Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 74, Decatur, Adams County, 28 March 1958 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday By THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO.. INC. Entered at the Decatur, Ind., Post Office as Second Class Matter Dick D. Heller President J. H. Heller ...... Vice-Prfcsident Chas. Holthouse Secretary-Treasurer Subscription Bates: By Mall in Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, $8.00; fc ßix months, $415; 3 months, $2.25. By Mail, beyond Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, $9.00; 6 months, $4.75; 3 months, $2.50. By Carrier, 30 cents per week. Single copies, 6 cents.

Probably in a few weeks, temperatures will be so high that e’U be wishing ter this kind of weather. o—o Temperatures are supposed to rise now gradually and the weather promise is for a fair week-end. o o Baseball will start in earnest in a couple of weeks and many Decatur fans are planning early trips to Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Detroit to see first games. Interest is high in the major leagues this year and we’re predicting a banner season. o -o On April 13, you will start earning for yourself. Up to this time since last January 1, you will have worked to pay the governments, state, local and county for taxes. That’s a lot of money and we can’t see why we can’t have some relief soon. When you look around and see the many state and federal agencies set up in each area you wonder just what they all do and even they some1 • - times wonder the same thing. ——o-—o——— A good many of the boys who gather at the diner for coffee in the mornings feel that the IHSAA ruling forbiding Central’s Kelso from making a television appearance, in New York as a member 9f the All-America high school basketball team is a littfe too strict. We know that Indiana Commissioner Phillips has a fair answer and we hope he takes the time to write and straighten the boys out. Until that time we’U

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If you are planning a trip tfis * week-end there is another hazard on most highways. Winter weather has cut some deep holes into pavements and black-top roads and some of the chucks are dangerously deep. When you drive, be sure you have good control of your car or you may do a quick turn-over. o—o Work at the Adams county memorial hospital is nearing completion and we should be ready for a formal opening of the new part soon. The new and remodeled building will have added facilities and new office space, space for nurses and doctors and the entire building will be the finest of any small town in Indiana. o o— —— W. Robert Fleming, Fort Wayne attorney and well known in the Fourth congressional district and in Democratic circles througk Indiana has announced he will be a Democratic candidate for Congressman of this district. He will oppose Dean Beehdolt of Garrett for the nomination and if successful, he will oppose Ross Adair for the Congressional post. Mr. Fleming is well known through the district and should make an excellent race, both in the spring and fall. He is a fluent speaker and a leading attorney. We believe that the Democratic candidate has a fine chance of winning this November and we hope that he gets a big vote here like Democrats used to. Fleming’s wife, Leah Peters Fleming, was born in Decatur, while Earl Peters was employed at this newspaper.

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d /A v t I JIOEH MISS CLAUDIA CASTON is shown receiving the second annual Decatur zone Lutheran laymen's league scholarship to Valparaiso University from Louis A. Jacobs, zone scholarship chairman, as her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl M. Caston, look on. Miss Caston is an honor student at Monmouth high schoor, where she has also been active in various extra-curricular activities. She will enter Valparaiso University next fall and plans to become an elementary teacher. The award is based on a three hoqr written examination which was given to interested area seniors Feb. 15. George Bleeke, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Bleeke, of Union township, was last year's winner and is now completing his freshman year on the campus.

< X) Years Ago Today I March 28, 1938 — Henry Weber, 75, Jormer Decatur resident, dies in Fort Wayne. Three Pennsylvania youths are released after being held for four hours on suspicion of robbery of Anker filling station. Col. Edward House, advisor to President Wilson, dies today. Ladies Shakespeares club releases 57th annual year book. Civil works administrator Ralph Roop appeals to all residents to aid in keeping yards and streets tidy. Dr. Palmer Eicher is in Philadelphia attending a post graduate course the next two weeks.

List Os Candidates County Commissioner, 3rd District Harley J. Reef Loren Heller Emil Stauffer Robert L. Long County Councilman, District I Henry L. Dehner County Councilman, District II Julius Schultz County Councilman, District 111 Floyd L. Meyer Charles J. Jones County Councilman, District IV Chris Stahly - =i “““r”Z S County Councilman at Large (3) William F. Kruetzman Leon Neuenschwander . - ■ Frank E. Bohnke , ■ ~ ~ - Trustee, Washington Township Robert E. Gay Francis J. Schmitt Roy L. Price Trustee, Union Township Wilbur H. Blakey Alva Railing Trustee, Root Township Omer Merriman Trustee, Preble Township Robert M. Kolter Trustee, Kirkland Township Theodore S. Heller Trustee, St Mary’s Township Lester H. Brunner Trustee, Blue Creek Township Frank Myers Trustee, Monroe Township Otis G. Sprunger Silvan Sprunger Trustee, French Township Raymond E. Moser ? Trustee, Hartford Township Gail Runyon Vilas Eugene Burry Ralph M. Miller David Alberson Trustee, Wabash Township James Lybarger Wesley G. Amstutz ' , „ Trustee, Jefferson Township ——<= — — - Floyd Baker

This is to inform our many friends and customers that effective this date I have assumed full control of the business of ROY S. JOHNSON & SON, A UCTIONEERS AND REAL ESTATE. As in the past I will engage in the real estate and public auction business operating under the name of: — NED C. JOHNSON, Auctioneer and Real Estate * . “ • My 14 years association with my father in conducting sales and selling real estate, both privately and at auction, enables me to render you the best possible service in a courteous and efficient manner. I want to take this means of saying thanks to the people ■ in this community for their business in the past. I trust my 14 years experience will merit a continuation of your consideration for my services in any phase of the auction or real estate business. NED C. JOHNSON AUCTIONEER nd HUI ESTATE PHONE 3-2796 DECATUR, INDIANA PHONE 3-3606 Residence, Route 1 Office, Boch Building 1 IIIIII.HI —■—■— ■—

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Hundreds of Decatur people motored to Fort Wayne the last two days to witness the celebration for South Side which won the IHSAA high school basketball tourney. Two County Students To Honor Society Two Adams county students are among 13 seniors named to Chi Alpha Omega, the college honor society, at a convocation held recently at Taylor University. They are Miss Suzanne Kuhn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Kuhn of near Monroe, and Mrs. Jean Sheets, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey F. Lehman of near Geneva. They are both majoring in elementary education.

Series Os Articles On Pleasant Mills History

(Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of articles on the history of the Pleasant Mills and St. Mary’s township area gathered by Miss Rebecca Lehman’s English class including Dick Johnson, Gary Shoaf, Billy Von Gunten, Mara belle Wolfe, Janice Smith and Kay Bollenbacher. This information was collected on tape records, and will be preserved. Those who cooperated in giving this information were William Noll, Dale Cowan, Cal Ehrsam, Calvin Hamrick, Mrs. Brice McMillen, Charles Shenk, Mrs. James F. Halberstadt, Sr., and B. P. Johnson.) In the year of 1918, Pleasant Mills school was built. It wasn’t finished by September, so the students had vacation until October. There was an enrollment of 45 pupils; 21 freshmen, 20 sophomores, and four juniors. The first graduating class consisted of four boys. The first principal was Robert J. Mann, and the first teachers were Lorraine Foster and Fannie Cowan. Two of the teachers went through high school at Pleasant Mills. They were Mrs. Velma Fortney, the English, health, civics, physical education and music teacher, and Gerald Vizard, the coach and history teacher. October 22, 1938, the new part of the high school took its place beside the high school of 1918. Three different petitions were signed before the building was constructed. Yost Bros, was in charge of the construction. Altogether the building cost $58.000. The government paid $32,000 and the township paid $26,000. The new building consisted of three classrooms, two’ dressing rooms, the gymnasium, which is 80’6” by 51’: the stage, which is 60’ by 17’, and the bleachers, which will seat 300 people. The gymnasium will seat approximately 750 people. ~t —7— The home economics room was used to prepare meals. Now there is a spaceous kitchen and a pleasant cafeteria in which to prepare and eat lunch. School Starts In October 1918 we were able to open the school and most of the children that had started to school in Decatur came to Pleasant Mills. The first year, Wilson Beery was superintendent of the school and he did a magnificent job of getting all of the equipment they needed to run the school. In the old building they used the halls for laboratories but didn't have room for domestic science which was unde: the supervision of Mary Cowan McMillen. She held a home eco- : nomics class in a house by Wilson Beery’s residence, which is now Bill Evan’s home. TTiere was almost no equipment. The boys made the equipment for the home economics class. At this time I will attempt to give you some of the pertinent facts concerning some of the early schools of Pleasant Mills and vicinity. (Dale Cowan speaking.) I had the privilege of having been raised in a family of school teachers. My father taught in St. Mary’s township for 10 years and so <fid my brother. Five of my brothers and a sister taught in an earlier period and a great deal of information has been given to me in my home as a Child at a very

early age. I became aware of many of the activities of the school that we do not have at the present time. As 1 look back over the years, much more than a half a century, 1 can see what the problems caused by the absence of transportation, communication and libraries. Think of all the facilities that the children of today have that we didn’t have at that time! There was a loud demand for a high school to be established in the Pleasant Mills area to take care of the Bth grade graduates, and every year it became more apparent to the parents, the teachers, and all the officials of the importance to every child of having the opportunity to secure a high school education. Willshire had a three-year course but it was not an accredited school, so a great many were transferred to Pleasant Mills and Decatur. The teacher had to work for his or her board and room and that wasn't at all satisfactory. In 1913, from the Pleasant Mills area, there were 17 children driving to Decatur to attend high school wfiile the officials were endeavoring to get the state to recognize Pleasant Mills and let them have a license to operate a high school. Dale Cowan was on the faculty of the first high school and worked along with Wilson Beery and O. J. Suman, the county superintendent. Sanitation In Schools At this time I would , like to tell you something about the sanitary conditions of the school houses. The water supply and the toilets were a terrific problem at that time. Water was carried from an open well. In the early years a ■ pressed wood bucket about a half inch thick with two or three longhandled ladles was used for drinking water. You couldn't break the ' handles off and they wouldn’t replace the dippers until they were , rusted through. A little later the health department moved in and decided that ’ it wasn't very sanitary so they ' would have to dig a well. The i , well was drilled and they bought : chains and chained a dozen tin | cups to the well. That didn't last , very long, because they realized , that this wasn't very sanitary, jl either. The- state health department ’ moved in again and decided that] ] a new pump with a large head up , above should be built with a valve j on the spout. Out on the back part there was an eave trough placed underneath to take the water back . to a drain and then someone would pump and get a sanitary P drink of water. That lasted only for a few months. Those were some of the prob- , lems they had to contend with at that time. The state decided there . was too.much diptheria, colds, and ] other diseases that surely must

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be coming from pencils, because the children had a tendency to chew pencils and they didn’t have a chance to wash their hands dur-, ing the day. This wasn’t right, so the health department ordered that every school should have little ovens to put the pencils in at t night and set them over the stoves. That worked very well for a few weeks. Then the pencils started falling apart, which led to the purchase of more pencils by the parents. The parents objected and warmers fell into disuse and the only time they were used was when we were expecting an inspector. They were respectively dusted off and set out as though in use. —~w COURT NEWS Marriage License James William Striker, 30, route 1, Berne, and Ruth Maxine DeWispeleare, 30, route 2, Geneva. Estate Case In the estate of Noah Habegger, proof of the mailing of notice to all interested persons in the matter of the determination of the inheritance tax was The inheritance tax appraiser's report was submitted, finding the net value of the estate to be $13,072.07, and that there is no inheritance tax due or payable in any event.

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