the highest standards and* noblest ideals prevail.
G. F.
ONhis
KENASTON,
Supt. Crawfordsville Schools. Death of Christopher Landis.
last Thursday at 3 o'clock, home near Lapland, Christ topher Landis died of inflama-j tion of the bowels. He wa^ born in Putnam county in 1836^ In 1863 he was married to Mary F. Davis. To them was born fiva girls, three of whom, with tha mother, are living. Mr. Landis had a wide acquaintance, and many friends will be pained to learn of bis demise. The funeral occurred on. Saturday morning at 9 o'clock, interment at the Indian creek cemetery.
Saturday was gravel road day and the commissioners were up to their eyes in statistical reports.